Velvet Kenny Rogers

Adventurer. Balladeer. Milk drinker.

[Fred Garvin @FredGarvinReal]

Never forget that right now there is an Egyptian man who has a 30 year jail sentence in Saudi Arabia because he tweeted about how he disliked Turki’s running of a soccer team. Media still pretends like Turki is some beneficiary. Shameless.

[Polymarket Hoops @PolymarketHoops]

The Indiana Fever have been eliminated in the postseason by the Las Vegas Aces.

[𝓥𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂 @VelllyyX]

Hey @grok, what’s the science behind Elon Musk’s distinctive body shape? Why does his torso have that broad, “barrel-chested” appearance?

[Noah Shachtman @NoahShachtman]

Knicks owner Jim Dolan built himself a private surveillance state. Now he's spending millions to give New York a governor who supports Flock, ICE, and AI data centers.

[Rixlerr @rixlerr]

Tom Holland reveals that Marvel directors tried to cut his Spider-Man debut down to almost nothing until Robert Downey Jr. forced them to shoot it

"My scene had been cut down significantly from what I'd done in the audition to now a page and a half or maybe even two pages"

"And we start shooting the scene, and Downey piped up and was like, 'Where's all the kid's lines gone?'"

"And the Russos sort of said... 'This is already a 140-page script, like we can't spend too much time on this'"

"And Downey was the one that was like, 'No, no, no... Let's shoot the whole thing from the audition. You can always cut it, but you'd want to have it.' And they used all of it"

"So I owe that to him. I'd love to one day do that... if I'd be lucky enough to somehow bring Miles Morales into my Spider-Man universe"

"I'd love to do for a young kid what Downey did for me"

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Seriously, guys. What the fuck is this?

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

Fakest story ever

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Extraordinary. Plane falls at 500 feet per second, rudder rips right off from stress, but no cabin disturbance of any kind. No lockers burst open, nobody thrown out of their seat, no drinks trolley thrown about. Passengers possessions all in place.

[Jared Weiss @JaredWeissNBA]

Victor Wembanyama was asked if he would ever sign a deal with a sports betting company: “Absolutely not. Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it.”

[🎃✨America Is Musty✨🎃 @DragonflyJonez]

Face of the league shifting from Bron to *this* is …. something (complimentary)

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Bolivia’s attorney general arrested a Trump ally for attempted murder and subsequently charged him with drug trafficking as the surviving girlfriend laid out the details of his criminal enterprise.

The Bolivian govt — under the orders of the U.S., if this post from Rubio is any indication — responded by arresting the AG and turning him over to the U.S.

Corruption on a staggering scale, in order to protect a hemispheric wide drug trafficking operation — all while the U.S. blows up fishing boats in the name of the drug war.

[Taniel @Taniel]

Votebeat reported last week of a massive delay in Texas processing voter registrations.

Now it's found out Texas officials knew about this last spring!

https://t.co/BJHVoBUPPJ

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Pretty clear cut messaging opportunity here for Democrats!

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

Netanyahu was about to lose the elections.

That’s how.

[Ivanka Gog @GogIvanka]

Two days after Jane Doe was assaulted, she visited the Cornell health clinic for UTI medication and told the doctor she contracted it in "a traumatic way"— that's not how anyone describes a consensual encounter.

​She also kept the dress she wore that night unwashed to preserve evidence. That’s not what someone does after a consensual encounter.

[Katie Polglase @katie_polglase]

NEW: Jared Kushner is the largest shareholder in an Israeli firm investing in companies supplying equipment for the Israeli military. He is also negotiating a deal for Gaza.

Reporting with @goodwinallegra and @MajliedePuyKamp

Edited by @timelfrink_dc

https://t.co/KfO7U4yiUp

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

I recommend people read Time's interview with Trump to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings. https://t.co/wUBAQYBGjd

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

Did Cornell police interview any of the accused guys? Do we know what they said from transcripts?

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

If you can read the latest @nytimes story about the Cornell case and come away believing this was just a consensual encounter, or that this was just something she wanted and just came to regret what she had done, I say please do some real soul searching. And now. 1/