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@PSLToFlushing I mean, probably not great that they traded 12 prospects within the past year for ::gestures at arguably the worst team in MLB:: this

No question there’s been regression at the MiLB level. The “why” must be investigated, but it’s the same PD staff that had the system as elite Can’t ignore they graduated 3 elite prospects, traded 10 prospects at the ‘25 deadline and traded 2 top 100 prospects in winter (1/2)

@TerribleMaps Usually love making fun of NJ but Long Island has "north shore" and "south shore," Maryland and VA have their "eastern shore" (though, oddly rarely "western shore")

Beach vs shore

@LibraLady33 @JohnHMcWhorter You think "disrespect culture" disappeared from white southern culture? What do you think MAGA is?

@JohnHMcWhorter This is an interesting perspective, but it begs the question, why did this "disrespect culture" persist in black culture but dissipate in white southern culture? Also, I couldn't help thinking, your explanation also blames yt. Just in a different way.😉I do appreciate your work.

Folks, I'd like to get my two cents in on Karmelo Anthony. This is a long one -- pretend it's an editorial. “He put his hands on me. I stabbed him.” Why does a boy spontaneously justify stabbing someone on so thin a pretense? And why do so many Black Americans see his 35-year prison sentence as racist? I think the answer to both questions takes us to Scotland, Ireland, and northern England. At a track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas in April of last year, Anthony sat down under a team’s tent. Anthony was neither on the team nor a student at its school, and an unwritten but widely known rule is that only team members are permitted under a team tent. Multiple student witnesses – and not just “whitenesses,” as several were Black -- testified about what happened next. Anthony was told several times to leave the tent but refused, including a profane epithet, culminating in warning “Touch me and see what happens.” Team member Austin Metcalf shoved Anthony, who pulled a knife out of his bag, stabbed him in the chest, threw the knife into the stands and ran away. Caught by the police, he immediately admitted to the stabbing, reportedly saying “He put his hands on me. I stabbed him.” Metcalf died in his twin brother’s arms. There is no reason to think Anthony was trying to kill Metcalf. He was trying to hurt him severely, putting him in the hospital, for shoving him, as he indicated in at first saying "He's not gonna die." Also, claims such as prosecutor Bill Wirskye’s that Anthony meant “Touch me and see what happens” as a provocation are based on a misreading of Black English. “Touch me and see what happens” is not a command to touch. It means “If you touch me, you will find out.” The question is why Anthony thought being pushed justified sinking a knife into Metcalf’s body. The answer is the culture of “disrespect” in young Black male culture, documented by many (including black sociologists). His calculus was "If he even touches me, I am disrespected, and will respond in destructive kind." The idea is that being dissed merits what we might phrase as cutting someone a new one. There is no reason to suppose that this is due to Black people having some inborn propensity to violence. The Black economist Thomas Sowell has traced the “disrespect” culture to the whites from the “Celtic Fringe” – an area comprising parts of northern England, Scotland, and Ulster County in Ireland -- who migrated to the South starting in the 1700s and established plantations (or worked on them as indentured servants). Black people, often enslaved, worked alongside and around them and their American-born descendants. At this time (although certainly not now), whites from the Celtic Fringe area had the same tripwire response to being dissed – “touchy pride” -- as well as many other traits now commonly associated with “gangsta” Black culture. In his classic study of early migrants to America “Albion’s Seed,” the historian David Hackett Fisher referred to the oppressed people of this northern borderland region, encompassing Scotland, northern England and Ulster County in Ireland, as “some of the most disorderly inhabitants of a deeply disordered land.” “Manliness and the forceful projection of that manliness to others – an advertisement of one’s willingness to fight and even to put one’s life on the line – were at least plausible means of gaining whatever level of security was possible in a lawless region and a violent time,” Sowell notes. Hundreds of thousands of people from this region migrated to America starting in the early 1700s, eventually migrating to the South. Many establishedplantations and bought enslaved Black people to work on them. Referring often to the scholarly and sympathetic study of this “cracker” culture in America by the historian Grady McWhiney, Sowell notes that they manifested “a touchiness about anything that might be even remotely construed as a personal slight, much less an insult, combined with a willingness to erupt into violence over it.” The step is short between that and “He put his