The thing is this might well be an okay team with AD AND Kyrie AND Coop but that’s why it was important to fire him now. Because all he actually had a plan for was replacing Luka with AD which would have been awful if AD was healthy AND AD not being healthy is part of why you don’t trade for him

I have an intramural bball playoff game tonight at TEN like some kind of YOUTH so I got some shots up which is as likely to be a huge mistake as anything else

This, and nobody seems to understand the basic fact that humanities departments are money MAKERS not money losers. They pay the same tuition to be in my class as they do in their STEM class but I make a lot less than that professor and I don't need any special equipment.

The second one is about me, now that I have expertise in late antiquity

My last word on the matter

Hey young people, what's going with instagram style reels from movies having these numbered lists of nonsensical words all of a sudden

My official statement on Fire Nico getting Fired

We did it team

i saw this graphic with ‘fast car’ playing and can’t recommend that enough

I think one thing every politician has to eventually ask themselves is: just how many times can I make the speech "you can't be mad at us because we didn't get something done that you wanted, because we have to come together to win" and how many times is it supposed to work

You have to understand first of all that one of the rarest opportunities in sports is to root for one of the true all-time greats. Dirk is the only one we've ever had in Dallas. To give it away because you think you're smarter than everybody is unforgivable BUT -

It’s okay because the Republicans promised to hold this exact same vote in a month

You can always tell when someone doesn't have a 60 year-old relative who thinks he knows everything because he watches 14 hours of FOX a day.

We just launched the biggest primary program in Indivisible’s history. Help us (literally) send Schumer and the surrender caucus a message. open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...

Guys cmon, Trump just vaguely heard what HSAs are and is pretending he invented them while misunderstanding them, we don’t have to pretend it’s a policy proposal

A lot of people are talking about the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald but I’m actually doing something about it

The Senate does seem to be the last place where the CW continues to be "the best thing we can do is win the next election, therefore it is good to stay out of the way and let Republicans make themselves unpopular," and they might well have pointed to election day and said to themselves it works -

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"

Why wouldn’t he!!! Mike Johnson won’t! There aren’t more substantial public relations stakes to voting against extending them than there are to refusing to extend them in the budget! It was easy for the GOP to both promise and deliver nothing!

The good news is, I'm making cool, sophisticated graphics

Yes! GET rid of it! The GOP doesn't get rid of it because they don't need to, they can hurt as many people and destroy as many programs through budget reconciliation and budget processes as they want, especially when the Dems can't get any concessions and when Trump doesn't have to follow the budget

They also should have just said this aloud. I agree with this post, this is the wrong move, it was the opportunity to say "Trump is hurting you so much when all we're asking for is to make your health insurance less expensive." BUT - we just couldn't stand to see people hurt anymore is

Autumn is that season where the leaves fall from the trees and everyone gets out there with their bags and does a little bag work

If they had even come out and said "we are very afraid of what this will bring, but we cannot watch the suffering of the American people at the hands of this administration any longer, so be it on their head," that would be one thing. But pretending they got the win is so insulting and -

I like to think this is Aparna Nancherlas most fulfilling role

The youth of tomorrow were showing a lot of ennui

We're all talking about the second and third points but the first is important too! People always say oh it (and really the senate) helps small states, it helps rural people, otherwise big states and big cities would rule everything. Okay -

It's like he's vaguely got the idea of vouchers for charter schools down and assumes that there are charter healthcares

Excuse me, I’m in my mint phase

It also is just fucking amazing that supposed intellectuals like Yglesias who pride themselves on their supposed pragmatism embrace positions like “every individual has a personal responsibility to be nice about moderates in all walks of public life, a very feasible idea”

IUB-Borns is extremely legit by the way, one of the best programs in the country. They very much did not need to appoint a moron whose only purpose is to hunt fake anti semitism so they can tell the governor they did.

We ended up watching all the American Tail movies with my son the last few days and I honestly think they would cause a Republican freak out today. Unabashedly pro immigrant and very explicit about the politics of it

Just to piggyback off @matthiasellis.com 's thread, one of the reasons being too much of a liberal partisan makes analysis of the present moment hard is it doesn't allow you to reckon with hopelessness. You want to give the Dems credit for the things they did and can do because

It works on NBA currency, so you can trade Luka bucks for absolutely fucking nothing

I wonder if the NBA will ever back down from the NBA cup, which no one COULD ever care about, and which everyone forgets is happening

This is why I quit to work at carlmarx

Yes, these are all rhetorical questions:

the one thing in media that's gotten unequivocally better is that G. Elliott Morris is now the goto polling guru rather than Nate Silver.

A sort of related thing I've been thinking about is how much the contemporary GOP can be understood as a weird and twisted response to the failure of the American dream. Y'know, almost none of the things social progressives want have only the benefit of being nice to others

It is always, always like who the fuck do these people think they are? Nobody else needs the "you have to hang out with regular people more" thing with billionaires than some college presidents. Oh you signed something with the Trump admin and it's fine bc they'll honor what they wrote down?

You can never be too prepared for toddler hooping. Suppose a 6’2” toddler started picking me up at half court

This is very funny because yes, technically, Nico traded Luka bc of durability concerns and have been plagued by ADs durability issues but it implies that there is something surprising about this when you trade Luka for a much older player who is known most of all for durability concerns

At this point, I would pay money for the internet NOT to tell me when my passwords are stolen

Getting ready to play one on one in very appropriate pants

It is frustrating that Republicans are smart enough to realize they benefit much more than the Dems from the filibuster because they don't want to do anything that can't be done through reconciliation while Trump is the person who realizes that being able to deliver on your promises can be valuable

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This is the thing though, this is the normal way of thinking about shutdowns. And it's why the Dems didn't do it the first time! But, the real problem here is that the shutdown reflects the consequences of Republican rule breaking. You don't actually know if the pain stops if you give in.

A lot of what is happening can be explained by tech weirdos who hated having to read books thinking everything that involves books can be automated and they're wrong but they also run society