JockoDundee

JockoDundee

@jockodundee.bsky.social

“No more nodding!”

147 Followers 68 Following 650 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 day ago

Rewatching DS9. I’m a nerd.

1 0 0 0
1 day ago

Not with me. He has already proved himself. And for any jets fans that agree with Carl, I want to know what the better alternative was? Christ, I hope he proves all his haters wrong. I’m rooting for you Geno, win or lose.

0 0 0 0
1 day ago

I’m so sorry. She was lucky to have someone who cared about her so much and gave her a life that too many don’t get.

1 0 1 0
2 days ago
Preview
Countries are negotiating rules to mine the deep sea. The U.S. is pushing ahead alone With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The Trump administration is forging ahead on its own, speeding up environmental re...

The embarrassment of the US in deep sea mining, as in so much else. "The Int'l Seabed Authority is overseeing the development of rules for international waters... The U.S. has opted out of the process and is moving ahead on its own." #ocean #deepsea #deepseamining #nature #climate #marinebiology

4 2 0 1
2 days ago

I suppose my only concern is whether his bone spurs interfere with the very real and not at all abstract metric this stable genius uses.

0 0 0 0
3 days ago

"If animals believed in God, the devil would look like a human being."

0 1 0 0
3 days ago
Preview
30 Facts About Childhood Today that Will Terrify You Why are we doing this to our kids?

The average child now plays outside for only 4–7 minutes per day. Even inmates in top security prison get more outdoor time than this.

The latest on our Substack, After Babel:
www.afterbabel.com/p/30-facts-a...

8 5 2 0
4 days ago

Ugh

0 0 0 0
5 days ago

Good for him. I hope he comes here and proves doubters wrong. We’ve treated very few QBs well. This off season has had a lot of changes to make me really happy. Now I hope Glenn can coach the way we hope he can.

0 0 0 0
1 week ago

Why can’t Stephen a smith have this realization about… well… all business.

3 0 0 0
1 week ago

Matt is one of the greats. Help him keep doing his thing.

4 1 0 0
1 week ago

I think theres a benefit. It teaches how to appreciate what we care about and helps learn to endure future loss that isn’t always tied to death. Theres all kind of loss. If we inoculate ourselves from grief of loved one we are less likely to cope with other loss. Not sure this applies to animals

0 0 0 0
1 week ago

I would also add people can create their own echo chambers on X. Block this one, mute that one, etc etc. I didn’t leave X because I only wanted to hear others that think like me (which BS didn’t provide as I am not very liberal). I just don’t want to support Musk which is my right as a consumer

0 0 1 0
1 week ago

I am a therapist and grief is something I want to specialize in. I am curious from your perspective with animals, what is the purpose of grief (not as a byproduct). That is to say loss of any kind creates a natural reaction, including grief. But what is the benefit in non human animals as you see it

0 0 1 0
1 week ago
That statue, which was cast back in 1961, was modeled on 1950s Texas Rangers – as in the law enforcement Texas Rangers – Captain Jay Banks. Since it's unveiling 65 years ago it has spent most of its life at Love Field in Dallas. But then in 2020 it was removed and placed in storage. Why? Because Captain Jay Banks was a racist cop who made it his mission to stop schools from integrating.

This is an excerpt from the 2020 book, Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug Swanson, which describes' Banks' role in efforts to keep schools in Texas racially segregated in defiance of the United States Supreme Court's 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education:

