Thunder fans got everything they wanted on Tuesday: a ring ceremony, a championship banner unveiling and a win over ex-Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets.

Like, Trump loosened regulations around the chemical Jones said "makes the friggin' frogs gay" and he didn't say shit. Washed

You're telling me you can't lose to a team 69 to 3 and then the next week lose to another team which we haven't lost to on your home field since the '50s?

“Great Minds Discuss Ideas. Average Minds Discuss Events. Small Minds Discuss People.” Eleanor Roosevelt

"Kennedy's actions are endangering America's health, according to everyone in a position to know." That's the story. You put Kennedy's side on paragraph 9 after laying out the entire case against him, and then you spend 6 more paragraphs reiterating why he's full of shit. That's a responsible story.

My parents purchased a pedigreed puppy from a well-known breeder. It came with a packet warning them not to vaccinate their dog with language exactly matching anti-vax talking points, incl autism. Of course, within 5 years the dog was riddled with congenital diseases caused by inbreeding.

I feel bad for having interacted with the topic of the night. Mostly because there's no way it's true and it was weird that it became a thing in the first place.

RFK Jr is defunding federal mRNA vaccine research, and justifying it with a bunch of irrelevant research while also lying about what that research says. not great prospect.org/health/2025-...

Donald Trump has laid the groundwork to become one of the wealthiest people on the planet by personally making money from every dollar printed in the United States. And get this... the worse the economy gets, the more money he stands to make. #crypto

This is so much better than cable! Just really fucking cool and great! I love this!

A fun campaign event that makes a point about an everyday thing that's important to New Yorkers? Yeah, you can see why Democratic leaders don't like this guy. Cory Booker's idea of fun is voting to make Jared Kushner's father ambassador to France.

This is Horus. He got a lot of attention on a recent flight in Mexico. Clearly the other passengers have never flown with someone so handsome. 14/10 we're told he was very well behaved (TT: denniabuendagalvn, paulinagtza_, cheetahbash, cristianjbetancourt)

A "substantial new source of revenue" the "budget may start to depend on" that will be "hard to quit." IT'S A TAX. Use the damned language, #BrokenTimes. Throw away your thesaurus and get a damned dictionary.

George Nigh, Oklahoma’s longest-serving governor, has died at age 98. Throughout his decades-long career, the McAlester Democrat held office as a state representative, lieutenant governor, governor and the president of the University of Central Oklahoma. www.kosu.org/local-news/2...

A key investor in the proposed American Heartland Theme Park planned in Vinita is accusing its developers of defrauding him of millions of dollars. Lawyers accuse two defendants of impersonating God through electronic messages to pressure the investor. www.kosu.org/local-news/2...

The Times is the right. It is a powerful organ of the right. Its potency and singularity is that it can weaponize extant default assumptions of its neutrality.

i take back every critique of capitalism i have ever made

The Thunder win GAME 7 to take home their first NBA Championship in the franchise's OKC era! 🏆

Players always stay stuff like, 'you dream about a Game 7 as a kid' I'm sorry, my dreams involved sweeping every round of the playoffs and hitting hook shots from half court like Brendan Fraser in Bedazzled, not Game 7.

One of the hidden tipping points underway is the loss of wholesalers that supply local retailers. “It is going to hurt us a lot. Right now, we don’t have a milk supplier," said a grocer after a 100yr-old wholesaler said it would close, citing Walmart..

These long commercial breaks are killing me. #nba #finals #thunder

Found an old YT video announcing Alex Caruso to A&M. Some of the comments: "This dude is the most garbage basketball player in high school!" "give me a scholorship from A&M if he gets one" "He only joined the basketball team so that he would stop getting stuffed in lockers"

Yes, it’s been established that Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nickeil Alexander-Walker are cousins clashing in #NBA Western Conference Finals. But for humans who actually read stories, here is a deep dive into the back story in written form. bit.ly/4jl2mFq @andscape #nba

There's something about the lighting in the gain bridge fieldhouse that makes it hard to watch the pacers games. I don't remember it always being like this. #nba

As a community #WeAreThunder! Find an #OKCThunder fan you don’t know and give them a like, repost or comment and stay #ThunderPositive

Inside Sunday's Oklahoman Sports print edition, @kentuckymensbball.bsky.social took out a full-page ad to honor #Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's NBA MVP win. #BBN 📰 Read more: tinyurl.com/4b5hem3r

I was concerned about the thunder defense gambling to pressure the ball up top and trust rotation to contest corner threes. It worked against Denver but by in large giving up corner threes is not a recipe for success.

Superstars, elite defense and dynamic depth will be on display when the Timberwolves and Thunder clash in the Western Conference Finals 👀 Read Shaun Powell’s preview of the series that tips off tomorrow at 8:30pm/et on ESPN! 📰 smart.link/2zzy6uba69lh0

Thunder had 74 steals in this series. That's the most in a NBA series in the last 30 years of NBA postseason.

Nuggets are trying to set flare screens now for Jokic to get Caruso switched off him. Caruso is scramming right back into that matchup, he wants Jokic.

SGA is averaging 8.8 free throw attempts per game in the 2025 playoffs. For context: That would be the 330th-highest mark in NBA history.

Even if it is for a team other than OKC, I cannot contain how much I'm enjoying Steven Adams giving Draymond and the Warriors that work in a playoff game.

But you have to hand it to Scotty pippen Jr. The guy plays hard. And he definitely makes some shots out there. I feel like I'm seeing a Patrick Beverly 2.0 career arc there possibly. #thunder #grizzlies #nba

You get this down to 8 or under by the end of the quarter, probably gonna win.

During a conversation on Grizzlies' forward Jaylen Wells' injury, ABC's broadcast zoomed in on his teammate Zyon Pullin.

This is big and should lead to a breakup — Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court rules that Google's illegal monopolization of the online ad market "substantially harmed Google’s publisher customers, the competitive process, and, ultimately, consumers of information on the open web."

Thirty years after a truck bomb detonated outside a federal building in the nation’s heartland, deep scars still remain from the deadliest homegrown attack on U.S. soil.

The brain poisoning of those in power is one of the biggest harms of social media imo, and not discussed enough

“…deep in the heart of Texas…” 🥴

Lol

A very weird coincidence that negative coverage of Democrats generates clicks but not negative coverage of Trump. Just a weird axiom of news coverage that is immutable and the media has no role in shaping. Oh well!

Despite not playing, the Oklahoma City Thunder clinched the number-one seed in the Western Conference playoffs thanks to the Lakers' loss to the Bucks. It's the second straight season OKC has earned the West's top seed, a franchise first. Read, share, subscribe ⬇️ www.statitudes.com/p/nba-game-n...

A rare miss from the FT here. BBG reporting today that the new transaction values Twitter at $32bn. Notably, it includes what looks like a debt-equity swap as well as fresh capital from Musk, who is putting in cash so Twitter can delever. So we're talking a 27% mark-down and capital raise.

When tariffs were applied to washing machines in 2018, prices climbed 12% for American consumers, according to a paper by U of Chicago & a Fed economist. They created 1,800 new jobs, but the average annual cost to consumers was over $815K per job created -- via The Daily Upside

Based on actual survey data. Someone with a bigger platform needs to pick this piece up. Cc: @chrislhayes.bsky.social @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @jvl.bsky.social @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

This is a great strategy to create content and the possibly worst strategy to run the largest economy of the world.