A Louisiana school district says some teachers will receive $50,000 bonuses this year thanks to increased tax revenue from a @Meta data center construction project. Local officials said the windfall for teachers, funded by a portion of the parish’s sales tax, reflects an influx of economic activity that is revitalizing a slumping region. wsj.com/us-news/education/th…

With the SpaceX IPO @elonmusk is the first person to surpass J.D. Rockefeller as the richest private citizen ever. However, adjusted for over 100 years of inflation, Rockefeller earned about $2 billion per year in real income. Musk earns nothing. What a difference a bubble makes.

In America we have two different intergenerational social contracts that are funded with taxes. The first is public schools funded by property taxes. The second is Social Security/Medicare. Boomers today want just one contract to be enforced, while abandoning the other.

Blazers Win!

A fire alarm is going off and everyone is ignoring it.

For a lot of programs, 9-3 or 8-4 is not mediocrity. It is a top-quintile outcome. It is a season fans remember. It is a season that gets a coach an extension, wakes up donors, helps recruiting, and makes people believe the program is moving. In the old bowl ecosystem, those seasons had somewhere to go. The Citrus Bowl, Gator Bowl, Holiday Bowl, Alamo Bowl, Sun Bowl, Liberty Bowl, Outback Bowl, Peach Bowl, Music City Bowl, Las Vegas Bowl, Pinstripe Bowl, and a bunch of others could mean different things to different programs. They were not all equal, and they were not all national-title-adjacent. But they gave teams a postseason reward that fit the scale of what that program had accomplished. That is what the playoff era damaged. The sport did not merely create a better championship mechanism. It centralized almost all postseason meaning into one event. ESPN, as the CFP’s exclusive rights holder, helped build and promote that hierarchy. ESPN and the CFP extended their exclusive relationship through the 2031-32 season, including rights to the playoff games, selection show, weekly rankings shows, and related programming. That is not just broadcasting the sport. That is defining the sport’s value system. So when people say, “Why is Team 19 making the playoff better than Team 19 going to the Citrus Bowl?” the answer is: because there was a time when the Citrus Bowl carried real status. So did a lot of other bowls, depending on the program. But the sport spent a decade telling everyone that anything outside the CFP is meaningless. The meaning moved. And once the meaning moves, the access point has to move with it.

Literally the strategy of every big school was to try to take a bigger share from a shrinking pie. There was no backup strategy even though it has already been incredibly obvious that demographics ensured many more losers than winners for this strategy.

America, our best students are cheaters. We’re foolish if we think this will end when they graduate college. We traded off raising kids with sound morals for kids who perform “successfully” and America now a generation of moral utilitarians. “A grades by any means necessary.”

When I hear people are upset the NCAA expanded to 76 teams, I think “why and who cares?”. The best teams advance and more teams get to experience the greatest tournament on earth.

Here's something most ppl probably don't realize: College tuition has been rising much slower than the overall pace of inflation the past 10 years Seems like good news

🧵My latest: Young men aren’t breaking under pressure. They were never trained to carry it. That’s the real problem we are talking enough about.

Birmingham-Hoover climbed from a fifth place finish last year to first, with the study calling the area a “economic southern powerhouse.” 🌆: al.com/business/2026/05/this…

The textbook negative take is that over time state directed capital lowers potential growth by allocating capital on the basis of political connections rather than efficiency. Any one off can look successful, it’s the impact over years that important.

I think this is a really revealing (and absurd) exchange that shows how the neo-Brandeisians view antitrust — as a tool for essentially establishing government control over markets, rather than a tool for protecting consumers and workers.

“I care about affordability but we have to bring back Lina Khan, stick with unions, and not cut spending” means you don’t actually care about affordability.

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room. The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction. The Health guy collects raccoon dicks. It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

My conviction remains: God did not ordain Donald Trump to rescue the American church, or revive the American church, or redeem the American church. God ordained Donald Trump to test the American church. And the American church has failed.

Our system has a diseased tendency to confuse "spending money" with "achieving goals"

this annoying movie was paraded around for like 25 years until we saw Bradley’s killing a T-90 and people finally shut up And what’s funny is like 5 years before this movie came out, Bradley’s got hella kills in desert storm. whatever

The latest Economist cover says it all.