Gustav Mahler

Violist, pianist and flamenco guitarist. Mahler, Scriabin, Bach, Beethoven. Glenn Gould fanatic. Just discovered Cateen, what a pianist. #Resistance #resist 🌊

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

You’re getting better and better at this @HunterBiden

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.

This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

Let’s stop pretending the WNBA has an officiating “problem.”

A problem implies the officials are failing.

Last night looked like they were doing exactly what they were sent there to do.

What we witnessed was not a few bad calls. It was a blatant, successful manipulation of game flow... and it worked.

The officials did not take over early. That would have been too obvious.

They waited.

Indiana had control. New York could not shoot. The Liberty finished 2-for-18 from three, while the Fever made more field goals, shot a better percentage, and dominated from deep.

Then, when New York needed saving, the whistle arrived.

New York shot 40 free throws.

Indiana shot 15.

Breanna Stewart alone shot 21, more than the entire Fever team... and somehow the whistle kept putting the ball in the hands of New York’s best high-volume free-throw shooter when the game needed to be tilted.

At the same time, Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston were forced to play through foul trouble, which completely changes how aggressive Indiana can be defensively.

That is how you manipulate a game in real time without making it obvious to the untrained eye.

You do not have to control every possession.

You only have to control the critical ones.

Basketball people knew what was happening.

And the box score does not lie.

This was not normal.

This was not right.

This was not okay.

And anyone who cares about the integrity of the game should be asking hard questions about why the Fever won so many normal basketball categories and still lost because the whistle became New York’s offense.

At some point, it stops looking like incompetence.

It starts looking coordinated.

And last night only added more fuel to the belief that the league is willing to sabotage the Caitlin Clark effect before it ever admits how badly it needs her.

[VENOM 😈 @BlameVenom]

When Caitlin Clark had A Sideline Spat With SW They Weaponized The ENTIRE WNBA Media Against Her

CC Was Called A Diva, Uncoachable, A D*ck, A Culture Disruptor, Etc

Question Is Will This Same "Standard" Be Applied To Stewie?

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

I don’t blame them.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Whoopsie: Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump are taking over protected Albanian land in a $1.4 billion project to build luxury resorts and an Israeli-linked development.
The Albanian prime minister changed the law to make it happen. Now his house is burning.
The Trump's don't know how hated they really are.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

If Trump wants to be on currency so badly, bring back the penny.

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: NASA nuclear engineer becomes 12th scientists found dead as FBI launches investigation

[Tela Quebrada @TelaQuebradaX]

@Andywarski Reposting this art that I made last week let’s goooo

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

FBI REPORT: TRUMP IS COMPROMISED BY ISRAEL

A declassified FBI report said that FBI informants believe Trump is compromised by Israel, and that his Zionist son-in-law JARED KUSHER was the real power behind the presidency.

Just a reminder of the things we’ve stopped talking about

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Trump’s CDC has announced hantavirus cruise passengers are free to go out in public and do not need to quarantine.

Around 40% of hantavirus infections are fatal.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This is just sad.

The Trump T1 phone is beginning to ship this week, and get this!

It's produced in China, by a Chinese company. It's selling for $499 yet it's merely an outdated T-Mobile REVVL 7 Pro 5G smartphone put into a gold shell. You can by the T-Mobile phone on eBay or at Walmart for a little over $100

Trump scammed his base yet again!

[Noah B. Price @TrueOnX]

🚨 BREAKING: CNN just exposed UNREDACTED videos from the DOJ Epstein files... including a girl clearly stating she is ONLY 15 YEARS OLD.

These files sat buried in government custody for YEARS while the powerful walked free.

They weren't "young women."

They were CHILDREN.

How many more victims?

Who else is on these tapes?

Why the endless delays and half-redactions protecting the elite?

Full accountability NOW.

No more cover-ups.

Watch this CNN segment.

Let me know what you think and SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

[🎰🎲🃏Warski🃏🎲🎰 @Andywarski]

Why would Chrissie retweet this? Everyone has literally explained to her why she is getting felted. Perhaps if she didn’t lie and let @BrittanyXVenti on there wouldn’t be a backlash. Quartering is the “sjw” psycho and everyone is having the right reaction. Get felted.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

Donald Trump has single-handedly ruined the U.S. economy.

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

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[🎰🎲🃏Warski🃏🎲🎰 @Andywarski]

Hey @TeamYouTube @YouTube @YouTubeCreators -I have been awaiting appeal on my channel that was wrongfully terminated as I was posting no content on it. A clip channel by @kinocasinoclips was also wrongfully terminated. It’s been weeks now and I would love this to be resolved. 🙏

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

JEANINE PIRRO: “The agent with the dog led Cole Thomas Allen to a room where he took off his long coat and then proceeded to rush security with his shotgun.”

Holy shit. Jeanine Pirro accidentally admits that the WHCD “assassination attempt” was an inside job.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Rep. Pat Ryan just revealed that Pete Hegseth ordered military members to an area in Kuwait with an ACTIVE WARNING they had ZERO defense against drone attacks and he IGNORED IT.

Six were then KILLED. Survivors blame Hegseth.

This is even WORSE than Benghazi.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

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