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Family of scammers successfully completes scam, suckers who thought they were in on the scam but actually were the marks shocked at this turn of events
www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/t...
Can Donald Trump ruin the World Cup? He's sure giving it his best shot.
My latest at Public Notice:
www.publicnotice.co/p/world-cup-...
At their best, sports can create community. And when Trump gets booed at the Knicks game, it will be the community telling him to get lost.
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From this article: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/n...
Real man-of-the-people stuff here:
"when he has discussed the team in recent weeks, he has for the most part gravitated toward one name — not Brunson, Hart, or KAT, but James Dolan, the team’s famously unpopular owner, who Mr. Trump describes as 'nice' and said had invited him to the finals"
Conservatives pretending to care about LA reminds me of conservatives pretending to care about women's sports
Have to admit there's a part of me, when I hear people predict the inevitable crash of this meme stock, that thinks "But what if it doesn't? What if they keep getting more idiots to pump up the value based on fantasies of future revenue? Might they keep it up for another 50 or 60 years?" Who knows.
I'll be going live at 2pm eastern with the great @paulwaldman.bsky.social to discuss Trump's ill-fated insurrectionist slush fund, the implosion of Freedom 250, where things are going (or not going) in Iran, Platner, and we'll also take questions from viewers.
Tune in:
In this piece I interrogate the aesthetics of “authenticity” and why Graham Platner was so compelling in the first place. If nothing else, we should try to understand our own reactions to a candidate like him.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/graham-pla...
Just noting that 172,000 jobs created is better than expected, but would have been far *below average* during the Biden administration. Yet Politico describes it as "'ON FIRE': Blowout jobs report"
www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
