Jami Conley

Wife, mother, lover of theatre, history, Alfie Boe, classic literature, Les Mis, my big crazy family & most things nerdy. Baseball is life! ⚾️♥️

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Every day, millions of Americans wake up wondering how they'll pay the rent, afford groceries, fill up the gas tank or cover a medical bill.

Meanwhile, the people on top are doing better than ever.

My message to the ruling class is simple: You cannot have it all.

[Jami Conley @jamidubcon]

@decent_posts Thank you for the clarification.

[Jami Conley @jamidubcon]

@decent_posts We?

[Jami Conley @jamidubcon]

@TheAncientDude @cdrtx @MikeLevin One look at your ridiculous conspiracy laden timeline makes it painfully obvious.

[Jami Conley @jamidubcon]

@TheAncientDude @JoannaFitz21180 @MikeLevin I can ask why, then I can google the answer. Think critically.

[Lindsay Adams 👽 @LAtweets22]

God I love him

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Vin Scully talks about some of the death threats Jackie Robinson received while playing for the Dodgers, and the origin of the quote "We'll all wear number 42" made famous in Jackie's biopic.

[Jami Conley @jamidubcon]

@RlPOzzy @decent_posts

[Brett Hollander @BrettHollander]

This is out of Naked Gun or Airplane.

And one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.

The internet has been redeemed for a day.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

When brothers Willson and William Contreras exchanged lineups cards before a game against each other.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Note to anyone angry that Trump's name was taken off the Kennedy Center, don't you worry. You can still find his name in the Epstein files over 38,000 times.

[Dodgers Nation @DodgersNation]

So good to see Miguel Rojas and Joe Kelly reunite at the grand re-opening of Orel Hershiser Chevrolet 🤩

Those Dodgers championships will live forever.

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

These quick thoughts by Michael Jochum on the disturbing reason Trump gets as much support as he does is a must-read 👇

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.

I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.

If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.

If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.

If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.

It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.

Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”

And that’s the part that should chill us.

Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?

Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.

Now the mask is off. Now we know.

And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.

– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jon Stewart on Trump: “The day the electorate in this great nation we call home repudiates this putrid administration, the day that happens there will be a joyful noise from the bowels of this great country that will make Hungary’s repudiation of Orban look like an Amish Sabbath”

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

A young Rockies fan caught a Nationals home run, and a young Nationals fan caught a Rockies home run. So they swapped souvenirs

[Jami Conley @jamidubcon]

@timmer0858 @SleeperDodgers @usatodaysports Yes. Your point?

[Jami Conley @jamidubcon]

@bitemeoff @SleeperDodgers @usatodaysports 🤣🤣

[Jami Conley @jamidubcon]

@FrankMoresco @VTLawyer85 @allenanalysis @SwiftCadence Gotta be a bot, no one is this dumb.

[Evac @Evac122410]

@allenanalysis @charise_lee

[Kentucky Baseball @UKBaseball]

Through it all, the boys have battled.