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Ben Adler retweeted
Guards with a 45-point closeout game in the Finals (since merger): — Michael Jordan — Jalen Brunson That's it.
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The Knicks trailed by 17 points with less than 9 minutes to go.   Entering today, teams were 0-96 when trailing by 17 points in the final 9 minutes of regulation of a Finals game since 1970-71. The Knicks have just made that 1-96.
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Ben Adler retweeted
Teams down 20 points in postseason last 2 years: Knicks 5-3 Rest of NBA: 4-71
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This is really, actually, no-kidding the disclaimer Hannity ran after his interview with Todd Blanche
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oh my goodness -- Ted Lieu played Rubio a video of Trump sleeping while Rubio tried to talk to him during a cabinet meeting. Then this exchange happened: RUBIO: I've never seen him fall asleep LIEU: I'm gonna show you a video that shows you just lied to Congress *plays another video of Trump sleeping by Rubio*
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Ben Adler retweeted
BREAKING: Aimee-Leigh and Baby Billy Freeman have pulled out of the Great American State Fair.
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Freedom 250 announces the music icons who will be performing at the Great American State Fair on the National Mall June 25 through July 10: - Martina McBride | June 25 - C C Music Factory | June 26 - Vanilla Ice | June 26 - Milli Vanilli | June 26 -Young MC | June 26 - The Commodores | June 27 - Morris Day and The Time | June 27 - Flo Rida | July 2 - Bret Michaels | July 3
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Bill Clinton has a random run-in with Loretta Lynch at an airport in 2016 - MASSIVE, WEEKS LONG SCANDAL JD Vance attends a private dinner with Chief Justice Roberts while the Court considers multiple Trump Admin lawsuits - "social call" ... "friendly pop-by"
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Still utterly insane to me that this is a real video of Epstein from way before Trump became nationally relevant.
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May 22
Trump: I’m looking at Jaxon… I'm looking at the legs there. He's this beautiful guy. He's got legs like tree trunks. This is not a good thing for women.
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Ben Adler retweeted
Jim Dolan's Madison Square Garden continues to ban lawyers they don't like. The latest: an attorney who represents a NYPD cop. The cop was working off-duty at MSG, got involved in an altercation, and was (allegedly) hospitalized for spinal injuries. He's now banned.
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It’s a challenge even in friendships
nobody talks about the Bike Gap in relationships in new york. but if one partner is gonna be biking once summer comes and the other partner is not biking that shit is doomed to fail
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I'm starting to think these LIRR guys may not be especially reasonable
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"work rules requiring 3x day’s pay if asked to drive 3 different trains on a shift"?!
Striking union LIRR locomotive engineer George Barreto, picketing MTA headquarters Monday, on the job for 28 years. Lives in Philly. Makes ~$200,000/year. He says of work rules requiring 3x day’s pay if asked to drive 3 different trains on a shift… (1/2)
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I have been laughing at this for the better part of an hour
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NYT: “You’ve been talking on your show about whether Trump is the Antichrist” Tucker Carlson: “I have not said that” NYT: *plays clip of him saying that*
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NEW: The FBI and Federal prosecutors in New York say they've charged Sean Pildes, the leader of "SantaCon" an annual charity fundraiser in NYC, with allegedly pocketing a significant amount of the proceeds himself. Pildes was arrested this morning and charged with wire fraud.
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