A failed coup is so embarrassing.

Dear NBA,

I KNOW it is all about the money and you don’t care about our convenience, but this having to use 3 different streaming services to watch playoff games each night is, (and I say this with all the love I can for the game,) complete horseshit.

Can’t do it until June at this point

This is the current NYT description of the latest incidents in the Straight of Hormuz. How is this sufficient reporting for the Paper of Record?

Trump and FIFA Have Already Broken the 2026 World Cup Travel bans, ICE fears, and astronomical costs are ruining the tournament before it begins—not that Trump or Gianni Infantino care.

“For Trump and his administration, the World Cup is an opportunity not so much to launder his unsavory reputation as to embrace it: to take center stage as a global strongman. For Infantino and FIFA, it is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rake in a fortune…”

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The Blazers are in the playoffs? Why?

And a car could drive the route faster. That’s not the point of a marathon though.

Cops are such losers

Using the one loss to mask the draws that let them catch up doesn’t really fool anyone. Blowing the league three seasons in a row is embarrassing.

It’s genuinely impressive how this Arsenal team has blown title leads over and over. Won’t even be known as overachievers but as an era of players that collapsed every spring.

Everything sucks

It does, especially if you’re going from not exercising much to doing that. If you include some incline during the walking, it’s even more effective.

Turned that Arsenal game off. I don’t need to die from stress today.

If West Ham wins tomorrow, they may as well start preparing for next season down there

The man has been at the center of supporting Israel and punishing anyone who calls them out for their apartheid and genocidal campaign. Because he believes that the US must support Israel through thick and thin because Palestine was supposedly promised to Israelis. How is that defensible?

Is this supposed to be better?

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“Clayton isn’t a bushy-tailed young naif but a greying fixer. Those conspiracies that our heroes uncover in The Firm and Antitrust? That’s the kind of thing Clayton is paid to cover up. He’s there to keep business orderly and functioning, one bribe, bail bond, or called-in favor at a time.”

Nearly all of them. Once you get over the “insider stories” part, there’s nothing left. They’re not good conversationalists, not many insights, and they lean on having hot/provocative opinions like the worst journalists do. At the end, it all becomes about personal beefs.

It’s not the case that Trump “got pulled into” attacking Iran any more than Netanyahu “tricked” or “played” Biden. To put it this way denies that most of our Beltway foreign policy actors, both parties, have deeply internalized Israel’s perspective and interests. That’s an American pathology, on us.

No. I was talking about the game they lost.

Wolves love getting close and then making some silly mistakes to go further behind the Nuggets

New York: Come see me talk with the brilliant @zeets.bsky.social about my new book, American Men, on Tuesday.

As someone who has worked a lot in advertising, it’s also not really worth it. But the money needs to go somewhere and right now it’s towards non-traditional methods.

One of the funniest days on the internet. Him asking the audience to contact his cousin because his phone was dying was perfect cinema.

Come if you’re in NYC

It's the VCs that bought the rights to SI's brand way back when.

Full LinkedIn Brain in effect.

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Genuinely insane

So Sports Illustrated is grifting off World Cup tickets?

Palestine FA officials denied entry to Canada for Fifa pre-World Cup meeting Officials from the Palestine Football Association have been denied entry to Canada ahead of a pre-World Cup meeting of Fifa’s member associations to be held in Vancouver this month

Members of the Palestine FA have been denied visas to enter Canada for the pre-World Cup FIFA Congress on April 30 in Vancouver. These meetings of FIFA's member associations are the main platform the Palestinian FA use to officially raise the issue of illegal Israeli settlement clubs.