Christopher Walker

Documentary Editor | Perfect Wife @hulu / Last Call @hbo / Wrinkles the Clown / Welcome to Leith / Flex is Kings | Marlins ⚾️ since ‘93 IG: @scoresforghosts

[Bhaskar Sunkara @sunraysunray]

George Lombard Jr. just debuted at shortstop for the Yankees, the youngest since Jeter. His grandmother Posy was in SDS, drove to Selma in '65, then went to Natchez to canvass for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Jailed at Parchman & ended up w/ 300+ pages of FBI file.

[Christopher Walker @christopherkyle]

@Marlins Kingston, NY

[Craig Mish @CraigMish]

The Marlins defeat the Yankees 7-3 and complete an astonishing 3 game sweep. With this win, the Marlins are back to .500 at 55-55 and are now the only franchise in Major League Baseball history to have a winning record against the New York Yankees.

[Britt Ghiroli @Britt_Ghiroli]

How All-Star Kyle Stowers caught up to fastballs and became one of baseball’s best stories https://t.co/vNBR9Afq8E

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Bernie Sanders responds to Nancy Pelosi's statement that "I don't respect him saying that the Democratic Party has abandoned the working class."

SANDERS: "We have not even brought forth legislation to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, despite the fact that some 20 million people in this country are working for less than $15 an hour in America today...if you're an average working person out there, do you really think that the democratic party is going to the mats, taking on powerful special interest and fighting for you? I think the overwhelming answer is no."

[Andrew Ferguson @epiktistes]

cops protecting food rapidly rotting in powerless stores from people who just lost everything pretty much sums up the role they proudly, violently occupy in our society

[one dozen bats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

the fact that the A’s can be moved out of an Oakland community they’ve been a part of for over 55 years to play in a AAA park in Sacramento while a hypothetical stadium in Vegas is on indefinite hold is probably the best argument possible for why billionaires shouldn’t own teams

[josh! @queersocialism]

i just think of how little regard a state must have for human life when capital punishment cannot even be bothered to be shelved for as long as possible when there is even the slightest chance that you may executing someone wrongfully. what an irrational, killing machine

[Robert Littal BSO @BSO]

They literally have DNA clearing him and the prosecutors are against his execution. You know how much evidence you need to have for a PROSECUTOR to say they made a mistake. Please save this man. The justice system isn't that just.

[Christopher Walker @christopherkyle]

ACAB

[FOX Sports: MLB @MLBONFOX]

The Derby Curse 👻😅

Aaron Judge has not homered in the 13 games since competing in the home run derby on Paw Patrol – his longest homerless streak since 2019.

[Christopher Walker @christopherkyle]

I watched Jeff Conine in person on 4/5/93 and then again in the 97 WS. Getting to watch Mr. Marlin, Jr on TV is bringing back those memories in a fresh new way that makes me excited for this teams future.

[Marlins Radio Network @MarlinsRadio]

The last 48 hours for the Conine family.

@Marlins.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Why does the Biden administration support the Israeli genocide and war crimes even in the face of virtually universal condemnation, at massive expense, and to the point of totally debasing the rules-based international order? Why do it?

People fall back on narratives about the power of AIPAC in US elections etc, which is real but also doesn't capture the whole story. The truth is that US capitalism depends on it, and the US ruling class broadly understands this fact.

The key thing to understand is that capitalist growth and accumulation in the imperial core (the US, Britain, Germany etc) relies heavily on the appropriation of cheap inputs and resources from the periphery and semi-periphery of the world economy (broadly, the global South). They need the South remain a subordinated supplier within global commodity chains.

In order to maintain this arrangement, it is imperative for them to suppress sovereign economic development in the South. Because the "problem" with development is it means Southerners begin to produce for themselves and consume their own resources. This makes resources and inputs more expensive for the core, which constrains consumption and profits.

Economic sovereignty in the periphery threatens capital accumulation in the core. To avoid this, the core states constantly intervene to prevent or crush any movement or government in the periphery that seeks national liberation and economic sovereignty.

The US started to support the Zionist project in the 1960s, and invested heavily in the Israeli arms industry, with the explicit intention of using Israel as a staging ground—a massive military base—for counter-revolutionary interventions against rising Arab socialist and national liberation struggles in North Africa and the Middle East. The US could not accept the prospect of sovereign development in that region: liberation movements had to be crushed or destabilized and they used Israel to help them do it. Israel is not an "ally" in the conventional sense. It is a proxy.

They support Israel for the exact same reasons that they have backed assassinations or coups against liberation leaders across the global South: Mosaddegh, Lumumba, Nkrumah, Allende, Arbenz, Sukarno, Sankara...

Israel assassinates movement leaders in the Middle East and interferes in regional political processes, all in concert with the US, but it also constantly bombs the frontline states, destabilizing their societies and economies and forcing them to divert resources toward defensive spending rather than industrial development. The Zionist project is intolerable not only because it is murderously hell-bent on ethnically cleansing Palestine, but because it creates chaos and instability across the whole region.

The core states used South Africa in the very same way. The key reason that Western powers supported the apartheid regime in South Africa – against overwhelming international condemnation – was because it served as a highly militarized Western colonial outpost that was geared up to run counter-insurgency operations not only within South Africa, but also in Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, the DRC, etc., leaving immense violence and chaos in its wake.

The vast majority of the world—and international law itself—supports Palestinian liberation, but Palestinian liberation would constrain Israeli power and open the way to regional liberation movements, and this is strongly antithetical to the interests of Western capital. So this is the situation we are in. The Western ruling classes are willing to back obscene violence in Gaza, and shred the liberal values they claim to believe in, because they want to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation and geopolitical hegemony.

You cannot appeal to imperial power in moral terms. The only way the US will stop propping up the Zionist regime is when it becomes too costly for them to do so. This will come down to the strength of the resistance and regional political and military opposition, but also the extent to which people can coordinate boycotts, divestment and sanctions, and punitive measures under international law.

[Sarahana Shrestha @sarahana]

On the day Central Hudson's new rates went into effect, it filed for further increases on both electricity and gas delivery. My office will once again be joining the case as an intervenor while we work to replace Central Hudson with a publicly-owned Hudson Valley Power Authority.

[Sarahana Shrestha @sarahana]

Localities outside NYC have the option of providing Good Cause Eviction protections to tenants whose landlords don’t live on the premise and have a portfolio size of more than one unit—that’s exactly what the cities of Kingston and Albany have done so far!

[Michael Beach Nichols @michaelbnichols]

All will be revealed June 20th. @hulu #perfectwifehulu #sherripapini

[Craig Mish @CraigMish]

Marlins are DFA’ing Avisail Garcia per source. Miami will eat his remaining salary for 2024, another 12 million in 2025 and his 5 million dollar buyout in 2026.

[Yakup Ekmen @Yakupekmn]

Israeli occupation forces massacred nearly a hundred innocent civilians who took refuge in Rafah, thinking it was safe. This is genocide!

#RafahUnderAttack‌
#RafahMassacre

[Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson]

i know we know this already, but it has to be said again: every american who pays taxes is funding this, thanks to the decision by the president of the united states to actively support it. you and i and every taxpayer we know—this is our money being spent

[Christopher Walker @christopherkyle]

@PaperboyPrince I felt it in my house up in Kingston