"The Blue Age" in bookstores now. Starred review, Kirkus: "Outstanding." Suitably quirky All Predictions Wrong now at Substack. TMQ has returned in same place.

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Trump just called for a big commitment to U.S. shipbuilding. Yet another instance of ripped-from-the-pages-of-today’s-headlines for my 2021 book THE BLUE AGE.
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The economy is strong, and ought to favor Harris. My take is that the MSM is so relentlessly negative about the economy that is has poisoned the well
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Replying to @asarahlarson
Unless the guy is crazy, that statement is -- crazy. Bezos is 60. People will live on Mars someday, not in his lifetime.
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The two top figures of the Apollo program, Arthur Rudolph and Wernher von Braun, were German citizens who entered the United States as refugees
Vance is so good: "The American Space Program, the first program to put a human being on the moon, was built by American citizens. This idea that American citizens don't have the talent to do great things, that you have to import a foreign class of servants, I just reject that."
Community note
Wernher von Braun, the Chief Architect of the Saturn V rocket which carried the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon, was a German immigrant and a Nazi. He was granted American citizenship in return for transferring Nazi rocket science to the US. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_v
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we need a revive democracy amendment (Constitution is brilliant but has required 27 patches so far): 1. Popular election of president 2. Supreme Court single 10 year term 3. Eliminate districts -- House elected at-large, ends gerrymandering 4. Senate single 10 year term
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friends of Tuesday Morning Quarterback -- relaunch is 8-22-17, details coming soon.
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why is it so many college-educated people have trouble grasping that with the US population rising, it is standard for all kinds of numbers to set "records" each passing year
Donald Trump received more re-election votes than any incumbent president in American history and you’re telling me that the man whose rallies couldn’t fill a parking lot got more and “won?” 🤔
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Because Nixon resigned voluntarily, we never found out what happens if the White House and the justice system go to war. We really don't even want to know who would win
If Trump refuses to talk to Mueller and Mueller subpoenas him, prepare for things to get hectic. washingtonpost.com/news/poli…
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This was just a regular day for most of 20th century. We've become accustomed, rightly, to calm. nitter.app/Neil_Irwin/status/7540…
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Tuesday Morning Quarterback fans -- relaunch announcement comes tomorrow
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Replying to @JenSeniorNY
If you'd told me 20 years ago I would vote for Biden for president, I would have banged my head against the wall. Right now my head feels fine.
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Suppose this reasoning is correct. Why doesn’t HARVARD forgive student loans? (it does only for longtime public service) Harvard’s endowment is larger than GDP of Senegal. Yet Harvard won’t do what it says federal taxpayer should do warren.senate.gov/imo/media/…
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a generation ago if unemployment was 3.8% and no inflation, economists would have dropped to their knees and kissed the ground. Instead today everybody's mad about evyerthing and thinks life is getting worse nytimes.com/2019/04/05/busin…
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Most of the current Supremes (left and right) lied under oath at their confirmation hearings. Then they put people into prison for lying to federal agents. The Founders would be nauseated at what the Supreme Court has become.
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deceptively important -- in many nations, kleptocracy and decline of democracy go hand in hand
Curtains will be raised: The Paul Manafort trial is about the growing rot of the American elite. theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
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the extent to which the Democratic Party self-destructed over this issue is simply breathtaking
Congratulations to every single person on the left who’s been campaigning to destroy women’s and girls’ rights. Without you, there’d be no images like this.
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you know, the thing about Klobuchar is -- SHE CAN WIN
The goal of this election is simple: We must bring decency back to the White House.
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this is the real issue with Kavanaugh -- not what he might have done 36 years ago but what he does now, the HOW DARE YOU QUESTION ME attitude
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Esper gets a kick in the keister for supporting the rule of law. Where is the cabinet secretary who will resign to show solidarity? nytimes.com/2020/11/09/us/po…
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In a TV series, it doesn't matter if what you say is true, all that matters is if people watch. Trump seems to embody this.
President-elect Donald Trump is claiming falsely that widespread voter fraud cost him the popular vote. n.pr/2fUtTP9
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State of Maryland just admitted its third attempt to carry out stimulus payments has failed. National media loves @GovLarryHogan because he's a Republican who criticizes Trump. MD residents tired of failure after failure after failure. MD now zero for 3 under Hogan.
