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Excited to be part of the In Memorium montage when my time comes.
We’re proud to announce our newly invited members to the Academy!
Meet the Class of 2026: bit.ly/4vrTLHL
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As South and West Asian populations grow in DFW, high school football teams are starting to reflect those changes.
I spoke with area players and experts to get a sense of how they've come to embrace a sport that's expanding in their communities.
Story: dallasnews.com/high-school-s…
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Fearmongering about Muslims as a brown Indian Hindu might work in Uttar Pradesh but in Republican Ohio it makes you look like a cowardly opportunist lacking any sense of self-awareness.
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Jafar Panahi on why he returned to Iran.
Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to five years and one month in prison by a Tehran court:
• The new ruling, according to his lawyer, is separate from a previous one-year prison sentence
• The court also ordered the confiscation of Panahi’s assets and imposed two-year bans on social media use and travel
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I feel like Jared Kushner being at the center of the plot that ultimately led to an American journalist being dismembered via bone saw while he was still alive should be a much bigger deal than our billionaire owned news media is making of it.
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Malcolm Gladwell is a fucking fraud and has made a career and millions just spewing bullshit that falls apart if you have a working brain or decide to lightly fact-check him. A phenomenally stupid man and grifter.
I have just published a piece that is very important to me. It's about why so many "progressives" and people on "the left" are lying to us right now about crime, safety, and repression, and what we should be doing instead. equalityalec.substack.com/p/…
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SNL UK doing a Nollywood version of Wicked with Cynthia Erivo is the funniest thing they’ve done sorry
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Yaxel Lendeborg on people telling him not to talk trash to Luka Doncic:
“I ain’t never been no hoe, like come on now… I’m not afraid to talk to nobody. He’s not Michael Jordan” 😂😂
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Nimesh Patel said this about Vivek Ramaswamy in 2023, and its more relevant then ever
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‘IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME’, starring Danielle Brooks & J. Alphonse Nicholson, is now available on Digital.
The film follows a young boy reconnecting with his incarcerated father, whom he sees as a Greek god, as mysterious visions begin to surround his world.
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was honored to get this incredible piece of early d'angelo history from the one and only ralph mcdaniels
Today at the magazine we have a truly wonderful piece of hip-hop history: @_djshort's interview with Video Music Box founder Ralph McDaniels, who talks about directing Nas, being stiffed by Russell Simmons, and preserving hip-hop for future generations powmag.net/p/ralph-mcdaniels…
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It’s a little sad Dev Patel seemingly wasn’t even in consideration for Bond. MONKEY MAN felt like his audition for Bond the same way LAYER CAKE was for Daniel Craig.
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This is absolutely horrible and complete crap by the Knicks.
Shame on them for not only holding the assistant coaches rings during the ceremony, but doing this with their employees.
What a complete joke.
Knicks sent a "phishing email" disguised as a championship ring offer to Madison Square Garden employees.
Those that clicked the fake link were forced to attend a mandatory cybersecurity class to "help satisfy some of [James] Dolan's cybersecurity concerns."
(via @joevardon)
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Aside from the shocking substance of this story, what's amazing is how it was unearthed by Cole. The short version: The Russians were able to penetrate Jared Kushner's iPhone and extract screenshots and data. Then, a Russian intel official was captured by Dutch intelligence (!) and flipped. The Dutch believed Kushner may have been acting on behalf of Russia, so pursued him as an intel target and were able to get into his phone.
They did not find any evidence of Russian collusion, instead they watched him moving hundreds of millions of dollars from slush funds created by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, one of them housed in Israel's central bank.
Incredible reporting, and if Democrats have any sense, they will pull on these threads and learn a lot more about this money.
Explosive story many years in the making, now out in Vanity Fair by Matthew Cole (who will be on Breaking Points next week, and publishing soon in @DropSiteNews):
Saudi Arabia and the UAE set up multi-billion slush funds for Jared Kushner to use.
Iran-Contra 2 here (except with Iran-Contra, at least the US got some hostages released. Not clear what we got out of this one.)
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I got Debbie on the phone, and she is exactly as charming and funny as I was hoping she'd be.
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When Mississippi went to SCOTUS to overturn Roe, AG Lynn Fitch represented the state invoking her "pro-life" values. She is embraced as a "pro-life" hero and is now justifying the murder of a 1-year-old Black infant named Kohen Wiley:
Mississippi's attorney general says a Senatobia police officer was justified in the June shooting death of a 1-year-old boy while responding to a shoplifting call. The conclusion of the state's investigation follows months of mourning and calls for justice. cnn.it/4z0O5X6
