...think of the little Ukrainian girl on the header and this, in Rus:
Good night Poot-Poot.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Whenever you feel a little...
Monday, June 29, 2026
When I first got this...
...from my (second) ex-wife about an hour ago, I thought she had been spammed (again). Everybody with a political brain knows who that is, so why "GOP Senate Candidate"? And Iceland? Are you fucking kidding me, Iceland? I thought that it was deliberately preposterous to be funny, a spoof that the Onion would put out. And yet, with the teeniest bit of plausibility given that it's Ken Paxton. So, as I have done before as a service to my (2nd) ex, I Googled it.
It's fucking true. The bimbo with Paxton is a MAGA "influencer", Tracy Duhon. I texted my ex- back confirmation.
I then started thinking about this. This is the kind of thing that happens in one-party states. Democrats haven't won a statewide, much less a United States Senate, race in Texas since 1994. The fucking Agricultural Commissioner is a statewide elected position. Not that, not one, not any statewide race.
When there is no effective competition, in nation-states and in Toilet Nation states, the one party thinks they can run a "yellow dog" and win against the opposition. The saying is that "unless you get caught with a live boy or a dead girl, you're a shoe-in." Well, Paxton got caught with (another) live girl. Close is not cigar. Scandal magnet Paxton, the Texas Attorney General by the way, leads his challenger, Democrat James Talarico, albeit by a single point in early polling.
Toilet Nation Premier Trump, who has been caught with many live girls, endorsed Paxton in the GOP primary, partly because he saw that incumbent Senator John Cornyn was trailing badly in the polls, partly as another stop on his revenge tour (Cornyn's sin: not endorsing Trump in 2024 until after the New Hampshire primary). The most corrupt president in Toilet Nation history endorsed the most corrupt politician in Texas for many, many years (which is saying something). Seems perversely reasonable. Paxton thrashed Cornyn in the primary and now has the Texas Republican machine, including Cornyn's support, in the race against Talarico.
Democrats have died on this hill many times before. See, e.g., Beto O'Rourke. Texas is our biggest wet dream. Some day, maybe even before I die, Democrats will win a Texas statewide race, maybe even the State House, or a U.S. Senate seat. Maybe that someday will come this November. Paxton is a uniquely corrupt opponent. The last time southern Republican voters chose so corrupt a candidate, Roy Moore lost a Senate seat to a Democrat in Alabama. (Judge Roy got caught with underage girls). Doug Jones lasted three years in the Senate and was cashiered by 20 points. Who knows, maybe Jim Paxton is Texas' Roy Moore but I'm not putting money into the race. Yellow dogs still have their day.
I did Eleven a grave disservice
Updated at post time. Originally posted June 26, 12:27 am.
Oh my goodness. She was NOT being a princess when I stood at the toilet, requiring me to manually hand her down. She understood me better than I understood. Just now I was in that stepladder position again. Again, she hopped onto the toilet back and immediately onto shower stall railing. Immediately she began meowing, I thought, as I had previously, to handle her down. I stepped away and motioned to her to jump onto my shoulders three or four times. She was tempted, but hesitated and refused. Then the 💡went on in my head. I was standing in my undershirt; I shoo her away from jumping on my shoulders unless I have my special Eleven claws body armor on, a thick cotton long-sleeve shirt that my daughter bought me. I hurried to the bed where I had left the body armor shirt, hurried back, buttoning it. "Click-click," I noised and patted my shoulder. She jumped. 🫶😻We got a special thing, we do.
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."
Andrew Wiggins Opts In, Norman Powell Likely Out
The "Heat" extended Wigs two years in the deal announced today. Because of the player opt-in, ($30M cap hit) the org has only $12.5 underneath the first apron, too little to meet Powell's market value unless he agrees to stay at that discount.
Ira Winderman has made oblique criticism of Erik Spoelstra before, referring to the need for "better coaching" in addition to a litany of other necessary improvements. Here, his readers take up the theme.