hands on me. I stabbed him.” It is hard not to see the parallel between the “cracker” culture and the sociologist Elijah Anderson’s study of late twentieth century Black culture of “the streets,” where “respect is viewed as almost an external entity that is hard-won but easily lost, and so must constantly be guarded. (...) Many of the forms that dissing can take might seem petty to middle-class people (maintaining eye contact for too long, for example), but to those invested in the street code, these actions become serious indications of the other person's intentions. Consequently, such people become very sensitive to advances and slights, which could well serve as warnings of imminent physical confrontation.” Sowell argues that enslaved Blacks would have internalized these norms from the whites they worked with and lived around. It might seem hard to imagine whites and Blacks sharing a culture on the kind of plantation familiar from dramatic depictions, where legions of Black people worked in the fields while whites were their owners and overseers. However, in reality, relationships between whites and Blacks, while fraught and founded in pitiless domination, allowed for degrees of interchange and familiarity. Plantations varied massively in size, and white children and Black ones grew up playing together, even influencing one another’s speech. Black sociologist W.E.B. DuBois’ survey of Black Philadelphia in the 1890s, as well as studies afterward, shows that until the 1960s, the “cracker” inheritance from whites was largely confined to the least advantaged and segregated Black people. However, for the past several decades, aspects of the “disrespect culture” have had influence even among middle-class Black people. For one, the Black middle class vastly increased after the Civil Rights victories of the 1960s, and therefore, for most middle class Black people, poverty remains only a few generations back. Culture does not always change in lockstep with income. Add to this that in the 1960s, many Black people rejected the old idea that our goal was to assimilate to mainstream (i.e. white) norms. Rather than engaging in what is often called respectability politics, many Black people embraced the idea of a separate Black identity – and one aspect of that was the chip-on-the-shoulder style. This all meant that these days, a Black boy hardly needs to grow up in the ‘hood to internalize aspects of what Sowell calls “redneck” culture. This includes the tripwire sensitivity to being “disrespected.” This informs how so many black commenters on the trial and sentence seem to not quite process the horror of Metcalf’s murder. Representative Jasmine Crockett thinks the length of the sentence is racist – as if a white boy shivving a Black boy to death would only get a slap on the hand -- focusing on the fact that the knife was not especially large and that Anthony only stabbed once. Martin Luther King’s daughter Berenice King opines that the main lesson from the episode is racial disparities in the justice system. Many online revile that none of the jurors were Black. But it is reasonable to think that they would have liked that a representative number of jurors would pardon Anthony as representing his “disrespect culture,” and thus less culpable than a teen of any other race in America? If so, they are less progressive than retrograde, if we are really to get past race. Dr. King didn’t die demanding that whites make excuses for us. What’s missing in these opinions is thoughts that would occur readily to the outside observer. How about if Anthony hadn’t been carrying a knife at all? How about Anthony just getting up and leaving, or just shoving back rather than hauling out a weapon? But under the “disrespect” culture, even in the background as a tacit sentiment, the idea that Anthony could simply have done what he was told seems an almost unreasonable expectation based on respectability politics. And frankly, I venture that there another resonance in the air: that on a certain level we are supposed to see Anthony’s deed in the light of slavery, Jim Crow and George Floyd, and other disrepectings upon us as a group. Karmelo Anthony drank in this way of thinking subconsciously in the way that we all grow into the culture we are born into. He doubtless incorporated countless elements of Black culture that are positive or even just neutral. But one of them was this notion of what it is to be a man, which made sense in some upper reaches of what we now know as the United Kingdom centuries ago, but doesn’t work in modern American society. The sports journalist Jemele Hill advises “We need to be having conversations with our young black boys about emotional regulation and decision making and discernment and wisdom.” Black women often give their boys “The Talk” about obeying what cops demand. But that talk needs to come with a second one – there need to be “The Talks.” Young Black men need to be told not to fall for the idea that being dissed justifies physical violence. That, and not the persistence of racism, is what Karmelo Anthony’s fate should teach us. If you did, thanks for staying with me until the end!

