Chris Brahney

[Vesper @vesperdigital]

🚨𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗞𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗞𝗦 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘!🚨

New StatCan data just dropped.
Canada's deficit got WORSE!
$20B in the hole in 3 months.

Interest on the debt? $53B a year.
More than we send the provinces for healthcare.

Carney's literally running the country on a credit card.
🤬

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Islam has a problem with gays, democracy, bacon, dogs, music, Christmas, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, Christians, women who show their hair, people who leave their religion, and even people who draw pictures of their prophet, who by the way, married a six year old.

But if I have a problem with Islam, for some reason, I'm an Islamophobe.

And the fact that you’re reading that and thinking “Oooh, he better be careful…” is exactly the point.

[Erica @Erica5yoy]

There is absolutely no coming back from accidentally creating a stripper name on live television. The way they all completely lost it is killing me! 😭

[terry l. @dubsndoo]

Chinese money laundering in casinos.
Chinese money laundering in Vancouver real estate.
Chinese/Mexican cartels working together in B.C. labs to produce fentanyl.
Chinese United Front operatives active in provincial and municipal B.C. politics.
Hey, what’s not to love about China

[Jordan @iliterate__]

You ever get so upset at a successful bunt that your immediate reaction is to explode your third baseman’s balls

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Stanley Kubrick explains the ending of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in a rare 1980 phone interview.

[Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️ @StephenPunwasi]

10/ Hilarious update: Friend at the BoC had an MP's call to confirm this thread was correct.

He said I nailed the mechanics, impact on foreign investment is the only uncertainty since it's a forecast.

1. Your gov is learning how its debt works via X threads
2. LMAO! 🤣

[Pissed Off American @solar_ric]

They should make her VP of marketing A Florida woman was arrested after allegedly impersonating a Costco employee and turning an ordinary shopping trip into what witnesses described as a full-blown “warehouse happy hour.”

According to authorities, 32-year-old Brianna Keller walked into a Costco location in Tampa dressed convincingly enough to fool both shoppers and employees. Wearing black pants, a red polo shirt, and a fake name badge that read “Crystal — Beverage Team,” Keller reportedly stationed herself near the frozen food section and began offering customers tiny cups of tequila disguised as free product samples.

Investigators say the scene escalated quickly.

Using miniature ketchup cups typically reserved for condiments, Keller allegedly poured tequila shots for shoppers while pairing them with frozen appetizers and snack foods. Witnesses claimed she confidently explained that Costco was “testing a new customer experience initiative” and referred to the alcohol as part of a “weekend tasting event.”

Several shoppers reportedly believed the setup was legitimate.

“She was so confident that nobody questioned it,” one customer told local reporters. “She kept talking about flavor profiles like she actually worked there.”

Authorities say Keller became increasingly theatrical as the crowd grew larger. Witnesses described her leading chants of “Weekend mode activated!” while customers laughed, cheered, and continued lining up for more samples. At one point, shoppers were allegedly dancing near the mattress displays while holding condiment cups filled with liquor.

Employees reportedly became suspicious after noticing unusually large crowds gathering around the snack aisle and customers behaving noticeably louder than normal. Managers approached Keller after hearing her pitch what she called “Bottomless Sample Fridays” to confused supervisors.

The situation came to an end when store management contacted police.

Officers say Keller continued attempting to rally customers even as she was being escorted from the building, shouting, “WHO’S READY FOR ROUND TWO?” while several shoppers applauded the spectacle.

She was arrested on charges related to impersonation, disorderly conduct, and unauthorized distribution of alcohol.

No injuries were reported during the incident, though authorities confirmed the store temporarily shut down the sampling area while employees cleaned up the scene.

One shopper summed up the bizarre event by saying, “Honestly, for a minute I thought Costco was just evolving.”

