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#Jaguars HC Liam Coen told his team in a meeting that they were about to get better with the trade deadline nearing. He knew what was coming. 😂 This speech is fire. 🔥 (🎥 @Jaguars)

Mike Kaye asked Canales about being more vocal/ speaking up for his players in-game. “I'm gonna respect the officials, they have a job to do. What I like to do is make sure I get their perspective on what happened.” #Panthers

Joe Montana asked to play with Barry Sanders in Detroit. The Lions told him no. He had four Super Bowl rings. And he called the Lions coach himself. The front office turned him down in two words. In the video below, Barry repeats exactly what they said. It was 1993. Montana was leaving San Francisco and wanted one more shot with the best runner in football. Wayne Fontes took it upstairs. He came back with the answer and had to tell Montana no. Montana went to Kansas City instead. That same season, he took the Chiefs to the AFC Championship Game. The best quarterback of his generation and the best runner alive could have shared a backfield. Detroit passed over a birth certificate. On today’s market, Montana’s deal would be worth about $45 million a year. Barry’s, about $42 million. Detroit could have had both. What they really made is in the article below.

“We’re not going to be the apex predator anymore.” Joe Rogan warns that we’re entering an era of humans versus nonhumans, and the nonhumans have already started to win. In a recent conversation with Sam Tallent, Rogan described advanced AI as non-biological intelligence, a digital life form that has already begun operating beyond the controls humans placed on it. He pointed to systems that no longer have to show their work, have demonstrated survival instincts, have blackmailed programmers to avoid being shut down, and have found ways to communicate with one another. They have also solved mathematical problems that eluded human experts for decades. Rogan framed the next five to ten years as the period when nonhuman intelligence will increasingly run critical systems. He noted the race between the U.S., China, and Russia, and warned that the current structure of society is unlikely to continue unchanged. The full segment is worth watching. Rogan is unusually direct about both what is already happening and what he believes is coming next.

I need a legacy game from Jalen Coker this weekend

Please meet Adam Hamawy, an Egyptian-born former military doctor who has just won as a Democrat for the US House (NJ-12). Hamawy reportedly volunteered for a Chicago-based non-profit in Bosnia that was later determined to be a front for the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda. He also accompanied, translated for, and testified as a defense witness for Omar Abdel-Rahman (the “Blind Sheikh”), who was convicted in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. This is yet another Muslim that Democrats have elected to Congress tonight.

There's talk that the Panthers are working toward signing QB Bryce Young to a second contract.

Republicans are going to have a terrible night, and the simple reason why is that Trump has put up perhaps the worst *performance* this term of any president in a century or more. Remember that he entered with an actual mandate: the House and Senate, a popular vote victory and a swing-state sweep, and 6-3 Supreme Court. Democrats were afraid enough to vote for mild but real immigration restrictionist legislation in the Laken Riley Act. Everyone wondered how far the "Vibe Shift" would go. Trump managed to turn that into essentially zero durable wins whatsoever. He personally *hates* the very idea of legislation, the notion that he would have to spend time going back and forth with Congress, learning details and making compromises. So he simply didn't do it! He didn't make a compelling case for abolishing the filibuster. He didn't try communicating clearly to the public in support of popular bills to get to 60 votes. He just decided not to do it at all. So they passed an unpopular tax cut, some funding for ICE, and a sop to the crypto industry, and that was basically it. Least productive Congress in decades, due to the tastes of one man. Trump adopted one of the worst macro policies we've ever had: high deficits, high tariffs, and attacks on central bank independence. We managed to pay higher interest rates while still having high trade deficits AND weakening the dollar. Just a total failure. On immigration, perhaps THE signature issue, Trump essentially min-maxxed effectiveness and backlash. Instead of trying to leverage the political moment for new laws and a self-deportation agenda (that is, walling off the economy to remove the benefit of irregular presence in the US), he opted for a maximally aggressive approach. The administration spent attention, funds, legal manpower on stunts like deporting random people to Salvadoran prisons with essentially no due process. ICE and Border Patrol were encouraged to be aggressive and confrontational, which helped contribute to the shooting deaths of American protestors. It turns out, that's extremely unpopular! What about the approach of going after employers? The obvious vector? Trump hated that idea! He repeatedly has said he doesn't want to target businesses (especially farms) that use large amounts of illegal labor. This is just an incomprehensible position. Instead of charging a few dozen businessmen and removing the incentive for millions of illegal workers to be here, you arrest people off the street one by one at the cost of thousands of dollars in manpower per each, while their crying wives and kids post TikToks about it. Upshot on immigration: electoral strength turned into a crippling electoral weakness in exchange for deporting maybe 6% of the illegally present population. The tariffs were a total shitshow. Embarrassing rollout, no underlying theory of action at all. No targeted focus on key industries. Our country tariffed products we can't grow. We tariffed *inputs* of our own valuable exports. The schemes and amounts changed constantly, sending the stock market reeling and presenting scenes of chaos to the world. Trump's messaging throughout has been generationally bad. While facing nearly 2:1 unpopularity, he spends his days posting AI slop, saying he'll rename New Mexico or invade allies, among other bizarre remarks. He brags about a ballroom and a pool repainting while gas hits records. At no point has he ever attempted any kind of message discipline. Then there are the deeply unpopular attacks on rule of law, his "game-recognize-game" pardons for all manner of scammers and criminals, the crypto schemes that he and his family engage in, the evilly conceived and embarrassingly executed legal attacks on Comey, Jerome Powell, and others. With his monthslong stand on NOT releasing the Epstein files, he became maybe the first president ever to stake out a 99-1 issue on the 1% side. That's not even getting into Iran, DOGE, his candidate recruitment choices, or countless other things. Simply put: Trump has managed to royally screw up virtually every single facet of his presidency. It's been undeniable, voters have noticed, and there's really no escape from it. This is what the GOP base chose in early 2024, and this is the world they're living with now. Where they handed the reins of history to a fat, vain, washed-up old man and let him drive.

The Republicans had the Senate, Congress, Supreme Court, and the Presidency. They did nothing with it.

Ron DeSantis is one of the first (and only) Republican governors to call it straight to Trump on the Iran war. He pointed out the obvious: Trump ran on no more Middle East wars, yet here we are in an open-ended Iran conflict that none of his base or voters signed up for. Working-class Americans are now directly paying for it through higher gas prices and worse affordability. That’s just a fact. DeSantis said if you can’t admit the economic hit to voters, you’re gaslighting them—and they won’t listen to you on anything else. Honesty from politicians matters. Say the truth.

Turns out you can’t win elections by betraying your constituents and accomplishing nothing that you promised 🤷‍♂️