RIP Clay Davis Sheeeeeeeit deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

Literally me right now. This is prestige television.

The College Board is basically a multi-billion dollar cartel that has introduced itself as a middleman between families and their futures. @natebowling.com growbeyondgrades.org/blog/episode-46-bowling

Getting people to stop smoking was one of the great public health victories of the latter half of the twentieth century. But the fact that most of them just switched to vaping shows we deserve to be hit by a meteor.

If you like a British police procedural as much as I do, think "Line of Duty", "Broadchurch", and "Luther", I highly suggest you check out "Blue Lights." It's set in Belfast and is very well written and excellently acted.

I think part of the reason I am excited about rethinking evaluation and assessment is that I’ve lived a better model. @natebowling.com growbeyondgrades.org/blog/my-forty-page-transcript

You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.

Shout-out to the crew at the Mildred Street Taco Bell in Tacoma. Y'all held it down with that ¢99 Nacho Supreme back in high school.

I spent a chunk of Christmas Eve helping my niece set up her first Roth IRA. VT & chill, start em young.

Please explain to me how and why podcasts became a video medium?

All the money for the programs we need: education, health care, transit, is sitting there in the hands of wealthy people and corporations thanks to tax cut, after tax cut, after tax cut since 1980

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

There's a quiet crisis afoot in the philanthropic community. Foundations and funders are pulling back drastically from programs and not-for-profits that may bring scorn and scrutiny from the President and his DOJ.

I want to see Seattle return to an Oba-Duece two forward setup with Jordan playing the Dempsey role.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

My biggest takeaway from this conversation is that the administration's current war on philanthropy and not-for-profits is ultimately a war on the communities they serve. open.spotify.com/episode/38PC...

Turning to the journalistically compromised Washington Post for coverage of the newly compromised CBS News is a choice.

A random Redditer with the precise explanation of our historical moment

I really love how European and Canadian universities are scooping up US-based scholars and experts. Go be free, y'all!

Alexander isak is going to be the end of me

Having aging parents is really hard. No one tells you about it or how to navigate it but it's just really, really hard.

Today is a good day to sit down with your older loved ones to explain the concept of malware. It's an even better day to remove unwanted and harmful apps from their devices.

Any users out there that wants to browse in peace, and actually find what they're looking for, and don't have to worry about some AI chatbot trying to pop up on every page, summarizing articles... come to Death Row.

There's the veteran central mid. If Dotson is healthy that's good depth next to CR7. Let's see what else CW has planned. bsky.app/profile/soun...

The demand from people spending money needs to be there in the first place. We’ve redistributed massive amounts of wealth upwards, and we’re all poorer for it. @natebowling.com wrote about this the other day and you should all read it. buttondown.com/natebowling/...

Ladies & gents, for the next eleven days you're gonna get my rants in primetime. International arrivals at SEA continues to be dog water.

Donald Trump has instructed the entire FBI to prioritize finding ways to bring charges against anti-fascists and other activists. Any FBI agent who wants to advance his career now has an incentive to set up naïve kids for an entrapment case. Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.

There's a woman in the airport lounge in her wedding dress and I'm kinda here for it. Got your full money's worth, sis.

I'd argue digital piracy is a market response to "price" being higher than "value" People largely stopped pirating music when affordable streaming came online Film piracy plummeted when Netflix was introduced but began to rise again as streaming fragmented and then enshittified

Sounders off-season so far Out (of consequence at least): JP (478 minutes) Kent (540) Leyva (699) Bell (1324) Likely Rothrock (2174) In: 🦗 (In case you can't tell, that's a cricket)

Read this to see numbers bigger than you can imagine.

There's a roughly $80 trillion hole in the US economy, that began growing in 1975, as a result of serial tax cuts for the wealthy and stagnated wages for workers. It's possibly the greatest act of theft in human history. buttondown.com/natebowling/...

Christina is one of my "elders" in the international teaching game. She's been overseas fourteen years and recently left a school in Ghana and moved to KSA. Her newsletter comes out infrequently but feels like essential reading when it drops. mscdmcdade.substack.com/p/this-is-th...

My TL this time of day is various scholars I follow in this part of the world, soccer news as Europe wakes up, and Americans who have absolutely terrible sleeping habits.

This feels like the TikTok ban all over again but dumber and more consequential

Neither the China nor Saudi Arabia require anything approaching this for visitors

Happy Pluribus episode 7, Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man, and F1 day

Alrighty then.

Unfortunately this means the Nazis are winning. The Nazis hate Rufo because I guess he doesn’t hate Jews enough (or whatever—they are clearing the board). It’s one of the last things I saw on X before I deleted my account. I don’t keep track of the monsters now. All I can say is—they’re coming.

"We can act on our strongest convictions that dehumanization anywhere is unacceptable because we are all bearers of the image of God." Check out my latest article with @faithandleadership.bsky.social faithandleadership.com/i-was-slamme...

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In the 90s and early 2000s "Hollywood Liberals" and their studios were the bane of conservative culture warriors. Those culture warriors have now embraced tech companies: Amazon, Apple, and by proxy Oracle, that are swallowing up the studios, which now seem puny in comparison. That's something.

A wise woman went on a podcast before the election in 2024 and made some pretty dire predictions about where things were likely headed if Trump won. Her predictions largely stand up. nerdfarmpod.com/2024/10/28/t...

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Things are so unhinged in the US there's a non-zero probability that somebody in the Whitehouse is betting on the number of boat strikes that are going to happen on Polymarket.

I'm generally pro-legalization of gambling because I think consenting adults have the right to make bad choices but I'm starting to wonder about the wisdom of that stance

"Because working people have been shunted into defined contribution, self-funded retirement schemes, their futures are wedded to stock market returns in a way that people in similarly wealthy democracies find unimaginable."

The US affordability crisis is just the symptom. The underlying condition is a forty-year experiment in financialized capitalism that has normalized precarity and scarcity for the bottom 75 percent of households. buttondown.com/natebowling/...