[Op-Ed] Trump Regime's
Vaccine Rollback Is Part Of The White Supremacist War On Black And Brown Children
Dr. Stacey Patton
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Wednesday, August 12, 2026
How Good Were the 1929 Philadelphia
Athletics Actually?
Jun 23 2026
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The 1929 Philadelphia Athletics were one of the greatest teams in baseball history, yet they remain one of the most forgotten dynasties ever assembled. Overshadowed by the legendary New York Yankees of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics built a powerhouse
https://youtu.be/5VhG9EhN9ic?si=QviIuqF_QujVwWvc
Description Led by Hall of Famers Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, Mickey Cochrane, Lefty Grove, and the legendary Connie Mack, the Philadelphia Athletics captured three consecutive American League pennants and won back-to-back World Series titles. Their roster also featured future Hall of Famers Eddie Collins, Ty Cobb, and Tris Speaker, giving the Athletics one of the most talented teams ever assembled. This documentary explores the remarkable careers of Jimmie Foxx, one of the greatest right-handed hitters in baseball history, Lefty Grove, one of the most dominant pitchers ever, and Al Simmons, whose unconventional swing helped make him one of the greatest hitters of the Live Ball Era. Mickey Cochrane, known as Black Mike, provided fiery leadership behind the plate, while players such as Bing Miller, Mule Haas, Max Bishop, Jimmy Dykes, Joe Boley, George Earnshaw, Rube Walberg, Eddie Rommel, Jack Quinn, and Howard Ehmke all played crucial roles in one of baseball's greatest forgotten stories. One of the most fascinating moments in baseball history came when Connie Mack secretly sent Howard Ehmke to scout the Chicago Cubs before One of the most fascinating moments in baseball history came when Connie Mack secretly sent Howard Ehmke to scout the Chicago Cubs before the 1929 World Series. While the Cubs expected to face Lefty Grove, Mack shocked everyone by starting the veteran Ehmke in Game 1. Armed with weeks of observations on hitters like Rogers Hornsby, Hack Wilson, and Kiki Cuyler, Ehmke threw a masterpiece and set a World Series strikeout record. Connie Mack later called it the greatest thrill of his baseball career. The 1929 World Series featured unforgettable moments, including the famous Game 4 comeback at Shibe Park. Trailing the Chicago Cubs 8-0, the Athletics exploded for ten runs in the seventh inning, still the largest single-inning comeback in World Series history. Mule Haas delivered an inside-the-park home run after Hack Wilson lost the ball in the sun, and two days later Bing Miller Description postseason comebacks in MLB history. The Athletics dynasty continued in 1930 and 1931 as Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Al Simmons, George Earnshaw, and Mickey Cochrane dominated the American League. Lefty Grove would go on to produce one of the greatest pitching seasons ever in 1931, while Foxx would eventually win the Triple Crown and establish himself among the greatest sluggers in baseball history. The team battled stars such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Rogers Hornsby, Hack Wilson, Charlie Root, Joe McCarthy, and the St. Louis Cardinals before ultimately falling to Pepper Martin and the Cardinals in the 1931 World Series. But just as quickly as the dynasty rose, the Great Depression destroyed it. Financial hardship forced Connie Mack to sell his stars one by one. Al Simmons, Lefty Grove, Mickey Cochrane, and eventually Jimmie Foxx were all traded away. A team that had rivaled the greatest Yankees clubs in history was dismantled, and the Philadelphia Athletics slowly faded from memory before eventually leaving Philadelphia altogether. Fans of baseball history, MLB documentaries, Athletics slowly faded from memory before eventually leaving Philadelphia altogether. Fans of baseball history, MLB documentaries, vintage baseball, and classic World Series stories will enjoy this deep dive into one of the greatest forgotten teams ever assembled. If you love stories involving Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Rogers Hornsby, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and the golden age of baseball, this documentary is for you. The 1929 Philadelphia Athletics proved that even the mighty Yankees could be beaten. They built a dynasty that rivaled the greatest teams in baseball history, only to see it shattered by the Great Depression. Their stars were scattered, their franchise eventually moved away from Philadelphia, and history slowly forgot them. But their accomplishments remain extraordinary. This baseball documentary covers the Philadelphia Athletics, Connie Mack, Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Al Simmons, Mickey Cochrane, Eddie Collins, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Howard Ehmke, George Earnshaw, Mule Haas, Bing Miller, franchise eventually moved away from Philadelphia, and history slowly forgot them. But their accomplishments remain extraordinary. This baseball documentary covers the Philadelphia Athletics, Connie Mack, Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Al Simmons, Mickey Cochrane, Eddie Collins, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Howard Ehmke, George Earnshaw, Mule Haas, Bing Miller, Max Bishop, Jimmy Dykes, Rogers Hornsby, Hack Wilson, Kiki Cuyler, Joe McCarthy, the Chicago Cubs, the New York Yankees, the 1929 World Series, baseball dynasties, Hall of Fame players, forgotten teams, vintage baseball, MLB history, and one of the greatest comebacks October has ever seen. The team that time forgot. Until now.
