Trump’s bad moves on coal

Commentary by Jason Bailey @kypolicy.bsky.social Will the coalfields ‘get over’ losing hospitals miners fought to create? Which side will Congress be on?kentuckylantern.com/2025/06/27/w…

— Kentucky Lantern (@kentuckylantern.com) 2025-06-27T19:38:33.427Z

Modern miners are contracting black lung at younger ages and at rates not seen since the 1970s. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-06-19T21:35:07.536415Z
https://bsky.app/profile/caryncowin.bsky.social/post/3lvep4j2v6k2c

Kennedy Center sales are down after Trump takeover

Glad to see this. Trump was wrong to politicize it.

Kennedy Center subscription sales fall 36 percent from previous year http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen…

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 2025-06-03T16:14:39.986Z

Ticket sales and subscription revenue at the Kennedy Center have fallen sharply since Trump made himself chairman. Single-ticket sales were down roughly 50%. Subscriptions revenue down 82% for theater and 57% for dance. http://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/a…

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt.bsky.social) 2025-06-03T22:22:58.980Z

Kennedy Center’s free show sponsored by pest control company flopped big: report

Columbia was dumb to cave in to Trump

Trump treats concessions as weakness and will keep punishing you.

Was it worth it, Columbia?Look at what they made you give…www.nbcnews.com/news/educati…

— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) 2025-06-04T20:33:19.758Z

So odd to see the former president of Columbia being more outspoken about the Trump administration's threat to academia than the current Columbia president.www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Gm…

— Karl Jacoby (@karl-jacoby.bsky.social) 2025-04-20T21:23:37.388Z

"Its first target was Columbia. When that school acceded to the administration’s demands, it didn’t get its funding back. Instead, Trump is considering demanding that Columbia agree to direct government oversight — effectively, a takeover of the university…"www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04…

— Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com) 2025-04-15T03:59:27.476Z

Columbia University capitulated to Trump to get $400M in science funding released. What happened? Not only has the funding NOT been released, but all NIH funding ($700M last year) has been frozen. Giving in to bullies just makes them take more. arstechnica.com/science/2025…

— DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) 2025-04-10T21:33:32.747Z

"In an unusual move…" seems to be the media's preferred way of describing American fascism http://www.wsj.com/us-news/educ…

— Will Bunch (@willbunch.bsky.social) 2025-04-10T18:49:51.479Z

“If … you’re just being intimidated,” said Obama (Columbia ‘83, Harvard ‘91) “you should be able to say, ‘That’s why we got this big endowment’”www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202…

— Matthew Hay Brown (@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T22:31:11.757Z

In what was a disgraceful show of stunning weakness, Columbia caved inBut compliance doesn’t workCompliance incentivizes the bully to ask more and moreIf the bully targets you, the only effective answer is to fight back

— Olivier Simard-Casanova (@o.simardcasanova.net) 2025-04-09T19:22:45.794Z

I got two seats and two teller window bars from the Pimlico Race Course

Pimlico, home of the Preakness in Baltimore, is being torn down and rebuilt. I found out about the auction from this article:

Pimlico Race Course is full of artifacts. Where will they go when it is razed?

Here are the auction site photos of the items I won.

Teal seats (photos from govdeals.com

White teller window bars (photos from govdeals.com)

Photos I took at Pimlico on June 3, 2025:

The two seats and two teller window bars that I won at the auction. I am working on getting stands so I can put the seats upright. They don’t have feet because they were attached to concrete.

3/5/26 update: I now have the legs on the seats and put them behind my kitchen table and in front of my piece of Shea Stadium bleachers.

See this post for my memories about going to the Preakness:

I went to several Preakness races