Congrats to the Knicks, but could they have perhaps found a way to do this that somehow made Stephen A Smith miserable?

You know what, screw it. I’m rooting for a massive, undeniable, scandal involving a ref getting caught betting on the Finals that results in a bipartisan dismantling of FanDuel, DraftKings, and Kalshi.

Bow before me, ye Wordle mortals

"The on-camera dozing sessions are just one sign of Trump’s growing ailments, which are certainly not helped by staying up all night binging on a Truth Social algo feeding him a unhealthy buffet of Trump-worshipping AI slop, conspiracies, and Boomer meme garbage." — @justinglawe.bsky.social

Let’s give it up for two-time NBA Finals MVP, Tyrese Haliburton’s Achilles tendon.

Ooooh, are we sharing fables? I got one for you. So, there's this frog that enters public service, presumably for the right reasons. He spends years as a district judge, then gets elected to the state supreme court, then attorney general of that state. (thread)

I swear for a strange reason I was actually thinking of Anna Karenina earlier, and then I come across this in The Emperor of All Maladies:

Going out on a limb here but I think this Wembanyama guy is gonna be pretty good.

We seriously should treat sports betting ads like cigarette ads: ban them.

The top 10 contacts in my text messages are OTPs from various utilities and financial institutions.

Fish: they’re just like us

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Of all of the movies in the James Bond franchise, Moonraker is almost certainly one of them

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Didn’t take the bait on today’s Connections. Nice try, NYT.

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

The GOP wants to “DOGE” our state voter rolls. Their so-called “SAVE Act,” wld require ongoing voter purges using citizenship data from sources such as the DHS’s “SAVE”program & SSA. It proposes *no penalties* for erroneous purges but potential *prison time* for erroneous registrations. WTF?! 1/

Quick round up: - the government is covering up evidence the president is a pedophile - he’s openly taking bribes from foreign governments - his masked agents are shooting citizens in the streets - the FBI is helping him steal the election - he’s threatening war against multiple allies 👍👍👍

It’s a really bad sign if they are calling up Roger Stone who ran the Brooks Brothers riot in 2000 (to stop the Florida recount), cavorted with the Proud Boys & Oath Keepers before Jan 6, & was a primary architect of so-called “Stop the Steal” campaigns in 2016, 2018, and 2020, 1/

Is the administration’s bit that they encourage right-wing influencers to find “fraud” in blue states; influencers “investigate” and publish propaganda claiming said widespread fraud was responsibility of immigrants; and then gov’t sends in ICE to terrorize people because of it?

OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice

Bookmark that Vice President and future presidential candidate JD Vance retweeted a post that said Alex Pretti was “an assassin who tried to murder federal agents.”

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

The rest of the world should absolutely boycott the World Cup and boycott the Olympics. At minimum.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

Stephen Miller cannot remain working in this White House. He will lead us directly into civil war. I do not see how he can stay. He is a danger to the republic.

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

FYI: Judge Ellis (Chicago ICE case) noted in November that video evidence shows ICE "brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."

Cops say ICE account of shooting conflicts with results of investigation. "The ICE spokesperson said agents fired their weapons in self-defense, hitting the driver. ....the spokesperson said another individual, Solomon Antonio Serrano-Esquivel, ‘was in the passenger seat’." wjla.com/news/local/i...

This seems really really bad

It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls. If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

J6 prosecutor: “It’s more maddening than it is anything else. I spent years of my life watching the events of that day unfold in front of me again and again and again. I spoke with dozens and dozens of people who were there that day and who are still dealing with the trauma.”

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

What do Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, and Nigeria have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. 1/

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

Look who’s hanging out at TPUSA today: it’s Jack Posobiec, the long time cohost of Charlie Kirk’s podcast, posing between a guy wearing a shirt mocking Holocaust victims (Myron Gaines) and a MAGA guy who was (temporarily) kicked off Elon’s Twitter for circulating CSAM (Don Lucre). Very wholesome!

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Jesus is not everyone's savior in the United States.

We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States. Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.

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