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Parenting is hard, but every once in a while you get feedback that you’re doing all the right things.
I hope you said thank you
Hey @SeatGeek I bought two tix to Nebraska at Oregon game for tonight. The email said my tix to that game arrived. So I travel from Nebraska to Eugene. When I try to get in the game, the stadium staff tells me the barcode is for the OR vs Michigan game and they can't let me in.
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Jamie Dimon explains why JPMorgan stopped letting managers decide who works from home:
The question put to him was simple: why not let each manager decide?
Dimon's answer: they tried that.
"I believe in pushing power as far as down as you can. You know, regulators want all centralized. I push as far... to the branch manager, to the trader, to... with rules and, you know, constructs and stuff like that."
But on remote work, the delegation failed:
"We tried that with this, but the fact is they simply didn't exercise managerial skill. Everyone gave everyone everything, including people at my management table, by the way. And I eventually said, 'I've had it with that.'"
He is clear that he isn't against remote work across the board. He points to a test the bank ran:
"We have 10% of our people working home full time. We put virtual call centers in Baltimore and Detroit. We did it to see if they'd be effective. They're highly effective. They work from home. They're mostly minorities. That's why we did it. It's a home run. So I'm not against it where it works."
His position on employees who object comes down to choice on both sides:
"I also completely defend your right to say, 'I don't want to,' but I don't defend your right to tell me what J.P. Morgan's going to do. So you have a free market. You can do one thing, I can do another. That's what's called a free market."
He also argues that the debate is narrower than it sounds:
"You all may not know this, but 60% of Americans worked the whole time. Where did you get your Amazon packages from? Your beef, your meat, your vodka. Where did you get the diapers from?"
He lists UPS and FedEx, manufacturing, agriculture, hospitals, schools, nurses, sanitation, firefighters and the military, then says:
"It's only these people in the middle who complain a lot about it. I'm being quite serious."
Then he gives three reasons it doesn't work in banking.
1. Young people fall behind, and the damage compounds.
"The amount for the younger people being left behind. I've known this for a while. We can prove a little bit of it. And that is cumulative. It's not like the first month you're working. It's by the second year you have less people, you're put in less assignments, you know less what's going on, you have less conversations at the water cooler or in the cafeteria. So it's leaving them behind. I won't do that."
He adds that bringing juniors in while their bosses stay home doesn't solve it: "And to have the younger people coming in, but not their bosses, I have a problem with that, too."
2. People think they are focused when they aren't.
Dimon says he always hears "it works for me," and he describes what he saw on a call the day before:
"As I was talking, there were 12 people in the room and four people on the screen, and all four people on the screen were on their phone."
3. Management happens in constant, informal back-and-forth.
"When we meet in the morning, we talk, we have these debates all day long. We're talking, 'Hey, no, I checked on that. You're right about that. Here's what I think we should do.' All day long, constant update, constant share of information."
And on culture, he is blunt: "It's impossible to do culture that way."
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When Malachi Coleman was five years old, his mother left him and his two year old sister at a stranger's house.
She said she would be back.
He plays wide receiver for Wisconsin now, and he has never seen her again.
His father had already died. So at five, Malachi became the person responsible for keeping his sister Nevaeh alive.
They went into foster care in Nebraska. They lived in three different homes. He was abused in the system.
Then a couple named Craig and Miranda Coleman heard something at church and decided to become foster parents. They planned to take one child at a time.
At the end of their licensing class, the agency asked whether they would consider two siblings who were about to be separated from each other.
They thought about it for a couple of weeks and said yes.
The kids started coming on weekends in October 2014. They moved in that January. On November 20, 2015, Craig and Miranda adopted both of them.
Here is what Craig said about the boy who showed up.
"He was a broken kid."
Miranda said he lived for today and only today. Malachi says he was mean and selfish and would not do one kind thing for anybody.
So one day Miranda argued with him about it for an hour.
And at the end of it she did not ask him to become a good person. She asked him to hold a door open for one person. One door. One stranger. That was all.
He has not stopped since. He holds doors for everybody now, and he will tell you that kindness is the thing he cares about most.
When Nebraska started letting high school athletes earn money off their names, Malachi Coleman put his into a burrito at a local restaurant and sent a cut of it to the foster care system. He runs a foundation now that works to get kids out of foster care and into permanent homes.
