@jonathanchait So what you’re telling recruits is, “if you want respect from the refs, go to Duke; if you want whiney fans, go to Michigan.”
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@JeffMSMlTH
National security and appellate lawyer.
Washington, DC Katılım Ekim 2018
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Must be weird to be a Duke fan, and every game the announcers are always saying "Looks like the refs gave Duke another favorable call." Is their conclusion the announcers are biased and the refs are fair?
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In which I respond point by point to a famous travel blogger who hated my thread dumping on the importance of airline food.
Dilan Esper@dilanesper
@garyleff Gary: Because you and other travel bloggers exist, and you guys love talking about airline food airline executives tell you what you want to hear. Meanwhile they absolutely do not compete on food, because 95+% of travelers don't have your preferences and don't care.
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@OrinKerr @mike_frags I think your thinking of Hamdi, who was born in Louisiana. He’s different than Hamadan, who was bin Laden’s driver.
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@mike_frags I don't know anything about Coughenor's views, but I'd think the votes of Reagan appointees in terrorism cases have been sort of mixed. For example, Justice Scalia voted to reject the Bush Administration's detention of Osama bin Laden's personal driver.
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This "Ronald Reagan appointee" wrote an NYT op-ed opposed to Mukasey on trying terrorists. The experience that showed him Mukasey was wrong was a trial where his sentence was so shockingly lenient that THE NINTH CIRCUIT reversed him. So spare me the "Reagan appointee" garbage.
60 Minutes@60Minutes
“For the last 250 years in this country, it’s been the judges that say this is either constitutional or it isn’t…. [If] nobody’s going to enforce the Constitution, it becomes like the Constitution of Russia,” says Judge John Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee. cbsn.ws/46Bm9wO
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@dilanesper I remember that episode, but I didn’t realize it was based on a true story.
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Satarized brilliantly in the Simpsons.
Consumer Time Capsule@consumertc
The 1984 WHEN THE US WINS, YOU WIN promotion was an unexpectedly costly one for McDonald’s when the Soviet Union and 13 eastern bloc countries boycotted the Summer Olympics in LA and the US dominated in unprecedented fashion. 174 medals, 83 golds… that’s a lot of Big Macs!
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@mattyglesias There used to be state senates where each county was represented equally, but the Supreme Court held that unconstitutional in the sixties.
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@asymmetricinfo @misguidedsoul7 The pattern bargaining was made possible because there was only one union and multiple companies. Had there been only one company, it would have been in a much stronger bargaining position.
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@misguidedsoul7 The best-paid era for the autoworkers was when the Big Three had a cosy oligopoly they could pattern bargain. Their position was disastrously undercut by foreign competition.
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Lee is clearly right. I'm not sure I've ever heard the "monopolies are better for labor and unions" argument made quite this way I'm just surprised that it's not Josh Barro union hater that's making it.
Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo
@LeeHepner @skillaton1 @mattyglesias Yet also not related to the labor relations concern, since monopolies/oligopolies tend to be easier for unions to extract value from than competitive businesses where the unions have to worry about being undercut and losing their jobs. (Full disclosure: Jeff Bezos owns my paper)
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Warner Brothers has been “swallowed up” four times already.
Has it ever worked out for the acquirer?
𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩.™
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
From @WSJFreeEx: Whether Warner gets swallowed up by Netflix or Paramount, it’s about to disappear. But Warner Bros. is something special, even unique: the single greatest studio in Hollywood history, writes @rkylesmith. on.wsj.com/49tyJir
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NEW: Judge extends ban on Trump's shutdown-related mass firings/RIFs at federal agencies. Also DOJ lawyer argues Americans voted for broad culling of federal workers bc of Trump's signature line on The Apprentice: 'You're fired.' w/@carmenpaun @hassankanu politico.com/news/2025/10/2…
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Morning everyone! What are you reading and then eating? (Only answer if you are reading and then eating the same thing.)
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@asymmetricinfo Disparate impact is a theory for statutory discrimination claims such as under Title VII. The court long ago held that the equal protection clause does not prevent laws that have a disparate impact so long as they are facially neutral and not motivated by animus.
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I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me that the Skrmetti decision hints that the court is ready to get rid of--or at least significantly narrow--disparate impact analysis in civil rights cases.
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I'm YET to find a film that was better than the book. Tell me otherwise!
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After the Chief Justice congratulated Ed Kneedler today on his final Supreme Court argument, the courtroom (including the Justices) broke into a standing ovation. I've never heard applause during court. It was one of the most special moments I have ever witnessed in that room.
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@Elizabe38294242 @wesyang @DIAGdemocrats So is naming your son Charles and your daughter Charlotte regressive? Should all names and clothing be gender neutral?
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@JeffMSMlTH @wesyang @DIAGdemocrats How can it be anything other than regressive? The concept of gender (as opposed to biological sex) relies entirely on stereotypes of what makes a woman a woman or a man a man.
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@TVGrimReaper No, Iger definitely overpaid, and Murdoch made a smart decision. But there was some value.
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Genius acquisition by Bob Iger.
Exhibitor Relations Co.@ERCboxoffice
Before Disney purchased 20th Century Fox, the studio would routinely release 12-15 film per year... ...this year 20th Century released all of THREE films--THE OMEN, KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES and ALIEN: ROMULUS. File under: massive downgrade for theatrical.
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@davidshor @DanAncona @DonEMooreJr @lxeagle17 I understand but I read (perhaps inaccurately) your earlier post to imply that Reagan was generally bad but lucky. But if the economy totally turned around in his first term while staying good enough in his second term, that would seem to indicate he did a good job.
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@JeffMSMlTH @DanAncona @DonEMooreJr @lxeagle17 1988 is right on the line on the bread and peace graph.
The predictability of the 1988 election was quite talked about by political scientists at the time. gking.harvard.edu/files/bj215.pdf
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Yeah, there were decent arguments to believe Fetterman wasn’t a great candidate *before* the election (approvals being breakeven in polling), but there’s got to be zero doubt now that his performance was just stellar. Pre-election polling means nothing after the election itself.
Conner Hafen@Conblob
Fetterman is an example where just saying he’s a bad candidate over and over doesn’t do much in terms of waving away a 5 point win. At the end of the day the only honest measure of candidate quality is performance with the voters.
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@davidshor @DanAncona @DonEMooreJr @lxeagle17 You still need an explanation for why Reagan’s VP was able to win in 88.
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@torygavito @DanAncona @DonEMooreJr @lxeagle17 The right way to view Ronald Reagan is that 1980 was the worst economy any incumbent president has had and 1984 was the best.
His ideas got less popular under his term and he was toxic for most of his career. His main lesson to teach is that oil shocks hurt incumbents!
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@dilanesper Then maybe Djokar shouldn’t have run over Tamerlin with a car.
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I'm going to take a truly unpopular position and say that excluding Tsarnaev from the commutation is really craven.
Tsarnaev ONLY got the death penalty because his brother, who actually was the mastermind of the plot, died. Had Tamerlan lived, Djokar would have gotten life.
Chris “Law Dork” Geidner@chrisgeidner
BREAKING: PRESIDENT BIDEN COMMUTES MOST FEDERAL DEATH SENTENCES. With the actions, 37 of the 40 men on death row will now be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Excluded are Bowers, Roof, and Tsarnaev. More at Law Dork: lawdork.com/p/biden-clemen…
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