M Dave
@mantradave.bsky.social
Texas Ex, previously ran a newspaper, biked to Alaska that one time.
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Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain
January 7, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain
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I think this is a much closer call than you do. LA has two legacy CFB programs but very little day-to-day caring about CFB. New York has a ton of it, probably because it's a finance capital and those ppl have a lot of CFB obsessives in their ranks
@alexkirshner.com calling New York a better college football city than Los Angeles is absolutely galaxy-brained
December 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I think this is a much closer call than you do. LA has two legacy CFB programs but very little day-to-day caring about CFB. New York has a ton of it, probably because it's a finance capital and those ppl have a lot of CFB obsessives in their ranks
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incredible weekend for haters from the University of Texas
December 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
incredible weekend for haters from the University of Texas
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So far the only trend in 2025 CFP games is "which team do the Texas Longhorns hate more." Oregon is the only remaining first-round team with multiple wins over Texas. Not great for Texas Tech. Georgia is absolutely doomed
December 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
So far the only trend in 2025 CFP games is "which team do the Texas Longhorns hate more." Oregon is the only remaining first-round team with multiple wins over Texas. Not great for Texas Tech. Georgia is absolutely doomed
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21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!
December 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!
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Casten is the single most informed federal elected official on the energy system. If he said this about something I penned on energy I would die of shame. Unfortunately, the neighborhood troll has none.
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Casten is the single most informed federal elected official on the energy system. If he said this about something I penned on energy I would die of shame. Unfortunately, the neighborhood troll has none.
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Putting partisan politics above policy is unironically what republicans have been better at than democrats for years.
this is good tho right?
a congressional stock trading ban is
-good policy
-extremely good politics
-more or less wholly without consequence in the short term
so why let the issue go away before the midterms when you can run on it?
prospect.org/2025/12/19/j...
a congressional stock trading ban is
-good policy
-extremely good politics
-more or less wholly without consequence in the short term
so why let the issue go away before the midterms when you can run on it?
prospect.org/2025/12/19/j...
Jeffries Undercuts Congressional Stock Trading Ban - The American Prospect
A bipartisan solution was gaining momentum, but the House Democratic leader just issued his own bill that will prevent consensus.
prospect.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Putting partisan politics above policy is unironically what republicans have been better at than democrats for years.
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A multigenerational gift to Republicans, ordered custom by Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer and placed in one of those nice room service platters for them slate.com/technology/2...
December 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
A multigenerational gift to Republicans, ordered custom by Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer and placed in one of those nice room service platters for them slate.com/technology/2...
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I love to leave my life of unimaginable luxury at the apex of my profession to travel to the windowless lair of a video game streamer with a room-temp IQ so I can do the most absolute dogshit banter imaginable with him and his lumpy shithead buddies.
I really think it's important for these millionaire athletes, none of whom are children, to feel great shame for being interested in Adin Ross to begin with. Mookie Betts, you are 33 years old. You have a wife and children. You should not know who Adin Ross is.
Yo what the hell is going on with LA athletes right now
December 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I love to leave my life of unimaginable luxury at the apex of my profession to travel to the windowless lair of a video game streamer with a room-temp IQ so I can do the most absolute dogshit banter imaginable with him and his lumpy shithead buddies.
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The reaction to this post makes the culture of this website make way more sense to me, as a lot of people seem to believe that they are doing very important political work by posting on here
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The reaction to this post makes the culture of this website make way more sense to me, as a lot of people seem to believe that they are doing very important political work by posting on here
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I feel like it's gotta be stressed that the scale of American traffic violence is a genuine catastrophe. It's one of the biggest killers of otherwise healthy people and it totally erodes the viability of communities. It has to be treated with urgency
December 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I feel like it's gotta be stressed that the scale of American traffic violence is a genuine catastrophe. It's one of the biggest killers of otherwise healthy people and it totally erodes the viability of communities. It has to be treated with urgency
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someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence
The California ACLU is staunchly opposed to the ignition interlock device program and is a big reason that it has not been expanded. Despite the fact that California heavily subsidizes the cost for low-income drunk drivers, the ACLU says that the program is a form of "racialized wealth extraction."
December 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence
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Kalshi is now the "official prediction market" of CNN, which has already started to use prediction market odds as a substitute for actual polling. I think this is a very bad idea. CNN wouldn't confirm the payment relationship between the parties when I asked, but more here: slate.com/technology/2...
CNN Is Using an Election Polling Tool That Anyone Can Rig
The network is giving Kalshi, a volatile and easily gamed prediction market, authority it once reserved for actual polling.
slate.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Kalshi is now the "official prediction market" of CNN, which has already started to use prediction market odds as a substitute for actual polling. I think this is a very bad idea. CNN wouldn't confirm the payment relationship between the parties when I asked, but more here: slate.com/technology/2...
