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Scott Imberman
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Education 60%
Economics 14%

At least for baseball stadiums or arenas (w/ bball and hockey) you can count on 80 to 100 days of use. Obv the number of people each day is smaller but they get better regular use.

Missouri, as usual when states lose in stadium battles, likely dodged a bullet. The idea that football stadiums, which are used, at best, less than 20 times a year, pay for themselves through taxes has always been ludicrous, even if we ignore displacement of other local economic activity.
Economist Geoff Propheter: "Chiefs games and concerts, using the stupidest, most unreasonably generous assumptions I can't justify without laughing, only gets the state to 33% of the way to the annual debt service needed under existing tax policy."
Experts debate just how many billions of dollars Kansas will lose on Chiefs stadium deal
It's been a whole 48 hours since the last Kansas City Chiefs stadium update — here's what's been happening: After my back-of-the-envelope estimates on Monday that tax revenue from a Chiefs stadium wou...
www.fieldofschemes.com

This entire country needs a sarcasm detector.

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Economist Geoff Propheter: "Chiefs games and concerts, using the stupidest, most unreasonably generous assumptions I can't justify without laughing, only gets the state to 33% of the way to the annual debt service needed under existing tax policy."
Experts debate just how many billions of dollars Kansas will lose on Chiefs stadium deal
It's been a whole 48 hours since the last Kansas City Chiefs stadium update — here's what's been happening: After my back-of-the-envelope estimates on Monday that tax revenue from a Chiefs stadium wou...
www.fieldofschemes.com

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I'm generally hopeful; I think 2026 will be different from 2025; I think things are turning around; I believe that we will win. But man, going into next year with a huge attack on child-care providers is pretty dispiriting, not gonna lie.

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I missed this whole exchange earlier in the month.//When the numbers don’t look right, check them! (Mississippi education update) statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/04/w...
When the numbers don’t look right, check them! (Mississippi education update) | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

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"America’s Housing Crunch Has the Wrong Villain" www.aei.org/economics/am...
"Institutional investors aren’t the cause of housing distortions but a response to them."
I looked how many programs are estimated to be over the new annual loan limits ($20,500 per year for "graduate," $50,000 per year for professional). 4,429 of 17,297 graduate programs and 331 of 1,120 professional programs have per-student averages above the new limits. This is cause for alarm.
This article about Trump policy toward Russia and Ukraine is exceptional but I just want to focus on what a vacuous tool Pete Hegseth is:
Example 1 - he refused to meet with his predecessor:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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That’s the problem though, Peter? Doesn’t the illegal and immoral stuff need to be repeated over and over even if it’s repetitive and boring because we need people to take action on illegal and immoral stuff? The idea you have to be original is part of the problem here.

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Seeing an argument about whether President Trump (personally, not his Administration) is “interesting,” with scorn for someone saying he’s not.

Here’s a challenge: think of something to say about him that a) isn’t obvious, b) hasn’t already been said, and c) your audience doesn’t already know.

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This is the second pediatric #flu death I've seen in 2 days. I'm so sorry for the pain their families must feel. Unclear if either was vaccinated but odds are they were not, as most such deaths are in unvaccinated children.
‘He was loved by all’: 14-year-old dies after suffering complications from the flu
An Alabama community is mourning the loss of a teenager who died due to reported complications from the flu.
www.fox19.com
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.

A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.
futurism.com

Yikes
I am determined as God is my witness to start the Trump fake hand conspiracy theory. His hand isn't showing signs of an undisclosed illness. It's a fake painted Halloween costume hand because his hand was already removed. It's time.

Smart move.

We are getting really close to some DOJ lawyers ending up in jail.
Breaking:

Emails just released by a federal judge show that Justice Department leaders pushed to charge Kilmar Abrego Garcia — raising serious questions about whether Department officials had misled a judge in telling him that local prosecutors had acted alone in charging Abrego.
Justice Dept. Leaders Pushed to Charge Abrego Garcia, Emails Show
www.nytimes.com

Really dumb and petty as he will look completely impotent when the veto is overridden.
NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...
Trump vetoes bill to fund Arkansas Valley conduit in Colorado
President Trump vetoed a bill to fund a pipeline project to bring clean drinking water to communities on the Eastern Plains between Pueblo and Lamar.
www.9news.com

The project it funds is primarily for his voters.
Breaking:

Emails just released by a federal judge show that Justice Department leaders pushed to charge Kilmar Abrego Garcia — raising serious questions about whether Department officials had misled a judge in telling him that local prosecutors had acted alone in charging Abrego.
Justice Dept. Leaders Pushed to Charge Abrego Garcia, Emails Show
www.nytimes.com
NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...
Trump vetoes bill to fund Arkansas Valley conduit in Colorado
President Trump vetoed a bill to fund a pipeline project to bring clean drinking water to communities on the Eastern Plains between Pueblo and Lamar.
www.9news.com

Also, I have little doubt this will get stopped pretty quickly in court. If they targeted a few specific day care operations, they would have better luck but they don’t like Tim Walz so they’re gonna try the hard way.

I’m not sure they really thought through what this will do. I mean they might have, and don’t care, but MN is still an outside swing state. D’s wouldn’t mind R’s just giving up on it as thousands of angry parents who can’t get to work revolt.
BREAKING

The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.

Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.

It’s easy. My wife and kid got it a few weeks ago and I chose not to (also all of us are vaccinated).
BREAKING

The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.

Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.

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Pretty sure this is the best reporting I've seen explaining this youtube.com/shorts/f_l9X...
What’s going on with the daycares in Minneapolis?
YouTube video by Dave Jorgenson
youtube.com
I’m not gonna dunk on some small depressed account, but one reply I get to this is “you think there’s gonna be elections/Trump will listen to judges??” And I wonder how people haven’t noticed that Garcia is home and free and Republicans got crushed in elections this year
We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.
www.liberalcurrents.com
uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"

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It is irresponsible and dangerous for the CMS Administrator (a physician who knows better) to downplay the importance of getting the flu vaccine.

Reminder: The US had ~38,000 flu deaths in the 2024-25 season.
Dr. Oz on the "super flu": "Every year there's a flu vaccine. It doesn't always work very well. That's why it's been controversial of late. But like many illnesses, the best news out there is if you can take care of yourself so that when you do end up running into the flu, you can overwhelm it."