General reminder - politicians are not your friends and should be held to account and criticised when they fall short. Doing so is not an endorsement of anyone else or another party. You should want your politicians to learn, to be better and work towards solutions.

the Twitter for iPad crowd melting down in record numbers. Opinion pieces not allowed at the national broadcaster apparently

A few things of note in this.

• Thon Maker - who’s represented Australia on multiple occasions - is now part of this South Sudan squad.
• Current/former NBL guys: Deng Adel, Sunday Dech, Majok Deng, Gorjok Gak, Deng Acuoth, Bul Kuol, Junior Madut, Kuany Kuany, Makur Maker,

Man we say this a LOT, but so many people take this for granted. What he’s doing at this age, with this many miles on the clock, is just so so SO unprecedented. Enjoy it while it’s here, because when it’s gone, we’re not seeing its like for a long time, if ever, again.

oh yeah the league definitely hates the small market team from uh [checks notes] Los Angeles

How many games did it take for Phoenix to be dumped from the playoffs?

Kyrie made this shot. What on flat earth is this

This is just ridiculous. PG got that dawg in him

Kyrie Irving. Best finisher in the game. Makes the toughest shots since Kobe. Best Australian player on the Mavericks.

Even for Jokic this is absurdly good. No idea where the ball is but he knows where every other player is on the floor at all times. Unreal.

Misogny is dangerous. Violence comes from cultural attitudes.

As disturbing is the movement for men to frame acknowledgement of violence against women as ‘an attack on all men’.

It’s ridiculous.

Men are not the victims.

32 women killed this year, are. abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…

this is some dangerous bs from embiid and he’s lucky it wasn’t called a flagrant 2

your semi-regular reminder that former clippers owner donald sterling has the funniest deposition in the history of law

(also I’m gonna watch the hell out of this just for laurence fishburne as doc rivers)

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

The NFL is bringing its second international academy to the Gold Coast, Australia! 🏈

(🎥: NFL Academy)

DETAILS 📝: tinyurl.com/bdf66an6

The emergence of Duz has been an absolute delight

A draw for that kind of game seems so genuinely fitting. Holy hell what a contest. Goddamn.

phwoar that’s some grab