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Clay Ranck
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PA hills is great. I had a couple bosses when I was young that had beautiful homes up there.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
clayranck.bsky.social
I mean, if money’s really no object, I want:

-A place in San Francisco
-A house with a pool in the Napa Valley for weekending
-A vacation home at the Mauna Kea on the big island in Hawaii
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
clayranck.bsky.social
I’m surprised you wouldn’t rank San Diego higher for the sailing.
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
clayranck.bsky.social
I assume there had to be some sort of minimum population requirement.
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
clayranck.bsky.social
Any poll asking that question where the top answer isn’t San Diego is suspicious.
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
clayranck.bsky.social
Apparently it’s a real estate website poll, so definitely not credible for methodology. finance.yahoo.com/news/top-10-...
Top 10 Cities Americans Would Move To If ‘Money Was No Object’
If you had all the money in the world, where would you want to live? That's the question that Home Bay, a real estate advice website, posed to its readers. See: 8 Places in California Where Home...
finance.yahoo.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
clayranck.bsky.social
The obvious choice for which city in Texas would be the best to live in is San Antonio.
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
clayranck.bsky.social
True, but I can see the case for either of them more than Dallas.

(I suspect Vegas was the answer a lot of rural people gave)
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
clayranck.bsky.social
True, but the other listed cities don’t suck like Dallas.
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
clayranck.bsky.social
Houston is much better than Dallas, though. Real Texans know this.
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
clayranck.bsky.social
More seriously, this is probably the correct explanation. It’s people in the Dallas suburbs and exurbs that would move into the city if they could. bsky.app/profile/jake...
jakegotta.bsky.social Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 6h
Los Angeles has the highest number because it has the largest suburban/exurban footprint of people who work in the city or city adjacent but cannot afford to live there

The list is not people who would move across the country from one metro to another. It’s a list of forced suburbanization.
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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She actually paired them together for a 2nd amendment debate. Alan is probably the only lawyer that isn’t a rabid right-winger who will return her phone calls. bsky.app/profile/clay...
clayranck.bsky.social Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 9h
All that charisma got Alan and Dana 1,300 views of their debate. Truly what America has been hungering for.
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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He has important “exclusive” scoops to report like a slight change in alcohol sales in Saudi Arabia, and reporters asking questions about that is suspicious, apparently.
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@semaforben X.com I hope I'm not overreacting, but it makes me crazy when people I think of as reporters do this "just asking questions" stuff. Feel free to report it out by googling/asking me/reading our various scoops and reports about the region — these two just now semafor.com/article/11/22/…. semafor.com/article/11/23/.. Exclusive: Saudi Arabia quietly widens alcohol sales for exp... From semafor.com 09:06 • 11/24/25
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
clayranck.bsky.social
He’s just taking L’s all over. And if you’re taking L’s on behalf of MBS and the Saudis, the question is why you’d be dumb enough to do that and there’s only one answer that makes sense.
Ben come on, you're a savvy political journalist and you know ball. If you saw this breezy dismissal of prominent (and US government-condemned) murder in any other outlet, wouldn't you question its motive too? This frivolous "call it bygones!" tone is beyond the pale. Every outlet runs a wrong-headed piece every once in a while and it's eminently fair to say this is one. Quoted article: “narrow a timeframe. Nowhere is that clearer than in the debate over Cown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The murder of columnist Jamal Khashoggi will likely follow him forever in the Western press, as was evident during his Washington visit last week. But that's not the metric by which his subjects will judge a reign that could stretch across half a century. Journalists tend to like tidy narratives, and early impressions often stick. When his father became king in 2015, Prince Mohammed was portrayed as impulsive - launching a war in Yemen, dragging the country into tiffs with Canada and Germany, and famously cracking down on fellow princes and billionaires. For Yemen, dragging the country into tiffs with Canada and Germany, and famously cracking down on fellow princes and billionaires. For most Saudis, however, that turbulent stretch also included a reshaping of daily life: new jobs, expanded social freedoms, and an economy increasingly wired into global capital and poised to become the world's biggest construction market. By the time the first biographies of the prince rolled out, he was already on a new path. Today, he has pursued rapprochement with Iran, mediated between Russia and Ukraine, and is acting as a stabilizing influence in Sudan and Syria. Now at 40, he's presenting himself — as The New York Times noted after his joint” Ben Smith @semaforben •10h I really think you're projecting a breezy sentiment that isn't there. But if I thought someone had secret government funding l'd try to report it out, or at least ask for comment. Heidi N. Moore & @moorehn X.com Oh, I don't know, I think it's very fair to call "over a long enough timeframe, no one will even rate this gruesome dismemberment" as pretty breezy. I hope we don't habitually become so nonchalant and unruffled (even) about the dismemberment of our colleagues. The tweet was also less of a journalistic work product and more of a "WTF?" and that's fair. Beat sweeteners are nothing new but this one skipped and bounced over a lot of context so much that it did raise credibility issues. Something to note for future coverage! 12:53 • 11/24/25 Ben Smith @semaforben X.com I hope I'm not overreacting, but it makes me crazy when people I think of as reporters do this "just asking questions" stuff. Feel free to report it out by googling/asking me/reading our various scoops and reports about the region — these two just now semafor.com/article/11/22/…. semafor.com/article/11/23/.. Exclusive: Saudi Arabia quietly widens alcohol sales for exp... From semafor.com 09:06 • 11/24/25 Annia Ciezadlo@annia.bsky.social.3h 5.- I hate to break it to you kid but this is not a scoop • THE SCOOP Saudi Arabia appears to have widened access to alcohol, allowing non-Muslims holding a special residency status to purchase alcoholic drinks from a Riyadh store previously reserved for foreign diplomats, according to people familiar with the matter. In the past few days, Premium Residency holders have been able to buy alcohol from the Diplomatic
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
clayranck.bsky.social
The guy he was responding to told him that he’s dumb for calling redsteeze a “good faith” critic of the media, which is a very strong case.
Ben Smith @semaforben • 13h Also — and I'll stop now! — the question he's trying to get at of how you cover monarchies with endless time horizons as a journalist (this is a thing people from most major publications do) is genuinely interesting. Isaac Chotiner @IChotiner • 13h Come on Ben. I refuse to pretend that both of us are dumber than we are. Hank @southernmannish • 6h Ben Smith called redsteeze a "good faith" media critic and did a podcast gushing over him and his work. I'm not sure why anyone should believe he's pretending to be dumb. Ben Smith & @semaforben X.com Meaning -- I am dumb? Or that I'm ..? Have lost thread. 16:15 • 11/24/25
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 AM
clayranck.bsky.social
And there’s even a guy named Charlie involved! Coincidence? Or just another layer of the conspiracy?
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 AM
clayranck.bsky.social
a man in a top hat and bow tie is smiling and says tell me more .
Alt: Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka in a top hat and bow tie is smiling and says “tell me more.”
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM