Jefe 32

A New Yorker living in Charlottesville. I love baseball, basketball, tech news, cheese and beer.

[Jefe 32 @Cardeli32]

Try not to cry watching a young Mr. Rogers defend PBS https://t.co/Vht0wy0NVq via @mashable

[NYPD 90th Precinct @NYPD90Pct]

A couple of tips if you're planning on going out🍻 Be Safe!

[Oh No He Didn't 🤯 @ohnohedidnt24]

Malika: "You're willing to take less (money)?"

KAT: "Oh yeah, because I want this team to stay together. That's always been my main priority was to keep everyone here, to keep this core, this special team that we have. So it was the first thing on my mind as soon as it was. And there was nowhere in my mind a max was even thought of"

Jalen to KAT: "Sign the contract" 😁

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

For almost twenty years, the highest-ranking general in the United States Army was secretly on the payroll of Spain, and it wasn't proven until long after he was dead.

His name was James Wilkinson.

He'd been an officer in the Revolution, and even then he had a talent for being near trouble. He was tangled up in the Conway Cabal, the whispering campaign to replace George Washington with Horatio Gates. Later he was forced out of a job as clothier general over sloppy accounts. Somehow, none of it ever stuck.

In 1787, Wilkinson made a trip down the Mississippi to New Orleans, which was Spanish territory at the time. Americans living in Kentucky depended on the river to get their goods to market, and Spain controlled it. Wilkinson came back with valuable trading rights.

What nobody knew was the price. While in New Orleans, he swore an oath of allegiance to the King of Spain. In Spanish reports he became known as Agent 13. In exchange for a pension, he fed Spain information and promised to help pull the western territories away from the United States.

Then he went back into the U.S. Army.

He rose all the way to the top. By the late 1790s he was the senior officer in the entire Army, and he held that role on and off until 1812. All the while, money from Spain kept coming, sometimes smuggled up the river in barrels of sugar or coffee.

There were rumors the whole time. People in Washington whispered that Wilkinson was a Spanish agent. Presidents heard the talk. Nobody could prove it.

In 1804, when Lewis and Clark set out to explore the West, Wilkinson quietly advised Spanish officials to stop them. Spain sent out patrols to intercept the expedition. They never found it.

Then came Aaron Burr.

After killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel, the former vice president headed west with a mysterious plan. Depending on who you ask, he wanted to invade Spanish Mexico, carve off part of the American West, or both. Wilkinson was deep in it with him.

Then Wilkinson decided Burr was going to fail. So he flipped. He wrote to Thomas Jefferson warning of a dangerous conspiracy and cast himself as the loyal general saving the nation.

The key evidence against Burr was a coded letter Burr had sent to Wilkinson. Before handing it over, Wilkinson changed it, cutting out the parts that made himself look guilty.

At Burr's treason trial in 1807, Wilkinson was the star witness. It went badly. The doctored letter came out. The grand jury came close to indicting Wilkinson himself. The foreman, John Randolph, later described him as rotten from top to bottom. Burr was acquitted, and Wilkinson kept his command.

He faced courts of inquiry and a court-martial over the years. He beat every one of them. It was later said of him that he never won a battle and never lost a court-martial.

His luck on the battlefield finally ran out in the War of 1812. In 1813 he led an invasion aimed at Montreal that fell apart in confusion and defeat. He was removed from command.

Wilkinson died in Mexico City in 1825.

It wasn't until historians dug through the Spanish archives decades later that they found the proof. The reports, the payments, the code name. The man who led the U.S. Army had been working for a foreign power the whole time.

It's called the Wilkinson affair, and almost nobody learns about it.

[JL @JLas43_]

DING DING DING DING 🛎️

GIRARDI NAILS IT. SO REFRESHING TO HEAR 👂

[Mandy Patinkin @PatinkinMandy]

The theater was packed. When it was finished the audience just sat there as the credits rolled. Stillness. You know how rare that is for people to not jump up and start yammering or scrolling or move on to the next thing? There was stillness and awe, gratitude and sorrow and astonishment both with the film and this world we have allowed.

This movie being slammed by reviewers is beyond comprehension. Anyone who is dragging this piece through the mud should get a brain scan or see it again as they must not have been paying attention. This is one of the most daring, original, provocative pieces of art I’ve seen and bravo to every person that laid a hand on it. I’d have given my right arm to be an extra in this movie (I’m right handed).

This craft, like many other things nowadays, feels in peril. The systems at play encourage mass appeal above all else. Digger is a battle cry for art, for waking up, for demanding an actual attention span of your audience and for the miracle of having a point of view. To horrify, delight, wildly surprise repeatedly and inspire us to fight for our world before it’s too late is an incredible accomplishment. Don’t listen to rotten tomatoes. Find an actual person who saw this movie. Listen to them. Tomato tomaaato! Fuck that stupid nonsense percentage bullshit. It’s so dumb. Go see this movie.

Thank you @diggerthemovie !

#diggerthemovie #diggerthemovie #film #art #wow

[JoezMcfly🇩🇴 @JoezMcfLy]

My toxic trait is believing this to be true

[Sidetalk Sports @sidetalksports]

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE 🏆

[THE X FILES AESTHETICS @XFilesAesthetic]

Aliens 👽

[Jefe 32 @Cardeli32]

@Crime_In_NYC Looks like 85st and Jamaica ave

[kyro @wyakyro_]

He truly is one of the most dedicated haters ever.. it’s inspiring honestly.

[Sophie Vershbow @svershbow]

The one-bedroom apartment I moved into at $2,300/month in 2021 just rented for $4,500/month to new tenants. A 95% increase in 5 years.

[Lev Akabas @LevAkabas]

Just a random Friday morning thinking about how the 2026 New York Knicks played the most dominant 10-game stretch in NBA history, all against playoff opponents

[Stat Defender @statdefender]

Most Playoff Points Among Players Drafted In 2018 :

1. Jalen Brunson — 2,240
2. Luka Doncic — 1,697
3. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander — 1,600
4. Mikal Bridges — 1,047
5. Michael Porter Jr. — 974
6. Deandre Ayton — 814
7. Trae Young — 713
8. Donte DiVincenzo — 549
9. Bruce Brown — 442
10. Jaren Jackson Jr. — 425

[NYKMentality85 @NYK_Mentality85]

Jalen Brunson is the Michael Jordan of the NBA right now.

He's the best basketball player in the world.

[Kazeem Famuyide 🇳🇬 🍎 @Kazeem]

yes

[The Strickland @TheStrickland]

NEWS: The jersey Jalen Brunson wore in the Knicks' epic Game 1 of the NBA Finals just sold for $1,024,000 at auction

It's the most expensive piece of New York Knicks memorabilia ever publicly sold 🤯

(via @Sothebys)

[BetMGM 🦁 @BetMGM]

The Yankees have only won 2 of their last 13 games

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

This wasn't on the broadcast:

During the commercial break before the trophy ceremony, as the Knicks gathered on stage, KAT & Brunson see each other for what looks like the first time since the buzzer: