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3 things to know about Raiders’ opponent: Texans defense dominant https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/3-things-to-know-about-raiders-opponent-texans-defense-dominant-3597901/

👀 Defensive regression. If you review most of the goals this season, it usually isn’t that LFC don’t have enough people behind the ball. It’s that depth & injuries have been more undermining than expected. Little choice but to play those out of form or out of position.
Missing out on Guehi was massive, as was the injury to Leoni, and the decision to sell Quansah now looks bad. I think Trent, when he wanted to, was a better defender than his reputation, but defensively, he’s not mis…

Buccaneers QB Baker Mayfield doesn't expect 'clean play' from Saints: 'I do not like them' https://www.nfl.com/news/buccaneers-baker-mayfield-doesnt-expect-clean-play-saints-i-do-not-like-them

Spagnola: Meaning of Dak on the stretch run https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-meaning-of-dak-on-the-stretch-run

Suddenly, Trump’s effort to rig the 2026 midterms with corrupt gerrymanders appears in trouble.
A panel of judges just blocked the GOP gerrymander in Texas, which had added five seats.
In Indiana, Republicans currently lack the votes to redraw their congressional map.
Trump is angry about all this.
He lashed out at Indiana Republicans, threatening primaries and calling one opponent “weak” and “pathetic.”
So is the scheme dead?
-- No.
Several as…

Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It
As the Trump-GOP scheme to gerrymander the midterms suddenly faces big new setbacks, a Democratic operative who’s leading in these fights explains why the battle isn’t over—and what must happen now.

Spagnola: Meaning of Dak on the stretch run https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-meaning-of-dak-on-the-stretch-run

Been re-reading Langdon Winner's "The Whale and the Reactor".
Winner published this in 1988 and it still 100% applies. His criticism of "values" discourse, of certain strategies of trying to defend important structures by adopting the language and thinking of the opponent. The focus on numbers while devaluing experience. The hollowness of the decentralization discourse.
Damn.

The Eagles want to bury their rivals, and the Cowboys are fighting to save their season https://insidethestar.com/the-eagles-want-to-bury-their-rivals-and-the-cowboys-are-fighting-to-save-their-season

There's a vibe happening in America right now.
The remark that non-violent protest only works if your opponent has aa conscience is resonating...
https://www.reddit.com/r/FolkPunk/comments

A.J. Brown names one thing Eagles, Cowboys have in common ahead of Week 12 matchup https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/news/aj-brown-one-thing-eagles-cowboys-common-week-12-matchup/fb…

Saw a clip of a preacher retelling an anecdote about a chess grandmaster being shown a painting of the devil having apparently defeated his opponent at chess for his soul. The grandmaster studied the painting and saw that there was still a path to avoid a checkmate. So the painting contained a secret inspirational message of hope!
Yet when people accurately model the game state from Die Schachspieler and feed it into chess analysis algorithms, Mephistopheles always wins

Game of Life - Board position and Paul Morphy - Chess Forums
There is an painting "Checkmate" that depicts Satan playing against a young man. The board position is supposed to appear hopeless but it is said that Paul Morphy when seeing the painting studied the picture, called for a chess board to be set up and some time after declared the young man has not yet...

The Trump administration plans to allow new oil and gas drilling off the California coast for the first time in roughly four decades
The proposed lease sales in the Pacific Ocean would primarily be off Santa Barbara County, Calif.,
where a small amount of drilling is already occurring, according to two of the people familiar with the Interior Department’s draft plan

Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific, called the proposal “dead on arrival.”

I had only just decided that my unplayable first WWF letter tray should be called a "boing" (as opposed to an "ognib") when my opponent played a first-tray bingo.

