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Steve Gosset retweeted
Harlem Globetrotters legend Hubert "Geese" Ausbie has died at age 88, the team announced.
One of the most influential players in franchise history, Ausbie spent more than two decades with the team and was honored with a Globetrotters Legends ring.
Love Don, but he's also a homer who bleeds crimson and cream. He's basically saying fans shouldn't voice their frustrations. Not how it works, Don. Seems he's still getting used to full houses after half century of calling games where fans voiced frustations by staying home.
Steve Gosset retweeted
This is a tough one to process. He had been in and out of the hospital during the summer, but it still hurts to realize that the winningest left handed pitcher in the history of the New York Mets, their greatest “money pitcher”, the man who won two games in the 1969 World Series including the clinching game five, and always the life of the party is gone. What an honor to have known him and called him a friend. He was as tough as they come. Rest easy, number 36. You will be missed, but lovingly remembered. RIP.
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Blaming Israel for America's grocery bills, intimating that America is paying for Israeli healthcare, intimating that Israel's PM is controlling American elected officials. We've seen this movie of lies before. It's called antisemitism. Shameful.
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From CNN Chief Mark Thompson: Christine Amanpour stepping down
Dear all,
I’m writing today with news about a CNN icon – and our dear friend and colleague – Christiane Amanpour.
After more than 43 years at CNN, Christiane has decided that the time is right to begin a new chapter. Early in 2027, she will scale back her CNN International show, Amanpour, to once a week. The program will conclude in May, and she will leave CNN at the end of June.
Christiane has thought carefully about this decision, and she and I have been discussing it for some months. Like so many CNNers who will hear the news today, I’m very sorry to see her go, but I’ve come to accept that this is the right time for her, both personally and professionally.
Christiane has been a household name around the world for decades. Yet she began more than 40 years ago not as one of the biggest stars in CNN’s history, but as a news desk assistant in our Atlanta newsroom. Famously, one of her bosses told her back then that she didn’t have what it took to become a foreign correspondent – or to hold any on-air role at all. Boy, did she prove him wrong!
It would be impossible to list all of her reporting triumphs, exclusive interviews, awards and broadcasting firsts, or the many other accomplishments that have made her one of the most trusted and beloved journalists anywhere. We will make sure to share and celebrate them all before she departs next year.
In the meantime, on behalf of the entire CNN leadership team, I want to thank Christiane for 43 extraordinary years of remarkable journalism, loyalty and friendship.
Mark
Steve Gosset retweeted
@JewishCurrentshas an article claiming that Emory Hillel’s new rabbi Nikki Golomb was fired a month into her job because it was afraid her husband’s anti-Israel activism would offend conservative donors. The story is based solely on her account, and is written to suggest that there was no reason to think she shares his views. I suspect this was as case where Emory Hillel didn’t do its due diligence. 1/
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🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland | Oct. 2026: Herbert Park Hotel CANCELED 70 rooms for delegates from 27 EU countries attending SECCA's antisemitism conference.
The hotel questioned IDF ties despite the event being 100% civilian and diplomatic.
70 rooms canceled. For fighting antisemitism.
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Trump on Jon Husted: "I don't do this with men very often. I started examining his body, because I didn't know he was a great athlete ... I looked at his ass"
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Curt Cignetti’s opening statement: “I’m not sure it’s completely sunk in — well it’s starting to — that we won because it took everything the players and coaches had.”
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Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism:
“I've told Mayor Mamdani directly that his words matter. But he once again found an opportunity to be callous toward Jewish pain... Turning this anniversary into an indictment of the Jewish state is not only hurtful, and deeply offensive, but it also makes Jewish New Yorkers less safe.” forward.com/news/854366/mamd…
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If you don’t understand how truly sick this tweet is, switch out Israel for Sandy Hook. Talk about how tragic it is that innocent children were killed in school but then go on about how the mental health crisis that caused Lanza to shoot up the school is the real tragedy.
This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.
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.@NYCMayor, not once do you say “Jews.” On Oct. 7, Hamas-led attackers murdered civilians, committed sexual violence, mutilated bodies and took hostages. You are weaponizing a day meant for mourning the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust to recycle your usual antizionist talking points.
The city with the largest Jewish population outside Israel deserves a mayor who can honor the dead without exploiting them.
This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.
The Great Pretender.
Every life stolen was an entire world.
The point is not to pretend that all we need is shared mourning, or to equate the suffering on both sides. Reckoning and accountability are required. But on this third anniversary of October 7th, a good start is to try to resist the flattening of empathy, to let ourselves weep for all the lives lost, the children killed, the families torn apart, the homes destroyed.
Join me tonight in Union Square, to mourn together, and to demand a future that doesn’t compromise on anyone’s humanity.
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