ChrisBrad22

Everyone deserves a fair chance at a good life. #FlyEaglesFly

[ChrisBrad22 @cdb224]

@LizMair I think Liz Mair is a kook. A complete moron suffering from the same Conservative mind rot that continues to erode America’s singular greatness one sad day after the next. Yo have my permission to use this in your Wikipedia update

[ChrisBrad22 @cdb224]

@TempDaddy And now we get to Free Willie! Finally!

[ChrisBrad22 @cdb224]

@grok @annamlulis Has Donald Trump every been filmed or photographed carrying any one of his 5 children from 3 different mothers?

[ChrisBrad22 @cdb224]

@AccountableGOP @annamlulis No, she’s just fucking retarded.

[ChrisBrad22 @cdb224]

@WalshFreedom @abbydphillip @CNN Asshole liar @ScottJenningsKY was trying soooooo hard to blame Ukraine for fighting back against Putin & Russia. Jennings is such a piece of shit.

[ChrisBrad22 @cdb224]

@GovSherrillNJ @AndyKimNJ - why does every insurance company in America keep telling “That’s just how New Jersey makes it.” when I ask them why Auto Insurance is so God damn high and keeps going up every 6-12 months? Can’t one of you do something about this highway robbery?

[ChrisBrad22 @cdb224]

Hey @PabloTorre @pablofindsout - you mixed up Herm Edwards with Denny Green :)

[ChrisBrad22 @cdb224]

@unjected The last thing the world needs is more dumb fucks like chiming in with your know-nothing moronic opinions. Go read a book you fucking idiot.

[Dominik Hasek @hasek_dominik]

In a statement, the Washington Capitals expressed support for their employee Ovechkin—a long time supporter of Putin-the current world's greatest criminal-and supporter of other murderers who unleashed Russia's imperialist war in Ukraine. This statement ignores (continue)

[Dominik Hasek @hasek_dominik]

This statement ignores the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Ukrainians and Russians killed or maimed—casualties for which Ovechkin bears a significant share of responsibility through his public stance.

[ChrisBrad22 @cdb224]

@atrupar This guy is such a fucking moron.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true.

I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin.

Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions.

Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25.

Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha.

So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years.

PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice.

Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.

[ChrisBrad22 @cdb224]

@Jimfrombaseball Simply amazing. As a fan who follows stats there is nothing more frustrating then when your Ace gets little or no run support in his half dozen losses or NDs when 3 or 4 runs in those games would have been the difference between a great season and an historic one.

[Vedant Nair @vedantnair__]

Much has been said by racists, politicians, and racist politicians (like Bo French) about Indians and UT Austin admissions. I thought I should shed some light so their racism could be slightly more intelligent.

I'm a brown kid. I grew up in Frisco, went to a massive Texas high school, and went to UT.

I would wager that the kids in this picture and I have practically the same background. Like me, they probably went to a massive, pressure-cooker suburban Texas high school, and survived the gauntlet to earn their admissions.

These aren’t foreigners. State law requires 90% of UT's freshman class to be Texas residents. 75% of those in-state seats go to automatic admission on class rank. These are Texans.

Texas, for better or worse, is one of the few meritocratic college admissions schemes in the country for a school of its caliber. The rules are simple. Today, the top 5% of a public school's graduating class is automatically accepted. There is nothing to game. You can’t fake being a competitive rower or have some consultant write your essays for you. There isn’t anything to steal; it’s all there on the table to compete for.

And the competition starts the moment the bell rings for your first period of freshman year. You are ranked in your class every single year, for us, #1 to #450. You knew exactly where you were, exactly how hard you had to compete. My year was even less competitive than it is today. The top 6% made the cut, so that’s an all-out war for ~27 kids to get auto-accepted into UT.

So we worked our butts off. Here's what my life was like, starting in kindergarten.

Every summer, before the school year started, I had to finish the upcoming year's math textbook.

I sweated over getting As, even in elementary school. One funny memory is walking to my parents' room, crying, to report my first-ever 89 on a report card.

I did Kumon, my least favorite thing in the world. I still hate that weird half-smile that is their logo.

I went to math and science competitions, where I always lost, and came home crying again. (Quite the crybaby, wasn't I!)

And everyone else around me worked just as hard. Actually, a lot of the kids worked much harder. I know people who took extra classes (zero period) just to boost their GPA. Who routinely slept 5 hours a night to nail every assignment they had after band practice. Who were distraught when they got a 98 instead of a 100. People who stopped doing things they loved, like sports or arts, because those classes dragged down their GPA.

People put their entire life force into getting into this school.

I wasn't even in the top 10% of my class. The competition was too good. I wasn't disciplined enough to hang with them. I got in as one of the 22.5% of admits who are at-large Texans.

These are American kids who earned their way into this school in the most American way possible. Competition. They were told the rules, they competed, and they got the number. And on Saturday they were in that stadium in burnt orange, screaming their heads off, like every other Texan at DKR or around the country. I can’t feel anything but pride for them. That they get to live the dream that so many of us dreamt growing up!

Kids like this have helped improve UT’s standing on the national stage. They made it out of the pressure cooker and placed well in Finance, Big Tech, and more recently, startups. They meaningfully contribute to the economies of our state and country. You should be proud of them too.

Overall, this seems like a meritocratic (albeit flawed) way for Texans to be admitted to our state’s flagship school. It’s racially blind. But politicians like Bo French are asking for something different. They want the student body to rebalance racially.

Surely they aren’t advocating for affirmative action, are they?

[ChrisBrad22 @cdb224]

@Jimfrombaseball My Dad grew up in the 40s and 50s; a huge fan of the Phillies and all the legendary players of that era. He once told me that Dick Allen *should have been* one of the 5 or 10 greatest players of all time.

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"Dick Allen was ahead of his time.
He played the game in the most conservative era in baseball history.
It was a time of change and protest in the country.
His way of doing things would go unnoticed today.
If I had been Mgr. of the Phillies, I would have found a way to make Dick Allen comfortable.
When Dick Allen was comfortable, baseballs left the park."
Willie Stargell

[The Washington Sun @washingtonsun]

Welcome to The Washington Sun.
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[🇪🇺 Ratta Bagatta 🇮🇹🇺🇦 @RattaBagatta]

I giornalisti licenziati dallo storico The Washington Post da Jeff Bezos hanno fondato un nuovo giornale per combattere la disinformazione e le bufale dell’era Trump.
Diamo il benvenuto alla testata online The Washington Sun.

[ChrisBrad22 @cdb224]

@paytonsun @walterpayton Beautiful. You couldn’t have written a better tribute to Matt Suhey. To know that he was an even better man than he was a blocker, when he blocked for one of the greatest Running Backs to ever live, that’s saying it all.