The 1929 Philadelphia Athletics were one of the greatest teams in baseball history, yet they remain one of the most forgotten dynasties ever assembled. Overshadowed by the legendary New York Yankees of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics built a powerhouse
https://youtu.be/5VhG9EhN9ic?si=QviIuqF_QujVwWvc
Description Led by Hall of Famers Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, Mickey Cochrane, Lefty Grove, and the legendary Connie Mack, the Philadelphia Athletics captured three consecutive American League pennants and won back-to-back World Series titles. Their roster also featured future Hall of Famers Eddie Collins, Ty Cobb, and Tris Speaker, giving the Athletics one of the most talented teams ever assembled. This documentary explores the remarkable careers of Jimmie Foxx, one of the greatest right-handed hitters in baseball history, Lefty Grove, one of the most dominant pitchers ever, and Al Simmons, whose unconventional swing helped make him one of the greatest hitters of the Live Ball Era. Mickey Cochrane, known as Black Mike, provided fiery leadership behind the plate, while players such as Bing Miller, Mule Haas, Max Bishop, Jimmy Dykes, Joe Boley, George Earnshaw, Rube Walberg, Eddie Rommel, Jack Quinn, and Howard Ehmke all played crucial roles in one of baseball's greatest forgotten stories. One of the most fascinating moments in baseball history came when Connie Mack secretly sent Howard Ehmke to scout the Chicago Cubs before One of the most fascinating moments in baseball history came when Connie Mack secretly sent Howard Ehmke to scout the Chicago Cubs before the 1929 World Series. While the Cubs expected to face Lefty Grove, Mack shocked everyone by starting the veteran Ehmke in Game 1. Armed with weeks of observations on hitters like Rogers Hornsby, Hack Wilson, and Kiki Cuyler, Ehmke threw a masterpiece and set a World Series strikeout record. Connie Mack later called it the greatest thrill of his baseball career. The 1929 World Series featured unforgettable moments, including the famous Game 4 comeback at Shibe Park. Trailing the Chicago Cubs 8-0, the Athletics exploded for ten runs in the seventh inning, still the largest single-inning comeback in World Series history. Mule Haas delivered an inside-the-park home run after Hack Wilson lost the ball in the sun, and two days later Bing Miller Description postseason comebacks in MLB history. The Athletics dynasty continued in 1930 and 1931 as Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Al Simmons, George Earnshaw, and Mickey Cochrane dominated the American League. Lefty Grove would go on to produce one of the greatest pitching seasons ever in 1931, while Foxx would eventually win the Triple Crown and establish himself among the greatest sluggers in baseball history. The team battled stars such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Rogers Hornsby, Hack Wilson, Charlie Root, Joe McCarthy, and the St. Louis Cardinals before ultimately falling to Pepper Martin and the Cardinals in the 1931 World Series. But just as quickly as the dynasty rose, the Great Depression destroyed it. Financial hardship forced Connie Mack to sell his stars one by one. Al Simmons, Lefty Grove, Mickey Cochrane, and eventually Jimmie Foxx were all traded away. A team that had rivaled the greatest Yankees clubs in history was dismantled, and the Philadelphia Athletics slowly faded from memory before eventually leaving Philadelphia altogether. Fans of baseball history, MLB documentaries, Athletics slowly faded from memory before eventually leaving Philadelphia altogether. Fans of baseball history, MLB documentaries, vintage baseball, and classic World Series stories will enjoy this deep dive into one of the greatest forgotten teams ever assembled. If you love stories involving Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Rogers Hornsby, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and the golden age of baseball, this documentary is for you. The 1929 Philadelphia Athletics proved that even the mighty Yankees could be beaten. They built a dynasty that rivaled the greatest teams in baseball history, only to see it shattered by the Great Depression. Their stars were scattered, their franchise eventually moved away from Philadelphia, and history slowly forgot them. But their accomplishments remain extraordinary. This baseball documentary covers the Philadelphia Athletics, Connie Mack, Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Al Simmons, Mickey Cochrane, Eddie Collins, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Howard Ehmke, George Earnshaw, Mule Haas, Bing Miller, franchise eventually moved away from Philadelphia, and history slowly forgot them. But their accomplishments remain extraordinary. This baseball documentary covers the Philadelphia Athletics, Connie Mack, Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Al Simmons, Mickey Cochrane, Eddie Collins, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Howard Ehmke, George Earnshaw, Mule Haas, Bing Miller, Max Bishop, Jimmy Dykes, Rogers Hornsby, Hack Wilson, Kiki Cuyler, Joe McCarthy, the Chicago Cubs, the New York Yankees, the 1929 World Series, baseball dynasties, Hall of Fame players, forgotten teams, vintage baseball, MLB history, and one of the greatest comebacks October has ever seen. The team that time forgot. Until now.
