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  1. As a coach, I would one hundred percent rather have my athletes playing a second sport. So much benefit to having most players doing that, more than you’ll likely get from the 18 practice spring ball schedule.
  2. “Male sperm count is down across the board.” ”I don’t put my sperm on a board, I have an old Bon Jovi shirt for that.” Fucking lost it. I cannot remember laughing harder in recent memory.
  3. This is, I think, the best chart that shows what was/is going on in DC WRT crime and how residents feel. This will be TL; DR post. You’ll have to zoom in. The red is carjackings, the yellow is murder, the orange is DC’s “violent crime index.” Up front: It’s not true that DC is in the throes of the worst crime/violent crime wave ever, there was a drop in 2024, and there’s no reason to federalize the city. There’s some things that are absolutely true though. 1. It’s absolutely true that crime in DC right now really and truly is significantly and notably worse than it was not that long ago and well within memory of most residents and a complete reversal of the success story that got started in the late 1990s. It is not vibes or perception, it’s real. Those numbers represent bodies and horrifying victimizations and it is a quality of life issue for the entire city. Residents have every right to want to get back to mid-2010s DC and we are nowhere close. 2. Lots of cities around the country saw crime spikes associated with COVID and unrest around 2020s; DCs was both more dramatic and has lasted longer. 3. DC is not the most dangerous city in the country; places like Memphis or Baton Rouge have bigger problems. At the same time DC is more like those cities than it is say, NYC or Boston and that’s an issue for the national capital and aspiring Tier 1 city. We for sure want to be more like NYC than St. Louis. 4. Carjackings represent a particular problem because it’s crime that impacts civilians who just want to go about their lives. A year or two where a gang turf war gets out of hand is terrible, but the risk to most law-abiding people is pretty low. With the spate of carjackings all of the sudden people with no nexus to criminality are being victimized in pretty terrifying and brutal ways with few mitigating options aside from “don’t drive.” That’s not sustainable and it’s going to cause blowback. 5. The carjackings have gotten better but it’s still ridiculously, stupidly bad. Everyone knows who is doing it— a small (like, a couple dozen) number of minors probably account for about fifty percent of that number. And you can also look at a heat map and see that there are much fewer in Maryland and basically zero in Virginia even though it’s five minutes away. The reason is obvious, your ass will get locked up in those states and if you read the reports you will see that a substantial number of teen carjackers actually come in from Maryland specifically to do crime because there has been almost no consequences as long as you did it in the district. 6. Beyond the numbers, DC is a lot smaller than people realize— it’s about 700k people and a really small footprint. You can do a lot to avoid the disorder and risk but again, it’s not NYC and the crime is happening close to you almost no matter who you are. 7. I honestly don’t know why the “violent crime index” is out of whack with the murders and carjackings. That’s something to dive into. It’s safe to say that the level of petty crime and non-violent crime and “takeovers” resulting in property damage and malicious loitering has also gone noticeably up than where it was not too long ago and that also got people pissed off. Putting special officers in the metro has made that experience a lot better but it’s also completely fair to say that it was a step that came too late and only after a lot of denial. Anyway, the National Guard aren’t going to fix the problem and I am concerned that all this will do is spike the forward momentum to address the issues that had finally happened, because this will give a lot of ammo to the irresponsible wing of local politicians to continue doing nothing.
  4. There is an important flip side to this: if they don’t follow orders half-assedly, this admin will find someone to follow them enthusiastically. Letting some feds in uniform wander around Georgetown for the cameras is a pretty decent outcome to this shitshow. They know what they’re doing here.
  5. I haven’t seen a real internet message board meet to fight challenge in some years now. This is the MAGA I’m here for.
  6. Aesthetics of Oppression would be a great band name.
  7. Lol, I loved this tweet from Markwayne. You do HVAC contracting in Tulsa big dawg, let’s calm down.
  8. All of Trump’s gripes about Zelenskyy and ideas about how Ukraine should behave are simply reflections of how Trump himself thinks and behaves. And bad news, it reveals how Trump can (and does) treat America. Trump is frustrated when Zelenskyy says the Ukrainian constitution won’t allow him to surrender land because he has never viewed the American Constitution as a binding commitment he has to adhere to and can’t imagine why Zelenskyy would. He can’t understand why Ukrainians would fight against a much larger and stronger enemy at great cost to themselves because he would never do anything but surrender. He cannot understand why Ukrainians would refuse to surrender towns and cities to brutal Russian occupation in exchange for self-preservation because he does not care about America and would gladly hand over American land and souls to Russia or anyone if it meant he came out ahead. it’s all just a mirror of his own personality disorders. Someone for whom literally everything is transactional.
