Russell Calkins

@TheHoopHerald This ain't the long jump. Jordan did with STYLE. You see a lot of clips of other guys doing this? Or is it just the Jordan clips that pop up 20 times a year?

MJ is the GOAT, but he was a foot over the line

@geoffschwartz There may have been a slightly bad call 9 plays from the end. But the refs did not make Oregon run 16 successful plays in a row at the end.

Perfect game. No controversy at all

@MikeLevin The NUMBER of elements of this that would have gotten any previous president impeached is really impressive. The GOP has written a complete blank check for Executive Branch corruption. I hope the country can come back from this.

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it. Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago. IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued. The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk. The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit. Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.”  Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million. The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out. This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president. Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues? nytimes.com/2026/05/19/adm…

@DKThomp To make a return to "non-corruption", I think you'd have to see it move pretty fast, and for voters to care. Something like a compact for all democratic candidates running for president to move their assets into a double-blind trust for the length of their presidency.

Within one 24 hour period, Trump: - got out of a $100 million IRS fine - secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends - created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters - was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything. But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

@RandPaul @POTUS I don’t think most democrats have a problem with reasonably immigration control. It’s the secret masked army going around shooting citizens in the face with no repercussions or oversight. The insane part of the post-apocalyptic movie. If you stop that, they’ll fund the bill.

@On3 @TheCorpatty @AriWasserman arch manning over dante moore is insane.

NEW: Top 10 College Football players returning next season via @AriWasserman👀 Do you agree?🤔 on3.com/news/heisman-f…

@kylegriffin1 The corruption is just daily at this point. The moment that the GOP showed they would never impeach him, it just opened the daily floodgates.

Breaking NYT: The Trump Justice Department is dropping Biden-era charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani. The reversal came after Adani hired a new legal team led by one of Trump's personal lawyers. That lawyer went to DOJ and made a proposal: If prosecutors dropped the charges, Adani would be willing to invest $10 billion in the American economy and create 15,000 jobs. nytimes.com/2026/05/14/nyr…

@nick_field90 Man, this is where we are. We're polling things that are pretty easily discoverable facts. And it splits on party lines. Almost like people get all their info from platforms that are exclusively Hank Green's "salience over substance."

Americans think everything costs more under Trump than they did under Biden, even eggs cdn.atlasintel.org/faa7f7df-daae-…

British crime shows are hilarious because there’s like 30 gun homicides a year

@TheHoopHerald He's already probably been the oldest guy to be the best player on a title team.. and that was 6 years ago. I'd say he's doing pretty well.

Say what you want about Championships being the driving force for a players legacy, but not sure what more LeBron can do with this roster at 41 years old

@GoDucksnet Those aren’t our starters, but we’ll be better than that.

I appreciate the vote of confidence If we’re this good with a 98% overhaul I’d be ecstatic

@JonRothstein @FDSportsbook @FanDuelResearch You’re missing Andrew Meadow on the Oregon roster. You’re also sleeping on Altman going 12 deep with players.

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@StevenKerwin @butterynut @daviddunn177 that isn't the same place.

@butterynut @daviddunn177 No, and neither did FOX who covered much of the event LIVE.

This was a Turning Points USA event with JD Vance. And the tickets were free.

@DarkMatters95 @incantalupo @mattyglesias Yes. half our country backs "the madman theory" and then suddenly --out of nowhwere-- the world is a more dangerous place, we can't rely on our allies, we have to spend TWO TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR on defense, and we can't afford medicare or childcare. The BS costs us.

@incantalupo @mattyglesias Trump has always utilized madman theory. Iran has to take somewhat seriously even though they know he's likely bluffing. There's always the chance he's crazy. So it puts more pressure on them.

@deanandersonnyc @brianstelter @GarrettHaake @PressSec You’re insane. It’s the water supply. That the people drink. He’s threatening war crimes. Like, yes, the military also drinks water.

@brianstelter @GarrettHaake @PressSec Sorry, it’s not civilian infrastructure. It supports military and terrorist operations.

Re: Trump threatening desalinization plants: @GarrettHaake asks @PressSec, "Under international law, striking civilian infrastructure like that is generally prohibited. Why is the president threatening what would amount to potentially a war crime with the U.S. military?"

@georgewrighster Remember when Bruce Pearl waited until after the first day of preseason practices, and after nearly all enrollment deadlines at other schools to announce he was retiring? Effectively trapping all his players and gift-wrapping the season, the job, and the roster for his son?

Sometimes saying nothing is better than saying something...

McLaughlin Poll: "The United States military actions against Iran and the leadership of the Iranian regime were necessary and warranted to protect American lives today and in the future." A clear majority — 57% of likely voters — agreed, while only 33% disagreed. Support was particularly strong among voters planning to support Republican candidates for Congress, where agreement reached 87%, compared with just 7% who disagreed. Even among voters still undecided about their congressional vote, the statement won majority support at 51% to 29%. The results also show meaningful support among several key demographic groups. Among independent voters, 46% agreed the action was necessary, compared with 40% who disagreed. Among Hispanic voters, agreement was 56% to 33%, and among women, the margin was 47% to 38% in favor."

@georgewrighster They’re also classifying literally everyone left of fox as “left-leaning”. They have like, the wall st journal as “left leaning.” It’s propaganda trying to get fashy takes more play.

Now do we not see the issue here: #1 News should never “lean” anywhere. Truth has to be king. #2 this is skewed with Variety/entertainment stories.

@georgewrighster hmmmmm. where have I seen these before? Do you get to keep the unis if you move the team?

The Titans won big with the new uniforms… now if they can just win on the field.

@francip @AnthropicAI me too. they have the OAuth timeout set to 15 seconds, but their servers are not responding within 15 seconds.

@AnthropicAI has found a new way to fail. Claude Code cannot authorize and tells me to /login again. I do it, the auth page succeeds eventually, but in the meantime Claude Code times out waiting for it, so I am still unauthorized in the CLI.