Marty Conlon’s Pivot Foot

@SenWarren Community Note incoming

Spiking fuel prices from Trump’s war was the nail in the coffin for twice-bankrupted Spirit airline. FWIW, JetBlue merger failed because a judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan, said the deal was illegal. Republicans are desperate to shift blame from higher costs hitting families.

@BladeoftheS You lack even a basic understanding of how to calculate replacement cost. Go sit in the corner.

He's charging $300 for this 'device'. The value of the copper in every lampost is less than $50. The cost of these devices alone, never mind fitting them. would cost the same as repairing 250 years worth of copper theft.

@_Severus @DaniMayakovski Precisely which company has the monopoly on grocery stores. Be specific.

Ellos pueden hacer eso porque han creado un monopolio, si el gobierno estuviese haciendo su labor de evitar monopilios y conglomerados no podian hacer esto…es un fallo de gobierno…en USA los politicos han hecho una alianza con los lidered de industria para monopolizar todo…no es culpa del capitalismo

Un trabajador de Walmart en EEUU, graba lo que cada dia el supermercado tira como desechos, todo tipo de alimentos comestibles y productos aprovechables, valorados en 200.000 dólares. Bajo el capitalismo, los alimentos no se producen para alimentar a la gente, se producen para obtener ganancias y cuando la producción supera a la demanda, los capitalistas desechan productos para no bajar los precios y seguir creando escasez.

@ClasslessThug Women suck at basketball, no need to discriminate.

They hate seeing “lowlights” of their fave but post and share Angel missing a layup every chance they get.

@SaraJGamelli The chart literally proves that the WNBA franchise “values” are inflated relative to their paltry revenue. What point do you think this chart makes, exactly? LOL!

"No one watches the WNBA." May those folks come to the front of the line.

@Sportico @WNBA @NBA This chart just proves WNBA franchises are overvalued. What point do you think you are making here? LOL!

👀 The @WNBA now has the HIGHEST value-to-revenue multiplier of ANY major sports league. At 13.6, the W surpasses the @NBA for the first time in the history of the league. Business is booming 💣

@Sudharsan_ak I have no idea why any grown man would ever watch women’s basketball. It is objectively bad.

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@Jesswtrx Blame the people and companies that have abused the system endlessly at the cost of American workers.

As an Iranian PhD graduate, I fully support background checks. But the #USCISPause has left my work authorization pending for months, stopping me from working and contributing to research and innovation. This is not security, it’s lost potential. #LiftTheHold

@aakashgupta One small correction, Lacrosse is no longer a country club pipeline sport. It is fairly mainstream at public high schools now and there is a fairly large pool of kids competing for athletic scholarships.

Let me explain exactly why parents pay $25,000 a year for youth sports their kid will never play professionally, because the math is more interesting than the headlines suggest. The $25K is buying admissions arbitrage at elite colleges. Run it both ways. Scholarship math first. The US has 8 million high school athletes. Roughly 7% play in college, 2% at D1. Total NCAA athletic scholarship spend is $3.6 billion across about 175,000 D1 athletes, mostly partial aid in the low teens per year. A family putting in $25K annually from age 6 to 18 spends $300K chasing a maximum return of about $80K. The expected value is a lottery ticket. Admissions math second. The SFFA v. Harvard trial disclosed that recruited athletes get admitted at 86%. The non-athlete rate sits around 5%. Even academically weak applicants jump to a 98% admit probability if recruited. A non-athlete with a 1397 SAT has roughly 0.08% odds at Harvard. The same kid recruited for crew has 70%+. The athletic hook is the largest single advantage in elite admissions, bigger than legacy or dean's list. Ivies don't even offer athletic scholarships. The value is purely the admissions ticket. This is what $25K buys. Year-round travel ball is the qualifier round for an admissions process operating on different rules than the one your kid's classmates compete in. The "country club sports" pipeline (squash, lacrosse, crew, fencing, golf) is a feature. Barrier to entry is the product. 90% of Ivy League squash players come from $30K-a-year private high schools. The math works because the alternative pool is small. PE arrived after the demand existed. Unrivaled Sports, Perfect Game, regional travel-ball roll-ups. Upper-middle-class parents had already turned youth sports into a class transmission mechanism. PE consolidated the supply chain and raised prices because the buyers were already there at $25K. $300K to convert a 4% admit rate at an Ivy into an 86% one. Plus the alumni network and pre-professional sorting that follows. That's the actual equation. The trade is rational at the top of the income distribution. Brutal everywhere else.

@kevin_barral Just to be clear, this man is paid millions of dollars to throw a ball.

Miami Dolphins quarterback Malik Willis threw out the first pitch ahead of tonight’s game against the Phillies. #Marlins #FinsUp

@Justinjpearson Stop being racist, Justin. Then try getting a real job for once.

This is a direct attack on Black political power and our community in Memphis — a community built by people who fought, bled, and sacrificed for the rights we have today. We’re not backing down!

DEFEND DISTRICT 9 — TAKE ACTION NOW! District 9! Trump just said that he and Bill Lee want to eliminate our representation in Congress. District 9 is the ONLY Democratic and ONLY Black-majority congressional district in Tennessee.

You could explain Halloween but that wouldn’t stop them from stealing from our children

@thehoffather I mean, this is exactly what Seattle voted for.

Seattle is once again a national embarrassment This time, thanks to Socialist Mayor Katie Wilson telling everyone to boycott Starbucks the day she gets elected, then Starbucks announces they are leaving, and when asked about capital flight, she says "bye" and giggles

@AngelShedeway So she is one of the good ones?

Paige Bueckers is way better than Caitlin Clark. She’s a dawg and is more versatile! She’s a great teammate and advocates for Black Women and Black causes too. That’s why the racists don’t like her as much.

@radphlegm Literally every person on X supports her and is sh*tting on him. What the heck are you talking about?

Notice how men are just treating this as a joke instead of crying about how false accusations ruin lives

@WhiteBballPains I miss when basketball had rules.

Real ones know this is clean 🫣

@ProvidenceMom17 @AlexandraLeslie @wpri12 So no then

@AlexandraLeslie @wpri12 Maybe, if it was easy in and out and extremely safe.

Would you buy your groceries at Providence Place? One of the mall's new owners wants to bring a supermarket into the shopping complex and said he has his eye on Costco. MORE: wpri.com/business-news/… @wpri12

@carolyn_phippen @ckuck @USCIS @UUtah Answer the question, Kuck

@ckuck @USCIS @UUtah I literally asked what I’m missing. Go ahead and educate me about why one state university would need to import 1,000 foreign workers in the space of a few years. And then explain why this is necessary to replicate thousands of times across our country.

It looks like, based on the @USCIS website, @UUtah has had 948 H1Bs approved since 2020? What am I missing here? Americans funding their own takeover.

@JobsNowPR @karch_andreas @bumbadum14 Silence from the good professor.

@karch_andreas @bumbadum14 Hi Professor, why are these PERM visa positions available at state universities? Are universities just making things up? Are you seriously arguing that in a nation of 340 million people there’s not a single person who can manage Workday or maintain facilities?

The H1-B system is being used for social media managers at these universities and you people are talking as if we’re deporting Einstein. Fuck off.

@Klinickal @jg_clutch_city @___koby___ Just proves how bad women’s basketball is.

@jg_clutch_city @___koby___ Yet she is an all American and a champion. Not to mention an all star.

Angel Reese is the only professional basketball player I’ve ever seen that has zero fundamentals. Not sure how you can be a PROFESSIONAL shooting layups from your hips