3 things to know about Raiders’ opponent: Chiefs suffer through atypical season https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/3-things-to-know-about-raiders-opponent-chiefs-suffer-through-atypical-season-3603101/

Just finished "The Word for World is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Can't believe I didn't read this one earlier, and this strengthens my resolve to finish off the rest of her stuff I have yet to read sooner. I think it benefits somewhat from having read it after "Four Ways to Forgiveness" which gives more of the Hainish context. Certainly none of the blurbs I had read about it did it any measure of justice, which is one reason I hadn't prioritized it. More than being about colonization, it's about a solution to the paradox of tolerance, and both the price and imperfections of that solution. As usual with Le Guin's science fiction, it's a rich companion to anarchist thought.
I think the typical objection to seeing it as an answer to the warlord question would be that it serendipitously positions the indigenous population with more power and a less ruthless opponent than in the imagined scenario, and it uses the League of Worlds as a sort of deus ex machina to foreclose further retribution. Ultimately that's why I think it's more about the paradox of tolerance than anything else, but I also think in regards to the warlord problem that we are too quick to underestimate just how numerous and enthusiastic the opponents of a warlord might be, and to overestimate the strength of technological weapons wielded by frail (and psychologically unarmored) humans.
In any case, Le Guin gives this book's alien humans yet another fascinatingly credible capability, and getting to see the introduction of ansible technology with all its implications is pretty cool too. Maybe not

Ciattarelli should run again. he's my fav political opponent ATM.
#newJersey #uspol

'Lights-out' Eagles defense swats Jared Goff, Lions offense into oblivion https://www.nfl.com/news/lights-out-eagles-defense-swats-jared-goff-lions-offense-into-oblivion

Ceedee, Dak on must-win vs. Eagles: 'It's a playoff game' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/ceedee-dak-on-must-win-vs-eagles-it-s-a-playoff-game

The US military has always had a massive global advantage against enemies by having bases all over the world. There are bases in every NATO country. This would appear to be a powerful threat to anyone willing to oppose American hegemon, and under normal conditions it would be.
But a lot of those kids serving on those bases joined, not because they love America but, because they needed a ticket out of poverty. They joined for the education, for the money, maybe a bit for the adventure, but, more than anything, to escape the ghetto or podunk backwater that trapped them. Under normal times, this is the best deal they could expect. Maybe they risk their lives, usually they sit around being bored for a few years, and they get to come out with respect and paid college.
But what they are being offered is normal in most of the countries they're stationed in. Free healthcare, cheap or free education, is just what citizens in a lot of countries have come to expect. If the US attacked a NATO country, how many would snap up citizenship if they were given a chance to defect? Bonus points for taking some hardware with you, I'm sure.
But there are some who love their country. There are some patriotic Americans on those bases. Some of them joined specifically to protect the US from all enemies, foreign *and* domestic. Given a chance to fulfill that oath or violate international law, what happens?
There are a good number of former military folks too who now are unsafe in the countries they served, who would do just about anything for citizenship in any EU country and almost any NATO ally. Some of those folks know things they swore an oath to never share, but the country they swore an oath to has betrayed them. Today there's no value in leaking those secrets, but in a war between the US and NATO allies things would be different. Some of those former military folks still believe in their oath, and know exactly who the real enemy is. What happens when there's a real threat of war, when they can use their knowledge to fulfill that oath to protect the US against those domestic threats?
There are a bunch of civilian tech workers who have become targets of the regime. Some of them had clearance, or know about the skeletons in the closet. They know about critical infrastructure, classified systems, all sorts of things that would be extremely valuable to an opponent. But the opponents of the US have always been a frightening *other*, never familiar societies these folks look up to, have visited, have thought about moving to, are trying to escape to.
All I'm saying here is that invading Venezuela and kidnapping the president has a very different calculus than does attacking Greenland. I don't know if Trump or his people are able to understand that, but if he and his folks aren't then I hope European leaders are. But more than that, I hope it never comes down to finding out.
But perhaps we should all think about what we would do to make sure things ended quickly if American leadership ever made such an incredible mistake.

