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I write the Expecting Goals newsletter (expectinggoals.com) and I'm gonna try to bring soccer analytics to bluesky. Let's see if it works. He/him.

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if any district in NYC is vulnerable to influencer Dems it's NY12, where the traditional party and the new ideological groups are equally weak

it's just one poll and it's a Conway internal but I wouldn't be shocked

Influencers 41
Libs 26

oof size large

www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

07.03.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ™Œ

07.03.2026 01:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

lmao she was a pro se candidate

07.03.2026 01:18 πŸ‘ 268 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

it's been longer since the invasion of Iraq than since the financial crisis, and we have a hundreds-deep bench of new consensus left-lib economics types and we have what three? four?left-lib foreign policy types?

07.03.2026 00:58 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

you can be a generational talent, or you can be a fraud, sorry no other options

06.03.2026 23:00 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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He was meant to take De Bruyne’s crown. Instead, Foden’s City career is flatlining Playmaker has become peripheral figure as Manchester City chase quadruple and is no longer a shoo-in for the World Cup

reaching new heights in "soccer players aren't allowed to be good" www.theguardian.com/football/202...

06.03.2026 23:00 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

I kinda think this is the case because Iran can define an end to American bombing as a victory, and that's more valuable to them than continuing escalations with their neighbors

maybe Israel would keep the war going, but then Iran would still have the Hormuz option, proven effective

06.03.2026 22:33 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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this does not materially change the larger story but to the best of my knowledge, this is not true. (Newcastle has used a plane owned by the same company that supplied the Gulfstream jets that transported Khashoggi's killers but not those planes) sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/here-we-go...

06.03.2026 20:56 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I would try even more tbh

06.03.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

and that's the best case scenario!

06.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Iran can't really do anything but endure, so I would expect they will claim their endurance is a victory while rebuilding an even more hard-line and oppressive version of the regime

06.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I can't tell if this is a bot or just a deranged person but either way I'm gonna block them and recommend same

06.03.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

right

you can't destroy the capacity of a state / quasi state actor to affect shipping routes off its coast without an enormously costly war

you can prevent the destruction of your capacity to fuck up shipping lanes just by refusing to give up unless someone commits to a drawn out war

06.03.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

betting markets are probably pricing this higher than their models have it because the futures markets involve very long lockups and relatively limited sharp money, but I certainly wouldn't say 20 percent is too high and that's really fucking high

06.03.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

because it's a matter of objectives. the US objective (destroy the Houthis capacity to disrupt shipping) was far more expansive and difficult to achieve then the Houthis objective (not have their capacity destroyed)

06.03.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

nah it's because you can't win using just missiles

06.03.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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As someone who routinely mocks permabullish clickbait oil forecasts, I want to be exceptionally clear:

Crude WILL go to $200/bbl, en route higher, unless traffic through the Strait resumes.

Not clickbait, but rather brutal physics and necessary economic incentives.

06.03.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 1693 πŸ” 313 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 77
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it's like these people didn't have group chats smh

06.03.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 678 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

I am pretty confident Iran is clearly going to give him nothing, they've made a bet on outlasting the US and Israel and I think they have to see that bet working right now

06.03.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the best reasonable outcome is that Trump figures out a way to claim victory and end the war despite having achieved nothing at all

it will be fucking stupid, it definitionally has to be fucking stupid, but it's the best reasonable outcome at this point

06.03.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

this website sucks sometimes

06.03.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 704 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 117 πŸ“Œ 9

this reads like someone trying to build their brand as a left-liberal presidential candidate but with limited understanding of left-lib economic policy discourse

and Van Hollen, a paradigmatic party insider whose foreign policy stances opened up a progressive lane for him, fits that description

06.03.2026 18:09 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

WHY DO PERSIAN JEWS LIVE IN LA

WHAT HAPPENED TO IRAN'S JEWS THAT THEYRE SUCH A SMALL PART OF IRAN'S POPULATION

06.03.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 646 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 4

so yes the Van Hollen plan taxes the rich, but it does so to redistribute those gains primarily to people with middle-to-upper incomes, and in the form of tax cuts which weaken the broad base needed for any kind of social democracy

06.03.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 95 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Christ, even Jabba's got abs

06.03.2026 17:44 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

there is an aspect within which licensure also is censorship I think?

like there is a massive rulebook set up around "giving legal advice" which restricts speech for people in and adjunct to the legal profession

I think rules of speech are necessarily implicated in certain domains already pre-LLMs

06.03.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

So just to be clear the FA rule is that Emi Martinez is strictly forbidden from promoting betting companies except for every time he puts on an Aston Villa shirt

06.03.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 211 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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1.) Unemployment duration right now is *really* high. Near or above *peak* duration in pre-GFC recessions.

2.) We are spending less money than ever helping connect unemployed workers to jobs.

Bad!

www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-tinder...

06.03.2026 15:01 πŸ‘ 172 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 6

It was me!

Some times payroll data is bad. It was bad this month.

But the idea that an economy with 4.4% unemployment, 80.7% prime age employment, and 2.4% inflation is "destroyed" is very silly.

06.03.2026 15:06 πŸ‘ 302 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 9

no one knows what anyone is doing over there

06.03.2026 15:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0