Daniel Ostrower

@esidery @ShamsCharania Teams are just gonna tank into the bottom 10.

There is momentum behind reforming the NBA Draft Lottery to 18 teams, including the bottom 10 all having the same 8% odds at No. 1 overall, per @ShamsCharania. The main goal from owners is to completely eliminate the aggressive tanking efforts from losing teams once and for all.

I applaud Anthropic. And The fact that we are relying on for-profit companies to self police this stuff out of their own sense of responsibility may well go down as one of the greatest failures of governance in history.

The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first 6 months of Trump’s second term, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. 🔗 More: propub.li/3Q4xEY2

@EricSal_7 Have to credit this front office for all the stuff they didn’t do that everyone wanted them to: Garland, Collins, Giannis, Markanen, etc

I’m so glad Spurs didn’t care to trade for Garland 2-3 years ago. Didn’t care for Dame, Trae, or Garland. What a short sighted mess that would have been.

@shanaka86 It also reduces the threat of military ousting Trump from office should we ever get to that point

Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one. A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it. The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link. General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.” Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon. Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to. The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone. Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@erikkuna @SuperclusterHQ @MiopsTrigger @CanonUSA @NASAArtemis awesome

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet. The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy. There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one. That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure. 📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

I know it’s nearly impossible to rationally justify human space flight. But some things you do just because they are awesome.

@DrChrisCombs Wish they would have kept on that shot longer

In all seriousness this may have been my favorite shot from Artemis II so far

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United. No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed. Here's how it works.

Great. So, in the future, if the government wants a list of people in a minority group to round up, they simply have to pretend to be protecting them first nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/…

Sold as a middle-class tax cut, Trump’s “One, Big Beautiful Bill” is delivering a major windfall to corporate America, with some of the richest companies now paying far less to the IRS bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

New: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term. propub.li/4m4Vzmf

@mdubowitz Hormuz wasn't closed

Next time, let’s wait until Iran has nuclear-armed ICBMs, 10,000 ballistic missiles, a Chinese- and Russian-built military, a million attack drones, a fully operational terror network, and hundreds of billions to harden its economy. Then we’ll fight to reopen Hormuz.

@spurs_muse Higher than expected, but exactly what the offense is designed to create. Whether or not we keep the up will determine how far we go in playoffs.

3P% by Spur in March: 53.8 - Harper 50.0 - McLaughlin 48.7 - Barnes 41.5 - Vassell 41.3 - Castle 38.6 - Champagnie 37.7 - Johnson 37.5 - Olynyk 35.1 - Wembanyama 33.3 - Waters 30.0 - Bryant 29.3 - Fox Any surprises? 👀

@TylerGlasscock_ I was wondering the same thing

I need to know what led to half the team wearing headbands today 😭

NO KINGS TODAY. NATIONWIDE.

Huge crowd at Boston’s #nokings rally

Thousands out protesting @realDonaldTrump #nokings in Lexington MA

@Matt_Pinner Beautiful. What made the other 99 not work?

@kirkgoldsberry If this looks the same 10 games from now, SAS and OKC will feel good about their chances in the West playoffs

The Efficiency Landscape. What jumps out?