Greg Homer, former headmaster at Christ Episcopal School who forged a legacy as a down-to-earth, solution-driven educator whose unassuming demeanor often resulted in him being mistaken for a campus maintenance
Pelicans offense and defensive ratings charted over a 10 game rolling basis. Can you spot the huge stretch of games Herb Jones missed?
Countries that control their own currency cannot default on their debt.
Interviewed by WBRZ concerning Diocese of Baton Rouge clergy sexual abuse cases.
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
NEW: For weeks, a mysterious figure was embedded in the Pelicans' inner circle. The team now confirms Jordan Dumars, son of EVP Joe Dumars, is a "Basketball Operations Consultant."
My story on the opaque power structure in NOLA:
intheno.substack.com/p/pelicans-c...
It was a fun game to watch despite the loss. Queen was awesome
This one of the most insane contracts of the offseason the minute it happened. End Loomis' reign of terror on this poor fanbase
Herb Jones with a -22 tonight. Yikes.
Not to mention the Pelicans are a dumpster fire of an organization.
Ok what’s going on here?
Yields are going up which means bond prices are going down.
Fewer buyers of the world’s safest asset.
Normally when the economy slows, there’s a flight to safety, not away from it.
Means the world may be abandoning America.
We are flirting with a true crisis.
Tweet from @TheStalwart 10-year just keeps surging (image of 10yr treasury bond yields up 0.1%pt to 4.4%
I am actually scared now
what a visual
SCOOP: Trump personally selected now widely-mocked formula for determining country-specific tariffs from a menu
Numerous aides had for weeks been at work crafting country-specific tariffs that took into account a broad range of tariff & non-tariff barriers
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
But the WTO has no enforcement power. It can issue rulings but no one has to actually listen to them.
Most Americans seem to understand that “Liberation Day” is about liberating them from cash in their wallets.
My latest. stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...
The funniest thing about all this is Joe Biden built a "bring back US manufacturing" button and Trump could have just kept pressing it but instead he insisted on smashing the "crash the stock market" button
This is so incredibly stupid. The United States is not like a household. It cannot go bankrupt.
"Private-sector employment increased by an estimated 77,000 jobs in February, according to ADP. That’s a dramatic drop-off from the strong job growth of 186,000 seen in January and barely half the 142,500 net gain that economists had expected..."
www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/e...
Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."
A VERY informative read on social security solvency
Someone on Reddit posted what it was like inside a cybertruck getting pelted by beads in a Mardi Gras parade.
Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.
Zion is up to 14th in expected EPM and 16th in actual EPM.
He's been playing at an All-NBA level
“There is a growing fear now that Donald Trump is poised to take an American economy that was the envy of the world—strong and stable just months ago—and drive into the ground,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
NBA players ranked by points per game per 36 minutes over the last month
1) Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: 36.3 PTS, 23.8 FGA, 49.8 FG%, 4.8 REB, 6.8 AST, 2.3 TOV, 1.4 STL, 1.1 BLK
2) Zion Williamson: 35.6 PTS, 22.3 FGA, 61.8 FG%, 8.8 REB, 5.5 AST, 3.4 TOV, 2.0 STL, 0.9 BLK
www.nba.com/stats/player...
