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This fight needs Emmanuel Steward on the mic to give it the savaging it deserves. Total farce.

I do not believe in using playoff results to evaluate committee decisions but in this particular case it's because Notre Dame was beating either of these squads by 14-28 points and this was very clear at the time AND they had a comparable resume to Alabama

How much does Oklahoma need to win by for the committee not to advance Alabama?

Anonymous senior Japanese government official says Japan should possess nuclear weapons is 👀

After one million beers, a bullet taxi across Seoul to catch a midnight showing of The Two Towers in 2002. Driver had the music bumping, disco lights flashing. We somehow made it one time.

Apparently 33 yards is 36 too many.

This is the worst selection committee we've ever had. Cannot believe Alabama didn't even drop one spot after the SEC title game blowout. Cannot believe they waited until the final reveal to flip Miami-ND. Could have done it at ANY point.

Gus Johnson currently on pace for 60 Gusgasms as Ohio State - Indiana gets ready to kick.

Hunter Yurachek on Alabama a few days ago: "They're in a really solid position this week at No. 9." 🤔

What I've learned from this Georgia-Alabama game is it's true what they say: Texas really shouldn't have lost to Florida.

Just say the N-word already, old man. This wait is interminable.

He could be both, GOP Senator. Why limit yourself?

Who could have seen this coming except literally everyone share.google/GFaMy3K2Jjlo...

For a conference where It Just Means More, several of these teams are just basically non-functioning. Looking at you LSU and Auburn.

I think some people who developed a following over there (1) mistakenly believe their follower figure is real and not inflated by bots and people who are no longer active and (2) see that follower number as a measure of their self-worth and don't want to give it up and start over somewhere else.

Saw the magnificent Mavis Staples tonight in San Antonio. I often think about protest music and the lack thereof right now. Her entire setlist seemed designed to speak to the current moment. What a performance.

Bravo to to Jesse Welles, for his soundtrack of resistance, refusal and ridicule. www.instagram.com/reel/DRR9xbn...

Finally, a mainstreamed protest song. Kudos Welles (& Colbert)!

Tougher question than any Trump has ever faced. Reveals more about the ones asking the questions.

Every day he plumbs new depths of Can You Believe This Loser Shit. You think you’ve reached the bottom of the Marianas Trench of Can You Believe This Loser Shit but then there’s a bang and a lurch and your little internet bathyscaphe plunges into a new fissure of Can You Believe This Loser Shit.

This evening, I’ll be in conversation with George Monbiot about political dysfunction and ecological collapse, and I want to tell you all briefly about a ritual involving an ancient Hittite king, a throne, and a tree from 3,000 years ago @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

I never knew that my emails, filled to the brim with complete sentences and a coherent narrative, were such a work of art. I'm bout to start printing these out and hanging them on the walls.

When Lee Jae-myung entered office, many in South Korea’s business community braced for a sharp left turn. His progressive campaign rhetoric on labor rights and taxation had boardrooms preparing for confrontation. koreapro.org/2025/11/aft...

This is exactly the problem with the critical minerals lists. Copper and coal have market solutions. But their addition here only adds to the costs/use of taxpayer dollars that should be used elsewhere.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I find the Parthenon sculptures at the BM to be wholly underwhelming. Just admit it and return them. The much better room is the Bassai frieze. That entire room is magical.

In my career, literally all of my direct bosses have been women. And I feel comfortable that they would identify as "liberal feminists." I can attest they were fantastic to work for and lovely people.

Aunties and Grannies! And my grandfather. Acupressure (probably originated in India) may be 5,000 years old. Acupuncture (China spreading to Korea and Japan) is almost as old. Reflexology (from the US) is over 100 years old.

I haven't read the paper, yet, so this may be totally off. But this was something I've been anticipating. I've long (anecdotally) hypothesized that expertise/interest on Korea is on the rise, and that would inevitably siphon off expertise/interest from Japan.

Korean grannies been swearing by foot/brain connection for decades. Centuries? Those jagged stone walking paths in parks across the country serve a real purpose.

A sitting US Senator posting an ITYSL meme. You love to see it.

"Most critical minerals are not energy-transition minerals, and most energy-transition minerals are not critical minerals" The Minerals Security concept proposed by Daniel Franks (@Uqueensland) seems more relevant to me. I want to be on the sustainability boat, not in the war one...

If you happen to be in Seoul, cannot recommend highly enough making the day trip to Museum San. One of my favorite museums.

@csis.org @victordcha.bsky.social joins @cnbc.com to discuss how China’s recent policies are reshaping the U.S.–South Korea alliance and regional security. Watch here: www.cnbc.com/video/2025/1...

This gets at diff. approaches from the right/left in Korea. Politicians on right blurt out, "Hey, we need nukes!" Those on left will do work to put the entire system in place. Public opinion on both sides is supportive. It's less mentioned, but this issue has bipartisan public support.

As an avid college football fan, nothing I'd love to see more than LSU in even more chaos. Tommy Tuberville the obvious terrible choice. But he'll no doubt go for George Lombardi because "they named the trophy after him."

Have you seen this? Points to ROK government for understanding the assignment.

I went back and looked at the long thread I did on old Twitter when Takaichi ran in 2021 that looked at her career up until 2012/2013. Posting the screenshots here.

"It is hard for me to accept that there are still some who believe South Korea cannot secure self-reliant national defense and must rely on others for its defense," Lee said.

South Korea pulling out all the stops here as negotiations on $350bn investment--and other issues--drag on.

"“When victors judge the vanquished, it creates an enduring misery of defeat and hardship for future generations." --PM Takaichi

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

IMO, this takes the US in the wrong direction long-term in trying to stand up secure supply chains. These facilities need to be distributed across allies and partners not concentrated in the US. But US largesse is going to distort the market.

Next season... 7pm - Chicago Med 8pm - Chicago Fire 9pm - Chicago PD 10pm - Chicago Pope

Really interesting results for support for legalizing same-sex marriage in Korea. This kind of polling is done rarely.

www.gallup.co.kr/gallupdb/rep... ◎ 전반적 직무 평가 수치는 직전 조사(9월 23~25일)와 별반 다르지 않으나, 부정 평가 이유는 적잖이 바뀌었다. 추석 전에는 조희대 대법원장 사퇴 압박과 진실 공방, 내란 재판부 변경 등 여당 주도 사안 언급이, 이번에는 외교, 중국, 부동산 관련 지적이 늘었다.

And just as importantly, keep him out of the opening at Penn State.

US Treasury Secretary Bessent lashes out at a top Chinese trade official Li Chenggang, saying he turned up in Washington recently uninvited and behaved in an ‘unhinged’ fashion typical of Beijing’s so-called wolf warrior diplomats – Bloomberg