While Tom Brady has won the Super Bowl five times, he is apparently still haunted by his three career losses in the title game.
The New England Patriots quarterback discussed his past defeats Monday on Mut & Callahan.
“All these losses are tough. Every one that you have you remember forever,” Brady said, via Ryan Hannable of WEEI.com. “… If you win it, you’ll have something to celebrate the rest of your life. If you don’t, it will be some mental scar tissue that you’ll have to deal with the rest of your life.”
This article will be updated to provide more information on this story as it becomes available.
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Party officials fear an independent candidacy would hand a second term to Donald Trump.
Howard Schultz spent Sunday getting mauled by fellow Democrats for his announcement that he may run for president as an independent, not a Democrat.
On Monday, it was President Donald Trump’s turn to pile on, taunting that the former Starbucks chief executive lacked sufficient “guts” to run for president at all.
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It was an unlikely drubbing for a political neophyte who had previously been little more than a blip on the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential primary landscape — dwarfed by a sprawling field of more experienced, more progressive and higher profile Democrats.
But his announcement sent a shiver through the Democratic Party, terrifying party officials who fear a well-funded, third-party candidate could siphon votes from the Democratic nominee and hand a second term to Trump.
Even before Schultz’s announcement on CBS’s “60 Minutes” aired, former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro, one of several Democrats already running for president, complained on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that a Schultz candidacy “would provide Donald Trump with his best hope of getting reelected.”
Dan Pfeiffer, a former communications director for President Barack Obama, chastised Schultz on Twitter for a “half-baked idea” that he said “will pose an existential threat to a Democrat in what will likely be 2020 race decided by a few votes in a handful of states.”
Jennifer Palmieri, communications director of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, followed up, “Pfeiffer speaks the truth.”
Schultz, Democrats feared, could be 2020’s Ralph Nader or Jill Stein.
Third-party campaigns have traditionally met with little success in presidential politics, garnering only an insignificant fraction of the vote. But they can factor in close elections. Many Democrats accused Nader of helping deprive then-Vice President Al Gore of the presidency in 2000, though experts disagree about whether Nader’s third-party candidacy contributed to George W. Bush’s victory that year. Similarly, Democrats are still seething at Stein for votes the Green Party candidate collected in Midwestern states that Hillary Clinton narrowly lost to Trump in 2016.
In her book “What Happened,” Clinton, who won the national popular vote, said Stein “wouldn’t be worth mentioning” if not for the votes she garnered in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — crucial Rust Belt states that Trump flipped Republican in his march to the White House.
“A small but still significant number of left-wing voters may well have thrown the election to Trump,” Clinton wrote. “In each state, there were more than enough Stein voters to swing the result, just like Ralph Nader did in Florida and New Hampshire in 2000.”
Schultz, who describes himself as a lifelong Democrat, offered only a skirting response when asked if he worried about siphoning votes from the Democratic Party’s eventual nominee. He said on “60 Minutes,” “I want to see the American people win. I want to see America win.”
It‘s possible that Schultz, a billionaire businessman, will appeal to disaffected Republicans and independents who might otherwise vote for Trump — thereby helping the Democratic cause. But Schultz’s remarks on Sunday presaged a campaign that would not only cut into Trump, but also Democrats.
He said on “60 Minutes” that the United States is in a “fragile time” not only because Trump is “unqualified,” but because of “the fact that both parties are consistently not doing what’s necessary on behalf of the American people and are engaged every single day in revenge politics.”
Lamenting “extremes on both sides,” Schultz said, “I am seriously thinking of running for president.” If he runs, he said, “I will run as a centrist independent outside of the two-party system.”
Schultz’s both sides-ism stung Democrats, who are banking in 2020 on overwhelming anti-Trump sentiment to elevate their nominee.
Asked if a Schultz candidacy would secure Trump’s re-election, Andrew Feldman, a Democratic strategist in Washington, said, “If he runs, yes.”
Noting that Schultz’s new memoir, “From the Ground Up: a Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America,” was released on Monday, Feldman said voters worried about Trump winning a second term “need to figure out a way to keep [Schultz] out.”
He said, “Hopefully his three-month book tour does that.”
In his interview Sunday, Schultz expressed confidence that the historical difficulties faced by third-party candidates could be overcome in an era in which voters are increasingly eschewing partisan registration.
