Wednesday, July 01, 2026
BEANS JETTISON JAYLEN BROWN TO PHILA. FOR PAUL GEORGE JOHN RINGO
Phil. hands over two first round draft picks and two seconds to get the 2024 Finals MVP.
I am SHOCKED by Brad Stevens. Beans is worse off now than they were at end of 2025/26 season when they won 56 games and were eliminate by Seven Foot Sixers. Horrible trade by Stevens.
...swapping Brown for George makes the Celtics worse. It clearly makes them worse. Crucially, it lowers their playoff ceiling...
It's utterly strange that the Celtics would willingly take such a giant step back. This is the most successful franchise of the decade: In the 2020s, Boston ranks first in regular-season wins and playoff wins, and it's the only team to both win a championship and make another Finals.
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Clearly, the Celtics decided that their relationship with Brown had soured past the point of no return, following various small mishaps and the rumors that he'd be included in an Antetokounmpo trade. But even in a deal-him-at-all-costs scenario, this return is mighty underwhelming.
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Half a decade ago, George would have been a solid cornerstone in a Brown trade, but at 36 years old, he has declined significantly from his peak.
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Brad Stevens has nailed almost every move -- big and small -- since becoming the Celtics' president of basketball operations. It almost feels wrong to question his expertise. But if this was the best return the Celtics could find for Brown, then it's difficult not to think that they should have tried to patch up that relationship, rather than drastically reduce their 2026-27 title odds and not even save much money in the deal.
The entire process of this trade, from its impetus to its ultimate execution, is baffling.
I agree 100%.
Melat Kiros
I don't know why Lefties cannot adopt my reasonable, "nuanced" (a Jewish friend's characterization) stance on This Israel, viz, Netanyahoo has committed genocide and war crimes; no Palestinian state; end all Toilet Nation funding and arming of This Israel; intervene only to save This Israel from extermination. See? Simple lol.
It is pathognomonic of Toilet Nation politics that once one moves off dead center and leans either left or right, the lean sometimes leads to complete loss of balance and the turd falls with a splat onto the floor as if it were obeying Newton's law that a body in motion stays in motion. This interesting political phenomenon is captured by the maxim, "Scratch a liberal, find a communist; scratch a conservative, find a fascist."
I don't know why lawyers (my friend above and Ms. Kiros are lawyers), both those who are pro-Israel and those who are pro-Palestine, can't address their disagreements as they are trained to in an individual criminal case where the relevant facts are delimited by the four corners of the complaint; where prior bad acts evidence of the accused or the complainant for explanatory "context" is exceedingly rare; where a reductio argument is thereby prohibited and an endless trial avoided. Just the facts, ma'am.
The charging document at bar is confined to the actions of defendant Hamas on one date only, October 7, 2023.
Now, to the lawyer for defendant Hamas.
Melat Kiros was a lawyer at a New York law firm. She was fired in November, 2023 for refusing to take down her blog post that was in response to an open letter written by 100 top law firms (including her own) to the deans of elite law schools. The law firms' letter was 283 words long. Eleven of those words were enough to tip Ms. Kiros over:
"Over the last several weeks, we have been alarmed at reports of anti-Semitic harassment, vandalism and assaults on college campuses, including rallies calling for the death of Jews and the elimination of the State of Israel. Such anti-Semitic activities..."
Ms. Kiros wrote a 1,999 word response, the opening paragraph of which contains the sixteen words bolded below:
"This letter rightfully rebukes the anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and bigotry of all kinds that has spiked in recent weeks, but then goes on (to my confusion) to cite “calls for the elimination of the Israeli state” as anti-Semitism."
She's confused. Ms. Kiros is confused that calls for the elimination of the only Jewish state in existence are deemed anti-Jewish.
Blink.
The entire sentence is 39 words long, leaving Ms. Kiros only 1,960 to write about...what? Second paragraph:
"Anti-semitism has fittingly been called “the longest hatred.” It has been so for thousands of years and has led to the death and suffering of millions of Jewish people around the world. To conflate such bigotry with the geo-political question of Israel’s legitimacy is one of the greatest travesties in this conflict."
I'm confused: How did we get from "elimination" to "legitimacy"? Is she using those terms synonymously? There are absolutely not synonyms, they are not even close. An "illegitimate" child is not "eliminated": euthanized, put to death, exterminated. And the other way around, to question Israel's "legitimacy" (if you would define a nation-state's "legitimacy" Congresswoman-to-be, that would be he'pful) is not ipso facto to call for its elimination. So I don't know what she's talking about.
