“Colorado students pay a mandatory ‘athletic fee’…to help fund sports. They can pay $200 more if they want tickets to games. In 2023, Colorado had a $136 million athletic budget and lost nearly $10 million. Most major universities subsidize athletics, not the other way around.” [gift link]

What Does College Football Have to Do With College?

The question isn’t new. But seismic changes to college sports, embraced by Coach Deion Sanders and his University of Colorado Buffaloes, have made it more relevant than ever.

I’m down with that

It’s almost like corporate taxes can be useful. stocks.apple.com/AzevOPZrnRpW...

Ireland to invest Apple tax cash in housing, energy, water and transport — Reuters

Ireland plans to invest the 14 billion euros ($15.5 billion) that Apple (AAPL.O) has been ordered to pay in back taxes into housing, energy, water and transport infrastructure, Finance Minister Jack C...

The saddest creature who ever lived … only to be instantly and perfectly happy by providing him the next treat in your pocket.

“They have their iced tea filled up” is a good line though

Universal Basic Income works literally every time. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Study details 'transformative' results from L.A. pilot that guaranteed families $1,000 a month

L.A.'s BIG:LEAP experiment gave monthly payments to poor families for a year with no strings attached. Recipients saw lasting benefits, a study finds.

Your older Jewish relatives are still gonna try to tell you that Bibi is the sole problem and a wild historic aberration.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s polls rebound after aggressive Israeli operations

Since approving assassinations in Beirut and Tehran, premier’s Likud party has taken lead in national surveys

a Venn diagram of media people sticking their necks out to defend a young female magazine writer who got inappropriately involved in a story for 9 months and lied about it versus a young female magazine writer who signed a petition in her own name calling for a ceasefire in a war she didn’t cover

My brother was murdered in a high profile robbery-murder spree in LA. It took the homicide detectives 1 entire year to recover the surveillance video from a damaged hard drive. Clearly showed the perps. Over a decade later, no one has been arrested. Even when they do the CSI shit they don’t.

Sure, but then you’d say “a reporter who writes words” - why get all fancy if the bare facts are all you want. For that matter, why “reporter” and not “human female”.