The thing to remember about Bari Weiss is that she's not smart, clever, or interesting. Her only skill is her ability to flatter wealthy boomers who think they shouldn't be shamed for saying slurs in public. She's going to mess up at CBS so badly that all we need to do is not watch the channel.

found the new CBS mission statement.

Bari Weiss: emphasizing the BS in CBS

this nonstop flight to ankara is making an unscheduled stop in new york city eric adams:

The big issue that will continue to divide the Democratic Party will be that of whether government needs to step in to prevent obscene hoarding of wealth. If you follow me, you know where I stand on this one. lol

*find out if the boys are back in town

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Guys, I'm not sure spending infinity trillion dollars on a giant plagiarism machine is worth it when it's best case use scenario is "computer program that writes boilerplate emails that need to be heavily edited before sending them out".

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If an Old Navy Fourth of July shirt could read the news.

ICE is vile but thankfully it’s staffed by buffoons who send rear wheel drive SUVs to places like Minnesota

The demonization of Somalis is no different than the demonization of Haitians before the election. It's a political attack and has to be actively fought—not through half-measures or expressions of tepid concern but by demanding decency from society and respect for all of humanity.

I think if Johan was on the ballot now, he probably isn’t a first-ballot guy, but he probably doesn’t have to wait long. Partially due to changing standards. But he was also on the ballot with *at least* 11 future HOFers plus Bonds, Clemens, Schilling, Sheffield, Sosa, Manny.

This guy rules

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this too is slop

I would put a clip of a single Pistol Pete Homework video into my travel team's Discord every day for years. Those videos are still amazingly beneficial for any hooper. Especially since a lot of the drills a player can do in the garage or small space in bad weather.

The Pete Maravich instructional videos got me, a fat white kid with horrendous asthma and a life-threatening heart condition, regular playing time on a couple of successful junior high teams that had multiple players go on to play D1 ball eventually.

it's one of my guilty YouTube pleasures. The Red on Roundball segment is great, too www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHSb...

The other guy our dads collectively loved was Maravich. And if you have never seen Pistol Pete's instructional videos, search YouTube for "homework basketball". You'll get to watch a forty-something Maravich absolutely destroy people with his passing & dribbling, all while wearing sweatpants.

The push by various pro-Israel lobbying groups for the US to recognize Somaliland is something everyone should pay closer attention to.

Larry Bird is the reason why our dads all try to trick people with very stupid looking fake passes in pickup. Our dads never figured out that such passes only really work for guys as good as Larry Bird was.

Yep, the level of vicious bigotry is extreme and we can cannot give an inch. There is a movement on the far right, supported by billionaires and powerful people in the White House, who want to ethnically cleanse Somalis from the U.S., and we must describe it as such and treat it as such.

"It’s not about the money. You see, taxes are an implicit acknowledgment that I exist within society and not above it. That my fate is tethered to the fate of humanity at large. That I am not the special little boy I’ve always believed myself to be." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

The other day someone pointed out that Nick Shirley just returned from a propaganda tour of Israel and also that video dropped the day after Israel formally recognized Somaliland: apnews.com/article/turk...

By retreating only to "kitchen table issues" to avoid being labeled "woke," Democratic leaders have left an open goal for the GOP. When you treat the harassment of vulnerable communities as a "distraction" rather than a crisis, you're not avoiding a fight: you're just forfeiting it.

This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

i'm really having a hard time getting past the "surely we can all agree that Somalis are worse than trash" thing. this feels new and very bad

I left twitter a year ago and I wish I could say it was for moral reasons but it was mostly because it just stopped working and it felt like there were more real people here despite the smaller user base

"51% of the vote in one election does not empower you to destroy a city or culture or society" -- Mark Levin after Mamdani won 50.8% of the popular vote "We have rejected, completely, utterly, undeniably, the Democrat Party" -- Mark Levin after Trump won 49.8% of the popular vote

sliwa correctly understanding that mamdani ran a very traditional campaign and thus surpassing the analytical ability of 80% if people who comment on politics for a living

uh holy SHIT?

If you ever want to find out how insane US sanctions policy is, try to send someone a Venmo for a "Cuban Sandwich". Very good chance your account gets frozen. For large corporations, dropping customers is the default if there's even a possibility of a transaction running afoul of US sanctions

it’s cool how predictable enshittification is

What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam

I think people are underestimating how much Mamdani, even more so than your average elected leftist, see it as his top priority to not be seen as a failed mayor. He is not going to be another Brandon Johnson, I’d wager

so basically our rich oligarchs launched a racist propaganda media campaign to demonize taxpayer-funded childcare, our garbage oligarch press parroted the attack, and now they're going to steal that money to put into their assorted cryptocurrency grifts

It's pretty cool how the only new business models that seem to thrive these days are the ones that do one of two things: 1. Cater to the top 10% 2. Squeezing every penny out of the things that no human being can actually opt out of (rent, healthcare, etc).

You've probably been following the story about fraud in MN. I wrote about the people who provide services who are being driven into bankruptcy, thanks to the Walz' administration decision to hire Optum AI to screen all payments. It's a disaster.

remember the perfect offensive line is LT: actual battle mech, jaeger, patlabor police bot LG: human tractor, deadlifts planets C: fast nerd RG: a whole farm, actual Letterkenny character RT: Lane Johnson

This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

There are multiple national political commentators who earnestly predicted that Eric Adams would be a legitimate presidential candidate and a national figurehead of the Democratic party by now and those commentators still have careers somehow.

There was a cupcake craze?

“Expanding community oversight of policing has been an uphill battle for decades,” says state Senator Angela McKnight, who represents Jersey City. She is a sponsor of a bill that would strengthen investigatory powers for civilian oversight boards.

I have gotten used to local psychos in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area being obsessed with Somalis, even though Somalis only represent 2.5% of the metro population (100,000 out of 3.8M) Local racists gonna racist All of MAGA being obsessed with Somalis is super weird though.