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@Annie_Kallen Couldn't help myself. Racism + McCarthyism + Tammany Hall politics undid STV (now called RCV) The link to the original paper is dead, but it looks legit on Wikipedia #United_States" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_a…

@pablofindsout The NFL's ace in the hole is the NFL Network. It can broadcast games without anyone else.

Former ESPN president John Skipper on the "dangerous scenario" the NFL is headed towards — where tech and streaming giants don't need an NFL package in order to exist.

@ryangrim we actually think the Chinese bureaucracy is better than USA's?

Trying to imagine how the Chinese military would deal with a company that did this to it.

@AlexHonnold @HBO Quality of the kinds of living we do x the quantity of life we get to do it. Pretty good equation there :)

This is an article that I wrote following the death of Dean Potter in 2015 that I think does a good job of highlighting how inspirational he was to me personally and showing how much I admired his approach to his arts. The recent @HBO show The Dark Wizard used some of my interview clips to really make our relationship seem hyper competitive and dysfunctional, but the reality was a little more prosaic - we didn’t know each other super well and rarely saw each other. I was always kind of afraid of him because he was so intense. But I’d always been super inspired by his climbing and his vision. We overlapped in Yosemite to some extent from 2006 until his death in 2015, so that’s nearly a decade in which I was normally spending about 3 months a year in Yosemite. We each did a handful of climbs over that time that were considered “competitive” (the Nose speed record being an obvious example). When you see it all in a 4 episode documentary it seems super fast and extreme - when you actually live it over a decade it all feels a lot slower and more normal… The Dark Wizard does an amazing job of remembering Dean as the visionary climber that he was and it’s certainly worth a watch. Just remember that it’s edited for maximum effect. time.com/3898371/alex-h…

@kylegriffin1 it's like when your cat brings you carcasses as a gift

Breaking NYT: The Trump Justice Department is dropping Biden-era charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani. The reversal came after Adani hired a new legal team led by one of Trump's personal lawyers. That lawyer went to DOJ and made a proposal: If prosecutors dropped the charges, Adani would be willing to invest $10 billion in the American economy and create 15,000 jobs. nytimes.com/2026/05/14/nyr…

@Holden_Culotta if (current version of) USA gov't has a chance, it can't be losing people like Massie like it lost @justinamash.

Thomas Massie: “There’s a reason I’m their number one target.” “It’s because I’m effective.” “I used a discharge petition to get the Epstein files bill passed.” “I stopped a bill two weeks ago that would’ve allowed data centers to bypass the environmental and judicial process for getting permits.” “I got my signature legislation, the PRIME Act, in the … Farm Bill.” “The PRIME Act would allow local farmers to sell to local consumers using the local health department instead of the USDA getting involved.” “They don’t spend nearly $10 million against somebody who’s a backbencher.” @RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY @Local12

@ggreenwald I saw they posted an anti-trans article to try and get their swagger back 🙄

It's almost impressive how quickly Larry Ellison's son and Bari Weiss turned CBS News into a completely unprofessional shitshow. Maybe they should use other metrics when hiring other than: who loves Israel most? The only thing they manage to do is transmit Israeli propaganda:

Asking questions... being curious... being humble ... is what separates us from animals?

@MCamerlengo @saquon you seein this?

Kyler Storm front flipping over Turbo in American Gladiators was the greatest football play of all time

AOC is right that there are important differences between her and @mtgreenee: 1) AOC emphatically condemns policies only when Trump and the GOP do them, gets muted and deferential when Dems do. By contrast, MTG criticizes policies with equal fervor regardless of which party does them. 2) MTG condemns GOP leaders when they betray their purported values, even risking her political career to do so. By contrast, AOC lies to protect Dems who betray their supposed values (Kamala "is working tirelessly for a ceasefire" in Gaza!), and has supreme devotion to partisan advancement and self-interest above all. 3) MTG introduced a bill to cut all US financing of Israel's military. AOC voted NO, arguing Americans should pay for Israel's "defensive weapons." Big substantive difference. 4) MTG scorns the AIPAC/ADL tactic of accusing Israel critics of being racist and "anti-Semitic." AOC embraces and fortifies that accusatory smear campaign to justify why only liberal critics like her are compassionate and legitimate and everyone else is just racist. 5) MTG only cares about results and outcomes, and will thus work with anyone (left or right) to stop a policy she considers evil and wrong. AOC only cares about posturing and her political branding -- not outcomes -- and will thus reject the opportunity to form majorities to stop stop some policy evil if it means admitting that not only Dems have good ideas and can be good people. AOC is the embodiment of privilege: having no real urgency about stopping things that don't personally affect her (like Israeli wars and US financing of them). That's why she has harsher words for GOP critics of Israel than she does for Dem supporters of Israel. This, and more, is why MTG was pushed out of her own party, while AOC has fully morphed into Nancy Pelosi Jr. and is one of the Democratic Party's most valuable partisan tools, and why she's beloved by Dems as such.

