Pete

A married curmudgeon.
Rule of Life: On Earth as it is in Heaven.

[Pete @backyard_pete]

For the love of peace, please read the Katzenbach Commission report & the Kerner Commission report. Many of the problems we are facing as a society are documented in them. Many conclusions & solutions to our problems recorded in there have never been attempted to be implemented.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Buried in this 162 page report is the tell. The White House suggests the Smithsonian's flagship history museum needs a warning label at the entrance, because the exhibits inside were "prepared by people who don't want you to love your country."

Read that twice. The material getting flagged as unpatriotic includes slavery, exclusion, and the treatment of Native nations, things that happened, documented in the federal government's own archives. A warning label on accurate history is not a correction. It is a request for the museum to stop telling visitors things that are true.

The same report also demands the museum "correctly identify what a woman is" in an exhibit that happens to profile a transgender teenager, and separately flags "anti-White activism" as a category alongside slavery and conquest. That is not a fact-check. That is a content mandate, dressed up as one.

[Fiona Small @FionaSmall]

The discourse about Evangelicism in Brazil being the reason for their soccer team being crap now is producing some incredible lines

[Yankees Stats @ChrisCoop_]

I still think this is the most incredible Austin Wells stat to me

Austin Wells' last recorded WALK was on May 31st @ ATH. He has gone 48 straight plate appearances since then without recording one walk.

17 K's - 0 BB's

In this same span, he has 3 hits:
3-47 with 3 RBIs
0.064/0.064/0.085

[Pete @backyard_pete]

LMAOOO WE ARE SO BACK TO BEING BAD AT SOCCER!

[Pete @backyard_pete]

MLB running BS ads about a salary cap. Rather than negotiating in good faith with the players, they are now negotiating with the fans so when there is a strike, fans turn on the players. Absolutely gross.

[Pete @backyard_pete]

CHINATOWN (1974) is the most American movie ever, and I’m not sure anything is particularly close.

[Pete @backyard_pete]

THANK YOU

[John Frankensteiner @JFrankensteiner]

Chinatown, unfortunately

[John Frankensteiner @JFrankensteiner]

Chinatown, unfortunately

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

This is the Republican nominee for Governor in Colorado. Weird how there isn’t a national media panic about the freaks Republicans are backing!

[Pete @backyard_pete]

The US is absolutely cooked if SCOTUS is 5.5 to 3.5 on the freaking birthright citizenship question of the 14th Amendment.

[SCOTUSblog @SCOTUSblog]

The court strikes down President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, holding that children born in the U.S. to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S. and are citizens at birth.

https://t.co/8hK8MQrNWN

[New York Yankees Stats @nyyankeesstats]

Yankees are the first team in American League history to hit under .100 and strike out at least 35 times over a four-game span

[Pete @backyard_pete]

@WokeAnnUpdates Love it when self-described centrists say or write “Democrat Party”

[Woke Ann Richards @WokeAnnUpdates]

Knowing this conservative tick is so helpful because the second someone drops it in conversation you know they’re pickled beyond belief and can stop engaging

[QuoProQuid @TNOQuoProQuid]

my favorite thing about this clip is that he calls it the “Democrat Socialists of America” because Republicans are so hardwired to say “Democrat” instead of “Democratic”

[4quest.❤️🔱🖤 @thinkpiecetribe]

The New York Post treats Zohran Mamdani like how J. Jonah Jameson treats Spider-Man lmao

[Thomas Nestico @TJStats]

Each proposed change makes it clear that the owners have no intention to negotiate in good faith. A salary cap, offloading development, and limiting contracts indicate that cutting costs is paramount and that competitive balance is an afterthought. They do not care about baseball

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

"Way better than those libtards who canceled on us."

In one sentence, Duffy both complains about the musical acts who canceled and completely legitimizes their stated reason for doing so.

[Pete @backyard_pete]

@cfnps @UnderdogMLB Presumably, the Cubs could have then challenged that the Mets player obstructed the player’s advance of an awarded base. They didn’t. We do not know if replay would have overturned the safe call.