Q: Ira, don’t you think Kel’el Ware was some kind of test for Erik Spoelstra and Bam Adebayo and they failed this test? Ware could’ve been the Heat’s main center and Bam could’ve adjusted as power forward. Ware exposed Spo’s and Bam’s lack of flexibility, depth, integrity. –Vip.
A: Or the Heat simply were able to get Giannis Antetokounmpo and Kel’el Ware was part of the cost. Not to constantly reiterate, but from the outside, only a scant portion of Kel’el’s Heat work was visible. There is so much more to the equation, from practices to shootarounds to strategy sessions. And even with all that, it’s not as if the Heat simply couldn’t wait to dump Kel’el, or else he previously would have been dealt for Kevin Durant. So it also can be viewed as building Kel’el up enough to make him a desired trade component.
Q: I’ve long criticized Erik Spoelstra for his inability to get consistent results from a two-big lineup (Chris Bosh/Hassan Whiteside, Bam Adebayo/Kel’el Ware). With Giannis Antetokounmpo, Bam and Bobby Portis, his hand is now forced. If these rotations fail to get results, will Spo take the blame or will fans forget his history and fault the player who is underperforming? – Rodney, Davie.
A: If a mix with Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo doesn’t work, blame will transcend not just Erik Spoelstra, but also what would turn into a miscalculation from ownership to management to the coaching staff.
I agree with both readers, although I don't know where Spoelstra's and Bam's "integrity" come in (Vip's question). Spo does not like traditional Bigs. They don't fit his positionless system. Hassan Whiteside is a sore point with me as it is with Rodney. All the guy did was lead the entire Association in rebounds one year, and the entire Association in blocks the next year. If you can't find a place for him in your positionless then maybe your coaching needs to improve. And to state the obvious, as Ira does, the Giannis-Bam partnership has to work. Period there.
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Public Occurrences June 28, 2026
The shooting from Iran and the Toilet Nation, ostensibly, is because of a new transit route through the Strait of Hormuz that is entirely in Omani waters. From the excellent nytimes article by Erika Solomon linked below:
Iran’s rulers see the newly devised routes through Omani waters as directly contradicting the fifth article of what Washington signed onto in its memorandum of understanding with Tehran.
In their reading of the vaguely worded document, this article granted Iran oversight of the waterway because it charges Iran with ensuring safe passage through the strait.
That is a not unreasonable, but overly broad, reading. The MoU does not say Iran and Oman will guarantee the Strait is kept open--because Oman had not shut it with shoot-'em-ups, only Iran did.
It also says that Iran is to conduct dialogue with Oman, the other nation bordering the strait, “to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz.”
From Iran’s perspective, analysts said, the route Oman organized with the U.N. maritime organization — and without consulting Tehran — violated that, and had to be challenged.
"Ostensibly", because Iran saw itself as losing control of the Strait in the fairest reading. Also, because it does not trust the Florida Criminal---completely understandably! Iran thinks, reasonably enough, that it is the Criminal-in-Chief who is buying time--before the midterm elections--after which he will attack Iran again, the mirror image of the Criminal Regime's mistrust of Iran, also reasonable, that it is buying time to replenish its stocks of drones and munitions in the 60-day window of the MoU.
The MoU sets the terms for a ceasefire: abide by it, both sides, and the shooting stops. But if there is a misunderstanding, the agreement does not say, go to mediation, for example; it does not say in the event of a breach by one party, "pick up the phone", as veep JD Vance said Iran should have done. That is, Iran was not violating the letter of the MoU by shooting first and agreeing to talks later (Tuesday in Doha, Qatar).
But: if Iran sincerely had been animated by the spirit of the MoU, if it had sincerely wanted a ceasefire, then it would not have started this tit-for-tat.
I don't trust Iran. After Olympic-level mental gymnastics I came out against the 2015 5+1 JCPOA. No reasonable person could believe that Iran's nuclear program was for energy production only. You don't enrich uranium far, far in excess of peaceful levels if you don't intend to build an A-bomb.
