Very Tall Zubaz Man

Minnesota expat - Alumnus of @TheDailyGopher - Extremely tall goofball who enjoys Zubaz, bourbon, and golf.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn.

The Italian word for “little ball” is ‘ballotta.’

Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a ‘ballot.’

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

Reupping my list of reliable numbers crunchers to make sense of election results as they happen. Each person on the list is smart/reliable. Low on commentary, high on making sense of results as they come in. https://t.co/gjYsj1yNM7

[Very Tall Zubaz Man @GoAUpher]

@Johngcole Also never suggest that Tim enjoys playing duck duck goose.

[Very Tall Zubaz Man @GoAUpher]

@Johngcole Minnesotans throw hands over hotdish.

[Very Tall Zubaz Man @GoAUpher]

@Johngcole

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

This isn't an outlier. I've covered several cases where SWAT teams got the wrong house—and when the victims sued, they were told they had no recourse. That's absurd. The monopoly on force & power should not be above making victims whole when their agents mess up in shocking ways.

[Craig Pittman @craigtimes]

#Florida teen raped by adoptive father is accused by cops of lying & prosecuted for filing false police report. So when it happened again, she gathered evidence on her own to prove that it DID happen. https://t.co/pFtEI1CTja via @garywhite13

[ian karmel @IanKarmel]

Listen, I'm a huge Ducks fan, I'm born and raised in Oregon. We don't want to go down this road with a midwest school. There's a certain kind of alcoholism that is only possible when you know you might never see the ocean.

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

Men voting for Trump are taken seriously when they say it's because "the economy" and the price of gas and eggs, while women voting for Harris because abortion are "single-issue voters" even though having a kid means more gas, more eggs, and roughly $1 million in other expenses.

[Very Tall Zubaz Man @GoAUpher]

@MattBrownEP Giving students a chance to continue playing a sport in the face of reduced opportunities as an athlete elsewhere in the landscape, even if they pay for the chance via tuition, seems like a way to juice enrollment numbers. Does that thinking track with anything you’ve seen?

[Very Tall Zubaz Man @GoAUpher]

@MattBrownEP Campus politics matter of course, bc the wrestling team was very Greek and the school was trying to be less Greek so if that’s still a goal I wouldn’t expect a change.

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

April 9, 1997

Dikembe Mutombo has Clarence Weatherspoon in hell with three straight blocks and then hitting him with the finger wag.

Rest in a peace to a literal giant of basketball.

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

NEW: THREAD: A new ruling from Judge McBurney in Georgia overturning the abortion ban and allowing the procedure to continue has some REMARKABLE quotes. Let's take a look at just a few. 1/

[Jimmy Lonetti @DJGloveRepair]

Here's the official NBC link to our story.
Thanks to everyone who has reached out with comments/congratulations.
Now time to dig into the overflowing email inbox....

[Phil Williams @PhilNvestigates]

This scene - “send them back, send them back” - is eerily similar to hate group marches that I’ve covered in recent months! (See below.) 1/2

[Very Tall Zubaz Man @GoAUpher]

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