Matty Mo

#GoPats Sec. 137 & P10S. In Brad We Trust; To be good and do good, is all we have to do.” - John Adams

[Marcus Stanley @MarcusMStanley]

Reminder that nobody has to speculate on whether Graham Platner is a Nazi from a muddy tattoo he got to look like a badass when he was a 22 year old Marine.

We have years of his anonymous Reddit posts - like this one - before he ever got into politics. They are consistently anti-fascist and anti-Nazi.

In fact the original Republican attack line on him was that he was excessively Antifa. It was only after that didn't work that they switched to the "tattoo nazi" line.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Platner: Redemption is not just some simple or easy destination. It's a journey. I've made mistakes in my life. Mistakes that I regret, that I live with and that I continue to learn from. And I'm still far from perfect. But every day I wake up and I try to be a little bit better and a little bit kinder than I was before.

And if you give me the chance, I will be a senator for the people who cannot afford to buy a senator

[Acyn @Acyn]

Platner: The national pundits, the political establishment, they keep looking for that one story, that one headline, that one moment in my life that they can define the campaign by. But in trying so hard to understand me, they failed to understand that this is not about me at all.

This is a movement about us.

[Rotimi Adeoye @_rotimia]

Sometimes when I’m itching for a political opinion, I call my Mom (social worker, working class, big Kamala fan) and ask what she thinks. I asked her about Graham Platner and she said, “Why are you even asking me about this? Did you see Trump started a fund for the J6ers?”

[Matty Mo @mttymo]

@Pete_Collins_ If you realllly want to read in note Vrabels ring finger in the pocket…😂

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

AOC comments on Graham Platner: "Obviously there's a lot in that behavior that's really challenging — it's hard to stomach."

"But, at the end of the day ... if the choice on the ballot is between that and a senator who's voted to take healthcare away from millions of Americans, that's the situation that we have to weigh."

[New England Patriots @Patriots]

🔟

@DrakeMaye2 | @newbalance

[Mike Kadlick @mikekadlick]

Drake to A.J.

[Gillette Stadium @GilletteStadium]

Just waiting on the world 🌎 ⚽️⭐️

@FWC26Boston

[Matty Mo @mttymo]

Don’t threaten me with a good time

[Acyn @Acyn]

Cruz: If the Democrats take the House, it will be nonstop impeachment. If they take the Senate, they will shut down every confirmation for every cabinet member and judge.

[Eric Graves @EricGravesKMBC]

Here’s a look at Algeria’s set up at the Double Tree in Lawrence, KS. An interesting note, Algeria doesn’t have the entire hotel. Part of the Double Tree still has regular guests who had no idea they were sharing a hotel with a team playing in the World Cup next week. @kmbc

[Bob Elder @southernphd]

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him.

In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over.

Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed.

When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye.

She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession.

As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him.

Rest in peace, professor.

[Matty Mo @mttymo]

@SticksDowneyJr @inthistown1

[Darren Rovell @darrenrovell]

These people have been waiting an hour to get into Madison Square Garden.

Here is a first person account:

“They routed everyone down to 34th and 8th.

Police barracade.

Through metal detectors to a point about 200 feet from MSG.

Then they came and apologized and said they were confused and instead we needed to exit the barracade and go to 34th and 7th.

We walked there and then a different set of police told us to go to 32nd and 6th.

There are hundreds, if not a thousand people, wandering around in giant herds not knowing where to go or how to get in.

The police keep saying they don’t know the protocol.”

[Stefan Bondy @SbondyNBA]

Media line to get thru the TSA screening four hours before the game.

[Matty Mo @mttymo]

@Pete_Collins_ If he’s not shooting his way out of town, I really don’t see any reason to get rid of him (absent brining back Diggs). He’s a quality piece as depth and they don’t need the $3.4M off the cap. You can move him before the cut to 53 or even in-season.

[Matty Mo @mttymo]

We lost a titan of American Revolution scholarship.

[Ted Nesi @TedNesi]

Tragic news today: the eminent historian Gordon S. Wood was struck and killed while walking in the Shaw's plaza in East Providence, his family confirms to me. No comment from Brown yet

Wood was just featured in Ken Burns' American Revolution documentary https://t.co/aMBVWMX2j0

[Bobby Thompson @BThomps81]

The #Patriots really like Pop Douglas, and as we all know, slot WR is a very important piece to Josh McDaniels offense. With that being said, Efton Chism is someone the coaching staff is verily high on, training camp battles for that spot will be fun

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump has a meltdown and ends the interview

Welker: Just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying.

Trump: There’s a lot of evidence. There’s tremendous evidence. There’s nothing but evidence. The election was rigged. And it’s happening again in California. They’re cheating.

Welker: Do you have evidence?

Trump: All I have to do is look.

Welker: That’s not evidence. The local officials acknowledge they are slow

Trump: They’re crooked. Just like you’re crooked. You’re either crooked or stupid.

[Carlos A. Lopez @LosTalksPats]

Josh McDaniels’ thoughts on Drake Maye:

“This offseason is different… Last offseason we were just getting to know the language and how to operate. This year we're trying to go to the next level… He knows a helluva lot more than he did last year at this time.“

(✍️ @MikeReiss)