E Pluribus Unum

Burt!

19 October 1934 | Dutch Jewish girl Else Hahn was born in Rotterdam. In September 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

🧵 I want to make one point about the federal permitting bill. Before I do, I'd just encourage everyone who's interested in the details to listen to this podcast, which covers them ... extensively. There's a lot of complicated stuff in there & the cartoonish portrayals you see online are misleading.

Gosh, why were the Cubs so bad for so long?

I didn’t want to start my Monday off by crying, but …

review booth frantically trying to retroactively take two seconds off the clock and give Michigan this one too

Pinch hitting for Pedro Borbon, Manny Mota.

Expanse erasure.

NBC News' Claudio Lavanga asked Pope Leo if he had anything to do with Chicago White Sox 'miraculous' historic ride to the playoffs during the pope's flight to Paris.

Nomar!

[February 18th, 1981] The Montreal Expos signed free agent pitcher Ray Burris to a one-year contract. Burris is a 30-year-old veteran with nine major league seasons. He previously recorded 13 career victories against Montreal. He has also played for the Mets, Mariners, and Rangers.

Goals

This Day in Labor History: September 21, 1908. The Industrial Workers of the World met for its 4th annual convention in Chicago. This convention would reshape the struggling nascent organization, moving it clearly from an intellectuals’ movement to a workers’ movement!!!

[September 20th, 1946] The New York Yankees called up four Newark Bears players to finish the season. They recalled infielder Bobby Brown and purchased catcher Larry Berra, outfielder Frank Colman, and pitcher Victor Raschi.

Now that was a show!

Words to live by.

13 September 1891 | An Italian Jewish woman, Ester Better, was born in Fiume. Before the war she lived in Bratislava, then she moved to Hungary. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

In a 2 party system politics can sometimes be very simple. Saying “don’t vote for the Democrat in the general election” reduces to “I want to help the Republican win.” There’s no other practical interpretation of the sentence.

The St Louis Cardinals - worthless POSs for 140 years.

L’shanah tovah to all who celebrate. And actually—wishing even those who don’t a good year!

It was 20 years ago today Devin Hester taught the Bears to play. #BearDown #ChicagoBears

Some people think that voting is nothing but a personal expression of beliefs and identity. These people are not serious about politics.

This Day in Labor History: September 10, 1897. Luzerne County sheriff deputies slaughtered 19 unarmed coal miners striking outside of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Let's talk the Lattimer Massacre and the cold-blooded murder of innocent immigrant workers from eastern Europe!

Matt Suhey, whose ‘career spanned the Chicago Bears’ greatest decade,’ dies at 68

There has to be at least one red panda though, right?

I still can’t believe that a nut job exclaimed, “They’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs” and millions of Americans said, “That’s the guy I want as president.”

Garden City, Utah Population: 617 Photos from Google Places API Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_City,_Utah

My first chemo session is tomorrow at 945 am, so I am going to need all of your pet photos between now and then so I have something nice to look at while I'm being poisoned. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Abdul El-Sayed, Zionism and American Civic Culture

Leonys Martin of the Cubs robbed St Louis of a bottom-11 game-tying homer in late September 2017. It eliminated the Cards from the playoffs.

brain, i understand that you'd rather do Preferred Activity, but right now we have to do Task. if we finish task we can do Preferred Activity WITHOUT feeling weighed down by the need to do Task. do you see how that works ah it's biting me my brain is biting me

Siri, define “chutzpah”

When it counts tho, geese have the most important advantage of all. 😋

This Day in Labor History: August 20, 1977. The Grunwick Strike began. At the same time that the British union movement really began embracing immigrants, it faced the rise of the anti-union Margaret Thatcher. This strike made her more famous and marked the decline of British unionism. Sad stuff.

This was an unexpected (and delightful) surprise! www.slashfilm.com/2232943/proj...

Democrats who care about climate need to start acting like Republicans who care about tax cuts for the wealthy and be honest with themselves about the electorate in the same way rich Republicans are honest with themselves and lie to the electorate.

This Day in Labor History: August 14, 1889. Workers on the London docks walked out on strike. Over 100,000 workers eventually struck and they won an incredible victory, one of the greatest achievements for organized labor anywhere in the world during these years!!

You cannot, under any circumstances, pick up a four-man bobsled and carry it to the finish line on your shoulders after you crash.

This is fine.

I don’t think the sky is supposed to glow like that. #RockyCanyonFire

It's worth noting that AIPAC's total contribution to Moss's campaign was literally $1,000...out of over $1.5 million total raised, or 0.067%. Farooqi used this to smear him as an "Israel first, AIPAC powered" candidate. Oh yeah...he happens to be Jewish, quelle surprise.

No. 1,703: Rick Monday HOMERED leading off the first for the 1976 #Cubs. The Streak lived!

9 August 1922 | A Czech Jewish woman, Hana Adlerová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 26 January 1943. She did not survive.

#RockyCanyonFire

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Happy Dave Matthews Band Poop Bus Day to all who celebrate! On August 8, 2004, the DMB tour bus dumped an estimated 800 pounds of human waste from the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto an open-top sightseeing boat in the Chicago River below. There were 120 tourists aboard the vessel.

The Cubs lost the trade.