The only somewhat concrete thing I have heard about is how much merch he sold when his merch store opened. That does seem real (it was like 300K in a day according to GQ?), but more "influencer grift real" than "political real".
The only somewhat concrete thing I have heard about is how much merch he sold when his merch store opened. That does seem real (it was like 300K in a day according to GQ?), but more "influencer grift real" than "political real".
When people said they wanted to be like Mike they meant -any- member of Mike and the Mechanics. Lot of people forget that.
...that apparently all happened in the last ten years, and nearly exclusively among Republicans? Yep, sure does sound like it's the universities that need to reflect and change. I'm sure rededication to in class writing, small seminars, and strong free speech protections will do the trick.
Oh I see so there's been a steady erosion in the belief in the university as a public good, a slow failure of universities to live up to their role as inculcators of civic virtue in the American republic...
A small Wikipedia rabbit hole. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fle...
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This includes the scare quotes
"Cheaper universities in warm climates draw more students, an anti-woke trend traceable back to the incredibly woke years of 2005"
"This Order could have been an email" has the right sort of vibe
TIL about live coding... direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
"A spectre is haunting the Hamptons—the spectre of Mamdaniism."
And The Thursday Murder Club! She is on a tear!
I get why they went with the bottles of water for the headline but the other incident is much more dystopically funny. Ordering 18K bottles is ITYSL, but this is Brazil.
At least half of what is happening is literally blowing the dust off of old laws, arguments, and playbooks. The articles don't say "America never did this" but rather "America hasn't done this since [Nixon/Reagan/Jim Crow/Reconstruction/the Founding]". The Robert E. Lee portrait was just in storage!
Don't listen to the hype, support your local bad caricaturist blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/01/c...
THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS
That's why the opposite of a smokeshow is an ashhole
I want them to keep going until the logo is just the cracker, and the barrel. See how far this movement can really go.
I hate shows with cliffhangers like this. Just tell me which of these guys is causing all the autism! Is it Hegseth? Is it Rubio? It's Hegseth, isn't it? That's why he sent those texts in episode two!
Warning: When I Am an Too Online I Shall Wear Red
I Kelce what you did there
With regards to "regulatory favoritism, customers who want to curry favor, etc.", do you think the board really believes that? The whims of the administration are so fickle that even corrupt favoritism doesn't seem guaranteed. Only the risk of vengeance seems indisputable and must be terrifying.
Be the chan..na masala you want to see in the world
"Education, technology, law, health, consultancy, government, university administration, finance, nonuniversity education, and nonprofits/NGOs" That list looks very different in 2025 than it did in 2021. Things have gone from bad to catastrophic, and "just leave academia" isn't sufficient advice.
If you click through to the article behind the article on salary differentials, it goes to a survey from 2021 (philosophy grads) and lists the non-academic fields in order of frequency as:
"My work environment was unsustainably exploitative but now it's actively cruel" is a pretty terrible career arc.
Like you, this does make me suspicious of the rest of it
Feels like a mangled version of this: www.multistate.us/insider/2025...
Real "link in bio" energy here
Solidarity is me responding "oh my God, totally"
Chili's should switch to a jalapeno
You mean Zen Labossiere Honeycutt, "The Bossier" Honeycutt? She _founded_ that ukulele ring, good sir!
I'm actually glad Wikipedia has this because I was trying really hard to remember where I'd heard Nichols say it. Directors, sometimes they get it! Online resources, sometimes valuable!
Mallorca, cor blimey!
Given the massive increase in their budget, won't something have to give so that they can actually spend that money? This policy doesn't seem sustainable for a whole host of reasons, yet I can also no longer imagine anyone being removed over anything.
Without context you could totally tell me that this is an optical illusion where all three lines are parallel and I'd...pause
That's really feels like 2024 thinking. In 2025 I think you just hold out your hand. (Also not a journalist, or a lawyer. Yet!)
Ah yes the crime...of being charming!
Yeah he just seems to want this very much. He also had some lucky timing (with TikTok) and seems to have learned working investors may be more important as the company (the edtech company seems iffy). What I didn't expect was the jump scare appearance by Hulk Hogan. I'm out. (Link in alt)
There are buttons for that, use them!
I can definitely believe that. And you know where you might turn to get some insight on that? The Bureau of Labor Statistics. There's even a button to make a nice chart. Honestly it's like what people were really worked up over wasn't actually inflation... www.bls.gov/regions/mid-...
The local paper is even doing the basic legwork for you, Dems.