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Marxism , and thus Marxist led China has a Scientific , or Materialist Worldview ; more scientific emphasis than Bourgeois led America , which has Idealism/Religion and anti-intellectualism , anti-academic attitudes ; doesn't want it's masses educated ; wants mindless workers not thinkers as John D. Rockefeller once said . Socialism is Scientific ( Scientific Socialism , so to speak). Thus, China is pulling ahead of America in engineering, technological development ;"
level of
39:23
academic university and postgraduate qualifications in a whole range of
sheer volume of capabilities .. especially in STEM ( Science Technology Engineering and Math) " as Warwick Powell
says in this youtube podcast . Whereas " it is quite clear that the quality of the human capital is
declining in terms of numeracy and literacy measures in the United States"
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Reaganism carried out an assault on public education and teachers unions; It was led by Bill Bennett. In China, many Communist Party members are engineers . <
https://youtu.be/V4Dia6o2uGE?si=hgTL6skvvstyBnWo
and material sciences. And China has ever since 1949 invested 39:01 decades upon decades into cultivating a population that firstly overcame 39:09 substantial illiteracy to a point where now we have a population that is 97 39:16 98 99% literate as well as a level of 39:23 academic university and postgraduate qualifications in a whole range ofsheer volume of capabilities and that investment in the human capital 39:42 pipeline is actually the untold story of China's development experience 39:49 because what we have today of course is only possible because of the very bright 39:55 people that are now working in these areas but the previous generation of 40:01 large industry and the previous generation before that of lighter industry and the emergence of 40:09 agricultural technology and manufacturingagricultural technology and manufacturing in rural and and regional parts of China in the 1980s was only possible because we had a population that could read and write and do maths. And the risk now I think that the United States runs is that it is quite clear that the quality of the human capital is declining in terms of numeracy and literacy measures and the United Statesin human capital to a point particularly in STEM subjects and particularly in STEM subjects but to 40:52 a point where I think we have a political culture that um puts on a 40:59 pedestal the idea of being anti- elitist, anti-academic, antiscolastic 41:07 in the name of common sense. Now, I get the politics of all of that, but it 41:13 actually doesn't help the vitality of a society if you don't embrace and 41:22 and celebrate intellectualand celebrate ulintellectual excellence. And I think the United States has clearly gone down a pathway 41:30 where it no longer celebrates intellectual excellence. it even doesn't really want um clever people from other 41:37 parts of the world coming to the United States anymore, whereas in fact it once made that the greatest selling point of 41:45 the United States, right? and so the medium-term risk, not only do we have a 41:53 political economy dominated by finance capital, which really just feeds on 41:58 itself and feeds off everyone else, but we have an emasculation of the human 42:04 capital foundations of that society and thatpolitical economy dominated by tinance capital, which really just feeds on itself and feeds off everyone else, but we have an emasculation of the human capital foundations of that society and that economy. And you don't fix that overnight. No. And and in fact, this goes back in the United States particularly. <
Of course, you know, there's a very famous book by the historian Richard Hoffadder called anti-intellectualism in American life. I mean, there has long been a resentment of any kind of intellectualbook by the historian Richard Hoffadder called anti-intellectualism in American life. I mean, there has long been a 42:22 resentment of any kind of intellectual refinement which is regarded as you 42:27 know, pretentious, snobbish, etc. And therefore this cult of common sense. Yeah, it's it's definitely there. But 42:33 you know maybe uh uh toward as to kind of wrap things up, I wanted to circle back to two different things. So now the 42:40 first is you know if we were to list the major ways in which the uh as you say 42:46 you know the the the the stock market<
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CHARLES BROWN: A MATERIALIST WORLDVIEW IS A SCIENTIFIC WORLDVIEW; AN IDEALIST WORLDVIEW IS ESSENTIALLY A RELIGIOUS WORLDVIEW AS ENGELS EXPKAINS AS FOLLOWS <
