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Mills has opposed corporate tax hikes, opposes abolishing the filibuster, and hasn't committed to impeaching SCOTUS justices.

And Mills hasn't exactly been a gun control stalwart. She's gotten grades from an A to F from the NRA. And she's not committed to Medicare for All like Platner is.

Platner's stated Senate goals are unambiguously more progressive than Mills and he is unambiguously more likely to beat Collins.

I understand advocating against him in the primary but to put it starkly: this is a willingness to trade a Senate majority to reject Platner's personal issues.

I know people who take the train!

Making adjustments? Running plays that actually get open looks to your good shooters? What is this witchcraft and where can Ime Udoka learn it?

very fine people on both sides!

oh I agree, I think even if they did that they wouldn't really go anywhere. Amen is the single worst jump shooter in the NBA and you can't win that way.

but teams were effectively guarding Westbrook the same way even though he was a better 3 point shooter, sagging off and strictly playing the drive

We look at the Lakers and even in their diminished starting lineup, they've got two 40%+ three point shooters and only one true non-shooter (Ayton)

we have one (1) 40% shooter on the entire roster and we start two guys who are sub-25% three point shooters

I'd agree that if they truly believe this, they're not revealing that by building around him as a 6'7" Giannis or Westbrook or whatever as an attacking non-shooting ballhandler.

But also Udoka clearly does not believe in shooting and spacing. Even if he loves Amen in that way, he's the wrong guy.

I don't necessarily consider it "disenfranchising" - single-member geography-based districts mean you have to draw lines somewhere - but doing it in pursuit of naked partisanship is still pretty craven, even if it's tit-for-tat

yeah I mean my animal brain thrills at seeing the R gambit for redistricting totally blow up in their face, but normatively it's still bad and they probably shouldn't do it

just a note that most of the centrists on x dot com that everyone on this site hates and accuses of being secret trump supporters are all cheering the VA gerrymandering electoral result

either Amen and Sengun learn how to shoot this offseason or we tank and go for top picks with our 2027/2029 stockpiles

I really wanted to like those jerseys... sigh...

Still better than the Kevin Porter season

contenders don't cope over losing their 4th best guy (FVV). OKC lost their second best guy for most of the year and didn't miss a beat.

the roster is what it is. maybe that means the rebuild was a bust and this team's "young core" can't even make it out of the first round, but this is the roster. so it's either time for another teardown, or a coaching change. it cannot be "run it back."

nah Ime said we didn't need more scoring on the floor

rockets internet fanbase says things like this unironically tho

facts

ok so: the median cash on hand for American households is $8000 based on a 4000 household survey, and that is enough to flatten out the peaks and valleys for those who are at the peak of their budgeting and the valleys of their budgeting

Do you accept 4,000 households as an apt sample size

Trump on dropping the DOJ probe: “We have to find out” why the Fed spent so much money on the building renovation.

Kernen tried (repeatedly) to give him a way to say he’d drop the probe to get Warsh in and Trump is talking about how maybe “Too Late” [Powell] is stealing money.

There's a tiny detail in the Atlantic story that reveals how books on pressing news really come together. Reporters don't hold their most important stories for personal gain, the way everyone on Bluesky thinks.

Kirk Cousins and Donald Trump are both listed at 6'3"

I spent 21 hours traveling by train to avoid flights. Was it worth it? We traded a low price for a longer trip with national park views, spotty WiFi and moments of relaxation and restlessness.

The Post's travel reporter Andrea Sachs embarked on a 10-hour Amtrak journey from D.C. to Charleston, West Virginia, trading a low price for a longer trip with national park views, spotty WiFi and moments of relaxation.

Here's how it went:

My park-loving friend laments how some very prime land in DC is dedicated to public golf courses

the most uncomfortable thing are the people who claim you're "wasting" time in an airport. in the days of laptops, ubiquitous wi-fi, kindles, etc there's basically nothing you can't do in an airport if you really want. smacks of startup-hustle culture time-maxxing. chill out, enjoy the airport

I don't know if that's a common experience or not. I know airline customer service tends to swing wildly between "they treat you like a King" and "they'll spit in your eye if you ask a single question" so idk

I don't like missing flights but I'm also never bored at airports.

But everyone's mad at this guy... the one (1) time I missed a flight they rebooked me on the next flight at the cost of a change fee (like $60?) I didn't have to buy a whole new ticket