Nirav Barman

I love ball ☘️🐻 || Writer at and || Ex-Contributor at and

[Greg Siskind @gsiskind]

A reminder that Flo Balogun would not be on the US Men's National Team if Trump's birthright citizenship order was in place when he was born in NY. The first US man to score more than one goal in a World Cup match since the very first World Cup in 1930.

[CelticsBlog @celticsblog]

A CelticsBlog debate: could dealing Derrick White rebalance the roster? https://t.co/lCicmqD0bG

[Grant Burfeind @GBurf]

Joe Mazzulla will always get clipped for the weird quotes.

But flying to Omaha and Portugal to spend time with his players feels like a better window into why the Celtics keep buying in.

For @celticsblog: https://t.co/Lggfh391hE

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨 #BREAKING: The average American is now closer to Jeff Bezos in net worth than Jeff Bezos is to Elon Musk.

[✪𝓙𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓼 𝓢𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓽-𝓕𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓬✪ @sirjamesa12]

1 million seconds = 11 days
1 billion seconds = 32 years
1 trillion seconds = 32,000 years

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ REPORT | Israel has killed 987 Palestinians and launched more than 1,450 airstrikes and shelling attacks since agreeing to a “ceasefire” in Gaza last October

Israeli forces have carried out at least 3,224 ceasefire violations across Gaza since the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement, according to a report shared by the Palestinian side with mediators and obtained by Drop Site News.

🔸Field Attacks🔸
Wednesday alone saw 12 armed field incidents, including repeated artillery and naval attacks across the Strip:
🔹 Israeli artillery shelled northern Gaza
🔹 Artillery shelling east of Deir al-Balah
🔹 23-year-old Faten Faisal Odeh Al-Arouqi was wounded by Israeli live fire east of Al-Maghazi Camp
🔹 Israeli warships opened fire toward the beaches and coastline of Gaza City in two separate incidents
🔹 Israeli artillery shelled northeastern Gaza City
🔹 Two civilians were wounded by Israeli warship fire west of Al-Nuseirat
🔹 Artillery shelling east of Khan Younis in two separate attacks
🔹 Ahmad Rafiq Al-Batsh was abducted by armed militias operating under the protection of the Israeli army east of Gaza City’s Al-Tuffah neighborhood

The UN-backed @BoardOfPeace has not condemned a single attack.

Since the “ceasefire” took effect, 987 Palestinians have been killed, including 236 children, 110 women, and 30 elderly people, while 3,109 have been wounded, nearly half of them children, women, or elderly. A total of 95 civilians have also been newly abducted.

Israel also continues to hold approximately 34 square kilometers beyond agreed withdrawal lines and has blocked repairs to electricity, water, and sewage infrastructure. Aid and movement restrictions remain severe:

🔸Rafah crossing🔸
▪️ Only 6,674 of 19,400 planned crossings have been carried out (~34.4%)
▪️ 88 individuals have been turned back at the crossing
▪️ Gaza’s Health Ministry says roughly 20,000 patients are awaiting Israeli approval to leave the Strip for treatment abroad, and that about 10 die each day while waiting.

🔸Aid entry🔸
▪️ Only ~36.1% of agreed humanitarian aid has entered, averaging about 217 trucks per day compared with the 600 agreed under the ceasefire
▪️ Fuel deliveries remain at just 14.7% of required levels
▪️ The WFP estimates 77% of Gaza’s population faces acute food insecurity, including 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant women suffering from acute malnutrition, amid what MSF in May 2026 described as a “manufactured malnutrition crisis.”

📸 Central Gaza, Maghazi Refugee Camp tonight (Thursday) after new Israeli air strike. Photos by Mohammed Kassab.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents kidnapped a U.S. citizen, while he was grabbing coffee, in Maryland.

Samuel Guzmán repeatedly told agents he was born in the United States. He even offered to show his ID… and they didn’t believe him.

