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Spurs play today #COYS

This’ll be my 36th straight #StLCards Home Opener. Would be 37 if not for the pandemic year without fans.

Cori can do it. She can beat Wesley Bell and his AIPAC money.

Sounds familiar…

If Cornyn is re-nominated it’s over, but Paxton looks to have the upper hand.

Talarico v. Paxton is a Dem win.
Crockett v. Paxton means one of the worst humans on earth gets a senate seat.

Vote Talarico.

I like Jasmine Crockett a lot, but she will never get elected in a statewide in Texas.

Dems have a real shot at a Texas senate seat for the first time in decades, you all need to nominate the candidate who can win, and that’s Talarico.

Says the guy who threw ACA Tax Credits under the bus for absolutely nothing.

Killing people bc they can’t afford health care seems pretty devoid of any morals to me, Senator.

The NBA forced the sale of the Clippers when it became known their owner regularly used the N-word.

The Texas Rangers are actively segregating their team and @mlb.com won’t even bat an eye. #ManfredOut

They put up a statue of a segregationist, and have an ALL WHITE lineup and ALL WHITE rotation, but were meant to believe this is about supporting the police?!

Fuck off w your dog whistle, bud. We all hear it.

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...

Imagine what could have been had @senangusking.bsky.social cared this much about ACA Tax Credits and American’s healthcare.

Maybe if Platner wins he goes Fetterman, but that really isn't the issue. I don't care if he gets up there and votes reliable party line. He's still a damned nazi and if you aren't willing to draw a hard moral line at that, if you make excuses and whataboutisms for it, you've fallen into the abyss.

Trump doesn’t care that his own White House tried to backtrack on his loony idea to “nationalize” our elections because he keeps repeating it.

The man wants to undermine our democracy and “take over” voting.

When Trump makes authoritarian threats, believe him!

This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

Trump puts a medal on a veteran

Derry: Have you ever hoovered sneef off of home plate in Busch stadium?

Squirrelly Dan: I’ve hoovered sneef off of Mark McGwires butts cheeks whiles he was gettin’ a steroids shot in the other butts cheeks.”

Polvara was excellent MD1 I thought. I saw the vision easily. He was really good in the air, on the ball, and looked dangerous on set pieces.

His on the ball defense (or lack there of) was really exploited MD2, however. If can can defend in space better I think they’re on to something.

Personally I would have moved to a 4 man backline with Wallem at fullback lining up against Dreyer. Not guaranteed to work, but at least you’re putting your best field player (in the game) against theirs.

Hindsight is easy tho.

Sorry if this sounded snippy. I was rushing out the door to get kiddos to school (we were running late) and I wasn’t paying close attention to tone.

No disrespect intended, of course.

He can have time, didn’t say otherwise, but we only have two games by which to judge Damet and there were quite a few red flags, several major IMHO, from this match.

Can’t put out heads in the sand and ignore obvious issues. Best we can hope is to identity the problem so
It can be addressed.

Obvious mistakes can’t be pointed out and criticized bc it’s only his second game?

I got a fundraising email from Platner recently that was titled something like, “I’m not interested in Democrats fighting fascism…”

My immediate response was, “I know Graham, your tattoos gave you away.”

Her name is Cori Bush.

This wasn’t a game where we were shorthanded, played valiantly, and got beat by a superior squad.

This was a whiplash, hang-on-to-your-butt, we’re getting out classed at every level kind of game. We were lucky to keep it to 2-0. Could have just as easily been 5-0, at half. #AllForCity

Can’t press high when you’re trapped in your 1/3 all game.

Santos and Miggy are the two biggest red flags from last nights lineup and their inclusion was pretty emblematic of the issues we had:

Couldn’t handle Dreyer’s quality. Couldn’t move the ball thru the midfield well enough to beat their press and getting trapped in our 1/3.

Not looking good is one thing, not putting your players in the best place to succeed is another problem all together.

Not calling for him to be fired, but Damet showed that he has a lot of growing and development to do as a coach as well.

He rinse and repeated his game plan and got wrecked.

It would help if Becher could hit the broad side if the barn, esp when he’s standing next to it.

I get we were missing Edu & Cello, but this game made Damet look like he’s over his head. He got out coached & maneuvered by a guy that doesn’t have that much more MLS experience than he does.

Damet’s seeming lack of tactical instincts and creativity is worrying. Hope I’m over reacting. #AllForCity