Danny Deck

I really liked Freedom's Forge. I didn't know he had another book out, I'll have to look into it.

With the 250th just around the corner, and the news that Gordon Wood died, I'm finally diving into his book "Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815." It is very well written so far. It is part of the Oxford History of the United States series. It is the 4th book in the series that I've read. The other three, The Glorious Cause (Revolution), Battle Cry of Freedom (Civil War) and The Republic For Which It Stands (Reconstruction/Gilded Age) are all uniformly excellent as well. Anyone else have any early US history reading on deck around the 4th?

I agree that all property destruction and rioting is bad, and should be punished. In general I agree with you that there is tremendous merit in broken windows policing. My point was more about how people can live in wholly different realities thanks to algorithms. I haven't actually spoken to my friend who shared the video of the guys helping the sanitation workers, but it would be interesting to know what videos she saw of violence during the celebrations. This morning on the way to work I was listening to a podcast where one host was a born and raised Knicks fan and while they acknowledged some violence, they said it seemed to them most people were on good behavior. NYC is a big place that presumably had celebrations happening everywhere. People's experience of those celebrations probably varied widely even if they were taking part in them. Once you only know of them from social media that limited viewpoint can ironically become even more limited.

Sorsby declared for the supplemental NFL draft ending the circus for CFB at least. Curious if anyone will take the chance.

I'm not. Any violence is bad. I just ask if you are aware of the incentives of the people you're constantly sharing stuff from here? Does it concern you that they stand to gain monetarily by keeping you in a constant state of agitation?

Yes, I know what your algorithm shows you, mostly because you force feed it on to this forum.

It's funny the bubbles social media can put you in. There is Caveira's algorithm meanwhile a friend on Instagram was resharing videos of Knicks fans still out when the trash pickup was going on helping the trashman throw trash in the truck.

It was gobbeldy gook as far as I'm concerned. Basically he admitted he has a problem and you promised to help people with problems, which somehow means he can't face any repercussions.

Now the Big 12 wants a declaratory judgment that it can enforce its own bylaws separate from the NCAA, and that Paxton can't punish them for doing so. https://www.kcbd.com/2026/06/15/big-12-conference-files-federal-complaint-against-texas-tech-attorney-general-ken-paxton/

A tale of two chatbots, this is Claude, although granted I did substitute "person" for "baby" since that seemed like it would be prejudicial for the answer.

Let me direct you to my previous statement on what Pritzker said when you asked:

It isn't? If I implied that it was, I'm sorry for not being clear. I'm not trying to blame anyone but rather explain a policy position I believe in.

I think your premise is false. Stadium projects never deliver the economic benefits promised. I think they would have to raise taxes to compensate for what they would have to give to the Bears regardless. Maybe they should have done more to attempt to keep The Bears, but not for economic reasons because I believe the promises of economic benefits are lies. I am open to anything you can provide that says that any stadium project has delivered on the economic gains, but I think especially Football stadiums are fool's gold.

Stipulated he was wrong to do it in the first place. I'd just like you to come off it because it's 8 years ago and not incredibly relevant as far as I can tell. Do you think the tax breaks or building stadiums ever make the returns promised when they are asked for? If so, do you have any studies that back that up.

I'd add probably a substantial portion of this money isn't making it to any homeless person in the form of any kind of direct aid, but is eaten up by staff at NGOs.

https://apnews.com/article/aa6e62c9a71148cd93508ac9ee6bf9ce

I think he's just the first one to take it outside of the NCAA process to the courts. I'm not sure when the last time is the NCAA won anything in the courts.

It is shocking to me that now seemingly the NCAA can't even enforce rules against betting on your own team. And now Ken Paxton has threatened to sue anyone who dares to do anything about it.

Things have been good for so long based on systems set up so long ago, people have forgotten the reasons they exist. So they can't imagine the world that isn't undergirded by liberal democratic capitalism. It's why whenever they do the "what would your job be on the commune" engagement bait, it's always "poet" and never "garbageman." Everything that works about society is invisible to them, and they think it always will because they have no frame of reference for it not working.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-200032307

I do not understand going to the mattresses like this to keep Susan Collins of all Republicans out of office. If this was actually Ken Paxton vs Graham Platner as so many people want to make it I would get it.

They didn't. It's nonsense from a politician who doesn't want to accept blame for upsetting voters.

Cool. Nothing to do with what I said, as is your wont, but cool.

And nothing. My take is cities and states should not bend over for these teams, but 1) I don't particularly care for any pro sports and 2) I'm not a politician who will have to go before voters who do care about pro sports and explain why I let a team leave over a few billion in incentives.

Stadium projects never return the claimed monetary benefits to taxpayers. There may be non-monetary reasons to give teams what they want, but economic reasons don't stand up to scrutiny.