  9. The DC circuit has ruled that even though Congress has the power of the purse, there’s only one person in the entire United States who has standing to actually seek relief over illegal impoundment (the head of the GAO). So if he or she doesn’t, everyone else can just get fucked. Oh, and the head of the GAO is appointed by the president and the current one will see his term expire this year. America sure was a decent idea. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/13/humanitarian-groups-cannot-challenge-trumps-impoundment-of-foreign-aid-grants-appeals-court-rules-00507106
  10. That time period was when things were coming to a head on integration; courts were ordering districts to enforce the “equal” part of separate but equal; and the entire trend nationally was away from Jim Crow and segregation. The naming was nothing to do heritage, it was an extremely savvy and pointed political message about who the schools were for and what the political class believed. You couldn’t name a school “we hate integration middle school” so you named it “Stonewall Jackson.”
  11. All through Texas you can pinpoint when schools named after Confederate leaders were opened and it’s almost always going to be in the 1950s-60s.
  12. Pelosi was a Tip O’Neil type talent in the House and in truth Mitch was too just for evil most of the time. Schumer is not on the level of those two but I don’t see anyone on the D bench in the Senate with their type of talent. The Dems have a lot of issues but he’s well down the list.
  13. The Senate majority and minority leader is not someone you select for bold and inspirational rhetorical and ideological leadership; it’s someone who needs to win legislative knife fights and wrangle the party. When you’re a minority leader coming off a presidential election, job one is literally to not get in the way of the incumbent’s party fucking things up. The most politically successful senate leader in the past century was LBJ and let’s not rewrite history: the left wing of the party fucking hated him and he got the VP nod in a bid to appeal to racists. Much like Biden, he passed some of the most progressive legislation we’ve seen by running from the center. You know what other senate leader polls dismally from his base? Mitch Fucking McConnell. He’s RINO number one, most hated swamp creature and yet Mitch Fucking McConnell is the man most responsible for all the horrible fucking GOP wins we see. The Dems need their own creatures like him.
  14. A record number of confirmed federal judges and a remarkable record of getting Biden’s agenda passed in a 50-50 chamber.
  15. If I had to choose between a grizzly bear and big spiders, I’d choose the spider but would for sure pause a minute.
  16. Loomer: Lots of people are telling me that Lindsey Graham is gay. Lawyer: We actually haven’t started asking questions but ok.
  17. I don’t disagree with you here but it’s wild to get up in arms at him for what he’s been doing to win elections since 1980. I wouldn’t back him for a national election but the Democrats could do much, much worse. He and Mitch both have been a bit of a firewall against some damage in a way people don’t appreciate if they don’t geek out on beltway shit.
  18. More HRC than Bill. Schumer is a retail politician par excellence. And a sophisticated Washington legislator. He’s not the face of the national Democratic Party and doesn’t want to be.
  19. The guy wants to be a Senator from New York and he’s wildly successful at that and delivers for his constituents. The entire gripe here from John Oliver is that he tries to triangulate what he should do based on where he needs votes.
  20. Chuck Schumer has been winning elections to the U.S Senate for 26 years and elections to the House since before I was born, so I’ll need another argument for how his political instincts suck. It’s really bizarre to me how much shit Democrats shovel onto their most successful representatives.
  21. NYC is the textbook example of a place that it is rich enough and deep enough with human capital that it’s almost impossible to fuck it up unless you’re a committed ideologue. All you need is “good enough” and things will buff out. Eric Adams is a super corrupt moron and he’s managed to make NYC mostly better by confining himself to grifting off of Erdogan.
  22. It is honestly difficult to imagine a better scenario for the GOP than the Dems debating “who is correct on Palestine” as part of 2028, FFS. Foreign policy in general is a big loser for generals and this one in particular is the biggest loser.
  23. This one and the “who goes Nazi” essay are required reading. https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
  24. The British lost the war after a Prussian turned the Continental Army into a real fighting force and the French blockade and assistance. Most engagements were with line infantry. The citizen soldier in the bushes is mostly a myth.
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