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Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· 17d

Hot DAMN, Elon’s daughter Vivian just went deep on her pops

Elon Musk’s daughter with a lengthy post about how hypocritical and racist he is

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· 23d

Are you kidding me right now

The cutest creature that has ever existed on this planet or any other

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· 23d

"Billionaires don't have enough money to foot the bill" is such a comical lie that I legit thought this was satire at first (Excerpt from Forbes, last year: www.forbes.com/sites/kathar...)

The share of wealth owned by the 1% of richest people in the United States has reached a new record of 31.7% in the third quarter of 2025, the highest since records began in 1989, according to figures published last week by the Federal Reserve.

Q2 of 2025 and Q4 of 2024 had already seen new all-time highs set at or above 31%, as the wealth of the super-rich tends to recover quicker from setbacks like financial crises and global upheaval. Billionaire wealth around the world also reached a new record last year, accelerating its growth over previous years, according to recent calculations by Oxfam. The nonprofit cites tax breaks for the wealthy and unchecked monopoly power as reasons for this development.

The net worth of the top 1% in the U.S. has been above a share of 30% almost consistently since 2014, while the top 10% currently own just over 68% of the country’s wealth. This is in stark contrast to just 2.5% of U.S. net worth in the hands of the 50% at the bottom of the wealth ladder.

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· 24d

I needed 0 additional reasons to stan for Erling Haaland & Co., and yet here we are. Hell yes, this rules.

Screenshot of an Instagram post showing that Team Norway donated its FIFA World Cup proceeds to Gaza humanitarian aid.

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· 24d

One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.

-Omar El Akkad

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· 27d

Rick and his colleagues in the Senate will be working fewer than seven days *next month*

Senate schedule where they’re only in session for 5 total days in August.

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jul 14

Here at the NBA’s 5th year of their Launchpad event, one of the top sports tech events on the calendar every year. Deputy NBA commissioner Mark Tatum kicks things off. Lot of incredible stuff happening in basketball tech. Plenty of coverage coming from me soon.

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jul 12

Let’s try this again

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jul 11

Dave Matthews speaks out against ICE and in memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo at his show tonight:

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jul 10

She fucking rules

A Ms. Rachel Instagram post:

"I don't get your obsession with Gaza."

I don't understand your silence as over 20,000 children were killed.

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jul 8

An incomprehensible level of evil

Drop Site news (via X): “The Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza had been organizing public screenings of World Cup matches for displaced families across the Strip. About an hour before today’s Egypt-Argentina match, Israel killed the committee’s public relations director in a strike on his vehicle. Two others, including a child, were also killed.”

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jul 8

This happens more than you’d think. Lots of refs hate throwing jump balls - the legendary Ed Rush almost never threw them after getting his nose broken early in his career. (From a thing I did a couple years ago: www.theringer.com/2024/02/21/n...)

And as the ball went up, [a guy named] McCoy reached out to go get his arm up to the ball, and he hit me in the side of the head. Blood all over the place, I had a broken nose. After that, I had what golfers would call ‘the yips.
-Ed Rush

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jul 7

Basic brain: Darryn Peterson should have gone #1

Advanced brain: Darryn Peterson could be a starter right away

Mega brain: Darryn Peterson should be the ROY favorite

Galaxy brain: Darryn Peterson will get All-NBA votes as a rookie

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jul 6

If the best a political party can do is a rapist with a Nazi tattoo, that party sucks

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jul 4

As always, the only thing worth reading when the topic of "freedom" comes up on July 4th: www.commonwealmagazine.org/three-cheers...

Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth. They know next to nothing as a rule about their own history, or the histories of other nations, or the histories of the various social movements that have risen and fallen in the past, and they certainly know little or nothing of the complexities and contradictions comprised within words like “socialism” and “capitalism.” Chiefly, what they have been trained not to know or even suspect is that, in many ways, they enjoy far fewer freedoms, and suffer under a more intrusive centralized state, than do the citizens of countries with more vigorous social-democratic institutions. This is at once the most comic and most tragic aspect of the excitable alarm that talk of social democracy or democratic socialism can elicit on these shores. An enormous number of Americans have been persuaded to believe that they are freer in the abstract than, say, Germans or Danes precisely because they possess far fewer freedoms in the concrete. They are far more vulnerable to medical and financial crisis, far more likely to receive inadequate health coverage, far more prone to irreparable insolvency, far more unprotected against predatory creditors, far more subject to income inequality, and so forth, while effectively paying more in tax (when one figures in federal, state, local, and sales taxes, and then compounds those by all the expenditures that in this country, as almost nowhere else, their taxes do not cover). One might think that a people who once rebelled against the mightiest empire on earth on the principle of no taxation without representation would not meekly accept taxation without adequate government services. But we accept what we have become used to, I suppose. Even so, one has to ask, what state apparatus in the “free” world could be more powerful and tyrannical than the one that taxes its citizens while providing no substantial civic benefits in return...

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jul 3

More than just floating around - Ronaldo *admitted* his crime over 15 years ago!

