Hank Hoffman

I can't get past Stearns's smug, self-satisfied, know-it-all grin & the fact that he *lied* to us fans & told us the team wanted to re-sign Pete.

It was the team's 1st chance in over 60 yrs to have a homegrown slugger who could hit over 400 home runs as a Met & he's gone. Shoulda been a Mets lifer.

Exactly! "He knew they were lies but he said them anyway & these people were terrorized w/ bomb threats! Just like he said Trump was 'America's Hitler' & now is his running mate & has completely reversed himself. Ya gotta ask: Does JD have any moral red lines he won't cross?"

W/ the loss of Alonso—basically Stearns & Cohen kicking him out the door—I'm not finding any ability to summon enthusiasm for the team or spring training. And I've been a fan since *the beginning* of the 1969 season. (My father went to the first Mets home game in 1962.)

Finding it hard to get over.

Ha ha.

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In the Harris debate, I thought she started nervously. But as soon as she dropped that line about his crowd sizes & people walking out, I knew she had him. They used his narcissism against him. She won that debate. Walz could have won & backfooted Vance but they were afraid of defending immigrants.

The campaign picking Walz BECAUSE his "They're weird" was gaining traction and then having him drop that remains a real head-scratcher to me.

Yes to this. To my eyes, Walz was coached to be defential to Vance. Instead, he should have come out early in the debate w/ a Joseph Welch-esque "Have you no decency?" re Vance's stocjastic terroristic lies about the Haitian community in Springfield, OH. Really attacked Vance's moral character.

What about Paul McCartney?

Electing Trump the first time could have been seen as an aberration, a quirk of US politics that would not be repeated. But electing him a second time sent a clear signal to the rest of the world that it is imperative to reduce military and economic dependence on the US because it is unstable.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

The only reason we are alive to debate this is because Stanislav Petrov decided not to trust a computer.

The conservative movement is a death cult.

Organized primarily to insulate wealth, entrenched power, and corporate America from the meddling reach of democracy, it has always been happy to embrace junk science when there’s a political advantage.

You know how they used to make Indiana Jones video games and toys but the legal departments were always "you can't actually show Nazis or Nazi symbols in this, you have to edit them into some vague representation of Nazis that's just enough for children consuming these to understand" yeah that

People keep telling me impeachment isn’t possible but *Donald Trump* is the fucking president for a second time and he just launched a war in a fucking baseball hat so in fact anything and everything are *possible*

🚨In response to the launch of major #US and #Israeli hostilities against #Iran, CIP's Executive Vice President @mattduss.bsky.social issued the following statement:

Screenshot of statement. Full text linked in reply.

My statement on Trump's attack on Iran.

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The perspicacious Maureen Dowd from 2016.

And @markwarner.bsky.social will do precisely nothing except for vote for another Trump nominee to the judiciary.

Anyone who bought the bullshit about Trump being dovish should’ve had their pundit license pulled.

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This must stop. It’s grotesque. And it’s being done to fulfill the fantasies of monsters.

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Phenomenal, long interview by @coreyatad.com with playwright (and screenwriter) Tony Kushner about the Steven Spielberg-directed movie "Munich," for which Kushner authored the screenplay.

Once again, in actual democracies, people do not need to engage in permanent litigation & political mobilization to retain the basic right to vote, because none of the major political parties make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform. We also don't have to live like this.

I say, "Go for it, asshole."

I hope they try this. I think it will blow up in their face the way a stick of dynamite turns Wile E. Coyote's face into charcoal.

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social continues to CONSISTENTLY vote for Trump nominees. How clueless must you be to continue to enable an administration that wants to lock you up & even kill you?

The issue is authenticity. Someone who trims their sails, mouths consultant-workshopped platitudes, & self-consciously hews to a perceived "center" doesn't code as a "fighter" or "tough." They code as a panderer.

It isn't a question of "fighting harder for it." It's "will they fight if it's hard?"

Interesting to me that consultants' & Dem insiders' advice is to "moderate"—shed progressive positions to win voters—but in fact, that would just REINFORCE a view of the party as "weak." Trimming sails, soft-pedaling values give the impression of lack of ideological self-confidence: fear, weakness.

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The perfect example of this was Dems running in 2024 on "Trump is fascist who'll implement Project 2025." Then Trump gets elected. Upon inauguration, he IMMEDIATELY starts implementing P2025 & it's glaringly obvious congressional Dems didn't spend ONE SECOND between Nov. & 1/20 planning for that.

From CBS last night: "Trump met with Socialist Democrat mayor of New York City."

If they're going to do that, CBS should have said, "The Socialist Democrat mayor of New York City met with the Republican fascist president."