Frederick Engels Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy Part 2: Materialism darwin The great basic question of all philosophy, especially of more recent philosophy, is that concerning the relation of thinking and being. From the very early times when men, still completely ignorant of the structure of their own bodies, under the stimulus of dream apparitions (1) came to believe that their thinking and sensation were not activities of their bodies, but of a distinct soul which inhabits the body and leaves it at death — from this time men have been driven to reflect about the relation between this soul and the outside world. If, upon death, it took leave of the body and lived on, there was no occassion to invent yet another distinct death for it. Thus arose the idea of immortality, which at that stage of development appeared not at all as a consolation but as a fate against which it was no use fighting, and often enough, as among the Greeks, as a positive misfortune. The quandry arising from the common universal ignorance of what to do with this soul, once its existence had been accepted, after the death of the body, and not religious desire for consolation, led in a general way to the tedious notion of personal immortality. In an exactly similar manner, the first gods arose through the personification of natural forces. And these gods in the further development of religions assumed more and more extramundane form, until finally by a process of abstraction, I might almost say of distillation, occurring naturally in the course of man’s intellectual development, out of the many more or less limited and mutually limiting gods there arose in the minds of men the idea of the one exclusive God of the monotheistic religions....<
Thus the question of the relation of thinking to being, the relation of the spirit to nature — the paramount question of the whole of philosophy — has, no less than all religion, its roots in the narrow-minded and ignorant notions of savagery. But this question could for the first time be put forward in its whole acuteness, could achieve its full significance, only after humanity in Europe had awakened from the long hibernation of the Christian Middle Ages. The question of the position of thinking in relation to being, a question which, by the way, had played a great part also in the scholasticism of the Middle Ages, the question: which is primary, spirit or nature — that question, in relation to the church, was sharpened into this: Did God create the world or has the world been in existence eternally? The answers which the philosophers gave to this question split them into two great camps. Those who asserted the primacy of spirit to nature and, therefore, in the last instance, assumed world creation in some form or other — and among the philosophers, Hegel, for example, this creation often becomes still more intricate and impossible than in Christianity — comprised the camp of idealism. The others, who regarded nature as primary, belong to the various schools of materialism. These two expressions, idealism and materialism, originally signify nothing else but this; and here too they are not used in any other sense. What confusion arises when some other meaning is put to them will be seen below....<
But during this long period from Descartes to Hegel and from Hobbes to Feuerbach, these philosophers were by no means impelled, as they thought they were, solely by the force of pure reason. On the contrary, what really pushed them forward most was the powerful and ever more rapidly onrushing progress of natural science and industry. Among the materialists this was plain on the surface, but the idealist systems also filled themselves more and more with a materialist content and attempted pantheistically to reconcile the antithesis between mind and matter. Thus, ultimately, the Hegelian system represents merely a materialism idealistically turned upside down in method and content.... >
Reaganism carried out an assault on public education and teachers unions; It was led by Bill Bennett. In China, many Communist Party members are engineers . <
https://youtu.be/V4Dia6o2uGE?si=hgTL6skvvstyBnWo
and material sciences. And China has ever since 1949 invested 39:01 decades upon decades into cultivating a population that firstly overcame 39:09 substantial illiteracy to a point where now we have a population that is 97 39:16 98 99% literate as well as a level of 39:23 academic university and postgraduate qualifications in a whole range ofsheer volume of capabilities and that investment in the human capital 39:42 pipeline is actually the untold story of China's development experience 39:49 because what we have today of course is only possible because of the very bright 39:55 people that are now working in these areas but the previous generation of 40:01 large industry and the previous generation before that of lighter industry and the emergence of 40:09 agricultural technology and manufacturingagricultural technology and manufacturing in rural and and regional parts of China in the 1980s was only possible because we had a population that could read and write and do maths. And the risk now I think that the United States runs is that it is quite clear that the quality of the human capital is declining in terms of numeracy and literacy measures and the United Statesin human capital to a point particularly in STEM subjects and particularly in STEM subjects but to 40:52 a point where I think we have a political culture that um puts on a 40:59 pedestal the idea of being anti- elitist, anti-academic, antiscolastic 41:07 in the name of common sense. Now, I get the politics of all of that, but it 41:13 actually doesn't help the vitality of a society if you don't embrace and 41:22 and celebrate intellectualand celebrate ulintellectual excellence. And I think the United States has clearly gone down a pathway 41:30 where it no longer celebrates intellectual excellence. it even doesn't really want um clever people from other 41:37 parts of the world coming to the United States anymore, whereas in fact it once made that the greatest selling point of 41:45 the United States, right? and so the medium-term risk, not only do we have a 41:53 political economy dominated by finance capital, which really just feeds on 41:58 itself and feeds off everyone else, but we have an emasculation of the human 42:04 capital foundations of that society and thatpolitical economy dominated by tinance capital, which really just feeds on itself and feeds off everyone else, but we have an emasculation of the human capital foundations of that society and that economy. And you don't fix that overnight. No. And and in fact, this goes back in the United States particularly. <
