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  1. Stabbing and (per some reports, car ramming and failed bomb) attack on a synagogue in Manchester during Yom Kippur services. Three dead including the suspect. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/02/world/manchester-synagogue-stabbing-uk
  2. Hater’s Guide to William Sonoma Holiday Catalog is awesome.
  3. I lost my shit when Hegseth was trying to do shitty wordplay about being the M in DIME but he fucked it up because he is so used to just talking about DEIA.
  4. I speak Inka: COIN: Counter-insurgencey. ANA: Afghanistan National Army ANP: Afghanistan National Police
  5. I’m really enjoying this recent thing where SCOTUS makes a semi-decision that it can still take back and gives no explanation, and then passive-aggressively hints to all the other judges that they shouldn’t HAVE to explain themselves if they’d all just pay attention sometimes. They’re working really hard here! Thinking here that my wife is well-positioned to snag the next vacancy.
  6. Several of those spots in the pros he wasn’t retained (typical) when the HC got canned. It is a brutal career when you’re trying to break in.
  7. Understanding the universe by having LLMs train each other to be racist.
  8. Creative rephrasing of “money doesn’t smell.” He’a changing his bank account for the better.
  9. Well but DJT is leaving the parks open. They’ll illegally spend funds if it means making this unnoticable to their voters and they’ll kill essential services to hurt Dems. I think the argument over health subsidies is weedy and less important long term than the pocket recission shit. “The Constitution gives us the power of the purse. It’s closed until the Admin understands that” is clear and understandable. There is no point appropriating funds as long as Russ Vought has a veto over where they are spent.
  10. We absolutely need to kick government agencies off of social media.
  11. Shaud was a stud. Came out of Andrews in West Texas a bit small and under ranked. He had a great freshman year at Tech and then got injured and transferred to Bama after his second year (back when you had to sit a year). I think he also hadn’t signed up to play for Leach and wanted to be at the center of a rushing attack. Under Spyke Tech had some really, really solid RBs. Bam Morris, Byron Hanspard, their own Ricky Williams. After his freshman year folks thought Shaud would be the next one and he was- for Bama.
  12. Tech’s billionaire is the outlier and he played ball there. Phil Knight made his name in athletics and is getting all kinds of return by making Oregon into a powerhouse. Most really wealthy people are going to find better uses of money than putting a nickel-back into a G-Wagen. You want your name on a building, you want to be toasted for funding scholarships. Here’s why the SEC bag-game worked: it was tons of decently wealthy but not tremendously rich folks who enjoyed the hunt and feeling a bit like a big shot. They could afford to part with meaningful but relatively modest sums of cash that, when pooled with other wannabe sports tycoons, were tremendously impactful to the mostly lower-income black athletes and their families. You could stretch a few tens of thousands of dollars into helping to lure a future All-American to the school. You felt like you saw a real return and enjoyed seeing it play out. And by and large these are the folks who are getting hit up for NIL. Actual titans of capital are just not interested in this stuff.
  13. Without disagreeing, the question is “what does non-capitulation mean.” What is the target and who defines it. There is a great book called “Every War Must End,” it’s a thin tome about war but is equally relevant to politics, business, even relationships. It examines how nations will fight wars long past the point where they could ever hope to achieve when they started. How they’d shift their concept of victory to be more and more expansive even as prospects of winning got dimmer. And how both sides eventually collapse worse off all around. So, yesterday “not capitulate” meant that the Rs added back in healthcare subsides and breaks to the CR. Today, do you also have to add in “and restore the infrastructure funds Vought canceled.” In two days, will you add “also hire back all the Feds you fired?” I don’t have any faith that there is anyone on team D who is thinking about this in a real way and the other side continues to add costs. If two spouses are quarreling and one is willing to accept “murder the whole family then kill myself” as a potential settlement— that’s a negotiating advantage.
  14. Honestly if anyone is looking for parallels the best I can point is maybe Mobutu or Idi Amin or Mugabe. Just pure strongman extortion justified by shifting national populist vibes and stripping the country of anything valuable for yourself and friends. We have a lot more to strip and residual functionality but that’s where this is going.
  15. Hey libs, these companies aren’t being socialized. No one’s distributing ownership to the workers or running them for the benefits of the state! They’re simply being forced to surrender interest and some control for the personal benefit of the leader. OWNED, LIB!
  16. Pretty unimaginable stuff to hear from a Speaker of the House in any context. I can’t recall a single instance of one saying how awesome it would be if the President could do stuff without Congress at all. We are basically gone as a constitutional republic, as 2/3 branches just…willingly handed over everything to the third. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/johnson-shutdown-ultimately-could-benefit-162049837.html
  17. TIL that Delaware moved to FBS. They were a very good not great FCS/I-AA program with some NCs and decently recent playoff success. A lot of local support and enthusiasm, a good tradition of winning. I really wonder about the economics of this and in the long run being worth it. I know if I were an alum I’d rather see my team do really well and be a FCS playoff contender against my old rivals than watch them just flounder about in the lower reaches of G5. Delaware will likely never sniff a CFP playoff.
  18. The idiots on ChatGPT are not asking this, they are asking “why do the Democrats want to give illegal immigrants free stuff.”
  19. In seriousness there is likely an availability of appropriated funds clause in the lease that you should check out.
  20. We have to take a strict originalist reading. If the authors of that amendment had intended to give an exception to allow a 3rd term to Obama they would have written thus. Likewise if they ever intended the prohibition on a third term to apply to Trump, they should have explained that part.
  21. We need to know what kind of depravity he got up to in El Paso.
  22. I’m bumping up against a theory of the mind problem because I can’t model the brain of a person that was for. I can sort of map out a person who would be on board with all the dumb stuff he is announcing. Not agree with them but imagine how they internally get there. I can’t get into the perspective of someone who wants to see that level of MasterCringe Theatre from a senior cabinet official. Just painful and embarrassing to watch. A meeting that could have been a Signal chat.
  23. Depends on your type. I guess if you like brunettes with smooth cafe au lait skin, tight and toned bodies, lilting Spanish accents, and smoldering eyes she’s OK. But who’s into that type of thing?
  24. Trump was super low energy even when he meandered from the prepared lines to the stuff he likes. Part of that was the stoic crowd but it was clear he didn’t want to be there. He only came because he couldn’t let TripleSecDef give a big important speech to military people without him. Also: pretty clear that Hegseth is right now harboring an insane ambition to run in 2028. Vance and Rubio will eat him alive soon. It’s funny that none of them can hint about it until DJT formally says he’ll leave office. If in fact he does, he will drag it out a stupid long time and Dems need to exploit that window.
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