Author of Michael Jordan: The Life (Little Brown), now in 23 languages worldwide. Also bios of Kobe, Magic, Jerry West, Phil Jackson. VMI, Hollins writing MA.
1979 The Future Los Angeles Lakers Superstar rookie Magic Johnson practicing with the team for the first time at the training camp #LakeShow
📽️ : Rare NBA Footage
Whether it's sports or news TV, the level of gobbledygook+dissonance in our culture is on overload. That's no indictment of commentators, it's just a fact in the age of Trump's unabashed racism and criminality...all propped up by the Supreme Court...
NPR does journalism right by owning a mistake and being transparent on how it happened and what they did to fix it.
Good practice.
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"Canada is a free country. Canada is something worth defending. The friendship between Canada and the United States is one of humanity’s great achievements. It has endured for generations. It will endure long after Donald Trump is gone."
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“The White House is inhabited by people who don’t believe in the ‘abstractions’ that we usually celebrate on the Fourth of July,” @anneapplebaum argues. “And this affects the rest of us, whether we want it to or not.” https://t.co/cEm8NItcdf
The Middle East has been good for President Trump’s bottom line.
Entities from the Gulf paid around $300 million to the president’s businesses last year, more than any other foreign region identifiable in his financial disclosures. https://t.co/0CJ68h2Kpr
Trump's financial disclosures just came in. We’re talking big money and big looting.
But he doesn’t have any conflicts of interest, really. That’s because he has only one interest: lining his own pockets.
Some thoughts... https://t.co/U3Y0Hz6unU
John Brennan to MS NOW: "I told my lawyers I don't want to sit on our hands — because if he gets away with me, he's going to continue to do this against other individuals, professionals who have given their lives and have sacrificed so much for this country."
"That's why enough is enough and that's why today's lawsuit, I think, sends a clear signal that I'm willing to fight this on behalf of my reputation and what I did, but also on behalf of so many others who are either currently in those crosshairs or will be soon."
Nothing to see here folks, just a guy in full theatrical makeup, a girdle and heels, doing the double fist and jerk to a gay anthem in front of a bunch of dudes in rough rider cosplay.
🚨Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker
drops a NUKE on Donald Trump:
“It really is ironic…on the eve of the 250th anniversary of our country, a man sits in the WH who is everything that the founders feared … An uncontrollable, narcissistic, authoritarian president who acts like a king.
Rose garden, colonnade, oval office, East wing, reflecting pool… and now the cherry blossoms? This guy is single-handedly destroying Washington history and the Republicans just keep allowing it. Aren’t they supposed to be conservative??
Conserve something.
JD Vance: I would love it if Democrats were willing to work with us on lowering housing prices. We could have some real bipartisan compromise.
(Trump is currently refusing to sign the bipartisan housing affordability bill)
Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb on Trump’s profiting off the presidency:
“We are seeing the greatest onslaught of corruption in the history of mankind.”