If that's the plan he's really going to need Family Sizes.
"It's supposed to be all that AND a bag of chips, FFS!"
Miller is 100% going to lock him in a room and then try to pull an Al Haig
You could have stopped at "shouldn't"! Eternal advice applicable to all Cuomos, it feels like.
It's always a fun game to look at leadership team pages and to try to guess which jobs people have just from headshot. Who is the HR officer? Who is the CIO? Who is the CFO? Who is the COO? What context clues can you use to figure it out? corporate.target.com/about/purpos...
Real "don't tell the papers I was charged" energy.
No doubt Jubilee is already workshopping this idea
Yours could very well be the "mean skeet" that does it.
I learned this fact so much later in the day that I thought it was a joke.
I think you would have cared if it was the Mr Beast, though.
Ooh do you also have a theory of Matts I can use?
I only get -one- Bruenig for my subscription? What's even the point?
Also, from her brother (again, with links of interest) www.firstofthemonth.org/ghosted-joel...
Not an exact answer but I thought this was a nice remembrance (with some links of interest) in Documentary www.documentary.org/online-featu...
The articles notes that it's an optimization algorithm. I appreciate that the authors of the tool call it AI, and so Quanta has to, but this collapse of terminology is frustrating. This is still cool even if turns out to be a novel use of (say) genetic algorithms! Just tell me that so I know!
Professional orgs would be an option, though of course ghost professional orgs also exist.
"Okay I think I can talk about Cellini but you want to talk about Other Cellini too? Can't help you, bro"
Shouldn't Walter Matthau be on your list too, then? I thought he flew a similar number of missions as Stewart and Bronson?
For a second I thought it said "The End of Stagflation" and I thought a new Kevin Hassett had just dropped
Somebody mentioned the James Brand already. I also know a crafter with one of these countycomm.com/products/sli...
This game has too many rounds. The "draw a medication" cards alone are a chore, though the "have a nap" card is nice if you successfully draw it.
Oh I've read this book I think. Now either you start wreaking vengeance on sailors or setting up a secret kingdom on the moon.
"Why do they keep making him do this?"
It's called "an exclusive" for a reason!
Marine sniper and Purple Heart recipient Lee Marvin?
I wish the two strands the story were more clearly delineated. One strand is "inadequate funding is forcing schools to go to a four day week". The other is "having been forced to go a four day week, here is how one district is making it work". Even if a four day week has benefits, so does funding!
Someone please explain the likely degree of separation between Charli XCX and Zohran Mamdani so Noah's head explodes.
While you were gone we've learned to carry sandwiches at all times. You'll adapt.
You hold that hashtag too long and it becomes a dad joke! Other politicians would spend a minute smirking at the camera about their cleverness.
I could not be this charming if I tried.
You try to complain but all he does is yawn ostentatiously and often in response.
"oh you think you're so funny? I'll wipe that nose right off your face"
Claudia Cardinale, I think?
I thought you meant MID.
This is why reference measures are so important. Every red carpet should have, like, a standard doorframe set up so you have a point of reference. Or maybe a progressively larger set of dogs. "Here is Rachel Bloom, next to a malamute, for reference"
And Galas!
1. Validate, then move on. "I know a lot of people in your neighborhood are afraid of New York" 2. Make a plan. "How about we just ride the subway to get some Subway?" 3. Offer encouragement, and be patient. "You're doing great! Want to try a falafel, or maybe a Broadway show?"
I feel like all feelings questions should be answered by turning to parenting literature. Here's the very first article that popped up on search: childmind.org/article/help...
So long as it's not Herbert Hoofer.
You're burying the lead: Manhattan Institute kinda acknowledges New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and "even Chicago" are safe!
It is a sign of the times that I can't be sure which biggest strongest bravest boy you're referring to. My God there are so many of them.
It has been noticed that... bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Oh yeah we've all heard of the Three Neros Of Ypsilanti, haven't we?
Wow is its Wikipedia entry a journey, and that's without any of the antiquities stuff! Looking forward to your book! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%2...
Have you considered going to Subway?
Not even close! Also important to be aware that there's a bad Judge (James) Ho and a good Judge (Dale) Ho
Wait so -that's- the Pink Pony Club?
Lot of people discovering their town's actual speed limits
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"I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice."
That phrase was taken by King from the abolitionist Unitarian minister Theodore Parker, who lived from 1810-1860, and therefore never got to see the arc (that he among many was working hard to make) truly bend. To love in a time of one step back is to nevertheless push for the two steps forward.
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