SCRËM for winter

Just saying right now that I am very influential. For example, I have appeared on two separate occasions on an Overheard in DC weekly roundup!

SISQOS LMAO

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Throwback and Forth

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

Linda’s, the ultimate mainstay of UNC grad students (at least I think it’s still closed)

Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.

where are my manners

Colin Meloy is currently reporting live from inside of a whale.

lmao incredible, god bless you, browns

BROWNIES!

How bad are things for the Mets? They got guys hacky-sacking'ing catches against them

But the public’s conceptualization of corruption is one of dark rooms and behind-closed-doors shenanigans so it seems like “it can’t be bad cause it’s so open!” Brilliant really.

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

Congratulations to the Tarleton State Texans, who will finish week 4 as the only 5-0 team in the United States of America.

Preschool. Also I probably saw The Transformers: The Movie for the first time sometime around here, and got to watch my favorite toys get murdered and/or maimed to the sounds of 1980s rock.

Column B is a few things, but they include inept coaching, not building around the decent run of QBs they had from Yates to Maye, and being in the shadow of the women's soccer team, the field hockey team, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, and the men's soccer team.

Before the start of the season: Clemson/UNC will be College Gameday on October 4. Now: Nah, that's Miami/Florida State unless something silly happens (and if not, Diego Pavia vs. Alabama 2.0), and Clemson/UNC will either be on ACC Network or The CW.

Ohio baseball teams right now.

best thing you’ll see today. cbs sports cfb guru @shehanjeyarajah.com was on tv and his daughter recognized him. 😭😭

The perfect graphic doesn’t ex-

I'm not as attuned to recent poli sci and communications research as I'm out of the academic game (though I still get to read a lot of stuff for work!), but I feel like there has to be some good recent work here in one of those spaces.

Ezra’s claim here runs into the challenging fact that abortion rights are more popular than Democrats in red states

I caught this in the ocean at night in Stardew Valley.

this is what Posting feels like

THIS IS IMPORTANT Louisville gave Pudge his own locker for game day 😭😭😭

You have my sword 🗡️🪻 #kidlitart #cuteart #redpanda

FOR YOUR FIRST WIN IN STILLWATER SINCE 1951, YOU GET A BEVEL TULSA

This is the face of a winner.

TULSA WINS THE BARBECUED PORK, CHICKEN FRIED STEAK, SAUSAGE WITH BISCUITS AND GRAVY, BLACK EYED PEAS, CORN, FRIED OKRA, GRITS, SQUASH, CORNBREAD, PECAN PIE & STRAWBERRIES GAME

TULSA TAKES DOWN OKLAHOMA STATE

The extra time on the Oklahoma State review was so the ref could watch the end of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” again.

Really happy they ran up the score after that meatball from Murphy

Also the Rays may be breaking this poor Wilcox kid by making him stay out there that long.

Me watching the Red Sox right now

Do we need to explain who this is to Gen Z?

That last one has absolutely read Juan Linz.

I think this is a good case study in analytics gone wrong. First, when you dive into the survey, only 9% (1 in 11, not 1 in 6) female respondents report wearing weighted vets, so they're a much smaller group than reported.

Movies gonna kick ass

My Top 5 Places in Carrboro: 1. Steel String Brewery 2. The tables and grass outside Weaver Street Market 3. Open Eye Cafe 4. Orange County Social Club 5. Neal’s Deli Also RIP to The Station (2010s version), Tyler’s/Speakeasy, Milltown (saw John Edwards there once) and YesterYears Brewery.

Not enough of you remembered El Guapo, and it shows.

I’m going to need everyone who posts this poll to link to the actual study, which is not new, and shows that, on average, respondents overestimate the size of all small groups in surveys today.yougov.com/politics/art...

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

“What we’re seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government,” said Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. “Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say.” https://to.pbs.org/46AYg7U

Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.