Thomas Johnson

you tellin me the CIA doesn’t have north face jackets and some pirates booty

[Thomas Johnson @BarryZyndon]

@TronCarterNLU The rough being grown up to the left of 15 always fills me with rage Mr TC

[Thomas Johnson @BarryZyndon]

@TronCarterNLU Shinnecock Tribe members only to give rulings on course. Their land, their rules.

[Thomas Johnson @BarryZyndon]

@TronCarterNLU Not to mention he almost killed a volunteer at Quail last year!

[Thomas Johnson @BarryZyndon]

if my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bike

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Morgan Stanley says SpaceX revenue to hit $3.4 trillion in 2040.

[Van Lathan Jr @VanLathan]

My Top Ten includes Jeezy. He’s better than them niggas yall like and I’m sick of pretending.

[Thomas Johnson @BarryZyndon]

this would imply that he is no longer illiterate, which will never be the case. He is illiterate AND an Eastern Conference Champion

[Trilly Donovan @trillydonovan]

Tyler Kolek going from illiterate to Eastern Conference Champion is truly inspirational stuff.

[Thomas Johnson @BarryZyndon]

yawn wake me up when the straits open incel

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

we are living through times where everything is becoming fake and gay and you need to understand that this is on purpose

Nolan’s odyssey, the boys finale, the new Ferrari, clavicular.
all symptoms of a fake and gay society

[Thomas Johnson @BarryZyndon]

oh no its asssss

[Chris Killian @chriskillian]

I’ve seen #TheMandalorianAndGrogu!
Above all else, M&G is a super FUN Star Wars movie. It’s not perfect, but there’s a lot for fans to love. It plays like an extended episode with double the budget and moves from one incredible action set piece to the next. IMAX is a must.

[Chris Killian @chriskillian]

I’ve seen #TheMandalorianAndGrogu!
Above all else, M&G is a super FUN Star Wars movie. It’s not perfect, but there’s a lot for fans to love. It plays like an extended episode with double the budget and moves from one incredible action set piece to the next. IMAX is a must.

[Thomas Johnson @BarryZyndon]

He isn’t wrong, but also don’t lose all of your important non con games because you buy your team every year and it takes them 25 games to gel 🤷

[Jennifer X. Williams @JenXperience]

Pick Pitino: "I thought we'd be a 5th seed. A couple of guys in my set thought it was possible to be a 4th seed, but they don't take into account how you're playing at the end of the year. The old days — like 8, 10 years ago — it counted the last 10 games of the season as what they really looked at. They don't do that anymore ... So we gotta get the Big East stronger." #SJUBB

[Thomas Johnson @BarryZyndon]

MAKE THE CALL DAN

[Joe Tipton @JoeTipton]

Central Connecticut forward Darin Smith Jr., the NEC Player of the Year, is entering the @TransferPortal, source told @On3.

The 6-7 sophomore was one of the nation’s top scorers this season, averaging 20.7 points per game. Represented by @lamfsports.

https://t.co/P2CLLLO2iq

[Thomas Johnson @BarryZyndon]

Rusillo would never leave his home again

[Frazier Tharpe II @The_SummerMan]

You should be able to log NBA games on Letterboxd

[Thomas Johnson @BarryZyndon]

So the war in Iran is going well I see

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

The Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor seems like it would be hard to cover with America as the bad guy, but two immediate anti-US stories would emerge: 1. America staged the attack conspiracy. 2. Japan was justified in the attack because of US colonial imperialism.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

Every time I travel and a Muslim in a hijab asks to see my passport at TSA, I just want to say “fuck you. How dare you, take your hijab off and then maybe I will show you.”

I am disgusted that the airport in Atlanta has so many Muslims working in TSA.

In fact, I think that’s what I’m going to start saying from now on.

It’s a national security threat for Muslims to be working in TSA.

Why do I have to go through the humiliation ritual of showing my passport to some Muslima bitch in a hijab with a heavy accent? I’m done.

@DHSgov @SecDuffy

[Thomas Johnson @BarryZyndon]

CC @TronCarterNLU @NoLayingUp @PabloTorre

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Trump is preparing to invoke Cold War-era powers to pave the way for renewed oil production off the southern California coast.

Trump is set to soon summon authorities under the Defense Production Act to preempt state laws and ease permitting for Sable Offshore Corp., a Houston-based company looking to restart significant production from a cluster of offshore platforms in California, per Bloomberg.

[Thomas Johnson @BarryZyndon]

So a computer

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Xbox officially announces ‘Project Helix’ — the code name for Xbox's next generation console 🎮

"Project Helix will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games”

(via @asha_shar)

[Mohammad @MargBarAmerica]

10 million people live in tehran. what can you even say? are diaspora iranians still twerking seeing this? are americans happy their taxes are spent committing war crimes for israel? what does anyone get out of this horror?

[Thomas Johnson @BarryZyndon]

Did it at butler pre NIL, might as well have had both hands tied behind his back trying to grapple prime Khabib. Undisputed GOAT

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

Jon Scheyer improves to 117-24 at Duke after beating NC State 🤯

His 117 wins tie Butler's Brad Stevens for the most by a D-I coach in their first four seasons 🔥

[Thomas Johnson @BarryZyndon]

I AINT READING ALL THAT

[Peter Attia @PeterAttiaMD]

The following email is what I sent my team last night. I sent a similar version to my patients, also.

