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To kick off posting actual content here, an early-season West Texas storm that kicked off our 2024 LIFT deployments. Storm wasn't anything to write home about in terms of impact, but sometimes those are the best to just watch and appreciate. 4/15/24

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

I grew up in a lower income immigrant family and we ate at Red Lobster for "special days." But we also understood the White House should not look like the inside of Red Lobster. It's condescending to assuming working ppl are culturally illiterate bc their experience is shaped by their limited means.

Oh, the number of PhDs is correcting to the number of TT jobs available, but the number of TT jobs available is the result of deliberate policy, abetted by a class of university administrators who can barely even pretend to believe in the missions of their institutions.

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Caleb Williams has improved exponentially at the one thing everyone wanted him to get better at. Last week’s game was a showcase for it. Discussed the Bears with @benjaminsolak.bsky.social…. 📺: youtu.be/CQc40XKoTM0?...

getting older is realizing that candy corn, in fact, is good

Retired guy whose healthcare bill is entirely paid for by working adults talking about how he shouldn’t have to pay for other people’s kids to go to school while standing in front of a mansion he owns is really just an excellent encapsulation of the Republican base.

One more thing: If you are a member of the media and you get bogged down in whether the target of an antigay attack is LGBTQ+ or not, you are consenting to a framework you should not be consenting to. Hate speech does not become *worse* if you misdirect it. In 2026, this should not need saying.

many centrists are as disdainful of science as MAGA these days. virtually every study on the topic, and there have been many, show that youth programs reduce crime. it's a settled question. this is no different from claiming vaccines are a hoax.

Really unpopular things: -data centers -overt bigotry -CSAM -billionaires trying to buy elections -Hitler salutes -stealing people’s personal data -South African Apartheid -causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of children Fighting against Elon Musk is a political winner

listen i won’t shed a single tear for kim or any of the women who work for trump, but it remains interesting that only the women in his orbit suffer consequences for being pieces of shit

Instead of shying away from the values of democracy, pluralism, and rights—as many consultants and pundits urge—Ossoff asserts those values. Look at what he’s gotten so much praise for: calling a white nationalist a “white nationalist” and treating that as bad. As a reason to vote against someone.

Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

🌀Have you noticed the National Hurricane Center is testing a new track cone this season? The new experimental graphic draws the cone using ovals (instead of circles) that separate forward speed from left-or-right track errors and cover 90% of possible track outc... 🔗 www.surveymonkey.com/r/Prop...

We don’t even know what we don’t know. The Tim Heidecker Podcast will never hide the truth. Watch now on InfoWars.

Gemini told me this image was real, except that Grimace was added. But the entire AI image was created by Gemini. It's 100% fake.

Hot take alert! Submitting this kind of ChatGPT paper for peer review is wildly disrespectful to your colleagues and should result in being banned from submitting to journals.

leftists are some of the most reliable voters—for Democrats—in the nation, outside of urban black voters. liberals spend way too much time wringing hands about this sort of stuff

i can quickly and effortlessly solve puzzles intended for two-year-olds

Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

4/ But over the next 10 weeks, I’d mimic the patterns of a problem gambler with the help of a panel of gambling experts and learn just how much DraftKings would encourage my recklessness — and just how little pushback I’d get as I spiraled downward.

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

It's really something that the NYT prints the ",like," in an AOC quote verbatim, but will gleefully edit out two and a half minutes of senescent sun-downing word-salad from Trump in order to pull quote the only coherent sentence in the whole thing and present that as the thing he said

BREAKING: Entire presidential TV press pool has agreed to suspend its coverage in the wake of President Trump’s decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House.

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

These guys love getting involved in politics, actively putting their fingers on the scales, and then when asked any actual substantive questions about the real-world implications of the specific politics they support, shrugging and saying 'I'm just a dumb athlete.' defector.com/alex-ovechki...

what are the journalist ethics when your subject uses a phrase incorrectly and you put that incorrectly used phrase in the headline. like if you watch the video, hasan literally means the opposite of pound for pound. he means "in an absolute sense." that's odd www.axios.com/2026/09/17/h...

Universal free school breakfast and lunch is a great proposal. www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...

crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.

Trump has touted a recent Census report. WIRED found grave flaws in its analysis and the process behind it, and confirmed the identity of several of its authors—among them a one-time DOGE affiliate.

I mean, do tall children threaten fairness in sports? It would be bizarre to stop tall women from playing in women's sports, wouldn't it? This notion of "fairness" in sports is a cynical fantasy, a cudgel against trans people

did mike tomlin’s tenure as steelers coach go downhill bc he was too focused on his minecraft world

new episode of the history of charging the mound: THE BIG CAT ANDRÉS GALARRAGA, PART 1 OF 2

I guess it’s important to communicate that MAHA is fundamentally an movement by individuals to capture health care dollars by lying to people about having products and services that work

"What's behind the appeal of the far right?" is one of those questions pundits keep asking but wherever you look, the answer is simple: Racism and lying www.dw.com/en/germany-i...

If the media is going to insist that politicians denounce their supporters who make extremist statements, I have a suggestion for someone a bit more important than a Twitch streamer.

Pablo Torre can obviously fight his own battles, but I can't get over how many prominent people in media downplayed, refuted, and even mocked his Clippers reporting and are now just silent on the whole thing. Massive outlets ran cover for the Clippers and now just ... move on.

While the grass growing in the shade was less dense, it was of higher quality. As a result, lambs grown in the shade of the PV systems gained the same amount of weight statistically speaking as the traditional lambs. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 spacedaily.com/b-lambs-graz...

a lot of the time, some trump decree is clearly because a rich person in industry got in his ear. this one reads like a andreesen horowitz freakshow who has never worked a day of real labor asked grok one weird trick to make beef cheaper

It is not a "grim choice" to support either a psychotic Republican or a mainstream center-left politician.

pretending like the US regulatory state has always been bad and ineffective on a comparative basis is a permission structure for trump to continue to gut it. I shan't allow it