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"My single favorite thing was having someone challenge one of my dearly held beliefs and persuading me to change my mind." -Perry Friedman 1968-2024 #obituperry
4/6 Without a contract, Rozelle begged Congress for an anti-trust exemption. Chair Emanuel Cellar would only grant the exemption if the NFL would be banned from playing on Saturdays until the 2nd Saturday of December, the day of the Army-Navy game which ended the NCAA season
5/6 To this day, the NFL is still banned from Saturday games until mid-December, which is why Game 1 of the WNBA Finals has such high ratings - it's played on a Saturday without NFL competition!
6/6 Saturday @WNBA games get 50% higher TV ratings of non-Saturday games. Thursday and Sunday games perform the worst thanks to NFL competition. If I was the commissioner, I wouldn't schedule games on Thursday or Sunday to maximize viewership!
I looked at the first 3 days of EV in Harris County (Houston) and marked the precinct lean of the 62 vote centers that stayed the same between 2026 and 2024. Vote centers in precincts that voted for Harris are higher and Trump are lower. The redder the precinct the lower the turnout:
2/ Looking at the @longhornderek data, Republicans are voting like a midterm, while Dems are voting like a general election. That's not great new for the Texas GOP
Texas GOP mega doner switches to Democrat @TeamTalaricoHQ. Explains why here:
I don’t put my name behind just anyone. 🇺🇸
I sat down with James Talarico and heard balanced, honest answers on security, the economy, and issues facing Texas families.
That’s why I support @jamestalarico for U.S. Senate.
Election Day is Nov. 3. Make your plan to vote. 🗳️
In 33 months Houston built an entire Austin airport. 22 gates came online today, with another 26 gates coming online in 15 months.
Meanwhile Austin, which currently has 34 gates, spent 18 months debating their 6 gate Concourse M, broke ground 3 weeks ago, and might be done summer of 2028.
A major milestone.
@HoustonTX Mayor John Whitmire joined Houston Airports and @United to mark a major milestone at IAH.
22 new gates. State-of-the-art facilities. The world’s biggest United Club℠.
The new Terminal B opens tomorrow.
Read more: bit.ly/4z4JRha
Tough day for PHP. Provokes a lot of tough questions about open source software.
wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/a…
Your regular reminder that there is no such thing as "free parking." You either pay for the parking lot with a fee, or it's embedded in the price of everything else. Paying for parking radically improved Rice Village!
Houston early vote data is tracking better than midterms, but behind general elections. Implies that despite record breaking spending, there is still some vote to turn out, but wow these are record breaking numbers. Hard to conclude anything tho:
aziz gilani retweeted
Happy first day of early voting in TX to all who celebrate 🎉 so grateful to the thousands of people who stepped up to work at the polling places this year so their neighbors can vote + to the many election officials who worked so hard to clear the state's registration backlog 🎉
Nothing will satisfy Islamophobes. If an American Muslim automatically disavows terrorism too quickly we get this response, if we try to provide too long of an answer, we're "obsessed," and if we ignore it we're trying to hide something. It's exhausting.
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I love DKR, but my God our cheapo artificial turf looks awful on TV, and causes so many unnecessary injuries (per the @NFLPA). Can't switch to back grass fast enough @_delconte
👀 This is the Republican Speaker of the Texas House from 2021-2025
"There’s not a world in which I can vote for a Ken Paxton," says Dade Phelan. "Knowing who he is and knowing his integrity, no. I just can’t do it. No whatsoever." texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
0.4 Scaramuccis, an all time record!
BREAKING NYT:
Trump's new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was fired Friday, after less than a week on the job, according to three people familiar with the matter. nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/po…
