Chris Weiss

The Rest of America Has Realized the Greatness of Dr Pepper The beverage, which was created and first served in Waco, overtook Pepsi as America’s second-most-popular soft drink.

On this day in 1885, Dr Pepper was served for the first time at Morrison’s Old Corner Drug Store in Waco. 🥤🫧

Why the soda is the greatest: https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/dr-pepper-second-most-popular-soda/

Funniest part of an NFL football game is when the defense gets a turnover and very briefly the football team turns into the theatre club and they do their little performance they rehearsed that week.

U of W president removed The University of Winnipeg has terminated its president. The board of regents, the governing body in charge of operations at U of W, removed Todd Mondor following a meeting Monday night. Mondor began....

"Multiple sources confirmed Mondor’s contract was cut short on the heels of a whistleblower complaint and related investigation into his office. The ombudsman recently determined their six-page submission... required further investigation."

www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

University of Winnipeg employee calls for investigation into leadership under whistleblower law A University of Winnipeg employee has filed a whistleblower report that calls for a probe into overall operations at the post-secondary institution amid mounting concerns about its leadership.

hard to find much - but maybe something related to this?
www.winnipegfreepress.com/featured/202...

the silence of the "open the schools" crowd at this moment is gallingly deafening.

The disruption affects kids who are absent, kids who are there, and the poor teachers who, as always, are trying to hold it together when no one else will.

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This is a great job for early-career polling folks. Plus, you’d get to work with the delightful @emgusk.bsky.social ! www.disneycareers.com/en/job/washi...

The Great Project 2025 Freakout (Opinion) There's nothing especially scary in the Heritage Foundation's education agenda—nor is it a reliable gauge of another Trump administration.

This same Rick Hess? The one who dismissed concerns about the very things happening now as a "freakout"?
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Former Congressman John Porter Elected To Brookings Board of Trustees | Brookings A Brookings News Release, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Former Congressman John E. Porter Elected To Brookings Board of Trustees

Oops.

www.brookings.edu/news/harvard...

He's listed as a Trustee in the 2008 Annual Report:
www.brookings.edu/wp-content/u...

if anyone can halt the relentless advance of Buc-ees, it's her

+1 to Golden Diner - combined Korean and diner. It's amazing.

Also near there - Mictlan, a great unpretentious authentic Mexican spot.

Prometheus Bound (Rubens) - Wikipedia

Or been to an art museum:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometh...

The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.

it's not a published critique, per se, but Gelman had a post on RDD a few years ago that lays out a number of important considerations. Some of this is what @jnthnjcbsn.bsky.social mentions - but this offers a framework to think about these designs:
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/03/11/r...

Not to nitpick but isn’t that an APPAM sweatshirt?

With special guests The Shy Tories

what did Rob Manfred think was going to happen when he encouraged MLB to embrace gambling as a revenue stream?

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report The MMWR series is the agency’s primary vehicle for ,,,

if only there was a resource like MMWR that wasn't shut down...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...

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Explore How Different New Yorkers Voted for Mayor See how voters turned out for Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa in every neighborhood in the city — and by income, housing and transit preference.

you've got to click around on this map, and the graphics here ... it's astounding. @haidee.bsky.social did such a great job with this:

NYC Board of Elections @BOENYC We officially hit TWO MILLION votes - first time since 1969! Polls are open until 9pm. If you are on line by 9pm, you will be allowed to vote

whew, per the Board of Elections, we've hit 2M votes in New York City

A valiant man who died a Hero.

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

My bad memory. Thanks!