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[dank @cptdankkk]

Jaylen Brown says 60% of NBA players lose most of their wealth because the agency model broken

“I hope I ruffle all the motherfucking feathers. The agency model isn't working. It's a bunch of players going broke when they retire. It's like 60% of players within the first 10 years are losing majority of their wealth after making millions of dollars. Living check to check. You can blame the athlete, maybe they living expenses, but they was 18 or 19 when they came into wealth and the people that represented them didn't help them handle that in no capacity or care to. After they get you and they get in your pocket, they just go get the next one and get in his pocket”

“This is what I'mma stand on. And this could be controversial, but I don't care. If you can't help me at 18 or 19 to maintain my wealth, build a legacy, and keep what I'm earning and be able to influence me on my decision making, you shouldn't be representing me in the first place. Shouldn't even be allowed to walk into my house. But we allow this agency model. They keep coming in and they keep stripping everything and we giving it right back to the same people that was giving it to us in the first place. Giving it right back”

“Something got to change. There's been people taking advantage of these 18, 19 young kids, and nobody says nothing. I think that's a part of the problem where we don't say that and we just allow that to be normalized. No, that shit ain't normal. You get millions of dollars and now you broke. And the people that's representing you can't even pick up the phone now. These people have continued to do that and they're gonna continue to do it because they see it as business and economic opportunity”

[MM  @adgirlMM]

If your bank forced you to legally put a certain amount of your paycheck every payday for 30 years into a savings account for your "retirement," didn't give you interest, then when you were getting ready to retire, said "we're only going to give you 70% of your money back, because we can't afford to pay you the full amount."

Would you accept that?
Vote every Republican out.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Trump promised not to “touch” Medicaid.

Now he is cutting it by $1 trillion and taking health care away from patients with cancer, AIDS and other life-threatening diseases to pay for tax breaks to the top 1% and his wealthy campaign contributors.

Unimaginable cruelty.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Small businesses make up 99.9% of U.S. firms, and nearly half of private-sector jobs.

trump calls them “a couple of little businesses.”

The midterm ads write themselves.
Make sure everyone sees this.

[Mark Wright @markeology]

My daughter Annika is proudly autistic and 12 years old.

She drew this butterfly from a photo she took herself — every vein, every scale, rendered by hand on a tablet.

She signs everything she makes. Dates it. Like she already knows it matters.

She's turning 13 tomorrow. Please share this for her birthday. Let's make her day.

[Matt @nosoupforgeorge]

Donald Trump's State of the Union drew 28 million viewers.

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show drew 135 million viewers.

Indeed, the only thing more powerful than hate is love.

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

Just read this beautiful story 😭❤

I live in a 12-unit apartment building. For two years, I didn't know a single neighbor.
We'd pass in the hallway. Nod. Maybe say "hey." Then disappear into our separate lives.
That was normal. That was city living.
Then someone new moved into Unit 3.
Her name was Diana. She was maybe 70, recently widowed, moving to be closer to her daughter.
The first week, she knocked on every door in the building.
"Hi, I'm Diana from Unit 3. Just wanted to introduce myself."
Most people were polite but brief. We weren't used to this.
But Diana didn't take the hint.
The next week, she left a note in the lobby: "Building potluck. This Saturday. 6 PM. Bring whatever you want. Or just bring yourself."
I almost didn't go.
But Saturday came, and I could hear voices in the lobby.
Five people showed up. Out of twelve units. We stood around awkwardly at first.
Diana had made enough food for twenty people. "Just in case," she said, smiling.
We talked. Actual conversations.
Turned out the guy in Unit 7 was a musician. The woman in Unit 10 just had a baby. The couple in Unit 5 ran a bakery.
We'd lived on top of each other for years and knew nothing about each other.
Diana made it a monthly thing.
Then someone suggested a building group chat. "For emergencies," they said.
But it became more than that.
"Anyone have a ladder I can borrow?"
"I made too much soup. Anyone want some?"
"Can someone feed my cat this weekend?"
When the woman in Unit 10 had to go back to work, three neighbors offered to babysit.
When the musician in Unit 7 had a gig, eight of us showed up to support him.
When someone's car got towed, four people offered rides.
Last month, Diana's daughter called me. Diana had fallen and was in the hospital—nothing serious, but she'd need help for a few weeks.
We created a schedule. Someone brought her meals every day. Someone else took her to appointments.
She cried when she came home and saw the system we'd built.
"I just wanted to know my neighbors," she said.
But she did more than that.
She turned twelve strangers in separate boxes into a community that shows up for each other.
All because she knocked on doors and refused to let us stay isolated.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
-Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race."
Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

This is what oligarchy looks like:

If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.

If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.

Obscene.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

https://t.co/QFwLJrFY6C

[Devin Duke @sirDukeDevin]

Great reply here from an actual Medicaid and SNAP caseworker. 🥇

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

This is Donald Trump’s doing.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures.

Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims.

Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.

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[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

They're bragging about how much they're taxing Americans, which is, I gotta say, something I've literally never seen a politician do.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

No, there aren’t 5 states (or any) with $1.99 gas.
No, prices aren’t “all down” under Trump.
No, it isn’t a lie to note prices are up.
No, grocery prices aren’t down.
No, core inflation isn’t below 2%.

Fact check on Trump’s inflation lies last night: https://t.co/vFuMO6XA2w