Ben Mathis-Lilley
@BenMathisLilley
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Slate senior writer; author of THE HOT SEAT (a book about college football, Jim Harbaugh, American history, and the nature of existence)
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This guy has some opinions about being honest regarding bridges
President Biden needs to level with the American people about the fact that his “infrastructure” package is a $2.25 trillion liberal wish list with only about 25% being spent on traditional infrastructure like roads, bridges, tunnels and rails. Be honest with us Mr. President.
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huh, if I'd known "I don't like this" was grounds for a lawsuit I'd have been a lot more litigious in my life
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Playing “The Chronic” at an absolutely pummeling volume in the CRV as I venture forth to find affordable patio furniture
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I'm not saying the generic ballot would be D+5 if BBB passed but it does remain remarkable to me how often the purportedly "realist" aging Dem leaders like Pelosi and Clyburn create news cycles about why their party is bad and deserves to lose.
Nancy Pelosi believes Democrats have alienated Hispanic and Asian American communities with loose talk of socialism and certain rhetoric on abortion
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On the Acela for the first time in my life. Everyone is reading a new Thomas Friedman book that's been kept secret from the general public. There are Mao-style paintings of Bloomberg on the walls. I stood up and gave a speech about "heartland values" and everyone spit on me
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The rarely attempted “best rapper alive” strategy
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Had a nice time on campus in Ann Arbor today. It's just an anecdotal snapshot, admittedly, but I'd say I'd describe the mood of undergraduates as "why are you looking in my window" and "I don't care if you played Mario Kart here with your friend in 1998"
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I am an Incredibly Bizarre and Almost Implausibly Gothic South Carolina Murders and Deaths person now. DM for my theories.
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Emboldened Biden announces immediate increases to gasoline prices, armed robbery rate
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More and more people are saying it
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Getting Donald Trump for obstruction of justice would be like getting Al Capone for repeatedly having people killed
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Daughter (3) picked up “I want a new family” from Home Alone and has now elevated it to “I want a new God” (this was after being told to finish dinner)
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Waking up my three small kids and wife, screaming over and over that they have to pump it up. Every house on the block has called the cops
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arguing that a piece must be confronted by anyone who cares about free society without having read it would be the ultimate farcical expression of this trope and as such I believe it's what happened
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oh so now it's illegal and "weird" to write down hundreds of pages of thoughts about michigan football that very few people read???
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Crowd going nuts as Biden pledges to finally provide a way for people to leave Ohio
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Appropriate that the NCAA's final act is formally expelling the guy who believed more in "student-athlete" ideals than anyone else in history because he may have violated some of its most arcane bureaucratic rules
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This is the “would you want the OTHER team to punt, or to go for it?” test and it works every time
Some have argued that it's better for Democrats to stick with Biden than risk the chaos of the unknown.
I think this idea rests on little beyond status-quo bias. And I'd advise Democrats who think otherwise to consider a simple thought experiment:
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QUIZ: What day is it?
- Monday
- Saturday
- “Five”
- [Electricity noises]
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Garlic could stand to make up its fucking mind about how big a clove is
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@wyatt_privilege
@EricLevitz
That’s all good so long as you can cut loose with some brews and tunes when the weekend finally arrives
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“Players-only meeting” feel to this
🚨 Belarus says it has convinced Prigozhin to stand down his armed uprising.
Lukashenko spent "the entire day" negotiating with Prigozhin after "agreeing on joint actions" with Putin and "additionally clarifying the situation through his own channels."
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These guys are going to be disappointed to learn that everything out here still sucks big time
"It's time to leave this motherfucker."- Kyle, on the bubble
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So the ADs' idea here is you can hire a 3rd-party firm to leak allegations about your rivals, then call for sanctions on the basis of the allegations before an investigation has started. As someone who thinks Michigan probably broke the rule ... doesn't sound like a fair system.
During a conference call Thursday, Big Ten Athletic Directors urged commissioner Tony Petitti to make a ruling on Jim Harbaugh, per Yahoo Sports sources. Reporting w
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A big part of the breakfast tacos thing that people don’t want to admit is that flour tortillas taste better than corn tortillas no matter what time of day it is.
Victor Wembanyama is asked what excites him most about San Antonio, and what he wants to work on this summer.
“Breakfast tacos,” he says.
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I really recommend changing your socks at night for a comfortable "night socks" feel
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If I'm a shareholder in one of the companies whose CEO was expecting a sharp, on-message performance from Donald Trump, I might be looking for a change in leadership
Brutal report from
@andrewrsorkin
on Trump's visit with CEOs yesterday:
"CEOs who said that he was remarkably meandering, could not keep a straight thought, was all over the map."