[Charles Burton @cburton001]

Former diplomat Charles Burton, Canada’s preeminent scholar on China and a senior fellow at Sinopsis, a China-focused think tank based in Prague, says the hour is much later than most Canadians realize. Burton says Canada is a “bellwether” country in Beijing’s subversion of developed economies. Before Carney’s election, Canada was already the most deeply compromised member of the G7, and since January’s Canada-China strategic partnership was declared, the Chinese Communist Party’s influence operations in this country have expanded exponentially, Burton told me. “By exploiting Canadians’ natural anger over Washington’s betrayal, the CCP have successfully overseen a campaign of calculated deceit. It’s a classic deflection tactic: by keeping the public’s focus squarely on American betrayal, they effectively defuse and neutralize mainstream concerns about the PRC’s own escalating campaign of subversion, espionage, and transnational repression in Canada.” @sinopsiscz @doublethinklab @opibooks
https://t.co/COjzhtsTEe

[Gerry DeFilippo @Challenger_ST]

If I wanted to get an athlete INSANELY strong over the next 365 days

Like career altering strength

These are the EXACT 10 things I’d do

Save this list, it’s FREE strength game changers (you need them)

1. Pick 2 main movements you do every week (upper & lower)
2. Train those 2 movements 1-5 reps. Heavy, max intent
3. Track (in detail) the weights you use for those main movements
4. Aim to lift a little more whenever you can on those main lifts (progressive overload)
5. On 1-2 other days, use 45-75% of your max for those lifts, move the bar FAST AS F*CK
6. Support those 2 main upper/lower compound lifts with 1-2 unilateral variations
7. For the love of God, don’t get cute. Keep the main lifts & keep getting better at them
8. Do 2-3 accessory movements strictly for hypertrophy (isolation exercises)
9. Don’t miss more than 3 weeks of training all year
10. Take 2-3 off days every week

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

The 1977 CBS NFL Today intro is fucking spectacular. The plays get progressively more illegal and fucked up to the point I was half expecting some guy to get eaten by a lion on the field. It’s like a Naked Gun bit. Do yourself a favor and watch this.

[Vesper @vesperdigital]

Probably the most powerful lessons on injustice I have ever heard or watched.

"Why didn't any of you try and stop me?"

Pinning This!
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[Shawn Gillespie @ShawnGillespi]

Parents of North American baseball players — we need to talk real talk.
The system is stacked against your kid in ways the Dominican academies never are. Down there, 16-year-olds get signed and developed in a pro environment where they can fail, adjust, and grow without losing their shot.
Here? It’s “win this game today or you don’t play, don’t get seen, don’t develop.” Travel ball, showcases, and high school have turned into a high-pressure, pay-to-play meat grinder. MLB is drafting more college guys because the high school pipeline is broken for most kids. If we don’t adapt how we guide our players, fewer North American kids are going to make it.
Here’s how to actually help your kid in this “win now” system:
1. Stop chasing wins. Chase development.
The scoreboard doesn’t matter in 12U–14U. The kid who strikes out or boots a ball today might be the one who figures it out in 3 years. Find coaches and teams that play to develop, not to win trophies. If your son’s coach benches him for errors or only plays the “winners,” leave. Winning-obsessed environments stunt growth.
2. Prioritize the right environment over the “best” team.
The flashiest travel team with the most showcases often means more games, more pressure, more cost, and less actual teaching. Look for:
• Coaches who teach mechanics and game IQ
• Programs that limit innings/pitch counts
• Teams that still let kids play multiple positions
Quality reps beat quantity of games every time.
3. Build an athletic foundation first.
Too many kids specialize too early and get hurt or plateau. Multi-sport athletes (especially ones who play sports that build explosiveness, coordination, and decision-making) often develop better baseball players long-term. Strength training, mobility, and speed work from a young age beats another weekend tournament.
4. Teach them how to fail.
This is the biggest gap. In the Dominican system, failure is part of the process. Here, one bad tournament can kill confidence and playing time.
Teach your kid:
• Errors and strikeouts are data, not identity
• Film their at-bats and defensive plays
• Focus on process goals (“load better,” “stay back”) instead of outcome goals (“get a hit”)
The kids who learn to handle failure become the ones who keep improving when others quit.
5. Be ruthless about money and time.
Travel ball is expensive. Before you spend thousands, ask:
• Is this actually developing my kid or just exposing him to scouts who mostly watch the already-developed kids?
• Would that money be better spent on private lessons, strength training, or a better summer program?
Target 3–5 high-quality events per year instead of 15 mediocre ones.
6. Lean into the college route — it’s often the best path now.
Since MLB is drafting more polished college players, treat high school as preparation for college baseball, not just the draft. Good academics + strong baseball = leverage. D1 or strong D2/D3 programs develop players extremely well. Many late bloomers explode in college.
7. Protect the love of the game.
The fastest way to kill a kid’s future is to make baseball feel like a job at 12 years old. If they’re not having fun, they won’t put in the extra work when it gets hard. The international kids who make it are usually obsessed because baseball was their way out. Your kid needs intrinsic drive.
Bottom line:
The North American system rewards the kids whose parents understand the game is long. Play the long game. Focus on making your son a better baseball player and athlete in 3–5 years, not this weekend’s championship.
The kids who survive and thrive in this pressure cooker are the ones who were developed the right way — even when the scoreboard didn’t cooperate.

