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A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

Gosh this is a *great* week to be making a video for the most emotional and unintentionally timely song on the record, which means we'll be hearing it 8554 times in a row

Federal judge says Trump administration can't kill NYC's congestion pricing tolls The order undermines President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign promise to "TERMINATE" congestion pricing.

Suck it, Duffy

Because maybe
You're gonna be the one that scores for me
And after all
You're my meatwall

Literally the only acceptable time for a white man to tell a woman to STFU

Coldest I've ever been was at Wrigley Field in mid-April. We lasted 3 innings.

Second coldest I've ever been was Fenway Park in late May. We stuck it out for the entire game but only bc we were young and stupid.

I DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR THIS, MIXED PRECIPITATION

Can confirm! We've done in-studio sessions there and it's been a professional experience all around. The kids know what they're doing.

I'm sure the sugar won't be a problem at bedtime.

Had to go Full Karen "Please Let Me Speak To Your Supervisor", and I feel dirty but dammit, I got what I needed

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It's cheaper than paying a company and doesn't kill all of the beneficial insects in the area.

#garden #gardening

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...

Meerkat doing same, for me.

Guest Cat Gary would claim he never listened to us. Guest Cat Charles definitely cannot hear us over the sound of the static in his wee brain.

Hey @meninblazers.bsky.social come get your boy

Academics, don't be left behind!

oh FFS

People on a green highway overpass behind a chain link fence holding up letters that spell out: WAR CRIMES DONT HIDE SEX CRIMES There is a brown triple decker in the background

Dorchester has entered the chat.

[93 overpass as seen by my sister from the Savin Hill T stop]

New indie movie plot just dropped

I'm sure that didn't help.

And it's not even noon yet

Is Mercury back in retrograde bc jfc this DAY

To all heading for Cruise On The Edge, I salute you.

It's hard being the little guy who has to learn rules of engagement.

Ugh. Sending virtual bleach (I assume you have the real stuff, since you have young'uns). Hope this goes away for good soon!

I feel like 2007 into 2008 is a good roadmap here... sigh.

Phew. might wanna give the new ep of Paradise a miss if you’re looking for a bit of escape from The Horrors tonight. Yikes.

Goddammit

I had soooo many of these. Probably The Sugarcubes first?

Me: cripes, my brain has been all in a useless scramble today. Wonder why.

*looks around at ... everything*

Oh