so EASY... the defense is perfectly set up to suit them as individual players... and the offense too!

I mean that pitch alone is crazy... you've got the best passer in the country; a top-10 athlete (who has become a terrific perimeter defender); 2 young but STRONG defenders with clear offensive roles... (and that doesn't include the bench shooters/athletes)...

Either of those guys would have it...

It pains me to think that MSU/Izzo are not saying to Massamba Diop or Moustapha Thiam:

"Come play here, we'll pay you good money, you get to play with Jeremy Fears (and Carlos Medlock - show like 5 mins of HS highlights), and you get to anchor a defense with Fears, Scott, Carr, Ward..."

Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.

Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”

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Ruddy Gogurt being a 4x DPOY is the biggest indictment of NBA award voters ever. Nothing will ever make up for the fact that this guy has 4 DPOYs...

It's a total sham and mockery of defense and winning basketball.

Murray and Jokic looking in terrific shape. That means the Nuggets are legit...

Gordon looking a bit heavy, but glad to see this group healthyish for this playoffs.

what a dope picture

ugh. awful... that would have been wonderful.

You should AT LEAST watch VTAK all the way through to pay homage to Duran Duran's SENSATIONAL theme song...

Octopussy is also worthy of watching because of the ****intense**** backgammon scene (lol) and because of the sheer audacity of casting Maud Adams as ANOTHER LEAD... like... really?

Coward!!! You haven't watched ALL of the Bond films MULTIPLE TIMES!?!?!?!?

It's just too painful. I can even enjoy the silliness

Remember this fuck when his name comes on the ballot.

DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states.

DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand.

My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases.

DOJ is now 0-5.

My firm is 5-0.

Lesson: When we fight we win.

Gonna save you some time, in case you've not seen each of them 10+ times as I have!

Good-to-great:

All of the Craig films
Dr. No
Goldeneye

Fun, but silly:

From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
You Only Live Twice
Thunderball
Live and Let Die
The Spy Who Loved Me
OHMSS

Unbearably bad:
the rest

MSU center targets based on my limited portal knowledge:

1) Moustapha Thiam
2) Massamba Diop

BIG GAP

3) Anton Bonke
4) Andrew McKeever

GAP

5) Baba Miller - wildcard, more of a 4

GAP

6) Christian Reeves
7) Arrinten Page
8) Drew Fielder
9) Eric Reibe
10) Franck Kepnang
11) Owen Freeman

I don't know, guys. The president started a war with no plan and crashed the world economy, is building immense monuments to himself, is making billions off the presidency, and is now attacking the Pope while presenting himself as Jesus. Maybe the political class should abandon the inside voice.

When did Joker go on GLP1s? Dude is fitter than he's ever been in his life, and he started the year like 40 lbs overweight!

The how did we get here has already been well documented by @thomaszimmer.bsky.social

How do we get out involves getting lucky and hoping the fascists have kind of gotten tired/bored so that they don't launch a FULL auto-coup paired with a November putsch...

I'm old enough to remember when this was called election interference.

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I'm old enough to remember when I was yelling into the Twitter void for the Warriors to trade for him when he went on the Spurs' block... super obvious high-level championship-contender-contributor...

I will never understand the Warriors FO choices over the last decade...

I also have zero understanding of the actual numbers these kids are getting and the 'internal salary cap' that MSU has for the hoops program this year.

I'm just laying out what needs to happen for the roster to compete for a national title.

If they keep all their kids, then they will be a top-10 team. If they get a legit center, then they will be a top-5 and maybe a title favorite team...

McCulloch will be viable, but Taylor is almost certainly a LONG way off. They NEED a center to really compete.

Ilan Wurman @ilan_wurman 🚨🚨🚨Columbia law professor Philip Hamburger just dropped an essay arguing that Trump is right about birthright citizenship. That now makes at least seven prominent law professors arguing to varying degrees that Trump’s EO is constitutional. Read about this development here: https://open.substack.com/pub/rationallybased/p/philip-hamburger-joins-the-birthright?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

SEVEN whole law professors?!

Here I was thinking that what mattered was every single judge who has ruled on the issue, 125+ years of accepted understanding of the 14th, and centuries of common law on the contours of jus soli. But if Ilan Wurman's side has SEVEN law professors, man, WOW. It's over.

There’s no such thing as “birthright citizenship for illegal aliens.”

The U.S. Constitution is abundantly clear that if you are born in the United States, you are a citizen. Trying to take away citizenship from Americans is not only extreme, but also unconstitutional.

I'm sure this won't come back to haunt several states

ANOTHER RUBICON HAS BEEN CROSSED...

NOT EVEN A FORMAL RECOGNITION OF THE INSTITUTIONAL PROCEDURES...

we'll see. this is the year to go all in and get some bonus money from Magic or Ishbia or someone...

To continue to distract from the fascists:

Top transfer fits for MSU:

1) Massamba Diop
2) Moustapha Thiam
3) Somto Cyril
4) Samet Yigitoglu
5) Aiden Sherrell
6) Arrinten Page
7) Bryson Tiller
8) Mouhamed Sylla
9) Najai Hines
10) Anton Bonke
11) Brandon Garrison
12) JP Estrella
13) Andrew McKeever

If I were a betting man, I would put a bunch of money on the US putting troops on the ground in Cuba before the midterms...