Repeat again, this is Stearns' fault, and it will get worse as the parts he traded away for nothing reach the majors. Just look at the roster, little upside, no energy, streaky hitters, bad fielders

The Republicans put $300 million for his golf trips in the BBB, and we're coming up on time to pass the new budget bill.

I repost what I said at the beginning of the season when the Mets were winning. The roster construction is seriously flawed, and will only appear worse when the talent the Mets gave up in numerous trades reaches the major league. No offense David Stearns, but NO basball logic here.

Sunday, December 30, 1973: Bryn Mawr, PA, The Main Point, poster(Bruce made a New Year’s resolution to remain on Columbia Records in 1974 without getting dropped by the label after writing a new song with “Born” in the title…during the same year that I was born in Chicago! 🗽💿🧔🏻‍♂️🎸👨🏾🎷✍️🇺🇸 🌊💨🏥👶🏻🍕🐻⚾️🧢🌭🔫🚨)

Speaking of Ochs, I miss the Main Point. Saw Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee there in 1979

Always my hero, met his sister (from Far Rockaway) at Gerde's Folk City during a tribute to Ochs when in college. We need his voice more than ever today.

Maybe it is just me, but I don't like this lineup... Gave up more than got in return, holes, players at new positions, and no offense to Semien, but he is on the down side of his career, and we are going miss Nimmo and Alonso

Today is National Cheesesteak Day! nationaltoday.com/national-che...

Amid the morass that has become American society, the first sin has been the abandonment and stark decline in the public education system. Rule 1 in economics... develop human capital. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Never got the chance to say goodbye, thank Frank for inviting me to his office when he was provost, going out of his way to help me get a job when I had no advisors. I taught his step son Gian, at Hamden Hall, before grad school. A wonderful man, whom I wrote to often news.yale.edu/2010/11/12/m...

“He makes a very bad loser.” - @economist.com www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

Trying not to think of the horror show reality we live in... so remember food from youth... still exist and have them shipped to Nashville (square knishes--Coney Island)

Why does this guy remind me of the a villain from an old James Bond movie... replete with over the top inane rhetoric...

👏Kudos to Net Italy ETS for partnering with Sant’Andrea University Hospital in Rome in an innovative event on NENs. Experts and patients discussed diagnosis and personalized therapies. ✅Find out more in English and Italian: incalliance.org/net-italy-ro... #LetsTalkAboutNETs

Head coaches and athletic administrators across the U.S. are joining together to support a public letter defending the universities and colleges that form the backbone of the sports we love. Show support for our coaches and schools! alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/co...

A book dedicated to an outstanding scholar and colleague... and the other editor deserves more credit than I do...

Icon of youth, for stickball and stoop ball

A better way of interpreting this portrait is as a species of Florentine propaganda intended to appropriate and domesticate the Englishman as a dutiful Florentine captain post mortem--despite the fact he worked most of career for others, spent last ones preparing to return to England

My assigned roommate at Haverford College in Spring 1982. Hard to match that guy with this guy, makes you wonder about the effects of a world of privilege... a decent guy in college, so far as I could tell.

SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?” @acyn.bsky.social

About time... without electricity for whole week, 13 degrees F today and very cold the whole time. O'Connell has lost our vote.

4 days with no power, extreme cold, no crews in sight... this is how a red state operates! Help! Our poor cats! below 30 degrees inside.

This is what fascism looks like. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Democrats should not base their opposition on "affordability," but on the central unifying issue that Trump stands only for Trump, an unhinged narcissist and grifter, scorns his so-called base, etc... wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/02/t...

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it,” MLK wrote. “He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” www.americaamerica.news/p/the-fight-...

A Deportation Industrial Complex, or where tax money is going instead of health care and investment in human capital www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana....

👏Kudos to Netpa for organizing a big NET Cancer Day 2025 event in Denmark. 👏Netpa AGM selected new Netpa President – congrats to Ingeline Bonde. ✅Find out more: incalliance.org/netpa-net-ca... #LetsTalkAboutNETs

Look around, fellow Americans, is this the country your forbears envisioned, that you wish to live in?

It is deeply disturbing, and a sign of the degree to which America has devolved (gun violence normalized), that ANYONE can view the new ICE video from Minnesota and think that the killing was justified. It is that simple.

Public officials should be pointing out to the American public how much of their tax money (via BB bill) is going to funding ICE rather than basic social programs that help citizens.

👏Kudos to NET Italy and Itanet for organizing a really international NET Cancer Day 2025 event. ✅Find out more and watch the event recording: incalliance.org/net-cancer-d... #LetsTalkAboutNETs

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

*Wednesday’s cold-blooded murder of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent brings America one step closer to a civil war between cities and states defending their citizens and a Trump administration using fascist-style tactics to provoke violence* by Robert Kuttner prospect.org/2026/01/08/i...

NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning. “SAY HER NAME!” “RENEE GOOD!”

Five years ago.

Econ Hist poem Open fields and lord’s domains, Venice loses, Antwerp gains. Gold and silver that were Spain’s, Factories, slums, and smelly drains. Secular trends, depression pains. Westward movements cross the plains, Marx, Max Weber, Sombart, Keynes, That’s what economic historians are made of.

Indeed

Ufficiali di Castella

My older sister tells me I once ate here, Lundy's, a landmark restaurant in Sheepshead bay, as a small child. It was cavernous, an emblem of a much gentler, egalitarian, safer and prosperous USA--ie. before Trump (whose father was then a slum lord in that region)

A memory of home from the very distant past at the start of a new year

Time to stop using words like "childish" and "petty" to describe Trump's behavior... normalizes it, when the stakes are much higher, the actions narcissistic, delusional and very, very scary for the immediate future of the country

New book, with a nice international mix of scholars, bridging history, literature and art history. Worked with wonderful colleagues.

It is the guns, plain and simple

It is about the guns... we cannot continue like this as a nation

Dear male White House reporters, The next time Trump insults one of your female colleagues, if one of you doesn’t interject and say “Excuse me, sir, but fuck you.” God is going to lose his mind. Regards, God

It's not the rational or irrational fan, Stearns also gave away Nimmo, another core, popular Met, for nothing in return. Fans root for players synonymous with their team, and you can tweak a core rather than eliminate it with not apparent plan. The "process" did not work for the Sixers, PS

Voted for Behn, but Harris, whom I otherwise like (and voted for), did not help coming through the state on a book tour in which she effectively auto-eliminated herself with personal gripes about her election that no one wants to hear.

I suspect Aftyn Behn will lose today, because of bombardment of unhinged, negative ads by MAGA . Please, Democrats, point out in your messaging that "radical" and "dangerous" apply to the current government and the Republicans and it is plain for everyone to see.