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So her player, Sophie Cunningham, spoke up for women, but the head coach won’t?? I’m just so disappointed in this answer from a woman I have loved & respected since she was a kid and won Indiana Miss Basketball in 1995. I remember being so excited back then to interview such a strong young woman. She’s also incredibly smart. And kind. Stephanie White knows the truth. She knows better. They ALL know better, yet none of them have the courage to speak the truth. What a shame. And once again, THANK YOU @sophaller !!
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I've said this before and I'll say it again.
We are in a soft secession under Zohran. He considers New York an independent city-state with its own foreign policy, immigration policy, and economic policy. He does not recognize the authority of the federal government except to the extent he can extract money or political wins from it.
The intent is to use the resources and authority of New York City to wage war against the federal government and the rest of the country. The DSA is quite open about it. They're telling us what they plan to do, and Zohran is executing.
Colluding with the Iranians was just another means to that end. They will collude with any and all of our enemies, because the stated goal of the DSA is to dismantle the country from within. Again, they say all of this out loud. No inferences necessary here.
In this particular case, the meeting with the Iranians was sidelined by the State Department. But the intention is crystal clear, and just because a high-profile meeting was stopped doesn't mean there isn't back channel communication and cooperation happening between the DSA/Mamdani admin and the Iranians. Obviously there is. Meetings like this don't just materialize out of thin air, and ties between the DSA and Iranian-linked fronts like the People's Forum are too many to count.
Now what are we actually going to do about this?
We're WAY past the point that it can honestly be argued that the DSA isn't an insurgency determined to bring down the country. I really think it requires a military solution now; take this out of the corrupt civil court system and use the military to roll up the DSA and charge them as revolutionary insurgents. Do it while we still can and avoid inevitable future bloodshed.
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.@Wikipedia is literally erasing Jewish history and identity, systematically and maliciously. Everyone in the organization knows this is happening -- so none of it is an oversight or an accident.
Wikipedia is a major source on which LLMs are trained. College students are more likely to read the Wikipedia article than the textbook. This is how public knowledge is shaped.
America’s ruling class has performed another miracle.
They took the most basic truths in human civilization ... crime needs punishment, borders need enforcement, schools should teach, welfare should be temporary, families matter, merit matters, and taxpayers should not be looted by professional parasites ... and somehow rebranded all of that as “extremism.”
Incredible work, really.
Apparently, a “compassionate” society is one where the violent repeat offender gets another chance, the victim gets a candlelight vigil, the taxpayer gets the bill, the schoolkid gets passed along illiterate, the fraudster gets a grant, the NGO gets another contract, the illegal alien gets services, and the working American gets told to shut up and be more inclusive.
What a beautiful system.
Soft justice did not stay in the courtroom. It metastasized. It became soft borders, soft schools, soft parenting, soft welfare, soft standards, soft men, and soft bureaucrats explaining why every obvious solution is “too harsh.”
Lock up predators? Cruel.
Deport illegals? Hateful.
End generational welfare? Lacking empathy.
Punish fraud? Complicated.
Restore merit? Problematic.
Teach kids to read? Probably colonialism by Tuesday.
A serious country protects the innocent from the guilty. A decaying country protects the guilty from consequences and makes the innocent finance the experiment.
That’s America’s real crisis.
Not poverty. Not “root causes.” Not another fake expert panel.
Consequences.
We stopped imposing them on the people destroying the country, so now the country imposes them on everyone else.
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Was it Joseph Goebbels who said in 1939: "those monsters move millions of dollars in dark money to preserve their single goal: to divide us so they can hold on to power"
No, it was Zohran Mamdani in 2026.
Any historian or academic pretending not to know what is going on here is either lying to themselves or to the public.
I have been told countless times over the last 48 hours that I am a conspiracy theorist.
That I do not know basketball.
That I do not understand the WNBA.
And that my articles are too long.
So I wrote this...
I do not believe there is some organized, calculated operation to take down Caitlin Clark.
That would be too simple.
The truth is deeper... and far more damaging.
Caitlin Clark walked into a league that spent nearly three decades convincing itself that its weaknesses were culture.
For years, the WNBA was not a mainstream sports product.
It was a cause.
A talking point.
A subsidized idea.
A league people were told they should support, even when the product on the floor often failed to earn that support from casual fans.
The empty seats were excused.
The financial struggles were excused.
The rough offensive flow was excused.
The poor spacing was excused.
The inconsistent officiating was excused.
The excessive physicality was excused.
The lack of mainstream interest was excused.
And anytime fans questioned the product, the answer was usually the same:
You just do not understand women’s basketball and you're racist.
That was the lie the league told itself for too long.
Because a lot of fans understood basketball perfectly fine.
They just did not like what they were watching.
Too often, the WNBA confused physicality with quality.
It confused survival with success.
