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@DrLoafCFB @PROducerIOTB @Micah_CBC @CollegeBaseCNT It allows them to save all their quality arms for the weekend because they can throw weak arms against the high school teams they face in the non-conference. It's so very soft.

@Smudgey7 @PROducerIOTB @Micah_CBC @CollegeBaseCNT I mean, it’s just as logical as basing it on SOS. Every year WVU’s SOS is slammed and it hasn’t affected their ability to win baseball games in the Big 12.

🚨Big 12 Baseball Power Rankings 🚨 I have no idea what to think of TCU. Thoughts👇

@CorieWhalen @conor64 Exceptional post, well done

For me, it was when the institutional decision-makers decided blanket compliance mattered more than data-driven nuance. It was clear early on—I remember looking at the numbers from Italy—that the elderly were at the highest risk by far. Yet, in the U.S., restrictions were overly focused on kids. I’ll never get over, for example, the masking of toddlers. Diapered near-babies in what, after two minutes, turn into snot rags, in many cases ALL DAY. Two-year old kids. When they’re just learning to form full sentences. And this was THE LAW in a wide swath of the country, in some places for years. Then there was the gaslighting that came with it, like the American Academy of Pediatrics downplaying constant masking around infants, teachers unions doing everything in their power to keep kids out of school and then masked (not to mention the ridiculous claims from some “education experts” that children don’t need to see faces to learn phonics or how to read, that kindergartners can learn via screens, etc). The degree to which children were treated as an afterthought due to the panic of adults will always stick with me. And the public heath tie-in was always “we’re following the CDC’s guidance,” which was in some ways a cop out on the part of local decision makers, but public health “experts” crafted and promoted the permission structure. The public health institutions also fumbled when many of their representatives made extraordinary claims about the covid vaccine stopping transmission, but then, instead of allowing that to be the end point for masking, continued with that as well. They should have been honest: the vaccines provide individual protection, and now mask mandates aren’t necessary (not that I personally believed the mandates really achieved anything, human nature being what it is, but public health leaders would’ve been better off dropping the idea once vaccines were available). Instead, the institutions continued down an overly restrictive and also dishonest path. By the summer of 2021, it really felt like public health bureaucrats were drunk on power they were unwilling to give up. I think much of the public sensed that and it contributed to the animosity and distrust many still feel. And I believe a lot of this has contributed to a growing distrust in vaccines overall, which is, objectively, a public health crisis (and one of said bureaucrats’ making, in my opinion).

A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.

@DrLoafCFB @PROducerIOTB @Micah_CBC @CollegeBaseCNT So based on prior years' work? That's as logical as saying the Bears will be better than the Seahawks this year because they won the SuperBowl in 1986.

@Smudgey7 @PROducerIOTB @Micah_CBC @CollegeBaseCNT WVU has heard this for the last three years, and they won the Big 12 in two of them. Back to back super regionals too. Based on that ^

@Variety I like this casting

The first look at Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape in HBO’s upcoming #HarryPotter series. Season 1 will release on Christmas 2026. variety.com/2026/tv/news/h…

@AGEllison Illegal immigrants are definitely above the law in Minnesota. Thanks to you, your governor and your far Left legislature

BREAKING: I'm suing the federal government for access to evidence in the shootings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Julio Sosa-Celis. It's astonishing this lawsuit is even necessary, but in Minnesota, nobody is above the law.

@Riley_Gaines_ Does she have access to any Olympic records?

"Female bodies are just as strong and fast and capable as male bodies." - State Senator Lindsay Williams in PA today If this were the case, why were women's sports created in the first place? They just say words and expect us to nod along.

@50stev @Micah_CBC @CollegeBaseCNT Mid-weeks are lower valued

@Micah_CBC @CollegeBaseCNT I mean.. BYU just beat Utah at their place last night… so having the Cougs 4 spots behind the Utes doesn’t make much sense.

@PROducerIOTB @Micah_CBC @CollegeBaseCNT Based on West Virginia's big wins against...no one?

@Micah_CBC @CollegeBaseCNT West Virginia is definitely better than Arizona State

@Micah_CBC @CollegeBaseCNT UofA is ranked too high.

@Blakes_Take2 @JohnEadsWAFB May he fail miserably and learn a valuable life lesson, Amen

Former ASU QB Sam Leavitt has started practicing with LSU. Leavitt is still working his way back from a Lisfranc injury he suffered last season with the Sun Devils. 🎥 @JohnEadsWAFB

@militech_en @nahaltoosi Hahahahaha!!!! No.

@nahaltoosi The best of a bad lot. Many people have yet to reach the stage of acceptance that Democrats are now the party of fiscal responsibility and patriotism.