7:36 pm:
This is what it is. It is power that the Toilet Nation gave them, the Strait had never been tolled before
| the war. But it is also true that Iran has flexed its newfound muscle after signing a | "Memorandum of Understanding saying that they would not---for only 60 days. They | couldn't wait 60 days. That's bad faith. That's a bad actor. Iran cannot be trusted.
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Iran Risks Peace Talks With U.S. to Maintain Leverage Over Strait
Iran Titted Again (Bahrain, Kuwait); Fourth Day in a Row of Titting for Tatting; Florida Felon's Turn
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Public Occurrences June 27, 2026
“This is not a violation of the ceasefire; it is ceasefire management.”-Ebrahim Azizi, Iranian Parliament
AP
AP
Who? Ebrahim Azizi "heads the Iranian parliament’s national security commission." Iran, you need to sideline Ebbie. This is no time for your B-list spokesmen. That is the most inane statement. What, did Ebbie go the the iDJiT Orwellian School of Communications?
Iran has a fractured leadership problem. The people with the power are the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Ayatollah and those close to him, not the parliament's fucking national security commission.
Now listen, Iran: You signed the MoU. All you had to do is keep the Strait open for 60 days. You couldn't even wait 60 days? Iran, serious as a heart attack now: Do. NOT. Fuck. Around.
Iran Tits, Toilet Nation Tats, iDJiT. If Iran Tits Again...
5:48 pm:
"...the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist! President DJT"
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
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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
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Phosoglutamase (sp?)
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Glucose-6-phosphate
-First of three branches of metabolism map-
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Pyruvate PPP (NADPH Liver only
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-Leads to second branch-
Checking memory....
SUCCESSFUL MEMORIZATION!!!!!
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Public Occurrences June 25, 2026
Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention center has closed, governor says
With Kristi Gnome
11:30 am:
Putin’s reign may not survive the impending fall of Crimea
On the day [June 24, 2023] of [Yevgeny] Prigozhin’s uprising, Russian dead and wounded numbered just over 223,000. Three years later, Russian losses in Ukraine have swelled more than sixfold, nearing 1.4 million.
Prigozhin understood something Putin could not: The Kremlin is incapable of defeating Ukraine on a conventional military basis.
Putin’s end in Ukraine is coming. Russia cannot continue to sustain these levels of military losses. On Tuesday, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte noted that Putin is losing as many as 35,000 Russian soldiers each month. He also said that Moscow is spending 50 percent of its government budget on its military. For reference, the U.S. spends only about 15 percent of its federal budget (and no more than 9 percent of its overall combined state and national government budgets) on defense.
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Putin’s end is coming in Crimea. As we and retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges have long argued, Crimea is the decisive terrain of this war. Ukraine does not even have to retake it — it needs only to render it untenable for Russian military use. That day is now fast approaching
The struggle for Crimea will likely culminate in Ukraine finally destroying Putin’s $4 billion Kerch Bridge. Can Putin politically survive the loss of Crimea to Ukraine? We highly doubt it.
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.
All the winning candidates share Mr. Mamdani’s progressive economic platform, and they each ran campaigns that focused intently on ending American support for Israel, a sign of how far public opinion has shifted on the issue, even in New York.
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Late Tuesday night, the mayor stood beaming at a victory party in Brooklyn, where supporters chanted “Free, free Palestine” and “D.S.A.”
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...the outcome will now cement him as the unquestioned political kingmaker of the nation’s cultural and financial capital and the Democratic Socialists of America as a formidable force.
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Brad Lander, 56, a close ally whom Mr. Mamdani urged to run for Congress, ran up a staggering 30-point margin in the affluent 10th District in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. He defeated Representative Daniel Goldman, a wealthy Levi Strauss heir who had opposed the mayor in last year’s elections and had close ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby.
Our enemy now is This Israel
"Our enemy now is Canada", 'Witz, aka Isaac Clotiner's bitch at the "Rage Against Hate" conference on Oct. 27, 2025 at Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage.
Should such an arrest occur, Dershowitz vowed, “I will come up to Canada. I will defend Netanyahu, and I will go after everybody who has tried to arrest him.”
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."
