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Jeffrey Parker
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NC to NOLA via Chicago. Urban sociology, doughnuts, indie rock—order depends on the day. Views my own, but ultimately a singular instantiation of the collective process of knowledge production, so really who’s to say. https://www.jeffreynparker.com
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New Orleans, LA, USA
March 18, 2025
“Your boos are not scaring me! I know most of you are not ghosts!”
I know other people have pointed this out, but it really is an underrated joy watching a Wembanyama highlight, seeing something amazing, and then realizing that there are like 20 second left in the video and you have no idea what else he's going to do.
It's like they're vertically integrating corruption.

Seriously, this has the potential to give us the first presidential administration in history to point shave elections. Real innovation in the field of graft.
Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over?

Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen.

www.ft.com/content/4855...
I think that disincentivizes teams from building teams to protect absurd hitters. What’s hilarious about Ohtani is who’s hitting behind him and they’re STILL walking him.
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Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.
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Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!
BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the University of California's request that it block the release of a 28-page, $1.2-billion fine Trump administration UCLA settlement offer. UC is required to give a faculty group the document today. www.latimes.com/california/s...
UC must publicly release Trump administration's $1.2-billion settlement proposal
The California Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from the University of California to block the release of a roughly $1.2-billion Trump UCLA settlement. UCLA is required to share the document...
www.latimes.com
Luke Kornet out here on his way to dropping 30 entirely on uncontested dunks like he’s young Shaq because the Pels have to triple team Wemby.
Also, what Wemby did to AD last night had vibes of that two-leg Champions League knockout between Tottenham Hotspur and Inter Milan back when Maicon was arguably the best right back in the world and then it took two games for Gareth Bale to basically end his career.
Really wish Bill Walton was around to be the color commentator on last night's Wemby game.
Moderates DO control the party and that’s how we got Schumer and Jeffries, neither of whom is remotely capable of meeting the moment with Trump. The NYT can talk about purple districts all it wants, but one reason people hate Democrats is because they think they don’t stand for anything.
This is something the piece misses. It’s not just about winning elections, but governing. Emanuel got a bunch of Blue Dogs elected in 2006, and they all lost the next cycle because they didn’t do anything anyone liked AND they impeded progress on things like the ACA.
They also sort of bury the lede, waiting until the 38th(!) paragraph to point out that the last four Democratic presidential candidates— all moderates— have been terrible. Seems kind of important!
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From the article referenced below: tldr esp. in authoritarian systems, mediocrities and worse tend to go into the secret police b/c those with better performance have better opportunities elsewhere, so secret police gets the dregs who are extra-dependable because the thing they can offer is loyalty
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I’ve been thinking about how hard the founding fathers cooked with the Third Amendment.

Imagine being forced to house ICE. I can’t imagine they wash their hands. They’ve never done laundry in their lives. They’d break your stuff if you didn’t cut the crusts off their sandwiches.
But taking Dem wins in Trump districts and SHOCKINGLY finding that they’re moderates, and then extrapolating that to a generalizable statement about appropriate political strategy elsewhere is just bad methodology. I’m agnostic as to whether it’s bad out of ignorance or cynicism.
There are of course all sorts of times when it’s totally fine to sample in the dependent variable— you might want to understand extreme cases, for example, so you look for them.
“One way to see the pattern is to examine the 17 Democrats — 13 in the House, four in the Senate — who last year won in places that Mr. Trump also won.”

I don’t expect very much from the NYT, but come on. I’ll take “sampling on the dependent variable” for $500, Alex.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
Opinion | America Still Has a Political Center, and It’s the Key to Winning
www.nytimes.com
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Off the top of my head, in the past few weeks ICE/CBP has:
- handcuffed/detained an alderwoman
- pointed a gun at a state rep
- threatened another alderwoman w/ arrest for watching them
- abducted an alder's chief of staff & elected district councilor
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it was la. then dc. then chicago. now san francisco.

begging people to pay attention to what’s happening. it’s not just *somewhere else*—it’ll be your city soon.
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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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Haunting photo posted by the 40th Ward Instagram. The caption says that the photo represents the remnants of two workers who were taken by ICE today. Chilling.