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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Now let's get a standardized checked-swing definition and ABS that too. Umps have a lot to do besides calling balls and strikes. Having the ABS system whisper in their ear "ball" or "strike", where they then announce the call, will give them more time to focus on those other things.

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Yeah, that was a World Series team for sure!

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

@metsmerized.bsky.social Can anyone clarify the whole SNY firing of John DeMarsico situation? He says “creative differences”. Widespread rumors say it was a serious HR rule breach.

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

In today’s news: “A US naval task force centered on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, with its warships and at least one submarine armed with cruise missiles, is expected to arrive in the Middle East soon.” Led by Captain Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton?

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Wonderful post! But I have to tell you,when I saw the headline before reading the post (and without looking at the photo), I thought it would be a post about Kristi Noem running DHS.

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I have never seen CB call a game so brilliantly.

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

a mapcap local Phoenix show named Wallace and Ladmo. To me, the important portrayal of a city (which, among other films and TV shows, led me, a small town boy, to live most of my life in New York City) was on Naked City, which I started watching at age 8. 8 million stories - including me! 2/2

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Ah, Sesame Street. I was too old for that. My kiddie shows were Romper Room (I loved Miss Sherri - her firing for going to Sweden to abort a thalidomide fetus when I was 11, a few years after I had aged out of Romper Room, made me an abortion rights supporter for life) and 1/2

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The whole world would collapse without electricity!

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

That's going to be a big problem, since today's students have been taught to write only by keyboarding!

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

For those who want the details of the remittance tax: taxnews.ey.com/news/2025-11...

taxnews.ey.com

New 5% excise tax proposed for remittance transfers

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This doesn't apply to remittances by US citizens IF they use a remittance company (like a bank) that enters into an arrangement with the government requiring that the remitter prove their US citizenship. But it's the first step to barring sending assets outside the US. Pull your funds out now! 2/2

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Warned everyone about authoritative regimes blocking people from drawing their money out of the country. The Republican House has taken the first step in their budget reconciliation bill - imposing a 3.5% excise tax on remittances to people outside the US. 1/2

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Of course not. But if you can’t do anything about it, dwelling on it to the point of thinking of dying is a win for the evildoers.

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Whoa, Craig, that‘s depression territory! Yes, the ongoing 2025 Project is horrendous. But when that idea creeps into your brain, say the chant: “If I can’t do anything about it, and it’s not affecting me our my loved ones, I have to accept it.” And hope the 2025ers die horrible deaths.

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Video his behavior with good sound. Post it to every social media you have access to, including the local doorcam group. With the following: “Coach [his real name] with his team at last night’s [name of league, name of town] softball game for 5- and 6-year-olds”. Let social media handle the rest.

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

True, if you were asking for an answer from personal experience

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

If people can retire solely on social security, people can retire solely on a well-managed 401(k) - assuming max contributions over many years.

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

There are plenty of people “out there” who have retired on only social security and a few hundred dollars in a bank savings account. Many of them also rely on what we used to call “welfare” and, if they are well enough, part-time minimum wage jobs.

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

And it’s not just capital construction. Modern manufacturing requires high-skilled workers. Finding such workers in the US is going to be tough, given experience and education deficits.

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Kind of like midwesterners and southerners who are experts on California Santa Ana firestorms.

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

They haven’t won a lot of elections since 2020, and that was probably a Covid fluke. I don’t want to go back to the Bill Clinton days, but I’d like to win elections for a change, and that requires changing the Dems’ image.

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I mean, there are other ways of saying it, like "I really look forward to your thoughts", but saying it, regardless of how it is said, is always pretty obnoxious.

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Craig, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, two cups of good, hot black coffee, or the measles.

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I owe money, so wait until April 15. With the DOGE bros in place, maybe I won't have to!

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

How about "We Shall Overcome"?

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The Curse of the DeGrominator.

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Craig, re: the end song of today’s newsletter. This one would be better - has that element of bleakness that is emblematic of these times: youtu.be/gU3ubk8u7dA?...

youtu.be

Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally) [Official Audio]

YouTube video by Gilbert O'Sullivan

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

You haven't practiced in a law firm for a LONG time, have you, Craig?