Obama spoke at the Obama Foundation's Democracy Forum last Thursday, where he called for a two-state solution and an end to the "occupation," while not clarifying what occupation he meant.
"All of this is taking place against the backdrop of decades of failure to achieve a durable peace for both Israelis and Palestinians," the former president told the forum audience.
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."
The Harvard professor on Friday accused Obama of lying "through his teeth" about what the former president called an "unbearable" occupation of Gaza.
I don't know what President Obama was lying "through his teeth" about unless it's Israel's right to exist: Israel does not have the right to exist. No nation does, not the Toilet Nation, not Canada, not Ukraine. However, to continue the symmetry of this commentary on Wacko 'Witz-Bitch, I will issue a blanket charge that he is lying through his teeth.
"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."
'Witz-Bitch noted Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Oct. 16 comments to British podcaster Mishal Husain on her podcast, saying Canada would honour the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and arrest him if he entered Canada.
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."
I am in favor of cutting of all aid whatsoever to the Christian Protectorate of Israel and for canceling all federal and state contracts, and binding American companies to Boycott, Divest, and Sanction the Protectorate. I am also in favor of "tariffs", or any economic or punitive sanction(s) against 'Witz-Bitch for his "statements regarding Israel and Netanyahoo."
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."
I have a hatred of This Israel, I don't know how deep, I don't have a hatred depth finder. I have hatred for 'Witz-Bitch and it feels at least as deep.
"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."
I find 'Witz-Bitch anti-American in his attitudes.
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
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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;
-A Jewish head of state who has not committed genocide or war crimes in retaliation for the genocide and war crimes committed on his people;
-A Jewish head of state who has given the world clarity: There is no question who the good guys and the bad guys are;
-A Jewish leader has made himself and his nation an inspiration not a pariah;
-And a Jewish leader of a Christian nation who will defeat the Antichrist.
Slava Ukraini
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"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
Davion Mitchell
Norman Powell
Andrew Wiggins
Bam Adebayo
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Bobby Portis
Pelle Larsson
Keshad Johnson
Simone Fontecchio
Myron Gardner
Norman Powell
Andrew Wiggins
Bam Adebayo
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Rotation players:
Bobby Portis
Pelle Larsson
Keshad Johnson
Simone Fontecchio
Myron Gardner
Miami's championship odds immediately plummeted from 30-1 to 18-1.
MIAMI GETS GIANNIS!
OFFICIAL: GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO
TRADED TO MIAMI!!!!!
Shams Charania
@ShamsCharania
Heat president Pat Riley now makes his long-anticipated new landmark acquisition, with Antetokounmpo joining elite Miami pickups such as LeBron James, Shaquille O’Neal, Chris Bosh, Alonzo Mourning and Jimmy Butler over the past 30-plus years. Riley will pair the two-time NBA MVP and 2021 Finals MVP with Bam Adebayo to lead contention in the Eastern Conference.
After informing teams that they were open for business at the NBA draft combine in May, Bucks general manager Jon Horst landed a haul with the Heat’s offer that brings high-level starting/rotation players and young talent, as well as significant draft capital.
bleacherreport
40m
BREAKING: Giannis has been traded to the Heat per @shams🚨😱
OMG. 🤯🤯🤯
SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED
Giannis Next Team Odds
Kalshi 11:52 PM:
Miami 99%
Stays with Milwaukee or retires 1%
Polymarket 11:53 PM:
Miami 98%
Minnesota <1%
Boston <1%
Milwaukee <1%
Monday, June 22, 2026
Among the many individuals I would like to strangle are Beer's front office. They have a rotating NBA governor, this year it's Jimmy Haslam, last year it was Whit-somebody. But the governor's rotating out are still on the decision-making board. It's a collective, a committee, and you know what they say about horses designed by committees.
So in that vein there are now reports that there is a "split" on the committee (who'd a thunk it?). Some want to get a star back, that would be Jaylen Brown; some want the greater "quality" of Miami's future draft picks. You think beautiful women make a man go cross-eyed? Well, when you're a billionaire sports team owner, the beautiful women are those nameless, faceless, grade-schoolers, middle-schoolers and high-schoolers who make up future draft classes. Billionaire owners see swans swimming in the future, there are no ugly ducklings. They see that Jaylen Brown is a knockout, but compared to what the imagination can see, he's a beauty for sure, but one who is getting a little long in the tooth and has a mole here and there.