Then there is the form and face of the statue itself. This dates to 1956, when the NAACP, backed with a court order, attempted to integrate the high school in Mansfield, about 30 miles southwest of Dallas. White residents erupted in fury, so Gov. Allan Shivers dispatched the Rangers. But unlike state police in other Southern racial hotspots, the Rangers in Mansfield did not escort black students past howling mobs of white supremacists. They had been sent instead to keep the black children out of a white school. The commanding Ranger on the scene was Sgt. E.J. “Jay” Banks. A wire service photo showed him casually leaning against a tree outside Mansfield High. To his left, above the school’s entrance, was a dummy in blackface, hanging from a noose. Nearby a white mob had assembled. Some carried signs that threatened death for anyone attempting to integrate the school. Banks saw no need to remove the effigy or disperse the mob. “They were just ‘salt of the earth’ citizens,” he later wrote. “They were concerned because they were convinced that someone was trying to interfere with their way of life.” Blacks were so intimidated that none attempted to enroll at Mansfield.
Several days later, Gov. Shivers ordered Banks and a few other Rangers to Northeast Texas, because African-Americans wished to take classes at all-white Texarkana Junior College, a public institution. Again the Rangers’ job was to stop black students from enrolling.
As at Mansfield, a mob of white men gathered outside the school. An 18-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy, both black, arrived by cab and began to walk toward the college. The mob blocked their path. Some surrounded the 17-year-old and kicked him, while others threw gravel. The Rangers watched it happen and did nothing except threaten to arrest the two students.    
That wire service photo of Banks in front of the school with the Black person hung in effigy can be seen at the top of today's newsletter. The statue was removed from public view in 2020 in the wake of that book about the Rangers being published. This occurred at the same time that statues of Confederates, Klansmen, racists, and segregationists were removed all over the country following the murder of George Floyd. But now the Texas Rangers Baseball Club, knowing full well the history of the statue, its subject, and its removal, and knowing that multiple municipal institutions decided it was inappropriate for public display, is happy to put that statue up in a public concourse at a major league baseball stadium.

When I learned of this yesterday afternoon I contacted Major League Baseball and asked the following questions:

Is Major League Baseball aware of the history of the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue and its subject, Jay Banks?
Is Major League Baseball aware that Love Field and the City of Dallas removed the statue and put it in storage in 2020 after Banks' involvement in attempting to keep schools segregated in the 1950s came to light?
Does Major League Baseball condone one of its Clubs erecting a previously-removed statue of a staunch segregationist at its ballpark?; and
Does Major League Baseball have any comment regarding the discomfort that will be felt by Black fans when confronted with the statue of a segregationist at Globe Life Field? 
I did not receive a response. I'm going to assume that the league's silence on this means that it wholly condones the Rangers putting up the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue despite its sordid and extraordinarily well-reported history.

Yesterday the Texas Rangers erected a statue of a segregationist cop at Globe Life Field. A statue that was removed from public property in 2020 because of its racist history. @mlb.com has refused to comment. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

458 214 19 38
2 weeks ago
Post image
8,558 3,646 440 181
2 weeks ago

I’m old enough to remember how trump was the only President who would never start a war.

12 0 1 0
2 weeks ago
Post image

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

13,987 4,441 471 358
2 weeks ago

For the kids who don’t know: The Lancet is a - if not the - premier medical profession publication.

419 143 6 3
3 weeks ago

Maybe they just want to take advantage of their leverage and new found power given the situation like he did before. Amazing what happens to you when you don’t act with respect and dignity towards those who are weaker. What’s the phrase? He doesn’t “have the cards”?

1 0 0 0
3 weeks ago

I miss Real Sports so much. Especially Mary Carillo.

0 0 0 0
3 weeks ago

This is so fucking wrong. This should never happen in this country.👇

799 191 71 9
3 weeks ago
Post image

Bad things can & will happen

But it's important to recognize so many dire predictions from this cycle never came to pass

Spending 95% of your time worrying about things that happen 5% of the time is how to scare yourself out of markets that usually go up

awealthofcommonsense.com/2026/02/some...

24 5 5 3
3 weeks ago

I agree. The principles of how we treat other animals must be based on recognition of their bodily autonomy, right to agency, ability and desire to flourish. This is why I write about animals' emotions like love and grief. #animals #animalrights #plantbased

29 11 0 0
3 weeks ago

If you're wondering how CBS News under Bari Weiss is covering Stephen Colbert's stunning revelation that the network blocked his interview with a Texas Democrat... It isn't. Silence both on the air and online.

1,317 306 35 12
1 month ago

Do I get to use that money? On Animal Spirits it was framed as a status symbol. A status symbol implies you need to keep the 3 million portfolio in tact because if you spent the money it’s no longer a status symbol. If I can spend the money I take the money. Otherwise the house because I can use it

0 0 0 0
1 month ago

Honestly this is better than threading

7 0 1 0
1 month ago
Post image Post image Post image

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

11,804 4,177 272 254
1 month ago

Ha makes you say that? I haven’t been on it for about 8 years so I can’t look for myself

0 0 1 0
1 month ago

Happy for Darnold. I’m a jets fan and don’t hate him or the big cat winning at all.

2 0 0 0