Tim Isgro

UD ‘00. Flyers, Reds, and Bengals. Civil War and aviation enthusiast. #dadbeer aficionado.

[obscure bengals @obscure_bengals]

3 Days until the Bengals report to training camp. To celebrate let’s watch Marvin Lewis deliver 1 of the better preseason coach speeches you’ll ever see after a loss to the Rams. Luckily the 2009 Hard Knocks caught this gem. Always loved Obscure Bengal Laveranues Coles’ reaction.

[Rob Friedman @PitchingNinja]

Chase Burns, Fastball/Slider Overlay.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Every time I hear a Dave Matthews song it reminds me how much better my life is when I’m not hearing a Dave Matthews song.

[Stirrups Now! @uniformcritic]

Random 90s at bats: Dennis Rasmussen vs Barry Larkin, Eric Davis & Chris Sabo (September 21, 1990). If you’re a Reds fan, you’ll appreciate these…

[Sunny @sunnyright]

If the only things you can name that you love about your country is that you can hate on it and demand it become something fundamentally different, you don’t actually love your country — you love an imaginary country that you think could one day exist.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

Another way to view this is that the West has been propping up terribly dysfunctional societies. They can’t govern or feed themselves. I’ve heard many times that ‘rust belt’ towns in the USA should die because they aren’t sustainable. But they are at least our problem.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The most influential immigrant group in American history is the one nobody argues about, because almost nobody remembers it was them.

Start at the beginning. The Continental Army was a half-trained mess until Baron von Steuben, a Prussian officer, showed up at Valley Forge and drilled it into a real fighting force. The freedom of the press you take for granted traces back to John Peter Zenger, a German immigrant printer whose 1735 trial established that you can't be jailed for printing the truth. German-Americans were shaping this country before there was a country.

Then look around your own life. Your Christmas tree is German. The hot dog (Frankfurt), the hamburger (Hamburg), the pretzel, the delicatessen, all German. Kindergarten is German, the word and the idea, brought over and opened by Margarethe Schurz. Blue jeans came from Levi Strauss of Bavaria. Heinz ketchup, Steinway pianos, Oscar Mayer, and the big four beers, Budweiser, Pabst, Miller and Schlitz, were every one founded by German immigrants.

The Brooklyn Bridge was engineered by John Roebling, born in Prussia. The Santa Claus you picture every December, plus the Republican elephant, were drawn by Thomas Nast, a German immigrant. Pfizer was founded by Charles Pfizer, who arrived from Germany in 1848. Boeing was built by the son of a German immigrant. John Jacob Astor showed up from Germany with next to nothing and became America's first multimillionaire. Charles Steinmetz, a disabled immigrant nearly turned away at the border, went on to make modern electrical power possible.

And it kept going. Wernher von Braun designed the rocket that put America on the moon. Einstein was German. Carl Schurz, a refugee, became a Union general and the first German-born US Senator. Eisenhower commanded D-Day and won the White House under a name once spelled Eisenhauer. Babe Ruth was a German-American kid from Baltimore.

Here is the kicker. German is the single largest ancestry group in the entire United States, around 44 million people, bigger than Irish, English or Italian. The biggest thread in the whole American fabric, and somehow the quietest.

They never asked for parades. They just trained the army, freed the press, engineered the bridges, founded the companies, built the rockets and lit up the Christmas mornings, then blended in so completely you forgot they were ever the "other." That might be the most American story there is.

[Tim Isgro @tim_isgro]

@RepGregLandsman How many of them are on public assistance, Congressman? And why is it not cruel for Americans to pay for that in perpetuity?

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

The Roman Empire under Hadrian (ruled 117–138) showing the location of the Roman legions deployed in 125 AD

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

Podcasts that are produced to be watched should not be allowed to be called podcasts. It is ruining the genre by taking away the simple pleasure of listening only, and being encouraged to stare at a screen and consume ads and product placement.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

If you think the government spends money wisely and that taxes should be higher, there is literally nothing stopping you from sending them extra money voluntarily.

[Gray Connolly @GrayConnolly]

I remember seeing “Dunkirk” in the cinema & thinking it was not great until the end … but then Elgar’s Nimrod & Churchill’s words & the final few minutes left not a dry eye. That defiant Britishness must reassert itself

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

I miss real intentional walks. The crowd booing, the .01% chance something weird would happen, the batter giving off “Yeah, I knew you didn’t want any this” vibes. If you want to walk a guy you should at least have to look like pussies for 30 seconds. It was good.

[Alex Ward @alexbward]

Lincoln’s letter to Mrs. Bixby, always worth a read on Memorial Day

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

The key to using AI responsibly is to use it like a search engine (or like how search engines used to work): to find sources, not answers. Indeed, a major use case for AI is to do things that you could do with Google 10 years ago, but can't anymore.

[NFL Fashion Advice @fashion_nfl]

Heading into Year 6 with this set.

Still one of the league's best.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

I am sure I’m not alone in this - but I log in here every day, get tips on news, read some insights, have some laughs, make my own contributions. And then, while I’m standing in my kitchen looking at my phone, I will think to myself ‘what is this, what the fuck am I doing here!?’

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Getting some fast food, finding a good place to park, and enjoying some peace and quiet while you leisurely chow down is one of life’s most underrated adult pleasures.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

If you haven’t seen the HBO series Deadwood - you should give it a look. It is crass beyond belief - but it shows how really good writers can use crass language in ways that give a series character. The acting is also very good - a memorable series all around.