O. K.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium, dozens of delegates walked out of United Nations General Assembly.

“If there are any other moral cowards who haven’t yet left this hall, please do so now,” Netanyahu said to begin his speech.

https://t.co/cxhLkipyh3

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

I’m so proud of you Azeez.

My brother, who went to Jordan to be with Palestinian refugees this summer. Who spends time with Palestinian children with missing limbs in Houston. Who is using every week of his pro bowl NFL career to honor a Palestinian child despite the fines.

This week it’s Wafaa Akila who was only 8 years old when she was murdered in an Israeli airstrike.

In the sports and entertainment arenas run by many of the same types of people who run government, choose to be like @A_train2_ @KyrieIrving and @macklemore.

[The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe]

Patriots owner Robert Kraft could be sued for banning the rapper Macklemore from playing Gillette Stadium over his pro-Palestinian views, according to legal experts. https://t.co/ZD77vyENNg

[Kyrie🤞🏾 @KyrieIrving]

Her name is HIND RAJAB💐🌷
🤞🏾🪶♾❤️

And She was more brave than every single one of you at ESPN

[O. K. @The_Real_O]

@KyrieIrving 🐐

[O. K. @The_Real_O]

@GilletteStadium Tell us what “aid to the region” really means

[O. K. @The_Real_O]

@GilletteStadium Fuck you

[Yawovi1986 @YawoElvn]

Marc Lamont Hill proves why he's the greatest member Joe Budden has ever hired on his podcast, and it's not even close.

While covering Macklemore being kicked off Ed’s tour , Marc passionately schooled the entire cast on why Ed Sheeran saying he wants to be "neutral" is bad and and went above and beyond to explain how he doesn't respect Ed's decision given his status and the power he holds.

You can tell how this cast would have covered this topic if Marc Lamont Hill wasn't there. That’s how they use to cover these topics in the past .
They were saying they understood Ed Sheeran's position, and Ish was even defending Kraft.

This was a masterclass in teaching. Marc Lamont Hill is taking the Joe Budden Podcast to another level.

Must watch.

[Kyrie🤞🏾 @KyrieIrving]

I’ll take care of his fine

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Now this is how you do a headline.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Trump Is Reportedly Sending Israel $2.8 Billion in Bombs. You’re Paying for Them
https://t.co/sHD0Mb4PeC

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: When you see what Robert Kraft did to line up all the stadiums to censor speech in that one specific way, it's become clear it's not just about one music artist or two music artists, but this is about how just a handful of stadium owners and the elite can prevent an entire massive issue, in this case, the genocide in gaza—

[emma d'arcy daily @emmadarcydaily]

emma d’arcy via instagram stories.

[JO @withlovejohana]

All of Ed Sheeran’s openers have now withdrawn from the Looper Tour. Please realize how big this is. This is what unity looks like. Billionaires are terrified of people realizing how strong they can be when we come together for a cause. Continue speaking out. Support the new artists that are deciding to put their careers at risk to take this stance.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Macklemore @macklemore]

Wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial.

[O. K. @The_Real_O]

@hbarnes The Den?

[ᵂᴵᴸᴸ @BiasedHouston]

For those who do not know, Chip Engelland is known as THE “Shot Doctor” in the NBA world.

He is widely credited for fixing the shot mechanics of Kawhi Leonard, Tony Parker, and Manu Ginobli.

Lu Dort shot 40% under Chip.

Houston, this is a REALLY good hire.

[Steven Adams Stats @funakistats]

Udoka wasn’t interested in Kennard because of his defensive weaknesses… but couldn’t develop an offensive strategy to take advantage of those significant weaknesses over a 6 game series.

[Zerigala @Zerigala69]

Deni saw Ja throw a grenade into a crowd of innocent people and begged the Blazers to trade for him