Shams Charania has posted the following:

BREAKING: The NBA has ruled on the Los Angeles Clippers in for salary cap circumvention investigations on Kawhi Leonard after yearlong probe -- stripping the franchise of 5 first-round picks, issuing a $30 million fine to owner Steve Ballmer and suspensions for Ballmer, Lawrence Frank and Gillian Zucker, sources tell ESPN.

Kawhi Leonard will have to pay $700,000 in restitution for improper benefits by the Clippers for his uncle and former business rep, Dennis Robertson. No contract void or suspension for Leonard. And Robertson -- who was fired by Leonard in June -- is being banned by the NBA from all business dealings.

Link to the story: https://www.espn.com/contributor/shams-charania/5378a64df7b61

Follow up:

Per NBA: The Clippers shall forfeit five first-round draft picks, one in each of the 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, and 2033 NBA Drafts.

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer is suspended from all league and team activities for one year for knowingly seeking to help Mr. Leonard obtain off-court income opportunities, for approving a business deal that he knew was a precondition for Aspiration to enter into an endorsement agreement with Mr. Leonard, and for his failure to create conditions under which his organization abided by the NBA’s circumvention rules.

Clippers President of Business Operations Gillian Zucker is suspended without pay for one year for being primarily and directly culpable for the impermissible endorsement arrangements and for providing false and misleading statements to investigators.

Clippers President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank is suspended without pay for six months for his involvement with the impermissible endorsement arrangements and for approving impermissible expenses incurred by Mr. Leonard and his family.

The Clippers organization and personnel are subject to a compliance and monitoring program overseen by the league office for a period of five years.

Then complains that I don’t keep the house clean enough.. on top of she has SEVEN dogs, and I also have two. Oh, and when I tried to clean the stove it exploded in my face. Which was my fault 😒

Let hair grow for 11 years and started thinning as soon it got to where I wanted it. Bald at 29, yay.

Quick edit: Thank yall for all the positive messages. It really does mean a whole lot.

One more quick edit: While I appreciate the intent in trying to show what more I could do, please stop sending my pictures through AI.

Credit: Terry Crews

Source: https://www.pablo.show/p/it-happened

From Pablo Torre:

If you’ve been following our (ongoing) investigation into the Clippers and Steve Ballmer and Kawhi Leonard, you know we’ve been waiting for this day for a year.

We published Part I on September 3rd, 2025.

This, Part 15, we streamed, live, last night — on September 2nd, 2026 — roughly 90 minutes after the NBA announced its punishment and the league’s outside counsel, Wachtell Lipton, dropped a detailed 35-page report.

Accountability for the wealthiest people on Earth is hard to come by.

Thank you for believing in the power of independent reporting to accomplish it.

(And, yes, more to come.)

Specific medical reasons for circumcision still apply, but doctors now limit the procedure to severe conditions that do not respond to simpler treatments.

Routine or preventative circumcision is no longer viewed as necessary for all infants by many global health guidelines.

Now the farmers who supported these deportation policies are discovering the consequences of their own choices. You don’t get to build your business around immigrant labor, support policies that target and deport those workers, and then complain that “no one wants to work.” You helped drive away your own workforce, this crisis didn’t just happen to you; it came from the republicans you supported.

This is a Georgia farmer and agricultural YouTuber named Patrick Shivers. Here is his website MP Produce

The 'panic' around Lia Thomas was about creating a target people could point at while demanding exclusion. So much of what people “know” about Lia comes from manufactured outrage and years of misinformation repeated without context.

Her swimming career was far from exceptional; she did not come close to dominating the sport and is famous for a race in which she tied for 5th and was beaten by 4 other women.

We (The Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective (TACC)) commissioned this comic to break down the actual story.

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Mikey, birthday April 13. The same as my Uncle Mikey. Cat Mikey was very vocal and made us laugh every day. I swear you could understand what he was saying.

Loved:

- Sleeping in the armchair

- Meal times

- Spring toys

- Eating, EATING!!! actual mice. Decent hunter.

