Go Bruins!

Howard, excellent analysis. I appreciate you articulating the seriousness of these various threats to the NBA.

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Alfred Hitchcock's Greatest Films to Receive Best Physical Release to Date If you're a Hitchcock fan, you might want to get yourself a 4K player ASAP.

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Tonight’s game is to your point.

Welcome to the NBA’s Age of Chaos From 20-point leads to 60-win teams, nothing is guaranteed in today’s NBA. This isn’t parity or a coincidence—it’s something way more unruly.

No 20-point lead is safe. No 60-win team is secure. There’s a historic level of havoc around the Association. Welcome to the NBA’s Age of Chaos.

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Feels like 29 degrees on May 20. #Chicago

Long Drives and Short Homilies: How Father Bob Became Pope Leo

Remarkable life and preparation

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A Friday Night Massacre at the Pentagon Trump’s purge started with his firing of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top Navy officer, and the vice chief of the Air Force.

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy.

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“A republic…if you can keep it.”
—Benjamin Franklin

Happy St Valentines Day from Chicago

My favorite

“Who is more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?" — OW Kenobi

All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray
I've been for a walk on a winter's day
I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A.
California dreamin' on such a winter's day

Researchers detail Subaru's now-fixed web vulnerabilities that let them track millions of Subarus via its Starlink features in the US, Canada, and Japan (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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"By the end of the second century, Roman officials were not particularly aware of the nuances of Christian teaching, but they did know what the word 'bishop' meant—it meant someone who kept on agitating about the needs of the poor." –N.T. Wright

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The Getty Center, one of Los Angeles’s most renowned art museums, is now squarely in the mandatory evacuation zone as the Palisades fire’s footprint has grown. An active fire is about a half mile away, but the blaze is not threatening the museum’s main buildings. nyti.ms/3PwJWVC

Lakers coach JJ Redick talks about losing home in Palisades fire YouTube video by Los Angeles Times

Full video of JJ Redick's opening remarks about losing his home in Palisades fire
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A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
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How Barnes and Noble made a comeback by revitalizing its philosophy Last year, Barnes and Noble opened nearly 60 stores around the country and plans for 60 more to open in 2025. It’s the latest twist in a long-running saga for a company that’s been a bellwether for th...

Such an encouraging and exciting development.

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Some aspects of life may dull us, but then others sharpen us up if we’ll just let them. And then when I think about it all a bit more, I realize that our days are best when we use our inner wisdom to give them a point. Happy Sharpening!

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The Atlantic Beefs Up Politics Coverage Under Trump The magazine is recruiting from a crosstown rival, The Washington Post, to bolster its political staff.

The Atlantic is preparing to hire roughly a dozen new reporters and editors to beef up its politics coverage as President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.

The magazine is recruiting from a crosstown rival, The Washington Post, to bolster its political staff.

Rick Steves Refuses to Get Cynical About the World (Gift Article) The guidebook writer and television personality reflects on his cancer diagnosis, social media’s corrosive effect on tourism and the transformative power of travel.

Excellent interview. The video is even better.

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Thoughtful and affecting perspective.

Jimmy Carter, 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100, his son says The tenacious Southerner was turned out of office after one term. But he had a brilliant post-presidential career as a champion of health, peace and democracy.

Breaking news: Jimmy Carter, a no-frills and steel-willed Southern governor who was elected president in 1976, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, according to his son. He was 100 and the oldest living U.S. president of all time.