Michael Cox

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

"It's probably been a long time since he got his ass kicked like this."

Chuck thinks KAT is dominating Wemby 💪

[Michael Cox @_MichaelGCox]

Tell me again about how bad the Bridges trade was 😐

[NYC Board of Elections @BOENYC]

🚨2025 Primary Election- Early Voting Day Complete!
Manhattan: 122,642
Bronx: 30,816
Brooklyn: 142,735
Queens: 75,778
Staten Island: 12,367
Total # of Early Voting Check-Ins: 384,338*
*Unofficial & cumulative as of close of polls

[UFT Action @UFT_action]

.@UFT proudly endorses Mark Levine for NYC Comptroller! A former teacher, mental health advocate & Manhattan Borough President, Mark is deeply committed to building a more resilient future for ALL New Yorkers.

@MarkLevineNYC

#UFTAction #NYCLaborVotes #UFTVotes #UFTEndorsed

[Michael Cox @_MichaelGCox]

@KatieHamill718 @JCColtin That’s literally not how investments work lol

Invest with the PENSION fund (not budget) in housing and the revenue from that housing INVESTMENT returns the profit to the Pension Fund.

RE investing avg’ing 10.6% btw

https://t.co/xoyS77mty2

#TeamLevine

[Jeff Coltin @JCColtin]

Comptroller candidate Justin Brannan is a bit dismissive of mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani - a fellow WFP endorsee who just asked supporters to donate to Brannan.

https://t.co/wqG8SRdgWf

[Mark D. Levine @MarkLevineNYC]

Right now, we’re simply not spending our money effectively and efficiently, especially when it comes to education. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on consultants, taxpayer dollars should go directly to our classrooms.

Our teachers, our parents, and our students are doing their part. Mark will audit the DOE so that the City is doing their part to give every kid in NYC a great education. #NY1debate

[Nicholas Fandos @npfandos]

⁦⁦@boreskes⁩ on the rare local race where reckoning with the actions of the Trump administration is not just political virtue-signaling but part of the job description. https://t.co/2lXpS4Puun

[Harry Siegel @harrysiegel]

A remarkable interactive map of red shifts in NYC by neighborhood — with more than five lost Democratic voters (573,618 fewer votes for Harris than Biden) for every one new Trump voter (94,611 more votes than in 2020) https://t.co/aCmCn8Tlq1

[KnicksMuse @KnicksMuse]

Thank you guys so much.

Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo gave us more hope than we’ve seen in decades.

[Kev @klew24]

I’ll miss this guy…#Knicks

[Michael Cox @_MichaelGCox]

@JCColtin @SallyGold lol

[Michael Cox @_MichaelGCox]

Too proud! 🚀🤝🏾

[Jermaine Jones @jermaineajones]

Thank you Baltimore!

[Michael Cox @_MichaelGCox]

@TishJames take the Jet! ✈️🛩️🪄

[Teddy Mitrosilis @TMitrosilis]

Nick Saban got fired up.

It was December 2014. A reporter asked about defensive lineman D.J. Pettway: “How gratifying is it to you to see him make the most of his second chance?”

Saban launched into a speech every human needs to hear.

(Pettway, who was dismissed from Alabama a year prior, returned to the program and earned his degree.)

Here’s Saban on Second Chances:

“There’s always a lot of criticism out there when somebody does something wrong. Everybody wants to know, how are you gonna punish the guy?

“But there’s not enough, for 19 and 20 year old kids, people out there saying, why don’t you give them another chance.

“Guy makes a mistake. Where do you want him to be? Want him to be in the street? Or do you want him to be here graduating?

“Muhsin Muhammad played for me at Michigan State. Everybody in the school, every newspaper guy, everybody was killing the guy because he got in trouble and said there’s no way he should be on our team. I didn’t kick him off the team. I suspended him, I made him do stuff.

“He graduated from Michigan State. He played 15 years in the league. He’s the president of a company now. He has 7 children, and his oldest daughter goes to Princeton. So, who was right?

“I feel strong about this now. About all the criticism out there of every guy that’s 19 years old that makes a mistake and you all kill him. And then some people won’t stand up for him.

“So my question to you is, where do you want him to be?

“You want to condemn him to a life sentence? Or do you want the guy to have his children going to Princeton?”

–

It’s an important message in a world filled with hate.

My takeaways:

1. Everyone makes mistakes. We just forget our own.

2. We tend to judge others who mess up. The better response is compassion.

3. Mistakes are teaching moments, first and foremost. Don’t waste that opportunity.

4. One mistake doesn’t (necessarily) make someone a bad person. Most people have the potential to learn, move on and do better.

5. That said, mistakes require accountability and carry consequences. You have to own them.

6. Second chances don’t guarantee third chances.

7. If you want to feel self-righteous, condemn someone. If you want to actually make a difference, love them.

8. The world needs more loving discipline.

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Hope this is helpful. Follow me @TMitrosilis for more writing.

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[Michael Cox @_MichaelGCox]

Power outage on the C train at High Street
Cc: @MTA | @nycgov | @GovKathyHochul

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

On Juneteenth, we commemorate the anniversary of the delayed but welcome news of freedom reaching the enslaved Black folks in Galveston, Texas. It’s a reminder that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope — and a reason to keep building a country that lives up to its highest ideals.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Happy Father’s Day to all those fortunate enough to take on the role of being a dad or father-figure. To Malia and Sasha, being your dad will always be the greatest gift of my life.

[CNN @CNN]

Black fathers are often portrayed as absent or distant, but that isn’t what most people experience, according to both data and Black dads themselves. Such biased portrayals are often based on who is telling the story. https://t.co/7Rtw2Bna9R

[Michael Cox @_MichaelGCox]

Yes. Smh