CEOs who walked in as soft Trump supporters walked out startled by him
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I don't disagree with everyone's comments about being in an apocalyptic age but I don't like when there's an implicit or an explicit suggestion that the past was mellower. Are you kidding me the past was insane
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The two good Indian places in my area give you wildly different amounts of rice with your entrees, which is confusing when you have to try to remember how much extra rice to order—and yet Congress is in recess, nowhere to be seen
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Not picking on Greg but I feel like the "are you CERTAIN she'd be better" Q just gets answered more every day. Biden made at least 10 mistakes in a six-minute teleprompter speech last night. He has major problems speaking, even reading. And he's _running for president_.
I have done my own reporting, and there's a great deal of disagreement in the party. I've spoken to some of the hardest boiled operatives who genuinely aren't sure whether Harris would be better for down ballot Ds. Anyone who's pretending that there's uniformity on this is just
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this is fucking ridiculous and trump should resign
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Just watched the Chardonnay delivery truck pull into the local country club. A tremendous moment, like seeing a swan being born.
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I solved the pandemic
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I interpret this to mean that we will be spending $2 trillion to make sure that Minneapolis is run by ISIS in 2034
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A homeowner benevolently gave this little twerp a room in her house and he rewarded her by completely making her up
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Swing states: On the first day we can count four million votes. On all subsequent days we can count seven votes at 2:18 a.m.
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I'm not just saying this because Slate did it—in fact my attitude toward my colleagues is generally one of toxic envy and hateful paranoia—but this is THE post you need to read and share about Savannah Guthrie doing by far the best Trump interview in years
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This headline implies the existence of the profession "nudes expert"
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@abigailmarone
@mattdizwhitlock
Did you guys figure it out yet tho, about how he got the Supreme Court ruling at the same time as the rest of the press? Have you pieced that together, by tweeting about it?
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@celebrityhottub
Told my son I wasn’t going to pitch to him anymore if he was “just going to mess around” after he took a lazy swing and didn’t keep his eye on the wiffle ball. He is 3
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Who will strike a blow for progress by drafting Stetson Bennett as a slot receiver
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The thing is at least Uber included a useful idea (getting a taxi from your phone). This stuff is the same service the Noid provided 30 years ago but you pay another $5 that a guy in San Francisco uses to get white supremacists elected to Congress
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Finishing my shift at Mount Sinai and whistling like Tim Robbins in the prison yard as I walk out the freight entrance with 270,000 N95 facemasks in my pants
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I won't take sides on 9/11
My take on 9/11: It's hard to tell what is a conspiracy theory and what isn't. But conspiracy theories flourish when the government routinely lies to the public. As President I won't take sides on 9/11 or any of the other debates. But I can promise is that I will open the files
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that's why Lloyd Carr recruited Brad Hawkins to Michigan
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"people familiar with the matter" the matter being big bags of fraud rocks
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Police know this as the "Duke point guard" strategy
Looks like we can add "cops falsely accuse Shake Shack of poisoning them with bleach" to the pantheon of hits including "cop forgot he took a bite of own McChicken" and "cop writes 'fucking pig' on his own coffee cup"
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my point of interest in this news cycle is that J.D. Vance claimed he was endorsing Trump because of their shared interest in like "judicious, careful geo-statesmanship" the day before he pretended he was going to shoot down the Chinese balloon with an AR-15
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This is insane. Look at these numbers! How does Defector Media survive without paying a "chief people officer" $750,000 a year?
Today at VICE I was unable to pull a court record, which costs 10 cents, because the company isn't paying bills
Meanwhile so many execs, some which led VICE to bankruptcy, make $700-900k, including bonuses at the time VICE laid off much cheaper workers. It's worse than I thought
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I just think some warning bells should probably go off in your head as a writer and editor when you're arguing that some group of foreign people need to be killed to avoid "national humilation" and prove the strength of "the homeland"
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One thing that I did not enjoy about Avatar 2 was having to use specialized meditation and breathing techniques to avoid becoming completely preoccupied by Tiny Rastafarian Chris Pontius appearing in every third scene with the huge blue aliens.
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After careful observation I have determined what’s funny about toddlers. It’s that on one hand they will use the most ruthless, selfish, and even violent means to obtain their goals, but on the other hand, their goal is usually something like saying hello to a drawing of a dog.
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if you put out a bowl of cigarettes at a party you MUST also provide a pitcher of milk to eat them with
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this truly may end up being the most important insight into the election
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The thing that pops up on FiOS when you're watching one channel and your DVR is about to supposed to be recording two other channels gives you the options of like "DON'T CONTINUE CANCELLING" and "CONTINUE CHANGING CANCELLATION" and it's just total panic every time
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I would be humiliated if I made a mistake this absurd in a hastily written live blog
Still stuck on this Kavanaugh concurrence claiming that states announce the winner on election night. They don’t. News organizations project based on the trajectory of incoming results. And furthermore, it’s not uncommon for close races and states to be undeclared for days.
