Jason Subik

[Jason Subik @JasonSubik]

@KevG163 Love it. I wish the NFL would release more full games of more obscure but still classic games like that one.

[Jason Subik @JasonSubik]

@KevG163 This comparison — Sonny Jurgensen and Patrick Mahomes — should be noticed by more football fans. Jurgensen’s arm talent, particularly the behind the back pass, but also throwing off platform from any angle, mirrors Mahommes almost exactly.

[David Cay Johnston @DavidCayJ]

For all the cut-and-run Democrats, you forget that should Biden at any point be unable to perform we have a system. Kamala Harris would become president.

Dumping Biden at this point would virtually guarantee Donald Trump becoming the next president.

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

I urge everyone to watch this.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Ronald Reagan: “There is only one guaranteed way you can have peace ... surrender”

This is the MAGA way to peace. Surrender to China, Russia, Iran etc

[Ryan Nobles @ryanobles]

NEW: MTG said one of her demands is that Speaker Johnson adhere to the “majority of the majority” rule”.. when I pointed out that the motion to vacate doesn’t currently meet that standard this is how she and Rep. Massie responded:

[Ryan Nobles @ryanobles]

NEW: with Democratic help- @SpeakerJohnson gets the rule passed:: opening the door for a glide path for the foreign aid bills to support Ukraine, Israel & Taiwan.

Johnson admits the Senate supplemental pkg was close to being brought to the floor through a discharge petition.

[Michael Gormley @GormleyAlbany]

Gov Hochul in a White House event underscores need for childcare to allow parents to enter the workforce; state budget is expected to include millions to raise the pay for childcare workers to end a shortage and to provide tax credits to help families afford skyrocketing cost.

[Peter Zeihan @PeterZeihan]

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[Michael Gormley @GormleyAlbany]

Gov Hochul today declares that NYS has made a 'full economic recovery' from pandemic; cites state Dept of Labor data released today showing total statewide private-sector job count of 8.34 M jobs – the highest level on record; says NYS gained 47k private sector jobs in January.

[Jason Subik @JasonSubik]

@KevG163 Love these clips. The quality of everything NFL Films did back then was just 🤌

[Senator Mitt Romney @SenatorRomney]

We are not being asked to send American troops into war, only to help the Ukrainians defend themselves. If we fail to help Ukraine, Putin will invade a NATO nation. Ukraine is not the end, it is a step—and letting Putin have his way with Europe would jeopardize our security.

[John Cropley @cropjohn]

More than six dozen renewable energy projects in limbo across New York unless/until they can rebid and win new state contracts.
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[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Where did collective names for animals come from?

They were essentially just made up in the Middle Ages... along with collective names for groups of people, such as:

-rascal of boys
-misbelief of painters
-scolding of chemists
-multiplying of husbands
-disworship of Scots
-eloquence of lawyers
-discretion of priests
-threatening of courtiers
-worship of writers

Juliana Berners was a prioress who compiled the Book of St Albans in the year 1486. This was a guide for gentlemen which included information about things like heraldry. Part of this guide was called The Companies of Beasties and Fowlies, where Berners lists the collective names (known as "terms of venery") for the sorts of animals gentlemen might be hunting.

It wasn't the first such compilation but it was by far the largest up to that point. What's difficult to discover is where exactly these names came from. Some think they emerged from common usage, but others believe they were literally just made up, whether by Berners or somebody else, to create an amusing and rather poetic lingo for gentlemen.

All words are made up, of course, but usually they emerge over time or are coined in a scientific or scholarly context. These collective names, however, seem to be the result of an aristocratic hunting culture during the Middle Ages, combined with certain courtly frivolity and a fashion for obscurantist terms of venery which had come to England from France.

In any case, they weren't and never have been "official" in any way. Many of them were rarely used, if ever, though some of them did catch on and have survived to this day, such as the rather delightful "murmuration of starlings." But they were evidently supposed to be funny rather than serious, inevitably playing on the particular characteristics of those animals, such as an "unkindness of ravens" and a "parliament of owls".

And the same was true of Berners' collective names for groups of people:
-superfluity of nuns
-doctrine of doctors
-tabernacle of bakers
-fighting of beggars
-drunkship of cobblers
-melody of harpers
-poverty of pipers
-disguising of tailors

This tradition of poetic, obscure, and witty group names for animals lived on as new species were discovered. Not all the names listed below are in the Book of St Albans, and many more of these "unofficial" collective names have been coined in recent decades.

These terms of venery are, in part, a wonderful glance into courtly life during the Late Middle Ages — at the very least it gives us some idea of their sense of humour.

And there's no reason this tradition of witty collective names should disappear. Whereas Berners came up with terms of venery for taverners, prelates, and barons, we might do the same for coders, podcasters, influencers, data scientists, and bloggers.

What could be some modern collective names for these or any other groups of people who didn't exist in the Middle Ages?

[Jason Subik @JasonSubik]

@KevG163 @pashaina890 Do you know for what? As advertised, that was a hell of a brutal hit, but I’m not sure it would even be against the rules today, no helmet to helmet. He just blasted him in the back.

[John Kasich @JohnKasich]

There is a solution to the U.S. House Speaker stalemate.

A coalition of Democrats need to partner with Republicans to elect a leader who will marginalize the extremes on both sides and get our Congress governing again. They owe it to the American people.

[John Cropley @cropjohn]

The requests would have put as much as $22 billion in new charges on New York electric bills.
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