Jalen Brunson post Game 4: "Before we start…
My thoughts & prayers are with a friend of mine I got to meet last week. Jonathan from North Carolina. From Make a Wish Foundation
They asked me to make a video. But something told me to Facetime…
I got the pleasure to do so…Quick call but well worth it.
My thoughts and prayers are with him and his family…
May God rest his soul"
(Reporter asks question)
Jalen (can't answer): "Sorry…"
Bombshell from Haberman and Swan:
Trump wanted the Epstein issue buried and snapped at anyone who mentioned it.
In the days before WSJ published that Epstein birthday book scoop, Trump tried to quash the story by calling Rupert Murdoch, News Corp.'s chief executive, and The Journal's editor in chief.
He failed. https://t.co/FRS0DNATAh
The Trump Admin cut funding for screwworm detection and fired 25% of staff responsible for tracking the disease.
I’m embarrassed for the Secretary that her only answer is to blame the administration that left office a year and a half ago.
Trump’s egregious (repeat) lie about Jan. 6 in the new NBC interview he walked out of: “They had FBI agents ushering them into the building. They had FBI: ‘Go into the building.’”
There’s precisely no evidence this happened. DOJ’s inspector general found that the FBI had zero undercover agents in the Capitol crowd. Kash Patel has himself debunked a Trump-promoted conspiracy theory on this subject, saying FBI agents were merely deployed to do crowd control after the police declared a riot.
And of the dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who tried a “the cops let me in” defense, just one (1) was acquitted. Even in that case, the acquitting judge said that though the defendant reasonably believed he was being allowed in, the officers in question were actually overrun by the crowd and standing back reasonably and responsibly, not explicitly encouraging anyone to enter. (And they weren’t FBI.)
On Saturday, while covering a protest at Delaney Hall for the AP, Angelina Katsanis' camera bag went missing.
Inside was $10K worth of gear, her biz cards and an Airtag -- which soon began to ping from home of a NJ sergeant. He's now facing charges.
https://t.co/fCHmWnJETI
A 15-year-old on an electric scooter slammed into a Florida deputy's patrol car after authorities say the teen ran a stop sign. https://t.co/BqmuCrJeL1
Victor Wembanyama’s agent says he refuses to do endorsement deals with soda companies
"They all want him, but Victor will never sell soda. Because he doesn’t want to kill the kids."
(Via @JaredWeissNBA / h/t @TheNBABase )
From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.
NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfare's Katherine Pompilio finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.
Texas barbecue joints are closing due to skyrocketing beef prices, particularly brisket, which is a staple on the menus. Inflation, tariffs and labor shortages all play a role.
Even the state's most celebrated restaurants are struggling to remain open. https://t.co/l2lYkI1tg2
@Patriots Wow! Look at that QB, beating teams with winning records. In fact, he leads the NFC in wins verses winning teams. Have fun with the paper tiger AJ.
- A.J. Brown has 6 1,000+ receiving yard seasons since 2018.
- Brown had 4 straight 1,000 yard seasons since being traded to the Eagles.
- Brown the first player in Eagles history with 1,000+ receiving yards in 4 seasons, let alone consecutive.
- Browns is 1 of 5 players with 1,000+ receiving yards in each of the last 4 seasons.
- Others: Ja’Marr Chase, CeeDee Lamb, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Justin Jefferson.