Ceedee, Dak on must-win vs. Eagles: 'It's a playoff game' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/ceedee-dak-on-must-win-vs-eagles-it-s-a-playoff-game

Even The Dallas Cowboys Felt Sorry For The 2025 Las Vegas Raiders https://raiderramble.com/2025/11/18/even-the-dallas-cowboys-felt-sorry-for-the-2025-las-vegas-raiders/

Everything hinges on the subjective interpretation of condition #4: "Making an obvious action which CLEARLY IMPACTS ON THE ABILITY OF AN OPPONENT TO PLAY THE BALL"
Webb: "Only Donnarumma truly knows if he was impacted by this and we have to look at the factual evidence."
I'm screaming at Owen to ask, "if only he knows, what evidence do you see that he is clearly impacted?"
If none, the condition isn't met and thus the on-field decision …

George Pickens fined more for taunt than player who punched opponent https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/george-pickens-fined-more-taunt-than-player-who-punched-opponent

Been starting a habit of writing down story/game ideas as I have them even though most of them will never seriously get started, let alone finished. It's been fun since writing things down gives me a chance to think them through a bit more than just pondering them in my head. Anyways, here's a #GameDesign idea:
"Grand" - is a "reverse metroidvania" in which as a grandparent, you slowly lose movement options as the story progresses, requiring more and more convoluted routes through the map to reach the same areas. You do still explore "new" areas in memory mode (and unlock movement options like a bike in your memories) before traversing the areas again in the diegetic present. The story follows your quest to protect a grandchild from the machinations of a Kafkaesque state, first trying to track them down within the system and then trying to get them released. Each "boss" is "fought" through an abstracted conversation system where memories, keepsakes, and various kinds of emotional/logical appeals wear down your opponent's nihilism and/or fear until they're willing to help you. Normal "enemies" are just people on the street who might bump into you and drain some of your stamina as you pass by if you don't issue a properly-timed "excuse me" or the like.

Matt Eberflus: Focus On Your Job And The Opponent | Dallas Cowboys 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgasCpN_Hlo

Potent dual threat among 3 things Cowboys should hate about Chargers https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/20/cowboys-chargers-preview-things-to-hate-week-16/87844685007/

Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval handily defeated Vice President JD Vance’s half-brother Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.
Pureval, a Democrat, trounced Cory Bowman, securing an early and humiliating lead over the Republican challenger.
An initial vote tally found that Pureval had won 12,694 votes, compared to Bowman’s meager 2,835,

JD Vance’s Half-Brother Suffers Humiliating Loss in Mayoral Race
The voters of Cincinnati roundly rejected Cory Bowman in favor of his Democratic opponent.

Broncos not taking No. 1 seed for granted after uneven finish to regular season: 'We have to be sharper' https://www.nfl.com/news/broncos-not-taking-no-1-seed-for-granted-after-uneven-finish-to-regular-season-we-…

Lions vs. Cowboys | Week 14 opponent preview https://www.detroitlions.com/video/lions-vs-cowboys-week-14-opponent-preview

Week 14 opponent: What the Cowboys are saying https://www.detroitlions.com/news/week-14-opponent-what-the-cowboys-are-saying-schottenheimer-williams-diggs

94.1% accuracy is definitely the exception to the rule for me, but the moves looked clear and obvious. I had wondered about whether patience against the pinned queen was accurate but reasoned it had to be.
Opponent allowing the pin on the queen was their undoing, obviously, but they still played with 82.5% accuracy. In most of my games, I'd be delighted to score that high.
#chess

Game Preview: Raiders clash with the Cowboys under the bright lights of Monday Night Football https://www.raiders.com/news/game-preview-raiders-clash-with-the-cowboys-under-the-bright-lights-of-monday-night-football…

Game Preview: Raiders clash with the Cowboys under the bright lights of Monday Night Football https://www.raiders.com/news/game-preview-raiders-clash-with-the-cowboys-under-the-bright-lights-of-monday-night-football…

Pete Carroll, Raiders Facing This Familiar Hurdle in Week 13 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-pete-carroll-facing-this-familiar-hurdle-week-13

What TV channel is Cowboys vs. Broncos on today? Time, TV schedule for NFL Week 8 game https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/26/where-to-watch-cowboys-vs-broncos-today-tv-ch…