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What did he expect?

man, CBS is just going absolutely all-in on destroying their news reputation

Harvard is blatantly discriminating against students of color and LGBTQ students by banning the use of Harvard spaces for affinity graduation events. They are explicitly saying they can't use campus space on the basis of their race, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

Contrary to the narrative from the president, sources say that the Trump administration was the one that approached Qatar about acquiring a Boeing 747.

A divided federal appeals court rejected a request from the Trump administration to put on hold a judge’s order requiring the government to “facilitate” the return of a 20-year-old Venezuelan refugee who was deported earlier this year to El Salvador.

Official: The Vikings will host the Patriots for joint practices at TCO Performance Center preceding their Aug. 16 preseason game at U.S. Bank Stadium. @bengoessling.bsky.social and I talked about that possibility on Access Vikings back in April.

The 49ers and All-Pro LB Fred Warner have agreed to terms on a new 3-year contract extension worth $63M, per me and Mike Garafolo The deal makes Warner, the perennial Pro Bowler, the NFL’s highest-paid LB. He gets $56.7M guaranteed.

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

66,000 tons of food are rotting away in USAID warehouses thanks to Trump and DOGE. That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids. In what world is starving children "efficient"?

Worth your time.

Jeff should've waited for the vote before pushing this through.

Trump's budget is back on track after Speaker Johnson made concessions to GOP hardliners on Sunday. The holdouts demanded the bill's devastating Medicaid cuts — already the largest in history — be made even deeper and faster. Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.

JUST IN: Judge Howell rules that the Trump/DOGE takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace was illegal and should be treated as null and void. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

The Tush Push will likely be changed forever this week in Minnesota.

I can't say this loudly enough: THE REPUBLICANS DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE VOTING ON. They just know they were told to vote yes. "Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do and die." www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

As the fate of the tush push is set to be voted on over the next two days in Minneapolis, members of the Eagles continue to call around the league, discussing why the play in its current form should not be banned, per sources. Here is the language of Green Bay's proposal:

LA has been told air taxis will solve our traffic problems for at least a decade. LA28 has been hinting this was coming so it's not surprising to see them add one as a sponsor. But there are a few thing you should know about *this* air taxi company

So much winning!

The latest update on Aaron Gordon is sadly a big one. A Grade 2 strain is often referred to as a partial or incomplete tear. Average time lost for G2 hamstring strains in the NBA is ~31 days (11.2 games). Gordon’s 2020 season also ended early following a strain of the same hammy.

The Director of the FBI is openly lying to the American public about Canada being a major source of fentanyl. In the first three months of 2025, a grand total of 1.35 lbs of fentanyl was seized by border officials at our border with Canada — 0.06% of total seizures.

Yes, the level of invention, fiction and fanatacism here hard to put into words. This bill is going to explode the deficit which is a reason Moody’s downgraded. They cannot admit to the clear “sky is blue” reality of what they are doing.

Kamala: we’re going to stop grocery stores from price gouging MAGA: COMMUNISM!!! Trump: Walmart better not raise prices because of the stupid thing I did MAGA: MAGA!!

wait Cuomo dropped a hard R on *live radio*?? www.timesunion.com/news/article...

Nonsense. Kirschner's been there 40 years. Bill couldn't ask him for help? Because he's not a football guy?

that's coming off

those teeth, my gawd

oh boy

Washington Post "wins" for biggest drop in web visits among top 20 news sites— month-on-month and year-on-year. Source: PressGazette using Similarweb data. pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

“With this Saudi deal, Bezos appears to be crossing a new line—not just partnering with an authoritarian regime, but aligning with the very man responsible for his own employee’s assassination. It’s not just another deal. It’s a betrayal.” www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...

Moody’s Ratings downgraded the United States’ credit rating, as the country’s debt soars and interest rates remain high. The downgrade, from the highest rating to one notch below, comes as the president’s budget bill suffered a blow in Congress.

Thank you Austin for all the contributions you made in Dodger blue and helping to bring two championships to Los Angeles.

Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon.

Ghouls

BREAKING: The GOP-led House Budget Committee just voted to reject Trump's big budget bill — an embarrassing setback for Republicans. Five conservative hardliners joined all Democrats in voting against the bill.

And 12 people will witness it.

Taken way too long for networks to realize this but it seems it's finally set in.

There are moments that I look back fondly on my early faculty career at UCLA, and there are moments I am glad that I moved on. This is the latter.

keystone kops. arte's got to go.

Brooke Jenkins is taking on judges. A lawsuit claims it’s an abuse of power

Pablo and Bradley Campbell hit the bullseye of my soccer niche with this story about Schalke, Gazprom, and politics, complete with access to the big decision makers of Schalke.

Ed Martin, who left his position this week as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, DC, to take another job within the Justice Department because his chances of being confirmed to the post were dwindling, is facing an ethics probe, according to a letter reviewed by CNN.

Doesn’t Mario have plenty other things to worry about?

Incredible.

They're withholding his diploma over this?! He should sue them.

Amount of ads on Disney+ is obscene.

WHAT!??! A Tip Drill home run saving catch! 😳 You'll be seeing this Catch for a long long time!

Some X users asked Grok – the AI chatbot available through Elon Musk’s social media platform – questions about simple topics like baseball players or videos of fish being flushed down toilets. In response, they got replies about the theory of “white genocide” in South Africa.