Denis retweeted
Wow.
Bob Costas was 18 when his father dropped dead at JFK airport. At the wake, a man handed him a thick envelope with $6,000 in $100 bills. It was everything his father left behind, and a bookie would never have paid it to a dead man.
In the video below, he tells the story himself.
His father, John, was a big-time gambler. Not casinos, not racetracks. Ball games. Bob says the mortgage was literally riding on his bets.
When the games went the wrong way, he threw things, cursed and yelled. Bob’s mom and sister would leave. Bob stayed, because watching the games with his dad was the only way to be close to him.
Friday, May 15, 1970. A cop knocks on the door. Before he says a word, Bob’s mother asks, “My husband’s dead, isn’t he?” John Costas had a heart attack walking through JFK. He was 42.
At the wake, one of his gambling buddies walked in with the envelope. “Your father was up when he died. Give this to your mother.” A bookie never pays a dead man, so the friend went to the bookie himself and said John sent him to collect.
Decades later, Bob Costas refused to read sports betting ads on air. Today the bookie lives in everyone’s phone. Is that progress?
To: @KennyAlbert
I know you weren't working this game, but would you mind forwarding this to your MSG producers for validation, and possible correction?
@VallysView Hi Steve.
Would you mind forwarding this to the MSG producers for NYR games? Thanks in advance.
To: @SpeakerJohnson @LeaderJohnThune
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Cassidy Hutchinson had her entire career ahead of her and she was willing to sacrifice it to do what so few in Washington are willing to do: tell the truth.
She has shown more courage, patriotism, and integrity than the Republican politicians who had far more power, far less to lose, and still chose to remain silent.
She is an American hero and this shameless witch hunt against her is nothing more than a vindictive waste of time and taxpayer resources.
Pardoned fraudster makes a comeback youtube.com/shorts/upXos-tJ5… via @YouTube
SHARE THIS WIDELY!!!
cc @realDonaldTrump
Denis retweeted
Hockey ice is white because it's painted. Rinks freeze a thin base layer, spray it with white paint, then seal the paint under more ice. The league has done this since the 1940s so fans could follow a black puck. Then someone pointed a projector at it.
It turns out hockey had accidentally built the best movie screen in sports. Matte white paint under a sheet of clear ice diffuses light almost perfectly, and the whole surface is dead flat.
It's also enormous. An NHL rink is 200 feet by 85, about 17,000 square feet. A standard IMAX screen is around 4,000.
A show like this takes roughly a dozen 20,000-lumen projectors hung in the rafters, aimed nearly straight down so the beams don't glare off the ice or bleed into the seats. Software warps and blends all of them into one picture that fits the rink's rounded corners pixel for pixel. The Devils put about $1 million into their rig a decade ago, and arenas across the league copied it.
San Jose was always going to push this furthest. The Sharks have run the most famous entrance in hockey since the 90s, a 17-foot shark head lowered from the rafters with fog pouring out of its mouth and eyes glowing red. For thirty years the players skated out of the tank. Now the whole rink is the tank, and the sharks circling under their skates are just light bouncing off paint that was only ever there to make a puck visible.
To: @realDonaldTrump
From: America
There's a reason that the USA doesn't have an arch in its capitol. In spite of not having one, we became the richest most powerful country on Earth.
So WE DIDN'T NEED ONE!
And now you're destroying the country, so we STILL don't need one!
Trump’s obsession with these vulgar memorials to his own vanity is a reminder of the darkness around him, of his hostility to democracy, his loathing of honor, and his disordered mind.
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
To: @RogerMarshallMD
There was NO national security issue related to Iran before Donald Trump took office. Trump opened that can of worms by withdrawing from JCPOA in 2018. He exacerbated the problem by attacking Iran in 2026.
Conclusion: Trump IS the national security problem.
Sadly, he wasn't disqualified, and the deciding vote was a doctor. I'm betting deep down, that's a vote he regrets.
cc @JReinerMD
To: @realDonaldTrump
From: America
You're lying and gaslighting us again.
Every outlet that showed video of that, including right-wing outlets, showed tons of empty seats.
Denis retweeted
This week, DOJ fired a prosecutor who tried to hold an ICE agent accountable for shooting an unarmed man. youtube.com/shorts/GtWVreea_…
To: @NassauExec
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See my statement calling out Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman for his bigotry in response to his criticism of @GovKathyHochul after she wore a headscarf during a visit to an Islamic religious center.
To: @Apple @AppleSupport
You shouldn't change the name of a major 'Great' lake based on the whim or call of an 80-year-old narcissist. Most Americans are opposed to this. His likely illegal EOs DO NOT have the force of law. Plus MOST of the lake is actually Canadian territory.
To: @VP @JDVance
It’s quite difficult to say this any better than Pete has said it.
Try thinking and speaking for yourself instead of reading from the scripted prompter, which is often wrong.
Mortgage rates are way up. Home construction is down. Rents are astronomical. All of this is worse since Trump took power, because of the tariffs and the Iran War.
It's hard to know what planet, let alone what housing market, JD Vance is living in, to be able to make such out-of-touch claims with a straight face.
To: @whca
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Denis retweeted
No pharmaceutical company will spend the billions required to appease this President’s incoherent call to split the MMR vaccine into three on a whim.
In 2 years, the EO expires. And it has no teeth.
This is theater at a time when people need real substantive leadership.
To: @JohnCornyn
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