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Same batname different bat channel, not going anywhere here as long as I can keep losing Elmo money.

@moralesforboise @mnolangray Baseball stadiums do a ton of games and concerts and can anchor an area.

@mnolangray Times are changing for some. Ex/ Boise State and they host a sold out Banana Ball in a couple weeks.

As bad as it looks, football stadiums should be out in the exurbs, where they will unavoidably be surrounded by parking. Unlike basketball/hockey stadiums, baseball fields, or soccer pitches, they're rarely used; an anti-primary use, taking up space and rarely drawing visitors.

@DaltonRoss It's the Leftovers but completely inverted

Just going to watch this on a continuous loop for the rest of my natural life. #BB28

Enough! Make it stop! Yes, a stadium adjacent to the nation’s largest city and financial capital that can seat 82,500 people has a big parking lot! What’s your fucking POINT? What’s so “bleak”??? It’s a parking lot! Why do you care????

There was a huge political backlash against school closures when Rahm did them, but you can’t just never close a school in the face of falling enrollment and poor performance.

"Our results highlight an underappreciated reason why poor neighborhoods stay poor: initial residents whose earnings grow tend to move away." nber.org/papers/w35381

The thing about the MI race is that making it a Obama vs Sanders proxy battle is insanely bad for the Sanders side and they brought this on themselves by nominating a candidate who couldn't stop talking shit about Obama.

Democrats/progressives strongly believe that voters and the media hold Democrats to higher standards than Republicans, but then melt down at anybody who points out this means that Democrats can't behave like Republicans do and Randy Fine whataboutism isn't going to work

How is him saying to a mom-and-pop bodega owner “well if you can’t cut it maybe you shouldn’t be in business” any different than saying to a New York renter complaining about a rent increase “yeah well if you can’t afford your rent maybe you shouldn’t live in NYC”?

Record numbers of people not working. Mostly retirees. I hate to tell you this, but the only way we support this is more legal immigrants.

People weirdly seem to think banks used to just give out loans to anyone before credit scores It was *harder* for regular people to get loans, especially if you were in a marginalized group

Steyer cost the Dems a seat in Florida when he singlehandedly resurrected Gillums campaign.

MLB pitches under 45 MPH: 2008 - 0 2009 - 0 2010 - 0 2011 - 0 2012 - 0 2013 - 0 2014 - 0 2015 - 0 2016 - 0 2017 - 6 2018 - 1 2019 - 0 2020 - 6 2021 - 65 2022 - 183 2023 - 199 2024 - 175 2025 - 427 2026 - 334 already

@strenuouslyobje @mattyglesias Anecdotes from parents online who liked the film was that it was too smart for the audience.

@mattyglesias Minions & Monsters was elite. Tarantino wishes Once Upon A Time was as effective a “love letter to Hollywood” as Coffin’s masterpiece. I will die on this hill.

Star Wars, Supergirl, Moana, and Minions & Monsters have all badly underperformed franchise benchmarks and it’s the best box office year since Covid anyway — before The Odyssey begins what looks like it will be a huge run.

@DaniHenReyes He's a potential wincon for her

You remember when Jimmy was anti Rachel? Now there peas and carrots. I really think Jason and Angela have that potential.#BB28

The S&P is like 2% off its highs. So many market participants have never seen a bear market.

Just saw The Odyssey, I loved it but was really surprised it featured so many Minions. Not saying it’s bad or inaccurate. I’m aware of its oral history, so there’s no way to know Homer didn’t include Minions. But it was like 98% Minions. Didn’t even mention Odysseus.

They literally weren’t. You’re just a mindless sheep.

A reminder from November 2020 that politicians who win get seen as cool at least as much as being seen as cool helps you win.

The Achaeans have sacked the box office.

There is a misconception that protectionism will make the supply chain more robust by reshoring it. Often, historical evidence suggests the opposite: protecting domestic production leads to more fragility by restricting the supply chains ability to adapt. I also discussed this in my big tariff/trade essay: "In 2022, for example, the US faced an extreme shortage of baby formula. The immediate cause was a suspected bacterial contamination at a major producer, which forced a temporary plant closure. The true cause, however, was a protected supply chain; imported baby formula faced high tariffs and red tape, which allowed the US formula market to be controlled by just three suppliers. When panic buying set in, the domestic supply chain couldn’t adapt, and store shelves emptied. The shortages were only resolved by importing formula en masse from Europe aboard military cargo jets. To witness firsthand the effects of protectionism, we could look at the state of two industries that are perhaps the most protected under the guise of “national security” in the US: steel and shipbuilding. For decades, the government peppered these sectors with protective tariffs, subsidies, “buy American” requirements, etc. As a consequence, however, their inefficiency has become so severe that the United States now fears that it cannot produce the wares it needs in the event of a war. So, it is looking to outsource shipbuilding and steel-making to Korean and Japanese companies instead. In other words, efforts to ensure supply-chain independence have bred a desperate dependence on allies instead.