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We'd be in an even worse place in this country (if that's possible) without local news sites. Appreciate them.Support them. Honored to have Pasadena Local News write about my middle-grade readers novel, "The Goal of the Game." localnewspasadena.com/g4sx

Surely he was a great athlete in his day...

Playing the percentages, I would say that they were lying then, lying now, and lying every moment of every day between then and now. And they'll lie every moment of every day about everything until Congress does its job and stops them.

RIP, Doug Moe, ABA original, NBA iconoclast. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/s...

Dean Balsamini hosted me on his podcast, Deep Threads, to talk my middle-grade readers novel, "The Goal of the Game," the Knicks and which NBA team I quietly rooted for while I was writing columns for the New York Times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yw0...

It’s election subversion, not cancellation, that is the real authoritarian move. Putin hasn’t canceled an election. Iran has regular elections. It's competitive authoritarianism, where "democratic institutions & elections persist, but are hollowed out." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

funny to see this clip of an anonymous chud who needs white supremacy to feel like his life has meaning just after attending an event honoring a brilliant black scholar for her brilliant book

AG or PR--what a freaking joke.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Thank you, Shali Flint, for hosting me on her Foundations of Learning podcast to discuss my middle-grade readers novel, "The Goal of the Game." Enjoyed our discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCPp...

For starters, him playing.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

CNN is reporting the real reason Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre for two years is not for renovation: “the Kennedy Center does not have a 2026/2027 season. There would not have been any programming to announce."

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

Vance’s benefactor Peter Thiel, Epstein, and Russia’s ambassador Vitaly Churkin having an “important lunch” 1 month before the 2016 election — right before the Podesta emails were released by Wikileaks Probably nothing! 🙃🥶

OK, so Musk was planning to go to Epstein's island, but it's not like he went there with the intent to go to a wild party or something, it was probably just some business. Excuse me, an email just came in. *Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"

Thank goodness Djokovic closed that out. Couldn’t take one more closeup of Darren Cooper.

MELANIA has been nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography in the FIFA Oscars

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Don't make Bovino the fall guy when Trump has been advocating for "unshackled" police since '89, urging violence against protesters & immigrants since '15 and turning violent rhetoric into policy as POTUS My @washingtonmonthly.com look at Trump's long record washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/28/b...

Idiot

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

Blue state teams....

Alex Pretti, the man fatally shot by Border Patrol Saturday, was a local intensive care nurse dedicated to caring for veterans. “Alex wanted to make a difference in this world,” Pretti’s family said in a statement shared with The Post.

2026 is going to be a very dark year for US foreign policy, where everything that was built over many decades by leaders for collective security is torn apart by one madman, but only because people in his own party remain silent.

At recent event to launch my middle-grade readers novel, The Goal of the Game, former UVA star and WNBA player Jocelyn Willoughby spoke about how NIL will inevitably tempt parents to spend more on youth sports.

This is an answer nobody would ever accept from a democrat. A democrat who gave this answer would be ruthlessly mocked until the end of time. Yet Trump and Republicans get away with it without so much as a follow-up.

Here's the message: Trump is terrorizing our communities with a campaign of inhumane un-American ICE brutality - and he's paying for it by raising health premiums on 20 million Americans. Effective because it's 💯 true.

Why am I not surprised that he did and said nothing in response to a federal raid on one of his own WaPo reporters?

The NY Times concludes that the ICE agent who shot Renee Good was NOT hit by her car “the visual evidence shows no indication that..Jonathan Ross, had been run over..It also establishes-millisecond by millisecond-how Mr. Ross put himself in a dangerous position near her vehicle in the first place”

BREAKING: China's trade surplus surged to a record $1.2 trillion in 2025. Strong exports have helped keep China’s economy growing at an annual rate close to its official target of about 5%, but have also triggered alarm in countries that fear a flood of cheap imports is damaging local industries

And this means or proves…what?

USA Today's excellent Steve Borelli, who writes on the important issues involving the ever-evolving big business of youth sports, weighs in on "The Goal of the Game," my middle-grade readers novel. The column is thorough and wonderfully captures why I wrote it. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Fox News claims to be airing the "entire video" -- but they're cutting off before the officer says, "fucking bitch."

Jan. 6, 2021:

"Marco Rubio, we salute you!" A real thing that was said by the CBS Evening News anchor tonight.

Trump is really fighting to keep his eyes open while Caine goes on and on

The FIFA Peace Prize doesn't mean what it used to

Jack Smith's deposition must be bigger news "There is no historical analog for what..Trump did..[H]e was free to say he thought he won..He was even free to say falsely that he won..But..he was not free to..violate federal law and use knowingly false statements..to target lawful government function"

Meanwhile, at home…

WSJ editorial on the latest of the hundreds of tariff walkbacks by trump (this one for furniture): “Rarely has a President worked so hard to cover the damage from his policies without admitting it.”

A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News. Homicides in NYC... 1990: 2,262 1993: 1,927 1998: 629 2001: 649 2013: 335 2019: 320 2021: 488 2024: 382 2025 (as of 12/28): 302

JUST IN: AG Pam Bondi deletes a post touting a chart as proof of the Trump administration's success in reducing drug overdoses—after being informed the data actually reflected the *Biden* administration’s record.

Watching the Knicks captain bail them out night after night, I’m thinking the nickname bestowed on that DOGE teenage misanthrope was wasted. Big Balls Brunson works for me.

If you are a sports dad, grappling with youth sports issues and costs, you may want to have a listen to Bryan Ward's DadUp podcast as we discuss what should be the goal of the game. www.daduptribe.com/podcast/epis...

The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.