It confused being protected with being excellent.
It confused an insulated culture with a strong one.
And then Caitlin Clark arrived.
She did not come in asking people to support the league out of obligation.
She made people want to watch.
That is the difference.
Caitlin brought range, pace, vision, passing angles, court gravity, creativity, and real basketball electricity.
She made regular-season games feel like events.
She made casual fans stop scrolling.
She made people who had ignored the WNBA for years suddenly care about matchups, rotations, officiating, coaching decisions, and league standards.
And that is where the collision happened.
Caitlin Clark exposed the gap between what the WNBA had convinced itself was good enough and what mainstream sports fans actually expect.
Fans want skill.
They want spacing.
They want pace.
They want shooting.
They want smart coaching.
They want fair officiating.
They want stars protected.
They want basketball that looks modern, intelligent, and entertaining.
They did not show up to watch Caitlin get grabbed, held, shoved, bumped, and treated like every possession needs to become a wrestling match in the name of “physicality.”
They also did not show up to watch the basketball constantly pushed into the background while social messaging, league-approved narratives, and cultural lectures compete for center stage.
That is not evolution.
That is a league clinging to old habits because it does not know how to handle the future standing right in front of it.
And Caitlin Clark is the future.
That does not mean she is perfect.
She is not.
That does not mean veterans have no value.
They do.
That does not mean physicality has no place in basketball.
It does.
But there is a difference between physical basketball and ugly basketball.
There is a difference between toughness and fouling.
There is a difference between defensive pressure and mugging someone off the ball.
There is a difference between culture and bad habits that went unchallenged because not enough people were watching.
Caitlin did not create the league’s problems.
She exposed them.
She exposed the officiating.
She exposed the coaching gap.
She exposed the outdated style.
She exposed the resentment toward new fans.
She exposed the discomfort some people have with a player becoming bigger than the system that was supposed to contain her.
And more than anything, she exposed a league that is still trying to force a generational player into an old version of basketball that she has already outgrown.
That is why this does not feel like a conspiracy.
It feels like resistance to change.
The WNBA finally got the player who could push the league into a new era, and too many people inside the ecosystem seem determined to make her prove she belongs in the old one.
That is backwards.
You do not take the most skilled, market-changing player your league has ever seen and ask her to shrink into the culture that failed to attract mainstream fans in the first place.
You build around her.
You modernize around her.
You protect what she represents.
Because she is not just another player.
She is the mirror.
She is showing the league what it has been, what it is, and what it could become if it would stop defending its flaws as tradition.
And the frustrating part is that the next generation is already here.
You can see it with Caitlin.
You can see it with Paige Bueckers.
You can see it with Sonia Citron.
You can see it with Aliyah Boston.
You can see it with JuJu Watkins.
The skill is changing.
The training is better.
The footwork is better.
The shooting is better.
The spacing is better.
The basketball IQ is better.
But too much of the league around them is still operating like nothing has changed.
Same coaching habits.
Same officiating problems.
Same marketing instincts.
Same defensive excuses.
Same resentment toward criticism.
Same belief that the old WNBA culture must be protected, even if it means slowing down the very players who could make the league bigger than it has ever been.
That is the real story.
Caitlin Clark is not being taken down by some secret plan.
She is being resisted by a league that still does not fully understand what she represents.
She represents a better product.
A bigger audience.
A more skilled game.
A more modern game.
A version of women’s basketball that does not need to be sold as charity, activism, obligation, or guilt.
It can be sold as basketball.
Great basketball.
But that requires the league to stop pretending its weaknesses are sacred.
It requires officials to clean up the game.
It requires coaches to modernize.
It requires veterans to adapt.
It requires media voices to stop protecting the old product from honest criticism.
And it requires the WNBA to stop resenting the very fans it spent decades trying to attract.
So no, I do not think there is a coordinated takedown of Caitlin Clark.
I think it is bigger than that.
I think Caitlin walked into a league that spent years convincing itself its flaws were culture.
And now that a generational player has arrived to expose the difference, too many people are trying to humble her instead of learning from her.
That is not Caitlin Clark’s failure.
That is the league refusing to recognize the future.
Yea. Dont be like Dick.
Elon Musk just told a story that should terrify every AI company on Earth.
His son Saxon is autistic.
Saxon couldn’t understand why the family went to restaurants.
You can get the same food delivered.
You can call your friends over.
You can eat better at home for half the price.
So why go?
Musk: “He had an epiphany and said, ‘Oh, the reason people go to restaurants is to hang out with strangers.’”
A kid who takes the world literally just decoded something the rest of us never thought to question.
We like being around people we’ll never know.
Look at what we already built.
Delivery apps so you never wait in line.
Remote work so you never share an office.
Self-checkout so you never talk to a cashier.
Every innovation of the last 20 years was a bet against human proximity.
