Eric Chesterton
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Sports betting is all over the news lately. Reminds me of the time my administration “negotiated” a $215 million no-bid contract to operate a sports gambling app that generated 1/20 of promised revenues and didn’t work for an entire Super Bowl.
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Sports betting is all over the news lately. Reminds me of the time my administration “negotiated” a $215 million no-bid contract to operate a sports gambling app that generated 1/20 of promised revenues and didn’t work for an entire Super Bowl.
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we gotta stop with the tiny microphones. get a full size mic like an ADULT. you look like you’re at tea with a mouse
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
we gotta stop with the tiny microphones. get a full size mic like an ADULT. you look like you’re at tea with a mouse
This sounds like a deeply unpleasant shopping experience.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This sounds like a deeply unpleasant shopping experience.
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Giving public space to restaurants and cafes and community gathering is really great, actually! Cities a fraction of the size of DC have incredible public spaces - even though private businesses are allowed to use some of that space in a regulated manner - but the result is a more dynamic city!
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Giving public space to restaurants and cafes and community gathering is really great, actually! Cities a fraction of the size of DC have incredible public spaces - even though private businesses are allowed to use some of that space in a regulated manner - but the result is a more dynamic city!
Important to not forget that Josh Giddey had sex with a minor.
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Important to not forget that Josh Giddey had sex with a minor.
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ive been saying this for years but the last thing i need is to hear more points of fucking view. points of view is how we got into this fucking mess. we need like a 99% reduction in points of fucking view. oh you've got an opinion about stuff do you? stick it up your ass dingus
November 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
ive been saying this for years but the last thing i need is to hear more points of fucking view. points of view is how we got into this fucking mess. we need like a 99% reduction in points of fucking view. oh you've got an opinion about stuff do you? stick it up your ass dingus
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If you are watching the NYC marathon today and are inspired to start running, please allow me to suggest run/walking. You don’t have to suffer! Run 8 minutes, walk 2. Run 90 secs, walk 30s. I run a minute, walk a minute. Be kind to your body. Enjoy being outside. Set yourself up for success.
November 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
If you are watching the NYC marathon today and are inspired to start running, please allow me to suggest run/walking. You don’t have to suffer! Run 8 minutes, walk 2. Run 90 secs, walk 30s. I run a minute, walk a minute. Be kind to your body. Enjoy being outside. Set yourself up for success.
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something under discussed is the fact that white house renovations are currently being spearheaded by someone with famously bad interior design taste
October 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
something under discussed is the fact that white house renovations are currently being spearheaded by someone with famously bad interior design taste
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Higher prices for parking during popular events is good, actually, as is charging more for SUVs. In this essay we will...
Price gouging at the World Series!
Thanks Frank McCourt
Thanks Frank McCourt
October 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Higher prices for parking during popular events is good, actually, as is charging more for SUVs. In this essay we will...
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i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
October 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
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We Are the Jonas Brothers and We Are Just as Confused as You Are blogs.fangraphs.com/we-are-the-j...
We Are the Jonas Brothers and We Are Just as Confused as You Are
Let he who hasn’t delayed the sixth inning of a World Series game in order to play half a song throw the first stone.
blogs.fangraphs.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We Are the Jonas Brothers and We Are Just as Confused as You Are blogs.fangraphs.com/we-are-the-j...
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“They’ve got money for ICE and golden ballrooms but not for hungry families” is so easy it’s almost funny
Johnson: Snap benefits is a unique situation. I got a summary of the legal analysis…the contingency funds are not legally available to cover the benefits right now
October 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“They’ve got money for ICE and golden ballrooms but not for hungry families” is so easy it’s almost funny
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A core feature of our unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis is that the Speaker of the House is permitted to performatively lie in public with impunity from the podium every day & the assembled media in front of him offer approximately no pushback at all on the lies.
Mike Johnson: "Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, 'Republicans are in charge of government.' We aren't!"
October 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A core feature of our unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis is that the Speaker of the House is permitted to performatively lie in public with impunity from the podium every day & the assembled media in front of him offer approximately no pushback at all on the lies.
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it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it
October 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it
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China just built the biggest bridge in the world, a modern marvel that set ten different world records. Meanwhile we are having the fucking New York Jets and Blackstone bribe our McDonald’s Pedophile President to build the ballroom equivalent of the Flanders house
He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
China just built the biggest bridge in the world, a modern marvel that set ten different world records. Meanwhile we are having the fucking New York Jets and Blackstone bribe our McDonald’s Pedophile President to build the ballroom equivalent of the Flanders house
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Never forget, long before he became a shitty President, he was a really, REALLY shitty land developer.
Walked by the White House today. Saw what appeared to be two tall excavators still at work. It’s hard to see from the street, but this article shows how the new ballroom will likely dwarf the White House.
wapo.st/3WjyJv8
wapo.st/3WjyJv8
How Trump’s ballroom will dwarf the White House
Trump’s new 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom would be almost as large as the rest of the complex.
wapo.st
October 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Never forget, long before he became a shitty President, he was a really, REALLY shitty land developer.
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im sorry but if you think “normies” dont care about the white house being demolished for a half billion dollar golden vanity ballroom as the economy implodes then you just arent as plugged in as you think you are
October 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
im sorry but if you think “normies” dont care about the white house being demolished for a half billion dollar golden vanity ballroom as the economy implodes then you just arent as plugged in as you think you are
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rushing to integrate undercooked, misrepresented, and misunderstood technology into every corner of our lives just so a handful of terrible people could make more money might have been a bad idea
“An artificial intelligence system apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.”
US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for firearm
Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspicious
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
rushing to integrate undercooked, misrepresented, and misunderstood technology into every corner of our lives just so a handful of terrible people could make more money might have been a bad idea
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we can do things differently, we just have to want to.
October 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
we can do things differently, we just have to want to.
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You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.
I liked the Platner ads too but I think there's a difference between "guy who had some bad reddit posts a decade ago" and "ex-Blackwater merc who still has a Nazi tattoo." Sucks bigtime that he's the only one taking positions and talking policy I like, but them's the breaks!
October 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.
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i really hope i live to see a time where it again feels like education for its own sake is seen as a social good
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
i really hope i live to see a time where it again feels like education for its own sake is seen as a social good
Wouldn’t need money. I think you’d have no problem finding a citizen team of volunteers!
The next president has to tear the goddamn thing down. I am not kidding. Use private money. It can be found. Make a show of it.
October 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Wouldn’t need money. I think you’d have no problem finding a citizen team of volunteers!
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The next president has to tear the goddamn thing down. I am not kidding. Use private money. It can be found. Make a show of it.
October 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The next president has to tear the goddamn thing down. I am not kidding. Use private money. It can be found. Make a show of it.
Totally on board with the spirit of this idea. In practice, how do these costumes not get completely disgusting?
Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).
OPERATION INFLATION
www.operationinflation.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Totally on board with the spirit of this idea. In practice, how do these costumes not get completely disgusting?