@EaglesXsandOs @FowleBall15 this is awesome! do you have a giant database somewhere? value from starts and awards? or from $ contracts?

Value starts with weighted average value per game (football ref). That number is adjusted for opportunity using a games-played factor so small samples don’t inflate results. Players who become consistent starters and earn honors get a boost, while players who fall meaningfully below what their draft slot typically produces are penalized, especially if they’ve had multiple years to prove it. Each player’s result is compared to the expected value for their draft position, and team scores aggregate those differences into a 0–100 scale centered at league average.

NFL Draft Return on Investment (2019-2024) Illustrating how much value each team got from their draft picks compared to what those picks are expected to produce

@johnarnold asking a surgeon about your knee is like asking a barber if you need a haircut

Many years ago I hurt my knee playing sports. I was referred to the orthopedist for one of the local pro teams. After keeping me waiting for 2.5 hours, he diagnosed a cartilage tear and recommended surgery. I was so mad at his manner and tardiness I left without scheduling. The next week I got a second opinion from a much younger doc who was likely more current on the recent medical literature. He looked at the same MRI. He said he could do surgery now but his advice was to wait 30 days and see if it healed on its own. It did. Medical reversal is when a practice that became widely used is later shown to be ineffective or even harmful. Examples like meniscus surgery show the need to keep gathering evidence. A not immaterial part of the practice of modern medicine doesn't improve health, and may be net harmful.

@russellcrowe SID 6.7 should've been Top 15. Cinderella Man should be Top 5. Zeus should be Top 20.

Nice article that I missed when it came out. One writer, Luke Buckmaster’s opinion, but, he does give some solid reasoning. As I get older, I am humbled that someone would even think to write an article like this. Russell Crowe’s 20 best roles – sorted! theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/…

@joekent16jan19 respect for J. Kent, but it's illogical to believe that USA is more pressured than Iran. Iran's economy IS exporting oil.

Continuing the blockade puts far more pressure on us than on Iran. Iran has proven it can endure economic pain—it has been doing so since 1979. The blockade will not force Iran to abandon uranium enrichment, ballistic missiles, or its proxy networks. Instead, the blockade is hurting the American people and creating serious domestic pressure on POTUS: Gas prices will continue to rise as we head into the midterms, harming the working class voters who overwhelmingly backed Trump and Republicans—putting GOP majorities in serious jeopardy. Staging three carrier battle groups plus a massive build up of airpower in CENTCOM to enforce the blockade is unsustainable—it hands an emboldened IRGC ample opportunities to strike U.S. forces and drag America back into war on Iran’s terms. The global fallout only increases the pressure on us, not Iran: Beyond the oil and gas crisis, the blockade is now triggering a global fertilizer shortage that will cause major food security crises and potential famines in vulnerable regions. The smarter path is clear: withdraw, declare victory, and use sanctions relief as our negotiating leverage with Iran. This resets the talks on our terms, avoids war, and prevents further escalation of the energy crisis at home and abroad.

@ggreenwald FP isn't up to a high standard, and Levin stinks.... but why be nasty? High road, sir.

The only thing that bombs worse on YouTube than the $150 million jewel called The Free Press is Mark Levin's daily show. He struggles to break 1,000 views even interviewing known Fox personalities. If you stare quietly at a camera with your cat, you'll get more than this:

@SalSports @NFLFrascella @RichCimini @JakeAsman @BrandonTierney as you made clear, Sal, there is ZERO logic to thinking the Jets snaked cooper from the bills.

@NFLFrascella @RichCimini @JakeAsman @BrandonTierney As I wrote, maybe they wouldn’t taken him at 31 because value was there. I don’t think so, though. I love Rich. He’s my guy and fellow ‘Cuse man 🍊 I’m saying the way it’s being framed as some “hahaha, they screwed the Bills” because they loved him is bizarre.

If the Bills wanted Cooper that badly, they could’ve drafted him TWICE before they made that deal. 26 and 28. Traded out both times. Maybe they would’ve taken him at 31 🤷🏻‍♂️ but to suggest some sort of screw job for a guy they loved can be easily, factually dismissed.

@TyDunne @JonScottTV AJ Klein targeted by Andy Reid in the playoffs was horrific to watch

Good question from @JonScottTV on taking a corner vs. a player with a clearer starting path. #Bills GM Brandon Beane notes that if you've got a liability on the field, the opposing quarterback sees a "bull's eye." Especially the elites. A gentle nod back to each of Buffalo's last two playoff losses. In '24, Mahomes went after Kaiir Elam when Benford went out. In '25, Nix/Payton knew when Darnell Savage and Dane Jackson were on the field, and attacked. Cost Buffalo each game.

