Soyrizo going to be cheap soon.

Source: sdmac.org/military-in-...

Was talking to some folks at the SD Military Advisory Council and I think they said that if you include Camp Pendleton it’s 1/10 of those in the Navy and 1/6 Marines are here.

San Diego has something like 100,000 active duty military.

🧵

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

🧵

Says every bike shop owner in unison.

If you do it’s worth taking the ferry over to see Tallinn as well.

I guess we’re really going to do this 32’er thing.

#bikesky

Love it.

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Can proudly say I stayed in the park for all of this one.

www.si.com/mlb/2014/10/...

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I was in a meeting in DC once where NGOs were getting lectured by a colonel on how they could be doing better in Afghanistan. One of the NGO leaders said yes we could be doing many things better if we had a budget of $300 million per day.

Or more poetically,

When the bible is a bottle
And the hardwood floor is home
When morning comes twice a day or not at all…

“I got drunk and I fell down” - Uncle Tupelo.

Top-tier rock-and-roll lyric.

I don’t understand the Argentina thing.

In a different political environment the decreases in violent crime would be being celebrated as the biggest public policy success in a generation or more.

San Francisco had the fewest murders in a year since before 1960 last year and murder is down 20% this year. It's almost impressive how divorced from reality these deployment suggestions are. YTD change in SF crime as of Oct 5:

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Harsh but fair

*calendar synching

I was in a meeting in DC once where NGOs were getting lectured by a colonel on how they could be doing better in Afghanistan. One of the NGO leaders said yes we could be doing many things better if we had a budget of $300 million per day.