David Zavac

to be clear - i'm sort of an alarmist about it. so my main point here is that I do think it will be powerful, not really in good ways. or at least, not without lots of disruption.

I get this but also I used it to create a college savings app on my own and I'm basically the least technologically proficient person I know

We're pediatricians. We see how ICE is harming children. | Opinion Liam Ramos is one of more than 1,700 children to have been put in family detention centers since 2025. We call for these centers to close.

A group of pediatricians wrote an op-ed detailing the traumatic, lasting effects kids in detention centers will endure:

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Democrats went to enormous lengths to strip out all the anti-trans provisions from the budget bill. They do not see trans rights as expendable. They’re actively burning substantial political capital to preserve them.

I am ALL FOR criticizing Dems when they fail - which is often - but the flip side of that is you need to acknowledge when they succeed. Despite understandable fears, they have consistently stood in the way of Trump’s attacks on trans people, in substantive ways. They deserve credit for it.

I'm not saying all polling is right, but if your response to a poll is to attack the person who did the poll or writers tangentially related to who did the poll that's not only boring for me, it feels actively harmful to making progressive change.

It drives me insane that Elon Musk basically did a Holodomor on the third world and it's not treated like a bigger deal. This should be the number one thing that people know him for. This should be in the first paragraph of his Wikipedia entry. This is a history book scale atrocity.

don't envy Koby Altman and the task of sorting out a weirdly timid 23-yo DPOY, a once-in-a-generation offensive savant who can't stay on the floor, a moody, semi-anachronistic star big, and a 29-yo borderline-MVP-caliber sg with a game largely predicated on explosive athleticism

the timelines have never made as much sense as the Cavs wanted to think they did, mainly in the Mobley-Mitchell sense. Ultimately Mitchell has probably been good enough, and Garland hurt enough, to justifymaybekinda. But man.

jeez

If you would have told me 24 months ago we'd be beating up on ANY premier league team I'd have though you were insane.

Dream 12 months for Sunderland. My word.

Brian Brobbey deserves so much credit for his work rate.

Not trai humes best day but no major mistakes either I suppose

Lol last I checked

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Lol love that. It's very funny to me that Nordi is basically playing right wing and doing extremely well. He's been insane all year.

Sunderland top 10 finish would be pretty fun.

I don't need Sunderland to make a huge signing but I sure would take a Dennis Cirkin extension. Reinaldo is a bit older and he's good cover/could potentially take over.

cover of The Economist this week

that Houston first half was insane

It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition. Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.

"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

Measles coming. Concentration camps. Federal government can functionally kill you in the street and you aren't even allowed to know the name of the officers.

to the extent kids today like Harry Potter less than millennials, well, yeah they were coming out as books and movies for millennials, and the reading of physical books has fallen off a cliff in the last 25 years.

I read this and my takeaway is that all Harry Potter discourse is now played out.

to put in a dumb way, not disagreeing with any of that: to me it seems like teaching phonics makes sense.

where are you at on the Mississippi Miracle and all that?

Part of the chasm is that I think this is true but like 50ish % of Americans do not. And l guess that's just sort of how regimes consolidate.

pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor:

"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

Another reminder that the largest cuts in Medicaid’s history were made by this Congress in part to fund a tripling of ICE/DHS budget.