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this is like schools banning Huck Finn as racist, when the whole point of the book was exposing racism. Aren't schools supposed to -- what's the word I'm looking for -- educate? nyti.ms/2LotIOB
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column that allows me to tell my wife, "But I have a professional obligation to watch the NFL!" tws.io/2w7qybe via @WeeklyStandard
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We were told Citizens United (2010) meant money to dominate politics. Money keeps getting clobbered. Clinton twice as much $$ as Trump bloomberg.com/politics/graph… and lost. Bloomberg, Steyer just combined to spend $750 million for 1% of Dem primary delegates npr.org/2020/03/04/811885356…
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there was never a scenario where Trump went to prison Dems wasted time and political capital on that pipe dream. There was a scenario where the Senate convicted him after 2nd impeachment so that he could not hold office again. Major failure by "respectable" GOP in Senate.
The original sin was failing to send Donald Trump to prison for the rest of his life for mounting a violent coup to overthrow the election of 2020.
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NFL: real winner of Trump White House is Dan Snyder of R*dsk*ns, no longer the worst executive in Washington
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every bit as important as memorializing the lives of soldiers
Chronicling every health care worker who dies of Covid-19. khn.org/MTA4MjkxMg via @khnews
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As it becomes fashionable to denounce the Constitution because it inconveniences many in power, I commend this book by historian Sean Wilentz, which shows that, for all its flaws, the U.S. Constitution is the greatest achievement of the Enlightenment hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…
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Question for Tuesday Morning Quarterback afficionados. 2022 may be year of the column’s return. Substack and Medium possible, perhaps existing platform. If the former, I’d charge. Would you pay?
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“Until college football pays the players fair value, those who broadcast the games should never, ever shame the men who choose not to play one last game for free.” profootballtalk.nbcsports.co…
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rapid fire military rifles are designed to kill a lot of people quickly, which is a requirement for combat but not for anything in civilian life including self-defense and hunting
Police confirm an AR-15 rifle was used in today's school shooting. AR-15 style rifles were used in the Texas church shooting, the Las Vegas concert shooting, the Orlando nightclub shooting and Sandy Hook. The NRA says a ban on AR-15s wouldn't do any good. Could we please try?
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political scientists will study the speed and originality of the Biden flyswatter pic for a thousand years
Pitch in $5 to help this campaign fly. joe.link/3nvsFwL
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"don't worry tomorrow will never come" increasingly is the fiscal policy of both parties
Medicare is running out of money faster than we estimated. khn.org/MTEzNzcxNg via @khnews
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Replying to @ewarren
I paid off $55,000 college debt (stated in today's money) but do not recall "our government" forcing this on me. I make the decision of my own free will. How come suddenly government is to blame? Did government force me to buy food, clothing, shelter?
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Replying to @nhannahjones
in my high income mostly white Maryland community the voting wait is never more than 15 minutes. When I lived in a low income ward in Chicago, it was 2-4 hours
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giving a huge tax-deductible donation to get your kids into an exclusive school is a hallowed tradition, Some colleges practically hand out brochures on how to do this. But bribes -- so declasse!
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8-14-17 -- buy certified safety glasses to watch eclipse of sun. 8-15-17 -- wear them to read the Big Reveal on relaunch of TMQ.
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living in Europe, I learned that traffic-blocking hissy fits always reduce public support for the movement being advocated. Not sometimes; always. But this is about people feeling sanctimonious, not about positive change.
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and what do they have in common? both hate America for its success
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In American supermarkets, at affordable prices, are finer wines than were served to centuries of royalty
The Cheesecake Factory and P.F. Changs ARE fine dining experiences, the likes of which centuries of kings and noblemen could never have imagined in their wildest dreams Food doesn't need to be exclusive to be good
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Replying to @leedrutman
a Conservative Party is a great idea! Would be way more appealing that the current wackadoodle GOP
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So @SteveKornacki wouldn’t like it but votes should not be announced in stages, states should say nothing till the final tally. Votes in stages creates fake narratives (“she’s gaining momentum…”) and entertains the MSM at the expense of the public. latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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Hmmm... no one thinks Antarctica could save us, though life there is maybe 1000X more practical than on Mars
One day, Mars will save Earth. I am certain of it.
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Last week CBS & NBC evening news prominently featured claim of Texas “covid parties.” now looks somewhere between hearsay and hoax. There is all too much genuine bad news. Why do networks play up fake bad news?nytimes.com/2020/07/12/us/30…
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it was offensive & tasteless. But now that Trump has put his own boy into play let's not hear "my child should be an off limits subject"
Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!
