It’s brutal sometimes but yah

The Billionaire, His Mystery Wife and College Football’s Wildest Recruiting Saga Why did Larry Ellison—a man with no known ties to Michigan—help the Wolverines land the nation’s No. 1 quarterback? The answer lies with a 33-year-old woman named Keren Zhu.

Top high school athletes now getting 8 figure offers to play college ball.

"he expected his son’s earnings to exceed $15 million during his Michigan career."

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Opinion | Recipe for a Regulatory Spring Cleaning Idaho did it. Why can’t the federal government?

"Idaho has proved deregulation is possible. The state repealed and revised its administrative rules code through a sunset review process in 2019. The results were dramatic. Since then, 95% of state regulations have been eliminated or simplified. The sky didn’t fall."

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Democrats Can Embrace Reality, or They Can Lose Again The left can’t not be the more progressive of the two parties, but it needs leaders who have significant differentiation from that core ideology.

"Harris’s score of 2.5 on a 0-10 ideological spectrum places her squarely in the middle of the left-of-center coalition. Trump, at 7.8, was seen as somewhat further off center. Nonetheless, voters placed themselves considerably closer to Trump [at 5.6]"

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Opinion | A columnist’s first 50 years One secret of column-writing: Offer platoons of facts that give readers the delight of discovery.

"An enchanting idea of heaven is this: endless learning. For the self-selected...learning is treasured as fun"

George F. Will at 50.

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the new Volvo

ok so we are doing this apparently

No probably not

PG

The All In podcast crew have cost him so much

What does the existence of Bluesky tell us about how long it would have taken to just throw away the entire twitter code base and start over?

Oh you passed

Just like moving every few years forces you to clean out every random corner and finally throw away that thing.

Painful but moving social networks seems really healthy.

All those mutuals from 3rd grade - gone. All those brands - gone. Bots - gone.

Does Bluesky have a brief shining moment much like the early 1996 internet when it was not to big and it was only really early adopters and the culture is amazing?

Assume it will be over in a month when all our grandparents show up

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