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Kevin Durant booing the OKC fans booing him

A changing death industry puts Philly cemeteries at risk More people are opting for cremation, leaving some cemeteries stretched for money. Har Jedhuda Cemetery in Upper Darby is one of many that are struggling.

You might think a cemetery would never be short on business, but right now, many of them are struggling. I wrote about why, and how the next wedding you go to might be inside of a cemetery:
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RICH KLEIMAN: I lost him some money because had we bought it at that point in 2014-2015, but about a year later, right when he signed with the Warriors, Ben Horowitz hosted a dinner for Kevin for his birthday and the whole Warriors team came. And at the end of that night I was like, Kevin, I just heard the word bitcoin 25 times this evening and the next day we started investing in bitcoin. And fortunately, we've yet to be able to track down his Coinbase account info, so we've never sold anything and his bitcoin is just through the roof. ANDREW ROSS SORKIN: And you have a partnership and an investment in Coinbase – RICH KLEIMAN: And we can't get the password yeah. It's just it's insane. It's actually insane. ANDREW ROSS SORKIN: Hold on. You really don't have the password? RICH KLEIMAN: We really don't have it. KEVIN DURANT: It’s in the cloud. RICH KLEIMAN: We will get it, there’s just a process we haven't been able to figure out, but bitcoin keeps going up, so it's like, what's the problem? I mean, it's only benefited us. ANDREW ROSS SORKIN: How long have you been trying to get the password? KEVIN DURANT: It's been a few years, yeah.

Kevin Durant seems to have made a lot of money on Bitcoin. Except he hasn't cashed out because he lost the password for his Coinbase account. And it's been years since he's known what it is.

(This is from him on stage with Rick Kleiman at the Boardroom conference this week)

How this is playing out in our household.

In the former official’s opinion, it was more likely that the vessel was carrying migrants on a human smuggling run. It would be impossible to know for sure, however, given that any evidence of drug smuggling was destroyed in the attack.

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

After a heated second round match at the US Open, American Taylor Townsend calls out her opponent, Latvian Jelena Ostapenko:

"She told me I have no class, I have no education, and to see what happens when we get outside the U.S."

Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.

She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
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They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems. A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments. By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova 08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

me & the boys misunderstood the arcane nature of the sword & the stone, and using a toyota and some chains to pull it from the stone resulted in the Toyota becoming the new king of england

Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘Madness’: Hayes says ‘the people of Gaza are running out of time’

“This is madness. We are running out of words to describe it. And the people of Gaza are running out of time,” says Chris Hayes on the dire aid situation amid Israel’s war on Gaza.

Yall will NEVER guess how this storytime ends. We are doomed.

Hey! Sorry, just wanted to make sure you saw this. Yes, that is Damian Lillard, presumably shooting Brad Pitt's character, Achilles, from the 2004 film, Troy (which scored 54% on Rotten Tomatoes) with a bow and arrow.

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk.

“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”

The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.

Don’t ever forget.

The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing. A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...

Monstrous:

"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

it is the Imperial Judiciary when courts say that presidents can’t unilaterally overturn constitutional text, and the Proper Order of Things when courts say that your rights rest on the whims of who happens to be in office

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

i think cuomo did well considering he couldn’t campaign while the sun was up

At least 37 Palestinians killed in Gaza food site shooting, local authorities say Death toll is highest yet reported in near-daily shootings since US-backed group began aid operations in territory

At least 37 Palestinians were killed on Monday in new shootings in Gaza near food distribution centres run by private US contractors guarded by Israeli troops, local authorities said.

The Supreme Court’s Guns Cases Got Thousands of Children Killed In the years after the Supreme Court empowered states to pass more permissive gun laws, 7,398 more children than expected died of gun violence, according to a new study.

In 2010, the Supreme Court's conservative justices made it easier for Republican lawmakers to pass permissive gun laws. In the years that followed, 7,398 more children than expected died of gun violence ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

“Your Honor, I have eaten bugs before”

Germantown Life Enrichment Center (GLEC) The Germantown Life Enrichment Center is a community organization serving northwest Philadelphia. For more information or to get involved, reach out to Glen at info@glifecenter.org. Founded in 1871 as...

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A screenshot of the article reads: Being a dad, or over the age of 30, is not a prerequisite to play, though most of the regulars are both. Some moms and kids have even played over the years. The real requirement is being willing to play competitive hoops, no matter your athletic ability, while keeping arguments and trash talk to a minimum. “Dadball has a really great balance of people [who] are trying really hard and playing hard but also not getting too vicious about whether or not they’re winning, and a fairly limited amount of cheating,” Taussig said. A few years ago, one of the Dadballers took it upon himself to start filming the pickup games and uploading them to YouTube so players or their families could watch later. The playback is a humble reminder of the state of their game; a player’s in-game blunder can get turned into GIFs for the group’s text thread. Once, a random person from upstate New York commented on a video to check them: “It was like, ‘4:42, that’s a travel’,” Taussig said.

bless this YouTube commenter

After one of its most beloved players suddenly died, the ‘Dadball’ pickup basketball group is fighting to save the gym where they play A group known as Dadball has played for over a decade at GLEC, which is facing imminent closure. The dads are trying to honor one of their late members by helping the center raise much needed funds.

Really loved getting to write this story about a Germantown pickup run called "Dadball", and not just because I'm a basketball player who just turned 30. This is the best version of what sports can be:
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

Thank you to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for just telling the truth about #ElonMusk. The rest of the media should hang their heads in shame with the fawning, irrelevant pieces they ran yesterday. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

It Should Not Be Controversial to Plead for Gaza’s Children Israel’s limits on aid have put the region at “critical risk of famine.” Help is within reach. But it’s not enough—and it’s arriving too slowly.

It should not need to be said, and it should not be controversial to say it, but: Starving children is wrong.

I wrote for @theatlantic.com about the horror of the Palestinian people needlessly starving while food is within reach:

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