***

You’ve put your trust, your credibility, and your hard work into what we have built together, and I take that responsibility seriously. You deserve a complete and honest account of what did and did not happen. I apologize that I did not get this out sooner, but I want to be thorough.

The purpose of the DOJ releasing these documents is clear: to identify individuals who participated in criminal activity, enabled it, or witnessed it. I am not in any of those categories, and there is no evidence to the contrary.

To be clear:

1. I was not involved in any criminal activity.

2. My interactions with Epstein had nothing to do with his sexual abuse or exploitation of anyone.

3. I was never on his plane, never on his island, and never present at any sex parties.

That said, I apologize and regret putting myself in a position where emails, some of them embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible, are now public, and that is on me. I accept that reality and the humiliation that comes with it.

***

I want to start by directly addressing the email thread that I’ve been asked about the most.

In June 2015, I sent Epstein an email with the subject line “Got a fresh shipment.” The email contained a photograph of bottles of metformin, a medication I had just received from the pharmacy for my own use. The subject line referred to the picture of the bottles of medication.

He replied with the words “me too” and attached a photograph of an adult woman. I responded with crude, tasteless banter. Reading that exchange now is very embarrassing, and I will not defend it. I’m ashamed of myself for everything about this. At the time, I understood this exchange as juvenile, not a reference to anything dark or harmful.

At that point in my career, I had little exposure to prominent people, and that level of access was novel to me. Everything about him seemed excessive and exclusive, including the fact that he lived in the largest home in all of Manhattan, owned a Boeing 727, and hosted parties with the most powerful and prominent leaders in business and politics. I treated that access as something to be quiet about rather than discussed freely with others. One line in that exchange, about his life being outrageous and me not being able to tell anyone, is being interpreted as awareness of wrongdoing. That is not how I meant it at all. What I was referring to, poorly and flippantly, was the discretion commanded by those social and professional circles–the idea that you don’t talk about who you meet, the dinners you attend and the power and influence of the people in those settings. What I wrote in that email reads terribly, and I own that.

***

I met Epstein in 2014 through a prominent female healthcare leader while I was raising funds for scientific research. At that time, he was widely known in academic and philanthropic circles as a funder of science and moved openly among credible institutions and public figures.

Between summer 2014 and spring 2019, I met with him on approximately seven or eight occasions at his New York City home, regarding research studies and to meet others he introduced me to. I never visited his island or ranch, and I never flew on any of his planes. When I was at his home, it was either meeting with him directly, meeting with small groups of scientists, doctors, or business leaders, and once at a dinner in 2015 with a number of guests including prominent heads of state. In retrospect, the presence and credibility of such venerable people in different orbits led me to make assumptions about him that clouded my judgment in ways it shouldn’t have.

I was not his doctor, though several times I answered general medical questions and recommended other providers to him.

Shortly after we met, I asked him directly about his 2008 conviction. He characterized it as prostitution-related charges. In 2018, I came to learn this was grossly minimized (more on this below). I was incredibly naïve to believe him. I mistook his social acceptance in the eyes of the credible people I saw him with for acceptability, and that was a serious error in my judgment. To be clear, I never witnessed illegal behavior and never saw anyone who appeared underage in his presence.

***

In November 2018 I read the Miami Herald investigative article. I was repulsed by what I learned. Nauseated. It marked a clear and irreversible line between what I knew before and what I understood afterward.

At that point, I told him directly he needed to accept responsibility for what he did.

Hoping to provide the victims from the Herald piece with support, I contacted a residential trauma facility to understand what funding comprehensive care for many victims would require. (Those communications were between me and the facility and were therefore not part of the document release.) I spoke with him and shared that information and insisted that he fund their care, beginning with residential treatment and followed by lifelong therapy.

In hindsight, even attempting to facilitate accountability was a mistake and once again reflected just how naïve I was at the time. Once the full scope of his actions was clear, disengagement should have been the only appropriate response. My intent does not change that, and I regret not drawing that boundary immediately.

***

Nothing in this letter is meant to minimize the harm suffered by the young women Epstein abused. Their trauma is permanent.

I am not asking for a pass from you. I am not asking anyone to ignore the emails or pretend they aren’t ugly. They simply are.

The man I am today, roughly ten years later, would not write them and would not associate with Epstein at all. Whatever growth I’ve had over the past decade does not erase the emails I wrote then.

I recognize that my actions and words have consequences for the people I care deeply about, including all of you. I regret the cost this has placed on you, and I take responsibility for it.

I won’t ask anyone to defend me or explain this on my behalf. If you have questions or concerns, I’ll address them directly with you, my team.

[Thomas Johnson @BarryZyndon]

30's really are the new 20's damn

[David Ubben @davidubben]

The FBS head coaches voted unanimously to expand the eligibility for redshirt years from four games to nine.

This is just a recommendation that will be put forth to the Division I committees.