David Benjamin Firstman

Chasing 56 - McFarland Chasing 56: DiMaggio’s Record, Rose’s Pursuit and Nine Other Contenders for Immortality David B. Firstman 978-1-4766-9571-6 979-8-3686-0133-5

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Fun fact ........ Tobias Myers will be the first Met with the first name of Tobias in franchise history (also, he's the only Tobias in MLB history)

an “inherent power” to respond to an “imminent” attack is just a license for aggressive war on the president’s whim

The Kennedy Center was created by a federal law two months after President John Kennedy’s assassination. It was designated as a living memorial to President Kennedy given his devotion to the advancement of the performing arts. Today Trump just renamed the Kennedy Center after himself.

I'm increasingly convinced Trump's inner circle is giving him busy work (the White House ballroom, Kennedy Center, presidential plaques, gold decorations, etc.) while they essentially run the government. He admits that he doesn't even know who he is pardoning anymore.

Tentative cover for my book! #gettingreal

Funny (not funny) thing is that Trump first gained power because the GWB administration made a war out of thin air. Criticizing the Iraq war was largely how he separated himself from the other 2016 GOP presidential candidates.

If only he was able to remember this.

You roll into Ohare one week before Christmas and cause chaos in the rideshare lot for only one reason and it's not to keep people safe.

He's lying. How do we know?

Because they released the Sept 2nd video already!! Just not the part where they illegally killed the survivors. There's nothing "top secret" about the second strike if there wasn't anything top secret about the first one.

Family says critically ill man was pressured into deportation order after 'Charlotte's Web' sweep Relatives of a 27-year-old Honduran man say he was denied dialysis and pressured into signing a voluntary deportation order after being detained during "Operation Charlotte's Web." ICE denies the alle...

27-year-old Honduran man with end-stage renal failure denied dialysis until he signed a voluntary deportation order. Abolish DHS completely. Arrest most of its leaders.

BRENNAN: Prices in the toy space are accelerating, and people are feeling that

BRENNAN: Inflation is a composite number and it's roughly the same year over over

Zero reckoning from any of the elites who credulously parroted the absurd idea that the right wing was in favor of free speech.

They were always going to unleash full-on ethnic cleansing. They were just waiting for a plausible excuse.

Insulting to have to point this out, but if you have spent even 30 minutes reading US history, you realize that every decade has been dominated by racist hysteria that the "new" people won't ever fit in.

This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.

So this may seem obvious to you and me, but it's important to repeat and underscore to every normie we can: Trump's goal was always to end *legal* immigration for anyone he deems not white.

A *lot* of Trump voters believed the lie that only "illegal" immigrants would be targeted.

It’s really something. The greatest country in the history of the world twice elected the most stupid, most ignorant, biggest idiot in the history of the world.

YouTube video by David Firstman David Firstman at Village Underground November 9 2025

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an actual not-made-up death panel, except there’s only one guy

I may be missing some ..... but 4 seems to be the record 1915 - 4 Bills: Carrigan, Donahue, McKechnie, Phillips; 1885 - 4 Charlies: Byrne, Comiskey, Hackett, Morton; 1890 - 4 Jacks: Chapman, Clements, Kerins, Rowe; 1884 - 4 Jims: Mutrie, Price, Gifford, O'Rourke;

Trump every time he’s confronted about one of his lies: “Who are you with?”

Reporter: Gives name of company.

Trump: You’re fake news. You’re terrible. I’m not calling on you anymore! You should be ashamed of yourself! This is why nobody watches you!

Then goes back to lying.

I've waited my whole life to hear a New York mayor say things like this

Schumer had a chance to repudiate the gutter racism and Islamophobia of Cuomo's campaign and he just fucking didn't. And that is disqualifying. He should be ashamed and we the voters should make sure he feels that shame.

Republicans hate America

How long does the show run?

At the Beacon for another of my favorite comics from the UK.

"Lincoln Era" bathroom looked like this.

yeah i mean come on. if you're remodeling a bathroom in 2025 and you're not adding a bidet, are you even an autocrat?

The GOP campaigned on "We are better at government than the Democrats"

Enough voters believed them and gave them the keys to the government.

And now its "Its all Democrats' fault that we suck at governing"

The gestapo goons were staging their immoral, illegal raids in the parking lot outside the fucking PetSmart where we buy cat food. This is all so horrible.