This is tremendous storytelling. Passan does a great job. Yelich and Gordon balance each other well. Disappointing that the circumstances of the accident were completely brushed over, but maybe that's a podcast for another day. Life, like death, is complicated.
On Sept. 25, 2016, José Fernández died in a boat crash. He was only 24. Ten years later, we talk with Christian Yelich and Dee Strange-Gordon about Fernández’s pitching brilliance, how he helped usher in baseball’s modern era and the legacy he left behind. https://t.co/P0qZuuaK5a
@CyrtHogg The irony of writing that the Brewers lost because of “a series of inexcusable mistakes” in a story littered with typos and grammatical errors is pretty hard to miss.
@AdamMcCalvy I feel for Adam here. As an employee of MLB, and by extension the Brewers, he's just the firefighter in these situations, trying to contain the blaze while the social media team races to finish the graphics.
@ByJackStern If I were still hiring writers and analysts, Jack would be on my short list. He's consistently ahead of the coverage, smartly answering questions I've been wondering about - like this one on Vaughn.
El caso de Noelia: La eutanasia parece ser una ejecución del Estado, el último paso de un camino de torturas del sistema.
1. El Estado quita la custodia a los padres e interna a Noelia en un centro de menores a los 13 años. Tras el divorcio perdieron la casa, atravesaron problemas económicos y el Estado se "encargó" de ella.
2. Noelia era una chica vulnerable y sufre una violación grupal. El Estado no la ha protegido, la ha expuesto.
3. Noelia tenía una incapacidad del 67% por su enfermedad mental, pero tras la agresión sexual intenta suicidarse y queda en silla de ruedas, (es autónoma en lo demás), su incapacidad sube al 74%, según El Confidencial.
4. El Estado la separó de sus padres que la querían, pero no la protegió, no la amparó y no la ayudó psicológica ni emocionalmente. Una chica vulnerable a la que el Estado dejó en indefensión absoluta su solución es quitarla de en medio.
La eutanasia parece ser la ejecución, el último paso de un caso de secuestro y torturas, con la premura de un sistema que quiere borrar las huellas de lo que hace realmente el "Estado" en el nombre de la muerte digna. La libertad. Evitar el sufrimiento.
El trastorno de Noelia no le permite percibir que tiene un padre que lucha por ella contra un Estado y un sistema que sólo la utiliza como sacrificio en el altar de una ideología perversa que utiliza palabras de bien para implantar el mal.
Esta eutanasia es claro ejemplo existencial de cómo el Estado mata la figura del padre.
Recemos por Noelia.
In 30 minutes, Spain will euthanize 25-year-old Noelia Castillo Ramos, who suffers from depression
She will be given drugs which will suffocate her to death.
Surgeons are standing by to harvest her organs.
Pray that her life is spared
Lord, have mercy
This is the culture of death
𝗖𝗢𝗗𝗘 𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗙𝗟𝗘𝗪 𝗧𝗢 𝗖𝗨𝗕𝗔 𝗧𝗢 "𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗨𝗕𝗔𝗡 𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗟𝗘." 𝗟𝗘𝗧 𝗠𝗘 𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗟 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬'𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗗𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗚.
A Code Pink activist chartered a plane full of medicine to Havana, made a video from her seat on a chartered plane calling Trump's Cuba policy "cruel, inhumane, and barbaric," and congratulated herself on her solidarity with the Cuban people.
Here's the question nobody in that video asked: where were you for the last several decades?
Cuba has had chronic medicine shortages for decades. Chronic food shortages for decades. Frequent power outages. Internet censorship. Wages so low that families survive on remittances from relatives who escaped. Criticizing the government there is not just unpopular — it can get you imprisoned.
𝗡𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗱𝗶𝗱.
The moment Donald Trump started applying real pressure on the communist regime that has oppressed Cuba for sixty years — the moment there was a credible possibility that the regime might actually fall — suddenly these activists discovered the Cuban people and their suffering.
Think about what that means. They are not flying to Cuba because Cubans are suffering. Cubans have been suffering their entire lives. They are flying to Cuba because Trump might end that suffering, and they cannot allow Trump to get credit for it.
So they will bring medicine, take photos, post videos, call themselves virtuous — and then fly home to their comfortable American lives and lobby against the policy most likely to actually free the Cuban people from the government that is causing the shortages in the first place.
That is not solidarity. That is using the Cuban people as a prop in a performance about Donald Trump.
If you are Cuban and you are reading this: they are not there for you. They are there against him. And the difference between those two things is the difference between your freedom and your continued oppression.
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗺𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵.
RULES TO TEACH YOUR SON
1. Never shake a man’s hand sitting down.
2. Don’t enter a pool by the stairs.
3. The man at the BBQ grill is the closest thing to a king.
4. In a negotiation, never make the first offer.
5. Request the late check-out.
6. When entrusted with a secret, keep it.
7. Hold your heroes to a higher standard.
8. Return a borrowed car with a full tank of gas.
9. Play with passion — or don’t play at all.
10. When shaking hands, grip firmly and look them in the eye.
11. Don’t let a wishbone grow where a backbone should be.
12. If you need music on the beach, you’re missing the point.
13. Carry two handkerchiefs.
One in your back pocket is for you.
One in your breast pocket is for her.
14. You marry the girl, you marry her family.
15. Be like a duck.
Remain calm on the surface and paddle like crazy underneath.
16. Experience the serenity of traveling alone.
17. Never be afraid to ask out the best-looking girl in the room.
18. Never turn down a breath mint.
19. A sport coat is worth a thousand words.
20. Try writing your own eulogy.
Never stop revising.
21. Thank a veteran.
Then make it up to him.
22. Eat lunch with the new kid.
23. After writing an angry email, read it carefully.
Then delete it.
24. Ask your mom to play.
She won’t let you win.
25. Manners maketh the man.
26. Give credit.
Take the blame.
27. Stand up to bullies.
Protect those being bullied.
28. Write down your dreams.
29. Take time to snuggle your pets.
They love you and are always happy to see you.
30. Be confident and humble at the same time.
31. If ever in doubt, remember whose son you are —
and REFUSE to be ordinary.
32. In all things, lead by example — not explanation.
33. Dress how you want to be addressed.
34. Be blessed by being a blessing.
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RULES ARE RULES 🫵⚠️