Ben

Ben

@bencoombs.bsky.social

Art, Jazz and just sports in general.

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I worked at a second hand children's store for 1 week. Getting fired was a blessing because that place was terrible.

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Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Trump: "If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate...I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000."

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You: What's goin on? Me: Oh, nothing much. Just watching Jason Kelce's Liquid Death/Garage Beer PSA about harvesting human urine to power data centers.

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The NBA fined the small market Utah Jazz $1MM and changed the NBA Draft lottery process in the matter of 6 months because they had the gall to tank WHILE STILL SELLING OUT GAMES. But a big market LA team can circumvent the salary cap and receive no punishment? What a joke.

Pablo Torre is about to have a field day, right?

The Athletic@theathletic.com

The NBA is disputing reporting by ESPN that detailed findings of the league’s investigation into possible salary-cap circumvention by the LA Clippers and subsequent settlement negotiations. nyti.ms/3SEqifB

Arthur Buns

kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals

It is really hard for a person to understand just how much a billion actually is. That's a thousand millions. We now have someone who has a thousand billions. In dollars. That's more money than ANY ONE PERSON should have to have. Do you really think he's going to be satisfied with just that?

NBA. Please. I'm begging you. Eliminate the east and west conferences. Just seed the playoffs straight. The Western conference playoffs have been so much better for so many years.

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We need to do away with the charade that billionaire buyers of media outlets care about their operating results. People went on for years about Elon losing money on Twitter like it was a big gotcha. Same here, same with WaPo. Their goal was ruining good institutions and giving propaganda credibility

Status@status.news

Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...

That ear sure looks healthy though

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

whoa -- this is new. Trump has a significant rash-like injury on his neck today in addition to his disfigured hand (Saul Loeb/Getty)