Yo, @btoporek.bsky.social ... You still edit? jblanchard.substack.com/p/the-revolu...

“Israeli Forces Kill 198 Palestinians in Gaza Over Three Days” It’s a genocide. Daily endless massacres, largely ignored in the West.

Where my Spurs fans at? Revolutionary change arrives gradually, then suddenly. This Spurs revolution will be televised. For free: jblanchard.substack.com/p/the-revolu...

Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death. But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.

I'm really having trouble processing the relative silence from Barack Obama about a colleague who he'd hosted at the White House, the Minnesota State House Speaker, being assassinated, but rushing to get out a weepy statement about Charlie fucking Kirk.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Remember the man by his words.

I’ve seen Democrats say nothing on genocide, little on the assassination of one of their own, and then bend over backwards for someone who caused pain and suffering so many. Loving your enemy is Christ like. But doing so while being silent about vulnerable people is insane.

I think the Spurs will win 53 games this year.

If you want to know how it’s possible that Donald Trump is President, all you have to do is look how NBA personalities are covering the Kawhi story.

A reminder that every Democrat with a vote, voted to confirm this man.

@michaeljstern.bsky.social you’re an opinion columnist who cants stand by their own opinion.

Damn "The 21st century’s cruel irony is that even as a wide range of essential American institutions—universities like UChicago, but also hospitals and health insurers—increasingly sacrifice their duties to society on the altar of asset accumulation, they fail at accumulating assets."

It’s crazy listening to @npr.org grill the mayor of Chicago (“you’re an unpopular mayor with low approval ratings, what have you learned?”) more than it does conservative pundits.

Abolish and Arrest ICE.

It’s kind of crazy that for decades we spent all this money on a military… And all it took to destroy the United States was a cable news network and some social media accounts.

BREAKING: House Speaker Mike Johnson has called for legislation requiring universal background checks on all sandwich purchases. “No one is trying to take your sandwiches. I have sandwiches at home,” Johnson says. “But we have an obligation to keep them out of the wrong hands.”

I like my hometown’s new mayor.

I’d prefer people not to exist as rich as you.

But they were already dumb as dirt…

This is the Barstool Sports business model that some of your favorite NBA people (players, media personalities, bloggers, podcasters) didn’t mind.

“So to the Biden and Trump administrations, to Democrats and Republicans in Congress, to the US media, I say this: history will judge you. For non-stop complicity in a genocide; aiding and abetting the crime of crimes.” My latest op-ed for the Guardian:

Democrats want people to feel the pain because they believe they can run on it. And if they do get power, they’ll negotiating against themselves down from a half measures starting point to restore everything torn apart.

Now would be a good time for turnover within the Democratic Party to take advantage of the bad jobs reports to replace leadership with representatives people actually trust.

Obama and Biden were absolute failures.

As Mayor of NYC, Cuomo will send the police after you for saying things he doesn’t like.

Daryl Morey believes every NBA Championship he’s never won should be marked by an asterisk. And he has the 100-page reports he filed with the league office in protest of officiating to prove it.

Wait…is @btoporek.bsky.social back?

This works for me.

Democrats and Republicans are responsible for collaborating with Israel’s extremist right-wing government to commit genocide. Both parties must be burned to the ground if we are going to get anywhere as a nation that wants life to be better.

Nothing bizarre about it.

Frankly it's shocking that the NBA was STILL parading around a guy that raped a 13-year-old, DECADES after this was common public knowledge. It's like everyone was walking on eggshells waiting for someone in the league to admit "wait, fuck Karl Malone, right?" So good job Wemby.

Wemby did WHAT?! Oh man, I'm so happy the Spurs have him. Karl Malone sucks.

In a little league championship game I hit 2-for-3 with two doubles and 4 RBIs in a 6-4 win. I love this prompt. So many good memories. Damn I love sports.

I watched every single minute of Tim Duncan’s NBA career, from the draft lottery the Spurs won to his Hall of Fame induction.

I went to LA and lived my White Men Can’t Jump dreams playing at Venice Beach. Playing 2-on-2 I was cooking this one guy so bad his friends were laughing at him from the sideline and his response was, “Fuck you, you come guard this white boy then.” And one of them did and I cooked him too.

I had 8 assists in the first half off the bench of of a tournament game for my club basketball team. When my team lost its 10-point lead early in the second half the other teams waiting for the next game were yelling at our coach to put the white boy (me) back in the game.

My brother and I own an entire day of pickup basketball at the duck pond park near Marbach in San Antonio. We went undefeated from 6 PM-10 PM against a good mix of competition. I ran point against a guy who led the city in steals in high school.

Every single leader in both political parties needs to be removed from office for protecting rich and powerful people associated with a child sex trafficking ring.

Seek help.

Back when I turned 33, my brother bought me a Larry Bird jersey. I sadly didn't get an Al Horford jersey yesterday.

Is Carter Bryant who the Spurs thought they were getting when they traded for Kawhi?

Alabama Governor Signs New ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Lowering State’s Age Of Consent

I found Will Stancil’s burner account y’all.

We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales. This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide. We are doing this and history will never forgive us. Gaza:

this is happening almost every day now. war crimes, every day. with no one to stop them

Evil, monstrous government.

The US is a hostile and belligerent force in the world that seeks to rob nations of their sovereignty. This has been the case for the better part of 80 years, but we're now doing it publicly, openly, and proudly instead of relying on cloak and dagger backdoor financial coercion and military threats

Henry Cavill as Batman would be hilarious by Gunn. We already know Cavill can deliver a dark and brooding performance in a superhero movie.