Why did he need the government to save tesla?
why did he need nasa to staff and run spacex?
Seems to rely on the feds a lot for a guy that wants to "fix" things.

When I looked, it appears he is not. But I may have missed it. If he isn't, are they reserving scholarships for others, and making up it up to him with NIL money? He certainly seems worthy of a scholarship. Whether he plays WR or is limited to kick returning and punt returning, he's a valuable player for Iowa. With money coming in from different sources, it's hard to keep up with it.

Some good stuff from Fran, Riley and Even yesterday.

I'm a big fan of Even, and it's been pretty intriguing to watch Mulvey get extended minutes for the first time in his career.

A bit of a lengthy one, but pertinent given the huge matchup that's coming on Saturday with Wisconsin.

Story:

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It was the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, and Tim Miller was struggling to understand why Democrats were trying to normalize it all. “If the lesson is that they need to accommodate this more and attack him less, that is wrong, and I hate to pick on Amy Klobuchar, but I have to,” he said on his podcast, which also airs on YouTube. He then played a clip of the senator from Minnesota on MSNBC talking about the car ride she took with Trump and Joe Biden to the ceremony in which Klobuchar recalled “a lot of discussion about the fires in Los Angeles” and “the fact that the Olympics are coming up,” which will be an opportunity for the beleaguered city to get back on its feet. “There was not a moment of silence, and I bet you wish you were in there,” she said. “That was a good discussion.”

Miller theatrically furrowed his brows in confused anguish and widened his eyes in disbelief. “It was a — what?!” Miller said. “You bet I wish I was in there!” He continued: “Where is the Amy Klobuchar that threw a comb at a staffer? I guess is my question. That’s the Amy Klobuchar that I wanted to see in the limousine.”

Miller, a political strategist who worked as a top aide to Jeb Bush during the 2016 presidential campaign, is the most outward-facing member of The Bulwark, the media company founded in 2018 by Never-Trumpers Bill Kristol, Sarah Longwell, and Charlie Sykes after the shuttering of the neoconservative Weekly Standard. The Bulwark began its life as an aggregator and opinion news website but has since evolved into a full-fledged media operation, pumping out audio and video content on a variety of channels along with the traditional takes — kind of like a political version of The Ringer.

And it’s exploding in popularity, expanding its audience beyond anti-Trump Republicans to include swaths of people who are dismayed by the way Democrats are approaching the second Trump administration and frustrated by the way the traditional news outlets are choosing to cover him. It’s resistance media that manages to avoid a lot of resistance-era cringe. “To the extent that Pod Save America is on the left and Daily Wire’s on the right, I do think we’ve really carved out a place for ourselves in the center,” said Longwell, a longtime Republican strategist known for her focus groups.

After several years of breaking even, The Bulwark had its first profitable year in 2024 owing to a combination of paid Substack subscribers, podcast advertising, and YouTube monetization. The Substack, which currently has 76,000 paid subscribers, continues to grow at a rapid clip, amassing between 700 to 1,000 new paid subscribers about every day or two — an impressive number for a small newsroom. Meanwhile, the company’s investment in YouTube content has paid off, bringing in between $150,000 to $300,000 a month. The company’s success is the product of how it delivers what it’s saying as much as what it actually says, making an emotional connection with different audiences across various platforms.

“I am very hesitant to have it just be seen as an anti-Trump outlet because our growth has sustained now for years, and so I think it has more to do with quality,” Longwell said, noting that The Bulwark is a community of people “who are reflecting the severity of the moment.” She added, “The No. 1 comment we hear from people is, ‘You help me stay sane.’”

The Bulwark is taking advantage of a media landscape that has been upended by Jeff Bezos killing the Washington Post editorial board’s endorsement of Kamala Harris and CBS possibly settling a frivolous lawsuit brought by Trump in order to secure his administration’s approval of parent company Paramount’s merger with another corporation. Audiences are gravitating toward places that they feel have some semblance of independence from corporate or billionaire interests. “People just feel betrayed by some of the mainstream sources that they’ve been following,” Longwell said. “They feel like a lot of them are trying to curry favor with Trump, and I think just the sheer independence of a place like The Bulwark becomes attractive to people.”

“A lot of the mainstream media outlets are kind of tacking back towards ‘We have to be more neutral in tone, and we don’t want them to come after us,’ and that’s not what people are looking for,” said Miller, who has been struck by how “antiseptic” traditional media’s coverage of the new administration has been. That includes independent organizations like the New York Times, which has been dutifully covering Trump’s latest proposal for the U.S. to take over the Gaza Strip, while Miller and his colleague Sam Stein immediately took to YouTube to offer the kind of unfiltered, exasperated commentary that you’d otherwise only get off the record from journalists or political operatives. “You know, maybe it’s just me, I’m not an expert on the region, but I would say just on the surface, forcibly occupying land that is currently governed by a terrorist organization is probably not the most likely route towards peace,” Miller mused. That video has 351,596 views and counting.

