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Gov. Waltz has called in National Guard to defend city against ICE.

We’ve jumped the shark, lost the plot, and shit the bed all while pissing off the world.

And finally, a reminder that the fan vote listed below will comprise 50% of the total. Players (25%) and media (25%) account for the rest.

I love this annual Ringer tradition, because it's superfun but also because it means I get to see my byline next to all these amazingly talented people (like Katie!).

I have an item here on the Mavs, Cooper Flagg and the ever-fickle Basketball Gods. (I might have stolen a Depeche Mode lyric.)

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

The stories being told off the record while having a fourth drink…it’s wild down here with Lane.

Another no long term planning allowed example from Louisiana.

Kawhi’s Return, LeBron Fitting In, and Risers and Fallers With Howard Beck. Plus, a Look at Chris Paul’s Career With Bill Simmons. Spotify video

Had a blast w/ @zachlowenba.bsky.social, talking Kawhi's return, LeBron's fit, Magic w/o Paolo, Heat rising/Herro's return, GSW issues, Wiz putting 9-73 in play, and more.

(Zach also had another guest who I hear is doing great things in the podcast space.)

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this isn't 1 problem caused by 1 platform/piece of technology. it's many overlapping problems caused by a bunch of systems that were optimized for scale and/or built & rolled out without any real care for how they'd be used and abused. one can only conclude this is the desired use for all this tech

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

People in news careers have been fired for less…retractions and clarifications after publishing…

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Tonight there is a draft for a women’s pro baseball league and on Saturday I will watch the women’s soccer team I support play for a championship after their most successful season yet, surrounded by other diehard fans at a bar. I am living in a world 8-year-old me could have never imagined.

Not a unique take, but: Sports gambling has broken our brains. It's the least interesting lens through which to analyze sports, putting so much focus on the "what will happen/is happening" over "why will it happen/is it happening." It makes our conversations worse and less curious.

Added to all profiles

Beau’s Top 10 Breaks the Internet
Beaus’s Rips into Top 10 in Sports

Format looks like “breaking/ripping” into a pack of cards.

Send the check.

🙃

Marjorie Taylor Greene
sees the rotting on the wall,
but can
she read it?

Wonderful read here NOLA:

Down comes the house The Pelicans fire Willie Green but before that, could not summon the courage to name him.

wrote about willie green, and how cheap, mean behaviour can come to haunt an organization

New: Sens. King, Shaheen, Hassan led negotiations on a deal that will have enough Democratic support to pass in the Senate, I'm told. This is the package: - CR thru Jan 30 - A vote on a ACA bill by a December, on a DEM bill - Minibus WHICH INCLUDES reversal of shutdown RIFs and back pay and protections against them happening in the future PLUS SNAP is funded through the fiscal year 26

Dems have spent the past two months saying they're fighting to address the crisis of spiking healthcare costs and now they're caving for a deal that does nothing to address healthcare costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No health care, no deal.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

MLS Wooden Spoon belongs to D.C. United (5-18-11, 26 points) for the second time in four seasons and fourth since 2010.

Last six seasons: 30th place, 21, 23, 28, 16, 24.

DCU scored 30 goals in 34 matches this year.

Messi scored 29 in 28.

I had never seen a second of Portnoy on camera prior to this huge Internet Invitational.

It was almost uncomfortable watching the “Appreciate all the money but could you please go away, weirdo” vibes from all the competitors whenever he showed up.😬

the mainstream taking betting and gambling companies as seriously as journalism is one of the greatest evils of modern society

Fans of the Pelicans vs reality:

In NYC for NBRA event I talked w/some NBA folks about Joe Dumars to NOLA.

Every single one mentioned how Joe was a voice for Zion re: being officiated correctly.

Joe wanted job. Pels liked ideas.

Two “big name” reporters heard this convo. Mike Breen was there.

#Pelicans

Report:

Seems Pels are not going to part ways w/ Willie Green just yet.

My by-line had Thanksgiving week circled.

Basically, don’t want to look forced into a decision.

At least, that’s the vibe when trying to press for answers.

Been like this my whole life.

Hateful ass people

Meet one asshole in a day…ok, you met an asshole.

Meet ten…well