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NO! DOWN BALL, DOWN!
WHOA BALL, WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!
OUT OF SIGHT! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN! COME DOWN BALL! DOWNS-A-DAISY BALL!!!!
GOOD BALL! GOOD BALL! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Saturday, May 02, 2026
SHOW'S OVER, ROCKETTES! TIME TO GET OFF STAGE! THANK YOU FOR YOUR PERFORMANCE!
69-96 La-La Bron-Bron, 2:01 left.
Friday, May 01, 2026
OVERTIME IN TRUE NORTH
If that Cleveland pencil's observation is correct, OT is bad boding for Ontario State.
O State had a SHOT CLOCK TURNOVER with 14.4" left. Cleveland calls FTO (which Jamahl Mosley was not aware you could do)
Great intel!:
Spencer Davies
@SpinDavies
#Cavs force a 24-second violation on the absolutely energy-emptied-out Raptors group. Home squad's left it out on the floor tonight. ...
10:06 PM · May 1, 2026
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Associated Press, Media of Record
By AP
May 1, 2026, 09:53 pm
ORLANDO, Fla. -- — Cade Cunningham scored 32 points and the top-seeded Detroit Pistons pulled off an incredible rally...
...The Magic looked absolutely poised to become the seventh No. 8 seed to eliminate a No. 1 seed in the conference quarterfinal round.
And then everything went wrong for Orlando. Everything.
...
That number, and a whole lot of others, were just baffling. The Magic missed 23 consecutive shots from the field, Detroit went on a 35-5 run and just like that, the story of the game — and quite possibly the series — changed wildly.
...
The first quarter was back and forth...
The second quarter: Magic 35, Pistons 12.
It seemed over. It was not. Because the third quarter: Pistons 24, Magic 11. The tone was set for a comeback, and when the night ended those who remained in Orlando's Kia Center booed as they departed for possibly the final time this season.
OH MY GOD ORLANDO!
Underdog
@Underdog
The Orlando Magic in the second half of Game 6
Lowest scoring second half in playoff history (19)
13:50 with no made FG
4/37 FG (1/20 in Q4)
2/18 3FG
SCHADENFREUDE! FT DISNEY (3-3) BLOWS 24 POINT LEAD (51-13 2H) TO WIN BY TWO TOUCHDOWNS!
Omari Sankofa II
@omarisankofa
FINAL: Pistons 93, Magic 79. They used a 51-13 run in the second half to turn a 24-point deficit into a 14-point lead. Held Orlando to 8 points on 1-20 overall shooting in the 4th.
Electric comeback. Pistons have forced Game 7 on their home floor.
9:38 PM · May 1, 2026
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Emmanuel Acho
@EmmanuelAcho
The Orlando Magic and Jamahl Mosley should be utterly ashamed of themselves for blowing this game.
While Cade Cunningham & J.B. Bickerstaff didn’t flinch, Mosley sat there as his team completely unraveled and blew a 20 point lead in a close out game.
No leadership. Disgusting.
9:32 PM · May 1, 2026
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Dustin Dopirak
@DustinDopirak
23 missed shots in a row before that Banchero dunk. Woof.
9:32 PM · May 1, 2026
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Carson Breber
@Carsobi
That Pistons comeback is one of the coolest sports moments I’ve seen.
Incredible focus and execution under huge pressure.
Twice in huge spots, they’ve summoned 30-3 runs (Game 2) & 35-4 runs (today).
Some of the best stretches of defense (and worst offense) you’ll ever see.
9:32 PM · May 1, 2026
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Crime and Motivation
Long Boy Moses Pray and Addie did ONE piece of "legitimate" business in the book: selling framed likenesses of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. They made decent money. So why'd they stop?
Addie:
"...It was hard work. ...I was so tired and my feet ached so that I hardly ate any supper...Besides, it was hot, and Long Boy and I both had worn holes in our fingers..."
Long Boy:
"...That's the trouble doin' business legitimate. There jus' ain't enough profit for the work involved. There ain't no sense people killin' themselves when they can make jus' as much money easy as fallin' off'n a log."
Addie Pray is set "a few years before and after Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President for the first time", so ~1929-1934. The Depression. Even survival was hard. Workers in "legitimate" businesses, like U.S. Steel, barely survived working. FDR lowered the maximum work week to 44 hours and then to 40. Exploitative labor, long hours, little pay, brutality and death the consequence of striking.
Ethics: Working for a living in a "legitimate" occupation to survive, the boss gives you money for working you to the bone. Save yourself by stealing to survive.
