This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Why would he bring his wife and kids to a convicted pedofile’s rape island for lunch?! This is fucking gross. Howard Lutnick needs to resign.

GOLDMAN: Do you know what other regimes in the 20th century required similar proof of citizenship? LYONS: Various nefarious regimes did that GOLDMAN: Is Nazi Germany one? LYONS: This is the wrong type of question

just a devastating win for the utah jazz. it's unclear where they go from here. lost franchise.

losing a home game against the jazz when they're desperately doing everything in their power to get pummeled in every 4th quarter is not the greatest look

will hardy might have to sub ace bailey out of this game. he's too good right now.

tuck rule?

kenneth walker is going to win mvp but bad bunny definitely has a case

woof

okay

the seahawks should just take a knee on every play from here on out

timberwolves offensive rating with anthony edwards on the court is 69.5 right now. grotesque stuff.

this is a special performance by kawhi leonard

ant alert

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

bam dunking on ware might be the greatest play in nba history?

"I'll have meat and yogurt," said the Health Secretary, his voice box rattling like a decaying wooden roller coaster. "It's healthier," he added, as his forehead skin exploded into black and maroon flowers of biotic rot and his nose slid off his face into his plate of raw chicken pieces.

nikola jokic just passed oscar robertson on the nba's all-time triple-doubles list. he's now in second place and needs 26 to top russell westbrook

the chicago bulls are basically an entirely different team, and almost every new face comes from a title contender who officially gave up on them a few day ago. the ultimate "nobody believes in us!" roster.

if there's such a thing as a discouraging win, orlando had one tonight. utah's tank is rolling strong.

Houston's offensive rating has been 127.6 with Sengun and Durant on the court today. All their other minutes have been dreadful

they still boo kevin durant

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

The section on the Wiz-ards! encapsulates my feelings about the Davis and Young trades, in a way I've not seen anyone else do. I do not, and cannot, understand any front office reasoning behind Avdija. Especially timeline considerations, hard enough to take before, but impossible now.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

it was always and forever will be thanks to racism

Good post! Read it! Now I complain about one thing. Pina gets this right first and then wrong. Those players would not be on the C's if the aprons didn't exist because Problem 1 is the luxury tax rates. The aprons are cover for cost-cutting, not the #1 reason for it.

ARP (Always read Pina): "the [CBA] has encouraged a warped incentive structure. More and more attempts to build the best team possible have either been postponed or short-circuited by transactions that only look shrewd because of the stringent parameters under which they are made."

nba trade deadline winners and losers! www.theringer.com/2026/02/05/n...

life in prison

AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.

Reposting from The Ringer: Some teams that probably should’ve showed more urgency sat on their hands. Some teams that probably should’ve sat on their hands decided to pick up the phone and make some strange decisions. @michaelvpina.bsky.social's trade deadline winners and losers:

nba trade deadline winners and losers! www.theringer.com/2026/02/05/n...

Brad Stevens with an Executive of the Year worthy trade deadline

all i know is that if the clippers get the fifth pick and draft caleb wilson he will immediately become my favorite player

moving giannis before the deadline never made sense for him, the bucks, or whichever team landed him. milwaukee now gets to make the most obvious pivot in nba history: trade for ja morant

by my count, the bulls have acquired 9 second-round picks in the last 24 hours

The NBA trade deadline ends at 3 p.m. ET today ⏰ Our crew is LIVE all day to break down the final deals. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8oP...

CapSheets is fully updated to reflect all of today's trades and draft pick exchanges www.capsheets.com/charlotte-ho...

watched this clip and it sounds like the buzz is definitely not heating up?

the dallas mavericks having marvin bagley on their roster instead of luka doncic is a plot twist that would get an entire writer's room fired

after trading lonzo ball, we're now about $3.9 million away from cleveland ducking the second apron and being allowed to aggregate contracts. the cavs are out of second-round picks but have a few swaps to offer: www.theringer.com/2026/02/01/n...

lonzo ball would be a very good fit in boston

There was (and remains) a real journalistic opening for a super-robust news operation that isn't doing false equivalence. That's what's needed in the Trump era. That could have been the Post. Except its owner doesn't want that. newrepublic.com/article/2061...

Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section. This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry. www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

I am officially obsessed with the Utah Jazz www.theringer.com/2026/02/03/n...

the only reason boston traded for vooch was to light a fire under luka garza

the clippers GOT a second-round pick? lmao

I am officially obsessed with the Utah Jazz www.theringer.com/2026/02/03/n...