Sorry to break the @Bowers3 rule and taint the politics thread with sports related stuff but this is sort of political and also pretty sickening. My excitement for college sports drops each year that goes by with this stuff.
US continues to go backward...
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We only had one 6th grader in middle school ibasketball this year and well it was a young team so we struggled a bit. His last tournament he was really bummed-crying after the last game because that was it for him and basketball in our team uniform. He's really into hockey so going to the high school next year might have been the last time he plays any sort of organized basketball. Plus next year we should be pretty good at basketball except we are losing our center so hopefully one of the 4th graders really shoots up over the summer because the only 5th grader we had this year (it was a young team) is pretty short himself.
Anyways you got a link to the article I can send his parents?
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Speaker Mike Johnson said that he doesn't believe "it's time" to call for Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales' resignation amid an alleged affair scandal.
Fellow House Republicans have pushed back, calling for Gonzales to resign or drop out of his bid for reelection.
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Fellow House Republicans have pushed back, calling for Gonzales to resign or drop out of his bid for reelection.
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Speaker Mike Johnson said that he doesn't believe "it's time" to call for Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales' resignation amid an alleged affair scandal. Fellow House Republicans have pushed back, calling for Gonzales to resign or drop out of his bid for reelection.
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Israel won’t help us fight their war so we have to go to Greece for ship plumbing problems.
FYI this guy says sh!.. at the end of the video. NSFW audio.
FYI this guy says sh!.. at the end of the video. NSFW audio.
NYPD shows up to a planned snowball fight between residents and are suprised when they get snowballs thrown at them.
Duh!
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At least they didn't shoot anyone... They showed more constraint than ICE, but yeah pretty weak to show up to a planned snowball fight and then get mad about it.
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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, several Republican members of Congress are openly defying Mike Johnson and calling for the resignation of Congressman Tony Gonzales. Gonzales had an affair with a staff member who later took her own life.
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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, several Republican members of Congress are openly defying Mike Johnson and calling for the resignation of Congressman Tony Gonzales. Gonzales had an affair with a staff member who later took her own life. Even Republicans won't defend him anymore.
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RAJU: Should your committee look into Kash Patel's use of federal jets for personal issues?
JIM JORDAN: Manu, this was an all American, apple pie moment as possible. And you guys are gonna talk about Kash Patel?
RAJU: I'm talking about his use of govt resources to do personal things
JORDAN: I think he was over there because of security
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JIM JORDAN: Manu, this was an all American, apple pie moment as possible. And you guys are gonna talk about Kash Patel?
RAJU: I'm talking about his use of govt resources to do personal things
JORDAN: I think he was over there because of security
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RAJU: Should your committee look into Kash Patel's use of federal jets for personal issues? JIM JORDAN: Manu, this was an all American, apple pie moment as possible. And you guys are gonna talk about Kash Patel? RAJU: I'm talking about his use of govt resources to do personal things JORDAN: I...
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MAGA eats itself alive ahead of Candace Owens’ Erika Kirk expose
The conservative movement credited with propelling Donald Trump to victory is tearing itself apart with claims of “satanic” influence and paid smear campaigns over an upcoming “investigative series.”On Monday, Candace Owens, 36, teased a multi-part YouTube series on Erika Kirk, 37, the widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated at Utah Valley University in September, aged 31.
The trailer for “Bride of Charlie,” which will premiere this Wednesday, opens with coverage of Charlie’s killing before pivoting to his wife—now CEO of Turning Point—and ends with Erika wearing a crown.
The promo poster for Owens' upcoming show, which has MAGA eating itself. / X
The trailer immediately detonated on the right.
Donald Trump-linked influencer Laura Loomer said on X that it was “depraved” and “total harassment of a woman trying to be graceful and carry on her husband’s legacy.”
Veteran conservative talker Mark Levin, 68, joined the pile-on with a post contrasting Owens with Kirk. “Candace Owens will never have the class, intelligence, decency, kindness, or beauty of Erika Kirk. And she knows it,” Levin wrote, adding that Erika’s children would grow up “loving and respecting” their mother, while it was “highly unlikely in Owens’ case.”
On his podcast, former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino, 51, went even further and unleashed a deranged and expletive-filled rant at Owens and anyone backing the doc.
“F--k you. Go f--k yourself, you demonic f-----g scum,” he told viewers, before adding that those encouraging criticism of Erika “deserve to feel the little licks of the flames of hell on every inch of your body.”
Bongino, who told fans “we have to excise this cancer” and urged anyone supporting Owens to “just get the f--k out” of his audience, was accused by one prominent influencer of provoking violence by depicting a fellow conservative as a demonic threat.
Dan Bongino urged anyone supporting Owens to “just get the f--k out” of his audience. / Rumble
Far-right podcaster Stew Peters—a conspiracy-peddling shock jock—said: “He’s trying to get Candace Owens killed.”
