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“Dad! Do you know about the Bangladeshi boy playing football here?” It’s a normal question in the group chat of a family within the Bangladeshi diaspora. You hear of someone else from the Bangla culture doing something - really doing something - and you talk about it. Sure, my dad asked if I meant Hamza Choudhury of Watford FC, formerly Leicester City FC (I did not - he’s the other one), but that speaks even more to the fervor and cheerleading that goes into seeing someone from that young country visibly succeeding, even if, like Quinn Sullivan, they’re fully committed to playing for the USA.

Welcome to 3 Things. I’ll get into what this is in just a moment, but first, let me do the awkward introduction that everyone seems to do so you know exactly who I am. I’d hate for you to be reading this substack for a year and only then realizing, “Wait, he’s not David Cross?” I’m Paul Scheer. You might know me from TV shows like Human Giant, The League, Fresh off the Boat, NTSF:SD:SUV:: and Black Monday.

Hard to believe this was two weeks ago. Hi. How have you been? It’s sticky out there, huh? And those four lines sort of sum up my life of late. Disbelief, confusion, general shock at the state of my world A polite-enough, energy-conserving greeting Asking about you, so you know that even though all I do is think and talk about myself and cancer and surgery, I really, deeply care about everyone else in my life and would so much rather hear their news than share mine

¡Hola, cómo estás! Estoy emocionada de escribir el boletín de hoy porque quiero compartir contigo mi experiencia detox con el jugo 5x5, que estoy segura cambiará tu opinión sobre los jugos si eres escéptico como solía ser yo. Cargando... Te voy a contar: ¿Para qué sirve el protocolo 5x5 de jugo de zanahoria? ¿En que consiste el protocolo El 5x5 de jugo de zanahoria? Cuales alimentos no puedes comer y cuales si

This an update to a post in my Statehood Series. If you’re relatively new to Battleground, take a look back at my series of posts on various failed (and ongoing!) statehood movements across the United States. The Greater Idaho Movement was launched in the wake of the 2016 election by Inland Northwest Trump voters who were fed up with the political power imbalance brought on by current state boundaries. Advocates of the movement argue that voters in places like Eastern Oregon, Southeast Washington and Northern California all share much more in common with conservative voters in Idaho than they do with voters in their own respective states.

Aimlessly wandering through the channels, in search of a sporting event more compelling than cornhole, I came across the President of the United States, one Joseph R. Biden, delivering balm to the residents of Florida recently submerged by Hurricane Idalia. It was shocking, and sad. He seemed so old. His eyes were slits, he turned the pages of his very prepared remarks haltingly. He slurred his words, slightly. His physical condition overwhelmed the message.

[Photo Credit: The Site Gallery, taken during a fundraiser that Vivian King hosted for District Attorney Ogg shortly before Ogg won election and hired Ms. King to be her chief of staff, a senior leadership position commanding one of the highest salaries in the office] Before Vivian King served as Chief of Staff for Kim Ogg at the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, she worked in private practice, including as a criminal defense lawyer.

At the time of publication: Series B | Total funding raised: 37.7mn USD ******* Resorts and Hotels are a multi-hundred billion dollar industry in the United States. For resorts, leisure visits will be a sizable portion of the business. Resorts attract customers with their sprawling, well-maintained locations and on-site amenities and they typically cost millions of dollars to build and hence will cost customers a pretty penny.  As we know, resorts typically are a ‘bundle’.

On my flight back to Seattle last month I spotted a bright teal lake in the mountains below me out the plane window. I took a picture. When I got home, I spread out maps on the living room floor and looked to see if I could find a way to hike to it. Pretty easily, I found one. I knew that I was looking north, and that the lake was near Glacier Peak, easily identifiable from the plane.