Peter Fitch

Kolten Wong fan

[Peter Fitch @PeterDFitch]

@PredisioJAdams @LinkofSunshine What are you talking about?

[Peter Fitch @PeterDFitch]

@ahoen68 @micah_erfan The United States has a slightly smaller public sector than other OECD countries.

Do you really still think it’s realistic to cut the federal government by 90%? Elon musk cut it by about 10% and they ended up spending MORE money.

[Peter Fitch @PeterDFitch]

This is the more interesting graph. DOGE demolished our research capabilities and international reputation without impacting spending whatsoever.

DOGE was an ideological purge of the federal government, not an effort to make the government more efficient.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

DOGE really did axe the federal workforce.

[Peter Fitch @PeterDFitch]

@ahoen68 @micah_erfan Is that surprising? What do you think it should be?

[Peter Fitch @PeterDFitch]

@jayedwardsiii @Clapped_Dre https://t.co/N5LjPpLee3

[MLB @MLB]

Julio Rodríguez CLOBBERS a 2-run homer off of Tarik Skubal 😮

[Peter Fitch @PeterDFitch]

@jayedwardsiii @Clapped_Dre You mean when Dylan Moore went oppo against your so-called “ace”?

[Daniel Kramer @DKramer_]

Dylan Moore punches an off-plate slider from Tarik Skubal that’s up just enough and sends it out for his first homer of 2025.

Exit velo: 99.0 mph
Launch angle: 31°
Distance: 348 ft.
Hang time: 5.0 seconds

[Peter Fitch @PeterDFitch]

It looks like Milwaukee will have some visitors this postseason. Milwaukee has certainly had its share of visitors though. The French missionaries and explorers were coming here as early as the late 1600s to trade with the Native Americans.

[Milwaukee Brewers @Brewers]

Best record in baseball secured ✅

[Peter Fitch @PeterDFitch]

Yankees fans are in shambles

[The Great Bambino @TheBambinoBabe2]

@CSmittyNY His numbers if you take away the homer

[Peter Fitch @PeterDFitch]

@TheBambinoBabe2 @CSmittyNY Subtracting home runs from hits is insane, yes.

[Peter Fitch @PeterDFitch]

@kitkitgobyebye @MarineLayerPod If the mariners get the wc3 spot and then lose to the Astros in Houston will you be content with this season? Of course not. Making the playoffs was a good goal in 2022, but now we need to have higher expectations.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

I respect @ezraklein a lot, but this is dead wrong and frankly a baffling thing to say.

Charlie Kirk was the *epitome* of our modern brand of poisonous politics. Ezra tries to make the point that he went around to college campuses to debate people. And that's true, for a very tortured version of the word 'debate'.

But Charlie Kirk was not trying to build bridges. He was not trying to reach a common understanding with his opponents in the way that Ezra himself does. He was not operating in good faith, and his goal was not respectful two-way conversations where both sides can grow and change.

Kirk's goal at his college 'debates' was not to find experts on tricky issues of culture and policy and then have a Socratic dialogues and learn from them. His goal was to find a purple haired nineteen year-old sociology major with more feelings than sense, and then dunk on them. He wanted to farm clips he could use on social media to make his opponents look ridiculous, and he was good at it. When I think about how social media has changed politics for the worse, Charlie Kirk and his style of engagement is one of the main protagonists.

We live in a heavily polarized era where the parties hate each other more than they have in decades and political violence is on the rise. And while it might be distasteful to say it directly after he was murdered, Kirk was one of the people driving that hatred and that polarization. He taught his audiences to hate and fear their opponents. He egged on the public's worst and basest instincts. He flirted heavily and repeatedly with the idea of political violence.

It should obviously be said that none of that justifies killing him. Anyone who advocates for political violence is no friend or ally of mine. But for a man who wrote a book called "Why We're Polarized" to look at Charlie Kirk and say that he practiced politics the right way is delusional.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[Peter Fitch @PeterDFitch]

@McHeartattack3 @nearcyan @Nowooski Incorrect. Invasive species are generally introduced through accidental human activity and can wreak havoc on the ecosystem. Yes there is such a thing as native species to an ecosystem.

Example of an invasive species: Cheatgrass
https://t.co/aLQBGNvtLv

[Peter Fitch @PeterDFitch]

@McHeartattack3 @nearcyan @Nowooski An invasive species is a species that is introduced to a new area and causes harm to the ecosystem or human health. It’s not just a species that “wants to expand its influence”.

[Peter Fitch @PeterDFitch]

@MarinerMuse Confirmed worst case. Ford won’t play in 2025 as long as Dan is the manager.

[Peter Fitch @PeterDFitch]

@BRWalkoff 2025 World Series game 4 when MVP Cal Raleigh goes 5-5 with 2 grand slams to beat the Dodgers 16-0

[Peter Fitch @PeterDFitch]

@shannondrayer @iamdjwebb Oh wow it’s so over

[Peter Fitch @PeterDFitch]

@blyht20561 @USBornNRaised He was pardoned and then arrested for breaking and entering a home in Virginia.

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

Next President should take away the honors given to Babbit and demote her as well as change her status to dishonorable discharge.