Adam Minter

No Cinderellas? No problem.

The success of familiar college basketball brands explains the NCAA's recent high ratings during March Madness, writes @AdamMinter. Sorry, Cinderellas (via @opinion) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

The World Baseball Classic has been a success, but for a "World" event, it sure is US-centric, writes @AdamMinter bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@alexaphilippou Can Italy hold on?

WNBA-WNBPA CBA meeting now going into the fifth hour. Ask us anything

Bam’s 83 points may end up being only the second biggest sports story of the night. 🇮🇹

If I - a nobody - could see that Trump's college sports roundtable was a farce even before it started, why didn't college sports' so-called leaders? You know, they didn't have to show up for this. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Without current college athletes in attendance, Trump's "Saving College Sports Roundtable" is a gathering that sidesteps the people most affected, says @AdamMinter bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Without current college athletes in attendance, Trump's "Saving College Sports Roundtable" is a gathering that sidesteps the people most affected, says @AdamMinter (via @opinion) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Rather than outright declining Trump’s invitation, the US women’s hockey team should lay out three conditions for the White House to meet, writes @AdamMinter (via @opinion) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@lilgoomba911 @the_jimmy_says @ksorbs Clarification - I didn't write "Want to Slow Climate Change? Stop Having Babies." I did write "Only Immigrants Can Reverse America's Baby Bust." Next time you consider posting slop you find online, please fact check it first. Thanks.

@the_jimmy_says @ksorbs See a pattern?

This seems targeted towards certain groups....

@blackChinahand Occasionally.

Any of the old China twitterverse members still on/using this platform?

@plattMSP Mall of America FieldHouse, at the former (proposed) World Expo site.

This is why the Wolves new owners will probably not be satisfied with a new arena on a tiny piece of downtown real estate.

If it seemed like there were more middle-aged athletes at the Olympics this year, that's because there were. Getting there required more than peak conditioning. In my weekend column, I explain: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… a favorite topic for @opinion

Elana Meyers Taylor's bobsled gold proved why Team USA needs to do more to support older Olympians, writes @AdamMinter (via @opinion) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

The scars that ICE has left on Minnesotans won't automatically heal once agents leave, says @AdamMinter (via @opinion) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@14655116677A @opinion @grok I'm lying and uninformed. Thanks for asking, and here's wishing you a wonderful weekend.

The scars that ICE has left on Minnesotans won't automatically heal once agents leave, says @AdamMinter bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

The lasting effects of Operation Metro Surge - the missed school days, the missed health care and, above all, the missing neighbors - won't simply be forgotten when ICE is finally gone. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… by me for @opinion

The people dunking on this photo have it exactly backwards. That’s the Outer Sunset, somewhere between the 30s and 40s Avenues. Those rows of identical stucco boxes were built by Henry Doelger, who from 1934 to 1941 was the single largest homebuilder in the United States. His crew finished two houses per day. Before Doelger showed up, this was literally sand dunes. Maps labeled the entire western half of San Francisco “Great Sand Waste.” Nobody lived there. Nobody wanted to. What changed: the Twin Peaks streetcar tunnel opened, the FHA started backing mortgages for middle-income buyers, and Doelger figured out assembly-line construction on 25-by-120-foot lots. He sold homes for $5,000. Adjusted for inflation, that’s roughly $125,000 to $175,000. A working-class family could buy one on $32.50 monthly payments. Those “cookie cutter” homes used redwood framing, which is why they’re still standing 85 years later while many luxury developments from the same era have been torn down twice. Doelger built roughly 25,000 of them across the Sunset and into Daly City, where they inspired Malvina Reynolds to write “Little Boxes.” The reason 90% of SF looks like this is because 90% of SF’s housing was built to solve an actual problem: where do tens of thousands of postwar families live? The Painted Ladies on Alamo Square and the Victorians in Pacific Heights survived the 1906 earthquake. They represent maybe 10% of the city’s housing stock. The Sunset represents the city that working people actually built and lived in. Here’s the math that makes this photo funny for a different reason. Those Doelger homes that sold for $5,000 in 1939? Median sale price in the Sunset District is now $1.63 million. That’s a 32,500% return. The Sunset is currently the most competitive neighborhood in San Francisco, with homes selling in under two weeks, often above asking. The “ugly” part of San Francisco turned out to be the best real estate investment in the city’s history. The fog-covered rows of stucco that tourists never photograph generated more household wealth than the Victorians everyone puts on postcards.

Moderna is a US firm. Its mRNA platform was developed at speed with billions in taxpayer support through Operation Warp Speed — the signature achievement of the 1st Trump administration. The same govt that funded this technology is now dismantling it. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

@mike15103748 @opinion wwjd. good day, sir.

@AdamMinter @opinion it is the way but at the same time fighting all your bullshit you guys spread has to be done good day sir