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https://twitter.com/gillibrandpeter/status/1604547276499996674?s=61&t=QDlWm1yUhFYqNDSSZn7YkQ
Posted by BeyondGeography | Sun Dec 18, 2022, 10:28 PM (6 replies)

NYC to name Central Park gate for men formerly known as the Central Park Five

https://twitter.com/nytimesarts/status/1602344071246266368?s=61&t=8K6NvFVO5b47pPTukrgbJw
https://twitter.com/cbsnewyork/status/1602430950486548480?s=61&t=8K6NvFVO5b47pPTukrgbJw

NEW YORK -- One entrance to Central Park is getting a new name for the first time since the park opened in the late 1800s. The entrance will honor the exonerated five, formerly known as the "Central Park Five."

CBS2 spoke with one of those men who was wrongly jailed about the new name. "We want people to remember, in 1989, where was I?" Raymond Santana said. Thirty-three years ago, Santana walked through the northeast corner of Central Park, as did Yusef Salaam, Korey Wise, Antron McCray, and Kevin Richardson.

…”This gate isn't just about the exonerated five. It's about all of us. It's about all of us who have been done wrong by the system, all of us who have been run over by the spiked wheels of justice," Santana said...”To me, it just says that there's people in this city that still want to do the right thing.”

More at https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/central-park-gate-named-gate-of-the-exonerated-men-formerly-known-as-central-park-5/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h
Posted by BeyondGeography | Tue Dec 13, 2022, 01:39 AM (4 replies)

Antoine Griezmann

Or how France beat England today:

https://twitter.com/loloutlaw/status/1601690644103061504?s=61&t=8zK0lASCcOOO8sOzBOBeLg
Posted by BeyondGeography | Sat Dec 10, 2022, 09:52 PM (0 replies)

Explosions hit military bases deep within Russian territory - DW News

Posted by BeyondGeography | Mon Dec 5, 2022, 11:11 AM (1 replies)

Classic Gaylord Perry anecdote

https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1598341253405593606?s=61&t=4pmBM-SLqZHn9C71eMGsKw

It’s one of the better stories in a sport full of improbable legends, feats and coincidences. And it starts seven years earlier in 1962 — months before John F. Kennedy famously declared there would be a man on the moon by the end of that decade.

According to baseball lore, Gaylord was taking batting practice when the aptly named San Francisco Chronicle sportswriter Harry Jupiter noticed the rookie pitcher’s hard swing and suggested to Giants manager Alvin Dark, “This Perry kid’s going to hit some home runs for you.” Dark turned to Jupiter — as Perry tells it in a July 13, 2009 issue of Sports Illustrated — and replied, “There’ll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.”

Dark’s prediction would hold true over the next seven years. While Gaylord would win more than 80 games and become an All Star in his first seven and a half years on the mound, his hitting was about what you’d expect from a pitcher. His batting average by the late 60s hovered in the low .100s, and a career of nearly 500 at-bats had no home runs and only 13 total RBI to show for it.

Gaylord brought an 11-7 record into his start against the Los Angeles Dodgers and starter Claude Osteen on July 20, 1969. More than 32,000 fans showed up for the 1 p.m. matinee. Seven minutes after Gaylord’s first pitch, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the lunar surface. Approximately 25 minutes later, Gaylord stepped to the plate against Osteen and drilled a shot to centerfield that, to his amazement, cleared the wall. It was his first, and one of only six he’d hit in his 22-year Hall of Fame career…

https://magazine.campbell.edu/articles/50-years-later-apollo-11-the-space-needle-and-the-moon-shot/



Posted by BeyondGeography | Thu Dec 1, 2022, 09:36 PM (2 replies)

Tyler Adams (USMNT) couldn't have answered this question any better

This is pure class:

Posted by BeyondGeography | Mon Nov 28, 2022, 05:58 PM (3 replies)

Qatar's clampdown sprung a leak during Uruguay/Portugal

https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1597338335583797249?s=61&t=nYw5KQAeAE0YidP88MEaQA
Posted by BeyondGeography | Mon Nov 28, 2022, 05:27 PM (3 replies)

Man who helped stop Club Q shooter: I'm just a normal guy

Posted by BeyondGeography | Tue Nov 22, 2022, 08:09 AM (5 replies)

SecDef Austin: Russia's invasion of Ukraine represents a world that none of us want to live in

https://twitter.com/biz_ukraine_mag/status/1594077328929443842?s=61&t=_JBNHRHdT6uuGAH14OaBxw

‘A preview of a possible world of tyranny’: U.S. Def Sec on Putin’s war

U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said failure to help Ukraine secure its own future could lead to a “world of tyranny and turmoil”, in a speech on Saturday that sought to lay out the stakes in the war for the international community. Austin's remarks, delivered at a security forum in Canada, were some of his most powerful to date on Russia's invasion which has lasted for nearly nine months already.

…Mr Austin also said that “Russia's invasion offers a preview of a possible world of tyranny and turmoil, turmoil that none of us want to live in,” adding that Russia’s irresponsible nuclear saber rattling, if not reacted to, risks encouraging other dictators. “Putin's fellow autocrats are watching. And they could well conclude that getting nuclear weapons would give them a hunting license of their own. And that could drive a dangerous spiral of nuclear proliferation,” Austin said.

As Mr Austin said, the danger is already apparent. “Now the ripples of Russia's invasion have traveled far, far beyond Europe,” said the U.S. Defence Secretary. “Beijing, like Moscow, seeks a world where might makes right. Where disputes are resolved by force and where autocrats can stamp out the flame of freedom.”

https://tvpworld.com/64622767/a-preview-of-a-possible-world-of-tyranny-us-def-sec-on-putins-war


Very strong words. Putin fluffers on the right just got taken to the political woodshed.
Posted by BeyondGeography | Sat Nov 19, 2022, 05:41 PM (2 replies)

Barbara McQuade on MSNBC: You don't name a special counsel at this point to walk away from a case

Smith is there because DOJ sees strong reasons to indict.
Posted by BeyondGeography | Fri Nov 18, 2022, 03:48 PM (24 replies)
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