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Now that they're trying to pretend their war is not a war, they've gone back to calling it the Defense Department.
This is an amazing thread. I'm cracking up:
"It's almost rare in America to so definitively be able to see someone isn't Jewish." 🤣🤣
One of the JD Vance lines that worked best with young men in 2024 was that America shouldn't be funding foreign wars when people at home are suffering. I imagine this price tag isn't going to sit well with them
Talarico is running an anti-system campaign that could be very appealing to indies & Trump voters (who you need to win in a Trump +14 state). By highlighting positions that are not correlated with left-right ideology, he can attract right-leaning voters. Smart www.gelliottmorris.com/p/meet-ameri...
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.
Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
need the vertical approach angle on this
Just found out one of my recent students is stranded in Dubai, where he was helping run a Model UN. Of course, as @talkingpointsmemo.com points out, there's no plan to help him or other Americans in his situation get home.
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reading over Malliotakis v. Williams and lowkey think New York courts/the NY Redistricting Commission should be like...since the Supreme Court clearly lacked jurisdiction to intervene in the case at this time, we are treating it as the nonbinding advisory opinion that it is, thanks for the input tho
Speaking as a professor, AI makes mistakes no human being will make, and doesn't care if answers are true, so outsourcing the grading to AI isn't going to yield any better results than students writing papers with AI does.
“You should be madder at Republicans than you are at us” is very much a losing message in this moment. Voters have shown they are angry at both!
Same with the great control pitchers they've been accumulating, and trading away guys with great stuff but no path to control.
I like that they see OBP as undervalued now (for both hitting and pitching), and about to take a jump in importance with ABS. My question is whether they are correct, and players like Anthony, Contreras, Casas, Abreu, and Durbin who have great batting eyes are about to become much more valuable.
If measles vaccination rates continue to drop just 1% annually for the next five years, the cost to the U.S. could reach $1.5 billion a year, according to a new report from the Yale School of Public Health.
Text: The American people are once again dragged into a war they did not want by a president who does not care about the long-term consequences of his actions. This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic. Just this week, Iran and the United States were negotiating key measures that could have staved off war. The President walked away from these discussions and chose war instead. President Trump flippantly acknowledged the possibility of American casualties, stating "that often happens in war.” Mr. President: this was not an inevitability. This is a deliberate choice of aggression when diplomacy and security were within reach. Stop lying to the American people. Violence begets violence. We learned this lesson in Iraq. We learned this lesson in Afghanistan. And we are about to learn it again in Iran. Bombs have yet to create enduring democracies in the region and this will be no different. In moments of war, our Constitution is unambiguous: Congress authorizes war. The President does not. I will do my part to uphold our Constitution by voting YES on Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's War Powers Resolution. Every member of Congress must join us in rejecting this aimless war.
AOC: "The American people are being dragged into a war they do not want. Just this week, US was negotiating with Iran and Trump chose to walk away from peace and chose war instead. Our Constitution is clear: Congress declares war. Every MOC must join in rejecting this war."
I mean, you’re not wrong! Shows my friends worked on for years were canceled and then used as tax write-offs.
a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”
Men studying a dragon
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@rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social was hoping to talk with you about doing a (paid) zoom talk, but don't have your contact info. Any chance you can email or PM me? It's related to the Worldbuilding in Fantasy course I teach at UConn, which usually closes with Trail of Lightning.
Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.
I have a list you can follow with a lot of key folks, "Red Sox and key Baseball analysis." Feel free to suggest additions.
Platner has effectively staked out moderate bipartisan positions on issues like
“How do we feel about Nazis?”
“How much misogyny and homophobia are we okay with?”
and
“Would you rather vote for an angry dude with questionable values or a woman (who probably has cooties)?”
I love this article, just a really good analysis that doesn't lose the human factor.
Trump spent all of 2 minutes talking about affordability during his SOTU address, according to NBC News — the same amount of time he spent talking about the performance of the U.S. men's olympic hockey team substack.com/profile/4791...
I wanted to welcome @joekuras.bsky.social to Bluesky - a terrific baseball writer as well as a writer of New England history and a fine banjo player. Joe was a key contributor when I was developing The Red Sox Fan Handbook back in the day, although we only recently met face to face for the 1st time.
John Henry comes in for a lot of criticism, some of it justified and some of it not, but I think he doesn't get nearly enough credit for saving the Boston Globe and then NOT RUINING IT, the way the billionaires who "saved" the Washington Post and LA Times did.
I'm still a huge newspaper addict, and read the Globe every morning (especially now that I've reluctantly given up on the Washington Post), but I think we're past the days when getting to the physical printing presses despite a blizzard is something you'd ask employees to risk dying for.
Trump’s 2020 Georgia lawsuit made the same allegation. I was preparing to drive up to Atlanta to testify about such disingenuous claims before getting word that Trump dropped his lawsuit
So I officiated a wedding on Saturday for the first time (I've been a JP for years, but the occasion never came up until now) and the uncle of the groom turned out to be Joe Kuras, who contributed to the Red Sox Fan Handbook when I was compiling them but who I'd never met face to face. Small world.