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@darrenrovell Vry cool darren tks

For the first time, we are headed towards an all-Adidas National Championship game with Miami and Indiana. The only Adidas winner since the start of the BCS was Tennessee in 1998.

@Variety Another useful idiot

Javier Bardem says "Free Palestine!" on the #Emmys red carpet and "I can’t work" with any film or TV company that "justifies or supports the genocide." “Here I am today, denouncing the genocide in Gaza.”variety.com/2025/tv/news/j…

@theaceofspaeder But do we… have to love it? What if we hate it?

Eddie Vedder, absolutely blitzed, hanging with Anthony Rizzo and Cindy Crawford for Rizzo's Retirement, just dropped a strong f-bomb on the #Cubs broadcast... gotta love it!

@WatchMarquee Terrible take

"Bringing in (Daniel) Palencia in a tie ballgame, it's just not who he is." Carlos Peña on Craig Counsell bringing in Daniel Palencia in the 9th inning.

@cody__cubs @grok what’s this about?

@TheEconomist @NicolasPelham Wow thanks

“Palestinians in New York told me they used to bury their origins for fear of being labelled terrorists. Now they say they’re considered cool...” @NicolasPelham explains how the past year has changed the experience of diaspora Palestinians: econ.st/4eZs3cN 🎧

@antonioguterres Shame on you

I condemn the broadening of the Middle East conflict with escalation after escalation. This must stop. We absolutely need a ceasefire.

Not once in the past 11 months has any Israeli hostage held by Hamas been visited by the International Red Cross or any of the dozens of “humanitarian organizations” focused on the Middle East — including those sponsored by the UN. The world has failed the Jewish people . . . once again.

@DOM_Frederic Dom, you called it Jed’s league many times

he was never the guy

🧵US & world is on their high horse of moral self-righteousness about Israel’s precise strike on senior terrorists in Rafah that set fire that killed many civilians. Here are 10 major incidents of civilian deaths by US & allied action, accepted as mistakes; but not for Israel 1/

As the leader of the free world, America cannot claim that its commitment to Israel is “iron-clad” and then proceed to withhold aid from Israel. The mixed messaging makes a mockery of our credibility as an ally. No one will take our word seriously.

New column on the Northwestern encampment and the agreement that ended it. While its proponents invoked free speech, occupying a shared space to create an ideologically controlled zone is a deeply illiberal tactic, and should have been treated as such. dailynorthwestern.com/2024/05/06/lat…

@thedailynu Resign, Schill

BREAKING: University President Michael Schill will testify before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on May 23. dailynorthwestern.com/2024/05/06/cam…

@Buster_ESPN Very cool thx

That’s SB No. 299 for Altuve

@MLB @Jomboy_

Benches clear in the Rays-Brewers game in Milwaukee.

I simply cannot fathom the moral rot in someone's soul that leads them to win an award for a movie about the Holocaust and with the platform given to them, to accept that award by saying, "We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness."

@yashar You’re stuck on this. DoD calls them Houthis, not sure why we would call them something else.

Calling them “The Houthis” is like calling Al-Qaeda “The Bin Ladens.” The name of the group is Ansar Allah. That’s what they call themselves! You should call them that too!

As always, clarity from Natan Sharansky: tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

@VivekGRamaswamy Calm down, bro, he’s not going to fuck you.

This is what an *actual* attack on democracy looks like: in an un-American, unconstitutional, and *unprecedented* decision, a cabal of Democrat judges are barring Trump from the ballot in Colorado. Having tried every trick in the book to eliminate President Trump from running in this election, the bipartisan Establishment is now deploying a new tactic to bar him from ever holding office again: the 14th Amendment. I pledge to *withdraw* from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump is also allowed to be on the state’s ballot, and I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley to do the same immediately - or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver which will have disastrous consequences for our country.   Today’s decision is the latest election interference tactic to silence political opponents and swing the election for whatever puppet the Democrats put up this time by depriving Americans of the right to vote for their candidate of choice.   The 14th Amendment was part of the “Reconstruction Amendments” that were ratified following the Civil War. It was passed to prohibit former Confederate military and political leaders from holding high federal or state office. These men had clearly taken part in a rebellion against the United States: the Civil War. That makes it all the more absurd that a left-wing group in Colorado is asking a federal court to disqualify the 45th President on the same grounds, equating his speech to rebellion against the United States. And there’s another legal problem: Trump is not a former “officer of the United States,” as that term is used in the Constitution, meaning Section 3 does not apply. As the Supreme Court explained in Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (2010), an “officer of the United States” is someone appointed by the President to aid him in his duties under Article II, Section 2. The term does not apply to elected officials, and certainly not to the President himself.   The Framers of the 14th Amendment would be appalled to see this narrow provision—intended to bar former U.S. officials who switched to the Confederacy from seeking public office—being weaponized by a sitting President and his political allies to prevent a former President from seeking reelection. Our country is becoming unrecognizable to our Founding Fathers.

@desipiodotcom calculator.net/present-value-…

Ahh yes. “Real” value. The other $240 million isn’t pretend money. He’s getting it. Cubs offer was $200 million short.