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Chase DeLauter hits his first career home run!

@Polymarket @FreightAlley So another casino in DC. Great.

We're excited to announce 'The Situation Room' by Polymarket is coming to Washington, D.C. The world's first bar dedicated to monitoring the situation. 🧵

@NFL @NFLPlus WCAC baby youtu.be/JL4j1USzDXA?si…

NO WAY. CALEB WILLIAMS HEAVES IT ON 4TH DOWN. LARvsCHI on NBC Stream on @NFLPlus + Peacock

@KadenSchickel Love to see it Schickel! #AnchorDown

@DataDInvesting Wow. Thank you for sharing your father’s and your family’s unique perspective. I much prefer hearing from the Venezuelan people directly over any news source to truly understand the context and impacts. All the best to your extended family over the next several weeks and months

The picture below is of me and my father representing Venezuela in the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. He was born and raised there. I was born and raised in the States, but feel a strong kinship with my heritage. Here is what we think about what's going on in Venezuela: A little background first. For years, he has spent hours each week following Venezuelan news and talking with his brothers and sisters who still live there. I have dozens of cousins still living there. He called me in tears when María Corina Machado won the Nobel Prize because of the hope he had that it would focus the international spotlight on his home country. He has spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours gathering donations and putting boxes of clothing, medicine, nonperishable food, and other essentials together and sending them with a trusted third-party courier to help the needy. Anything that goes through normal mail is stolen. We still have no clue how this guy gets the packages through, but they haven't had a single one lost or seized. And when I say essentials, I mean essentials. My aunt recently told us that she hasn't even seen a single tampon or pad for sale in over 5 years. A bottle of Tylenol or Advil, if you're lucky enough to find it in stock, is a full month wages. We were actually visiting my parents for the holidays, so when I woke up and saw the news I immediately asked him his thoughts. My Dad also hates Trump and is highly critical of almost everything he does. Here was his response. "I really don't like Trump, but I think what he's done today is great. It's absolutely fantastic that that corrupt evil dictator is gone and he deserves to rot in jail for the rest of his days." In fact, his biggest concern is that the US won't go far enough because there are several people still there who are just as bad or worse and if they seize power, this will have been for naught. Remember, there was an election and they Maduro out. This is an illegitimate government that is not supported by a mandate from its population. I texted him this afternoon and he said the messages he's received from family and friends have been a mixture of awe that this could be accomplished and restored hope for the future. They thought Maduro was untouchable. The following note, which we did not write, but he shared in our family group chat, describes our feelings almost perfectly: "It is striking how, now that the world 'cares' about Venezuela, so many feel so confident in offering their uninformed opinions. Including trusted media. As a Venezuelan, I just ask you to remember this: You cannot violate the sovereignty of a country where there is no rule of law. You cannot strip the rights of a people who have none. You cannot 'take advantage' of the resources that have not belonged to us for a very long time. And above all, you cannot inflict more pain on a people who have already endured so much. This is not an attack. This is the first real chance Venezuela has had to restore its freedom after nearly 30 years of repression, persecution, fear, corruption, famine, violence, forced exile, and endless human rights abuses... And for those we have lost, today we can finally hope their fight was not in vain 🤍."

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JMU is in the CFP! Let's channel our enthusiasm for the Dukes to fight hunger in our lovely hosts' backyard. Donate to Food for Lane County here --> pledge.to/dukes-fighting…

Hi everyone. Because of the generous support from our community, @ChildrensNatl has started the “Damian Wroblewski Jr Fund” which honors Junior’s legacy of paying it forward. All funds support Junior’s Neuro-Oncologist, Dr. Brian Rood, a leader in brain tumor research. Dr. Rood and his team continue to find treatments and therapies that are safer, less toxic and more precise for patients including groundbreaking clinical trials. During this holiday season, we are working to launch this fund into the future and give children battling a brain tumor hope and energy for the new year. Live like Junior did. All gas, no brakes. Help a kid. Spread the word. Give. Learn. Click the link 👇 to Give. Merry Christmas! Bit.ly/DamiansFund

One last thought on CFP selection. The ACC started the modern era of raiding other conferences & creating leagues that are too big and too spread out when it went after the Big East 20 years ago. Maybe it is fitting it is the first P4 to really suffer the consequences of that.

@emigal Isn’t that assuming every single inaccurate test is a false positive? Would there not be false negatives within that 1%?

1% (not 99%) Out of 10,000 people: 1 true positive (the one person with the disease. ~100 false positives (1% of 9,999 healthy people). So a positive result means roughly 1 in 101 chance of actually being sick. The base rate (1 in 10,000) dominates the calculation despite the test's accuracy.

Thinking about probabilities in cancer screening on this glorious Sunday afternoon. Here’s a fun one (@nntaleb inspired): A medical test is 99% accurate for a disease affecting 1 in 10,000 people. You test positive. What's the approximate probability you actually have the disease? Think about your answer before reading below…

Boom!!!

Earned. #GoDukes

In a ​new paper​, researchers argue that: “a primary cause of the rise in mental disorders [in youth] is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults.”

@thogge @vrexec Widening wealth gap. Historically leads to instability.

The most broken things in America: 1. The national debt. 2. The healthcare system. 3. The tax code. 4. K-12 education. 5. Obesity rates. What am i missing?

@girdley Agency

What has gradually disappeared over the last 20 years without people realizing it?

This is incorrect. People saying a word incorrectly does not create a new word.

Praying for these families that are going through a nightmare right now

@ChrisJBakke Ah, beautiful Breezewood, PA

Explaining to my kids that this quaint development used to be a bunch of ugly trees and owls but we sold it in 2025 with 250M additional acres to cover 4 days of federal deficit spending.

More & more convinced that American kids need to take a "Basics of Western Civilization" course, where they learn: - What life was like before the Enlightenment / Industrial Revolution kicked off the massive improvement in living standards we are all still experiencing - What's wrong with living under kings / dictators / theocrats & why limited, representative gov't is such a precious gift - About the 30 Years War and why toleration of religious and ethnic differences is so important - About the importance of property rights, free exchange, and relatively uncorrupt contract enforcement to our collective prosperity And so on. Like, instead of starting with all that the West gets wrong, we should start them with all that it gets right.

There IS only one Lee Corso. Thank you, Coach 💜💛 #GoDukes