Month: April 2025

More on four home runs in one game

The latest four home run game was on April 26th.

Eugenio Suárez hit four home runs in four at-bats as the Arizona Diamondbacks lost to the Atlanta Braves, 8-7.

— Codify Baseball (@codifybaseball.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T03:37:44.263Z

Congratulations to Eugenio Suárez on his four-home run game!He will be donating his bat from Saturday's historic performance to the Hall of Fame when he finishes using it.

— National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (@baseballhall.org) 2025-04-27T04:40:34.424Z

Gave up a 4-HR game, still won:1978 Expos, to Bob Horner2025 Braves, to Eugenio Suarez tonight

— Jayson Stark (@jaysonst.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T03:00:44.208Z

Eugenio Suárez Joins the Four-Homer Club, Albeit in Defeat blogs.fangraphs.com/eugenio-suar…

— FanGraphs Baseball (@fangraphs.com) 2025-04-28T16:30:51.750Z

my previous post:

Four Home Runs in one game

Trump’s attacks on science are damaging our country

Under this administration, scientists have been ignored, discredited, and dismissed. It's no surprise they would leave the U.S.This loss of talent and expertise will devastate our global leadership and competitive edge.

— Congressman Bill Foster (@repbillfoster.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T16:33:24.939Z

One of the best ways to make a country great is to support science & education, but MAGA doesn't like their cult to be smart, because smart people figure out ways to overthrow tyrannical governments.

— Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 (@jasondogwood.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T22:01:15.696Z

Please do it less quietly, Europe. US political leadership needs to be more rattled by this!www.politico.com/newsletters/…

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 2025-04-25T00:31:25.088Z

More Trump “savings” that are really reductions in services

And they lie about it too.

@cbsnews.com is reporting elon's DOGE spent $135 billion to save $160 billion, netting a less than impressive $25 billion in 'savings'. And we still don't really know what he is saving us from.

— Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 (@jasondogwood.bsky.social) 2025-04-26T23:28:37.042Z

DOGE’s so-called “savings” are smoke and mirrors. Half the receipts don’t exist, math errors are everywhere, and many “cuts” were never real. The numbers don’t add up — and we’re all paying the price.

— Mike Levin (@mikelevin.org) 2025-04-26T22:39:39.549Z

🧵1The Trump admin torched $600M in grants that trained new teachers—just when schools are desperate for help. Why? Because the programs supported diversity and equity.They’re not just gutting funding—they’re gutting the future of public education. This is deliberate sabotage.@aft.org

— Jennifer ✨Get In Good Trouble (@thejenniwren.teamlh.social) 2025-04-28T17:20:39.650Z

RFK Jr laid out a plan “to tackle the nation’s devastating fentanyl & overdose crisis, proposing camps or farms where people with addiction would be sent to recover.”RFK Jr, himself once an opioid addict, needs to SAVE people first before (sigh) farming them out.This is CRUEL and unnecessary. 😡

— Lisa Reyna Loe (@lisaloe.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T00:10:44.438Z

NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.

— Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T03:00:46.099Z

'One of our most critical programs': National victims group rebukes DOJ grant funding cuts http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/…

— Jonathan Lemire (@jonlemire.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T00:25:11.843Z

Justice Department halts funds for programs for victims of hate crimes, child abuse, school violence and morewww.cbsnews.com/news/federal…

— Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T22:48:01.486Z

The Trump administration cut about $1 billion in aid to anti-hunger groups, according to Feeding America. It's put more pressure on organizations that distribute food to hold up their corner of the U.S. safety net, dipping into reserves and scrounging for donations to replace the food they had lost.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-04-28T19:04:50.218Z

Musk has fired 100+ specialized fed employees, installed DOGE overseers, devastated programs on idealogical grounds, handicapped soc sec, & pissed off 🇺🇸 voters."He's taken [US gov] down to the foundations in lots of places." – The damage will FAR outlast his presence.www.cnn.com/2025/04/26/p…

— Bren (@kindofnerdy.bsky.social) 2025-04-26T21:18:35.385Z

Imagine dismantling the only federal agency dedicated to uplifting minority businesses—That’s exactly what Trump did.The MBDA went from nearly 100 employees to just a few.You don’t gut an agency like that unless you’re trying to kill its mission.

— Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (@repjasmine.bsky.social) 2025-04-26T22:10:20.953Z

My new piece in @rollingstone.com : “Our democracy is made up of reciprocal ties between and among all of us, and AmeriCorps strengthens these ties. We will all feel the loss of AmeriCorps…and our democracy will pay the price.” http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol…

— Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) (@fisherdanar.bsky.social) 2025-04-25T13:58:40.852Z

That’s $2.3 billion less to research potential treatments and cures to cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and more. These cuts will hurt all of us for generations to come. http://www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/t…

— Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten.bsky.social) 2025-04-26T02:57:17.597Z

Cocaine Cowboys : Reloaded is worth seeing

Cocaine Cowboys: Reloaded (2014) is an expanded DVD version of Cocaine Cowboys (2006). I just watched it and highly recommended it. It’s a documentary about the drug wars in Miami in the 1980s which also involved Columbia.

On the right of the page, there are links to clips from the film

Author Edna Buchanan is interviewed several times in the film. I recommend her book about Miami, The Corpse Had a Familiar Face (1987).

Schumer’s pathetic letter

Schumer sent a tough letter to the White House. That’s pointless and ineffective. I doubt they will even respond to it. Schumer must go as Minority Leader.

CHUCK SCHUMER: We sent him [Trump] a very strong letter just the other day. DANA BASH: You'll let us know if you get a response to that letter.

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T16:43:56.357Z