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Wtaf?!

"This is what male supremacist and fascist politics offer: a violent, cutthroat society where the loser is scorned and victor takes the spoils. And it’s precisely the kind of order Trump wants to put on display with a White House UFC match." (from December) www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...

I'll repeat for the nth time the famous quote attributed to Bill Russell after the Celtics beat the 76ers (Wilt, Greer, Walker, Cunningham) in the 1968 Eastern Conf Finals when asked "What do you say to those who claim the 76ers had the better team?": "I thought that's why they kept score."

Jay Williams said that the Knicks’ best player is a second round draft pick like that’s a negative on both Jalen Brunson and the Knicks and not a sign that everyone disastrously underestimated Brunson. He called these playoffs a March Madness run. That’s just a ridiculous level of disrespect.

Jalen Brunson single-handedly dismantled Harden to take the heart out of the Cavs.

Aside from simply being a Knicks fan, this kind of talk is exactly why I so badly want to see Brunson lead this team to a championship. The audacity to say “we are the better team” after getting dog walked twice at home is just something else. youtube.com/shorts/3D1CC...

Trump's polling collapse is more significant than people think. As Trump bleeds non-MAGA Rs and alienates groups he made inroads with in 2024, GOP lawmakers are now genuinely fearing voters that lie outside the MAGA rump. That's something new. Some thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2108...

You'll need to go for a long walk to calm down after you read how the UK got to here on trans rights. If you're only ever going to read one piece on trans people, this would be the one.

Why do I feel like if government goons pepper-sprayed Lindsey Graham during the Biden administration, it would have come before the comma.

In which Professor Wurman candidly admits why he sees the history of the common law differently than anyone who has honestly studied it, and why rather than doing scholarship he just wrote and op-ed and a (terrible, demonstrably wrong) article about the common law that should have been rejected.

Le Knicks remportent la séries 4-0 contre les Cavs de Cleveland. Le Maire de NY:

That’s the plan

THE NEW YORK KNICKS

Good night, fellow Eastern Conference Champion Knicks fans! 🧡💙 #KnicksSky

I don’t even know what to say. I feel like I’m dreaming. One more series to win, but this team is so special. Feel lucky to get to watch them. #Knicks

Tyler Kolek is such a fun dude

I keep hearing people talking about how, sure, the Knicks, but what about the Spurs and OKC and blah blah and, I mean, look: are you seeing these games?

One of my biggest complaints about the Knicks in recent years was how slow they always played. 7.9 seconds to get the ball across half court every time. To see them play like this has me absolutely giddy

Max Strus (caveat that the man from the original meme is a toxic jerk)

Not a single play where the Knicks quit on defense. Not a play where they don’t hustle on offense. Can’t say remotely the same thing about Cleveland.

Shaq and Kenny delivered

Frank assessment: Cavs should spent the halftime calling their agents to make them some tee times

Look no game is over until it’s over, but it’s getting tedious listening to the announcing crew try and talk up Cleveland’s chances. Ready to hear Shaq and Chuck give the frank assessment this game deserves.

In the men’s cologuard ad, they are sitting in the porch with the cologuard box mascot. This is much better than the women’s ad where they talk about how horny they are for the cologuard box mascot while he (they? it?) mows the yard.

Knicks have piled 8 more on to make it a 20-point lead. So, analytically, would we say they’re winning this game?

SHAMET

Knicks +12 in points in the paint, +10 in fast-break points, +9 in bench points, +6 from the 3-point line, with just one turnover in the first 12 minutes. Another monster offensive quarter — 158.3 offensive rating — and a 38-26 lead after the first quarter of Game 4.

Taylor look how much fun you could be having

And make it 38 tonight.

So the Knicks came out and dropped 37 on the Cavs in the first quarter of Game 3. And now we’re in the final minute of the first in Game for, and the Knicks are sitting at 36. This is a team that just wants it more.

Bridges is on fire. Making shots. Making assists. OG hustling. KAT looking good from range. This team is like an offensive Voltron right now

Cavs have been a lot better from 3, except Harden, who has been terrible.

Man I knew getting Strus out here was gonna mean guys getting tangled up.

Just listening to all this praise for the Cavs for simply deciding to show up and play basketball

My thing tonight is I just want these Knicks rested and uninjured. Need them to finish this series off and stay healthy.

Sorry but this is incredibly lame.

I guess we’ll see if this works out tonight. They were sitting down and even walking out early in the 4th quarter of Game 3.

Knicks don’t *have* to win this one, and I expect Cleveland to scrap hard against getting swept at home. But I would like them to get every day of rest advantage they can get over the winner of Spurs-Thunder.

My Big Fat Greek Elgin Marble Cancellation

i was cancelled by greece

Once intolerance against one marginalised group is legitimised, it begins to legitimise intolerance towards all marginalised groups. If Starmer, Burnham, Streeting and co don’t drop their transphobic policies and embrace trans rights fast, Labour will face political demolition in the big cities. 🏳️‍⚧️🥀

I think this is one of my stronger essays, and it feels newly urgent after the last few week. Hope you’ll check it out.

I will say on this point I’ve shifted to “impeach anyway.” Even if I don’t believe Rs will remove him, force them to defend him over and over

Trump has fundamentally remade American politics at home and abroad. We are not so much in a fight to defend our democracy as to rebuild it. And we will have to find our way in a new international order, one in which Trump and his cohort are determined to act as villains.

The IRS banned from auditing Trump’s family. GOP primary voters take out Thomas Massie at Trump’s behest. And so on. Seemed like a good time to re-up this

There is no pre-Trump world to which we can return. That has all been washed away. And there is no near future that is not defined by him and the cataclysm of his rule. My latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/after-trump-...

"Liberal democracy is not just majority decisions bounded by rights. It’s also about the care with which decisions are made...[we should] evaluate evidence and deliberate in a reasoned way." Interesting @polphilpod.bsky.social on UK turn against trans rights: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...