Republicans who have voted in ways to help Russia

I’m sure they made Trump happy.

17 Russian Republican members of the US House vote to surrender Ukraine’s neighbor Moldova to Putin:

Biggs
Bishop
Boebert
Cawthorn
Cloud
Clyde
Gosar
Greene
Harris
Hice
Higgins
Massie
Nehls
Norman
Perry
Roy
Steube
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) April 28, 2022

Ten Republicans voted against the Ukrainian Defense Land Lease Act, which passed the House, 417-10.

The 10, per @kristin__wilson:

Andy Biggs
Paul Gosar
Scott Perry
Dan Bishop
Matt Gaetz
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Tom Massie
Ralph Norman
Warren Davidson
Tom Tiffany
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 28, 2022

Evil Republican lies and attacks on voting

Far from the US-Mexico border, the Republican obsession with the fiction of a stolen election has spawned a newer cause for fear of illegal immigration. My latest from Ohio. https://t.co/HxqcA1kFPn
— Jazmine Ulloa (@jazmineulloa) April 28, 2022

SPECIAL REPORT: We counted 8 attempts to gain unauthorized access to voting systems since the 2020 election. All involved Republican officeholders or party activists who have advanced Trump’s fraud falsehoods or conspiracies about rigged voting machines.https://t.co/fw9E1EZcaU
— Alexandra Ulmer (@AlexandraUlmer) April 28, 2022

A former judge appointed by George H.W. Bush, who advised Pence during January 6, lays out the Republican plan to steal the 2024 election—and how to stop it. https://t.co/Qsnif0wDkI
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 27, 2022

Update on Wisconsin gerrymandering

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court approved new legislative maps drawn by Republicans, reversing its ruling favoring the Democratic governor’s maps. The ruling essentially locks in Republican majorities in the State Assembly and State Senate for the next decade. https://t.co/esGOgTb8cS
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 16, 2022

After the WI Supreme Court initially picked Evers’s maps, SCOTUS told them to try again with new criteria. Predictably, that resulted in the GOP’s maps being chosen. https://t.co/k4mB51zozA
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) April 15, 2022

Wisconsin Democrats thought they had won the redistricting war, by winning the governorship and state judicial races. They didn’t count on the Supreme Court, which has bolstered Republican efforts with more cases in the wings. @colbyitkowitz @daveweigel https://t.co/qX2gggD2MR
— Matea Gold (@mateagold) April 15, 2022

Pennsylvania Senate primary poll

New Monmouth poll of #PASen primaries; no pure horse race #s but voters are asked who they're "very likely" to support. Top in both primaries:

(Dems)
Fetterman: 44%
Lamb: 23%
Kenyatta: 14%

(GOP)
Oz: 22%
McCormick: 19%
Barnette: 18%
Sands: 9%
Bartos: 7%https://t.co/GROygnQoIg
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) April 27, 2022

Spot the differences.https://t.co/W9qhGJj3qx pic.twitter.com/B9R7m6RdzD
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) April 27, 2022

Rand Paul spews Putin’s crap

Paul should be in Russia, not here. This is disgraceful. Ukraine is not part of Russia.

Well. There goes Alaska. https://t.co/aXyD32rCqa
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) April 26, 2022

It was stunning to watch a United States senator, whose only combat experience involves losing a fight against a neighbor, lecturing the Ukrainians about what war is. https://t.co/BEyhgwZ7ls
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 26, 2022

“There is no justification for the invasion, I’m not saying that. But there are reasons for the invasion,” Rand Paul said. https://t.co/JDOoRqMlO9
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 26, 2022

Abbott cost Texas $4.2 billion

Amazing.
Gov. Greg Abbott's "enhanced" truck inspections turned up zero drugs or migrants, but cost Texas consumers and businesses an estimated $4.2 billion.
Delays resulted in $240 million in spoiled produce alone.https://t.co/SRw2ecNsAM
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) April 23, 2022

The end of Hagerstown’s Municipal Stadium

Hagerstown’s Municipal Stadium was built in 1930 and last used for minor league baseball in 2020. I was there in July 1988 to see the US Olympic Team play the Taiwan team. I recall that it was 102 degrees! It seemed like an old stadium even then.

I posted about it here:

I saw the 1988 USA Olympic baseball team

I attempted to go to a game about 10 years ago. There was a brief rain storm around 5:00 pm but they had to cancel the game. I guess there was no drainage.

