Time I address the elephant in the roomâŠ..There I was, trying to enjoy a Mets game like a normal American. And who shows up sitting behind me? THAT WALL-CRAWLING MENACE! And what is he doing? Save the city? OH NO!!! SITTING IN PREMIUM SEATS PROBABLY PAID FOR BY MY TAX DOLLARS!!!
Much love to Alex Pretti and Renee Goodâbut rememberâICE has killed 9 people in 2026. You know the names of the 2 white people they've killed.
ICE has also killed a Black man named Keith Porter, a Cambodian named Parady La, and five Latinos named Heber Sanchaz DomĂnguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.
ICE is on pace to kill more than 100 people this year. Abolish ICE. Impeach Noem. Prosecute those who committed these crimes.
More like youâre 26 but you feel 23 inside, and itâs not because youâre immature. Itâs because the last few years didnât develop you - they scrambled you. Time passed, but it didnât land in your body as growth the way itâs âsupposedâ to. It landed as noise. Stress. Survival. Weird limbo. Half living.
A lot of people lost a clean stretch of adulthood. Not just because of the pandemic, though thatâs a big one. Also because the world has been running on rolling crisis mode for years. Money anxiety, job churn, rent rising, relationships collapsing under pressure, attention shredded by phones, constant comparison, constant doom. When youâre in that state, youâre not learning in a linear way. Youâre coping. Youâre getting through the week. Youâre doing mental triage.
coping doesnât always build you. Sometimes it freezes you.
You know that feeling when you look at your peers and it seems like they âcaught upâ to adulthood faster? They have routines, relationships, savings, a calm tone, a sense of direction. And youâre sitting there like⊠I can barely keep my laundry from becoming a geological formation. I still feel like a teenager in an adult costume. I still get that stomach drop when an email looks serious. I still avoid phone calls like theyâre predators. I still donât feel like Iâm driving my life, I feel like Iâm being dragged behind it.
Thatâs the â2-3 years behindâ feeling.
usually not a skill gap. Itâs a nervous system gap.
People think development is about milestones. Job. Apartment. Partner. Degree. But a lot of âgrowing upâ is internal. Itâs your ability to regulate, to plan, to recover, to trust yourself, to handle boring admin without collapsing, to believe that your future is real enough to invest in.
when youâre anxious or depressed or dissociated for long stretches, you donât get to build those layers smoothly. You might still be functioning. You might still be doing the external stuff. But internally you feel younger because your system is still stuck in earlier modes: avoid, appease, freeze, fantasize, survive.
compare yourself to who exactly? The versions people post?
A lot of people look âaheadâ because theyâre performing stability. They have the job title and the nice photos and the âadultâ aesthetic, and you donât see the part where theyâre also texting their mom in a panic, or crying in their car, or living paycheck to paycheck, or avoiding their own mess. Their life looks organized because they show the clean corner, not the pile behind the door.
Still, the feeling is real. And it usually shows up in specific places.
when youâre with older adults and you feel like a kid listening. When someone talks about mortgages or babies or promotions and your brain goes blank. When you realize you never got the slow practice of being an adult, you got thrown into it. When you notice you still want someone to tell you what to do. When youâre scared you missed the âbecomingâ part and now youâre just late.
that matters:
Feeling behind is often your mind trying to explain grief.
Grief for time you didnât get the way you wanted. Time you spent surviving. Time you spent stuck. Time you spent numb. Time you spent in relationships that drained you. Time you spent trying to be okay instead of building.
grief gets translated into a simple story: Iâm behind.
Because âIâm behindâ feels actionable. You can fix behind. You can catch up. Grief feels heavier. Itâs harder to hold.
if you feel 2-3 years behind, youâre not broken. Youâre probably just honest. Youâre noticing the gap between your age and your internal readiness. That gap is common now.
And itâs not permanent.
It shrinks when your nervous system stabilizes.
It shrinks when you stop living in reaction.
It shrinks when you build boring consistency.
It shrinks when you stop measuring adulthood by someone elseâs timeline and start measuring it by your ability to show up for your own life.
Removing benches so homeless folks canât sleep in the subway hurts all of us, because now we have nowhere to sit. In fact our entire approach to policing the homeless instead of providing them with housing hurts all of us, and when we all realize that things will start to change.
Here is a highlight of strikeout number 110 on the season for @Barrosbaseball to break the @ThePacWest All-Time Single Season Strikeout Record. He also now holds the @NamesBaseball All-Time single Season Strikeout Record, previously held by @A_McIntyre50 (105).
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Barros gets the win after throwing seven innings and striking out 11 ART U batters. He now has đŻ Kâs on the year. With one start remaining, @Barrosbaseball has the opportunity to surpass the current HNU single season strikeout record of 105 Kâs, held by @A_McIntyre50 !
I donât think people are angry enough that bridges are collapsing, thousands are homeless, millions are hungry, a pandemic is running rampant, teachers and nurses are leaving their professions, and our governmentâs response is to endlessly increasing funding for police and war.