Just a dude

Shout out this morning to the Mets pitching lab. Amazing. Fantastic job, gentlemen. *raises glass* #LGM #LFGM

What was with the Marlins yesterday? Walking Soto to get to Alonso? That's a strategy thought of in the offseason and devoid of any adjustments to current reality. #LGM

Soto: .308, .925 OPS; Alonso: .333, 1.139 OPS. Pete is back, baby! (Now let's see Soto really get hot.) #LGM #LFGM

This is what a police state looks like.

Texas lawmakers advance bill that makes it a crime for teachers to assign "Catcher in the Rye" Lawmakers in Texas are seeking to impose harsh criminal penalties on school librarians and teachers who provide award-winning works of literature to students.

No one banning books has ever been on the right side of history.

Going after CitR for "sexually explicit" content: Holden talks to a prostitute but avoids sex; Holden laments his classmate may have pressured girls. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Nazi punks fuck off

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21, 2025

Fight racism, fascism and anti-Semitism every day, always, without compromise

#fucknazis #fightracism #nazipunksfuckoff #deadkennedys #punkrockhistory

Read this declaration. A professional soccer player has been imprisoned in El Salvador and forced into hard labor on the basis of soccer-related tattoos and a single, innocent hand gesture.

This is why the administration is withholding due process. It knows its targets could prove their innocence.

Once again, I am urging people to understand the difference between calling yourself a "news organization" and being a news organization. Delegitimize propaganda!

You can add an SNY subscription to your MLB now. Costs a little more, but is less than the $114/month I paid last year for DirecTv stream.

"Billionaires need the working class. The working class does not need billionaires."

--Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

"The people are the shit we grow our money in" is Ukrainian saying about the oligarchs' point of view. What a splendidly succinct statement of truth.

Need a book to read? Pick something off this list: (Also, find a hard copy.) pen.org/book-bans/pe...

Multi-level barrage of US book bans is ‘unprecedented’, says PEN America Censorship at local to federal level recalls past authoritarian regimes ‘but this has never all happened at once’

Never in history have the people banning books been the good guys. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I hope some truly patriotic agents at the intelligence agencies are taking cues from Mark Felt these days. Only I'd choose a different media outlet, like AP, Reuters, or the BBC.

1984 Mazda B2000

That's Gary CohEn, and he's a TV commentator who still calls Mets games on SNY. The radio commentator is Howie Rose, and he is also brilliant.

First they came for the journalists—then nobody knows what happened.

Support independent media, now more than ever.

Lots of people may not know that most federal grant dollars- even for research, fund salaries of people like project managers, community support specialists, finance teams, etc. Millions & millions of people across the country will be furloughed or fired. I have heard of one NGO that already closed.

Immigration enforcement operations ramp up in cities across the U.S. Border czar Tom Homan told NBC News that several people with criminal convictions were apprehended in Chicago.

Then from an NBC News article: "[Homan] added that collateral arrests — detentions of people without criminal convictions who were present during the raids — would occur."

www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna189...

NY, NJ immigration enforcement offices now have quotas. It's 75 arrests a day or else, report says. The targets were handed down on Saturday after a middling start to President Trump's promised mass deportation push, the Washington Post reported.

"Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan has promised to first target criminals and gang members during the promised mass deportation."

gothamist.com/news/ny-nj-i...

White House pauses federal grant, loan other assistance programs The Trump administration has temporarily paused grant, loan and other financial assistance programs at the Office of Management and Budget, according to a memo seen by Reuters.

Intentional disaster. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

No grousing from me. It is a bit brisk today, though.

Post from John Perricone 3d • Several years ago l invited a Buddhist monk to speak to my Senior elective class, and quite interestingly, as he entered the room, he didn't say a word (that caught everyone's attention). He just walked to the board and wrote this: "EVERYONE WANTS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO HELP MOM DO THE DISHES." We all laughed. But then he went on to say this to my students: "Statistically, it's highly unlikely that any of you will ever have the opportunity to run into a burning orphanage and rescue an infant. But, in the smallest gesture of kindness -- a warm smile, holding the door for the person behind you, shoveling the driveway of the elderly person next door -- you have committed an act of immeasurable profundity, because to each of us, our life is our universe."

Been thinking about this a lot (not tagging the sender, for their privacy). Most of us won't have the chance for for grand, capital-R Resistance heroics. But every one of us will have a thousand small choices to make about how to live our lives and where to draw lines. Use them well.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final most essential command." —George Orwell, 1984

🤷‍♂️ The nice guy in me wants to say it's autocorrect but Meta is a word and the s and a are right next to each other, so it's probably failure to proofread. I have fat thumbs, so I get it.

Lol, need more coffee. Was very confused by people in my feed talking about the "Mets boycott," and then I realized it was misspelling or autocorrecting of "Meta boycott." Carry on. #LGM

No worries! I don't need the follows I'm just following Mets fans to see the conversation and share in the highs and lows. I think Sasaki was a long shot and I have concerns about starter depth and watching the team cobble together pitching like last year, but I'm going to have to trust mgt on this.

And 50 days until the first spring training game. About 2 cords of wood.

Former Syrian President Bashar Al Assad ruled ruthlessly for over two decades. With the help of Russian and Iranian forces, he also carried out some of the most vicious acts of the country’s 13-year civil war. We have documented many of these, from chemical attacks to the bombing of hospitals 🧵