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If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, the meal was cooked a long time ago.

Some context around this, from a markets person. Historically in LatAm, leftist victories have led to sharp losses over the ~3 months after an election where the left wins. Stocks also typically underperformed into those victories. But 3y post-election, returns for leftists have been *higher*.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

The National League team is up 10-0 in a World Series game where Freddy Peralta and Francisco Lindor are in the building. I certainly would have taken that back in February.

He needs to be impeached just for being this stupid. It's embarrassing to have someone this stupid in front of a microphone.

Poor Freddy Peralta.

oh no is this the doctor crusher and the ghost episode

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Toad the Wet Sprocket. Or Jack Johnson. No, not you, Katy Perry.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Kinda surprised how often I fly home to Santa Barbara and don't see anyone I know on the plane. Santa Barbara isn't that big.

Saw Jose Iglesias and Bernie Williams on Broadway.

If the real priority was actually protecting girls from actual men who pose a risk to them in sports, it would make much more sense to advocate for banning male coaches and male doctors. And I’ve never, ever ever heard that suggestion, because that’s not really what this is about.

How are there still two hours left on this flight? Ugh.

A single billionaire megadonor is propping up the Republican effort to stop Dems from flipping Pennsylvania’s Senate and gaining full control of government—to a much greater degree than Elon Musk is doing it at the federal level

My Amex login is still in my password manager as "Amex (SPG Business)" 😭

It is neither extreme nor asking too much to expect Democrats to endorse the pre-Trump status quo on LGBTQ+ rights.

I have no lounge access at JFK terminal 8. 😕

Not great that it bypassed a paywall but also the state shouldn't be charging for the voter file. It's a public record.

spare a thought for a millennial about to move back in with his dad

(Sorting through piles that I didn’t deal with for literal decades) aha. Well wasn’t I annoyingly prescient.

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

Thirty years ago I was on a high-volume high-aggro mailing list, and when someone lost it like this the tradition was for someone to take the text of the message, alphabetize it, paste it into a reply, and say “these words didn’t appear to be in any particular order so I alphabetized them for you”

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Checking out today's discourse.

if the richest person in the world- who owns a giant media platform & invests in others- is not the “elite” who is? … oh …

Evergreen.

I think one of the best aspects of this story is just how *average* the cop is. This is pretty much what most cops are like. They believe they are doing a good job.

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

I went to as close to a Subway Series game as you can get right now today.

Why is this train stopping at Willets Point? Any tennis happening?

If JKR hates trans people so much then why does the new Harry Potter look like a lesbian TA who helps edit her esteemed Midwestern liberal arts school's quarterly poetry review

lol looks like I'm going to Cheesecake Factory tonight