VANCE on 9/11: I remember driving to a local gas station to wait hours in line for gasoline that was now of course more expensive because of a region of the world made up of countries and names that I cannot even pronounce

Today is election day in Israel, which is a national holiday. All voting is in person, ID required. No mail-in or absentee ballots. Arabs vote same as Israelis. Contentious process, but it's a democracy-not many of those in this region!

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The College-in-3 trend is accelerating. Early movers experimenting with a 3 year bachelor’s degree were less selective schools like Merrimack or Weber State. Then states like OH, OK, and KS told their flagship universities to pilot the 90 credit degree. Now even NYU is doing it.

Someone made a site that tracks what people are talking about at public city council meetings across the US. The only thing discussed more than data centers? Pickleball courts.

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

Remade this map with real data. This is fun.

ABBOTT: Gina Hinojosa supports Sharia Law

NEW: Archbishop Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee apologized on Sunday for praying over President Trump in the Oval Office last week, and he accused the White House of posting video of the prayer without the bishops’ consent. Writing to Catholics from the Dominican Republic, he said the administration had manipulated “something so sacred” into a political photo opportunity twelve days before the midterms. thelettersfromleo.com/p/arch…

Only developers is allowed to get free WiFi. What's the password?

This is like the craziest thing I’ve ever seen Everyone turned out to vote for Abbott but they left it blank for Paxton or voted for Talarico? That is not how most voting humans operate

I think having AirBnB guests clean up their own garbage does solve a moral hazard problem. The cost of reducing garbage is plausibly much lower than the cost of cleaning up garbage, so it's efficiency-improving to make the guest the residual claimant on garbage

If Ohio goes Blue for the Gov and Senator race I’m dressing in drag and doing a cold plunge! Bookmark this!

In January, a senior Pentagon official summoned Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador and lectured him on American military power. Then someone in the room invoked the Avignon Papacy, when the French Crown used force to bend a pope to its will. Vatican officials read it as a threat. The pope has not given an inch since. thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-…

A map of which country’s weather is most similar to where you live in America.