Michael Pina

he had me at nuke

I’d retire on the spot

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This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

A tradition unlike any other!

Josh Hawley and Yale Law School, ladies and gentlemen.

The Greatest NBA Team to Never Make the Finals They never won a title, but they still achieved basketball immortality. Just look at today’s NBA.

I wrote about the best team in this century that never reached the NBA Finals: www.theringer.com/2025/10/08/n...

The Greatest NBA Team to Never Make the Finals They never won a title, but they still achieved basketball immortality. Just look at today’s NBA.

What's the greatest NBA team of the last 25 years to *not* win a championship?

The Ringer's quarter-century review continues with @michaelvpina.bsky.social going deep on the 2018 Houston Rockets (despite my pleas for the 2000 Trail Blazers).

my most nuclear take is the 2018 Hospital Celtics would have had a puncher’s chance against those Rockets because of Smart vs Harden

all great choices that were considered for the piece!

Fun read by Pina. For my money the best team to never win it was the Sacramento Kings of 01-02. Squad went 61-21 and were robbed in game 6 of WCF. They played some of the most beautiful basketball of my time.

The Greatest NBA Team to Never Make the Finals They never won a title, but they still achieved basketball immortality. Just look at today’s NBA.

I wrote about the best team in this century that never reached the NBA Finals: www.theringer.com/2025/10/08/n...

pamela seems cranky

NBA Sliding Doors: The What-Ifs That Changed Everything Forget Oden vs. Durant or ‘The Decision’—these five forgotten twists altered the course of the league forever

Every dynasty starts with a missed train. For the Ringer's quarter-century project, I explored some of the biggest sliding-doors moments of the 21st century. (h/t Gwyneth Paltrow)

Proceeds to get in the gutter.

yikes

Ranking the 117 Best NBA Names of the Quarter Century What’s in a name? Everything. Featuring Dwayne Bacon, Stromile Swift, and so many more, these are the NBA player handles that stand the test of time.

NAME RANK

just like old times

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

woah drake maye is already the best qb in the nfl? faster than expected, glad we’re here

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It’s hard to express how disgusting and infuriating this is. The impunity on display from these monsters needs to end immediately.

So much to mourn here. ICE shot and killed a single father just after he has dropped his two kids off at daycare. Their justification for stopping him was traffic violations form 12 years ago. Their justification for shooting him was that he was driving away.

A completely needless tragedy.

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

GIVEAWAY:

Send me proof of order for A HOLLYWOOD ENDING (email: lebronlakersbook at gmail) and I’ll send you this bookmark. It will be like you’re reading alongside LeBron! You’ll also get a bookplate made out to you or anyone (and lmk if there’s a special message)

bangs. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van”—a report from a Chicago apartment building. These are essentially white nationalist attacks on US residents, including children, being paid for with our tax dollars

Trevor Story. That is all.

“i am so smart! i am so smart! s-m-r-t. I mean s-m-a-r-t”