One of the greatest ads ever. And to have it ready in the first commercial break was a touch of class!

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

The Spurs know how to TAKE the lead, they just don't know how to HOLD the lead. And that's really the most important part of the lead: the holding

@Wiseman1975 @RichardHanania I've argued this with people from both sides for years. He's clearly an authoritarian, but not a true fascist - he has no true convictions, the only thing he is concerned with is his own glorification.

@RichardHanania Always thought the US got lucky that Trump wasn't an ideologue. If Trump was Trump but with Stephen Miller's views on the world it would have been a lot worse

Yglesias with an interesting way of looking at Trump's corruption. We think that it's something he just gets away with and there are no consequences. But if you think about it as his main priority, it's where he's spending his political capital. Every president decides to spend it somewhere. But most presidents have some kind of policy ambition, while Trump just wants to get as much money as possible and punish his enemies. So it's not costless, but a replacement for what would traditionally be an administration's agenda.

@bendreyfuss Traditionally cops angled their cars on traffic stops so that if needed the engine block and wheel wells will be between them and the suspect vehicle but many modern police cars have ballistic shielding in the doors.

In movies when cops are in a gun fight they always crouch down behind a car door, but I think the bullets will go through a car door? I wonder how many times in real life someone has crouched behind a car because of those movies and then just been shot.

@PSLToFlushing @EvanRobertsWFAN He's been my favorite player pretty much since he came up but I was definitely in a pretty extreme minority and even I was starting to think by last year that it might have been time to move on.

@EvanRobertsWFAN Yeah it’s one thing to be unhappy about Alonso, Nimmo, Diaz (even though he got injured) I don’t recall any Mets fans who wanted to keep McNeil around at all

I’d say roughly 85% of Mets fans wanted him traded for a bag of balls.

@xKatieSDx @SNY_Mets This is what I'm choosing to focus on lol. Looks like we're gonna suck hard again in 2028 but if I remember anything about SAT style patterns we should win the World Series in 2029!

@SNY_Mets Based off this, we should only be a few years away from our next World Series win 😭

The Mets' 9-19 record through 28 games is their second-worst start in franchise history Here's how they finished in seasons that started at 9-19 or worse: 🔸 1981: 41-62-2 🔸 1983: 68-94 🔸 1964: 53-109-1 🔸 1962: 40-120-1

@YDK_Mustradamus @BobbySkinner_ He retained Graham Gano come on now

@BobbySkinner_ GM Joe has yet to retain a star on this team in the 6 years he’s been here. The only one was DJ and look at how that turned out.

Some thoughts on Dexter Lawrence before I spend the night watching WR Film bro -The $28.5M number is finally out there and I simply would have paid him that. I would have loved to signed the best player on the team to play for us until he was 33 during Jaxson Dart's rookie contract -The trade win or lose will be simple to judge. For it to be a win, the player needs to be a top of market player who you keep for 2 contracts or Dexter has to be an actual decline. A Kayvon level player is a loss for me. So go and do it. -I think the down year has been greatly exaggerated although it has to be acknowledged and it was terrible timing for Dexter to want a new deal with 2 years left. Him wanting a new deal with 3 years left was delusional. I am betting that 2025 was an outlier for him and NYG could have gotten him locked for a non market setting deal but this was all terrible timing -It was about money, its always about the money -This was handled by John Harbaugh & Dawn Aponte which leads to the question... what does he even do? -I'm not exactly sure what I want with picks 5 & 10 but I know I want Caleb Downs as part of it -On a personal note, very glad this happened now instead of clouding draft night because I love draft night. Now I can get excited for 2 top 10 picks. Dexter Lawrence was an elite player that I think most will respect when time heals some wounds. He's been on the team the entire time I've been doing content and it was a joy to watch you dominate @agentdexy97. LETS GO BIG BLUE

@shtarkeradagast @PeterMoskos Can't speak for Peter but I'd wager that's exactly what he means by "help him." Get him off the street into permanent treatment where he's no longer a danger to himself or others.

@PeterMoskos "help him" how? what would you have us do? my take is we have to help ourselves to have a normal functioning society, which allows normal citizens to go about their business, which means getting the crazies off the streets put them in prisons or asylums, whichever fits the case

K9 rocks. But just think of this poor guy, out of his mind, so totally fucked up. And this is America's way of dealing with him. Waiting till this is the needed. This guy no doubt has been roaming the streets like this for so long, and we didn't help him.

@AdamPlantinga Sure enough, NY State calls criminal history "Report of Arrest and Prosecution, which AI suggests is a "backronym" for RAP sheet: criminaljustice.ny.gov/ojis/recordrev…

@AdamPlantinga We just say "criminal history" or just "history" in my agency. Like almost any fictionalized police things I suspect the NYPD uses the term and it gets extrapolated to being THE term everywhere.

For Cop Twitter: In movies & shows, the police say some variation on, "This guy has a rap sheet longer than my leg." I don't recall ever hearing this expression in real life. Usually it's just, "He's got multiple priors" or "He's a shithead." Your thoughts?