That's the holdup right now (reportedly). That's why I want to strangle Beer's committee. The cognos now say the trade will be announced right prior to the draft, tomorrow at 8 pm.
Ira Winderman
@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.
@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.
Yes, and his talk should be short, "I resign."
If he misses on another "whale" it will be because of the same reason that he missed on others: he overvalues his roster. He can't make reasonable judgments anymore.
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.
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@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
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👆Bound to be beat: that is how I have always seen the "Heat's" offer.
Public Occurrences June 22, 2026
Keir Starmer, British Prime Minister, Labour Party Leader, Resigns After Inept Tenure
Sunday, June 21, 2026
I Like Ike lol
DERSHOWITZ: The other day there was a fund-raiser event on the Vineyard sponsored by Democratic Jews. The Jewish Democrats is the name of the organization, the Jewish Democrats. Now, if you ask a hundred people to name the five most well-known Jewish Democrats on Martha’s Vineyard . . .
CHOTINER: You want me to do that now, or are you saying hypothetically?
DERSHOWITZ: No, hypothetically.
Oh my fucking God, 'Witz, first of all 'Witz, you are "disgusting" as Larry David said, but the larger point is, you were killed during that interview, you died, you're DEAD. You're dead now! I don't know who your wife or family, or friends, but you don't have any, so your wife or family, I don't know who they got to impersonate you these last four years but that's not you, you're dead and buried under an olive tree in Israel, or you were cremated and your ashes buried under an olive tree in Israel as fertilizer but you, your ashes or your disgusting corpse, poisoned the olive tree and killed it.
The markets are aligning, the intel is aligning, Greg Cote is aligned...
Every sign without exception, and combined, is that Giannis Antetokounmpo is headed to the Miami "Heat".
The "Heat" and "Bucks" are putting the "finishing touches", in the wording of NBA reporter Evan Sidery, on the trade. It is going to be a complex three-team or four-team round robin to get Beer what it needs. That has been the reason for the holdup. Detroit is the most-mentioned other team. The heaters most often mentioned as going are Tyler Herro, Kel'el Ware, and Jaime Jaquez, Jr. (plus draft picks).
Ukraine is Winning the War with Russia🌻
Ukrainian attacks prompt Russian-held Crimea to halt civilian gasoline sales
Canada, France, Germany, the UK.: "We, the Germans, the British, and the French – all share the view that the situation in this war has fundamentally changed. It’s only a matter of time, but Putin will lose this war."– Mark Carney. CNN
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To my Jewish friends
We have reached a state of mutual embarrassment in our relations that necessitates a pause. The issues between us: Israel's conduct of its wars, American Jewry's support for Israel and its wars, and most recently a strain of savage thought that Israel is unburdened by international law, mores and even millennia of Jewish ethical philosophy because Hamas was unburdened by them in the horrors perpetrated on Oct. 7. I summarize this ugly new thought as it was articulated by a Jewish friend and lawyer in text messages:
You have a right to retaliate but you have to do so thoughtfully--
June 20, me:
where did you get this? "you have a right to retaliate" there is no "right to retaliate" in domestic criminal law nor international law.
(It was clear to me that this was not his, my friend's, thought but that of someone else and I repeatedly asked him the source(s). I attached screenshots of the most general principles that distinguish retaliation and self-defense and which makes the former universally illegal and the latter legal, distinctions that he, like I, are intimately familiar with.)