“If I decide to run for president, not only will I be on the ballot of every state — all 50 states — but we’ll be on the ballot in every county and every district,” he said on “60 Minutes.” “We have done that work.”
Asked if he will self-fund, Schultz said, “We’ll be fully resourced to do what’s necessary.”
On Twitter on Monday morning, Trump scoffed.
“Howard Schultz doesn’t have the ‘guts’ to run for President!” he wrote. “Watched him on @60Minutes last night and I agree with him that he is not the ‘smartest person.’ Besides, America already has that! I only hope that Starbucks is still paying me their rent in Trump Tower!”
And Schultz will face intense pressure from Democrats not to follow through with a run. Longtime Clinton adviser Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, said on Twitter, “Vanity projects that help destroy democracy are disgusting. If he enters the race, I will start a Starbucks boycott because I’m not giving a penny that will end up in the election coffers of a guy who will help Trump win.”
In Starbucks’ home state of Washington, the response from Democrats was no kinder.
“I have two words for Howard Schultz on a potential run for president as an independent: Just. Don’t,” Tina Podlodowski, chairwoman of the state party, said in a prepared statement. “Too much is at stake to make this about the ambitions of any one person. The 2020 race for President has to be about relegating Donald Trump to the dustbin of history, and reclaiming the Oval Office for our people and our future.”
The state party distributed an image of a Starbucks cup with a message printed in black marker: “Don’t do it Howard!”
Morning routines usually call for a spot of coffee, not wooden planks hurtling through the air.
But Twitter user Taran Stokoe was awakened at 8 a.m. by the peculiar sound of his nanna’s neighbors throwing wooden planks at each other. A good old-fashioned plank fight…
It begins as a battle between two men, but then a woman jumps in and briefly attempts to referee before pulling a 180 and starting to hurl planks and other unidentified flying objects along with her housemate. You can’t hear what’s being shouted, but we’re almost positive they aren’t over-the-fence pleasantries.
Another neighbor watched from an upstairs window and even a cute little dog came to check out the action.
It’s unclear who won this duel, so we’ll call it a toss-up for now.
Today is International Privacy Day! To celebrate, a group of online privacy activists have set their sites on Google and the online advertising industry.
New evidence filed today in a GDPR complaint by the group of activists discloses how Google and other online ad auction companies unlawfully profile internet users’ diseases, disabilities, sexual orientation, ethnicities, and religion.
When a user visits a website that serves advertising, their personal data is often shared with thousands of third-party companies that take part in an automated auction. The advertising systems categorize each user based on what they’re reading, watching, or searching for. This info is then shared with the third parties who bid to get their ads shown to these specific users.
Some of the categories users are placed in, like “gadgets” and “bowling,” are harmless. However, other categories are extremely sensitive.
The evidence filed by the group shows that Google allows third-party advertisers to target users based on categories such as “eating disorders,” “left-wing politics,” or “scientology.”
The Internet Advertising Bureau or IAB, which is the industry association that sets the standards and guidelines for online ad practices, has their own category list which is even more invasive. Categories users can be placed in for advertisers to target include “incest/abuse support,” “hate content,” and “AIDS/HIV.”
The complaint was originally filed in September with national data protection authorities of Ireland and the United Kingdom. Open Rights Group executive director Jim Killock, Dr. Johnny Ryan of the private web browser Brave, and University College London data and policy researcher Michael Veale filed the complaint.
The group claims that the profiling of users with this data is completely unnecessary for ad targeting. Also, they claim it’s unlawful.
Along with the new evidence filed today, the group also announced that Warsaw based digital rights organization, Panoptykon Foundation, has joined the complaint, filing it with the Polish Data Protection Authority.
Just last week, French regulators fined Google $57 million under the GDPR. France’s National Data Protection Commission found that the search giant violated the privacy laws in two ways. The commission found that Google wasn’t providing information to its users in a transparent way. They also fined the company for not validly obtaining users’ permission for data processing and ads personalization purposes.
For just one day, the internet collectively came together…to watch someone sleep.
Twitch streamer JesseDStreams found that his audience was still willing to hype him up, even when he fell asleep for 3 whole hours during a livestream.
In the clip, you can see him waking up slowly, not sure what is going on — and then you can see the joy spread across his face as he realizes that he was not only still receiving donations from fans, but there are 200 people there looking at him.