Ethical problem: Long Boy and Addie didn't steal from the rich boss man and didn't steal to survive, they stole from the poor and stole to get rich.
Yeah, so that's not ethical.
But young Addie had a different motivation:
"...I had been thinking. He didn't mention it, so I didn't either, but as far as I was concerned the worst thing about doing business legitimate was that there was no excitement to it. I think I could have stood the drudgery if selling a picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt gave me the same kind of tingle I felt when I did other kinds of business."
Does that happen in real life or just in fiction?
"Why was that so good?"
"Because it was illegal."
The Breaking Bad couple who had sex in their car in the high school parking lot.
Why did the Breaking Bad guy give up teaching high school chemistry for making meth? He made a lot of money, but I don't remember him changing the material circumstances of his and his family's life. And he killed a lot of people. Now that's a real ethical problem. And he lost his own life. Exciting enough for you, man? The excitement of crime however was, to my memory, the motivation--the "tingle" of the illegal, as he experienced in the car with his wife--contrasted with the "drudgery" of teaching high school.
Did Breaking Bad, or anything like it, ever happen? Was there ever a guy like the Breaking Bad guy in reality? I don't know but I spent my entire working life immersed in the crime world (as a lawyer) and I never saw that motivation. Nor was there ever a crime couple like Long Boy and Addie Pray in Alabama and throughout the South during the Depression.
But it makes a good story.
The American Jewish Psyche: Traumatic Invalidation, October 7
I have had a gestalt shift--one might say that I am "Woke"--on American Jewry this morning via just a tiny bit of research. Many of the feelings below Jewish friends have expressed to me personally and privately. To them personally and publicly I express my deep remorse at my, I hope uncharacteristic, lack of empathy and understanding.
Having made this heartfelt apology, and with self-understanding that I will think about the related issue more, I cannot unsay, even at this moment, any of the equally heartfelt bitter denunciations I have made of the actions of the Israeli and American regimes' responses to the October 7 attacks. I now appreciate that those attacks were felt by world Jewry as attacks on world Jewry.
But I wonder: If October 7 had not happened, if Israel had done the same things in Gaza without the trigger of the attacks, would American Jews have condemned Israel as I have? If the rise in antisemitism in America, the protests on campuses, the violence, the hate speech, had occurred just as it did but over Israeli actions without the trigger of October 7, would Elise Stefanik have questioned elite university presidents, and gotten a couple of them fired, as she did?
Google AI:
The period following October 7, 2023, has been characterized as a time of profound, ongoing trauma, anxiety, and sleeplessness for many in the American Jewish community, driven by the brutality of the Hamas attack, the plight of hostages, and a dramatic, sustained rise in antisemitism. The impact has been described as a "collective trauma" affecting American Jews regardless of their direct connection to Israel.
Key Aspects of the Post-October 7 Experience: Heightened Anxiety and Sleep Disturbances: Many, including educators and community leaders, have reported ongoing nightmares sleeplessness, and intrusive thoughts reminiscent of the attack.
Feelings of Isolation: Many American Jews reported that their grief was not acknowledged, or was met with indifference and "traumatic invalidation," creating a sense of being abandoned by friends or progressive allies.
Safety Concerns: A vast majority of American Jews reported feeling less safe, with many observing a, "tsunami of hate" that has transformed their daily lives and public identity.
"Traumatic Invalidation": The experience has been aggravated by a rise in rhetoric that denies or justifies the events of October 7, sometimes labeling the attack as "resistance" or blaming victims.
The trauma has been described as a "recalibration" of the American Jewish experience, where a sense of insecurity is now a constant factor in daily life.
Scholarly article abstract:
Traumatic invalidation in the Jewish community after October 7
The October 7, 2023 attacks in Israel by the Hamas terrorist organization triggered profound trauma within the Jewish community, not only stemming from the events themselves but also from the response of others in the aftermath. Rather than being met with compassion and care, many individuals instead encountered emotional neglect, criticism, blame, and even outright denial of their pain. These responses occurred on individual, institutional, and societal levels. Drawing from Harned’s (2022) conceptualization of traumatic invalidation, this paper applies this framework to understand the psychological impact of the rise in antisemitism on the Jewish community. Traumatic invalidation, as defined by Linehan (2015), involves chronic or extreme denial of an individual’s significant private experiences, characteristics, or reactions, often by influential figures or groups upon whom the individual relies. Such invalidation can result in profound shifts in self-perception, emotional regulation, and worldview. This paper aims to shed light on the dynamics of traumatic invalidation within the Jewish community post October 7...
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