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Joe Maddon on why baseball stopped loving him back, Via @SLGreenberg “What I do and how I do it, I don’t think it’s necessarily sought after anymore. In today’s world, whether it’s baseball or the corporate world, experience is not necessarily sought after. What everybody’s looking for is a more controllable asset that they can then nurture in their own image and likeness. That’s what they like.” “When I was coming up, it was very important to have your own thoughts and ideas because the manager was more autonomous and had to set the direction for the organization both on and off the field. In today’s game, in terms of the hiring process, I don’t think that’s what anybody’s looking for. The way things are handled — pregame [decisions], how teams are put together, the way tablets are used and tech — it’s not going to change. Control beats experience, intuition and feel because those three words, these guys have never done that. When you say that to them, it’s like you’re speaking a different language.” (chicago.suntimes.com/cubs/20…)

🚨BREAKING — FBI just arrested an October 7th attacker in Louisiana. The 33-year-old man took part in the Hamas attack on Israel, & then traveled to the U.S. on a fraudulent visa UNDER JOE BIDEN. This is why secure borders are absolutely crucial.

Just got lectured by a butcher because I wouldn't buy halal meat (I bought a 15 lb Brisket for my family but wouldn't buy the halal one). When I told him as a Christian I can't eat meat sacrificed to false gods, he called ME hateful. Apparently a Muslim asked them to do it and now they just push it on everyone. ​I quoted the Bible verse about not eating meat sacrificed to idols. This is exactly how Islam creeps in to erode our standards and normalize things. They introduce halal meat, tell Christians it's fine and just a butchering method (it's not, it's a literal sacrifice to Allah), and call you the bad guy if you won't go along with it. ​Stand your ground.

🚨 BOMBSHELL FROM TINA PETERS — SHE’S HANGING THE ENTIRE RIGGED SYSTEM OUT TO DRY! 🔥 “We don’t have to prove it anymore! The machines are CHEATING. Ballots are being HARVESTED. Mail-in fraud is RAMPANT. Enough evidence exists — these corrupt processes should NEVER be allowed again!” Tina just dropped the mic on election integrity. The proof is overwhelming. The deep state’s worst nightmare is a truth-teller who won’t back down. WATCH. SHARE. DEMAND PAPER BALLOTS NOW. @realtinapeters #ElectionIntegrity #TinaPeters #StopTheSteal #RiggedSystem

Too many people are just sitting there waiting for things to go back to the way they used to be. And they aren’t.

On this day in 1778, a British and Native raiding force fell on the frontier settlement of Cherry Valley, New York, and what happened there, the killing of women and children along with the soldiers, horrified both sides and became one of the most infamous atrocities of the Revolution. It also set in motion a campaign of retaliation that would devastate an entire people. By late 1778, the New York frontier was locked in the war's cruelest kind of fighting, a merciless cycle of raids and reprisals between Patriots on one side and Loyalists and their Iroquois allies on the other. The settlement at Cherry Valley, protected by a small fort and a garrison of Continental soldiers under Colonel Ichabod Alden, was a target. And the force that came for it was led by the Loyalist officer Walter Butler, accompanied by the Mohawk war leader Joseph Brant and several hundred Seneca and Cayuga warriors. The attack began with a disaster of command. Colonel Alden had been warned that a raid was coming, and he had arrogantly dismissed the warnings, refusing even to let the townspeople shelter inside the fort and failing to take basic precautions. He paid for it with his life, cut down in the opening moments, and because of his negligence, the people of Cherry Valley were caught exposed, out in their homes, when the storm hit. What followed was savage. The raiders swept through the settlement, and the violence spilled far beyond the soldiers and the fort. Homes were burned, and dozens of people were killed, among them women and children, noncombatants slaughtered in a way that shocked even hardened frontier fighters. Others were dragged off as captives. The exact numbers are debated, but the essential horror is not: this was not just a battle, it was a massacre of civilians, and the memory of it burned itself into the frontier. The responsibility has been argued over ever since, and it is genuinely tangled. Walter Butler was in nominal command and bore the ultimate blame in Patriot eyes, and he became, after this day, perhaps the single most hated man on the New York frontier. Interestingly, some accounts hold that Joseph Brant, so often cast as the villain of these raids, actually tried to restrain the killing and protect civilians at Cherry Valley, and that the worst of it was done by warriors enraged by earlier American attacks on their own villages, beyond anyone's control. In the brutal logic of that frontier war, atrocity bred atrocity, and Cherry Valley was partly revenge for destruction the Patriots had visited on Iroquois towns. And it set off a terrible chain of consequences. The massacre inflamed American demands for vengeance against the Iroquois, and the following year George Washington sent a massive expedition under General Sullivan to march into the Iroquois heartland and lay it waste. Sullivan's men systematically burned dozens of Iroquois towns, destroyed their crops and food stores, and drove thousands of people from their homes into a starving winter. It broke the power of the Iroquois Confederacy, which had stood for centuries, and it is remembered among the Haudenosaunee people to this day. Remember November 11, 1778, and Cherry Valley. It is not a story of glory on anyone's side. It is a window into the darkest dimension of the Revolution, the vicious frontier war where the grand ideals of liberty gave way to burned cabins, murdered families, and cycles of revenge that consumed soldiers and civilians, settlers and Native nations alike. The Revolution was won, but on that frontier, there were no clean victories, only suffering piled on suffering, and Cherry Valley was one of its cruelest days.