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@sbrandes @DigitalKeith @lawindsor I refuse to feel sorry for multinational corporations for assets they were partially compensated for 50 years ago. While Venezuela has struggled, the US is no savior. Our history of military intervention in Latin America to protect corporate profits is horrible

Any American oil company that expropriates oil from Venezuela should be sanctioned by the International Criminal Court.

@SurvivingGrady Not like the old days where we now have two former Spankees in Gray and Chapman, who are glad to not be in NYC

Me hearing Sonny Gray say he’s happy to be in a place where it’s easy to hate the Yankees

@SurvivingGrady That (sorta) hug…

Was he told he’s the rookie of the year or “you’re the father”?

@esrtweet ICE is not law enforcement–they are being used as an offensive force rather than the LEOs defensive posture. The abuse occurs when they take the offensive position. For the local LEO this is an aberration that body cams can clarify what happened; for ICE it's policy and evidence

This is a followup on my earlier post about the expected effects of requiring bodycams on ICE agents. I used Grok to do some digging into the literature examining the effects of bodycams on measurable statistics of unlawful police violence. I did not have any strong expectations about what I was going to find. Do the query yourself if you like, but I can tell you that the answer is going to reduce to two sentences: 1. Bodycams do not have any statistically significant effect on measures of unlawful police violence. 2. Body cams do have a statistically significant effect, reducing allegations of unlawful police violence. This means that the only statistically significant effect of bodycams is to deter false claims of police brutality and bigotry. Note: do not read this as me claiming that cops are untarnished angels. I know people who have been brutally abused by police. I know this does occasionally happen, and I condemn the police culture of silence about such abuses. What I am saying is that what you see on bodycam footage, which is almost always police exercising commendable restraint in dealing with extremely violent and stupid people, reflects reality. If it didn't, reality would leak around the edges of the camera non-coverage as an observable effect on incident statistics. I don't expect the effect on ICE to be any different. I expect mandatory body cams to backfire rather badly on people who pushed them in the hopes of exposing ICE as some sort of out-of-control Gestapo. If anything, I expect the consequence to be an increase in already high levels of public support for mass deportations of illegals. Because I know what the results of lots of bodycam and security camera footage has been about public perception of underclass criminality. It gets more difficult to sell the narrative of these people as innocent victims of a repressive society after you've seen your 47th video of a screaming semi-psychotic trying to knife a cop during a traffic stop. Some of the activist orgs that wanted the body cams made mandatory for street cops now want them turned off. I think it's pretty likely the same thing is going to happen with immigration enforcement sooner or later. Most likely sooner.

@CWUnityPAC Take your Crypto fund grift/racism somewhere that people are stupid enough to fall for it. The things you complain about are caused by conservative policies preventing working people benefiting from future-focused ideas. We're so over your immigrant/minority bogey-man routine.

Spirit Halloween called — they’re out of Maura Healey costumes because failure’s been flying off the shelves! Nothing’s scarier than higher bills and blind leadership. 🫣

@agenturban @MassDaily_Live As the economy crashes the violence increases. The BPD will be on the warpath. First, the Sox whimpered out of the playoffs so no rioting college kids to shoot with "non-lethal" bullets, and, now they lost a cruiser and didn't get to shoot anyone. Maybe send in ICE…

@MassDaily_Live it's only going to get worse

NEW: More than 100 people took over Boston’s South End overnight, hurling fireworks, blocking traffic, and torching a police cruiser in a wild street riot that left two teens in cuffs and a patrol car in flames. Full story: massdailynews.com/2025/10/05/ove…

@UgiUrbinaBurner @SurvivingGrady Englebert was on my bday—I was meeting my future wife instead: should've gone to the concert…

@SurvivingGrady And who could forget Englebert Humperdinck and the New England Ragtime Ensemble

Great Woods concert schedule from 1986. Featuring Julian Lennon, El Debarge, Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby, The Outfield, Tom Petty, Culture Club, Van Morrison, Jimmy Buffet, The Cure, UB40, Joe Jackson, Starship, Robert Palmer and, of course, Roseanne Barr.

Wow! I didn't realize that watching the #NEPats play poorly in red uniforms would give my old heart comfort by reminding me of better times, before Reagan, when the US was flawed but had hope…

@SurvivingGrady @TomCaron @NESN And @TomCaron updates his profile picture…

Well, I've found my next tattoo. @TomCaron @NESN

@SurvivingGrady There's definitely some 04 energy in the air… Let's hope Boras doesn't mess this up!

Seven wins in a row, five games above .500 *and* they're getting this guy back tomorrow? Excuse me while I reserve my spot on Boylston for the 2025 World Series parade.

@allenanalysis This is a final step in a journey that the wealthy restarted after WW2. There's been a rouge gallery from the GOP; did the Dems win? The US will be bankrupt and the wealthy will not help so that they can't be regulated to protect less wealthy. The end on July 4th is appropriate.

I watched this vote fall apart in real time. We all did. They didn’t have the numbers. The floor was in chaos. Defections were public. But in the end? They caved. Not because the bill got better. Not because the math changed. But because pressure, power, and backroom deals won out over principle.

@SurvivingGrady That last picture kills me… What was; what could have been

On June 28, 2014, the Red Sox called Mookie Betts up to the bigs. He was pretty good.

@SurvivingGrady That line-up healed something in me…

Because I know some of you woke up in a cold sweat wondering what the Red Sox line-up looked like on June 25, 2004

@SpaceX The RUD was a lot more exciting—how about more of that?

Liftoff!

Karen Read is this generation's Pam Smart 🙄

@SurvivingGrady Breslow and Henry are playing power games unrelated to what is happening on the field

Message to Red Sox ownership. #devers

@Steve_Perrault That poor woman. She's not buying it; just wants him to stop explaining obvious shit. "It's bad enough I have to watch this team invent new ways to lose, and I get the privilege of watching them do so in person on the road, but you won't stop yapping about 'exit velocity'…"

“And then Alex Bregman got hurt and they never scored more than 2 runs a game.”

Reminds me of Trump supporters.

MS-13 is *not* a "Salvadoran" gang; it was an LA gang of Salvadoran immigrants founded during the Reagan administration. Imagine suppressing an immigrant population so that their only economic opportunity is crime. Because that's never been the immigrant experience in America 🤔

@CrissieC Too young

I’m 46… is that a problem ?