NEW COLUMN: Did everyone forget that Marco Rubio is the White House national security adviser? That means that more than any American official except President Trump, he's responsible for how the Iran war is going. So why is his political star on the rise? politico.com/news/magazine/…

@JillRobiFangirl @Variety It's not an argument at all. There is nothing to agree or disagree with. It's literally a dodge.

@Smudgey7 @Variety Just because you don't happen to agree with it doesn't make it wrong.

Vince Vaughn is criticizing late night TV shows for having political agendas: "You don’t want to become part of a group and feel like you’re a champion for one ideology. You want to make fun of everybody." “The podcasts have gotten so much more popular with less production, less writers, less staff. And the reason is … people want authenticity. The talk shows, to a large part, became really agenda-based. They were going to [evangelize] people to what they thought. And so people just rejected it because it didn’t feel authentic. It felt like they had an agenda. It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a fucking class I didn’t want to take. I’m getting scolded.” (via "This Past Weekend podcast) variety.com/2026/tv/news/v…

@Variety Perfect, the essence of the Democratic Party: infantile everyone, portray everyone from illegal immigrants to murderers to perverts as helpless babies, and then watch the women and feminine males explode emotionally to protect the "helpless babies," regardless of laws or sense

Ms. Rachel is fighting to close an ICE facility in Texas that's detaining children. She wants to "make sure that kids and their parents are back in their communities where they belong." "I am political. It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love and care, and that every child is equal, and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border," she told NBC News. Ms. Rachel recently had a video call with nine-year-old Deiver Henao Jimenez, who is detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas. The boy told her he "wants to leave and go to the spelling bee." "It was unbelievably surreal to see this sweet little face and feel like I was on a call with somebody who’s in jail. It broke me, and it was something I never thought I’d encounter in life," she told the news outlet. "We’re trying to get a child out of a jail to do a spelling bee. I just never thought those words would go together." variety.com/2026/tv/news/m…

@shellenberger Joe Kent is either insane or a liar and therefore should be ignored, but idiots make themselves feel smart parroting conspiracy theories, so...

Joe Kent says he is skeptical that Tyler Robinson, who confessed to killing Charlie Kirk, was the lone shooter. That accusation could undermine the prosecutors’ case against Robinson. Kent says he knew of the risk before he decided to speak out.

@IanCarrollShow @AndrewKolvet I love the internet experts who parrot endlessly stupid talking points and think it makes them smart and insightful

A .30-06 could not possibly have caused an entry only neck wound. Their entire case rests on this being the murder weapon. Everyone at TPUSA completely ignores this fact to this day. And so no one trusts a single thing you guys have to say. This deeply unserious perspective on the case either indicates you are all incredibly low iq or do not actually want the truth to come out. The public isn’t stupid. We all see you.

Shortly after Robinson’s arrest, the prosecutors released a probable cause affidavit detailing the evidence gathered immediately after Charlie’s assassination. The evidence presented at that time was overwhelming. In the months that have followed, we know the investigation has continued. More details will come out in May, when the assassin has a probable cause hearing and we are certain there will be even more evidence demonstrating why the State believes Tyler Robinson is the assassin. But now we have a government official, Joe Kent, who has reportedly indicated he is willing to testify on behalf of the defense, to get Robinson off the hook for an evil he committed. Joe Kent just crossed a red line, and it's a massive betrayal of Charlie, his wife, his kids, and the entire TPUSA family. Just because HE didnt get let into the investigation doesnt mean it wasn't investigated.

@JillRobiFangirl @Variety Always the argument from someone who knows their position is wrong. "Shouldn't we be talking about something else?!"

@Variety I dunno, I feel like there's bigger concerns than worrying about who's making what jokes on late night TV. Here's a thought: just don't watch it if it induces pearl clutching.

@CairoTiger @sunnyright So you're saying you're insane.

@sunnyright Incorrect. We're angry that a law which is so clearly overreaching Constitutionally, and from a conflict of laws perspective is being pushed at the highest levels, a law clearly designed to disenfranchise. We're angry that ICE is illegally interfering in ANY election.

Democrats are currently very mad about two things: 1) Requiring proof of citizenship to vote 2) ICE scaring illegal aliens away from voting sites Kinda gives away the game.

@GerryInColorado @sunnyright @EWErickson No. You do not know what you're talking about. It's just that simple.

@sunnyright @EWErickson If it costs any money to get the necessary IDs/documentation, it's a poll tax and 💯 unconstitutional. It's just that simple.

@ASU_Baseball 18-6 is a pretty record

Got it done #ForksUp /// #Onward

@SenBlumenthal You're truly insane

ICE agents at airports will only aggravate delays & lines—disrupting checks, interrogating travelers, dragging parents from children, detaining citizens, brutalizing families, shooting & even killing. politico.com/news/2026/03/2…