David smigel
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We know NFL teams can vary wildly from pre-draft groupthink. Today, you will probably see one of these names at 27.
KC Concepcion
Caleb Lomu
Cashius Howell
Omar Cooper
Denzel Boston
Give me your darkhorse 49ers picks nobody has in rd1.
I'll start: Gabe Jacas
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This wastewater disaster is a perfect example of the adage that there are no solutions, only tradeoffs. Those who consider themselves to be environmentalists really need to think about how over-regulation can backfire, sometimes catastrophically.
And this same dynamic impacts the broader economy in largely unseen ways, particularly in areas like infrastructure, energy, and housing where we simply fall behind due to the paralysis currently built into our approval systems.
Regulation is not inherently a fix-all solution—it often makes problems much harder to solve.
Jerusalem@JerusalemDemsas
One of the largest spills of untreated wastewater in American history happened while an environmental review process held up sewer line repairs because they were studying risks to a flower and a bat.
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New Penn-Wharton study shows per-capita federal spending on each age group:
Seniors: $43,700
Children and young adults: $4,300.
Clearly, the answer is to eliminate the FICA cap, use all "tax-the-rich" revenues on more SocSec & Medicare costs, and push that ratio to 15:1. 🙄
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Democrats keep schizophrenically ping-ponging between two different forms of identity politics when what they actually need to do is take a deep breath and just act more normal about promoting people who are good at their jobs.
slowboring.com/p/the-quest-fo…
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Extremely underrated Hasan Piker moment was when he went on a five minute rant about how the streets should run red with the blood of landlords and like five days later everyone found out his mom owns and manages commercial real estate
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The same five people interviewing the same five people. Ad infinitum.
The Habsburg Family Tree has more branches than Podcastistan.
Tucker Carlson@TuckerCarlson
Dave Smith on the fall of empire. (0:00) Who's Telling the Truth and Who's Lying? (9:12) The Massive Decline in Support for Israel (13:10) Is It Possible for Trump to Stop This? (20:16) The Myths of WWII (36:26) What We Can Learn From the Iran War (48:33) The Oncoming Police State (56:31) The Real Reason Antisemitism Is on the Rise (1:05:19) The Israel Lobby (1:11:34) Why Every Politician Fears Israel (1:25:51) Is Democracy Dead? (1:29:46) Are There Upsides to This War? (1:38:14) The Democrat Takeover (1:45:55) How Boomers Destroyed the US (1:54:17) The Spiritual Awakening (2:03:07) Trump's Strange Relationship With Douglas Murray and Mark Levin (2:11:31) We Still Don't Know What Happened in Butler (2:22:17) How Did the Never Trumpers Take Over the Trump Coalition? (2:31:16) The FBI's Epstein Cover-Up
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@symmering I just can’t work up enough fucks to care about the UFL. The Hasan Piker of sports. It’s just kinda stupid.
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I understand it was a tough night with competition, but if that's your season debut, might be time to pull the plug 😬
Jed I. Goodman ©@jedigoodman
#UFL on Fox on Friday averaged 649K viewers and 0.11 in the 18-49 demo.
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I have dealt with the Top 3 largest food distributors in America; Sysco, US Foods, and Performance Foods.
I was most definitely not a “Mom & Pop.” I owned a mid-sized food manufacturing/distribution company that I sold in 2024.
And Mark isn’t wrong. This is what US Foods and Sysco have done for years. They buy up Mom & Pop to create a monopoly on goods. Capitalism at its core. That’s why a burger from 7 different chains tastes the same—all procured from the same distributor.
MAGA is just too fucking dumb to realize what’s happening.
Matt Strickland@MattForVA
This isn’t a small deal. Restaurant Depot is where most mom & pop restaurants go to buy inventory because Sysco is so expensive. Restaurant Depot was privately owned. Sysco is owned by… you guessed it, BlackRock & Vanguard. Now private equity can control pricing for food costs with zero competition. Just like they did with housing. This should be an anti-trust violation, but we have politicians that work for Big Corp, not us.
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This isn’t a small deal. Restaurant Depot is where most mom & pop restaurants go to buy inventory because Sysco is so expensive.
Restaurant Depot was privately owned. Sysco is owned by… you guessed it, BlackRock & Vanguard.
Now private equity can control pricing for food costs with zero competition. Just like they did with housing.
This should be an anti-trust violation, but we have politicians that work for Big Corp, not us.
Jonathan Maze@jonathanmaze
Notable deal in distribution this morning. Sysco is buying Restaurant Depot for $29 billion. Plans to expand RD more aggressively. It gives Sysco a huge entry into cash-and-carry and a large number of independent restaurant customers. restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/sysc…
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It’s insane how this gets a pass from the western left when it was one of the most consequential acts of religion conquest and colonialism ever.
۞سيف الإسلام البرعصي۞@sayf200069
This land is called the Arab world, not the Middle East
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Unions may benefit their members, but they impose significant costs on everyone else.
Deva Hazarika@devahaz
About half of current NY government workers are already able to retire at 55 with full benefits after 30 years. This was changed to 63 after 2012. Unions went to roll back that change so everyone can retire at 55 and ALSO lower their pension contribution amounts.
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@CNNTheStoryIs @hasanthehun @Elex_Michaelson The man went on a poverty safari with 1300 dollar glasses and an 800 dollar shirt lol
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“It was very sad. You had homes that looked like they were bombed out” — @hasanthehun described to @Elex_Michaelson his experience seeing Havana, Cuba.
“I was very sad by all the poverty that I saw. And then I was very angry," he said.
He explains why.
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@LTGetsPolitical @krystalball @KyleKulinski Talking with known conspiracy theorists who carried water for Trump so they could keep their leftist cards lol
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Had the opportunity to join progressive stalwarts @krystalball and @KyleKulinski on their podcast to talk the UFC White House event plus the Iran War, Trump's health, our misanthropic tech oligarchs and much, much more.
Link in next tweet...
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I am shocked to learn that rent controls in Spain are having exactly the same outcomes as every other attempt at rent controls everywhere else.
Cato Institute@CatoInstitute
Spain froze rents and capped increases at 2%, but rent control is already cutting supply by up to 50% and not improving conditions for renters. Spain should follow Argentina, which ended rent control in 2023 and has seen housing supply rise 180%, reports Cato’s @hiperfalcon. ow.ly/k7Mx50YztmZ
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Let's be clear:
Spain: enacts rent control -> no more homes
Argentina: ends rent control -> tons of new homes
Rent control is a better way to destroy cities than dropping bombs on them.
Cato Institute@CatoInstitute
Spain froze rents and capped increases at 2%, but rent control is already cutting supply by up to 50% and not improving conditions for renters. Spain should follow Argentina, which ended rent control in 2023 and has seen housing supply rise 180%, reports Cato’s @hiperfalcon. ow.ly/k7Mx50YztmZ
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If a right wing influencer said “America deserved 9/11” and didn’t endorse trump in 2020 or in 2024, there would be no discussion about republicans embracing them; it would be a non starter. But for some reason Democrats are expected, even scolded for not wanting to do so.
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She's right. Anyone who has talked to voters knows she's right.
Majority Democrats@MajorityDems
Elissa Slotkin to Bill Maher: “The average person just wants shit to work. I don’t give a shit if you’re a Republican, a Democrat, an Independent—just live in the zone of practicality. And the far right and the far left live in a different universe.”
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Leftists want violent protests, but they want *other* people to do it while they critique their performance from home.
Ghost_Mark@Ghost_Marky
People are dying and your country is run by rapist pedophiles, your idea of protest is dancing in frog suits with a government granted permit?
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