Josh Weger

[UN Human Rights Council Investigative Bodies @uninvhrc]

Israeli forces have killed over 20,000 children & injured 44,000 more since 7 Oct. 2023, Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the @UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel, told reporters today. #HRC62

More on their new report ➡️ https://t.co/gK2KhtlgFb

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[Josh Weger @JoshWeger]

@RepKamBuckner @IlliniFootball Go pope! Go Rep. Buckner! And…Go Illini!!! 🔶🔷

[Josh Weger @JoshWeger]

Let’s go! 🔶🔷

[John Fanta @John_Fanta]

Illinois is a tier A national championship contender entering the 2026-27 season. Andrej Stojakovic, David Mirkovic, the Ivisic Bros, Jake Davis, an ELITE shotmaker in Stefan Vaaks, Quentin Coleman.

Brad Underwood has a powerhouse of a team. Preseason Top 5.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 BREAKING: Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent Mohammed Samir Washah has been killed in Gaza following an Israeli drone strike on his car at Al-Nabulsi roundabout, west of Gaza City. Footage shared from the scene by Drop Site contributor Mohammed Ahmed shows the vehicle engulfed in flames, indicating a direct hit.

Gaza’s Government Media Office condemned the killing, stating that the number of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel has risen to 262 since the start of the genocide in Gaza. The Office called on the international community to “condemn the crimes of the occupation, deter it, and pursue it in international courts for its ongoing crimes.”

[Josh Weger @JoshWeger]

A masterful non-answer. The most cynical, deceptive, dubious politicians in the world will surely be in awe. BTW, this kind of info should be readily available online, or at the very least, FOIAble.

[The Next Round @NextRoundLive]

Mark Pope on the report that Kentucky offered Yaxel Lendeborg between $7M-$9M:

"There's nobody more surprised about what the head coach at Kentucky has done than the head coach at Kentucky. I'm shocked by it every single day."

[Josh Weger @JoshWeger]

@SleepersMedia Awesome. I will have to boycott the Tim Doyle episode, other than that I’m good.’

[Josh Weger @JoshWeger]

@gwizzy12

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Last Friday, a handful of people made big, unusual $100,000+ bets on Polymarket - that the U.S. would strike Iran the next day.

The Iran War is fueling a new kind of corruption: White House officials secretly profiting off war.

It's disgusting. We need to ban it.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.

When this person bought in, the market had this at a 17% probability. They turned roughly $87,000 into over half a million dollars overnight.

Reminder that Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket's advisory board and his firm invested double-digit millions into the platform last year. The DOJ and CFTC both had active investigations into Polymarket that were dropped after Trump took office.

Prediction markets cannot be a vehicle for profiting off advance knowledge of military action.

We need answers, transparency, and oversight.

[The Intercept @theintercept]

Before Democrats can articulate a more humane foreign policy, they need to reckon with the mortal sin of the genocide in Gaza. https://t.co/HIJCUXWw7a

[Josh Weger @JoshWeger]

@KeepBlitzin Wow Boozer just whipped his ass and he’s acting all smug and hoity-toity.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Looks like Tony Blair is very determined to confirm his status as one of the worst persons alive.

His speech is pure 19th century colonialism: he frames the Gaza issue as one of "ineffective governance" on the part of the Palestinians, without as much as mentioning the 17-year blockade, the occupation, or the small matter of the deadliest assault on a civilian population this century.

I'd love to understand how you build "effective institutions" when:
- Your airport was destroyed by Israel in 2001
- Your seaport is blockaded
- Building materials are banned as "dual use"
- Your university gets bombed every few years
- Your civil servants can't travel for training
- Your economy is strangled by design
- Your people and government officials are routinely killed in devastating attacks

And he uses this, the eminently predictable outcome of this continuous strangling of a people, as evidence that they can't govern themselves and that they require outside management by the architects of their immiseration.

Absolutely repugnant, no other word for it.

[Josh Weger @JoshWeger]

@thatboydhill 16 point half time lead…at Purduuuuuuue?!

[Josh Weger @JoshWeger]

@Toogooddaboss @SleepersMedia Can’t hate the motion and certainly can’t knock the hustle

[Josh Weger @JoshWeger]

Illini win!
@SleepersMedia
@IlliniMBB

[Josh Weger @JoshWeger]

@gwizzy12 Just another team with fast guards that the Illini can’t stop from dribble penetrating for layups if they insist on staying in man.