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Electoral College was designed to inflate role of rural areas at a time country life viewed as more virtuous than city life. Maybe true then, but the time was 18th century Electoral College must go. Senate suffrage clause in Article 5 will continue to overrepresent countryside
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Replying to @JamesFallows
his babbling about magnets underwater, besides sounding like Captain Queeg, would have NYT calling for the 25th amendment if done by Biden
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Eagles go for it on 4th & 1, Patriots kicked on 4th & 1 -- difference in the game and indicator that going on 4tth & 1 is not a "huge gamble" it is playing the percentages
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a generation ago there was no early voting for anyone. Now merely having a week of early voting, instead of a month, is "suppression." Society increasingly desperate to invent grievances.
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Elite colleges had such a gigantic advantage in U.S. society that the only way they could fail is if they destroyed themselves. Which they seem determined to do.
You think? "Columbia president Minouche Shafik admits talks with anti-Israel protesters have failed — and that Jewish students feel unsafe" nypost.com/2024/04/29/us-new…
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this is a "rollback" of a make-believe rule that was never, ever going to happen regardless of president. 54.5 MPG by 2025 when the current actual is 25.3? If 35 MPG is achieved, that will be terrific progress
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Forty years ago – 40 years!!!! – Washington Monthly ran an article saying rising real-dollar college costs funded by loans were a plan to transfer money from the average to the elites. Exactly what happened. Article title: HIGHBROW ROBBERY. nytimes.com/2022/05/21/opini…
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Replying to @keithedwards
Nancy could appoint Hillary Clinton vice president, then resign. I told you the conspiracy isnt finished!
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Perfect example of Easterbrook’s Law of Doomsaying – prediction is close enough to be frightening, far enough that when 10 years rolls around everyone will have forgotten what was said wtop.com/business-finance/20…
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Comey/Hillary mess shows we need revival of traditional grand jury premise -- either charges are filed or NOTHING is said
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To answer many many inquiries about TMQ -- seems unlikely to find a new home so late in the football season, though, one should never say never. As for next autumn, we’ll see.
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it's astonishing how low Scott has sunk
Kristen Welker: “Will you commit to accepting the election results of 2024? Tim Scott: “At the end of the day, the 47th president of the will be Donald Trump” Welker: “Yes or no, will you accept the election results no matter who wins?” Scott: “That is my statement”
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Bills trailing by 17 points in 4th quarter, Anthony Lynn has Buffalo punt on fourth & short. Lynn proves he's ready to an an NFL head coach!
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Foucault combined assertion that everything is meaningless with desire for same-sex S&M. this is what appeals to contemporary academia!
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If you'd told me 25 years ago, "In 2020 you will vote for Joe Biden for president," I would have banged my head against the wall. I just voted for Joe Biden for president and my head feels fine. nytimes.com/2020/10/26/us/po…
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Replying to @JohnCleese
rightly or wrongly, Jesus forbid adultery. How quickly the USA would run out of family-values televangelists if the New testament were taken seriously
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right now I would take any president of the last 100 years, including Coolidge, over Trump. Trump's performance in Oval Office has been worst in US history, and in saying this I mean no disrespect to Franklin Pierce.
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There are many serious problems. Yet today almost everyone lives better and longer, with less suffering and less violence, than in every previous generation. It’s become like a mass psychosis that we think everything is awful when, objectively, it is not nytimes.com/2021/04/13/opini…
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Replying to @AndrewKerrNC @benyt
a child has problems and his father loves him anyway. this should upset him because....
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"In an honest system the Buffalo Bills would be 4-0 in the Super Bowl..."
RFK JR: Now, in an honest system, I believe I would have won the election...
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Replying to @julianzelizer
Barack Obama! A Biden-Obama ticket (meets all Constitutional tests) would be 100% slam dunk to get rid of Trump which is after all job one. also would delight historians for centuries.
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with 12 minutes remaining Jax switched into a "prevent" style soft zone -- the game ended on that move
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3:56 4thQ had Atlanta simply run for no gain Falcons all but surely win. Instead coaches called the only plays that would give NE hope
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Papers treat Breyer as a moon-landing headline. The Framers would be dismayed. They’d expect a small box on page 3. Transformation of SC justices into decades-long unaccountable aristocrats, and attendant political panic, must be corrected with a term-limits amendment.
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brief tease: there will be a Tuesday Morning Quarterback tomorrow as TMQ mocks the mock drafts.
