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[Adam Rossi @rossiadam]

NYC had a nuclear power plant 36 miles away called Indian Point.

It supplied carbon-free safe power that would mean no one would need to turn up their thermostats.

But it was closed in 2021 by the degrowth Death Cult. Now NYC relies on fossil fuels for 90% of its power 🫠

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

So many, but this one is definitely up there

[AG @AGHamilton29]

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins: Democratic socialism is not Communism

DSA leader: Our goal is communism

[Eli Lake @EliLake]

It’s a sick joke that Tucker poses as a patriot.

[James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ @JimPethokoukis]

Speaking of the great american state fair on the national mall, specifically, most of you will never visit it. And it's easy to write off criticisms as a bunch of woke complaining by wokies. But it's poorly done, cheaply done, unimaginatively done, and simply far beneath what a $35 trillion, technologically advanced economy should be able to produce with even a bit of competent leadership.

The more I think about it, the more furious I get.

[Bottomless Pit Supervisor, Esq. @PitBottomSuper]

If you're pregnant and can sprint into the US from Guatemala in 30 minutes, your child clearly *has* to be an american citizen, because we need him for our supersoldier program

[Chris Kamrani @chriskamrani]

Here is — for no particular reason at all, other than maybe nostalgia of a bygone era — an oral history of the radical Ricky Williams years at the University of Texas. For @TheAthleticCFB. https://t.co/XDxNYJEHMW

[Corey Walker 🇺🇸 @CoreyWriting]

So when the World Cup was in Qatar, we were all told we had to conduct ourselves in accordance with Islamic society. Now that the World Cup is being held in the West, we are still being told we need to conduct ourselves in accordance with Islamic values.

Interesting...

[Michael Brendan Dougherty @michaelbd]

Slowly losing my mind as the broadcasters continue to insist on pronouncing it Türkiye. We have an English word for this country. Just as we call it Germany, not Deutschland.

If we’re going to do this for the World cup go all the way and call Japan, 日本.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

“Look at all the shit we can get away with now, isn’t it great?” is what he’s saying here. Another rare moment of honesty from Vance.

[Thor Halvorssen @ThorHalvorssen]

Delcy Rodríguez, the "acting" president of Venezuela has declared a state of emergency.

What you are watching from Venezuela is more than a natural disaster story. It is a governance autopsy.

Hundreds are confirmed dead and the real toll is rising because no one is coming to rescue those still trapped in the rubble.

Let's break it down: Twin 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes. Buildings collapsed in Caracas and neighboring cities.

And where are the ambulances?

Where are the fire trucks?

Where is the state?

There are no emergency services. Because there is no state. There is only a criminal enterprise that wears a costume. The state built a machinery to repress. Silence. Torture. Kill. Not to rescue.

To every American businessperson who has traveled to Caracas in the last few months, met with Delcy Rodríguez, signed deals, convinced themselves that "things are changing" and that engagement is pragmatic. This is for you…

For those who believe the American government fiction that "everything is going great" with Delcy…. you are watching your thesis collapse in real time, under rubble, with no one coming to help.

The fiction that Venezuela is "open for business" exists for one reason: Delcy and her brother Jorge need your money, your legitimacy, and your silence. They have no intention of reforming. They respond that they just "don't know" when elections will take place. They have no intention of being held accountable for the billions looted, the political prisoners disappeared, the diaspora of more than eight million people. They need you as props. They need you to keep telling Washington that things are "great!" And that Delcy is exactly what Venezuela needs right now to "stabilize" and "reform."

What this earthquake reveals, as every crisis in Venezuela reveals, is that Maduro and his cronies hollowed out every institution. PDVSA. The hospitals. The fire departments. Civil defense. Emergency services. All of it stripped to the bone and the proceeds wired offshore.

The death toll will be much higher precisely because of what the people now in power did over the last 25 years.

Let's be clear: The people dying tonight and in the next few days under collapsed buildings in Caracas are not dying because of an earthquake. They are dying because of 25 years of systematic looting by the same people now issuing press releases about a "state of emergency." Because they're wholly unprepared. Because they looted everything. Did away with talent. And on top of all of this have zero empathy or motivation to help anyone but themselves. They didn’t care about millions of people fleeing into a jungle and walking hundreds of miles to freedom. Why would they care about survivors of this natural disaster?

The media locally isn't reporting or showing the images of the devastation. They're terrified of upsetting the dictatorship.

And tonight:

Not a firefighter in sight. Not an ambulance in sight. Just cameras, and Delcy, and the performance of governance where none exists.

Those businesspeople were warned. The Venezuelans who fled told you. The human rights organizations told you. The evidence was always there.

Now you have photographs.

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

@Complex Petit disque orange (rotated), by František Kupka, 1932

[Wemby Alien Era @WembyAlienEra]

Barack Obama on the Spurs:

“I love this young San Antonio Spurs team.. those guards, Castle Harper, I love those two. And Harper almost won the game for them the way he was playing.

And I think Wemby will end up being as good as we are projecting. I watched him at the All-Star game.. first time I’d see him live and I don’t remember somebody that big moving like that..

That team is going to have such a great future.”

#GoSpursGo #PorVida

[Tyler Rogoway @Aviation_Intel]

That's pretty damn cool.

[Scott Schneider @EdLawDude]

Thoughtful piece from @JayHartzell, and the economics are genuinely sharp - the MLB/NFL payroll comparison is the cleanest case I've seen for how regulatory structure drives parity.

But here's the part worth sitting with, IMO.

College athletics present a textbook collective action problem - the one Mancur Olson (another economist) formalized 60 years ago in The Logic of Collective Action.

In short, every school would be better off under a stable, balanced framework, but each one's individual incentive is to maximize its own advantage and free-ride on everyone else's restraint - so no one disarms first, and the "right" structure depends entirely on where you sit.

President Hartzell notes the blue bloods are "acting in their self-interests" by resisting these rules. Perhaps true. What goes unsaid is that mid majors arguing FOR them is doing the same. There is nothing wrong with that, and indeed, it's what institutional fiduciaries are obligated to do.

That's the nature of the problem though. Notice that each school's "policy position" happens to line up exactly with what helps it win. Olson's point is that shared interest alone won't get them there - they'd need an outside enforcer. And before you can even build one, you have to define precisely what you're solving for. "More regulation" isn't a goal; it's a means.

Are we fixing competitive balance? Protecting non-revenue sports? Keeping athletic spending from cannibalizing the academic mission? Restraining a runaway labor market?

Each points to a different rule, a different enforcer, and a different legal risk - and conflating them is how you end up with a framework that (perhaps) satisfies no one and (likely) gets picked apart in court.

That's the real value of his piece: it pushes us to name the actual objective. Define the problem precisely and this is solvable. Leave it vague, and everyone just lobbies for the version that helps their own program.

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

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[Marc Polymeropoulos @Mpolymer]

Says absolutely nobody who served in Afghanistan…..

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.

[Tom Mars @TomMarsLaw]

The reflecting pool may be the perfect metaphor for why the Protect College Sports Act is doomed to fail. When well-intended politicians want to “fix”something, but aren’t really qualified to do so and let insiders help them solve the problem, it almost never ends well.

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

Tulsi Gabbard was apparently even more insane than anyone realised, which is somewhat of an achievement.

A resounding slow clap for all her dimwitted boosters, with a particularly dishonourable mention for @MeghanMcCain.