This peeing on subway debate is absurd, but also depressing and frustrating. Public disorder and homelessness are huge problems in the U.S. that are especially striking when you spend any time overseas and see what an aberration it is. We are the world's richest country, and yet we have public spaces that rank in the bottom half—dirty, chaotic, and threatening. Disorder in subways should be nonexistent, not rare, and certainly not periodic. It really doesn't have to be that way. It's a choice we've made that isn't about money, but policy. NYC spends $4 billion on homeless services, and the very few people who are causing the majority of problems (they are a small percent of those who qualify for help) have options that they refuse because of mental problems, addiction, and/or both. Someone peeing on the subway is not in a right frame of mind, and isn't normal behavior, even for this population. It's a sign of distress that should cause an intervention—by police, social workers, whoever—that mandates them into an institution for a period of time, until they regain sanity. Hospital, mental ward, detox, prison, you choose, but they should not be allowed to do whatever they want. They are not sound enough to have the freedom. Someone shouting at strangers, someone shitting themselves, someone punching at the air, is also not in their right frame of mind and shouldn't—for their own safety and others—be out roaming the streets. It isn't fair to the public, especially the working people who have to deal with them on a daily basis. It isn't fair to the person themselves. The idea that it is empathetic to allow someone to roam the streets tortured by their inner demons, covered in filth, high as a kite, is so backwards and immoral that I cannot believe the activists who support it have spent any time around these people.

@eurofounder I read this in Anthony Jeselnik's voice

My wife stormed into the kitchen this morning "Oh my fucking god, look what I found" A hotel booking confirmation on our 16 year old daughter's phone Valentine's night, king bed, champagne package The reservation was under her boyfriend's name "She is 16 and dating a 42 year old guy" my wife was crying I grabbed the phone and looked at the booking She was right, it was absolutely disgusting The room was listed at €289 but the final charge was €341 They buried the city tax and "resort fee" in the checkout page That is a direct violation of EU directives on consumer pricing transparency "Don't worry baby, your man's got it" I told her Filed a complaint with the authorities before breakfast Nobody is scamming my daughter on my watch This is how we protect families in Europe

@kerwin65230 @AndrewBatesNC @StephenM @POTUS He doesn't - he had to move his family onto a military base because he was afraid of woke domestic terrorists writing threatening chalk messages like "love your neighbor" outside his house

@AndrewBatesNC @StephenM @POTUS How does Stephen Miller even go to a restaurant or a shop? He is the most vile person imaginable

.@StephenM has "daily" conference calls screaming at ICE and CBP about meeting his arbitrary quotas, forcing them to raid neighborhoods and distracting them from violent criminals. Turning the presidency over to Miller has gotten @POTUS nothing but his lowest poll numbers ever.

@The7Line @kevinburkhardt Such a good picture of him with the GOAT. The one with Brady is good too

Still pretty incredible to think about where KB’s career has ended up

I do not usually comment on political posts, and this is not intended to be political. As we all know a tragic event happened in America. I am speaking strictly from a professional training and use of force perspective. Before coming to train Ukrainians, I spent years training various law enforcement organizations through my company on use of force and high risk encounters. That background includes departmental policy, police training standards, threat assessment, de escalation, and the legal thresholds for justified and unjustified shootings. Several facts matter here. The individual involved was a licensed concealed carry holder from the state. He was legally permitted to carry a firearm, including in a public setting such as a protest. There was no violation of law simply by his possession of the weapon. At no point did this individual draw, point, or openly brandish the firearm. The weapon was physically removed from him by law enforcement officers prior to the shooting. Once that occurred, the immediate deadly threat no longer existed. When a weapon is secured and officers have physical control of a subject, the legal and training based justification for deadly force disappears. At that stage, the situation transitions to control, restraint, and de escalation. Deadly force is reserved for an active, imminent threat, not a past or hypothetical one. Any use of deadly force also carries an absolute responsibility to consider public safety. Officers are trained to identify their backstop and ensure that rounds fired do not endanger civilians or fellow officers. In this case, there were multiple officers and civilians directly within the potential line of fire. The risk of catastrophic injury, friendly fire, or unintended civilian casualties was extremely high. Equally important, this incident does not align with established de escalation principles. Rather than slowing the encounter, increasing distance, and reducing risk, the situation was escalated rapidly to lethal force after control had already been achieved. That is the opposite of what modern policing doctrine teaches. Based on the available video footage, camera angles, and observable officer behavior, this incident reflects failures in threat assessment, use of force decision making, backstop awareness, and de escalation. From a professional standpoint, it represents a breakdown across multiple training and policy standards. This is a tragic outcome. It deserves a serious, objective review grounded in established law enforcement practices, not emotion or politics. This definatley deserves a full independent investigation and review.

@ZeekArkham There's still time to delete this my man

As a law enforcement officer, I’ve got a secret to tell you about us. This will be shocking info, so make sure you read this carefully… We hate it when people point guns at us. Like, a lot. We also love going home. All our stuff is there. Therefore, if you point your gun at us and cause us to potentially miss going home, it’s going to piss us off and cause us to point our guns at you. Then it all just gets messy. Hope this helps. Here’s looking at you, Minnesota.