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[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

This is Noah Shannon, model citizen, slated to be Hawkeye senior defensive captain 2023. He had guilt pangs for having bet $10 on the Iowa Women's Basketball team in the 2023 NCAA tournament. The only bet he ever made. He turned himself in to coaches for the transgression who forwarded it to the NCAA.

They ruled him inelligible for the entire season, effectively ending his career. If the NCAA allows someone else to play after making thousands of bets, including many on his own team, I am going to fucking riot

[B.W. Carlin @BaileyCarlin]

Insanely brutal shot to the bars and restaurants in the area. The parking garages too. The clown show rolls on however

[Democratic Seoulcialist @tonykchoi]

I think cheering for a Trump-endorsed Republican is grounds enough for a well-deserved primary in a D+21 district.

[PonyACCess @ACCessPony]

SMU had to shut down their program for 2 years because they paid some of their players $50,000

30 years later and a player who gambled $90,000 on HIS OWN TEAM is allowed to play all but 2 regular season games.

[Kevin Clark @bykevinclark]

As disastrous a ruling as there has ever been in modern sports. The pathway is now clear: gamble as much as you like, including on your own team and hope you are--or get--good enough that you can lawyer up down the line. A much bigger disaster than anything with NIL or portal.

[Alexis ☭ @gothgfdotrip]

Is it so much to ask that everyone involved in the production get a cut? Is it so unreasonable for the workers to share in the profits of their labour?

[JulesNader386 @Julesnader386]

These are concentration camps.
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These are concentration camps.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Graham Platner: “The fact that Jeff Bezos exists and the fact that I know someone in Sullivan who works three jobs and pays 60% of her monthly income in rent, those two things are directly connected. There is no metric of hard work that justifies a billionaire when people in Eastern Maine work three jobs just to put food on the table”

[David Doel @daviddoel]

The fact that Graham Platner was moved by Michael Brooks, mourning his death in 2020, is enough to know he'd be a better politician than 99% of people in congress. And up against Republican Susan Collins.. what is there even a debate about.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

There's nothing "offensive" about comparing the actions and mentality of Israel to those of the Nazis. What is offensive is demanding that one country and only it -- Israel -- be exempt from those comparisons because it hurts people's feelings, or because it seems "bigoted" to compare them.

The whole point of the Nuremberg Trials was that the precedents set there would only have meaning -- i.e., be something beyond mere "victor's justice" -- if those principles applied to the actions of **all countries** in the future. Israel doesn't have some special, unique exemption from the imperative.

[Jordan @SLCLunk]

It’s such a perfect metaphor to have something that gives joy to tens of thousands get ruined by one Republican billionaire asshole

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

In the same breath, Israel says it’s unfair for Iran to defend Hezbollah because those are different conflicts — and then takes out its anger on humanitarian orgs delivering aid to Gaza

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

Unless you riot for Trump, in which case you’ll be pardoned and given slush fund money stolen from U.S. tax payers.

[Zito @_Zeets]

Again, he gets graded on a curve. Dude is losing his shit because a reporter pushes back a bit on his lies, and he loses his temper, insults her, and walks out of the interview. And yet, he keeps being presented as a sane and normal person.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

a critical moment for us media. this is exactly what happened in turkey with erdogans initial rise to power. regime loyalists bought up all the private media outlets.

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

This is a devastating interview.

Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.

Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

[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

[Halli @iamharaldur]

"Never again" they said, as they sat back and demanded no one interrupt while it happened again.

[عَزِيز Aziz @woolyonezeez]

Only in a corporate media landscape does theft of food become a crisis, instead of people’s inability to afford food