John W Stodder Jr

Trump and Musk will pull out all the stops to bury Joe Biden’s economic triumph, including arresting Biden and his top economic aides. But even against Musk’s corrupt spending, facts are stubborn things.

@mcbyrne @HaleyforMI Haley taking a big lead in the polls has really thrown El-Sayed's fans for a loop.

The behavior of @HaleyforMI team this past week shows she is not up to the task.

@DB0ii69 @CivNationalist @mattyglesias Well, obviously it's a good one, because instead of challenging the facts, you did laugh emojis, the surest sign of losing an argument. Seriously, who else? Who else has DSA even managed to elect?

@johnstodder @CivNationalist @mattyglesias 😂😂😂 Thats your counter?

AES says that unlike Haley Stevens he has retired people's medical debt, but he did that with money from federal legislation she helped pass!

@adamjohnsonCHI just checked and yep the 1st Amendment applies to Tanden. It's not "lobbying" to give opinions. You're speaking loosely, trying to turn around a bad week for your candidate but you should consider whether the fake rule you want to impose on Tanden might come back to bite you.

Neera Tanden runs the most influential Dem think tank in the country, CAP, and spends all day actively lobbying for one side of a Dem primary and working to drive up the negatives of one of the candidates. If she’s going to explicitly electioneer she needs to disclose CAPs donors

@DB0ii69 @CivNationalist @mattyglesias That's one. Are there two?

@CivNationalist @mattyglesias Keep trying loser. Progressives do way more for people than your bullshit politicians ever will

@APH00PS I could be wrong, but I think Adam Silver is the boss of the NBA. One management tool often used by good managers is called "setting deadlines." This would've been a good time to use that tool.

A whole meeting of the Board of Governors took place today and the only new information we got about the Kawhi Leonard investigation from Adam Silver following that is: 1. It’s been going on too long 2. Both teams knew what might happen 3. Wants it to end before next season

@Clipper_Revival @TheSteinLine Not just one team. All teams are harmed by the lazy pace of this investigation. If there was real evidence, it shouldn't take almost a year to find it. It must make Torre (& the Pulitzer committee) nervous that after all this time, the NBA can't verify the allegations.

@TheSteinLine This is stupid! "Before the season starts" so let's completely fuck a team's offseason for the fans!

Silver adds that the external investigation into Clippers/Kawhi/Aspiration has indeed gone on longer than he had hoped but that he remains optimistic that it will be completed in time for the commissioner to issue the league's ruling on the matter before next season starts.

@TheSteinLine "longer than he had HOPED?" Adam Silver is commissioner, not a bystander. Deadlines are an excellent management tool. He should try using one sometime.

@TomerAzarly This is mismanagement. Adam Silver's lawyer friends ought to have been given a deadline. When all's said & done this investigation will have taken one full year. How? Silver is wearing out his welcome. Time to start looking for a new commissioner.

Adam Silver says the Kawhi Leonard/Clippers investigation has gone on longer than he thought it would, but adds that he doesn’t want the investigation to end before the firm feels like it’s complete and has the whole story simply for the sake of wrapping it up.

@admcrlsn It's a "shiny distraction" for Haley Stevens to talk about the auto industry, manufacturing jobs, small business, education, the Great Lakes and the fight against Trump, Vance & Musk? DSA types are just OBSESSED with Hamas and Israel. Voters, not so much.

Does anyone know the last time Haley Stevens has actually, of her own accord, spoken about Israel, Gaza, or the West Bank? Just feels like her entire campaign has basically been “hey voters, look at this shiny distraction so you forget that I voted to send your tax dollars to fund weapons that Israel has used to blow up Palestinian children” while AIPAC pounds the airwaves on her behalf — talking about everything under the sun *except* for Israel/Palestine because they know it’s electoral kryptonite for her.

The whining about featuring Obama praising Stevens in an ad is funny to those of us who remember when AES was receiving flattering comparisons to Obama which he rejected out of hand on the grounds that Obama is bad.

@RobbieLeonardSA @WajahatAli DSA is socialist, not progressive.

@WajahatAli I look at CAP's website once a week to read the "about us" section where they describe themselves as "progressives." Yet, all Neera does is trash progressives across the country.

Can you please let us all know why you, the President of Democratic think tank CAP, have made it your singular mission to derail Abdul El Sayed and spend most of your time attacking progressives? Just an honest answer please.

@Amottur @neeratanden The DSA types like AES avoided the No Kings rallies. They were the ones on the sidelines saying "protesting is meaningless." Simple rule of thumb: If it was a good day for Democrats, DSA was trying to discredit it.

