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@dpbrugler @BruceFeldmanCFB Def not too early for this. Will there be a “where would Arch want to go?” Looking at your bottom 10 teams, there doesn’t seem to be a desirable destination. Maybe the Rams say to the Cards, here’s Ty Simpson and picks, Arch wants to come to LA 🤔 cc @PSchrags

Way-too-early 2027 Mock Draft (I think this group will live up to the hype) nytimes.com/athletic/72343…

@laurylsilvers @DannyAustin_9 @NoJetsTO Thanks for sharing!

@archburner @DannyAustin_9 Follow @NoJetsTO they have all the data and all the implications of the plan.

This isn’t something any of my followers will care about, but it’s my home so I’m going to say it: Doug Ford’s plan for the Toronto Islands Airport is a complete and utter disaster. It cannot be allowed to happen. It is horrific.

@wreck_it_ryder @Shouldnotbeonx @DannyAustin_9 It’s not exactly a “select few” though, right? 1.5 million visitors to the island. 2.5 million travellers going through the airport currently.

@archburner @Shouldnotbeonx @DannyAustin_9 It would cause increased traffic on the already gridlocked Gardiner and Lakeshore. Plus when the science centre and spa are done the area will be packed with traffic. Handing over public space that all can enjoy for a private endeavour that benefits a select few isn’t great.

@Shouldnotbeonx @DannyAustin_9 I mean, I prefaced this by saying I haven’t fully formed an opinion on this. But isn’t that how people form opinions, weighing both sides of an argument which is what I’m doing?

@archburner @DannyAustin_9 Typical chud making determinations on whether or not things personally affect *you*

@Shouldnotbeonx @DannyAustin_9 Mostly because whether or not that park exists, I’ve never used it and not sure I ever would? Larger airport, I’d most certainly use. Losing the park would disenfranchise the say 1,000 people who have homes on the island and 1.5 million who visit per year. Can I live with that?

@archburner @DannyAustin_9 He’s paving over one of the increasingly few public waterfront parks to put in a bigger and busier airport and parking lot. What do you mean you haven’t formed an opinion?

@gothburz @AnnieJacobsen Just one edit: “They moved the Vice President…and then the President, the First Lady 20 seconds later, through the east corridor in under ninety seconds”

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired. The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass. A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed. Everything else was improvised. I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76. What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation. I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one. She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure. The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet. The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent. That's priority. The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago. A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced. That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details. I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column. I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously. 188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken. A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

@therealmcnair Arnie, (whispering) where do we stand on performance fabric vs cotton hats?

You sign to hit a few balls after work this week. Office to course to clubhouse.

@LargeFamDad I mean, there’s a set of guys that wanted that kid life and the stars just didn’t align for them. It happens. Spend time with friends kids to enjoy a few of those moments when you can, but it will never be the same unfortunately

My boss's boss is like 42, never married, no kids. Earns $275-300K per year. Goes on a minimum of two international vacations a year w/ his girlfriend. 10+ days, all out. Eats the best food, stays in top notch accomodations. Excursions, tours, nicest beaches, etc. Great guy, I'm happy for him. But what I've realized is that without kids, you end up chasing a lifestyle that has to continually be topped in order for you to be satisfied and find happiness. What he and others like him don't understand is that when you have children, seeing THEM experience life's most basic things and watching their eyes light up at all the "firsts", brings greater pleasure and joy than any vacation or travel experience ever could. Seeing THEM try blueberries for the first time is greater than dining at the best 5 star restaurant in Europe. Seeing THEM learn how to walk is greater than walking the Great Wall of China or strolling along the most picturesque beach. Watching THEM giggle uncontrollably at "peek-a-boo" tops any A-list comedian act. Seeing THEIR excitement when building a fort out of cardboard boxes and making a door big enough for daddy is superior to staying at 5-star resorts. Flying kites with THEM far outweighs excursions like parasailing or helicopter rides. Seeing THEM perform a recital on stage for the first time is more rewarding than watching a Broadway show or top notch symphony orchestra. ----------------- When you have children, all of a sudden you realize that life's greatest joys are not in the pursuit of things or pleasure or travel, but rather in the LOVE and bond you share with your very own image bearers. Seeing the beauty and magnificence and wonder of life all over again for the first time through THEIR eyes and expressions gives you something the world simply cannot offer, nor even come close.

@AnnieJacobsen CNN needs someone from ESPN to break down the tape and talk about the Secret Service’s response. Vance ripped off of stage by his detail. Trump’s detail took 10 seconds to get to him and just kinda waited to see what was going on? Am I wrong in thinking this seemed too slow?

This is what the Counter Assault Team (CAT) looks like.👇 CAT origin story / expansion: attempted assassination of President Reagan. Read: SURPRISE, KILL, VANISH

@yashar CNN needs someone from ESPN to break down the tape and talk about the Secret Service’s response. Vance ripped off of stage by his detail. Trump’s detail took 10 seconds to get to him and just kinda waited to see what was going on?

Wild. For an event with many of the top figures in the presidential line of succession in attendance!

@jaketapper Jake, after reporting from the last 2 weeks is it not logical to ask Kash Patel if he’d been drinking at the dinner tonight?

President Trump releases photos and a video of the security event tonight at the WHCA Dinner. Grateful the president and all other attendees are OK. Thanks to the US Secret Service and law enforcement for their quick actions tonight’s

@WashTimes 10 second response time by the secret service, to be clear

“Shots fired,” screamed the Secret Service agents. President Trump and Cabinet members were escorted out of the main ballroom by the Secret Service and the U.S. Marshals.

@RoguePOTUSStaff I mean, it’s logical to wonder if secret service protocol changed between what happened in Butler, PA and today. The difference in response was striking.

We are just minutes after a shooting at the WHCA dinner, and already nut jobs are spouting conspiracy theories about it being staged by Trump for sympathy. Shame on all of you saying it, shame on anyone thinking it.

@allenanalysis Ding ding ding

Is this one real? The Secret Service's reaction time compared to Butler is way off. Makes you think 🤔

@yyzsportsmedia Can’t wait to hear the Team PR staff, sorry I meant Insiders, talk about how they knew who was being interviewed the whole time once a hire is made

In talking to people this week, I don’t entirely believe we actually have heard who the real candidates are to lead the Maple Leafs….

@ProFootballTalk “…will also represent a sizeable tax break given I’m about to receive a $36 million dollar signing bonus from the Raiders”

Fernando Mendoza launches foundation to support multiple sclerosis research. nbcsports.com/nfl/profootbal…

@MurrayHillGuy1 Getting lectured on not eating hungover McDonalds from a friend who straight up abused their body the night before is always rich

The guy who does blow every weekend and drinks 20 beers/shots is afraid to do peptides Make it make sense?

@DesolatedMrBond @MikeRGlenn Great points here

@MikeRGlenn One would assume that the majority of them worked for Osato Chemicals, so orders like jump suits and HR 🤣 would probably still fall under Osato not Spectre lol

I was watching the James Bond movie, "You Only Live Twice," and noticed all the people working in Blofeld's volcano lair. I was wondering if the place had a cafeteria for the employees. What about all the jump suits? Who had the contract to supply them? Is there an HR Department?

@MikeRGlenn Was HR located onsite or offsite? Key question as who is going to disburse final paycheques after the staff was essentially eliminated by Bond and the Japanese secret police