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Delta Airlines planes sit parked at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Wings Week

Who’s Afraid Of A Palestinian Flag Pin?

Klay Thompson #11, Andrew Wiggins #22, Jonathan Kuminga #00, and Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors look on from the bench during the game against the Sacramento Kings during the 2024 Play-In Tournament

This Is So Stupid

An Attempt To Draw This Overstuffed Sentence About Klay Thompson Leaving The Warriors

Bill Belichick at a press conference for the Patriots.

Life's Rich Pageant

Each New Detail About How Bill Belichick Met His Girlfriend Is The Opposite Of Romantic

Al Horford reacts during the Boston Celtics' Game 5 against the Cleveland Cavaliers

The Celtics Are Waiting For A Real Challenge

Harrison Butker delivers commencement speech at Benedictine College

Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker’s Inspirational Message To Graduating Catholics: Be Worse

A line of police at City College during pro-Gaza demonstrations

Interviews

A City College Student Journalist Shares What He Saw During The NYPD Crackdown

NYPD officers in riot gear enter Columbia University's encampment

Politics

The Outside Agitators On Campus Were The Police

The Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University.

The Crackdown Explains The Protest

Caitlin Clark daps up Jake From State Farm, for some reason, at the WNBA Draft

Send Jake To A Farm Upstate

Brock Burke pitches for the Texas Rangers

Rangers’ Brock Burke Disrupts Recent Spate Of Pitcher Elbow Injuries, Breaks His Hand

Palestinian children are standing next to a bombed-out WCK vehicle in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

The Exchange Rate On Palestinian Life

Journalismism

Second Iteration Of Deadspin Now Also Dead

Palestinians, who are unable to meet their basic needs due to the Israeli army's obstruction of humanitarian aid, receive a bag of flour from an aid truck that arrived at al-Rashid Street in the west of Gaza City, Gaza.

The Status Quo In Gaza Is Death

The New York Times Ignores Intense Scrutiny Of Its Oct. 7 Report

Thomas Friedman of the New York Times doing a PBS interview

New York Times Pays Thomas Friedman To Compare The Middle East To Bugs

The New York Times’ David Leonhardt Turns In A Nasty Piece Of Work

Head coach Mike McCarthy of the Dallas Cowboys watches action during the second half of the NFC Wild Card Playoff game against the Green Bay Packers

It’s Time To Make Fun Of The Bamboozling Disgrace That Is The Dallas Cowboys

A view of an ESPN Monday Night Football logo on a TV camera.

If The NFL Buys A Stake In ESPN, Expect More Ass-Kissing

Patrick Mahomes of the Chiefs has a cracked helmet during Saturday's playoff game against the Dolphins.

Have You Heard? It Was Cold In Kansas City

Christian Harris drags Joe Flacco to the ground in the Browns-Texans wild card game.

The Texans Send Joe Flacco Back To His Couch

Palestinians carry a list of Gaza victims during a rally amid a general strike in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian Suffering Is Never As Urgent As The Counterfactual

David Tepper Got What He Paid For With Frank Reich

Deion Sanders jogs onto the field with the Colorado Buffaloes

College Football

Deion Sanders’s First Season At Colorado Ends With A Whimper

Premature babies are moved from their incubators to another location at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.