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Evan Ball

@evanistics

I write stuff you watch and talk sports.

 Los Angeles, CA
Joined May 2011
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1/ I'll explain exactly how this happened because I'm the person at Forbes who calculates these numbers. This is going to take some unraveling, but here's a spoiler: The president's answer here is nonsense.
60 Minutes (@60Minutes) profile picture60 Minutes
@60MinutesNov 8
Ross Douthat asks the President how his net worth rose by nearly $3 billion, according to a Forbes estimate, since he returned to office. Watch the interview Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/PT on 60 Minutes.
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BPL@ottoleghiNov 8
The fact that LaMelo and Kuminga have similar stories (drafted in the wrong era/organisation, white media and white/asian/coon fanbase hating on him/running smear campaigns, mismanage talent) is gonna make their Timberwolves success story much sweeter.
Mediocrity Enjoyer (@bloomkral) profile pictureMediocrity Enjoyer@bloomkralNov 7
Losing player. Unserious, unreliable doesn’t impact winning at all. Let’s just ignore the proven track record of him making his team’s offense 10 points better on the floor than off. No, it was all his fault that those Charlotte teams lost. Look how good Charlotte is without him!
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NBA teams with the best point differential so far: 1. Timberwolves (+107) 2. Spurs (+103) 3. Rockets (+90) 4. Celtics (+87) 5. Thunder (+80) 6. Lakers (+77)
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Jack@Jack_ValentineONov 8
I cannot believe we’re about to pretend that the biggest midterm victory since the Great Depression and the fact that the whole Democratic Party started speaking like Bernie Sanders and Mamdani are unrelated
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YDE 🇸🇴@ydemusabNov 7
Kuminga taking charges man fuck you warriors this guy is a WINNER
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bomani
@bomani_jones30 Apr 2024
ok, euphoria isn't the most digestible thing i've ever heard. it's super duper dense, which can make it hard to listen to. i get that. but my goodness, there are so many body punches in that. i mean OOF after OOF after OOF. kendrick HATES that man.
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Look at these Kuminga stats. lol
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Ryan Grim
@ryangrim1 Dec 2023
Mehdi’s style of confrontational interviews, in which he doesn’t let public figures get away with lies or half true talking points, turned him into a celebrated journalist in the UK before he moved here to try that out here. His show’s cancellation is such a pathetic indictment of the U.S. media
Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) profile pictureIlhan Omar
@IlhanMN1 Dec 2023
Mehdi is one of the most brilliant and most prominent Muslim journalists in the U.S. It is deeply troubling that MSNBC is cancelling his show amid a rampant rise of anti-Muslim bigotry and suppression of Muslim voices. Anyone who cares about free expression should be concerned.
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Separate to the injustice & illegality of it, there is a fundamental racism to suggesting Gazans just up & move to Egypt & other Arab countries. Folks, Arabs aren’t all the same. No one asked Northern Irish Catholics to just relocate to France because they’re all white Europeans.
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Governor @GavinNewsom's veto of #SB799 is a dismissal of the working people that have supported him. For 148 days, members of the WGA struck against companies who intended to drive writers into financial ruin. 1/2
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I guess it’s fine to not gratuitously dunk on a lawmaker when they die, but I also dont really get liberals’ impulse to aggressively deify a blue-state senator who helped Bush facilitate the Iraq War, opposed regulating big banks & scoffed at kids worried about climate apocalypse
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I am a statistician. I'm also a statistician with a good bullshit detector. There is little variation in age by state. And to the extent there is, it doesn't argue in your favor. The four oldest states are West Virginia (very red), Florida (pretty red), Maine (pretty blue) and Vermont (very blue). What are their COVID death rates (per 1M population) since Feb. 1, 2021 (i.e. post-vaccine?): West Virginia: 3454 Florida: 2992 Maine: 1881 Vermont: 1210 These states all have the ~same elderly population, and yet there are huge variations in COVID death rates that line up 1:1 with partisan differences in vaccine uptake.
Martin Kulldorff (@MartinKulldorff) profile pictureMartin Kulldorff
@MartinKulldorff30 Sep 2023
Children with large feet are better at math, but not after adjusting for age Older people have >1000 time higher Covid mortality, and state average age differ by >10 years, so unadjusted state comparisons are misleading @NateSilver538 may wish to consult a statistician
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I have said it before and I’ll say it again: the biggest divide in our politics today is not right v left but awful people vs not-awful people. As @AdamSerwer might say, the cruelty here is the point:
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) profile pictureAaron Rupar
@atrupar29 Sep 2023
Replying to @atrupar
Trump sneers about Nancy Pelosi, whose husband was assaulted by a deranged MAGA: "How's her husband doing, anybody know?" He adds that the wall around her house "didn't do a very good job."
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Caleb Williams after USC beat Colorado
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corteccs@corteccs10 Sep 2023
Since everyone is talking #MK1 story and I want to hear none of that before I play the game, I'ma shift focus to the story of the @MKMovie. Long story short: I think it missed an opportunity to be a solid film, largely because it tried to please too many masters. Let's dive in.
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"Seventy-two percent of Americans are more sympathetic to the plight of television and film writers than that of television and film studios amid the strike, according to a @Gallup poll released Wednesday." #WGAstrike #1u #SagAftraStrike
The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) profile pictureThe Hollywood Reporter
@THR30 Aug 2023
Majority of Americans Support Writers, Actors Over Studios in Strikes, Gallup Poll Finds hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
Majority of Americans Support Writers, Actors Over Studios in Strikes, Gallup Poll Finds

Majority of Americans Support Writers, Actors Over Studios in Strikes, Gallup Poll Finds

Union support remains high among Americans, as more than 70 percent side with the writers.

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California Treasurer Fiona Ma calls on Hollywood studios to end writers' and actors' strikes latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
California Treasurer Fiona Ma calls on Hollywood studios to end writers' and actors' strikes

California Treasurer Fiona Ma calls on Hollywood studios to end writers' and actors' strikes

California Treasurer Fiona Ma sent letters this week to major media companies, including NBCUniversal owner Comcast Corp., to end the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

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"Every attempt the AMPTP has made to control the negotiations or the public narrative has backfired." #WGAstrike #WGAstrong
Los Angeles Times (@latimes) profile pictureLos Angeles Times
@latimes31 Aug 2023
Hollywood studios have already lost the strikes. Now it’s time to surrender, writes Mary McNamara in her latest column: lat.ms/45MT9PI #amptp #wga #sagaftra
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'Thin skinned' duo Bob Iger & David Zaslav are reportedly 'stunned' they've been vilified for not giving the writers fair deals (via @Deadline)
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Now that microbiologist Elon Musk has isolated the “woke mind virus” responsible for the “victim mentality” that makes Black on Black crime invisible to the negroid eye… Can we focus on curing 400 yrs of white identity extremist domestic terrorism? thegrio.com/2023/08/28/somet…
Something is wrong with white people

Something is wrong with white people

Politics, gun culture and right-wing ideology didn't cause the racial murders in Jacksonville. It's time to talk about white people.

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