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The chart I shared was specific to “the Executive Office of the President.” So just part of the 8 million. Like how the $44K from USAID was just (an extremely small) part of the 8 million.

Thanks for proving yourself wrong here. USAID did not pay 8 million for Politico Pro. That was from various different government agencies. None of it was “given” to Politico. It was a business transaction where a product was purchased. I don’t know enough about it to know if it was worth the cost, but I doubt DOGE does either, seems like all they did was say “it’s owned by Politico? End it.” So maybe the product wasn’t worth the cost. I understand wanting to cut wasteful spending. But hopefully people realize that there are entire industries and cities/towns that are “propped up” as the result of government contracts. If we truly do cut this wasteful spending, we need to understand that it might tank our economy. Oh and hopefully Elon checks to see if there’s any wasteful spending in the government contracts for SpaceX too.

Yes, even though Iowa hasn’t had a transfer win a title, for the most part their transfers have performed as expected, often better actually. Your point seems to be changing. You originally said “Iowa has objectively done the best in the portal the past 7 years.” But now you’re implying they haven’t “produced as expected” and PSU’s have. Are we just talking transfers here? PSU had Drew Hildebrandt transfer in after finishing 4th and he went 1-2 at NCAA’s for PSU. That’s probably the worst result of any AA that’s transferred in the portal era. They also had 3rd place finisher Kyle Conel transfer in and go 3-3 during the regular season before getting injured. If we’re just talking the quality of the wrestlers before they transferred, it’s probably a close race between Iowa and PSU. And they’ve almost all performed similarly to what they had done in prior seasons (or what people knew they had the potential to do, like in the cases of Kerk and Mesenbrink who used the portal to transfer before using any eligibility elsewhere). IMO, Central PA is home to the school that’s had some of the best transfer results in terms of improvement. But it’s not PSU. It’s Lock Haven. Anthony Noto was 2-4 during his redshirt year at NC State, and 2 years later placed 4th for Lock Haven. Before the portal, but Chance Marsteller was 11-8 for OSU, then became a 2x AA for Lock Haven. This is why I don’t think the portal is bad for wrestling. Yes top teams will pull guys from smaller schools that weren’t highly recruited out of HS. But the smaller schools can get guys who didn’t pan out or couldn’t make the lineup at the bigger schools.

Fortunately, this may have been a false alarm

Answer to what?

Yeah I’m confused on which semester Midlands and Soldier Salute counted as. The rule is 5 dates right? Davino has: -Clarion Open -ISU Dual -UNC dual -Iowa dual So have to think Midlands didn’t count and this will be his 5th date?

Was Davino unattached at Midlands?

Which is interesting since he also said he doesn’t cut much to get to 61kg and didn’t rule out cutting to 57kg for 2028

Don’t know exactly how big he is but I wonder how long Blaze can hold 133. Would Davis move up again or to the bench?

So I guess OSU is #1 now with Jax and Ross?

Rutgers (Rivera) probably had the most impressive performance at the Olympics

I thought after the “Midwest Wrestle” fiasco that would be more incentive to go to them.

Lol at including Teasdale. Even Teske only scored a few total points in his 2 trips to the NCAA tournament for Iowa. DeSanto was who I was referencing as being kicked off his prior team and before the portal existed. Lugo was also before the portal existed, and along with DeSanto were the only 2 transfers in the starting lineup in 2020 when they likely would have won the title. Woods and Eierman did well (well Eierman really only his first year at Iowa), but they did not accomplish their goal of winning an individual NCAA title. Even Woods did better in his first year too. TBD of course on Buchanan, Teemer and Parco. Caliendo may end up being their best transfer factoring in years on the team and NCAA placements.

I was hoping he’d go back to his roots to UNC, but they didn’t even make the top 4

Have they? They’ve gotten some great wrestlers thru the portal many of which have improved on past performances, but none have won a title (compared to PSU and Michigan that have). And their team finish the past 6 tournaments has been 5-2-3-1-4-3. Impressive, but probably below normal Iowa standards. And the year they won they “only” had 2 transfers in the lineup, one of whom transferred before the portal existed and had been kicked off his previous team

Looks like updates to CDC’s public death reporting system may have been halted. If Dems did this the right would probably be screaming that Dems were now planning to kill them or something.

+RBY not knowing what par terre position was. Seems like Taylor + co have taught him it though

They’d be “fine,” I think what’s “refreshing” is that Bassett gives them some hope of maybe actually winning a title, particularly if other guys follow him.

Yes

So not quite the “biggest scandal in news media history” like Benny Johnson called it?

Becker community notes himself 10 hours later in the comments where less people will see it

Looks like the post in the OP is fake news. Politico received about $40k from USAID…for subscriptions to a different service