My man, everyone has read Tom Sawyer.

Ref-ing aside, if another Kentucky player picks up their dribble into a double team and turns it over, I will scream.

Seriously, every single possession is ending in a whistle. This game will take hours and will end with the managers from both teams on the floor

The refereeing in this Kentucky-Iowa State game is…poor

Oh, come ON UNC. I hate UNC, so it figures they’d do this to me. Mildly annoyed with St Mary’s but I don’t know enough about them to take it personally

Man, this is already going badly. That Wisconsin L is going to hurt me for a few rounds. Sad Louisville survived. Mildly annoyed with Ohio State.

Cheering like hell for a Kentucky-Virginia "Ed's Alma Maters" matchup in the second weekend. This first requires Kentucky not falling down on the banana peel that is Santa Clara - tomorrow will be stressful. Today: let's go Texas, bounce BYU. And S Florida beat Louisville.

My brackets tend to "sneaky collapse": things seem to be going fine and I relax, only to suddenly realize I've had 2-3 key losses at the end of the first day. I don't melt down totally, nor do I usually crush it. In short, it's a pretty "meh" experience.

Here come the best two days in sports every year - 25 minutes from the start of the NCAA Tournament first round. COMMENCE THE CHAOS (if you hate sports, I suggest muting me until Saturday. I have no idea how much I will post, but it will largely be about basketball and my collapsing bracket)

The budget of USAID was $22 billion per year. It was *saving the lives* of 4.1 million men, women, and children per year, all over the world. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Dear @nytimes.com, you might want to clarify your definitions of “regime change” and “success” before running a headline like this. What exactly about the regime has changed, and how can that be measured against goals that were never really articulated?

Well, that was terrible

Look, Miller is terrible and needs to face consequences. But let’s not elevate him to “architect.” Maybe “toddler placing with racist Lincoln Logs.” Which would still make him the brightest bulb on that very dim tree.

A little hope in Davos

Back from an interesting and exhausting few days in Davos for the WEF meetings. I am still processing my first trip to this event, but in the meantime I did get some good media work in, such as this interview with We Don't Have Time: buff.ly/KYnSTi2 (no, I did not change my name to Eric)

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So long and thanks for all the fish

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Pith helmets for all my friends!

I’m enjoying today’s football changing of the guard. Alabama getting wrecked by Indiana, Ohio State getting beaten by Miami. Turns out Texas Tech can’t actually purchase a playoff win. DeBoer is getting fired. Day is probably back on a hot seat a year after a title. Good times!

They predicted the highly-wealthy would leave MA when it passed a millionaire’s tax (an additional 4% surcharge on income over $1 million. They did not leave. Economy did just great. We have revenue to fix stuff.

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Pretty sure a 14% decline in approval is outside the margin of error. Way outside.

The fact there are any empty seats at the ACC title game, let alone A LOT of seats, speaks to the cultural difference between the conference and the SEC/BIG10. #gohoos

This seems like a really, really bad survey question. Unless it was sent only to people with about the same income, you were asking participants very different questions. $500 means very different things if you are making $200k or $30k.

Remember when FSU was trying to extort the ACC for more TV revenue…two years ago? I am still enjoying the schadenfreude.

I said it was the differences in boards that shape different outcomes for universities that are being pressured by the administration. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

I mean, if he wants to attack the Affordable Care Act from the left and go full single-payer…

Once again, we have completely lost the thread on how a college education is supposed to work. It’s not major=>job, it’s major=>opportunity to learn critical thinking and expression=>job. Double majors do not produce double opportunities. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

no pods, no casters.

Billie, I help lead an organization that would make outstanding use of your money. Anyone know how to connect me to her people?

I’m going to keep pointing out that outrage is the goal here. Bannon seeks to create a question about a third term, which will lessen Trump’s lame duck status. This rhetoric suggests his team is terrified. Reporting Bannon’s comments without pointing this out helps him drag out the admins power.

The goal here is to minimize his lame duck status after the midterms (particularly if, as seems likely, R’s lose the house). There is no other reason to give this attention.

Uh, I’m a sprinter deeply allergic to anything more than one lap, but 9:20 mile pace (for real, that is the passing pace for the 1.5 mile run) is *too slow* for my warmup cycle. I would pass you while stopping to do intermittent warmup exercises. A Team? This is the “D- but we’ll pass you” Team

The President lives and dies by the numbers. All his claims are about numbers. Suddenly, @nytimes.com is focused on content, not numbers? Seems like maybe the protest numbers are not things this administration wants us to hear. Sometimes you just have to report the numbers.

Slightly happier with my alma mater. I’d be happier if they displayed some spine back when Jim Ryan was forced out.

1) It's pretty straightforward: stop trying to cut the ACA subsidy (a cut that will harm a huge number of people) and the government reopens. 2) It is challenging to take GOP concerns about any federal workers seriously after the past 10 months.

As a former WGII LA, I endorse this.

C’mon, y’all - post your favorite “demonic sexual Superbowl Halftime performance” for MTG.

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Want to co-sign this as someone who works in philanthropy. Conservative donors and foundations have been willing to invest huge sums for general support, correctly assuming that it would produce long-term gains. The liberal approach to philanthropy has been pretty much the exact opposite.

So @dave.bzky.team, how’s #nyclimateweek fit #2? (I’ll find a pic of fit #1 later)

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Oh my goodness Vicari Swain