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awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. -- Jesse Owens

[Lal @KT_Lal]

Lord have mercy

[Jared Koller @JaredKollerKC]

How 'bout it, #ChiefsKingdom

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Only Bobby Witt Jr can turn this hit into an Inside the Park Home Run

[Pedrito Malito @peterrichardson]

Kyle Cooke realizing he's the Ariana Madix in this Summer House scandal and not Tom

[Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz @LeBatardShow]

"It's the ticking off of our constitutional protections one by one." - Nick Wright

[mason @onehandpolitics]

This is how middle school boys imagine running a country one day

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

This is the most straightforward attack on free speech from state actors I've ever seen in my life and it's not even close.

[Rusty_Rockwell @Rusty_Rockwell]

I want to see Taylor Fritz win a major

[user @user84829272]

All strapless bras need to be taken off the shelves. A total recall. We do not have the technology yet

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I think there is something very profound—possibly obvious, but maybe a bit overlooked by the pundit class—in this paragraph by @jonfavs

Here's what came to mind when I was reading: I think maybe political messaging is like a song. There are lyrics—the words being said. And then, there’s music—what most people feel when they listen.

Political and policy nerds are lyrics people. We are weird in this way—in our fixation on the words, the policies, the implications, the nuances, the nooks and crannies of intra-coalitional differences. When we hear "tariff" we think: cosumer prices go up.

But I think there a lot of people—I can't say "most people" because I don't know most people—who, when they listen to politicians, are listening to something more like music, which operates at the level of feelings. And just as there are genres of music, there are genres of political messaging that work across ideologies and with different lyrics.

Populism is one such genre, and while various groups make claims to populism, the truth is that ANYBODY can write a song in the key of populism. When people listen to AOC, they might hear "elites bad, people good, I love it!" And when people listen to JD Vance or DeSantis, they might hear "elites bad, people good, I love it!"

That's not entirely incoherent. Or, put differently: It will definitely seem incoherent if you're a lyrics nerd, if you follow politics by saying "wait, repealing ACA doesn't bring power to the people at all!" or "wait, Trump wants to fight higher prices with tariffs, which raise prices!" But, again, politial messaging might be best thought of as a song, and there's nothing morally wrong or unusual about many people mostly listening to the music.

Almost every debate about the future of politics that you see here is between lyrics people. Those are often important debates. But, as @jonfavs writes, some people just listen to the music of politics differently. They hear DeSantis and AOC and think: same song! I think we need a clearer frame to think about how and why that might be the case.

[Jeff Breeden @CPAJeff]

I think everybody should take the time to listen to this story.

The core human desire to BELONG is incredible and this is put together so well it needs to be in wide circulation.

I can't recommend it highly enough.

[Dr. Kristin Hook for Congress @Kristin_Hook]

I knocked a lot of doors this past year on my campaign and asked people what issues were most important to them. Here are some of the key takeaways from my time spent talking to people here in Texas:

[Qwin Yutamaru @QwinOmaru]

steve kornacki tonight…

[ruby 🇲🇽 @rubythevalley]

mahomes in the locker room during usher's halftime performance

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

The Mocking of Christ, by Carl Heinrich Bloch, 1880, 📸 via @BleacherReport

[Mind Rhino @mind_rhino]

Some rambling but I needed to get this out:

I never thought the #Chiefs would be this kind of team, but each time they’ve made me think that, I’ve tried to trace it back to the beginning.

I at least go as far back as the 2012 2-14 season. The franchise was in total disarray. A player murdered the mother of his child and killed himself in the team parking lot in front of his coach and GM.

Fans were wearing black to games and flying banners over the stadium demanding “Save Our Chiefs.

I remember it so vividly.

[nick wright @getnickwright]

BENCH MVS THEY* SAID!!!

*I also said this

[Nerd Girl Says @Rachael_Conrad]

Someone pointed out that 2019 is about to be 5 years ago