“the facts of the 2% increase”

according to exit polls, which any statistician will tell you were especially inaccurate* this year. the people who voted in person (who form the basis of exit polls) were not representative of the overall population of voters, so it was even harder than usual this year to get a good sample.

i realize you put it in gladwell’s hypothetical thoughts so maybe it was just used to make him sound like a numpty, but “poaching the egg” is a terrible euphemism.

your conclusions are bollocks. the amount of transmissions attributed to restaurants is low *because* of the restrictions placed on them (and also due to poor contact tracing - much easier to identify transmission between family members). the “middle ground” is to provide income replacement for people whose…

everybody knows jazz and transit fit together like peas in a pod. 

what toobin did was wrong and stupid and definitely fireable. i have no sympathy for him and as a new yorker subscriber i’m glad they dumped him. for my money it might even be worth trying to set a precedent that deliberately exposing oneself in a work videoconference meeting with colleagues ought to fall under some…

“there is violence in non-Black people demanding that a fat Black woman make choices about her own body based on how it makes them feel.”

“if you threaten someone on the internet you should receive whatever treatment you threatened.”

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t.i.l. that gwen and gavin named one of their kids after the water-loving pup in paw patrol. weird. 

my high school, which was and is a pretty well-regarded suburban public school, tried to give me an in-school suspension (basically detention for the whole school day so i say it fits this prompt) for leaving the school during free periods my junior year. i should note that many students did this - the school allowed…

“think through why it is that Republicans can openly embrace so many toxic positions and keep winning elections”

#idealbreakfast

if you like raisins, i recommend dried cherries. 

dennis wins just for andes. 

the nys list of priority populations is actually looking pretty appropriate: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-draft-new-york-state-covid-19-vaccination-administration-program (and p.s. this is the kind of substantial information that might be good to, you know, put in your reporting). 

lumping greenwald and weiss together is absurd. weiss wants to cancel/silence/deplatform people who support the bds movement, and greenwald has dragged her extensively for wanting to silence some people while also whinging about “cancel culture.”

excellent juke and shot from lavelle. press also deserve plaudits for the interception, run, and a great pass: with the outside of her boot while running at full speed with three defenders in close proximity. pleased to see her start up front for the u.s., she deserves to start all our important games at this point…

i didn’t need to know any of that. can we instead have some reporting on “return of the mack” singer mark morrison please?

“If you don’t want to do it, fine,” Price told the audience. “Might as well move to Venezuela now. Get used to that lifestyle, cause that’s what’s coming.”