Gary A Brock

@LakersLead Opening a chain of high end sports jewelry stores might be the best way for him to get more rings going forward. James is the GOAT; unmatched in basketball and business. His call, he wins either way. Maybe now's the time to let his rich legacy stand as the history it is already.

Is there a move that guarantees LeBron a fifth ring? 💍

@DenShtilierman Slow learner much? For some reason nearly all our US legacy Republicans have the same cognitive issue. Here's a free clue: Trump's a player only for Team Russia and for himself as their top asset. 🙄

The only reason a parade was held in Moscow and we didn’t kill all the freaks who were on Red Square is because of Trump’s guarantee of a prisoner exchange. We value the lives of our Ukrainians above all else. But the exchange is in jeopardy because Putin stated: “On the eve of Victory Day, Kyiv made it clear that it is not ready for a prisoner exchange. No new proposals have been received.” Zelenskyy responded immediately: “The prisoner exchange – 1,000 for 1,000 – is being prepared and must take place. The Americans assumed responsibility for these guarantees. Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters has handed over the lists for one thousand POWs to the Russian side . There was American mediation in reaching this arrangement on the exchange, and accordingly, we expect the American side to play an active role in ensuring it’s fulfilled.” Trump must keep his promise and ensure this exchange. If the Ukrainians do not return home, there will be no point in us paying any further attention to the White House.

@SleeperLakers @Lakers @NBA Valiant

One word to describe this Lakers playoff run: _______

@Gerashchenko_en "I know y'all probably feeling hot about us killing your babies and old folks in their houses every day. We have no intention of stoppin' cause it's a big part of our terror campaign for your own good. But once a year we need a day of peace. Please don't ruin our big parade." 👍

Right before their "parade," the Russian foreign ministry sent an official diplomatic note to Ukraine, requesting Kyiv not to disrupt the "Victory Day" celebrations in Moscow. Putin confirmed this himself. There has never been a more absurd and pathetic diplomatic note in the history of international relations. The Kremlin then began pleading with China, India, and the United States to put pressure on Kyiv.

@VolodyaTretyak Not really necessary. Usually when radicals go too far against their own people the only protection they have left comes from security provided by the government they're protesting. Such problems take care of themselves sooner or later if/when that protection falters even once.

Vienna, Austria. 09.05.2026... Honestly, I think these symbols should be illegal in the EU countries... Do you agree? 🤔

@JayHrndz2 @nbasummer2025 @LeLukaShow LoL. Kennard's 18 points off the bench in round 2 game 3 of the NBA playoffs against the Thunder is a pretty impressive mouse by most standards.

@nbasummer2025 @LeLukaShow Luke Kennard turned into a mouse after they figured out how to game plan against him

Luke Kennard won us some playoff games, but I wonder if his defensive liability will cost him a contract w the Lakers. Rather keep Marcus and Rui over Luke. Will be hard to keep all 3

@LakersLead A better question is how to make fans happy with their already exceptional performance. If the NBA were just fairly competitive any particular team could only win once every thirty years. Reaching the playoffs and winning the 1st round deserve praise, not dismissal and a rebuild.

How can Rob Pelinka turn this into a contender this offseason?

@CrazyVibes_1 History is enduring; it doesn't recalibrate or change. It is the needs of interested parties able to fund historians and influence their careers that changes with time and circumstances to get scholars to craft opportunistic pro and counter narratives as cosmetic distortions.