[Coach Beede @CoachBeede]

The GPA that decides college eligibility is not the one on the report card. The NCAA throws out electives and recalculates a separate core GPA from sixteen approved academic courses, on a straight four-point scale, no plus or minus. A student carrying a 3.2 at school can land at a 2.5 in the NCAA's eyes. Division I requires a 2.3 core GPA to compete as a freshman. The number that matters is the one most families never check until it is too late to change it. Pull your athlete's core course list this summer. Do the real math.

[Kanwar Sierah, RCIC @KanwarSierah]

𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆, 𝗹𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗮’𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

More than a million temporary residents appear to have fallen out of valid temporary resident status over the past year, don’t believe me look at pending applications with IRCC.

Many likely applied for an extension or another temporary immigration relief. Because Statistics Canada no longer counts them as part of the temporary resident population, the government can point to a declining temporary resident count.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean those individuals have left Canada.

Instead, it may have created a historically high population of people with uncertain or no legal status who are vulnerable to cash jobs, labour exploitation, and, in some cases, criminal activity.

This is the number few people are talking about. If out-of-status residents continue to grow while being excluded from the temporary resident population statistics, the headline numbers alone may not reflect the full picture.

That’s why I believe Carney has mastered the politics of perception. 🕴️

[Rob Friedman @PitchingNinja]

How do you throw 101 mph? 🤔

Jackson Flora takes you through it, step by step.

One of the best descriptions of pitching mechanics you'll see from a college pitcher!

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Maybe not everyone knows this, but Leslie Nielsen used to carry a small fart machine with him to interviews.

The results were exactly as childish, and hilarious as you’d expect. 😂

[Chris Brahney @MLBChris73]

@gregorrobertson This statement is complete utter nonsense to anyone with a brain.

[Chris Brahney @MLBChris73]

@TristinHopper My wife is a bookkeeper and many of her clients run these types of non-profits. That is literally most of what they spend, endless events. The government grants that are fuelling all this are obscene.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

This “academic” doesn’t brilliantly debunk anything.

She is describing things that happened under feudalism (and colonialism and mercantilism abroad) - economic systems that predate capitalism.

Capitalism really kicks off as a formalised set of ideas in the late 1700s/early 1800s.

Capitalism was formalised in policy with the Limited Liabilities Company Act in 1855s.

The cornerstone ideas of capitalism are…
- market pricing
- ownership of property
- right to lawfully trade voluntarily (including your labour)
- increased competition leads to better quality and price
- anti-monopoly and anti-collusion are required to maintain competitive markets
- Limited liability contained within a venture giving rise to venture focused investment
- acceptance that the market produces winners and losers but the downside of losing is limited to the company.

Nothing within any doctrine of capitalism is about forcing people off land or forcing people to do anything. It’s built on voluntary trade, work and investment. Capitalism is about self sufficiency!

Indigenous tribal economic systems do not scale. They don’t scale economically - most modern humans wouldn’t survive a week. They don’t scale beyond a few hundred people living in a vastly resource rich natural environment. Because they don’t scale these tribes could be absolutely brutal to their neighbours too. There are still tribal societies living today, she should go and live with them for a year and see how realistic their economic model would be for a planet with 8Billion people.

Capitalism is not unnatural … it’s the ONLY economic system that has been able to harness human self interest and channel it into pro-social, peaceful trade at scale.

The only thing being “brilliantly debunked” in this video is the value of university degrees.