Iran Titted Again (Bahrain, Kuwait); Fourth Day in a Row of Titting for Tatting; Florida Felon's Turn
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Public Occurrences June 27, 2026
AP
5:48 pm:
More Than 1,430 Now Dead in Venezuelan Earthquakes
Venezuela was hit by two very large earthquakes less than one minute apart on Wednesday, June 24. The first measured 7.2 on the Richter scale, the second 7.5
And then today, just a couple of hours ago, the country was hit by a 4.8 shock.
Third Day of strikes-counterstrikes by Iran and U.S. One Week After Memorandum of Misunderstanding
Thursday, June 24, Iran fired on a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. Yesterday, the U.S. bombed Iran in retaliation. Today, Iran attacked Bahrain with drones.
Pregnancy Today
A pink heart balloon floats up, up, up in a brilliant blue Miami sky. Pink or blue, little one, your granddad will 🫶 you.
Dr. Ana and my son are having a baby!
Friday, June 26, 2026
Fucked Beans
...the reason both franchises had pursued Antetokounmpo so doggedly in the first place: They simply weren't championship contenders, or even close.
Both team presidents had said as much after their seasons ended in disappointment.
"I am not going to tank. We are not going to lose. We are not going into the lottery and do that insanity because I will quit -- if I ever get ordered to go down that road. I am always thinking of ways to win," Heat president Pat Riley said after his team lost in the play-in tournament. "Now, all I can give you is a bunch of excuses. And I don't want to do that. We are just not good enough. ..."
The Celtics had lost in the first round to the Philadelphia 76ers, sparking a series of organizational discussions that led to the conclusion that the current roster simply "wasn't good enough," as one Celtics source put it.
"If you would have told me last summer that we would have won 56 games in the regular season, that the young guys would all become contributors, that people would have great impact all up and down our roster, that we would get [Jayson] Tatum back for 20 games or whatever it was, I would have been thrilled with those results," Celtics president Brad Stevens said.
"But the reality is, we came up short. And so now, the job is to do an honest assessment."--Boston prez Brad Stevens.
Ramona Shelburne, Jamal Collier ESPN
You would think it's Boston who had gone an average 44-38 for the last twelve seasons. Stevens did not say the "Celtics" Roster "wasn't good enough." A "Celtics source" did. But Stevens did say they had come up short and that the org. was going to do "an honest assessment." And Stevens acted as if he too believed his roster wasn't good enough, trying to trade Jaylen Brown to Beer.
I parse this so because Boston is just two seasons removed from their last NBA title, in a Finals series in which Brown won MVP, coming off a 56-win season that Jason Tatum missed three-quarters of, a season in which head coach Joe Mazzulla won COTY, in which Brown finished sixth in league MVP voting. If Beans had gotten Giannis, Joe Mazzulla would have had to change the way he likes his team to play. Stevens failed to get Giannis but Mazzulla still has to change his team's style of play entirely...because Stevens has now estranged Brown from the "Celtics". I parse this so because, in short: Stevens, why the fuck did you do that?
USMLE Today
(from memory)
Master Matabolism Map (Chat GPT, FIRST HALF OF MAP ONLY)
Fasting state(glucagon, epiniphrine)
Glycogen
|| Glycogen phosphorylase
Checking memory....
SUCCESSFUL MEMORIZATION!!!!!
You know how when you are so in love, just saying the other person's name gives you butterflies in your stomach?
"Eleven" "Eleven" "Eleven"
It's a beautiful name. It rolls off the tongue easily. No hard consonants, it sounds almost French it's so mellifluous.
Eleven is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen. Soft as her name, tiny, completely feminine. When she's trying to look her best to impress me, she will sit with perfect posture and her tail curled demurely around her fore paws, as proper as a sixteen-year old debutante. She is the only creature who has lived with me 24/7 for over 20 years, and we've been exclusive roommates now for over two and one-half years.
We know each other now. I understand her cat language; she understands my person language. We have our routines, whisker-alarms at day break, soft plaintive meows when she is appealing to me for food. She understands "Where my kitty?" and eagerly greets me at the kitchen window and front door. We have our games, like "I'm gonna get that kitty" as I hide behind the wall separating the kitchen from the living room and then spring out on her. She goes into spasms of excitement. She understands the game and play-fights back, but knows that she can't bite my hand too hard. I let her nibble and gently claw at my hand.
She knows not to use me as a scratching post when I'm wearing my linen pants. Jeans, no problem. She can nest on my chest except when I'm wearing an Uniqlo tee-shirt, it's too thin.
She has her games. When I'm standing at the toilet with my arms against the wall I'm her step ladder. She jumps up onto the toilet tank, springs up onto my left shoulder and then up onto the shower stall top railing. She used to jump back onto my shoulders when she was ready and I was finished. Now she plays forlorn-cat-stuck-in-a-tree and pretends she's scared and can't get down. She then moves to the furthest place on the shower top from where I am so that I have to strain to squeeze between the toilet to reach up to grab her. Meanwhile, she backs away from me in faux fright and I have to stretch to my right to get a gentle grip on her belly and bring her down...to my shoulders, where she then alights, afraid no longer, having gotten me to indulge her, and onto the floor.
I am totally pussy-cat whipped.
I am totally in love with "E-lev-en"..."E-lev-en."
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Public Occurrences June 25, 2026
Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention center has closed, governor says
11:30 am:
Putin’s reign may not survive the impending fall of Crimea
As Ukraine seizes ‘first chance to win’, war horrors come home to Russia
President Putin has hinted at peace talks as the economy fails, people flee cities and toxic ‘oil rains’ fall.
