Jaden McDaniels, deadpan delivery, on what worked for the Timberwolves offensively.
Jaden: “Go at Jokic, Jamal, all the bad defenders. Tim Hardaway, Cam Johnson, Aaron Gordon, their whole team.”
Q: They’re all bad defenders?
Jaden: “Yeah, they’re all bad defenders.”
Nikola Jokic, in Game 2.
w/ Rudy Gobert on the floor: 1-for-8, 4 points
w/ Rudy Gobert off the floor: 7-for-12, 20 points
Largest comeback wins in Wolves playoff history (since 1997):
- Down 20 in Game 7 vs Denver in 2024
- Down 19 vs Denver tonight
personally while "force majeure" was on the bingo cards I wasn't expecting to see phrases like "piracy" or "letters of marque" in contemporary discourse quite this much. maybe there's still hope for me to try out a swashbuckling era as a privateer
If you read one piece today, make it this one:
-Crops ready to be harvested last week are rotting in fertile fields
-Entire industrial clusters have been shut down for weeks
-Air travel...veered toward chaos. 92,000 flights canceled worldwide
GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...
New euphemism for "pure, unadulterated horseshit" just dropped
I'm pretty tuned into Democratic politics and I have never in my life heard anyone ever use the phrase "justice involved population."
But thank you for now vouching for the existence of that phrase and letting Fox News do a thousand pieces about it.
yeah it is critical that dems win the senate
the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system
ICYMI: I put out a bunch of Wolves-Nuggets preview stuff
Podcasts with @yoleo.bsky.social and Jace Frederick over at @twowordspod.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
A series preview over at @canishoopus.bsky.social with player quotes from this week: www.canishoopus.com/timberwolves...
that they are freaking out this badly over a surtax on second homes worth more than five million dollars - the most excessive rich person thing imaginable, which doesn’t even affect most of them - really makes it clear how little attention you need to pay to the freak outs
Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"
whale head. raccoon penis. it's glaringly obvious that rfk jr is assembling some sort of Super Animal... and i fear he may soon acquire flamingo legs
Over the past week, the president posted an image of himself as Jesus, the vice president challenged the pope on Catholic doctrine, and the secretary of defense quoted the speech of a fictional hit man and presented it as scripture.
conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences
ChatGPT is a website. Claude is a website. I will never respect a website. You cannot convince me to treat LLMs as anything different to any other technology. If a website only gets things right sometimes, it's a bad website. I will not be told otherwise.
www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never...
The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2090...
So let’s have universal health care and help people live in dignity.
i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan
I’m glad that he’s showing what (white) American Christianity is really about. The thirst for domination and power to the point of blasphemy. They’ve been calling him the chosen one, an avatar of God, because he allows them to hate marginalized people. He can do this because they won’t abandon him.
This is a great illustration of @larryglickman.bsky.social's point about how "backlash" framing lets the right play the victim.
I predict tomorrow Leavitt will say something like “The President was joking. He has an amazing sense of humor.” Followed by Trump being like “No, I am Christ.”
"How would you help advance the President’s Executive Orders and policy priorities?" has been a standard question for new federal job applicants since Trump changed federal hiring policies.
Hope that makes you feel better about air travel.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-politi...
Doris Burke with some kind words for @markjonesespn.bsky.social who is calling his last game for ESPN tonight
Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.
Let this also be a lesson to doomers and anarchists that democracies can in fact pull themselves back from the brink, even when authoritarians rig the game.
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
the funny thing about sending jd vance out to do sensitive diplomatic negotiations is he has literally no experience. like, none whatsoever. he doesn't even have related experience in lawmaking or some executive role.
JD Vance, are you free in October
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