The football is almost the small part.
He was a top 60 recruit out of Lincoln East and he stayed home and signed with the Nebraska Cornhuskers. It did not work. Eight catches as a freshman, then shoulder surgery, then nothing. He transferred to Minnesota and barely played there either.
Three seasons. Thirteen catches.
This year Wisconsin took him, because a coach who had him at Minnesota vouched for him. In his first game he caught four passes for 76 yards and a touchdown against Notre Dame, which was more than he gained in all of last season. Last weekend he caught a 46 yard touchdown against Michigan State.
He says he faked his confidence until it became real.
He got that line from his mother.
A woman once sat and argued with a furious, broken kid for an hour, and then asked him to hold one door open for one stranger.
Here is what he says now.
"I see myself as wanted."
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I’m taking PPP money if we get locked down. Not gonna miss out this time.
CDC is aware of and closely monitoring reports of a suspected case of pneumonic plague in the Irkutsk region of Russia that resulted in a death. We are working across the U.S. government to assess developments as additional information becomes available.
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At this time, there is no indication of a broader threat to the United States, but CDC and our interagency partners are prepared and will continue to monitor the situation closely.
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Charles Barkley issued one of the best on-air takedowns of the modern day Democrat Party I have ever seen, then demands Voter ID.
“These people are out here talking about no ICE, no prisons, using words like socialism… No cops? I don't believe in that…”
“This is some of the stupidest sh*t ever”…
“You need to have ID when you go vote.”
All of this is common sense.
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This has got to stop. Needs to be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent….
Let me explain what happened 👇
5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.
5 minutes…
These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.
There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.
Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.
American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.
This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.
This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.
You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.
Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.
The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…
Way to go, Dad
Case Keenum has been in the NFL since 2012. Until Monday night, his two kids had never seen him play a game.
Not one. Not ever.
Here is what he said before kickoff.
"It means everything. It's incredible because we always say 'Keenum's can do hard things.' So we'll do some hard things tonight. And hopefully I can show them tonight how it's done."
He is 38 years old. He was the third quarterback on the Chicago Bears depth chart.
Caleb Williams was ruled out. Backup Tyson Bagent went into concussion protocol. So the job fell to the guy nobody expected to take another snap in his life.
It had been 1,009 days since Case Keenum started a regular season NFL game. The last one was Christmas Eve of 2023 with the Houston Texans.
His son Kyler was born in November of 2019. His daughter Cadence was born in April of 2021.
Which means Case Keenum has been an NFL quarterback for every single day that either of his children has been alive, and neither one of them had ever seen him play a game. Cadence was two years old the last time he started one.
He arrived at Soldier Field carrying what looked like a paper sack, dressed like a man on his way to a parent teacher conference. The internet had a wonderful time with it. Somebody said his wife must have packed him a lunch.
That wife is Kimberly. The family calls her the logistical ninja, because she is the one who has packed and unpacked their whole life through the Houston Texans, the Rams, the Minnesota Vikings, the Denver Broncos, Washington, the Cleveland Browns, the Buffalo Bills, Houston again, and now the Chicago Bears.
This is also the man who threw for 19,217 yards at Houston, which is still the most in the history of college football, and then went undrafted.
Then the game started.
24 of 34. 247 yards. Two touchdowns. No interceptions. Not sacked one time.
Eight yards to Luther Burden III in the first quarter. Forty one yards to Kalif Raymond in the third. Then in the fourth he kept it himself and walked it in from a yard out.
Three touchdowns from a third string quarterback.
Chicago Bears 27, Philadelphia Eagles 7.
When it ended he walked off hyping up the crowd in the north end zone, and the whole stadium stood up for him.
And then came the part nobody could have written.
Keenum went out to do his postgame interview on the SportsCenter set. His daughter came with him. Five years old, out on that stage next to her dad, waving at a stadium full of Chicago Bears fans who were still standing there cheering for him.
Fourteen years of practice squads and backup jobs and new cities and moving trucks.
He said it himself when he signed here. More than knowing how to get hit, he knows how to get back up.
The first NFL game his kids ever got to watch, their dad won it, and he scored three times doing it.
Keenums can do hard things.
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