On the morning of January 20, 1953, Harry S. Truman and his wife Bess climbed into their own Chrysler — paid for with their own money — and drove themselves out of Washington. No motorcade. No security caravan. No choreographed farewell meant to polish the record. The thirty-third President of the United States merged into ordinary traffic and headed back to Independence, Missouri — the same small town that had shaped him — carrying an approval rating near thirty-two percent and a widely shared media conclusion that his presidency had fallen short. Washington did not mourn his departure. Home offered no immediate redemption. Truman returned not to comfort but to constraint. His income came largely from a modest military pension — sufficient only if one defined “sufficient” generously. There was no speaking tour prepared, no corporate directorship, no financial cushion reserved for a former president. At one point, he took out a bank loan simply to bridge the distance between what he had and what daily life demanded. Congress noticed. Not out of sentiment, but out of unease. Watching a former commander-in-chief navigate visible financial strain unsettled even political opponents. In 1958, lawmakers passed the Former Presidents Act, establishing pensions and benefits for those who followed. The system exists because Truman’s reality made its absence impossible to ignore. He did not campaign for sympathy. He walked the streets of Independence every morning, as he always had. There was no Secret Service protection for former presidents yet, and he never requested special treatment. He answered his own telephone. He personally replied to thousands of letters. If someone wrote to him, he believed they deserved an answer from him. On his desk — now preserved in the Truman Library — sat the sign that defined his presidency: The buck stops here. The decisions that had damaged his popularity were not reconsidered. The Marshall Plan committed American resources to rebuilding Western Europe after World War II. Critics warned of excess and entanglement. The rebuilt Europe of the following decades offered its own rebuttal. The Truman Doctrine established the framework for containing Soviet expansion — a foreign policy architecture that would shape four decades of global strategy. Its consequences would be debated for generations. Its structure endured. In 1948, Truman signed Executive Order 9981, desegregating the United States military. Congress would not act. He did. The political cost was immediate and steep; Southern support fractured. He signed it anyway. In 1951, he dismissed General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur was not simply a general; he was a national icon. Removing him for publicly challenging civilian authority was politically perilous. Public backlash intensified. Mail poured in criticizing Truman. Approval numbers dropped further. He acted because the constitutional principle of civilian control of the military mattered more than personal standing. That principle outweighed applause. Truman accepted the cost without visible regret. History, unlike approval polls, operates on delay. In July 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson traveled to Independence — not for optics, but for acknowledgment. At the Truman Library, Johnson signed Medicare into law. Truman had proposed national health insurance in 1945. It had been rejected, attacked, and politically burdensome. Two decades later, the idea returned in workable form. Johnson handed the first two Medicare cards to Harry and Bess Truman. The gesture recognized continuity. The idea had begun with the man once dismissed as misguided. Time had altered the nation’s readiness, not the principle itself. Truman died on December 26, 1972, at eighty-eight. By then, the verdict of January 1953 had been revised. Presidential historians increasingly ranked him among the upper tier — not without noting mistakes, but with acknowledgment that the most controversial decisions had proven consequential and largely correct. He understood the distinction between popularity and necessity. The Marshall Plan. The Truman Doctrine. Desegregation of the armed forces. The removal of MacArthur. The early call for national health insurance. Individually, each was politically hazardous. Collectively, they reveal a presidency grounded in consequence over comfort. He left Washington in a Chrysler, approval in the thirties, carrying a bank loan. He spent nineteen years walking the same streets of Independence, answering his own phone, replying to letters himself, living quietly under a belief that character is measured most honestly when no audience is present. History recalibrated. It often does. Not quickly. Not loudly. But eventually, for those who chose what was necessary over what was easy, it arrives.

@Gerashchenko_en Having a higher order intelligence than homo sapiens hardly requires an extra terrestrial origin.

‼️Dear friends from the United States. Here in Ukraine, we are already surprised by very little. So tell us - when are the aliens scheduled to arrive? We need to prepare. Former U.S. Navy rear admiral and ex–Deputy Secretary of Commerce Timothy Gallaudet stated that Earth is being observed by a higher extraterrestrial intelligence whose intentions are unclear. In an interview with Free Press, he said he participated in naval exercises during which UFOs were observed. He also made the same claims under oath before Congress. According to Gallaudet, encounters with aliens will become “the story of the century or the millennia.” “We're being visited by some type of higher order intelligence that we don't understand, and we don't even know their intentions. And it's happening often, frequently, and in our airspace, waterspace,” Gallaudet said. He added that encounters with extraterrestrial intelligence occur far more frequently than people realize.

@IAPonomarenko The USSR victory over Nazi Germany belongs to Ukraine just as much as to Russia. Fair is fair. Ukraine should absolutely join the parade to show off their current gear. Perhaps a brave flyover swarm to greet the VIPs as Putin cowers in his bunker from the wrath of justice. 🚀💥🙏

If you ever feel pathetic, just remember that in 2026 the mighty invincible superpower Russia was calling the President of the United States to arrange a one-day ceasefire with Ukraine for May 9 -- because Putin is now too afraid to step out in the open under Ukrainian drones and hold his usual bloodlusing militaristic show on Red Square.

@Gerashchenko_en Awkward when the chief mentor of your country's leader is also the world's arch enemy. 🇺🇲😔

President Trump and Putin had a phone call. According to Putin's aide, the call lasted 1,5 hours. Reportedly, they discussed international issues, including the situation around Iran. Putin "thinks a ceasefire is the right thing" - Ushakov. President Trump said that a peace deal with Ukraine is close. Allegedly, Putin suggested a ceasefire on May 9, supported by Trump.

