Hot, sweaty, tired. Took a 4 mile walk by myself this afternoon. Came back to a cool and shady driveway. Hi.

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Family backpacking trip in Yellowstone. Social distancing at its finest.

“A few weeks ahead of the slated return of most U.S. sports, pro women’s softball held its first game in Melbourne, Florida this week. Shortly after the game ended, every member of the Texas-based Scrap Yard Fast Pitch quit the team. Every single one.

At some point during the game, the team’s general manager Connie May tweeted a picture of the players standing during the national anthem. The tweet tagged Donald Trump, declaring, “Everyone respecting the FLAG!”

According to the New York Times, the team returned to their locker room after the game to find a bunch of texts and notifications about the picture, which was posted without their knowledge or consent to promote a political message they say was not their intention.

May’s implication is that by standing for the anthem, the team is showing opposition (or at the very least, indifference) to the Black Lives Matter movement, making it a sort of anti-protest protest in itself. And the team made it clear they were not okay with that message.

Only two of the team’s 18 players are black. Kelsey Stewart (featured in the header image) didn’t play in Monday’s game and was the one to send a screenshot of the tweet to her teammates, along with the message: “I am not going to ever be a part of this organization whatsoever.” Kiki Stokes led the walkout after May doubled down on the tweet after the game. . . .

Additionally, the USSSA Pride, who the Scrap Yard Dawgs played in Monday’s game, has suspended the rest of their planned games in solidarity. (The two were the teams on each other’s schedules, so presumably, this means the USSSA is refusing to win by default.)

These players are sacrificing a lot to take this stand. Natasha Watley, the first Black player to play with USA Softball at the Olympics, told The Undefeated, “It’s powerful that not one of them stood back and said this doesn’t really affect me, I’d rather play,” adding, “We’re already getting paid pennies and now we’re going to get paid nothing to stand up for this. That’s how much it matters.”

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#ffu

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police threaten peaceful protesters at 4th of july show required by senile leader.

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particularly governors, senators, and presidents

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Nothing Valued Is Here
linocut print, 6”x6”

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Caption: National Guardsmen cross the street near Barbara Kruger’s mural on the fourth day of the Los Angeles riots in 1992. By Gary Leonard.

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From my friend Marty;

"Sunrise this morning from atop Wilson Hall at Fermilab. Chicago skyline on horizon to the right...

I went up there hoping to photograph a comet over that view. Clouds got in the way. There’s a comet up in the early AM now and it’s visible to the naked eye (between Magnitude 0 & Magnitude 1 if you’re down with that)."

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#2009

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