Nelson

Father. Canadian. Food. Electronics. NBA. Raptors. Blue Jays. Engineering. Movies. Nintendo. Gaming. Politics. Travelling. Not necessarily in that order

[Esfandiar Baraheni @JustEsBaraheni]

I can’t get over this play. It’s one of the smartest, intuitive defensive plays I’ve ever seen.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

The Trump family has made $4 billion off the presidency.

Crypto: $3.02B
Persian Gulf deals: $425.8M
Qatari jet: $150M
Legal fees/merch: $127.7M
Mar-a-Lago: $125M
Corporate deals: $91M
Hanoi hotel: $40M
Truth Social: $25M
Don Jr: $19.6M

Unprecedented kleptocracy.

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

Dave Roberts always wondered if part of the Blue Jays' calculus for intentionally walking Shohei Ohtani during the 18-inning Game 3 was to tire him out before his Game 4 start. So he asked John Schneider -- and the answer is an illuminating look into World Series strategy.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

🇺🇸 THE ULTIMATE AMERICAN REVENGE STORY 🇺🇸
​The script couldn't have written it better. In 1989, Arthur Liu fled China as a political refugee after the Tiananmen Square massacre. He came to America with nothing but a dream for a free life.
​Decades later, his daughter Alysa Liu became the face of Team USA.
​But the CCP didn’t forget. Before the 2022 Beijing Olympics, the FBI uncovered a "brazen" spying operation. The target? Alysa and her father. The Chinese government tried to:
​Stalk them on U.S. soil.
​Intimidate her into silence.
​Pressure her to turn her back on the country that gave her family refuge.
​The FBI had to give them 24/7 security just so she could compete. 🛡️
​She faced the intimidation. She refused to be a pawn. She walked away from the sport for two years to find her soul again—and then she came back with a vengeance.
​TODAY, THE STORY IS COMPLETE. In a flawless performance to Donna Summer’s “MacArthur Park,” Alysa Liu just did the impossible.
​🥇 OLYMPIC GOLD. 🥇 The first American woman to win individual gold in 24 years.
​She didn’t just skate for a medal. She skated for the freedom her father risked everything for. She didn’t just win for herself; she won for the flag that protected her family when the world felt small.
​This is what a Patriot looks like. 🇺🇸✨
​#AlysaLiu #TeamUSA #OlympicGold #MilanoCortina2026 #AmericanDream #FigureSkating #USA #Inspiration

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Poor Prince Andrew. If he lived in America, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel would’ve covered for him.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Trump just declared, "glyphosate-based herbicides are a cornerstone of this Nation’s agricultural productivity and rural economy." And he's declaring glyphosate weedkiller to be a federally-protected critical resources.

This is insanity. He is now pushing the mass poisoning of American food crops and groceries with cancer-causing deadly weedkiller chemicals that will be sprayed all over the food crops.

Trump just declared chemical warfare on the American people. It's all here in black and white:
https://t.co/eFPZPxa8nD

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: Trump just announced the U.S. will send $10 BILLION to his so-called “Board of Peace.”

An offshore entity he controls. Where he’s chairman for life.

That’s taxpayer money → straight into Trump’s personal power structure.

He’s robbing America in real time.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

If a Prince can be held accountable, so can a President.

[kang @jaycaspiankang]

What’s so unnerving to me is that if you’re in power and all the Epstein stuff truly is overblown conspiracy but you need it to go away… the first thing you’d do is make a few deserving arrests to satisfy the public anger. The lack of action makes the conspiracy more real.

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

How do rockets work?
Sometimes I teach at university, and everybody likes a live demo. A fire extinguisher is just a small rocket nozzle; a chair & cart make a good spaceship.
Folks ask how it works in space with no air to push against? But it's the mass blasting out that makes me roll. Doesn't need any backstop. Newton's 2nd law.
But always good to have a landing plan - thanks @UWaterloo students!

[Doug Ford @fordnation]

The entire country will be watching on Sunday morning as our men’s hockey team plays for Olympic gold.

To help us all celebrate Team Canada, the province will be allowing bars and restaurants across the province to sell alcohol starting at 6:00 a.m. EST.

Let’s all come together, support local businesses and cheer on Team Canada!

@douglasdowney

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

are us elections free and fair?
or bought and paid for?

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

Wow. The original 56-page draft federal indictment of Epstein from 2007 is horrific: 32 counts involving 17 minor girls. Yet Alex Acosta agreed to drop all of it for a single state level solicitation charge?

We can’t bring Epstein back, but if I had any say, I’d be turning the screws on Acosta to understand exactly how this was allowed to happen. It’s hard to believe he made that decision on his own. There’s a story there, and maybe it even explains how, 10 years later, he ended up as Trump’s Labor Secretary. How does something like that happen?

[William Lou @william_lou]

these turnovers from jamal shead and rj barrett just absolutely killed them. all unforced as well. panic set in on the main ball handlers.

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

With the conclusion of the wet dress rehearsal today, we are moving off the February launch window and targeting March for the earliest possible launch of Artemis II.

With more than three years between SLS launches, we fully anticipated encountering challenges. That is precisely why we conduct a wet dress rehearsal. These tests are designed to surface issues before flight and set up launch day with the highest probability of success.

During the test, teams worked through a liquid hydrogen leak at a core stage interface during tanking, which required pauses to warm hardware and adjust propellant flow. All core stage and interim cryogenic propulsion stage tanks were successfully filled, and teams conducted a terminal countdown to about T-5 minutes before the ground launch sequencer halted operations due to an increased leak rate. Additional factors included extended Orion closeout work, intermittent ground audio dropouts, and cold-weather impacts to some cameras, along with the successful demonstration of updated Orion closeout purge procedures to support safe crew operations.

As always, safety remains our top priority, for our astronauts, our workforce, our systems, and the public. As noted above, we will only launch when we believe we are as ready to undertake this historic mission.

This is just the beginning. It marks the start of an Artemis program that will evolve to support repeated and affordable missions to the Moon, in line with President Trump’s national space policy. Getting this mission right means returning to the Moon to stay and a future to Artemis 100 and beyond.

I want to thank the talented workforce at NASA, along with our industry and international partners, who are working tirelessly on this effort. The team will fully review the data, troubleshoot each issue encountered during WDR, make the necessary repairs, and return to testing. We expect to conduct an additional wet dress rehearsal and then target the March window.

We will continue to keep the public and the media informed as readiness progresses.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion

Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion

Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion

Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million

Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million

Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million

Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion

Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion

Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million

Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5

@JeffBezos

[Esfandiar Baraheni @JustEsBaraheni]

Yeah, put this mans name on the ballot.

A clutch block on Chet Holmgren. Wow.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Thanks to Trump, right-wing multibillionaire Larry Ellison will now control the TikTok algorithm, along with:

CBS
MTV
The Free Press
BET
CMT
Simon & Schuster
Nickelodeon
Paramount+
Pluto TV
and more

This is what Oligarchy looks like.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This bodes ill. Readers used to outnumber non-readers 2 to 1. Now non-readers outnumber readers 3 to 1.

It's hard to imagine a change of that magnitude not having significant effects.