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@RossDellenger
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Ross have they ever even talked about half-screen ads during huddles, reviews, or true 30 second timeouts?
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I think people should know before they read my article about JD Vance that I am not a naturally talented writer of fiction and that the several things that happened that seem implausibly on the nose really did happen.
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Look I’ll get on board with anything at this point but I’m telling you guys you can’t just pick your head coach by going off the SP+ numbers. It’s got to be a cultural fit. You don’t want Democratic Nominee Rich Rod out there
If Biden announced that he’s stepping aside and thinks Democrats should nominate a swing state ticket of Gretchen Whitmer & Josh Shapiro who have solid Democratic values but weren’t specifically involved in his administration it would be universally hailed as a masterstroke.
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If and when I own an NFL team there’s one rule. You do the “draw them offsides” failure play followed by a timeout and a field goal attempt you are instantly fired.
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Time for Michigan to bust out its secret weapon: Graduate program rankings
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Bowman has the opportunity to do something pretty funny when he's ready to leave the chamber after this
Bowman is standing in the well, surrounded by a few dozen democrats
AOC and Pressley had their hand on his shoulder.
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I’ve taken my complaints about truck commercials to the highest court in the land.
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Normal people finding out about insane college football stuff I've become habituated to is a great genre
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this tweet, which as far as I can tell launched the "wokeness collapse" theory, is about a risk manager _in SVB's UK arm_ which, according to the Bank of England, has already been acquired by HSBC and did not lose any depositors' money
Head of Financial Risk at SVB Jay Ersapah might’ve been busy with more important projects at the bank, such as LGBTQ issues, rather than assessing risk $SIVB
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I have been saying for years that the way you beat modern NBA Warriors/Morey/3&D smallball is by splicing Pistol Pete’s DNA into a 350-lb. Serbian galoot
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I remain perplexed as to why we seem to be the only country in which part of the solution to funding journalism isn't taking some of the money the tech companies have made off of journalism. Presumably it's because of the frontier or the Puritans.
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Going “Airplane Mode” on my enemies (pretending I’m asleep and hoping their increasingly concerning behavior resolves itself on its own)
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The campaign press has transitioned smoothly from hounding Joe Biden to admit that persona is more important than policy to hounding Kamala Harris, she of the highly effective persona, to talk more about policy.
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Alluded to this earlier today, but I traced the “Biden political crisis” side of things backwards and you won’t believe who I found! (It was Stephen Miller)
the gap between immigration beat reporters and pundits currently focusing on immigration as a ~biden political crisis~ is massive
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I am challenging artificial intelligence to a duel.
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It’s not reassuring that guys with this level of ability to weigh evidence and judge sources and self-check biases were ever in charge of investigating crimes
All 57 members of Buffalo's Emergency Response Team RESIGN in 'disgust' over the suspension and criminal probe of two cops.
That “elderly innocent man” was a far left activist who did what he did on purpose.
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pitched a short blog post gloating about Michigan basketball and ended up writing 1600 words about time, brotherhood, and my own feelings of decadeslong guilt
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Polls say Harris is making progress with voters on the economy. I think she's doing it with what you might call a "carrot and carrot" approach
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Our wine store is in an old bank and doing takeout only so you literally walk up to the teller window in a mask to hand them a note
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Not saying it’s GOOD that Vance said all this stuff, but it’s funny that it’s framed as a Trump campaign blunder. Trump did a Q&A with the Milo Reddit channel in 2016, called Alex Jones from the White House, and recently had dinner with America’s most famous Hitler fan club
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I truly don't know why this is a "debate," obviously "closing public schools" is bad for society but there seemed like a real possibility at the time that the alternative was "everyone dies of a virus that ERADICATES society" so that's why we did it
Matt gets a lot of pushback when he says this so I will lay down a marker.
I bet that by 2035 (15 years after COVID) there will be definitive data that lengthy school closures were a disaster. It will show up in everything from learning loss to suicide rates.
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It appears that the QB announcement was quoted from an usually frank in-house podcast in which Harbaugh went through the entire depth chart, but to ME the Maximum Harbaugh highlight is that he announced a rotation of eight tight ends
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Interns are lined up outside Judge Carol Kuhnke’s office ready to run copies of the decision to Wolf Blitzer, who is stationed at a Jimmy John’s.
Refreshing my twitter feed every 60 seconds for a critical judicial ruling that will affect Michigan football represents a new and most unexpected collision of my worlds
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