-Sleeping on laps. Must be wearing a blanket. (You could tell he was pleased with where he was about to lay by his meow. He would jump up, shift around a bit, then you wait. If you get a good meow/purr mixture before he even sits down, you have been chosen)

Hated:

- Being picked up

- Late meal times (would often argue by just meowing louder than you were telling him "I'll do it in a second!")

- Having his preferred sleeping spots occupied

- Crinkly paper bags. Big spook.

RIP Mikey. He was very kind, soft, and funny.

This is my first loss like this. Thanks for letting me share him. 🧡

I'm entrusting Audrey with the patreon promo this time. I can't see it, but I'm sure he's gonna do a great job!! :D

Ginamit pang excuse ang mental health. 🙄 Kaya tuloy yung mga taong totoong nagstruggle sa mental health nila eh najajajudge na umaarte lang. Gagawa ng kalokohan, tapos kapag nabash dahil sa sariling katangahan, iiyak.

The idea na ginawa nya yan, at kaya lang sya nakipag areglo sa barangay at 7 11 eh dahil may video. Paano kung matagal nya na pala yan ginagawa. Napakadugyot na galawan. Walang respeto sa ibang tao at sa negosyo ng iba. And paano kung dahil jan sa ginawa nya eh gumaya yung iba. Nakakadiri.

Sam Altman claims that producing a single almond in California uses more water than 38,000 ChatGPT queries. Is this comparison actually accurate? How would you calculate the water usage of both, considering an average ChatGPT task/query (text only, no image generation)?

When subsequent installments in a series basically reset everything back to zero or square one.

Avatar: Seven Havens - Despite certain obvious issues, The Legend of Korra managed to show a very interesting version of the future in the Avatar universe, where bending powers allowed for fairly rapid and realistic technological progress. A new installment basically resets everything back to the era of the first Avatar (Not Aang but Wan).

The Fallout Amazon Series - Over the course of three games (Fallout 1, 2, and New Vegas), players witnessed the West Coast transform from a few isolated settlements barely making ends meet into an organized, powerful nation with its own culture, universities, military and government along with plenty of obviously internal problems. In the show, after its capital is nuked, the NCR practically ceases to exist. Everyone goes back to living in isolated enclaves, most factions just sort of disappear, and the average intelligence seems to drop well below Caesar’s level. Also Enclave somehow returns. And speaking about somehow somebody returning...

Disney’s Star Wars Sequels - This case is unique because it isn't just the overall series trying to erase its legacy but each successive movie actively tries to undo what the previous one did.

Source: found on koltindarley on Instagram

Several years ago we rented a nice house in a nice neighborhood. It came with a laundry room complete with a very premium washer and a gas-dryer. After about a month, the dryer *burned* a load of laundry... It actually singed and charred the clothes. I immediately took pictures and emailed the landlord to try and recoup the cost of our clothes ($300?) and have the dryer fixed. He responded:

> "The lease is clear and does not include a washer or dryer. If those appliances are present, they were left from a previous tenant and are not mine. I am not responsible for anything I do not provide which would be documented in the lease."

I was pissed and I paid out of pocket for the repairs and to replace the clothes.

About three months later, we met a few former tenants and started talking about the house. They actually did quite a few improvements to the home and left the home in better condition than when they moved in, and the landlord still refused to refund their deposit. A neighbor confirmed that he hasn't returned a single deposit and suggested we read the lease to the letter, because the guy was a jerk about everything. Apparently, it was a nice house because of the tenants, not the landlord.

Well, fast forward 10 months to the end of our lease, and I read that thing carefully. **I then listed and sold the washer and dryer!!!** Not even 2 hours after we turned the keys in, I got an angry voicemail demanding we return his overpriced washer and dryer.

My response was a simple reply to his email declining his ownership of the appliances:

>I received your voicemail and I'm not sure which appliances you are referring to. As you stated, the lease clearly states there was not a washer/dryer included and you confirm that below. The lease also states, "Tenant is responsible for all reasonable costs incurred by Landlord to remove, haul, store, or dispose of property left behind.”

He still refused to give us our deposit, for a plethora of other negligible things. But, I still came out ahead because I pocketed about the same as our deposit, the repair costs, the burnt clothes, and maybe $100 for my troubles.

Edit: fixed a typos which redditors can't get past: cinged=singed, her=the