I've been thinking about the Rangers' decision to display One Riot, One Ranger, and what it says about who this team is for. So I wrote about that. It's a big ol' bummer.
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A Comity of Errors
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there is no reason for a single one of them to vote for Mullin (yes, Mr. Fetterman, that means you) and they should make this as embarrassing as possible - which, given Mullin’s extensive track record of putting his foot in his mouth, shouldn’t even be that hard
JFC man, you have shit for brains if you respect this assclown or believe he’s honest and competent.
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Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"
Michael Palin and John Cleese in the classic Monty Python dead parrot skit
“Lovely bird the secretary, lovely plumage.”
“The plumage don’t enter into it—she’s finished.”
“Nah she’s retired. Need their beauty rest, the secretary”
“She’s not bleedin’ ‘retired’, she’s fired. Canned. Sacked. Shown the door. She is Noem more. She has ceased to be. This is an ex-secretary.”
Special Envoy to Guarding the Bees in the Basement
in the grand scheme this isn't an improvement because Mullin rivals Tommy Tubervill for being dumber than a sack of doorknobs, but Noem's public humiliation is worth savoring.
You all say Donald Trump is anti-immigrant, but did you know his wife is an immigrant? *drops mic, saunters triumphantly back into the Nazi bar*
This sounds like an ad, but it's about murder.
A shoulder that sounds like it’s cracking walnuts, and a fastball that couldn’t get a speeding ticket on an interstate
don’t mean to be legally normie but I think reading these court orders about ICE abuses to Kristi Noem’s face, while recording her empty responses in the Congressional record, is worth doing
Lou Holtz was fired as head coach at Arkansas because he kept taping campaign ads for Jesse Helms.
He was too racist for Arkansas. In 1983.
TPM is a treasure and punches way above its weight.
Friends of democracy should check it out. Frequent readers should become Prime members for about a buck a week for the first year.
Classic Chotiner interview, in that Landsman thinks it went great for him and is wondering why his family looks sad and is wearing black and there are all those casserole dishes in the kitchen
Did I propose titling this Double Dip(shits): Jurickson Profar Draws a Second PED Suspension, and Johan Rojas (Likely) a First? Yes, yes I did.
Jules Winnfield had kinder words for the motherfuckers he was about to whack in Pulp Fiction than Becca Balint has for Noem here (the full clip is worth a listen).
happy to hear about Benetti and SNB, because I stopped watching on ESPN and I'll give it a try now. But I do want to note that ESPN's broadcast failures weren't a talent issue first and foremost. They've had good pxpers and analysts. The issue was the network didn't respect the game itself.
as one who has spent a lot of time poring over bootlegs highlighted in Doom & Gloom from the Tomb — VU, Television, Patti, Peter Laughner and more — thanks and congrats!
Did I propose titling this Double Dip(shits): Jurickson Profar Draws a Second PED Suspension, and Johan Rojas (Likely) a First? Yes, yes I did.
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Tweet by Igor Bobic "Fetterman responds to Graham Platner saying he should lose his seat: “Oh, really? The guy with the Nazi tattoo? Yeah, I'm devastated by that.” "
this is what awaits us if we fail to crush Platner in the primary, "oh the party of Nazi Tattoos has something to say?" every time forever
whoa. Between Schoop and Jurickson Profar, that fun Team Netherlands infield from the 2017 and '23 WBCs has found trouble lately.
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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...
You can read more about the racist statue that @mlb.com is tacitly endorsing here. This was written in 2020. It caused Love Field in Dallas to remove the statue and put it in storage. The Rangers are cool with it, though. www.dmagazine.com/publications...
