Oy vey! Puff pieces on aspiring fascists?

America could use someone like James Ledbetter writing about the media and someone like Molly Ivins writing about the profiles in cowardice on Capitol Hill.

NYT is too invested in access journalism to do the truth telling required in this moment.

Did we not make John Roberts more paranoid? Did you see his latest statement to his lessers (check that: our fellow Americans)? What more do you expect from us?

Oh, you're saying he was already like that. Hmmm. Maybe.

SNAFU

Ready to go to work, awaiting further instructions, Sir

Very smart players with an experienced, creative coach. Looks like improvisation, but it's actually variation on a theme. Jazz on the hardwood

This is inarguably true.

Also inarguably true: you, Kate, were delightful to watch on a basketball court. Your final team at Stanford was so good and so smart.

"Everyone watches women's sports" because they're great theater.

Two forces at play here: 1. Some experts want their audience to believe that they have inside knowledge, so they pretend they do 2. When this kind of thing happens, confirmation bias insures that people remember it and not all of the other times that it didn't

Josh Hart trending up
OKC trending up

I was living in Pico-Robertson that night.

Terrifying

If you've never been through a big earthquake, you have no idea.

Ben Wikler is very good. As an active NC Dem, the disconnect between the national party and the state party is a real problem. Outsiders come into this state with bad ideas and worse execution. A national chair who's open to input from smart people on the ground like Anderson Clayton would help.