For the cover of Businessweek’s December issue, I wrote about the reigning queen of America’s strip malls: Ulta Beauty, the country’s biggest beauty retailer (yes, bigger than Sephora) and quietly one of the more fascinating retailers in the country. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Before ACA, many Americans couldn’t afford insurance Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26 He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance

It’s so funny that Nick Sirianni can’t manage to get fired even though everyone wants to fire him because Howie Roseman is too good at his job

Has Matt LaFleur’s mustache always been so John Waters or is he traveling in that direction slowly over time

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

The reason nothing is happening in this football game is that each team has like six players from Georgia’s 2021 and 2022 national championship defenses on it

Heads up: YouTube TV is giving a $20 credit to subscribers over the Disney/ESPN mess, but you have to actually go into the settings to claim it. This is not a spam tweet, the settings page link is here: tv.youtube.com/settings/ser...

Donald Trump is Joe Biden now POTUS's job approval on prices is where Biden's was during peak inflation in 2022-23. Voters say 2:1 that Trump has made the economy worse. Oh, and consumer sentiment among independents hit a new all-time low in November, www.gelliottmorris.com/p/donald-tru...

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Ian is an all-time favorite colleague of mine and I’ve read enough of his writing to know that what’s in here is going to be surprising and fun and well worth your time

This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone

I want to read an article about why kickers have gotten so good at long kicks in the last couple years

Do any of them know the difference between an FSA and an HSA

I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!

damn that’s french as hell

“.. if anything, [OpenAI’s] endless barrage of statements, interviews, and communications .. is starting to become counterproductive (anyone, whether it’s a company or politician, that insists on saturating media cycles .. usually isn’t doing so from a place of confidence).” - Vital Knowledge

“Well, this is just not a very good football team” the booth is sick of LSU’s shit man

Ancient college football blessing: “On a day of exciting games, may your team’s victory be a boring one”

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

I have a cold and missed gumbo night at @foiaball.com’s house so he sent some over for me 😭

Don’t know that I’ve ever seen pass interference called on both a receiver and DB who were interfering with *each other* simultaneously

GUS-SPLOSIUON

Gus Johnson just made the exact noise he would emit if a chestburster emerged from him

WHAT A CATCH

Holy shit

georgia and mississippi state physically are not playing the same sport

These new details from last summer's confrontation between Rob Manfred and Bryce Harper are absolutely insane. MLB officials threatening players will "end up in a ditch" for disrespecting Manfred is outrageous behavior. www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/p...

Still not really sure why State’s quarterback was standing two feet flat on the ground with no one blocking his blindside rusher

Nate Dawg imo

(Rod Serling) Submitted for your ranked choice the case of one Andrew M. Cuomo, smarting scion of suburbia dethroned over workplace boundaries, unwilling to relax his wandering grip on power, and doomed to repeat humiliating attempts at return upon that most brittle boundary of all—the twilight zone

Taking a knee out of the gun on second down to go to the half is so funny because, whatever the intent, it sure does look like the quarterback just said “you know what never mind I’d like to go to the locker room”

Kirby is such a bitch I love him so much

this is the most informative label on Bluesky, mufo-gossipy division

Gunner Stockton getting hit with “sneaky athletic.” The soft bigotry of low expectations man

Close enough welcome back Brock Bowers

Close enough welcome back Brock Bowers

Watching Georgia run the ball effectively is good for my nervous system

Ya know what go dawgs

But ignore this if you’re an AD looking for a new coach! Glenn Schumann is basically the same as Dan Lanning so you should hire him!

Fake bag and sort of insultingly so tbh. Wrong stitching, wrong hardware, Hermes would have rejected the skins used on those handles

hey guys isn't it weird how they're all saying this at the same time? ignore the fact that this is now happening with Tyler Cowen, an economist who sits at the center of a sprawling system of think tanks and policy "influencers" who have been laundered into DC with both Koch and SV VC money

I once saw this man kick, conservatively, 19 field goals against my college football team and almost beat them himself in a year when they won the national championship and I’ve always wondered why he wasn’t in the league

terrific reporting on the economic realities that drove relatively high-income new yorkers to back Mamdani: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...

This piece on Texas Roadhouse is instructive in explaining restaurant weakness: commodity inflation up nearly 8% is crushing the group — but the consumer is in no mood to accept a pass-through. @jonathandmaze.bsky.social $TXRH restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/be...

Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.

There are no words for how evil this is

It’s funny hearing NFL announcers be like “wow, Brock Bowers has really been looking like a league veteran in every way” because yeah he also looked like that his entire time at Georgia, the guy is from another planet

In 2023, students at Ohio State blocked the doors to the president's office. Little did they know, live video from campus CCTVs were being fed straight to DHS. It's part of a little-known, decades-long surveillance effort built on the back of college football. www.foiaball.com/p/dhs-colleg...

hmmm what kind of features could be being looked at there, I wonder, what kind indeed