Mark Hansen

@RobertGavinBN @JamesSkoufis So…… eel be recorded in the negative.

@MHTBird @JamesSkoufis He voted no on the eel bill.

I was today years old when I learned that eels were once plentiful in Onondaga Lake in Syracuse. This was just revealed on the floor of the NYS Senate. dec.ny.gov/sites/default/…

Hey @TruGreen - I cancelled your service months ago. Yesterday you came to my home anyway and charged me for it. When I called your “customer service” they said you’d give HALF a refund. After some stern words I got a full refund. That was bullshit service.

@syrfootball Must cost too much to have the game in the Dome.

Get your passport ready! Syracuse football will open 2027 season with ACC game in Toronto syracuse.com/orangefootball…

@YankeeSource High socks!!

George Lombard Jr. with his 3rd walk of the day. Tommy Kahnle was pitching.

@dlevywnyt @tuckahoetommy @WNYT A great reporter and a great guy.

BREAKING NEWS - Legendary Capital Region Journalist John McLoughlin passed away on Tuesday, according to his wife, Anne. He began his career at the Albany Times Union, and worked for nearly four decades at WTEN & WNYT. He was 83. ⁦@WNYT⁩

@WTEN RIP. John was one of the best, a great reporter and just a great guy to talk to.

Veteran NEWS10 journalist John McLoughlin has died. He was 83 years old. news10.com/news/albany-co…

@NYHammond You mean a handshake of a draft of an outline…….

"Today I'm pleased to announce that we have the draft of an outline of a skeleton of a framework of a tentative partial agreement on the budget."

@davidrifkin Bird’s go to pitch is the hanging curve.

There has to be other options besides Jake Bird

@BarstoolHubbs And Jake Bird comes in to ruin it.

This is incredibly enjoyable baseball

Please ask your elected officials to address severe disrepair and safety hazards at Grant's Tomb. Details here: grantstomb.org/an-appeal-to-e…

@MaxMannis Yankees never hit against him.

Semi-random but man do I wish Nathan Eovaldi's Yankees tenure overlapped with the Matt Blake lab instead of Larry Rothschild. One of the most criminally underrated pitchers of the past decade

@EchoesofWarYT The book royalties didn’t materialize until 1885/86, and they went to Julia. Much of Grant’s tour was funded by his wealthy friends and supporters including Philadelphia publisher George Childs.

Map of Grant's world tour by J. S. Kemp, 1879 Ulysses S. Grant's world tour from 1877 to 1879 was one of the most remarkable journeys ever undertaken by an American former president, transforming him into a global celebrity and informal ambassador for the United States. After leaving the White House in March 1877, Grant set off in May with his wife Julia and son Jesse, originally intending a modest European vacation. The trip expanded into a roughly two-and-a-half-year circumnavigation of the globe, funded largely by Grant's savings from selling his Washington home and supplemented by his book royalties and investments. Journalist John Russell Young of the New York Herald accompanied them for much of the journey and later published a popular two-volume account titled "Around the World with General Grant." The tour began in Liverpool, where Grant received an enormous welcome from English workers who admired him for his role in defeating the Confederacy and, by extension, weakening the slave-owning interests that had threatened to disrupt their cotton supply. He met Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle, though the visit was famously awkward over questions of protocol and seating for Jesse. From Britain he traveled through Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany, where he had a substantive conversation with Otto von Bismarck in Berlin. The two military men reportedly discussed war, with Grant making a notable remark that he had never enjoyed war and had only fought to preserve the Union and end slavery. Grant continued through Scandinavia, Russia (meeting Tsar Alexander II), Austria, Spain, Portugal, Italy (where he had an audience with Pope Leo XIII), Greece, and the Holy Land. In Egypt he sailed up the Nile, and he toured the Ottoman Empire as a guest of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The tour then pushed into Asia, with stops in India, Burma, Siam (where King Chulalongkorn received him warmly), Singapore, Vietnam, and most significantly China and Japan. His Asian visit proved diplomatically consequential. In China he met with the Viceroy Li Hongzhang, forming a genuine friendship, and was asked to mediate a brewing dispute between China and Japan over the Ryukyu Islands. In Japan he met with Emperor Meiji in what was reportedly the first time the emperor had shaken hands with a foreigner, and Grant offered candid advice urging Japan to resist European colonial pressures and develop on its own terms. He counseled both nations against borrowing heavily from Western powers, warning that debt would compromise their sovereignty. Grant returned to San Francisco in September 1879 to massive crowds. The tour had been covered extensively in American newspapers, and his reception abroad reignited public affection for him. This wave of popularity prompted his supporters to push for an unprecedented third presidential term at the 1880 Republican convention, where he led on early ballots before losing the nomination to James Garfield after a deadlocked contest. The world tour's deeper significance lay in marking America's emergence as a power whose former leaders could be received as peers by emperors and kings, and in giving Grant a perspective on global affairs that shaped his later writings and his views on American foreign policy.

@CarlBanksGIII @HBO Tim Robinson is so clever but his humor isn’t for everyone. You should try his previous series on Netflix- I Think You Should Be Leaving. It’s hysterical

Why didn't anyone tell me how funny #thechaircompany @hbo is.

@NYHammond @MarcNovicoff @TheAtlantic Clearly they didn’t spend enough.

The highest-spending large school district in the country is failing to adequately educate two-thirds of its kids. A sharp analysis of a governance train wreck from @MarcNovicoff of @TheAtlantic

@nygoudie Thanks for the @GrantCottage shout out! New season starts May 2 to tour the best historic site in the New York’s Capital Region.

That chair still sits there at the Grant Cottage Museum in Wilton NY. Happy Birthday to a top 10 most important American.

@PrezWisdom Grant’s art talents came in handy when drawing up battlefield maps and plans. The West Point department where he studied drawing is now the Academy’s Department of Geography.

Original artwork by Ulysses S. Grant 🇺🇸 #POTUS 🎂🎈

@dandarling Grant was never an alcoholic

Grant is one of the most underrated Americans of all time. He's the Christian general from the Civil War we should all celebrate. After all, he won the war and saved the Union! In the early 20th century, the narrative of his life was told in a biased and sometimes downright false way. He overcame alcoholism and refused to drink while in the White House. His treatment and advocacy for African Americans were courageous. He is one of the greatest Americans.

@TalkinGiants Don Corleone DT from Cincinnati

Prospects still on the board who had a reported Top 30 visit with the Giants: Malik Benson WR Oregon JC Davis OL Illinois Thaddeus Dixon CB UNC Andre Fuller CB Toledo

@NYHammond A brilliant record and cover!

The thunk of the needle finding the groove ... the pop and hiss of the vinyl ... oooh a storm is threatenin' my very life today ...