In addition to Longwell and Miller, the core Bulwark universe includes Jonathan V. Last, who serves as editor of the site, and Stein, a veteran political journalist who has been helping build out the company’s reporting arm. “It’s really helpful for those of us who provide commentary obviously to have original reporting to lean on,” said Longwell. Before he departed for Axios, Marc Caputo got scoops for The Bulwark from inside MAGA-world, and now Lauren Egan has been poached from Politico to helm a newsletter on Democratic politics. “We’ve gone very slow,” said Last. “We didn’t just say, ‘Hey, we’re going to stand up a reporting vertical and hire ten people.’ Because I’d say after the trauma of having my magazine closed down on me, the thing I care about most in the entire world is never having to lay anybody off.”

Where The Bulwark has been most innovative is YouTube, offering instantaneous reactions to the news that resemble the emergency pods of sports media. The Bulwark uploaded around five videos a day before the election and this year has increased that output to between eight and ten, in the process adding more than 780,000 subscribers in the past year, including 146,000 since Election Day. Miller is the face of the YouTube operation, where you’ll find a plethora of reaction-face thumbnails of him — the MrBeast face, as Max Tani’s Semafor noted — often clad in a pearl necklace and flat brim.

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Oh boy. Time for the real fun to begin

She kept o Grady in the game. Going with the hot hand was smart
Too many coaches go back to starter even when the sub is playing well.

Hope those who voted for the amoral asshole feel good about this.

CUTTING OFF OUR NOSE: As the Trump/Musk administration dismantles USAID, there’s been a lot of attention—rightly—on the good America does for the world through the aid agency. The New York Times today reports on some of the good the aid recipients do for us, including by volunteering to test new medical therapies and devices.

Now, some of the people mid-way through experimental treatments are left in the lurch—with experimental treatments literally in them.

The U.S. Agency for International Development, which funded the study, had withdrawn financial support and had issued a stop-work order to all organizations around the globe that receive its money. The abrupt move followed an executive order by President Trump freezing all foreign aid for at least 90 days. Since then, the Trump administration has taken steps to dismantle the agency entirely. . . .
In interviews, scientists—who are forbidden by the terms of the stop-work order to speak with the news media—described agonizing choices: violate the stop-work orders and continue to care for trial volunteers, or leave them alone to face potential side effects and harm. . . .
The Times identified more than 30 frozen studies that had volunteers already in the care of researchers, including trials of:

• malaria treatment in children under age 5 in Mozambique
• treatment for cholera in Bangladesh
• a screen-and-treat method for cervical cancer in Malawi
• tuberculosis treatment for children and teenagers in Peru and South Africa
• nutritional support for children in Ethiopia
• early-childhood-development interventions in Cambodia
• ways to support pregnant and breastfeeding women to reduce malnutrition in Jordan
• an mRNA vaccine technology for H.I.V. in South Africa

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The Southern District of New York (SDNY) released a fully redacted copy of the probable cause affidavit used to raid Project Veritas’ newsroom in 2021 related to Ashley Biden’s diary after it ended its lawfare case on Thursday.
O’Keefe and Project Veritas obtained the diary through a tipster, however, they did not release it to the public. A Project Veritas staffer leaked a copy of the diary to the National File.
In 2022 two individuals who found Ashley Biden’s diary at a halfway house pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property.
The guilty plea of Florida pair Robert Kurlander, 59, and Aimee Harris, 41, were used to turn the screws on James O’Keefe and the media organization he founded, along with several other Project Veritas employees, Eric Cochran, Spencer Meads, and Jered Ede.
Harris found Ashley Biden’s diary at a halfway house in Palm Beach in 2020 among other belongings that Biden’s daughter had left behind, and sold it to Project Veritas for $40,000.
Ashley Biden, Joe Biden’s youngest daughter, left her diary under a mattress at the Palm Beach rehab home.
In a January 2019 entry, Ashley Biden recalled how she used to shower with her father, Joe Biden, and suggested it may have contributed to a sex addiction.
The diary describes Ashley and her father Joe Biden taking showers together at an inappropriate age.

Project Veritas claims it spent more than $6 million defending O’Keefe and staffers in the case. O’Keefe also incurred his own separate expenses, all in a case where no indictment was ever brought.

James is vowing to sue everyone involved.