@TheNBABase Jeff Van Gundy's solution is obviously the most elegant: it's a 2.5-pt shot. Game scores a little ugly maybe... but the tradeoff is much better basketball.

Steve Kerr says he would consider ELIMINATING the three-point line to make the game more creative “I would never do a four-point play. In fact, I would even consider getting rid of the three-point line. I just think that the game, as it was designed, is really to create the best shots possible. That’s why in the early days, you just throw it inside to the big guy. A three-point line came from the A.B.A., in 1979, and I think it was really effective. It makes for an exciting play, but the analytics revolution has created a weird situation where we all know exactly where the highest efficiency shots are: layups and corner threes because the corner three is twenty-two feet and not 23.9, like the up above the break. You have this whole no man’s land between those areas. So if you shoot a twenty-two-footer now from the top of the key, that’s considered a really bad shot. I just wonder—and I don’t know if this would work or not—if we got rid of the three-point line, if it would diversify the way everybody would play and create a lot of different creative solutions to basketball.” (Via @NewYorker , newyorker.com/news/the-new-y…)

@Teeeeenaaaaa @maximumpain333 @naval what if what you want is the joy and peace of God?

@RankedChoiceFTW @maximumpain333 @naval Til you realize getting what you want doesn’t bring lasting happiness nor the joy & peace of God. So the smart ones keep looking, tune their perception, open to receive/experience/connect with The Divine…

Carl Jung wrote: "The more intelligent and self-aware a person is, the more they suffer from the general unconsciousness of society." This is not a badge of honor. It is a recognition of the weight carried by those who cannot unsee what they have already seen. This is the psychology of the deep thinker and if you recognize yourself here, this one is for you: The architecture of alienation. It starts early. The child who asks why adults say one thing and do another. The one whose questions are always labeled as "overthinking." Nietzsche described these people as "free spirits" — essential for progress, but wandering in a wilderness everyone else refuses to enter. Research by Dr. Elaine Aron suggests approximately 20% of the population processes information more deeply and notices subtleties others completely miss. In a world that rewards speed, this depth can feel like a disability. The frequency of truth. Deep thinkers operate on a different wavelength, the frequency of truth rather than the frequency of comfort. Most people live without ever questioning the fundamental assumptions of their own existence. But the deep thinker has glimpsed behind the veil. Like Plato's prisoner who escapes the cave and returns to share what he saw only to be rejected and called a troublemaker—the deep thinker carries the burden of the witness. They see the masks, the exploitation, and the pain that everyone else has agreed to ignore. The emotional sponge. Deep thinkers do not just observe emotions, they absorb them. They feel the anxiety of a stranger as if it were their own. They perform enormous amounts of invisible emotional labor — checking in on people, listening, supporting, acting as the unofficial therapist of every room they enter. And yet the relationship is almost always asymmetric. They give at a depth most people cannot match. They live with the quiet loneliness of being the strong one, the one everyone leans on, but no one thinks to ask: "Are you okay?" The mask of normalcy. To survive, many deep thinkers learn to wear a mask, laughing at jokes they do not find funny, feigning interest in conversations that feel hollow, modulating their intensity to avoid being too much. This is not deception. It is survival. But the cost is enormous. Maintaining the split between the complex private self and the simple public self is exhausting. And the mask, while protective, makes true connection nearly impossible. You cannot be fully known while hiding. The wounded healer. Jung wrote about this archetype; the person who transforms their own brokenness into a source of healing for others. The wounds of rejection and misunderstanding become sources of deep compassion. The person who has felt most unseen becomes the most gifted at seeing others. But the challenge is learning to give without emptying yourself completely, to love others without losing yourself in the process. The alchemy of solitude. For deep thinkers, there is a crucial distinction between loneliness and solitude. Loneliness is the pain of disconnection from others. Solitude is the joy of connection with yourself. In solitude, the deep thinker finally breathes. The noise of the world falls away. The internal landscape becomes clear. Isolation transforms into introspection and that is where the real work happens. The revolutionary act of authenticity. In a world that profits from insecurity, choosing to be genuinely yourself is a radical act. When a deep thinker chooses authenticity over performance, it creates space for others to do the same. It gives people permission to be real in a culture that rewards shallow. If you recognize yourself in any of this, stop apologizing for your depth. You are not broken. You are not too much. You are not too sensitive. You are awake in a world that prefers to stay asleep. Your sensitivity is a superpower. Your intensity is a strength. ✨🙌🏾💫

@Merk256 this year's Chase Claypool? all upside, no downside, sure why not

Absolutely has the talent to be not just a rosterable WR but a good WR The problem is, and I’ll be blunt here, he’s immature F’ing moron and has been for quite awhile Now, has he decided to wake up and figure out that he’s pissing away a lotto ticket? It’s worth a convo