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Honestly I see no reason to believe that DW will play well.

He is healthy. Ok good. He has attended OTA's. Played in shorts and t-shirts. 7 on 7 and some 11 on 11 "without pads."

He is a former first round pick. He has been in the NFL ten years. He should look good. He should be able to learn a play book.

However, the last time he played in games. He was terrible. He flushed from the pocket early. Could not find open receivers.

He was inaccurate. He broke a shoulder bone. Then he tore his Achilles twice. He is now 31. His QBR in 2024 was 21.

I have no reason to think after the last five years in Cleveland; he is going to play well now. I feel strongly he will never replicate what he did in Houston.

He is on the team because they cannot afford to cut him.

He is not in the Browns future plans. Why play him?

Play Shedeur. Try and get Green some reps in RPO's. Keep DW as the backup for this year. Try and trade Gabriel unless they like him as a backup.

I can see no logic in starting DW. Unless in camp he is unquestionable way better than Sanders.

Because it's fun, I thought that much was obvious.

I never said you initiated it with me, you initiated it with Hitt... then Hitt responded to your post, then MGH responded to your post, then you responded back to all those posts, making it seem that it is a really important issue to YOU.. THEN I finally respond and you go on a tirade of insults because you started realizing how silly your argument was. Pretty cut and dry.

FEMA official who claimed he teleported to Waffle House ousted from agency, sources say

A top FEMA official who had drawn scrutiny for bizarre past remarks — including claiming he teleported to a Waffle House — has been pushed out of the agency, four sources tell CNN.

White House officials appointed Gregg Phillips in December to lead FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery, one of the agency’s most consequential leadership roles, despite his history of promoting election conspiracy theories, particularly in the aftermath of the 2020 election. He came under national scrutiny in March after CNN reported on a cache of outlandish comments from his appearances on right-wing podcasts, including the teleportation claim.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA, confirmed Thursday that Phillips is leaving the agency, saying he is taking leave for personal reasons. But sources tell CNN the departure was not voluntary: New DHS leadership had grown weary of the embarrassment surrounding Phillips’ public image and of his periodic clashes with the department’s other leaders.

Even so, Phillips had won over some career FEMA officials. When he arrived, then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her de facto chief of staff Corey Lewandowski were taking aggressive steps to rein in FEMA, shrink the agency and bottleneck funding.

FEMA officials said Phillips stood out because he was willing to resist moves that would potentially hobble the agency’s work.

The Washington Post first reported Phillips’ departure.

CNN previously reported that Phillips described multiple incidents in which he said he had been physically teleported, including one in which he said he suddenly found himself at a Waffle House roughly 50 miles from where he had been moments earlier.

He later defended those remarks publicly, saying they reflected genuine spiritual experiences and citing biblical examples of supernatural transportation writing in one comment, “haters gonna hate.”

President Donald Trump later told CNN that Phillips’ claims “sounds a little strange” and said he would look into the matter: “I know nothing about teleporting or him, but I’ll find out about it right now.”

CNN also previously reported that Phillips had a long record of inflammatory public statements before joining FEMA, including violent rhetoric directed at political opponents, repeated promotion of false election fraud claims, and comments warning that migrants were coming to kill Americans while urging podcast listeners to arm themselves.

https://www.newschannel5.com/us-new...fle-house-ousted-from-agency-sources-say

Lions' Terrion Arnold arrested, faces kidnapping, robbery charges

Detroit Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold is facing multiple felony charges after he was arrested Wednesday in Tampa, Florida, in connection with a robbery and kidnapping in early February.

Tampa police previously arrested six other individuals involved in a targeted armed robbery that took place shortly after midnight on Feb. 4, during which three men were pistol-whipped, held at gunpoint and robbed, according to police.

Police say Arnold was the primary conspirator. He is accused of "coordinating and directing the codefendants" to lure the three men to an apartment where the assault occurred, according to a release from the state attorney's office.

Arnold turned himself in and was taken into custody at Orient Road Jail in Hillsborough County on Wednesday night. He faces four counts of kidnapping and four counts of armed robbery, which carry a potential sentence of life in prison. He is scheduled to appear in Hillsborough County court Thursday afternoon.