Of course, you know, there's a very famous book by the historian Richard Hoffadder called anti-intellectualism in American life. I mean, there has long been a resentment of any kind of intellectualbook by the historian Richard Hoffadder called anti-intellectualism in American life. I mean, there has long been a 42:22 resentment of any kind of intellectual refinement which is regarded as you 42:27 know, pretentious, snobbish, etc. And therefore this cult of common sense. Yeah, it's it's definitely there. But 42:33 you know maybe uh uh toward as to kind of wrap things up, I wanted to circle back to two different things. So now the 42:40 first is you know if we were to list the major ways in which the uh as you say 42:46 you know the the the the stock market<
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CHARLES BROWN: A MATERIALIST WORLDVIEW IS A SCIENTIFIC WORLDVIEW; AN IDEALIST WORLDVIEW IS ESSENTIALLY A RELIGIOUS WORLDVIEW AS ENGELS EXPKAINS AS FOLLOWS <
Frederick Engels Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy Part 2: Materialism darwin The great basic question of all philosophy, especially of more recent philosophy, is that concerning the relation of thinking and being. From the very early times when men, still completely ignorant of the structure of their own bodies, under the stimulus of dream apparitions (1) came to believe that their thinking and sensation were not activities of their bodies, but of a distinct soul which inhabits the body and leaves it at death — from this time men have been driven to reflect about the relation between this soul and the outside world. If, upon death, it took leave of the body and lived on, there was no occassion to invent yet another distinct death for it. Thus arose the idea of immortality, which at that stage of development appeared not at all as a consolation but as a fate against which it was no use fighting, and often enough, as among the Greeks, as a positive misfortune. The quandry arising from the common universal ignorance of what to do with this soul, once its existence had been accepted, after the death of the body, and not religious desire for consolation, led in a general way to the tedious notion of personal immortality. In an exactly similar manner, the first gods arose through the personification of natural forces. And these gods in the further development of religions assumed more and more extramundane form, until finally by a process of abstraction, I might almost say of distillation, occurring naturally in the course of man’s intellectual development, out of the many more or less limited and mutually limiting gods there arose in the minds of men the idea of the one exclusive God of the monotheistic religions....<
Thus the question of the relation of thinking to being, the relation of the spirit to nature — the paramount question of the whole of philosophy — has, no less than all religion, its roots in the narrow-minded and ignorant notions of savagery. But this question could for the first time be put forward in its whole acuteness, could achieve its full significance, only after humanity in Europe had awakened from the long hibernation of the Christian Middle Ages. The question of the position of thinking in relation to being, a question which, by the way, had played a great part also in the scholasticism of the Middle Ages, the question: which is primary, spirit or nature — that question, in relation to the church, was sharpened into this: Did God create the world or has the world been in existence eternally? The answers which the philosophers gave to this question split them into two great camps. Those who asserted the primacy of spirit to nature and, therefore, in the last instance, assumed world creation in some form or other — and among the philosophers, Hegel, for example, this creation often becomes still more intricate and impossible than in Christianity — comprised the camp of idealism. The others, who regarded nature as primary, belong to the various schools of materialism. These two expressions, idealism and materialism, originally signify nothing else but this; and here too they are not used in any other sense. What confusion arises when some other meaning is put to them will be seen below....<
But during this long period from Descartes to Hegel and from Hobbes to Feuerbach, these philosophers were by no means impelled, as they thought they were, solely by the force of pure reason. On the contrary, what really pushed them forward most was the powerful and ever more rapidly onrushing progress of natural science and industry. Among the materialists this was plain on the surface, but the idealist systems also filled themselves more and more with a materialist content and attempted pantheistically to reconcile the antithesis between mind and matter. Thus, ultimately, the Hegelian system represents merely a materialism idealistically turned upside down in method and content.... >