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The Marlins have designated RP Republican Gonzalez for assignment.
Laughing very strongly at "Republican Gonzalez."
Eileen Higgins just became the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years.
December 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The Marlins have designated RP Republican Gonzalez for assignment.
A rising tide lifts all boats, and if the tide gets high enough we don’t need to argue about the type of sail in all but a few districts!
what I find funny about this argument -- which I mostly buy on the merits -- is that if Behn's leftwing policy stances and past, uh, "the city I'm running to represent sucks butt" claims drove down her vote share...
then last night's election is an even larger nightmare for the GOP than it seems
then last night's election is an even larger nightmare for the GOP than it seems
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A rising tide lifts all boats, and if the tide gets high enough we don’t need to argue about the type of sail in all but a few districts!
I look forward to the day humans are not allowed to drive anymore (that day is not coming, but one can dream)
good piece on Waymo's self driving cars
we can reasonably begin to look at self driving as a potential public health breakthrough, Waymo cars are much better and safer drivers than people
the problem is the economics of the technology not the technology itself
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
we can reasonably begin to look at self driving as a potential public health breakthrough, Waymo cars are much better and safer drivers than people
the problem is the economics of the technology not the technology itself
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
December 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I look forward to the day humans are not allowed to drive anymore (that day is not coming, but one can dream)
Think this is pretty accurate - my ranking of hires (vs options in their pool, not how well they’ll do in absolute)
1. VaTech
2. UCLA
3. Ok. St
4. CO St
5. Kent St
6. LSU
7. Florida
8. Auburn
9. Oregon St
10. Ole Miss
11. Stanford
12. Arkansas
13. Mich St
1. VaTech
2. UCLA
3. Ok. St
4. CO St
5. Kent St
6. LSU
7. Florida
8. Auburn
9. Oregon St
10. Ole Miss
11. Stanford
12. Arkansas
13. Mich St
We know that any hire can succeed or bomb, but based purely on "I see the logic, and I agree," my hire rankings:
1. LSU
2. Virginia Tech
3. Oklahoma St
4. Colorado St
5. Kent St
6. Florida
7. UCLA
8. Auburn
9. Ole Miss
10. Arkansas
11. Stanford
12. Oregon St
13. Michigan St
1. LSU
2. Virginia Tech
3. Oklahoma St
4. Colorado St
5. Kent St
6. Florida
7. UCLA
8. Auburn
9. Ole Miss
10. Arkansas
11. Stanford
12. Oregon St
13. Michigan St
December 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Think this is pretty accurate - my ranking of hires (vs options in their pool, not how well they’ll do in absolute)
1. VaTech
2. UCLA
3. Ok. St
4. CO St
5. Kent St
6. LSU
7. Florida
8. Auburn
9. Oregon St
10. Ole Miss
11. Stanford
12. Arkansas
13. Mich St
1. VaTech
2. UCLA
3. Ok. St
4. CO St
5. Kent St
6. LSU
7. Florida
8. Auburn
9. Oregon St
10. Ole Miss
11. Stanford
12. Arkansas
13. Mich St
As always, hook ‘em 🤘
Texas volleyball coach Jerritt Elliott is bald, but he solved the sport's ponytail problem with the invention of a unique hair-tie that has taken over the NCAA.
How a bald coach solved volleyball's ponytail predicament
The NCAA volleyball tournament will feature dozens of stars wearing a hair-tie solution invented by none other than three-time champion Jerritt Elliott.
spr.ly
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
As always, hook ‘em 🤘
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
Excellent thread below from Rep. Casten —
I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Excellent thread below from Rep. Casten —
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Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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There’s a lot of people who claim to be really into politics but who are actually really into being righteously angry, and they’re pretty shitty sources of information. Anger is addictive and makes you stupid, try to limit it.
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
There’s a lot of people who claim to be really into politics but who are actually really into being righteously angry, and they’re pretty shitty sources of information. Anger is addictive and makes you stupid, try to limit it.
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There's going to be a crowded race for this seat, obviously, but one name we can't overlook: Cincinnati head football coach Scott Satterfield, who's reportedly interested in a move to the political arena
BREAKING:
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is retiring.
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is retiring.
November 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
There's going to be a crowded race for this seat, obviously, but one name we can't overlook: Cincinnati head football coach Scott Satterfield, who's reportedly interested in a move to the political arena
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the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
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Remember: job’s not finished. This is a good start but get involved in your local campaigns
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Remember: job’s not finished. This is a good start but get involved in your local campaigns