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@IAPolls2022 This is the only thing giving republicans hope in 2028

Harvard Harris: Dem Primary Crosstabs Black Dems 🔵 Harris: 71% (+8) 🔵 Newsom: 15% (-8) 🔵 Pritzker: 5% 🔵 Shapiro: 4% 🔵 AOC: 3% —— White Dems 🔵 Harris: 41% (+10) 🔵 Newsom: 26% (-6) 🔵 Shapiro: 11% 🔵 Pritzker: 10% 🔵 AOC: 7% —— Hispanic Dems 🔵 Harris: 50% (+13) 🔵 Newsom: 23% (+2) 🔵 AOC: 11% (-13) 🔵 Shapiro: 8% 🔵 Pritzker: 5% —— Asian Dems 🔵 Harris: 50% (-4) 🔵 Shapiro: 16% (+1) 🔵 Newsom: 12% (-7) 🔵 AOC: 9% 🔵 Pritzker: 0% Harvard/Harris | 4/23-26 | (+/- vs Mar)

@MurphyKeith Say hello to Power 5 teams with losing records in the tourney

The thing no one wants and no one asked for is coming anyway. 💵

@slmandel @spurs8637 This makes it harder for bad teams to get better and incentivizes tanking to avoid the play-in

@spurs8637 With the insane amount it costs to go to an NBA game, the importance of making sure fans are seeing 2 teams try to win far outweighs anything else.

This is frankly kind of genius. Incentivizing teams to NOT finish at the bottom.

@ShamsCharania Mid teams will tank to stay out of the 7-8-9-10 spots and the bottom of the league will have little hope of ever getting better u less they hit the lottery, which will be harder now.

The "3-2-1 lottery" proposal, named to represent the number of lottery balls per team, would expand the lottery from 14 to 16 teams. Teams that do not qualify for the playoffs or play-in tournament but stay out of the relegation zone (spots four through 10) would receive three lottery balls each. Teams with a bottom-three record -- the relegation zone -- would have just two lottery balls but have a floor of the 12th pick while the rest of the 13 lottery teams could fall as far as the 16th pick. The 9th and 10th play-in seeds in each conference receive two lottery balls each while the losers of the 7-8 play-in games receive one lottery ball each. In addition, no team would be able to win the top pick in consecutive years or be able to win three consecutive top-five picks. Teams also would not be able to protect picks in the 12 to 15 slots going forward.

@Deadspin It’s going to be super ugly if they ever break up and I’m here for all of it

Thoughts on Paige’s statement about her relationship with Azzi Fudd?

@karol @EWErickson Trump calls people traitors all the time

"I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes." This would be a great time for Democrats to admit Trump is not actually a pedophile, rapist or traitor. Just telling the truth would go a long way to reducing the insanity.

@awfulannouncing Let’s be real. He’s not at counseling.

Peter Schrager walks back report that Mike Vrabel was in contact with Patriots during counseling awfulannouncing.com/nfl/peter-schr…

@PSchrags You mean the family he’s been cheating on for at least 6 years. Seriously, Peter?

Following up on the Vrabel report, it was my understanding that Coach Vrabel was going to be in contact with the staff via phone/text, but I've learned that in the end, both Vrabel and the team ultimately chose not to interrupt him and his family during Day 3 of the Draft.

@PokerGO After that fold, she should have to walk away from the table and get blinded out

Are you ever doing this with 6-3 like David Coleman just did??? Wow. Watch the U.S. Poker Open on PokerGO.com, live and on demand.

@AdamSchefter Translation: When Mike learned these pictures would be coming out he made up a story about going to counseling and went into hiding

Patriots’ statement on Mike Vrabel: “The New England Patriots fully support Mike Vrabel’s decision to prioritize his family first, as well as his own well-being. Mike has been open with us about his commitment to being the best version of himself for his family, this team and our fans, and we respect the steps he is taking to follow through on that commitment.   “We are confident in the leadership and communication Mike has established with our personnel staff throughout this pre-draft process. While he will not be present at the facility on Saturday, we know the draft evaluations are complete and Eliot Wolf and his personnel staff are prepared to execute our draft as planned this weekend.”

@MehekCooke @EWErickson Yep - The same guy who started the war, got it closed, and just paid $20 billion to reopen it. F’n genius.

Every foreign policy genius who spent a decade collecting paychecks to tell us Iran was untouchable just watched a real estate developer from Queens reopen the waterway that moves a third of the world's oil. The credential class should be embarrassed into silence.

@KitchenBites_ Perfect meal if you want to spend a weekend with your family in the hospital

Easy summer treat

@Iowa_Recruiting Also now she has to play with a bedazzled basketball

Objectively one of the worst decisions she could have made. Leave Iowa and presumably give up a starting spot in 2026-2027 to go to one of the bottom 4-5 teams in the conference

@BillSimmons Plus most games are still unwatchable

Staggeringly stupid and an unapologetic money-grab that will immediately make the league worse. You can’t just frantically add new teams like fast food franchises the moment you have a little success. We have 7 decades of evidence. Build slowly and smartly. This isn’t smart.

@RubinReport Reelecting Putin’s puppet, Orban, would be a terrible mistake.

Don’t make a terrible mistake, Hungary…

It’s amusing listening to @NHLBlackhawks announcers make execuses for this sorry ass team, down 7-2 in the 3rd.

@Hayesfawcett3 @HawkeyeReport @JakeNawrot He’ll go to the program with the biggest bag

Where should Elite 2027 QB Jake Nawrot go?

He’s the No. 2 QB in the 2027 Rivals300 on3.com/rivals/jake-na…

@FrankLuntz @karolineleavitt Just as the framers intended. One madman deciding the fate of the the world.

“The Iranian regime has until 8 p.m. Eastern to meet the moment and make a deal with the United States. Only the President knows where things stand and what he will do,” White House press secretary @KarolineLeavitt said in a statement. abcnews.com/International/…

@EWErickson Bookmark this tweet

The people who spent Easter weekend telling you the President was in the hospital have all moved on to tell you the President intends to use nuclear weapons.

@EWErickson After the madman nukes Iran what will you say then?

What's actually happening here is the President has embraced the "mad man" theory and is trying to convince the Iranians that he's willing to do whatever to wipe them out in hopes of getting a deal. The failure is that the President, like so many others, doesn't actually appreciate that the Iranians are mad men who live in a fundamentally religious world where they really do believe they are to wipe out Israel and their citizens are expendable. But no, this is not an unhinged President. It's a man playing a role as a negotiation tactic. Unfortunately, the President is going to be backed into a corner of extreme options by doing this, or be mocked for TACO again.