Michael Cook

Switch Pedroia for Abreu and that's as perfect a non-failed test ballot as you can have

Stand your ground

Looks like two inductees, and two over 50% - maybe three with Pettitte. Hopefully that means someone gets in with Posey next year

Our country was built on handshake agreements. We see now, there's no true enforcement mechanism against fascism, outside of armed resistance. They won't abide by this ruling, any more than they have all the previous rulings

And yet, they have immunity, so they won't listen

Switch out Manny for Wright, and it's my ballot. Not because Wright was better, but Manny has no chance

You should lose your vote if you submit a blank ballot. There's never once been a ballot that didn't have multiple future HoFers. This is sanctimonious, at best. Just don't send your ballot in. But no, they want to wipe out the votes of others in order to feel some goofy sense of superiority

If I'm the Tigers, I'm seeing how much I can get from the Dodgers for Skubal. They've blocked a lot of prospects/young players: SP Sheehan, Miller, and Stone; SS Freeland; Prospects Hope, de Paula, Sirota, Ferris, Tibbs, Ryan.

If they're gonna be evil, might as well take advantage of it

I'd bet Jones is within 10 votes of either side of 75%

Awesome job, thanks for including my ballot - got knocked out with the sickness the day of the election, just now back on my feet

He should have just went out, no tap

Surprised Dizzy Dean wasn't mentioned as a Twin

The way it should have been

Go to a cemetery. See all the baby graves before the 1950’s and 1960’s? After that, hardly any. That’s when people started vaccinating children against deadly childhood diseases. If you’re unsure what to do to protect your kids, it’s written in stone.

It’s written in stone at cemeteries.

Vaccines work.

#MomSky

Can you imagine how bad it would be if he was a DEI candidate? (sarcasm)

Statement from Drop Site News on Israel’s Murder of Our Colleague Hossam Shabat: We Hold Both Israel and the U.S. Government Responsible Today, March 24, 2025, Israel killed journalist Hossam Shabat, a reporter for Al Jazeera Mubasher and a contributing reporter to Drop Site News, in what witnesses described as a targeted strike.

Today, Israel killed our colleague Hossam Shabat, who reported for @dropsitenews.com from northern Gaza. Witnesses say it was a targeted strike on his car. This is our statement:

www.dropsitenews.com/p/statement-...

Tweet from Sharif Kouddous: "The health ministry has released a 1,516–page document listing the names of over 50,000 Palestinians confirmed killed in Gaza since Oct 7, 2023. There are a total of 474 pages listing 15,600+ children’s names. The first 27 pages the age is listed as 0 — children under 1 year old"

27 pages. Of babies. Whose entire understanding of what Earth sounded like was bombs dropping & people screaming at the sky

Brian Kilmeade calls for the end of due process: "It's not practical to think we can do due process on 8 million people ... if we're gonna give every one of these guys a day in a court and a lawyer, we can't do it. They don't deserve it."

JD Vance @Pete Hegseth if you think we should do it let's go. I just hate bailing Europe out again. 8:45 AM O Let's just make sure our messaging is tight here. And if there are things we can do upfront to minimize risk to Saudi oil facilities we should do it. 8:46 AM O Pete Hegseth VP: I fully share your loathing of く

Pete Hegseth VP: I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It's PATHETIC. But Mike is correct, we are the only ones on the planet (on our side of the ledger) who can do this. Nobody else even close. Question is timing. I feel like now is as good a time as any, given POTUS directive to reopen shipping lanes. I think we should go; but POTUS still retains 24 hours of decision space. 8:49 AM O SM SM As I heard it, the president was clear: green light, but we soon make clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return. We also need to figure out how to enforce such a requirement. EG, if Europe doesn't remunerate, then what? If the US successfully restores freedom of navigation at great cost there needs to be some further economic gain extracted in return.

BREAKING

Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was accidentally included in a Signal group chat with top Trump administration officials, where top-secret war plans related to Yemen were shared.

Full Story: bit.ly/4c4hqW2

In danger of becoming? This is what the US has been like for everyone that isn’t affluent and white for a long, long time. We’re literally carrying this out abroad. Do you think we just invented these inhumane and torturous procedures in the last three months?

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...

[Content warning: violence]

Led by Mayor Eric Adams' longtime allies, this secretive NYPD unit is ridden with abuses.

One man died after officers in the unit swerved their unmarked police car into his motorcycle.

📽️: @carissaqmb.bsky.social

Two GOP Senators, Grassley and Tillis, just joined a *very* harsh letter from Dems calling on Rubio to reinstate contract tracking abducted Ukrainian children.

"It must remain the policy of the US to pursue accountability for the Russian Federation’s atrocities in Ukraine."

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.

"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

They’re not workaholics. They’re occupying these offices like a Bundy militia and are worried that if they leave to do normal things like sleep or eat they will be barred from re-entry.

Appeals court blocks Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for minors A three-judge panel has ruled that Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is unconstitutional and ordered it permanently blocked by a trial court.

Good news. Now let's see if the Supreme Court affirms this decision

Opinion: Transit systems shouldn’t operate as shelters for the unhoused and mentally ill Montreal’s transit authority, while being painted as the bad guy for wanting to clean up the metro system, has actually been too tolerant

I was pleased to join Ben Mulroney on his podcast to discuss my latest Globe and Mail column:
Transit systems shouldn’t operate as shelters for the unhoused and mentally ill
curiouscast.ca/podcast/1487...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

My name is Mahmoud Khalil

inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...

Screenshot of a tweet from Hampton Institute that says: Revolutionaries throughout history have recognized one of the most important elements to creating a population capable of overthrowing its oppressors is literacy. It's no coincidence that the US population has become increasingly illiterate. This is by design & serves a purpose.

Meanwhile: bsky.app/profile/tech...