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Facts. Finch literally told JK they love his 3 point shot and to let it fly before the Houston game.
Kerr always had JK looking over his shoulder after each shot, EVEN WHEN SUCCESSFULLY SCORING.
Not only WOULD HE. But HE DID.
Several runs of JK doing everything he knew Kerr wanted, only to still be yanked and not told why until he heard something from the media.
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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.
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.
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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
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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.
Fantastic thread from Dan.
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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
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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
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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.
Children with large feet are better at math, but not after adjusting for age
Older people have >1000 time higher Covid mortality, and state average age differ by >10 years, so unadjusted state comparisons are misleading
@NateSilver538 may wish to consult a statistician
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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:
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.
Our momentum is growing and our solidarity only becoming stronger. There's no world where we accept a BS deal from the #AMPTP. The future of our livelihoods is at stake. Why would we sell out? #WGAstrong
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"Seventy-two percent of Americans are more sympathetic to the plight of television and film writers than that of television and film studios amid the strike, according to a @Gallup poll released Wednesday." #WGAstrike #1u #SagAftraStrike
Majority of Americans Support Writers, Actors Over Studios in Strikes, Gallup Poll Finds hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