Every one paid off.
Until it didn’t.
Loneliness is now a public health emergency.
Depression has doubled since the smartphone.
The average American has fewer close friends than any generation in history.
We didn’t remove friction.
We removed the thing friction was hiding.
Now look at what’s coming.
AI agents that handle your emails.
AI companions that replace your conversations.
AI assistants that make every human interaction optional.
Same playbook. Same bet.
Except this time we’re not engineering out strangers.
We’re engineering out humans entirely.
The coffee shop where nobody knows your name.
The subway where no one speaks.
The restaurant where you’ll never see that couple again.
Those aren’t failed connections.
They’re the background radiation of belonging.
We don’t just need people who know us.
We need to exist in rooms full of people who don’t.
That’s what a kid understood at a dinner table that billion-dollar companies still can’t grasp in a boardroom.
We spent 20 years building a world you never have to show up to.
AI is about to finish the job.
And nothing it builds will ever replicate sitting in a room full of strangers and not feeling alone.
In 1960s, a kid playing with a toy whistle from a Cap’n Crunch cereal made an odd discovery. The whistle produced a 2600-hertz tone, the same sound used by AT&T to control its phone network. That unlocked a loophole in the system, allowing them to hack into AT&T and get free long distance calls.
When pranksters and tech-savvy youth discovered this, they learned they could mimic the signal, tricking the network into granting free international calls. These early experimenters, dubbed “phone phreaks,” laid the groundwork for what would later become modern hacking culture.
The most famous of them, John Draper (nicknamed “Captain Crunch”) built electronic devices called “blue boxes” that reproduced the whistle’s tone with precision. Even a young Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were captivated by the trick, selling their own blue boxes at college before founding Apple. What began as childlike curiosity revealed the fragility of the world’s largest communications system and marked the dawn of digital rebellion.
The 2600 Hz tone became so iconic that a hacker magazine, 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, was later named in its honor.
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Age verification sounds reasonable until you realize it means every adult hands over their ID just to go online.
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Pay attention now!
Joe legal works in construction, has a Social Security number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted.
Jose illegal also works in construction has no Social Security number and makes $15.00 per hour cash, under the table.
Ready?... now pay attention....
Joe legal: $25.00 per hour × 40 hours = $1,000.00 per week or $52,000.00 per year. Now, take 31% away for State and Federal taxes. Joe legal now has $31,231.00.
Jose illegal: $15.00 an hour × 40 hours = $600.00 per week or $31,200.00 per year. Jose illegal pays no taxes. Jose illegal now has $31,200.00.
Joe legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year. Joe legal now has $24,031.00.
Jose illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the State and local clinics and emergency hospitals at a cost of $0.00 per year. Jose illegal still has $31,200.00.
Joe legal makes too much money and is not eligible for food stamps or welfare. Joe legal spends $500.00 per month for food or $6,000.00 per year. Joe legal now has $18,031.00.
Jose illegal has no documented income and is eligible for food stamps, WIC and welfare. Jose illegal still has $31,200.00.
Joe legal pays rent of 1,200.00 per month or $14,400.00 per year. Joe legal now has $9,631.00.
Jose illegal receives $500.00 per month Federal rent subsidy. Jose illegal pays out that $500.00 per month or $6,000.00 per year. Jose illegal still has $31,200.00.
Joe legal pays $200.00 per month or $2,400.00 per year for car insurance. Some of that is uninsured motorist insurance. Joe legal now has $7,231.00.
Jose illegal says, "We don't need no stinkin' insurance."... and still has $31,000.00.
Joe legal has to make his $7,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline.. etc.
Jose illegal has to make his $31,200.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline and what he sends out of the country every month....
Joe legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.
Jose illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.
Joe legal's and Jose illegal's children both attend the same elementary school.
Joe legal pays for his children's lunches while...
Jose illegal's children get a government-sponsored lunch.
Jose illegal's children have an after school ESL program.
Joe legal's children go home.
Now, when they reach college age...
Joe legal's kids may not get into a State school and may not qualify for scholarships, grants or other tuition help, even though Joe has been paying for State schools through his taxes, while...
Jose illegal's kids go to the, 'head of the class' because they are a minority.
Joe legal and Jose illegal both benefit from the same police and fire services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not.
Do you get it, now?
If we vote for or support any politician that supports illegal aliens,... we are part of the problem.
Its way PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!
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Thank you for the laughs and memories, Bob. RIP.
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Hoy, Benny Hill sería censurado…
While technically true I would think as a news organization you might also be aware that on March 23rd an explosion and fire occurred at Valero Energy's Port Arthur Texas refinery. Which has temporarily shut down the entire facility that has the capacity ~of processing 380,000–435,000 barrels per day, making it one of the largest in the U.S., processing crude into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.
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