Social media has been flooded since Monday with conservatives branding Owens a “demon,” among them popular right-wing account @catturd2—which has 4 million followers—who declared Tuesday that she was “pure evil” and “a demon straight from the bowels of hell.”
Former UFC fighter Jake Shields had a good laugh at so many people using the same words about Owen. / X
The near-identical wording used across dozens of posts sparked allegations of a coordinated anti-Owens smear campaign, with some influencers claiming people had been paid to bash her online. Hard-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, 41, who posts under the handle @Nero, went so far as to claim he had a “list” of people involved.
The Daily Beast could not independently verify whether any such list exists. Yiannopoulos was contacted for comment.
Yiannopoulos, a known provocateur, claims to have the receipts.... / X
The fury is all the more striking because much of it is coming from longtime ideological allies of Owens. Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro, 42, branded her “evil trash” for “making money off the murder of Charlie Kirk by literally implicating his widow and everyone else at [Turning Point USA] in that murder.”
The “Bride of Charlie” project is the latest escalation in a feud that began when Owens launched her own “investigation” into Kirk’s murder, spinning theories about security failures and suggesting powerful forces may have wanted him dead.
She has since accused Erika of suffering “Meghan Markle syndrome,” implied she had a “strange relationship” with a 15-year-old girl, and leaked audio of the new TPUSA boss sounding upbeat on a staff call days after her husband’s death.
In a December town-hall conversation with CBS News, she urged conspiracy theorists to “stop… that’s all I have to say. Stop.”
Days later, she held a four-and-a-half-hour private summit with Owens that both later described as a “very productive” meeting, even as their disagreements over Kirk’s assassination have lingered.
That appears not to have quelled Owens’ determination to plow on in her vendetta.
In the trailer, Owens promises to probe questions about Kirk that others “won’t touch,” suggesting this is merely the opening salvo to this latest MAGA war.
The Daily Beast has contacted representatives for Owens, Kirk, Bongino, Levin, and Peters for comment.
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US women’s hockey team captain: Trump joke ‘distasteful’ the hill
Hilary Knight, the captain of the gold medal-winning U.S. women’s hockey team, said Wednesday that President Trump’s “distasteful” joke about her squad should not overshadow their accomplishments.
“I just thought the joke was distasteful and unfortunate, and I think just the way women are represented, it’s a great teaching point to really shine light on how women should be championed for their amazing feats,” Knight told reporters Wednesday...
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Members of the men’s and women’s teams have touted their relationship with each other in recent days.
Knight, who has represented the U.S. in the past five Winter Olympics, said on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” Wednesday that “there’s a genuine level of support there and respect” between the two teams “that’s being overshadowed by a quick lapse.”
Jack Hughes, who scored the winning goal in the victory over Canada, struck a similar tone Wednesday on Trump’s remarks.
“You’re in the moment and the president calls. We’re blaring the music. It is what it is,” Hughes told reporters, after his first game back with the New Jersey Devils, according to The Associated Press.
“We have so much respect for the women’s team, and they have so much respect for us,” he added. “We are all just proud Americans.”
Hilary Knight, the captain of the gold medal-winning U.S. women’s hockey team, said Wednesday that President Trump’s “distasteful” joke about her squad should not overshadow their accomplishments.
“I just thought the joke was distasteful and unfortunate, and I think just the way women are represented, it’s a great teaching point to really shine light on how women should be championed for their amazing feats,” Knight told reporters Wednesday...
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Members of the men’s and women’s teams have touted their relationship with each other in recent days.
Knight, who has represented the U.S. in the past five Winter Olympics, said on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” Wednesday that “there’s a genuine level of support there and respect” between the two teams “that’s being overshadowed by a quick lapse.”
Jack Hughes, who scored the winning goal in the victory over Canada, struck a similar tone Wednesday on Trump’s remarks.
“You’re in the moment and the president calls. We’re blaring the music. It is what it is,” Hughes told reporters, after his first game back with the New Jersey Devils, according to The Associated Press.
“We have so much respect for the women’s team, and they have so much respect for us,” he added. “We are all just proud Americans.”
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remind me again; what was the reasoning for doing away with DEI?!
Although Means was educated as a physician, she is not licensed to practice medicine. She is considered a leader of the Make America Healthy Again movement. On May 7, 2025, President Donald Trump nominated Means as surgeon general, following his withdrawal of his earlier nomination of Janette Nesheiwat.
Although Means was educated as a physician, she is not licensed to practice medicine. She is considered a leader of the Make America Healthy Again movement. On May 7, 2025, President Donald Trump nominated Means as surgeon general, following his withdrawal of his earlier nomination of Janette Nesheiwat.
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