The state attorney's office said it would file a pretrial motion to keep Arnold in jail until trial. A date for that hearing has not been set.

According to the police investigation, the incident began after personal property belonging to Arnold and others was stolen Feb. 1 from an Airbnb that Arnold rented in Largo, Florida, and periodically stayed at with the six codefendants -- Arianna Del Valle, Jasmine Randazzo, Lyndell Hudson, Christion Williams, Boakai Hilton and Freddie Lee Hughes III -- and other friends.

Arnold, Hilton, Hughes and another individual reported property loss totaling more than $250,000 to the Largo Police Department on Feb. 3. Arnold, according to Tampa police, suspected that two of the three victims in the kidnapping case were responsible for the Airbnb robbery, but investigators later determined they were not involved.

The state attorney's office, in its release, accused Arnold of "orchestrating the kidnapping and robbery just hours after reporting the missing items to the Largo Police Department." Investigators said they located a group chat in which Arnold and Hilton reportedly gave directions to Del Valle, Williams and Hudson during the assault at the apartment.

Two of the codefendants in the case have pleaded guilty and the other four are being held without bond, according to the Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office.

In a statement Wednesday, Denise White, CEO of EAG Sports Management, said Arnold "categorically denies any involvement in the matters underlying the allegations made against him and maintains his innocence. There is no credible evidence linking Mr. Arnold to these allegations. Instead, the government appears to be relying on testimony from multiple convicted felons who have admitted their own involvement and may have substantial incentives to shift blame in an effort to lessen their sentences.

"Mr. Arnold looks forward to his day in court and is confident that the judicial process will lead to his ultimate vindication."

The Lions, in a statement, said they were aware of the situation but declined to comment "out of respect for the ongoing legal process."

Arnold was approached by reporters about the off-field incident during the Lions' veteran minicamp June 17 and declined to comment, saying he just wanted to "focus on football" while coming off a season-ending shoulder surgery.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...-felony-charges-kidnapping-armed-robbery

This will be interesting to watch over the next couple of years between moderate democrats and the younger socialist-leaning members. It has been trending in a negative direction already but now more and more of these younger socialists are winning seats and positions across governments--federal, state, and local municipalities.



Here is a good example-- Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic nominee for Congress in New York's 13th Congressional District, was identified as the co-founder of the campus group Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), which stated in a 2024 social media post that it was "fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization". She has also quoted many Marxist slogans:

"Seize the means of production" — A direct quote from a deleted post she published using the fundamental slogan of Marxism and communism."Seize all properties from landlords" — Part of her broader rhetoric advocating for the nationalization of housing and private real estate.

She clarified her position on defunding the police by stating her goal "means ending policing full stop. Period. No more police at all ever," while advocating for a "world without prisons."

This isn't a democratic socialist. Using the word democratic is putting lipstick on a very ugly pig. She is wavering between socialism and communism and there is a growing population of younger Americans who are subscribing to this dangerous ideology.

Anecdotally, I work with someone who is a self-described "Leninist" and believes in the Leninism ideology associated with Communism. It's unbelievable to hear the things this person subscribes to regarding one-party government control as if it is the answer to all the world's issues. Absolutely, asinine.

The SPLC pays for the hate to get keep themselves relevant. What a joke and anyone who follows them are a joke.

Yep. I'm terrible at remembering actors' names.

I threw in the towel on the reader glasses though. Monovision contact in one eye, life changing.

Iran negotiator Ghalibaf rejects claim unfrozen funds will buy US goods

The denial contradicts the US administration, which said unfrozen funds will be spent on produce from American farmers.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026...s-claim-unfrozen-funds-will-buy-us-goods

Iran imports between 15 million and 16 million tons of grain and oilseeds annually, valued at roughly $17 billion.

For Iran to spend 300 billion dollars on nothing but grain from American farmers it would mean they would have to buy all of their grain from the U.S for over 17 and a half years.

trump is the most corrupt president in history.