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I just went to Google Maps, and the Gulf of Mexico is now labelled "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)". Are other people seeing that? I am in Switzerland, but nothing changed when I used a VPN that indicates that I am in New York. Did Google step back from their change?

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

2/2 "Pending the preparation and disposition of charges, the governor may suspend the mayor for a period not exceeding thirty days."

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

1/2 NY Gov. Hochul can and should remove Adams. NY City Charter, chap. 1, sec. 9: "The mayor may be removed from office by the governor upon charges and after service upon him of a copy of the charges and an opportunity to be heard in his defense."

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

All google had to do was search for "Gulf of America" on www.marineregions.org/gazetteer.ph.... Result? No records found for 'gulf of america'.

marineregions.org

Marine Regions

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

2/2 ... wrote an article for the UK Independent newspaper criticizing the fact that the European Games, a high-profile athletics event, were being held in Baku, Azerbijan, despite the country’s poor human rights record." Thanks for bringing this term to my attention!

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

1/2 I had somehow missed that term, although it seems to have been around for 10 years: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1... "A search of the Nexis UK database indicates that the term first appeared in relation to a sporting event in 2015 when the human rights campaigner, Gulnara Akhundova, ...

journals.sagepub.com

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Worked with the Tea Party, the precursor to MAGA. But doubt that MAGA would have come to power without their having found a great marketer for a candidate. So how do we find a progressive marketer for a lead candidate?

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Whenever the common people grew restless in Rome, the Emperor (or, before Augustus, a consul) would sponsor games to distract and calm them down. Same thing here. (LOVE the term “sportswashing”.)

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I have always feared and respected our Cuisinart. But it's less deadly than a hand blender. I won't have one of those in our kitchen! I trust that a visit to emergency care fixed you up?

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

No, well, maybe a bit. He was a nice guy. He went home every weekend. One weekend in the middle of our 2nd semester, he didn't come back. I think he was just super-homesick. I never saw him again, which is sort of traumatic. I remember his name 57 years later. Sad, remembering that.

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

created the fascist regime, compromised and betrayed the fate of the nation and of having led it to the current catastrophe, shall be punished with the death penalty and, in less serious cases, with life imprisonment"]. All Fascists suppressing constitutional guarantees should take note. 4/

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

sono puniti con la pena di morte e, nei casi meno gravi con l'ergastolo” ["the members of the fascist government and the fascist party leaders guilty of having contributed to the suppression of constitutional guarantees, of having destroyed the people's liberties, 2/

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

“i membri del governo fascista e i gerarchi fascisti colpevoli di aver contribuito alla soppressione delle garanzie costituzionali, d'aver distrutto le libertà popolari, creato il regime fascista, compromesso e tradito le sorti del paese e di averlo condotto all'attuale catastrofe, 2/

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

On April 25, 1945, three days before Mussolini was executed, the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale Alta Italia [Committee of National Liberation for Northern Italy], the coordinating body for the partisan resistance to Italian Fascism for the area, approved the following Decree: 1/

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This was the very same square where, a year earlier, partisans had been executed by the Fascists. The display was meant to symbolize the defeat of Fascism and serve as a warning. Let us hope modern Fascists come to fear that warning as well. 7/

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The bodies of Mussolini, Petacci, and the other executed Fascists were then taken to Milan and displayed publicly in Piazzale Loreto. 6/

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The decision to execute Mussolini and Petacci was made quickly. There was no formal trial. On April 28th, they were shot by a firing squad in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra, near Dongo. Other captured Fascist officials were also executed. 5/

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The partisans had suffered greatly under Mussolini's regime and were determined to see him pay for his actions. 4/

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

On April 27th, they were intercepted by Italian partisans near the village of Dongo, on the shores of Lake Como. Recognizing Mussolini, the partisans captured the group. The situation was extremely tense. 2/

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BobbyJohn @bobbyjohn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

In April 1945, with the end of World War II in Europe imminent, Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, attempted to flee Italy with his mistress, Clara Petacci, and other Fascist leaders. They were trying to reach Switzerland, hoping to escape capture and retribution. 2/

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