Matt Wright

Utterly lawless

What if all the other nations said they’d only play in Mexico and Canada? Literally fly to those countries instead of the US. Put FIFA on the spot, since they won’t pull the cup, cause an incident where the world doesn’t have to lose out on the tournament because we elected someone so awful

Families in school social circles should all go by the child’s name. A telonymic society

As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Also people who care a lot about money are always working some angle to get more free money, even it seems trivially small. Landlord Mentality.

Filtered jitter plot shows a huge gap between Durant (+3) and the next best old guy, Westbrook (-1)

Table of EPM for old guys. Steph & Jimmy are 1-2

The old guys above 35 are hilarious. 4 elite all-stars (minus LeBron), then a chasm to the Kuzma Zone

Vertical jitter plot by EPM for 2025-26 NBA season. Best players at the top in green to worst players at the bottom in red

Love the #data-viz on the EPM rankings dunksandthrees.com/epm/actual

Befitting the chaos of this game. Did Murray just get a hockey assist on a ball that slipped out of his hands?

Watching League Pass and...
- Jokic, 30
- SGA, 27
- Luka, 26
- Ant, 24
- Amen, 23
- Wemby, 21
- Flagg, 18

Seems like a lot for one conference. (To say nothing of all the old stars and elite young secondary guys)

They line up perfectly.

Very cool in real time to go from "wonder if he sees him" to 🤨

Why is it not AOC?

Casar has it in person, too, fwiw. I can’t read what the masses like though

I hadn’t thought of that yet! A ray of sunshine

got two for you that were just released on Spotify from longtime favs:

Jake Xerxes Fussell instrumental! open.spotify.com/album/0R9pZ2...

And how about some clarinet - Alabaster DePlume instrumental at last (his singing is not my thing)
open.spotify.com/album/5OzDKE...

😂

This is also a good way to put it

Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

Consultants are always selling something

MY’s use of “voters” here is a good example. Does it mean “all voters” or “a subset of voters worth paying attention to in elections but who shouldn’t define our entire strategy”?

bsky.app/profile/matt...

So much Bsky discourse is people with strong ideological conception arguing as if the people with weak ideological conception don’t exist

Not just left vs right: Most voters think about affordability and material wellbeing, not in ideological terms Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.

Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...

Came here to say this. I was at the game and the entire crowd felt sick to their stomach for a couple hours, and then…

no oddjob

[gravelly, desiring] still kisses with saliva

This 👆

By the second mention of bamboo I was like, These people have to be trolling us

My theory is that the utterly nonsensical speculation about a race that's still three years away is a way for political journalists to avoid dealing with politics as they actually are.

I also just started following the artists you’re sharing and letting their pages auto play. Working liken a charm

do you have this as a playlist on bandcamp? is that possible? I just reactivated my account there and came to to find this thread to save some stuff for working to

Had something similar and Alka Seltzer PM severe cold was only thing that let me sleep when the cough was at its worst