Instead, they took his phone, wallet, and keys, shoved him in their car, illegally transported him to another location, questioned him about where he was “really” from, for 2 hours, and refused to let him call anyone.

Then, once they realized he was a U.S. citizen… they let him go without explaining why he was detained.

The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures…. ICE agents don’t get to kidnap someone, from a coffee shop parking lot, without reasonable suspicion or probable cause.

The Fifth Amendment guarantees due process…. Holding someone against their will while refusing to tell them why, or denying them access to contact anyone, is a constitutional violation.

And the Equal Protection principles mean the government can’t target people simply because of their race, ethnicity, or the language they speak.

If you’re okay with constitutional rights disappearing the moment someone has the wrong last name, or skin color…

You were never defending law and order.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

VIDEO | Local Palestinian sources report Israeli settlers are deliberately polluting water wells in the agricultural lands in the Khirbet Hamrush area, east of Sa'ir, north of Hebron, occupied West Bank.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Big banks denied entire communities the opportunity to buy homes, start small businesses, and build financial security right here in our City for generations. In response, Ponce Bank was founded in the 1960's to give Puerto Rican New Yorkers the opportunity to build wealth.

Today, alongside @NYCComptroller and @nycfinance, we announced that we are depositing $20 million into Ponce Bank branches in Inwood and the Bronx to directly increase access to capital for working people.

Government should invest directly into people and neighborhoods. So that’s exactly what we’re doing.

[Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT]

EXCERPT from Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, by @jonathanvswan and me, in NYT Magazine today. How the Epstein files crisis paralyzed the Trump White House for the better part of a year https://t.co/QF4Lp3oC65

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

FIFA rejecting Haiti’s jersey’s for being “too political” while allowing Israel to play, & the US to host World Cup (while denying visas, restricting entrance, banning Iranian players from staying in country) is a selective, targeted invocation of their “neutrality” policies.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

"They're not hostages. They're in prison for crimes."

the crimes

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Two viral, seemingly-organic Knicks fan moments from the streets of NYC turned out to have ties to Kalshi and Polymarket.

How prediction markets are trying to capitalize on the ground during the Knicks' title run ⬇️

https://t.co/3l2WWSrFMq

[Financial Times @FT]

Iran says 20,000 people left without water after US hits reservoir tanks https://t.co/k7n7ODtvQJ

[Nirav Barman @niravbarman27]

This feels pretty inexcusable

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

No flagrant upgrade on the uncalled foul of Spurs' Victor Wembanyama to Knicks' Jalen Brunson on Monday night, a league spokesperson tells ESPN. Wembanyama will stay at two flagrant points in postseason.

[Margaret Fleming @mgfleming12]

A Somali ref turned away. A Swiss player learning he needed further checks the day of his flight. Journalists, staffers, and federation officials denied. Reports of single-entry and one-day visas.

Inside the visa and travel issues preceding the World Cup:https://t.co/GZguo4HVvH

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

The US has quietly deployed 82nd Airborne paratroopers to Israel, per deployment order leaked to me.

The deployment is tied to new US-Israel joint contingency plans for seizing Kharg Island and carving out coastal territory inside Iran.
https://t.co/HU5yWUCpCN

[Wesley @WesleyLowery]

FL police use A.I. to identify a vehicle theft suspect from surveillance video. Based on an "85% match" they arrest and charge Jalil Richardson. He spends 3 months in jail. He loses his job, his home, and custody of his kids.

Richardson lives in N.C.
He's never been to Florida. And his timesheet shows him at work at the time of the crime. No one checked before charging him. https://t.co/2AcQYwq30f

[Nirav Barman @niravbarman27]

@klaytheist11 Wishing you and your fiancee the best, Charlie. I'm sorry you both have to go through this.

[Charlie Cummings @klaytheist11]

An insurance company is trying to kill my life partner. Felt it was appropriate to write down the rage I feel