USMLE Today
Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase, medical acronym MTHFR.
Now, how are we going to remember that? 🤔
💡
MOTHERFUCKER
Great success!
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
On a day dedicated to the Miami Heat’s future, Pat Riley was ruminating on, of all things, “extinction.” As in, on a personal level. As in, becoming irrelevant—perhaps the worst fate of all.
It was late June 2014—two weeks removed from the Heat’s crushing Finals defeat to the San Antonio Spurs
Italics in original.
And this from Heavy:
The Miami Heat is the hottest talk of basketball after landing Giannis Antetokounmpo
That term from the Ringer and that half sentnce from Heavy are why I am so proud, relieved really, about the acquisition of Giannis. The Miami "Heat" and all of Greater Miami, are relevant and the talk of their world again after being "in other action" for 10 of the last 12 years. That bothered me.
Public Occurrences June 24, 2026
Pro-Israel politics just took a huge hit in New York
Progressives critical of Israel swept a trio of House races in the home of the nation’s largest Jewish population — a stunning shift that carries national implications for the party.
9:21 am:
Mamdani Emerges as Kingmaker, Pushing His Slate to a Primary Sweep
Mayor Zohran Mamdani shook the Democratic establishment by helping drive three progressive candidates to victory.
Our enemy now is This Israel
Were 'Witz-bitch on fire outside my condo front door, screaming for help, I would open the door only to see who was making the racket, and would not piss on his disgusting, flaming corpse to put the fire out...And I would not come out of retirement to defend 'Witz-bitch against any charge.
Dershowitz also told the Post he is “in favour of Trump putting tariffs on Canada for its statements regarding Israel and Netanyahu, and even sanctions perhaps."
Expressing outrage over former President Barack Obama’s call for an end to Israeli "occupation," Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz expanded on why he’s never talking to the Democratic president again.
"I think he always had a deep hatred of Israel in his heart. He hid it very well. He called me to the Oval Office and he said to me, 'Alan, you've known me for a long time. You know I have Israel's back.' I didn't realize he meant to paint a target on it," Dershowitz said Friday on "Mornings with Maria."
"He's never been supportive of Israel. And finally, his true feelings have come out now that he's no longer president and doesn't have to be elected," the professor continued. "He has contributed enormously to the problem because he is respected among young people. And if he says the occupation is unbearable and that anything can be done to stop it, he is encouraging people to engage in their antisemitic, anti-Israel and anti-American attitudes. He should be ashamed of himself. He should apologize, but he won't."
He continued: "One that is based on genuine security for Israel, a recognition of its right to exist, and a peace that is based on an end of the occupation and the creation of a viable state and self-determination for the Palestinian people."
"To compare those disputed claims with the rapes, beheadings, burnings, kidnappings, it's just obscene and despicable," Dershowitz said. "And what it does is it lends support to those students basically, who are saying, ‘Well, what Hamas really did was not so bad... It was in response to the occupation.’"
"Although he said that the attacks by Hamas are not justifiable," Dershowitz added, "he made them justifiable because if life really is unbearable, as it's not, then you can do anything you want."
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
🌻
Russia Pressures Belarus in Bid to Open New Front in Ukraine War
With Moscow’s prospects faltering on the battlefield, the Kremlin is trying to nudge its closest ally off the sidelines
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the anti-Netanyahoo, a Jewish head of state fighting a defensive war against a brutal invader who targeted, and targets still, civilians, including with rape even of babies, with kidnappings, and without Trump's help, in fact with his opposition;
"SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED" is already one of my all-time favorite posts here. Look at the time: midnight on the dot. I had to get up at 6:30 today, I'm fucking old, I was all ready to turn in, already too late, when I couldn't resist checking the betting markets one last time. The post previous to that one was at 9:02, almost three hours earlier. I was up for almost another hour, my last post was at 12:57 am. Totally rested today! :)
(My) Projected "Heat" Starters 2026/27
Norman Powell
Andrew Wiggins
Bam Adebayo
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Bobby Portis
Pelle Larsson
Keshad Johnson
Simone Fontecchio
Myron Gardner
MIAMI GETS GIANNIS!
OFFICIAL: GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO
TRADED TO MIAMI!!!!!
SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED
Monday, June 22, 2026
@IraHeatBeat
This never was going to be easy. If there is a Heat deal, it likely will be completed later, due to cap/calendar rules. If there is not, then it would seem the time for Pat Riley to talk.
Jake Fischer
@JakeLFischer
A split faction of Milwaukee’s decision makers, sources say, is deciding between Boston’s package for Giannis Antetokounmpo built around Jaylen Brown — where the Bucks also hold particular Hugo Gonzales interest, as @TheSteinLine reported last night — plus limited draft capital, compared to Miami’s offer of younger pieces — featuring Tyler Herro, Kel’el Ware, Jaime Jaquez — and multiple first-round picks.
The established MVP candidate versus greater overall value is what this whole saga has boiled down to one day before the NBA Draft.
CelticsUnite
@CelticsUnite18
Giannis is willing to extend with 2 teams.
1 is offering Jaime Jaquez and Tyler Herro
The other is offering Jaylen Brown
How is this even a conversation?
8:26 PM · Jun 16, 2026
87.7K Views
👆Bound to be beat: that is how I have always seen the "Heat's" offer.





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