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[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

James Dolan invited his friend Donald Trump to watch Game 3. In order to do that, they have to ban the organic, historically joyous parties happening outside MSG for fans who can't afford to be inside. Modern sports in a nutshell

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[HoldenCantor @HoldenCantor]

Rams fans who watched back in the St. Louis Fisher, Linehan, Spags days, we deserve this man.

[Sam Monson @SamMonsonNFL]

Aaron Donald owes it to science to unretire and line up next to Myles Garrett just to see what would happen.

[Johnny Venerable @JohnnyVenerable]

There are layers and levels to the NFL.

One team in the NFC West is trading for Myles Garrett.

Another is having a public contract dispute with Jacoby Brissett.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

no regime change in iran, no handpicking of the next supreme leader.

no dismantling of iran’s proxies, no restrictions on its ballistic missile and drone programs.

an agreement to downblend the highly enriched uranium inside iran.

the destruction of iran’s navy, but an emboldened iran that is prepared to disrupt the strait.

throw in the cost in lives, the global economy, and the global treasure, and the reputational damage to the united states…and president trump has some serious explaining to do.  

next up: cuba

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

It’s really something how billionaires have rigged the rules to let them vacuum up all of society’s wealth & then fund think tanks and buy media properties that blame poverty and homelessness and despair on literally everything other than billionaires vacuuming up all the wealth

[Melbourne Demons @melbournefc]

There’s only one Neale Daniher. ❤️
His legacy is forever woven into the fabric of the Melbourne Football Club and Australian football itself.

#DemonSpirit

[Jeff White @JeffWhite34]

My second Dad 😢😢😢

He would always say ‘Health is your Wealth’.

You’ve left an amazing footprint on so many people, your legacy will live on forever. Neale, RIP. Love ya Coach

Sending all my love to Jan, Loz, Bec, Luke & Ben.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

if concluded, trump-iran deal arguably the least worst outcome available to president trump.

except for:

1) agreeing to those terms months ago.

2) not having gone to war in the first place.

or

3) not having withdrawn from the iranian nuclear deal.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

No president has ever used the federal government to advance his own personal interests and those of his family and allies as expansively and openly as Trump has. https://t.co/51Kfi70LJ2

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

The level of personal hostility directed at Keir Starmer over the last week deserves scrutiny in its own right. Not because he should be immune from criticism, but because the tone and intensity of the attacks tell us something unhealthy about the state of democratic politics.

1. Starmer is a conventional political figure. Cautious, legalistic, incremental. He frustrates people precisely because he is managerial rather than messianic. Yet the reaction to him often goes far beyond disagreement, tipping into visceral hatred more commonly reserved for authoritarians or demagogues.

2. Much of this hostility is disconnected from concrete policy. It is not about specific votes, proposals or outcomes, but about projection. A belief that Starmer embodies betrayal, bad faith or hidden malice. That kind of politics runs on suspicion rather than evidence.

3. This matters because democracy depends on the assumption of good faith among opponents. You can think a leader is wrong, timid, or misguided without believing they are fundamentally illegitimate. Once politics becomes moralised to the point of demonisation, compromise is reframed as treachery and pluralism as weakness.

4. The pattern is familiar. In fragmented, polarised systems, anger concentrates not on extremists, whose intentions are clear, but on moderates, who disappoint maximalists on all sides. The centre becomes the lightning rod precisely because it resists totalising narratives.

5. There is also a media and online dynamic at work. Incentives reward outrage, not proportionality. Algorithms favour contempt over analysis. Over time, this creates a political culture in which relentless personal attack feels normal, even virtuous, rather than disgusting.

6. None of this is a defence of Starmer’s decisions, instincts or record. Those should be argued over robustly as you do in a democracy. The problem is the substitution of critique with hostility and the quiet erosion of democratic norms that follows when political opponents are treated as enemies rather than rivals.

7. A democracy cannot function if every election is framed as an existential struggle against internal evil. At some point, the target may change, but the damage to trust, restraint and culture remains.

[claire de lune @ClaireMPLS]

new yorkers currently being karmically rewarded for electing the most based mayor in human history. love to see it

[Ivan the K™ @IvanTheK]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE🚨

LIVE LOOK AT DONALD TRUMP TRYING TO EXIT THE MIDDLE EAST.

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

Imagining explaining to the Founding Fathers that the president imposed tariffs without an act of Congress and then removed them at the request of the King of England

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

introverts pretending to check their schedule before ultimately saying "unfortunately can't make it"

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

starting to think president trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the iranian nuclear deal wasn’t well thought through.

[Marnie Vinall @marnievinall]

Woken up this morning and still for the life of me cannot believe the reasoning given last night.

Footy is a hard job so therefore it’s commonplace to use racist, sexist or homophobic language?? Do they hear themselves?

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

"President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

The United States of America is on the verge of achieving pure idiocracy.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

mythos: determined too dangerous to critical infrastructure to be released to the general public.

also mythos: