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WNBA legend Sue Bird says NIL made athletes double as brand champions
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... WNBA legend Sue Bird said Tuesday that "athletes aren't just working on their game" as they navigate the evolving NIL landscape. They're "working on their brands." ...
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Analysis: How Republicans castrated themselves
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... Never before has the party in control of the House of Representatives knowingly and willingly castrated its own power so thoroughly as today's Republicans.
Why it matters: Republicans blew years of potential authority by weak leaders surrendering to keep power. So with a razor-thin GOP majority, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) had to depend on Democrats to muscle through the $60 billion Ukraine bill over the weekend.
- - - "The structural changes they made, made the place ungovernable," a former member of GOP leadership told Axios.
- - - "When you give this many nihilists ... this kind of leverage, this is what's going to happen and it was just a matter of time," they said.
Two mistakes haunt House Republicans, both dating back to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy's fight to win the gavel in January 2023:
- - - Letting any member call a vote on removing the speaker. This gives insurgents like Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) extraordinary power to threaten to oust the party leader any time.
- - - Surrendering authority of the Rules Committee, which sets the terms for how legislation will be handled during votes. After allowing non-loyalists onto the committee, leaders can't depend on getting their way.
Zoom in: The new Rules Committee " with McCarthy-appointed hardliners such as Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) " has become a roadblock. Seven bills were defeated in the past year during the rules process.
- - - This is an unprecedented collapse in control: Former Speakers Nancy Pelosi, Paul Ryan and John Boehner never lost a rules vote.
- - - "By not voting for rules, it forces suspension votes that are by definition more bipartisan. ... They are creating what they profess to hate," one House GOP moderate told Axios about their hardliner colleagues. ...
@#32 ... I gotta say, it's good to have to old Russian trolls back here, instead of the new kids who have seemed to fail miserably. ...
Too Much Joy - The Kids Don't Understand
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Well they flash
Those half-knowing smiles
As they pass
Heroic profiles
Like they're in some book by Ayn Rand
Always working, always tanned
So satisfied but the kids don't understand
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@#8 ... Let's say, for argument's sake, that MAGA only got 80% of what they wanted on the border.
In the end they torpedoed that 80% for a whopping 0%. ...
It wasn't even that they didn't get all they wanted. Yup, they got most of what they wanted. The main negotiator in the Senate was a Republican (Sen Lankford of Oklahoma), and he said the changes to the asylum process were dramatic.
An Analysis of the Senate Border Bill
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Fmr Pres Trump gave orders to kill the bill because he wants border security as a political issue, and not as a solution. Indeed, he even said to blame him to the failure of the bill to pass.