@neeratanden Lots of AES supporters are probably like the liberal democrats who take to the streets with No Kings signs in Washington DC. Chasing fantasies and manna from heaven like when Bernie ran against Hillary.

Oh look, Stevens is beating AES with working class voters by 22% according to this poll. Lots of narratives busted if that’s accurate.

The more I hear about this scandal, the more I think that this is less a situation where the Clips intentionally schemed to get around the cap and more a situation where Aspiration were morons who had no clue what they were doing and tried throwing money everywhere.

@LucasSa56947288 .@Riley_Gaines_ is so unserious. Does she really think nobody knows the difference between Patel flying to Italy at huge taxpayer expense to get drunk vs a sober Kamala attending a WNBA game on her own dime? Poor @WillCainShow needing to prop up Gaines’ fading relevance.

Gaines: I remember how mad people were when Kash Patel was in the locker room with the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team after they won gold. Those same people haven’t said a single word about Kamala Harris in the WNBA locker room. Cain: It’s a great point.

@Clipper_Revival I don’t think they’re saying they just started on it. Adam Silver is just making excuses for why it took them this long to finish it. There’s no “there” there.

@johnstodder On the expanded investigation into a new endeavor.

Based on the new investigation.... I'm now seriously worried Kawhi will be back with the Clippers. Or the Raptors will try to pull some picks.

@RandPaul I don’t get the problem. GOP senators were part of Trump’s conspiracy to steal the 2020 election. Smith had good reasons to look into your communications with the criminal mastermind of a GOP assault on democracy. This is just an attempt to distract from the Blanche fiasco.

December 2025: Jack Smith swore under oath that he didn't spy on text messages belonging to members of Congress. Today: New evidence confirms he spied on dozens of members of Congress, myself included. This is a blatant abuse of power, and exactly what our Founders warned about.

@skinnybeannn @Clipper_Revival @Fullcourtpass @ShamsCharania Sanberg, who is a convicted felon.

@johnstodder @Clipper_Revival @Fullcourtpass @ShamsCharania ‘Planning’ advertising when Kawhi was paid more than Drake, RDJ, and DiCaprio combined is not enough. RDJ even did a commercial. Also, an Aspiration employee under oath said that he was told by Sanberg that the deal was for cap circumvention

Kawhi Leonard has denied ANY participation in the alleged Aspiration scandal, per @ShamsCharania “The absolute worst is Kawhi Leonard’s contract being voided, or him being suspended for a significant period of time. Whether it’s 40/20 games or entire season.. it all comes down to the evidence and what’s found in the investigation.” (h/t @NBA__Courtside)

@shadihamid @mattyglesias Vote for Abdul because he's a man? 😬

With all due respect to @mattyglesias, the last few weeks have suggested to me that the center-left cares more about beating down the left than they do about beating Trump. We've seen the re-introduction of "woke" tropes by the Democratic establishment, weaponized against Abdul El-Sayed to suggest he's some kind of mysogonist, without any actual evidence. To accuse a Muslim man of misogyny is a classic trope, of course. If I was someone who cared about the future of the Democratic Party and it's ability to compete with the GOP, I'd be more enthusiastic about people like Abdul and Zohran, who model a positive "clean-living" masculinity. I'd be be enthusiastic about their ability to turn out young voters who are otherwise disaffected by a party that doesn't seem to want to listen to them. They're also practicing Muslims who respect the role of religion in public life, something we need more of in an overly secularized Democratic Party. This doesn't mean that everyone has to like Abdul or want him to win. Even if you want him to lose, you should see that he has something genuinely positive to offer to the Democratic Party. When the left wants to beat establishment candidates, it's called "factionalism." When the establishment wants to beat the left, it's not called that. It's just normal and unaccounted for. Take @neeratanden for example. Her feed is mostly about her disdain for the left. I don't see how this is constructive. And those of us who are not part of the Democratic establishment shouldn't concede too much ground on these points. I worry, though, that we have.

@KarlRholoff @Fullcourtpass @Clipper_Revival @ShamsCharania You're mischaracterizing the contract. Kawhi had the right to refuse use of his likeness in a way he didn't approve of. That would be standard element for celebrity contracts. If Pablo told viewers this was a "no-show" contract, then he distorted the facts. Bye, Pulitzer.

@johnstodder @Fullcourtpass @Clipper_Revival @ShamsCharania Read the CBA. The burden of proof is low. The "smoking gun" is the no show contract. The Clippers/Kawhi have to give a rational explanation for it or else the NBA can punish.