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@6Voodoo Everyone. Must. Virtue signal!

Lobbyist says I need to wear some sort of pin to meetings today and everyone in DC does it. Told him if he poked a hole in my suit there would be consequences and repercussions. Day is off to a great start

@StevenJBurns Then maybe the Mets are the team for you! With expectations so low, you can only be surprised

he's a monster, but even he can't lift them from the depths. It's funny. I came back from mom's 2 years ago today. Similar road trip. Saw the Giants game the previous Friday night. They lost big on a grand slam. Got back to TX and they were 10-ish games under .500. I ignored them for most of June and they found magic in 2024. I need to stop watching again. I just hurt myself every game

The Mets plan to activate A.J. Minter and Jared Young off the IL ahead of tonight's game against the Reds, per @WillSammon

@StevenJBurns Juan Soto will always be my favorite hitter

@CorkNuts1 might be time to make the Rangers or DBacks my team. I've been away from the east coast since the Zoo anyway. I got to see the magic Subway Series last Sunday at Citi.

@StevenJBurns Silly question, Steven

@CorkNuts1 I want to see if the Mets double down with another Pride Night this year

@StevenJBurns Longest running “pride” celebration in MLB. They’re pretty gay. Probably would’ve banned Murphy’s Jordan Feliz walk-up music

@CorkNuts1 Nationals got some 'splaining to do today

@DCSportsCast @TheLukismtime And there it is

@TheLukismtime If a Muslim player came out and said he doesn't like Christians would you be ok with the Nats social media platform not showcasing him on their social media posts?

I don't care if he thinks a hotdog is a sandwich

@StevenJBurns Can you imagine Sean Hudson handling PR with Murphy on the roster?

@CorkNuts1 why you gotta hurt me with Murph?

@SNY_Mets @WillSammon

@basedamericana I’m buying that if it goes on a shirt

@fde_enthusiast7 @restoreorderusa I never followed him closely. But you’re right: for several months before he left Fox, it seemed like he could fill Rush’s shoes. His move to X could’ve launched him, but he chose a different route.

@restoreorderusa @rightwingnutrs Tucker is such a disappointment. There was a time it seemed he could be a real spokesman for something better but he decided to do conspiracy and midwit tier slop instead

@RosserJobs My buddy just joined a PE firm buying RV repair shops. What a time to be alive

Two interesting PE roll-ups I’ve seen recently: Pet aftercare services Nail salons Everything getting rolled up.

@Craftonn6 😂

@klwoodjr I’ll sign on for communism if it means the Nats win a ring .

Wow a Nats employee admitted on video they use digital surveillance and secret facial recognition to track their fans and what they search on online via cookies I’m sure the Nats aren’t the only team who does that, but that’s scary

@fde_enthusiast7 It’s awful. What a dork.

Get out of here with this garbage and stop defacing our flag

@_politicapod Not a real flag, so you won’t have to burn all the inventory you’re not gonna move

Our Fathers, via pseudonyms in underground pamphlets, LARPed this Nation into existence we will LARP even harder “There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of the great and generous emotion…of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder. ”

@_politicapod It’s awful.

In celebration of Memorial Day tomorrow… Flags are coming back. Pre-Order, no money down, link in the bio!

@_politicapod A tradition that started this when you posted this?

Retvrn to tradition Pre order your flag today

In the summer of 1995 I was given a choice that I didn't know was life or death. I was a data systems analyst with the 33rd Fighter Wing out of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. F-15Es. I tracked every break on every jet after the day's sorties, built the readiness reports, forecasted the trends from a little office right on the flight line. JP-8 in the morning air. Great people. I loved it. In my off hours I served on the base Honor Guard. We carried the caskets of fallen service members, fired the 21-gun salute, and folded the flag into a tight triangle to hand to a mother, a widow, a child. I have looked a lot of grieving families in the eye. I did not yet understand how close I would come to being the reason someone folded a flag for me. Late that summer I learned our unit was rotating to Saudi Arabia for Operation Southern Watch. They gave me a choice: deploy in January, or wait and go with the next rotation later in the year. My boyfriend at the time—my husband now—told me to just get it over with and go in January, when the desert "only" hits 105 instead of 120. So I said yes. The week before I shipped out, a quiet young Airman moved into the dorm room across the hall. A crew chief in my unit. We'd nod and say hey passing in the hallway but I never got the chance to really know him because we deployed the next week. I did my 93 days in Dhahran, lived in Khobar Towers with hundreds of other Americans, came home that spring on a 24-hour C-130 ride, got engaged, went back to the beach and the good Florida weather and ordinary life. My quiet neighbor deployed with the next rotation. The one I'd chosen not to be on. Two weeks before that rotation was set to come home, terrorists bombed Khobar Towers. Nineteen American Airmen were killed. Twelve of them were ours, from the 33rd. One of them was the quiet crew chief from across the hall—Airman 1st Class Peter J. Morgera, 19 years old, from Stratham, New Hampshire. Over the years I've wondered why my husband told me to go early. Why I came home and they didn't. There is no tidy answer. What I have is a responsibility—to make sure they are not just a number. So today, say their names with me. Eglin lost: MSgt Kendall K. Kitson, Jr. — Yukon, OK TSgt Daniel B. Cafourek — Watertown, SD TSgt Patrick P. Fennig — Greendale, WI TSgt Thanh Van Nguyen — Panama City, FL SrA Earl F. Cartrette, Jr. — Sellersburg, IN SrA Jeremy A. Taylor — Rose Hill, KS Sgt Millard D. Campbell — Angleton, TX A1C Brent E. Marthaler — Cambridge, MN A1C Brian W. McVeigh — DeBary, FL A1C Peter J. Morgera — Stratham, NH A1C Joseph E. Rimkus — Edwardsville, IL A1C Joshua E. Woody — Corpus Christi, TX Memorial Day isn't about the ones who came home. It's about them. I get to be grateful only because they paid for it. Say their names today. 🇺🇸

the Los Angeles Dodgers

@Stuck4ger Is that the Downs crash or Argyll/Fresques?

Memorial Day is specially memorable for me because of a crash that occurred in Iraq on Memorial Day 2005, killing a handful of USAF special forces (including the pilot). I was sent there with a small team to do flight test in their aircraft. They had numerous severe deficiencies.

@EODHappyCaptain My friend Justin. Quiet, normal dude and pretty smart. steel-hearts.org/store/p/1lt-ju…

Who are you remembering for Memorial Day? Please drop their story in the comments below, so I can read about them and honor them. This weekend I’ve been thinking about Nick. We were NCOs together. He was the funniest guy in the room and out others first. I miss him.