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Bills enter TMQ’s elite 500 Club as gain 505 yards, lose. No-call on horsecollar, combined with grounding though Allen out of pocket, a new low for botched NFL officiating. Overtime Eagles fumble called incompletion, botched call hands Eagles the game espn.com/nfl/recap?gameId=40…
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a generation from now, this may be considered the most important thing that happened in 2020
"Here we show that wheat grown on a single hectare of land in a 10-layer indoor vertical facility could produce … 220 to 600 times the current world average annual wheat yield of 3.2 t/ha.” new article in PNAS: pnas.org/content/early/2020/… (@OurWorldInData is the first reference)
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Obama was wrong about some things, Trump is right about some things. But this talk -- such a relief to hear. Obama is a born leader, Trump will never have 1% of what he has in leadership terms. nytimes.com/2020/05/16/us/ba…
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TMQ mixed sports with politics at Slate (2000-2002), ESPN (2006-2014) and NYT (2015).This project was relentlessly mocked by Deadspin which denounced mixing politics with sports. So it seems what goes around comes around.nyti.ms/2CBduMy
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almost every nation on Earth would switch places with the USA. Yet our politics is driven by declinism
Yesterday, for perhaps the 100th time, DJT said, "We are a nation in decline." I wonder what country he's talking about. The US is outperforming every other industrial nation. GDP growth is at 3%. Unemployment is low, inflation is falling. The US has the lowest median age of G7 countries. We are a nation on the rise.
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every society has psychopaths but few societies have easy access to high-rate-of-fire weapons designed for combat. why is the phrase "well regulated" always left out of 2nd amendment debate? (asks this gun owner)
13 dead in a bar shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Dozens more injured. Folks, these kinds of incidents don't happen in normal countries where there is some reasonable regulation of firearms, starting with universal background checks washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
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since 1960s prosperity, liberty, education, health care and communication up; nuclear bombs, pollution and discrimination down; resource levels rising not falling. No sane person would exchange 2024 for conditions of 1960s. Only demagogues (esp. Trump) pretend USA getting worse.
Neither my uncle nor my father would recognize the version of America that we have today. We've become a nation of chronic illness, of violence, of loneliness, depression, and division, and poverty. Our great cities are becoming tent encampments, modern-day Hoovervilles filled with undocumented immigrants and dispossessed Americans and people living in their cars, plagued by mental illness and addiction and despair.
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Biden’s ideal veep is – Barack Obama. 22nd Amendment means Obama can’t run for prez again but does not foreclose a veep slot (or succession should Biden die in office). Biden-Obama ticket = 100% slam dunk no more Trump newyorker.com/news/daily-com… via @NewYorker
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forget the unscourced gibberish dominating cable news -- this is a really important positive development politi.co/2HgLtQe via @politico
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I have just won the Gregg Easterbrook Gold Medal. the awards banquet is tonight
I was going to ask, "Does anyone believe this?" But the answer, of course, is that millions do -- tens of millions. I would not have thought our country could be so ... gullible.
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In every high school there was the creepy rich kid who always had an excuse – the teacher doesn’t like me, the football was wet. Never took responsibility for himself. Life tends to weed those people out. This one made it to the White House.politi.co/368o4bZ via @politico
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once again with a lead in the 4th Q of Super Bowl, Kyle Shanahan called passes not runs. Considering sacks/scrambles in 4th Q he called 12 passes, 4 rushes; three SF incompletions stopped clock while KC needed time for comeback nflcdns.nfl.com/liveupdate/g…
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the "operation paperclip" group entered as refugees, to keep the Nazi bit off their paperwork
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Tuesday Morning Quarterback fans -- major announcement coming. Stay tuned.
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Thanks to all for thousands of Tweets about the status of TMQ. Am talking to 2 potential homes. Hope to have announcement soon.
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Tom Brady saga far from over: Supreme Court, Vatican and United Nations Security Council yet to weigh in.
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Oyez! History will sneer at Chief Justice Roberts and he's brought it on himself.
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from start of 4Q, 28-12 lead, Kyle Shanahan called 8 passes and 4 rushes. Result: clock not run down, sack/fumble, sacked out of FG range
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Replying to @okrent
when I did TMQ for the NYT and compiled great engagement numbers they basically told me, "You are embarrassing the regular sports staff by outperforming them. so get outta here"
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Buff punt on 4th-and-2, down two scores, at end 3Q was what Tuesday Morning Quarterback called a Preposterous Punt. Punt in that situation if up 2 scores not down 2. When Bills got ball back they were down 3 scores, only 11 mins left. Preposterous. cleveland.com/sports/2023/01…
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