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@TheCursiveU @SacHornetsNat @ESPN_BillC @RealCoachCarter I thought that was UMass “home” finale. They actually had another home game against Bowling Green two weeks later.

@NicholsSB90 @SacHornetsNat @ESPN_BillC @RealCoachCarter To be technical, that was the tenth game -

espn.com/college-footba… Really well written article by @ESPN_BillC SAC is projected to finish second to last in the MAC, ahead of only UMass. Can Coach @RealCoachCarter and staff prove them wrong? I think if everything swings right, there’s a 7-8 win team here.

@marcjoffe The “New” CA Dream is actually a dreadful nightmare!

A 43 year old expects to retire before the transit agency completes Valley Link between Mountain House and Dublin/Pleasanton. He's now resigned to a tough commute for the rest of his career. Yet another case of rail construction delays and cost overruns in the Bay Area.

@marcjoffe “Plan B” for Silicon Valley involves making a phone call to United Van Lines

Let's face it: Mahan is not going to make the top 2. So what's Silicon Valley's Plan B? Hopefully you've now realized that you can't be in a coalition with public employee unions and anti-progress decels.

@ZavalaA @BillMelugin_ Not a surprise! The 60 Minutes piece 2 1/2 weeks ago on CA HSRA stated that Governor Newsom had repeatedly denied requests to speak with 60 Minutes. Governor Newsom regularly runs to get in front of a camera at every opportunity, chose to run away 60 minutes on HSRA!

NEW: We were hoping to interview California High-Speed Rail CEO Ian Choudri today about issues with his business plan, but it’s not happening. He wanted to limit what we ask, banning questions about issues that came up about him in February. We would not agree to those terms.

@MattRexroad So Pomona College did not want get “USC’d” with allegations of racism if they had a higher polling threshold???

Not a single undecided voter out there wants to know what Tony Thurmond has to say.

@SacHornetsNat I remember in a four-game span Lavrenov averaged > 21 points and almost 10 rebounds per game. He credited Mike Bibby and Brad Miller for his significant improvement. This is a loss!

Inexcusable on so many fronts. 😔

@Zigmanfreud @realarmaansidhu Ask ABC News and George Stephanopoulos how using the phrase “liable for rape” went for them? bbc.com/news/articles/…

@realarmaansidhu Dude, a civil verdict with BS evidence in ancient case in a liberal jurisdiction against a controversial political figure is completely irrelevant.

The "rapist" framing has legal grounding. A New York federal jury in May 2023 found Trump civilly liable for sexual abuse against E. Jean Carroll. Judge Lewis Kaplan later issued a clarification stating the jury's findings meant Trump had, in legal effect, raped her. So the "rapist" framing in mainstream media is not invented. It tracks an actual federal court finding. Calling that "knowingly false" requires rejecting the federal court finding, which most legal analysts wouldn't endorse. The "pedophile" framing is harder to source. There's no court finding supporting it. Mainstream Democratic figures and legacy media have generally not used that specific term. The framing traces to fringe online speculation, Epstein-era associations, and rumors that have not been substantiated by credible reporting. The accountability is real. The accountability is also distributed. The "media incited this" framing wants concentrated accountability on a single actor. The actual mechanism is distributed across multiple actors over multiple years. That's harder to attack rhetorically. It's also closer to what actually happened.

@stevenmaviglio @CAgovernor It is not as though a California Governor has any control over Caltrans . . . oh wait. #GovernorFeckless

The power of the bully pulpit @CAgovernor style

@AllenSmythee67 @ChrisCillizza Additionally, after 6 months after being sworn-in to office, a CA Governor (or any CA State Constitutional Officer) can be recalled. A Republican Governor would be removed in CA (60-40 Dem advantage) w/in 12 months.

The utter lack of interest in Porter is striking

@marcjoffe So your socially conservative friends are pro-STD?

