Don Nelson’s Poker Party

Don Nelson’s Poker Party

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“I’m not a water guy” - Don Nelson

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When Gui Santos is your high scorer, you’re probably in trouble as a team, but when Gui Santos is your high scorer in a relatively close game against one of the best teams in the league, you might be light years ahead of the league 🤩

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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

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Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's. And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today. Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill

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Released 36 years ago today Energy, the only studio album by the American ska punk band Operation Ivy, with this track Freezer Up Operation Ivy - "Freeze Up" live at 924 Gilman St. in Berkeley, California (June 24, 1988) #punkrock #ska #skapunkrock #operationivy #energy #history #punkrockhistory

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A reminder to reporters: Because Trump tariff numbers are made-up nonsense, using the phrase “reciprocal tariffs” is lying to your audience. The phrase itself is propaganda. They are not reciprocal.

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Nikola Jokic is the living avatar of the phrase “c’mon man”

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social

Baseline angle of Nikola Jokic's buzzer beater = cinema

For every sports fan, those click bait headlines showing up in your feed just speculating on some unrealistic trade scenario involving your team, that is the future of media dominated by AI slop. Trusted sources in sports means good sports journalism from live human beings.

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Elon Musk's plan to cut the Social Security Administration's staff by 50% would cause 37,000 more Americans to die each year waiting to receive their disability benefits while the average wait time to collect these benefits would jump to 412 days. That is beyond unacceptable.

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The Pentagon is erasing history, scrubbing tens of thousands of images deemed DEI. One marked for deletion is Harold Gonsalves, a WWII Medal of Honor recipient who threw himself on a grenade during the Battle of Okinawa to save his fellow Marines.

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As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

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Trump's Social Security Administration commissioner just called for a 50% staff reduction. This would gut SSA field offices and make it harder for millions of seniors to access benefits.  Make no mistake: this is an attack on Social Security itself.

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“Roberta Flack underplays everything with a quietness and gentleness,” the writer and folklorist Julius Lester once observed. “More than any singer I know, she can take a quiet, slow song and infuse it with a brooding intensity that is, at times, almost unbearable.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/a...

nytimes.comRoberta Flack, Virtuoso Singer-Pianist Behind ‘Killing Me Softly,’ Dies at 88 (Gift Article)With majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Ms. Flack, a former schoolteacher, became one of the most widely heard artists of the 1970s.

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Elon Musk and DOGE have made their way to the federal Department of Education. What we do know is any changes will likely harm disabled students. Check out my @motherjones.com article on Project 2025 attacks on DoE. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.comProject 2025's plan to dismantle public education—and screw over disabled kidsNearly nine million students rely on DOE-backed disability accommodations.

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Steph Curry on Jimmy Butler: “He’s like the exact opposite player of me. I took 16 3s and he shot one. He got to the free throw line a lot, dominated the paint. I dominate the perimeter. It has the potential to be really fun.”

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I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

Need advice - every year my friends throw a Super Bowl party and serve food that each competing team’s city is known for. Washington DC folks, what food is DC known for? What would you bring to this party if the Washington Commanders make it? #Commanders #SuperBowl #washingtondc

For anyone in the Midwest or Southern US who have never experienced strong Santa Ana winds, imagine high straight-line winds or near hurricane-force winds, then add fire and historic drought to that. Even with billions more dollars, LAFD wouldn’t have stopped this fire from getting out of control.

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Eli Saslow alert, meaning this story is excellent. It’s also very sad — this young dad’s family voted for a president who plans to deport him, and they just don’t seem prepared to admit that

Dara Lind@daralind.bsky.social

This (via @krhawkins.bsky.social) is a dynamic to keep an eye on. I think some of these people don’t believe their loved ones (the “good ones”) will be in danger & will change their minds if proven wrong. I think others will close ranks and make rationalizations. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...

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Lesley Stahl reports on the growing market of “humans in the loop” — workers around the world who help train AI for big American tech companies. They say they face poor working conditions, low pay, and undertreated psychological trauma. Sunday on 60 ⏱️

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