AFFIDAVIT RELEASED!
The Department of Justice has REDACTED EVERY WORD of the probable cause used to raid our newsroom.
THIS IS A DISGRACE.
TO THOSE INVOLVED: LAWYER UP. pic.twitter.com/yuiTiRD74c
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) February 7, 2025

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Oooops….wrong party. My bad.
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He's announcing tomorrow and deserves his own thread. What weight does he project in college?

You ever had any hooch from the Tarpon Springs Distillery? A client gave me a bottle of their single malt whiskey; gonna crack it open tonight.

I don’t anymore.

I apologize, @Chishawk1425. You were right.

Everyone needs to read this.

The most popular was pizza day, almost always on a Friday and always cheese pizza.

We were dumb kids and didn't know any better. Worthy pizzas would come later.

Loose meat sandwiches were also a good lunch, but not pizza.

Ban democrats and watch murder rates crater.

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Won the league’s “Salute To Service” award and gave a great speech.
Well done!!!

Did a couple searches and couldn't find a thread on this. The flight carrying 9 passengers and a pilot went missing on radar yesterday afternoon in Alaska. Search is underway.

Search underway after Alaska flight carrying 10 people disappears near Nome. Here's what we know.​

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Updated Fri, February 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM CST

A photo of a Bering Air Cessna 208B Grand Caravan in Nome, Alaska, the same type of plane that disappeared. (Quintin Soloviev via WikiCommons)
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A search is underway in northwest Alaska for a plane that went missing with 10 people on board, officials say.
Bering Air Flight 445 — a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan — was carrying nine passengers and a pilot from Unalakleet to Nome when it went missing on Thursday afternoon, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The identities of those on board have not been released.
The Alaska Department of Public Safety said in a statement that state troopers were contacted by the U.S. Coast Guard about “an overdue aircraft” at 4 p.m. local time, and that search and rescue crews were working to determine the plane’s last known coordinates.



In a post on X, the Coast Guard said the plane was about 12 miles offshore when its position was lost. Unalakleet and Nome are about 150 miles apart, separated by the Norton Sound.
Alaska's U.S. senators, Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, issued statements about the missing plane on X.

What we know about the search so far​

The Nome Volunteer Fire Department said In a post on Facebook that it was conducting ground searches from Nome and White Mountain because air searches were limited due to poor visibility. The fire department also asked the public not to form individual search parties “due to weather and safety concerns.”
The Coast Guard, National Guard and U.S. Air Force were assisting in the search for the missing aircraft, the fire department said. CNN reported that the FBI was "assisting the search with technical resources, including working to geolocate cell phones of the plane’s passengers."


According to flight-tracking site Flightradar24, the plane’s last position was received at 3:16 p.m., 38 minutes after it left Unalakleet.

David Olson, Bering Air's director of operations, told the Associated Press that the plane left Unalakleet at 2:37 p.m., and lost radio contact roughly 10 minutes before it was scheduled to arrive in Nome.
In a follow-up post, the fire department said that the pilot of the missing plane had told Anchorage air traffic control that "he intended to enter a holding pattern while waiting for the runway to be cleared.”
According to the National Weather Service, there was light snow, freezing drizzle and mist around Nome Airport on Thursday evening. Danielle Tessen, a spokeswoman for Alaska’s Transportation Department, told the New York Times that the runway at Nome Airport that the plane had been approaching had been open throughout the day, and that de-icing operations took place "when no aircraft were on approach or near the airport.”

Alaska missing plane updates: Rescuers face ‘zero visibility’ as they search for survivors after Bering Air flight vanishes​

Frontier passenger overpowered after punching out plane window during a flight after he was asked to move seat​

The Independent
Bering Air is an FAA-certified regional air service based in Nome with hubs in Kotzebue and Unalakleet, according to its website. It operates passenger and cargo flights seven days a week out of each hub to 32 communities along the northwest coast of Alaska.
According to the Alaska Transportation Department, more than 80 percent of communities in the state are inaccessible by car and "depend on air access to provide basic needs.”
Unalakleet has a population of about 800, according to U.S. Census data. Nome, with a population of about 10,000, is best known as the ending point of the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

U.S. air safety under scrutiny​

The search for the missing plane comes amid intense scrutiny of U.S. air safety following two deadly incidents in recent weeks,

On Jan. 29, an American Airlines plane collided with a military helicopter over the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., killing 67 people. It was the deadliest air disaster in the United States since 2001.
Two days later, a medical jet crashed near a mall in Philadelphia, killing seven people.
The causes of the two crashes are under investigation.

Susan Collins is now concerned. This could be the beginning of the end for him. Only time will tell.

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During covid, I'm willing to bet many of you, or someone close to you, lost their job. We are now seeing the government employees deal what what many had to deal with during that time. While I wouldn't wish job loss on anyone, there is a certain amount of water finding level to this. I don't remember "xxxxx layoffs at the ABC agency" during covid.