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As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.

Wesley LePatner, a 44-year-old Blackstone executive who oversaw its $53 billion real-estate investment fund, was killed in Manhattan's mass shooting "We cannot properly express the grief we feel upon the sudden and tragic loss of Wesley," the LePatner family told Fortune, adding she was a "driven and extraordinarily talented professional and colle...

if you use AI to write my obit, I'm going to haunt your ass. you will never get a good night's sleep again. fortune.com/2025/07/29/w...

there are no good republicans. they are all voting to dismantle our republic.

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

a Trump guy could shoot someone on the floor of the senate and get confirmed at this point

in any reasonable world Bove should have been voted down by a supermajority and should be impeached immediately for lying under oath

NYTimes headline reading "NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say"

Onion headline: 'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens'

THEY LITERALLY DID THE ONION HEADLINE

Bove is going to be the new Clarence Thomas, but worse (until he gets elevated): A petulant, vindictive asshole who is going to use the bench to make up for his moral emptiness and deep sense of inadequacy

Fuck trump. Fuck maga. Fuck ice.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

I am kinda fascinated by the emerging joint deployment of “Mamdani would take away the NYPD’s ability to effectively deal with shootings like the one that happened on Monday” and “It’s impossible to prevent shootings like the one that happened on Monday”, sometimes on the same page of the newspaper.

I taught him everything he knows. Including how to lie about teaching students everything they know.

jesus christ lady did you watch the video

Probably one of the worst attempted memes in history.

Anyone who has partaken in MAHA in any way, even if they just said “well he’s right about our processed foods,” is an unserious stupid loser and you can’t convince me otherwise

@SecKennedy MAHA is winning. Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake • 2d Starting August 1, Steak n Shake will offer Coca-Cola with real cane sugar in glass bottles. America deserves the best! 6:10 PM • 7/19/25 • 134K Views

16 million people are losing their healthcare and hospitals are already closing because of it but it’s a win because one of the bottom tier fast food restaurants is going to start selling the same Mexican Cokes that you can already get at literally every store

Steve Gelbs has a bone to pick with Jeffrey Alan Caglianone for going by "Jac."

"Jac Caglianone is Jeffrey Alan Caglianone Caglianone, and it's the same issue that I had with J.D. Davis, who was Jonathan Davis. So it was Jonathan Davis Davis."

This new era of tennis is awesome.

Parallel processing in purrr 1.1.0 The functional programming toolkit for R gains new capabilities for parallel processing and distributed computing using mirai.

#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing!

Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems.

Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance.

Read more at:
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

Well done.

do you treat the angles at adjacent time points as independent?

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

I need to see blue state governors and mayors ordering their cops to arrest masked ICE secret police when they try to grab people.

I know, those cops are deeply problematic, too, but there’s no good or risk-free way out of this. What matters to me is the political leaders showing backbone.

📢 A US Army combat veteran has a few words to express his thoughts on the oath he took. 🔥

The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”