Hagerstown Suns fans go home with Municipal Stadium’s seats before demolition: ‘Cheapest I ever got for front-row seats’https://t.co/oftL5YgkV7
— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) April 18, 2022

The Frederick Keys and Hagerstown Suns were two of the 11 full-season minor league teams that, as of now, have lost their affiliations.

From March, on what those two Maryland teams mean to their communities: https://t.co/gWTPlT3iTR
— Nathan Ruiz (@NathanSRuiz) December 9, 2020

Sadly, the demolition of Municipal Stadium in Hagerstown, MD is underway. The ballpark opened May 8, 1930. Willie Mays played his first professional game here (June 24, 1950) with the Trenton Giants after skipping his senior prom. – Brayden Leather pic.twitter.com/HdHd8LLMVe
— Lost Ballparks (@lost_ballparks) May 9, 2022

Willie Mays played his first pro game there:

On June 24, 1950, at Hagerstown’s Municipal Stadium, Bob Martin worked as the batboy for the Trenton Giants when hall-of-famer Willie Mays played his first professional game.https://t.co/M6j98Rokdg
— Herald-Mail Sports (@HMMediaSports) June 2, 2021

Future MVP Bryce Harper played for the Hagerstown Suns in 2011.

Our #TBT today is to Bryce Harper, back to 2011 when he rocked a mustache—and this Hagerstown Suns uniform. pic.twitter.com/lsb6ZWJ9ng
— Baseball America (@BaseballAmerica) August 20, 2015

Don’t buy a corduroy necktie

I am hardly a fashion expert but I’ll give you a tip: Don’t buy a corduroy necktie. Unlike smooth silk, corduroy is hard to tie and will make a knot as big as your fist.

I had two (blue and brown) in the 1970s to match sport jackets I had. The blue corduroy jacket was the first thing I ever bought with a credit card (at Hutzler’s in downtown Baltimore).

Did you know #Hutzlers had the first Victory Window in the nation? In 1942, the Howard Street window display advertised war bonds, selling over $2 million in its first year.

See the new Victory Window in our "Hutzler’s Experience" exhibition @MDHistory: https://t.co/3V2eScIIX2 pic.twitter.com/F7ffIOYAG1
— Maryland Center for History and Culture (@MDHistory) September 14, 2020

Around the holidays of the 1950's, the Hutzler's department store employed more than 1,500 staff members to accommodate the heavily-trafficked shopping season. Now, the historic building is home to an entirely different kind of traffic: digital. https://t.co/DAfdJB5hro
— Baltimore magazine (@Baltimoremag) December 9, 2019

Here I am in 1983 with my mother wearing my brown corduroy jacket from Hamburger’s.

Buffalo police get away with pushing a 75-year-old protestor to the ground

This certainly seems like the wrong decision.

Arbitrator rules that Buffalo police officers didn’t violate use-of-force guidelines when they pushed a 75-year-old protester to the ground in June 2020. https://t.co/3gMoeaTUIN
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 11, 2022

In June 2020, Buffalo cops were caught on camera gratuitously pushing a 75-year-old protester to the ground, fracturing his skull. Two years later, let's check in on what's happened to those cops. It shows how our hierarchy of consequences for police misconduct is all screwed up.
— Sam Feldman 🌹 (@srfeld) April 10, 2022

Phony Snickers story

This follows the bizarre fake attacks on Dr, Seuss, Mr. Potato Head and M & Ms. Who makes this crap up?

.@JUNlPER's tweet about Snickers taking the "dick vein" out of their candy bars spawned a viral news cycle from right-wing media outlets.

We spoke to her all about it. https://t.co/DmxQycYWe1
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) April 28, 2022

it's impossible to stay on top of every big story going on in the world. this, regrettably, is one i missed until just now

Fact-check: "woke mob" did not remove the "dick vein" from Snickers barshttps://t.co/pKPzSlIB3d
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2022

Good news, contrary to what's trending on Twitter… THE VEINS REMAIN! pic.twitter.com/pzfkoYqvyD
— SNICKERS (@SNICKERS) April 19, 2022

speaking of Snickers:

pic.twitter.com/KnGUWEp1KR
— internet hall of fame (@InternetH0F) December 10, 2022