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jun 26

😂😂😂 That was fast

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jun 21

Like are you kidding me with this? How am I expected to simply continue about my life with a fully melted heart

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jun 20

Dad x2 loading

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jun 19

Shouts to a great artist, it still looks dope (imo) 4 years later

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jun 19

Crazy it's been 4 years since I got this

A tattoo of a tree with long roots, under which is inscribed "if at all god's gaze upon us falls, it's with a mischievous grin"

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jun 17

Before a bunch of folks start cheering for him on a soccer field, quick reminder of what Cristiano Ronaldo said/did (from my guest blog recently for @wtevs.bsky.social’s Basketball Feelings: www.basketballfeelings.com/p/separating...)

“She kept saying ‘no,’ ‘don’t do it.’”

“I apologized afterwards.”

“She said ‘no’ and ‘stop’ several times.”

Those were statements made by Cristiano Ronaldo to his legal team in September 2009, as part of an internal questionnaire regarding accusations of rape against him. His accuser, Kathryn Mayorga, claimed he raped her in a Las Vegas hotel earlier that year. Mayorga initially settled with Ronaldo for $375,000, but in 2018 filed a lawsuit seeking a far greater sum while claiming Ronaldo’s lawyers had taken advantage of her fragile emotional state to coerce her into signing the settlement and a non-disclosure agreement (Der Spiegel also reported a number of disgusting details on how Ronaldo’s team attempted to smear and discredit Mayorga during initial proceedings, including shadowing her with a private investigator who went so far as to pull the number on her marriage certificate).

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jun 15

It's been a difficult time for Carter Hart. He's had to endure the trauma of letting in 22 goals in 6 games. He tried to tell those pucks no, but they wouldn't listen. Hopefully he never has to experience something like this again. Just have to hope all the replays aren't too triggering for him.

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jun 11

Congratulations to the Knicks on their championship:

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jun 10

The woman literally said she offered them other sources to corroborate the claims. What is ridiculous about this? You seem not to realize how closely you're bordering on "believe women, but just not this one because she's not on my team"

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jun 10

What am I missing?

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jun 9

1. God my state sucks 2. This fella seems pretty cool, his last name is just very...abrupt

Ben Dowse hadn’t expected to treat measles when he became a doctor, but there he was, examining a newborn exposed to the virus in the womb. The infected mother had given birth just hours earlier. The hospital had alerted Dowse to the case before delivery, and he’d braced himself for the worst.

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jun 2

Hell yeah @jvp.bsky.social

A Jewish Voice for Peace poster that says No War, No ICE, Free Palestine, The Long Road Ahead

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· Jun 2

It cannot be said loudly enough: Fuck Carter Hart and fuck the Vegas Golden Knights. If a shred of karma exists in the world, these pieces of shit cannot be allowed to win anything. (From @seangentille.bsky.social's piece: www.nytimes.com/athletic/732...)

RALEIGH, N.C. — In October 2025, three months after he and four other players on Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team were found not guilty of sexual assault, Carter Hart spoke for the first time as a member of the Vegas Golden Knights.

At the time, Hart was ineligible to play in the NHL, part of a punishment the league applied to all five players for what it had determined was “deeply troubling and unacceptable” behavior, regardless of the Ontario Superior Court’s decision. Hart spoke non-specifically about how he’d learned and grown during his 20-month suspension, and about his plans “to show the community my true character, who I really am and what I’m about.”

Eight months later, Hart’s career trajectory has shot skyward, positioning him as the starting goaltender for the Western Conference champions. He’s in the hunt for a Stanley Cup title and in the running for the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP. Yet Hart’s media availability this season was limited largely to postgame appearances, and he has shared little about the follow-up to those plans from October.

The on-ice element to Hart’s story has changed. The arc of his career has, too. From the moment Vegas signed him, amid the heavy scrutiny the move carried, the team has largely shielded Hart from questions about his past — and now, months later, the public is still without any real sense of what he may have learned or the nature of the work he said he has done.

On Monday, as part of the NHL’s pre-Final media day, Hart was asked one such question by The Athletic, about what he meant in October when he mentioned learning and growth since the verdict, and whether that had continued in the ensuing months.

“I’ve learned a lot,” Hart said. “I’ve grown a lot since then. And I’ve been able to meet a lot of good people in the community, and I think the Vegas Golden Knights Foundation has done a really good job of making it easy for me to integrate into the community and meet a lot of cool people and — just really fortunate to be here in Vegas.

“And it’s a great culture of people, and like I said, I met a lot of cool people, and I’m just very fortunate to be here in Las Vegas and with this group.”

A member of the Golden Knights’ communications team ended Hart’s availability immediately after that answer, cutting off a follow-up attempt. He’d spoken for approximately six minutes of what was scheduled to be a 15-minute block.

It was not an unexpected move. In late September, while Hart was working out with the Golden Knights but before he was eligible to sign an NHL contract, the team declined to allow then-head coach Bruce Cassidy to speak to a reporter from The Athletic after learning that the goaltender was to be a topic of discussion.

Several minutes later, before Cassidy began a news conference, the spokesperson pulled that reporter out of the room and told him to leave the team’s practice facility immediately. The Athletic’s press pass for that evening’s preseason game was revoked. The spokesperson also said The Athletic had “ambushed” defenseman Noah Hanifin during routine locker-room media interviews that morning and the team was not “comfortable” allowing the reporter to cover the game.

Hanifin had shown no irritation with the questions.

Ben Dowsett@bendowsett· May 31

You just love to see it