Can confirm: The DNC has told the Uncommitted delegates that no Palestinian will be allowed to speak from the stage, even with a vetted speech

Three days at Fanatics Fest, Michael Rubin's hollow monument to sports and culture: defector.com/three-days-at-…

For Defector, I attended all 3 days of Fanatics Fest, where I attempted to match the mindset/grindset of Gary Vaynerchuk, a.k.a. Gary Vee, who said his own Fanatics Fest gameplan was to "just be in sports culture heavy." Here's my dispatch: defector.com/three-days-at-…

This is an extremely pro-Harris, pro-Democratic Party speech from a Palestinian American elected official. And yet, the DNC still won’t allow it.

Garry Tan!

Legitimately one of the most depressing reads I've encountered in a while. I'm crying. I'm laughing. But I'm mostly crying.

“Everything seemed to be spelled correctly, which made me wonder if a company other than Fanatics had printed the clothes.” -⁦Alex Shultz⁩ defector.com/three-days-at-…

One other v important tidbit from Fanatics Fest: while spending hours standing in line waiting for various panels to start, I made it to 7th place on the “Match & Win” mini game, playable on the official Fanatics Fest app. My Fanatics Fest legacy is cemented

Earlier this month, I interviewed Mohammad "Medo" Halimy, a Palestinian content creator whose vlogs showed the reality of life under bombardment in Gaza. Today, it's been reported that he succumbed to wounds sustained in an Israeli airstrike. He was 19. time.com/7008780/tiktok…

Fun fact: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver donated $1,000 to Mondaire Jones in June. Spotted that today among other FEC filings! Then I checked the rest of Silver's donations for this year, and saw he also gave to Nikki Haley during the GOP primaries

Senate candidate Royce White's campaign website features a thought-provoking Q posed by Jason Whitlock: Could you imagine if LeBron James had Royce White's balls?

begging the man who made you for money through the press does not strike me as a showing of strength, as far as presidential campaigns are concerned

he's 3 years too late on recording one of these whiney vids lamenting how a drugstore he wandered into = the fall of civilization. the masses have fully come around to the correct take, which is it's wildly annoying for CVS, Walgreens, etc to keep almost all their merch locked up

Honestly nice of Tim to post part of his job interview with Tenet Media on here

Gavin Newsom nodding solemnly as Google Gemini suggest building housing with Elmer's glue