Evan Ball

I write cool shit.

[bomani @bomani_jones]

ok, euphoria isn't the most digestible thing i've ever heard. it's super duper dense, which can make it hard to listen to. i get that.

but my goodness, there are so many body punches in that. i mean OOF after OOF after OOF.

kendrick HATES that man.

[Evan Ball @evanistics]

Would love to see Kaepernick get a shot at backup QB for @chargers.

[IrredeemablyNBA @IrredeemablyNBA]

Look at these Kuminga stats. lol

[Evan Ball @evanistics]

Every year people underestimate the value of linemen in the offseason, then every year linemen remind us how incredibly important they are in the postseason. Lions absolutely CONTROLLING the LOS, and of course, the game.

[Evan Ball @evanistics]

@IrredeemablyNBA @NateDuncanNBA @johnhollinger Goddamn, thank you for calling this out. All too common. I get that big names probably need to comment on everything, but its hard to just see the same repeated points when there's glaring evidence to the contrary.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Mehdi’s style of confrontational interviews, in which he doesn’t let public figures get away with lies or half true talking points, turned him into a celebrated journalist in the UK before he moved here to try that out here.

His show’s cancellation is such a pathetic indictment of the U.S. media

[Evan Ball @evanistics]

@JeffThomasTV My dude! On point to every single degree. Appreciate you being a good human as always.

[Evan Ball @evanistics]

God this app gets worse week by week.

[Evan Ball @evanistics]

@maximilian_ Pleasure meeting you last night, brother. I have a few follow up questions for a project I'm working on if you're up for it. My best to you and the family.

[Evan Ball @evanistics]

@BB_Chargers Definitely one of Herbert's worst games in a long time.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Separate to the injustice & illegality of it, there is a fundamental racism to suggesting Gazans just up & move to Egypt & other Arab countries. Folks, Arabs aren’t all the same. No one asked Northern Irish Catholics to just relocate to France because they’re all white Europeans.

[Evan Ball @evanistics]

Fantastic thread from Dan.

[Dan Carlin @HardcoreHistory]

Palestinian leadership has once again made a decision that will IN NO WAY improve the lives of their people. There is NO POSITIVE outcome for them here (except to personally bolster their chances to stay in power). They have hurt their cause(s) and increased the suffering in Gaza

[Writers Guild of America West @WGAWest]

Governor @GavinNewsom's veto of #SB799 is a dismissal of the working people that have supported him. For 148 days, members of the WGA struck against companies who intended to drive writers into financial ruin. 1/2

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

I guess it’s fine to not gratuitously dunk on a lawmaker when they die, but I also dont really get liberals’ impulse to aggressively deify a blue-state senator who helped Bush facilitate the Iraq War, opposed regulating big banks & scoffed at kids worried about climate apocalypse

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

I am a statistician. I'm also a statistician with a good bullshit detector.

There is little variation in age by state. And to the extent there is, it doesn't argue in your favor. The four oldest states are West Virginia (very red), Florida (pretty red), Maine (pretty blue) and Vermont (very blue).

What are their COVID death rates (per 1M population) since Feb. 1, 2021 (i.e. post-vaccine?):

West Virginia: 3454
Florida: 2992
Maine: 1881
Vermont: 1210

These states all have the ~same elderly population, and yet there are huge variations in COVID death rates that line up 1:1 with partisan differences in vaccine uptake.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I have said it before and I’ll say it again: the biggest divide in our politics today is not right v left but awful people vs not-awful people.

As @AdamSerwer might say, the cruelty here is the point:

[Josiah Johnson @KingJosiah54]

Caleb Williams after USC beat Colorado

[Evan Ball @evanistics]

@jemelehill With a shell of the offensive line that he had in 2012 at that.

[Evan Ball @evanistics]

Fun fact: Fuqua's The Equalizer (2014) tracks closer to the plot of the novel Tom Clancy's Without Remorse than the movie Without Remorse (2021) does.

[corteccs @corteccs]

Since everyone is talking #MK1 story and I want to hear none of that before I play the game, I'ma shift focus to the story of the @MKMovie.

Long story short: I think it missed an opportunity to be a solid film, largely because it tried to please too many masters. Let's dive in.