Eric Farnsworth

Partner, international practice, global strategist in Washington effectively moving the policy needle

[Eric Farnsworth @ericfarns]

Let’s nominate @MariaCorinaYA for the Nobel Peace Prize. None better than she. Who’s with me? Re-post if you agree! #VenezuelaLibreYa #Venezuela

[Eric Farnsworth @ericfarns]

A modest proposal: most D1 schools should drop football. It’s ruinously expensive, dangerous, and in the world of NIL they can’t compete; they just develop players for the portal. For the others, sell teams to private equity, license the team name, and stop the “college” charade.

[Brian Drake @DrakeFantasy]

ESPN built and destroyed college football.

Conferences are bloated and nonsensical.

Bowl games are irrelevant.

Transfer portal ruins fan interest.

It will inevitably go to a football super league with regional divisions. Those will hopefully look like old traditional conferences that accentuate rivalries in your area. Not Oregon playing Maryland or Stanford at Boston College.

Some will get in. I’m afraid many schools get left behind and maybe that’s OK.

[Josh Rogin @joshrogin]

What a stunning fall from grace.

[José Díaz Briseño @diazbriseno]

One of the most pernicious features of Mexico under Sheinbaum/AMLO often overlooked by international outlets.

Detrimental both for Mexico’s democracy & economy.

Good for The Baffler to highlight it.

[Eric Farnsworth @ericfarns]

@SheryAhnNews You are one of the very best and I look forward to seeing your next chapter!

[Josh Rogin @joshrogin]

CCP Committee Chairman @RepMoolenaar says that @codepink is funded by dark money linked to China and Congress is investigating.

“The group that has come out most strongly against the CCP Committee, urging Hakeem Jeffries not to reauthorize it, is Code Pink.”

@VoCommunism

[Eric Farnsworth @ericfarns]

@laurieablair Political earthquake

[Laurence Blair @laurieablair]

Paraguay’s ruling Colorado Party formally expels ex-president Peña.

For context, they’ve never repudiated Stroessner, who murdered hundreds and stole billions.

[Eric Farnsworth @ericfarns]

You know things are headed in the wrong direction for your D1 football program when you highlight…the punter? 🫣

[Ball State Football @BallStateFB]

A punter to watch 👀

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

I graduated from IU with $57,000 in student loans. Worked my ass off through college to put myself in a position to get a job with my degree. Interned at Letterman in NYC (unpaid) my senior year where I slept on a guy's couch for 4 months and worked at ABC Sports on the weekend logging college football games for $200 and free food. When I finally graduated, I landed a gig back at Letterman answering phones for $600 a week while also working the weekends at ABC Sports for the same $200 and free food. Spent the next two years working my way up from receptionist to writers assistant and then finally became a writer thanks to Dave publicly making it happen during rehearsal of a bit I wrote for Biff Henderson called "Accountants Say The Darndest Things."

I did all of this while still paying off my student loans however I could.

In my experience over the last three decades, most people either don't want to work hard enough to actually pay off what they borrowed or would rather just give up and cry about life not being fair.

Newsflash - it's not.

Now tell your cousin to go work his ass off too and make it happen.

[Demetri @AsiaLens]

Can Jensen Huang survive as Nvidia’s CEO after spy scandal? https://t.co/1XDZwxvHd9 via @ft

[John Polga-Hecimovich @jpolga]

Arrested Development had it first?

[Mark Krikorian @MarkSKrikorian]

Trump Concedes Deportation Policy Was ‘Too Tough’ in First Post-Midterms Interview
https://t.co/qqJcBM7Rx5

If only someone had explained how to handle this:
https://t.co/nySrUxeYVj

[Eric Farnsworth @ericfarns]

@rinsana @EricLDaugh You missed the point, Ron. 😬

[Gregory Conti @GregoryConti19]

This is a very good column. Fitoussi doesn't quite put it this way, but the lesson is that now that the human monopoly on culture has vanished, serious criticism of art will simply die. If we can never know whether there is a human intention behind a scene, a word choice, a movement of the paintbrush, then we will be rendered utterly unable to *interpret* the work in question. We flatly will not be able to make sense of or appreciate these works as we have hitherto always done.

[Eric Farnsworth @ericfarns]

@Luis_Caneza @IvanGonzal68582 @wicary @mdmcdonald Bot say what

[Eric Farnsworth @ericfarns]

@jahootsen @thestustustudio Truth

[Stephen Gibbs @STHGibbs]

Elgar’s Nimrod played at the Cenotaph in London today.

[Eric Farnsworth @ericfarns]

Hugo Chavez and economic miracle don’t belong in the same sentence unless it’s a discussion on how to make Latin America’s wealthiest nation into a decrepit economic basket case. That does take quite a talent, to be sure.

[Daniel Di Martino @DanielDiMartino]

Salon—the website that published this garbage—has gone bankrupt.

😁

[Don Grace @dongrace69]

@pitchblacksteed One of the greatest scenes in British TV history.