Very thorough and rigorous breakdown of Democrat overperformance in Virginia and New Jersey

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A $19bn industry is about to pay its workforce for the first time The economics of American college sports have been upended

In 43 states, the highest-paid public employee is a college coach. Yet the athletes propping up the $19bn college-sports industry earned no salary--until this year. My piece on the upending of one of America's strangest economic systems
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The Economist also

yeah makes sense. thanks!

has his stuff ticked up the last two starts at all? results are there but also rockies...

DOGE’s cuts have put vital gov't data at risk. Amid the chaos of Trump’s second term, it’s easy to miss—but the federal surveys we use to understand everything from the economy to maternal mortality to healthcare costs are under threat. My piece this week: www.economist.com/united-state...

Stop voting to confirm Trump picks then! No more unanimous consent. Slow government to a crawl

Stanford didn’t have enough travel in the ACC so they scheduled a non conference game at Hawaii

CPI incorporates housing along with a lot of other elements. So this doesn’t make your point because housing is just one component of inflation. Which is why real wages can still increase even if housing prices have increased at a faster rate than wages.

Real wages, which account for inflation and incorporate housing and food, have gone up since 2019.

Infield fly rule

More like I know it’s gotta be infuriating for everyone else cause it pisses me off every time he loads up

I’m a Warriors fan but absolutely Draymond

Ex Pac 12 teams could win half the remaining P4 conferences

so many guys demanding Day be fired even if they win the natty

@janecoaston.bsky.social that PI had to just make your heart warm

If you have the spiritual and mental strength to use it, you could essentially use your will to force everyone into submission

What was it called before Hadrians Wall then?

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People just wanted a change. No Democrat was gonna give that to them with any set of policies

If you were remotely up to date on the research, you'd know that Medicaid Expansion through the ACA reduced healthcare amenable and all-cause mortality by a meaningful amount. This is concentrated among those with incomes beneath 138% of the federal poverty limit

Biden had a more progressive presidency than Obama who had a more progressive presidency than Clinton. Really not that hard

Surely all of these pitchers must be bad at hitting

Pretty much with unsymmetrical distributions of outcomes, Trump can win more often than Kamala even if her mean number of expected votes is higher.

And then did pretty much exactly the same thing in his write up and on twitter. Just a bunch of caveats about why Siena may be undershooting Trump!

Comparing to 2020 isn’t really apples to apples though. Way less incentive to vote by mail when there’s not a global pandemic going on

This is actually something neat about how Tolkien, to my mind, understands and presents power and contests of power.

Supernatural characters don't have don't have a static 'power level' like a D&D character and their strength often isn't show in straight fights.