Follow the money. Govt. contracts to his family. Just follow his scams. Anyway he sees a chance to profit personally. He will do it.

Money and power drive him.

Trump has a tendency to cheapen everything he touches.... I guess awarding the Medal of Honor is no exception.

Federal prosecutors are continuing to dismiss charges initially brought against people in Minnesota for allegedly assaulting federal officers during the winter.

WCCO dug through court filings and identified at least 18 people whose cases are now dropped. A federal judge officially dismissed the charges for 15 of them; three are pending a judge's approval after prosecutors filed motions to dismiss the charges. At least 17 cases are still pending, with judges denying defense dismissal motions in several of them.

Richard Painter, a legal expert with the University of Minnesota and former chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, said that it's clear to him that federal prosecutors brought several cases forward without sufficient evidence.

"It appears that the United States Attorney's Office in Minnesota is bringing some weak cases against protestors," Painter said, adding that he believes that there was pressure from the Trump administration to charge people.

According to court records, defense and government attorneys alike asked for case dismissals for a variety of reasons.

Juan Carlos Rodriguez Romero was accused in December of ramming into ICE vehicles in St. Paul, prompting an ICE agent to fire his weapon, hitting no one. On June 8, United States Attorney Daniel Rosen signed off on a dismissal motion based in part because prosecutors "thoroughly reassessed the evidence" and concluded that they were not confident that they could obtain and sustain a conviction against Rodriguez Romero.

In January, ICE leadership acknowledged that ICE agent Christian Castro may have lied under oath about what happened the night he shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in north Minneapolis. This led to the assault charges against Sosa-Celis and another man being dropped; Castro is now facing charges in Hennepin County for the shooting and for falsely reporting a crime.

Just a week after that incident, federal officers said Paul Johnson violently resisted arrest in north Minneapolis. On Thursday, Rosen signed a motion to dismiss the charges against Johnson. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota acknowledged issues raised by Johnson and his legal team, including allegations that agents shackled him to a bed at HCMC without access to his phone for days.

"Based on newly received discovery, the government intends to pursue an investigation into allegations raised in Mr. Johnson's filings; therefore the interests of justice support dismissal of this case," Rosen's motion reads in Johnson's case.

In the more than 30 cases WCCO reviewed, one name appeared across a variety of different cases. HSI Special Agent Richard Berger submitted sworn affidavits prompting probable cause for the arrest of Johnson and nine others, whose charges were ultimately dismissed. Berger submitted affidavits in at least 12 cases that are still ongoing.

In a hearing in Gillian Etherington's case in April, which is still ongoing, U.S. District Court Magistrate David Schultz said that he became "concerned with the veracity" of multiple affidavits related to federal officer assault cases that came from Berger. Schultz said that in multiple instances, Berger "did not have any personal knowledge of the events described in the affidavits that he has submitted to this court as sworn affidavits."

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security ignored questions from WCCO about whether there has been an internal review of incident reports or legal filings. The spokesperson instead provided a statement describing Johnson, who prosecutors are dropping the federal case against, as an "anti-ICE rioter."

U.S. prosecutors in Minnesota on Tuesday announced charges against 15 people they say conspired to "violently oppose immigration law enforcement," though Rosen failed to describe a single example of injuries to federal agents when repeatedly questioned.

When asked what makes the latest slate of indictments different than other cases that have been dropped, Rosen said he doesn't think any cases have "failed in any way."

"Read the indictment and you'll understand the magnitude of this case," Rosen said. "You watch how this case plays out, you watch how the evidence plays out and the evidence will prove it all out."

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-protester-assault-cases-dismissed-minnesota/

People appreciate and celebrate a no hitter... And there are many games with low scoring. As you say, growing up with a sport helps you to appreciate it. Rugby is a great sport, a phenomenal sport, but lost on most Americans also .

The USMT has played lights out. They're going to win their group. I think when they progress to the knockout stages there will be some ground swell of support and interest.. I mean if curling at the winter Olympics can catch on a winning US soccer team can. But still, not for everyone.