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Have we talked about how one of the biggest Elon fanboys online was actually Elon Musk?

He got caught John Barron-ing himself, just like his favorite President Elect Boot-Licker. All while fighting MAGA for the right to exploit immigrant workers. Seen an read quite a bit about this lately, but Kulinski sums it all up well here…

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Caitlin Clark's Endorsements: Nike ($28M Shoe Deal), State Farm, Gatorade, Wilson, Gainbridge, Hy-Vee, Panini Trading Cards, Comcast, Bose, ShootAWay

College basketball's Most Marketable Players​

By Myron Metcalf
ESPN Staff Writer
Aug 25, 2022

1. Aliyah Boston, South Carolina
2. Hanna & Haley Cavinder, Miami
3. Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky

4. Caitlin Clark, Iowa Hawkeyes

The Big Ten women's basketball player of the year is an automatic bucket no matter where she is on the floor, which is why she has attracted praise from the likes of Steph Curry and Kevin Durant. The major brands have noticed, too. The junior currently has deals with tax preparation company H&R Block, trading card company Topps and supermarket chain Hy-Vee, all contributing to a reported seven-figure income off NIL.


5. Hailey Van Lith, Louisville
6. Shaqir O'Neal, Texas Southern
7. Amari Bailey, UCLA
8. Azzi Fudd, UCONN
9. Sedona Prince, Oregon
10. Drew Timme, Gonzaga


The full story:

MAGAs are just like BLM

Where illegal immigration and police violence are concerned. Here are the parallels:

1) Both identified a problem:
A) Poor constraints around illegal immigration for MAGA
B) Instances of unacceptable police conduct for BLM

2) Both made extensive use of specific events pertinent to their cause via social media in order to drum up support and illustrate a problem.

3) But.... Both then made claims that didn't fit the evidence:
A) The MAGA movement markets the illegal immigrant as very dangerous -- you could say more dangerous than the American citizen -- despite poor evidence for this claim. (in fact, on balance extant evidence indicates the opposite is true)
B) The BLM movement marketed cops as more dangerous and corrupt than they really were -- this helped to spawn attitudes like ACAB and the widely held belief that black people were much more highly targeted by cops than they actually were.

4) This happened because the movements were more interested in feelings than in (statistical) reality. While both identified legitimate problems, their rhetoric clearly misinformed the public.
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The Hannah Kobayashi case is getting weirder

Anyone following this story? A Hawaii woman went missing in Los Angeles on November 8. She was traveling alone on a “bucket list” trip to NYC but missed her connecting flight at LAX.

Shortly after that her family started receiving strange text messages from her, saying she was afraid and thought someone had stolen all her money and was trying to steal her identity. Her family isn’t sure if she was the one sending the messages or if someone else had gotten ahold of her phone. All attempts to call her went straight to voicemail and they haven’t heard from her since.

Her father flew to Los Angeles to look for her but now he has turned up dead. His body was found in a parking lot near LAX. He apparently jumped from a parking structure.

Jim Leach and wrestling

Former congressman Jim Leach passed away, and here is what the obit in the CR Gazette had to say about his wrestling career:

"But Leach’s humility receded when it came to his accomplishments as a wrestler. He won a state title in 1960 for Davenport High School.
“He liked to say that he'd been inducted in the Wrestling Hall of Fame,” Wierzynski said.
"I’ve always thought that the most equalitarian place in the world is the wrestling mat," Leach said in a 2009 interview. "You have two people operating with the same goal in mind and abiding by the same rules. Wrestlers may differ in height and body type, but it’s hard to say who has the natural advantage." "

Always a maverick, and always an Iowan. We will miss him.
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