I know this may not appeal to my socially conservative friends here, but I think we should all welcome the decline in STDs in San Francisco due to the greater availability of antibiotics.

@Zigmanfreud @realDonaldTrump “He looks like a doctor in this, as well!”

Has @realDonaldTrump shared this hilarious “Strait of Hormuz Toll Booth” AI video yet? Because, if he sees it, I’m pretty sure he will… 😂👏

@Zigmanfreud @nytimes @TheAthletic Yes, the same guy who on Netflix compared the NFL Combine & Draft process to a Southern Antebellum Slavery Auction. As we all know for US History, African-Americans volunteered for slavery so they could make millions of dollars and drive BMW/Mercedes-Benz horse and buggies!

@nytimes @TheAthletic Biggest fraud of this kind in history…

From @TheAthletic: Ten years after Colin Kaepernick first drew national attention for taking a knee in protest during the national anthem, he is set to tell his life story in a memoir titled “The Perilous Fight.” nyti.ms/4txq1b3

@marcjoffe @HJTA @Lucid_Stew The Governor of California craves for attention at every turn, yet ducks “60 minutes” when the CA HRSA is the topic!

The 60 Minutes high-speed rail piece is pretty fair. Notable that Newsom refused an interview request. My biggest quibbles: Brightline West will not open for service in 2029. Best case per @Lucid_Stew is 2031. The current $126 billion CaHSR estimate pays for SF-LA in > 4hrs.

@Thefactsdude @CollinRugg Braasch took these matches so seriously he drank and smoked openly during both sets and later admitted he played horribly.

@CollinRugg “In 1998, Serena and Venus Williams lost to Karsten Braasch, a male player ranked outside the top 200, in a "Battle of the Sexes" exhibition. Braasch, ranked 203rd, defeated Serena 6-1 and Venus 6-2.” Science 🧪

NEW: Former women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe appears to suggest there is no scientific evidence that men are better than women at sports. The comment came as Rapinoe raged against the IOC's decision to only let women play in women's sports. It is worth noting that the United States women's national soccer team, which Rapinoe played on, previously got beaten by an under-15 boys team. H/t: @libbyemmons

@Zigmanfreud Was there a “3-iron” sticking out of a rear window???

Twice in five years Tiger Woods has been in near fatal car accidents where he was inexplicably driving alone, and in neither situation are we ever going to get even a rudimentary explanation for what really happened. Tiger’s actually very lucky to be uninjured in jail right now.

@calbulldog @ericswalwell Yes. In two Presidential Election Cycles (2020 & 2024), Harris never one a single delegate. Not-a-single-one, which is the same number as have I won and I have never run for any political office!

@ericswalwell That’s funny considering CalDems were the ones to force Biden out to EV replaced by Harris after Biden secured the votes necessary to win. So go ahead and gaslight us some more.

Steve Hilton sees only one path to victory: suppress the vote. He wants a rigged system just like his Dear Leader Trump. We can’t let him win.

@calbulldog @CAgovernor Thus, $2.02 more than the rest of the U.S.

@calbulldog @CAgovernor It is > that! US National Avg = $3.98 CA State Avg = $5.84 US National Avg includes CA which 11.4% of US National Drivers. Thus, CA State Avg. = $5.84 U.S. Nat’l Avg w/o CA = $3.82

Americans now have to pay a dollar more on average for a gallon of gas because of Donald Trump's war with Iran. But don't worry! Our beloved president is moving heaven and earth to make sure he...can golf all day at his private golf course this weekend.

@marcjoffe @Charles95684721 I would suggest a simple adjustment as the Cal Bears had a point guard named “Michael Chavez” who was lights out beyond the “Top-of-Key” in the early 80s.

@Charles95684721 Cesar Chavez Student Center about to go the way of Bolt Hall.

Cesar Chavez is getting me-tooed decades after his alleged abuse. I see a lot of street renamings and the elimination of a state holiday in California's future. wsj.com/us-news/cesar-…