June 20: My friend refused to "answer any more questions" regarding the source of this non-existent "right to retaliation" and concluded,
Self defense if that’s the only thing you can do I wipe my ass with international law
It means zero at that point to be (sic "me")
June 20: My friend refused to "answer any more questions" regarding the source of this non-existent "right to retaliation" and concluded,
Self defense if that’s the only thing you can do I wipe my ass with international law
It means zero at that point to be (sic "me")
Saturday, June 20, 2026
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Public Occurrences June 20, 2026
Iran closes Strait of Hormuz and accuses US and Israel of violating ceasefire deal
The Christian Protectorate only killed 16 and only two children in strikes Saturday; on Friday the kill total was better in "heavy fighting", 47 Lebanese and four Israeli gunmen; Yair Netanyahoo, the Protectorate Governor's son, who is monitoring the action from his Hallandale Beach, Florida, Toilet Nation bunker, was not among them.
The Face of Israel, Yair Netanyahoo
Good, very early, Saturday morning Elle and Gee Publoccians! The coddled, draft-dodging, dilettante, Israeli, slob, coward, below is guess who!...the son of Governor Benjamin Netanyahoo, of the Christian Protectorate of Israel!
Google AI
The comments on the Facebook post above are exquisite:
Friday, June 19, 2026
Mistake on the Lake
A hideous monument to a monumental man: The Obama Center opened today in Chicago.
Public Occurrences Juneteenth, 2026
The JCPOA took 17 months to negotiate and bound by signature seven countries and the EU. The first part of the Florida Criminal's deal was negotiated in, two weeks?, was signed by tyoo countries--but seeks to bind I don't know how many, including Israel and the Toilet Nation's Arab "regional partners" without their involvement or signatures. So, a day after the Toilet Nation and Iran signed, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Israel restarted their shoot-'em-ups endangering the whole thing. Surprise!
9:26 am:
AP
Oh Trumpie, you poor thing. You are so dumb, you can't help it. Just claim victory and if I may suggest, commit suicide. It's painless they say.
Talks between the US and Iran are called off because of fighting in Lebanon, officials say
JERUSALEM (AP) — Talks between the U.S. and Iran were called off Friday after intense fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, officials said, raising questions about an initial agreement to end the war in Iran.
Oh Trumpie, you poor thing. You are so dumb, you can't help it. Just claim victory and if I may suggest, commit suicide. It's painless they say.
Thursday, June 18, 2026
“I’ve been cancelled, basically, by the Chilmark Library. That has resulted in lots of people in Chilmark calling me and calling the library and saying, ‘We’re being deprived of Alan’s annual speech.'”
“Not one single person has contacted me to complain that they haven’t had a chance to hear Alan speak.”--Ebba Hierta, Chilmark Library director.
"The audiences are being deprived of my voice as the result of a deliberate cancellation decision. So it’s not me who’s being cancelled. It’s the audiences who are being cancelled. ...The same thing is true of the Martha’s Vineyard book fair. Every year, I was invited to speak at the Martha’s Vineyard book fair. Suddenly it stopped when I defended the Constitution on behalf of Trump."
“We have who we think are the most important writers.”--Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival to The New Yorker.
The Spirit of '26
June 18, 2026, 12:49 p.m. ETJune 18, 2026
Andy Newman
“For as long as we live, we will remember this feeling of a city together, a city alive, a city overcome by happiness.”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani
June 18, 2026, 4:15 p.m. ETJune 18, 2026
Maria Cramer
Police said they estimated that two million people lined the parade route and the surrounding streets.
Eryn Davis
The sense of camaraderie that defined the Knicks’ playoff run was palpable, as strangers exchanged high-fives, hugged and cheered
Lexi Parra
Some police officers along the route are wearing Knicks jerseys under their uniforms to show their support for the team.
Some police officers along the route are wearing Knicks jerseys under their uniforms to show their support for the team.
A dialysis technician from Brownsville, Brooklyn, watched the sun rise over Lower Manhattan, basking in the eerie hush before the festivities erupted. A doorman on Wall Street took the overnight shift so he could secure his spot on the parade route, sporting orange and blue socks under his uniform. A dentist from Long Island stood on Broadway at 6 a.m. wearing an orange-and-blue turban wrapped by his wife, who said she’d waited her whole life for this one day.
The Joy of Knicks, Game 5
Crying with joy
Today
Jumping for joy
Running for joy
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