Luther Broadsword

The decision by the Virginia Supreme Court to overturn the will of more than three million voters will not stand.

@JudiciaryDems @SeniaVJ

This is what the Supreme Court conservative supermajority just enabled.

@illini0311 Relax. Jakucionis signed in late May and Riley signed late June. It's mid-April.

Just weird that we were told retention/ Blackwell and Vaaks. To now: teams set and we spent a lot of money. I sound like a broken record but I really feel like this team is one more addition away from being the clear cut national title contender heading into the season.

@CollegeHoopsTIk Blackwell would be poison for this team. This offense doesn't need a traditional point.

Illinois could never let Andrej Stojakovic go after his tournament performance. But missing out on Blackwell is a killer for the Illini, as it’s a huge risk to bring back the entire core without a proven point option. Quentin Coleman could be great or he could be Skyy Clark.

@DrJStrategy Blah blah blah…and you’re dumb. Here’s the real answer to the problem.

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@dandakich @wischlist

@wischlist Ok

Just stop Henson was cheating his ass off - new cars from a dealership in Decatur Illinois (actually players paid $1) - new furniture for parents - bags of money for high school coaches to be shared w Illini recruits These former Illinois players whining is jackassery Pearl caught the lying ass players and coaches Ps.. a family member was a football All Big 10 player at Illini during this time and told me about the cars/cash etc - 2 HS coaches of the “Flying Illini” told me about the cash/furniture - everyone knew about Henson paying Sonny Cox and the Simeon guys etc Enough already Grow the f up You got caught Quit whining

@ryanfico @nickbateman33 50/50 going to title game? Bold take! 😂

@nickbateman33 I would give Illinois a 50-50 chance of going to the title game. But I would personally have them as a 10 point underdog to either Michigan or Arizona. Then again, if they can defend like they have been during the tournament and have a hot shooting night, they could pull it off.

THE FINAL 4 IS OFFICIALLY SET cbbanalytics.com data goes back to 2019, and since then every single Final 4 team has been in the top right quadrant of The Very Important Graph™️ Iowa was *barely* top right all tournament long, but they lost the REB+TO differential battle 40-26 against Illinois and fell just below the line UConn over Duke was surprising given Duke's dominance in this metric all year, but then again so was Iowa over Florida + this is March + UConn is still comfortably top right Illinois has a very real shot at winning the whole thing and nobody is giving them a chance right now This is the last time I'll be posting the graph until next season, good luck to the remaining fanbases 🤝

@Coach__Strick Hopefully all the boozer twin commercials are over now.

I hate to be that guy, but he did point ahead to the WIDE OPEN guys ahead. I get why, and a lot of us might do the same. Hard to know unless you’ve been in that situation. But yes, you haven’t coached until that 💩 happens to you or someone you know

@Tim_Walz You mean the Embezzlement Fund?

The White House is cutting off $250 million for Minnesotans health care.

@tobias_bass @Ani_Umana @VerbalCommits @DanielPoneman @CoachGeorge4 @JUCOadvocate @PDTScouting ————vic???

Filip Malesevic — one of Serbia’s top prospects—is exploring college options. The 20-year-old 7’4 center averaged 7.4 points and 7.0 rebounds for FMP Beograd (ABA), the same pro league as Euroleague clubs Red Star Partizan. Malesevic will quickly become a priority target for programs in need of an instant impact big. He will be repped by @WEAVE for NIL youtu.be/esM_D0vqb5c?si…

@smharrington24 Don't sleep on Penn

The Illini leave the Midwest, but get the best possible 6/11 matchup. UNC is without their best player, and VCU was not a tourney team without winning their conference tournament. What does everyone think?

@BuckSexton Encino Man

What is the worst movie you ever saw in a theater? I'll go first: Magnolia (Honorable mentions: Ferrari, Vanilla Sky, Jury Duty, AI)

@JJWatt $0 I have no idea who I’m tipping or for what. Would be nice if they had a sign or something that told you where they tip went or even if the business is passing it along.

Genuine question on a restaurant situation: You walk up to a counter to order. You find your own table and seat yourself. If you order coffee, they hand you a cup and you go fill it up yourself. If you order food, they hand you a buzzer and when it goes off, you go pick it up yourself. The iPad has a “20%, 25%, 30%, Other” tip option, with 20% already preselected. What’s your move?

@TheHoopHerald He’ll be first B1G POY to serve jail time since Scott Skiles.

This dude’s story is unreal • Cut from the team in Middle School • Made team in 9th grade • Played just 11 games of Varsity Basketball in HS due to bad grades • JUCO • UAB • Michigan - Big 10 POY JUST. KEEP. WORKING.

@JWerner247 Yaxel will be the first POY to serve jail time since Scott Skiles.

Michigan's Yaxel Lendeborg is the Big Ten Player of the Year. He was my vote too. The stats weren't typical of a BPOY, but anyone who watched Michigan, saw how big of an impact he made in all areas of winning for a dominant champion. I had Wagler 2nd and Fears 3rd.

@CSayf23 Line moved

Illinois is a 1.5-point favorite over Michigan Friday night in Champaign, per @BetMGM. The over/under is 158.5 points. Thoughts?

@BillClinton @donnabrazile Hurt people, hurt people. You’re a guilty piece of shit.

As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing—I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals.

@elonmusk Pirates on the water…

You’d think someone would at least check to see if there is something wrong with water 🙄

@OdellBretthamJr Jeremy Fears will get ejected in second round and Sparty will be done, seeding won’t matter.

Michigan State has wins against Kentucky, North Carolina, Arkansas, Illinois, and Purdue and is considered a 4 seed while the team we beat last night has a signature win against Alabama from November and is considered a 2 seed

@amuse @RealJamesWoods States the leaders in gaggle represent-SD, WY, OK. DJT total votes nationwide: 77,303,568 SD: DJT votes: 272,081 WY: DJT votes: 192,633 OK: DJT votes: 1,036,213 1.94% of Trump’s total 2024 votes came from SD, WY, and OK combined.

@RealJamesWoods Feels like they don’t care what we want.

The SAVE Act is the single most important issue to 95% of Republican voters. If you can’t pass it with a majority in the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court and a Republican President, then somebody owns your ass, buddy. Who owns John Thune?