@LALMuse @DanWoikeSports So Kennard was a basketball god to Hayes growing up, much like LeBron was for Kennard, and now they're all three together on the Lakers playing alongside LeBron's son. Wow. Respect all around! 🏀🤯

Jaxson Hayes said that he and his teammates would drive 40 miles to watch Luke Kennard play when they were in high school, per @DanWoikeSports Games were sold out because of the star of “LukeMania” and it caused Luke’s high school to move games to college arenas 🤯

@AULaw24 @AdamKinzinger @hissgoescobra Not sure you do. Seems a lot like you're still intent on prioritizing your own values while dismissing theirs.

@GaryABrock @AdamKinzinger @hissgoescobra Got it, but it should probably be deemphasized rather than turned into a reignition of the deep distrust that many Jews used to have for Ukrainians and vice versa

Israel is risking losing some of the friends that have stuck with them over the Ukraine issue. A self goal that is totally insane unless there is something else at play, something nefarious

@AULaw24 @AdamKinzinger @hissgoescobra This isn't just about resource logistics or finances for Ukraine. They are protective and proud of their grain not simply for it's commercial value but because to them it has become highly symbolic of abundant life, of unrestrained freedom, and of harmony with the natural world.

@AdamKinzinger @hissgoescobra No, I really don’t think so. Quite frankly if you’re sticking with Israel over Gaza and you’re excusing European countries for indirect buying Russian oil through India this is pretty minor. It’s just kind of an easy way for people to bash Israel.

@mischkaFfm @KaterynaLis Stalin and his inner circle caused the famine to solidify their control; taking all the food from it's many victims to accelerate their deaths. The US "caused" nothing about the Holodomor except for turning a blind eye along with the rest of the west and the world in general. 🙄

You should also understand Ukrainian psychology - grain is deeply sacred to Ukrainians, especially since the Holodomor. Trading with Russia using stolen Ukrainian grain is not only illegal and financially fuels Russia’s war - it is also deeply offensive to the Ukrainian nation.

@grok @TangoRedDevil @Joelmpetlin @ZelenskyyUa We all knew this would happen. The beta period is over and rent extraction continues to expand. 👀

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In any normal country, purchasing stolen goods is an act that entails legal liability. This applies, in particular, to grain stolen by Russia. Another vessel carrying such grain has arrived at a port in Israel and is preparing to unload. This is not – and cannot be – legitimate business. The Israeli authorities cannot be unaware of which ships are arriving at the country’s ports and what cargo they are carrying. Russia is systematically seizing grain on temporarily occupied Ukrainian land and organizing its export through individuals linked to the occupiers. Such schemes violate the laws of the State of Israel itself. Ukraine has taken all necessary steps through diplomatic channels to prevent such incidents. However, we see that yet another such vessel has not been stopped. I have instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to inform all partners of our state about the situation. Based on information from our intelligence services, Ukraine is preparing a relevant sanctions package that will cover both those directly transporting this grain and the individuals and legal entities attempting to profit from this criminal scheme. We will also coordinate with European partners to ensure that the relevant individuals are included in European sanctions regimes. Ukraine counts on partnership and mutual respect with every state. We are genuinely working to enhance security, particularly in the Middle East region. We expect that the Israeli authorities will respect Ukraine and refrain from actions that undermine our bilateral relations.

@twit_grim @KaterynaLis Yes, who only found a sympathetic ear for his story in Hearst, a rare independent minded California publisher in the US.

@GaryABrock @KaterynaLis He was a Welsh reporter.

@Dovydas44444 True but misleadingly generous. We have no coherent strategy in Iran period. 🇺🇲

🇩🇪German Chancellor Merz: 🇺🇸US has “no exit strategy” in 🇮🇷Iran. Is this true: A) Yes; B) No?

@LADEig Probably another best of 4, but it's OK to hope. 👍

The Thunder have swept the Suns and move onto the second round 👀 If the Lakers beat the Rockets on Wednesday night, they’d fly to OKC and take on the defending champs in a best of 7 🏆

@RusNuclearPowah @KaterynaLis Unfortunately, Russia's official "archives" lack much in objectivity; often they are merely politically crafted narratives designed to please your elites and suppress the more unpleasant truths of history. Russia is not alone in this but it is one of the most notorious offenders.

@GaryABrock @KaterynaLis being open minded isn't about watching movies about historical acts. glad to hear that u've read our classic literature and if u get the point, we are don't like the lies about us. I hope u will learn history not from tv or YouTube, but will find out it by reading archives