Rudy Gobert is an all-time great defender. To do this against one of the greatest offensive scorers we'll ever see is genuinely amazing. Somehow, at age 33, a 4-time DPOY is better than he's ever been. What a legend.
With these pictures showing the bond we shared, I almost felt I could get away with saying nothing about you leaving. It’s been an honour to be your teammate and your friend. You’ve won it all and you leave as a legend. I’m sure we will meet again.
While you slept last night, completely still in your bed, our galaxy moved millions of kilometers through the cosmos. You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, yet unimaginably far from where you were the night before.
The Milky Way is not drifting quietly through the universe. It is racing through space at around 600 kilometers per second, carrying billions of stars, planets, and everything on them along for the ride.
It is a good reminder that even when life feels motionless, you are always in motion.
By this logic, Top Gun: Maverick reflects a world Americans "browbeaten by years of Pentagon messaging" believe to be real. James Bond is 60 years of MI6 recruitment propaganda. Dunkirk is Churchill's ghost writing British exceptionalism into celluloid. Zero Dark Thirty literally had CIA officers on set.
But when those films release, The Economist writes about "the power of cinema to capture national memory." When India makes one, it's a symptom of mass delusion manufactured by a strongman.
Fifteen thousand Indian civilians killed in Pakistan-sponsored terrorism since 1970. A film dramatises it. The Economist's concern is not the terrorism. It's that Indians noticed.
Condescension this perfectly calibrated hasn't been seen since the last time someone in London explained to Indians what Indians actually think.
Israel must immediately repeal the discriminatory death penalty law passed today by the Knesset, as it contravenes Israel’s obligations under international law.
The United Nations opposes the death penalty under all circumstances. The implementation of this new law would violate international law's prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.
Additionally, this law further entrenches Israel’s violation of the prohibition of racial segregation and apartheid as it will exclusively apply to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Israel, who are often convicted after unfair trials.
Read @UNHumanRights earlier statement and analysis about the death penalty draft bill:
https://t.co/oHVrU5nomP…