Be that as it may, that's another 52 words. She has only 1,908 left!
This is how she begins her third paragraph:
"Take, for example, the accusation of apartheid."
OBJECTION!
Sustained.
Paragraph fo':
"There are deep, historical, and religious wounds that plague this conflict and cloud our ability to judge it clearly..."
Objection.
Sustained.
"Historic Palestine was promised by a brutalizing imperial power..."
Come sidebar.
Counsel for the defendant admonished.
"Colonialism, as we so intimately know, cannot take place without violence against its indigenous people."
Pause for contempt hearing.
"Instead of acknowledging their plight as a direct result of Israel’s occupation..."
Found in contempt of court.
"Corruption that led to the slaughter of 15,000 Palestinians, the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians, and the capture of 78% of Palestinian land in 1948."
Sentenced to seven days incarceration.
"Corruption that uses the excuse of “security concerns” to justify Israel’s apartheid..."
"Violence corrupts the soul, and it does so by breeding more violence. There has never been, in the history of the entire human race, a people whose land was violently taken from them, whose freedoms and rights were relegated to second-class citizenship, and whose very existence was systematically threatened by its occupier, who did not resist with violence in kind."
Jail sentence increased to 10 days.
"The most shameful chapters in our global history have always resulted from one group’s inability to separate another group’s identities and experiences from our shared humanity."
Huh?
"There is no justification for the attacks on Israel on October 7th, just as there is no justification for the disproportionate and collective punishment being waged on the Palestinian people by the Israeli government in retaliation, but it cannot be forgotten that violence does not occur in a vacuum."
Jury excused. Defendant Hamas asks leave of Court to make ore tenus pro se motion.
Permission granted.
Defendant Hamas avers that Melat Kiros has just "shot me in the head", argues that she is per se ineffective and asks Court to discharge Ms. Kiros, declare a mistrial and appoint new counsel.
Granted. Granted. Granted.
Judge modifies original contempt sentence to an increased 30 day minimum commitment to mental health facility.
Legitimates and Illegitimates of Denver, we give you YOUR NEXT CONGRESSWOMAN, MELAT KIROS!
Public Occurrences July 2, 2026
Trump made over $1B last year from crypto currency, real estate, and watches
As the Pentagon stays quiet, AP reconstructs a US strike that killed over 100 Iranian children
NEW YORK (AP) — The real estate mogul has become the billion-dollar crypto man.
President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure report showed he took in about $1.2 billion last year from various crypto holdings, overshadowing a real estate business that brought him fame and helped propel him to the nation’s top office.
Whereas it took decades for Trump to amass his various properties, the rise of crypto in his portfolio was done in just over a year, a stunning development sped along by his own friendly policies toward the industry and help from billionaires and other actors with important business before the presidency.
Running over 900 pages, the mandatory annual report showed Trump struck several other new veins of wealth last year, raising questions about whether he is profiting from his high office.
He took in tens of millions from new property holdings in foreign countries eager to please a man with power over where to deploy the U.S. military and how much to charge in tariffs. And he got tens of million more suing media companies worried they could lose their broadcast licenses or not get deals approved by his regulators.
Ever the salesman, Trump even made big money off the smallest of things, pulling in millions by slapping his name on Bibles, guitars and watches — the latter alone bringing in $4.7 million.
As the Pentagon stays quiet, AP reconstructs a US strike that killed over 100 Iranian children
JERUSALEM (AP) — It was the deadliest reported strike in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, and most of the victims were children. In almost any other conflict, these haunting truths would be seared into national memory. Yet more than 120 days since at least one U.S. missile struck an Iranian primary school, there remains no final accounting of what happened.
Because the victors write history and the Toilet Nation has the power, the will, and amorality to coverup, to lie,to deny, to write their own false narrative of history. And because the 100 children were barely human to them, only Muslims and Iranians.
Norman Powell Gone
A free agent, he signed with Male Cows today, two years, $45M, double what Miami could offer.
REDS!!!😂👏
Democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeats 15-term incumbent in Colorado House primary
Twenty-nine-year-old beat representative Diana DeGette in deep-blue Denver district
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