Frank Scarangella

Small business owner. Mandolinist. Yankee fan.

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@IamBrandiCarlil Sounds great! I wish my Bramily could afford to play $400 per ticket to sit in the parking lot.

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@ESPNNewYork @RealMichaelKay Spike Lee may not deserve a ring, but he did deserve an Oscar for Do the Right Thing! That film wasn't even nominated that year and they gave it to Driving Miss Daisy.

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@hughlaurie @jan_murray I've heard that an early version of Bob Dylan's "Blown' in the Wind" tells us exactly what 'the answer' is and where it was blowin' from. For whatever reason, he chose to go in another direction. Go figure.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

I think today was an inflection point - maybe small, but real.

The President, having launched a global trade war, feted in the Oval Office a Central American dictator who runs a mega-prison known for starvation and torture - a prison to which our government has, by its own admission, sent at least one person "in error."

They disappeared a man without a single criminal charge who's lived and worked here for 15 years - who was alleged to be a member of a gang based in a state he never lived by one anonymous informant. No other evidence. No trial. No conviction. Nothing but a legal order that he not be deported to El Salvador, where he's now serving a life sentence.

The Supreme Court just ruled, without any noted dissent, that the government must facilitate the man's release.

But Trump and his dictator friend said no. They laughed. They mocked the journalist who asked whether they'd abide by the Court's order. The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the White House Deputy Chief all lied about the facts of the case. Then the President repeated his proposal to send American citizens to the dictator's prison, and asked him to build five more.

The same day we found out that the government knowingly disappeared a PhD student for nothing but an op-ed, a man's 19-year old son who agents admitted was the wrong kid, and a visa-holding Russian scientist at Harvard who forgot to declare frog embryos at the border.

But: it's all breaking through. It's getting more coverage. More people are paying attention. More elected Democrats are speaking up. More conservative pundits and legal scholars are speaking up. Even Joe Rogan thinks it's bullshit.

Now we have to keep pushing. This is much bigger than immigration or deportation policy - this is about whether we live in a free country or a police state. It's the whole ballgame.

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

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[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@RiverAveBlues Seriously. It seems like his helmet flies off every time he’s running the bases!

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@pamsson That is the issue. It is unacceptable that the Republican Party nominated Donald Trump to be their candidate. I don't care who he is running against. I would voter for a lukewarm six-pack of Schlitz over Donald Trump.

[Randy Wilkins @pamsson]

Since Democrats pressured Biden to drop out because of age/fitness, they have to absolutely hammer Trump for his age, fitness, and quite frankly, his mental incompetence. He is wildly unfit to serve. So Dems need to be consistent on that point now. Remind folks every day.

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@chucktodd It also means that impeachment will be a completely political process. Irregardless as to whether the president is guilty or innocent, the verdict will be decided by whichever political party happens to control Congress at that time.

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@DrGuitar Levon Helm. Probably the the best singing drummer who ever lived.

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@RoughTrade The Bland

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@BillSimmons @TheRewatchables @ChrisRyan77 @KyleBrandt "When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky" is a Bob Dylan song from the 1985 album "Empire Burlesque."

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@YESNetwork Subpar

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@JonHeyman So in other words, they are morons.

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@ToadWetSprocket May 21st, 1997, The Supper Club, NYC

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@YankeeWRLD @MLBNetwork No concussed Anthony Rizzo?

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@MLBNetwork In honor of my Italian-American Heritage: 1B Jason Giambi; 2B Tony Lazzeri; SS Phil Rizzuto; 3B Ron Santo; C Mike Piazza

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@TheCnotes @RiverAveBlues Even worse, the Yankees failed to make a waiver claim on Justin Verlander in 2017, a move that would have prevented him from going to the Astros, who eventually defeated the Yankees in the ALCS.

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@kevinnbrown I must have missed the tweet where John Angelos apologized to you and O's fans for this unnecessary and stupid distraction amid what has been a stellar season for this organization.

[Frank Scarangella @franks1978]

@Feinsand Essentially, the Yankees are looking to fill all of the holes they should have filled during the offseason because they were afraid of paying the luxury tax.