The chat even erupted in a chorus of “HE LIVES” and “WE LOVE YOU” while it set in that, somehow, the stream had kept the party going while he was knocked out.
Online communities uplifting each other is the wholesome content we need — go for it, JesseDStreams! Get that sleep !
Boston. Los Angeles. Those are the two cities you hear most regularly when discussing Anthony Davis’ future destination.
Just don’t count out New York.
“You’re gonna see the Knicks try to be aggressive here now,” ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski said Monday on Golic and Wingo. “If you’re the Knicks, Kristaps Porzingis is a player who New Orleans would have to believe they could re-sign if they traded for him. And he may not be open to that. So, if you’re the Knicks, the best chance you have is getting the No. 1 overall pick and being in a position post-lottery time where you could tell the Pelicans, ‘Hey, you can have Zion Williamson, you could rebuild with him.’”
ESPN’s Brian Windhorst (via Moke Hamilton of The Athletic) said the Knicks are “in the game” in the Davis sweepstakes if they would be willing to trade their 2019 first-round pick without protections.
This article will be updated to provide more information on this story as it becomes available.
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The Dutch government has refused to accept a group of 47 refugees currently on a rescue ship that is being blocked from docking on Italian ports.
The Sea-Watch 3, run by a German humanitarian group and flying a Dutch flag, rescued the migrants from a rubber boat off the Libyan coast more than a week ago.
Since then it has been sailing through high winds and seven-metre high waves.
Italy‘s Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said the ship should go to the Netherlands because the ship is flying the Dutch flag, or to France, which he has accused of shirking its responsibilities.
However, following that request, Dutch authorities said they do not think they are responsible, adding that the captain of the Sea-Watch is responsible for finding a suitable harbour.
According to the Dutch government it was also important to distinguish between “genuine refugees and economic migrants”.
“Those who are not entitled to international protection need to be sent back immediately on arrival at European borders,” the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Safety said in a statement.
“Without a clear perspective for such a structural solution, the Netherlands will not participate in ad hoc measures for the disembarkation.”
Earlier this month, 49 refugees, including a baby and several children, were in a similar situation when Italy refused to let two rescue ships into its harbours.
Of those 49 stuck at sea, 32 were rescued by Sea Watch 3 on December 22, while the other 17 were picked up by Dutch boat Sea Eye on December 29.
Malta eventually reached a deal with other European Union member states to allow those migrants to disembark on its shores to join another 249 people already in Malta.
Another 78 will be allowed to stay in Malta, while 44 Bangladeshi migrants will be repatriated.
Following that deal, Matteo Salvini, deputy prime minister and leader of the far-right party the League, said Italy should not take any migrants from Malta.
Salvini is pushing for a ‘zero-tolerance’ policy on migrants and vowed for days that none of the 49 migrants would reach Italian soil.
Salvini has also threatened to take legal action against the crew of the ship, accusing it of supporting illegal immigration.
In December, rescue and relief organisations SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced they are ending the Aquarius refugee rescue mission in the Mediterranean Sea after “a relentless ongoing political, judicial and administrative campaign backed by several European states”.
MSF said its activities on Aquarius, carried out jointly with SOS Mediterranee, assisted nearly 30,000 people in international waters between Libya, Italy and Malta since the operations started in February 2016.
IRS employee Pam Crosbie and others hold signs protesting the government shutdown at the James V. Hansen Federal Building on Jan. 10, 2019 in Ogden, Utah. The shutdown delayed about $18 billion in federal discretionary spending by sidelining salaries and suspending federal services. | Natalie Behring/Getty Images
The five-week partial government shutdown cost the U.S. economy about $3 billion in forgone economic activity that won’t be recovered, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report on Monday.
The agency projected that an overall $11 billion in losses due to the shutdown over President Donald Trump’s border wall will be offset by a projected $8 billion boost for the gross domestic product through the remainder of the year.
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“Underlying those effects on the overall economy are much more significant effects on individual businesses and workers,” the agency says. “Among those who experienced the largest and most direct negative effects are federal workers who faced delayed compensation and private-sector entities that lost business. Some of those private-sector entities will never recoup that lost income.”
The shutdown, which ended on Friday, reduced GDP in the fourth quarter of 2018 by $3 billion, in addition to $8 billion in the first quarter of 2019.
The shutdown also delayed about $18 billion in federal discretionary spending by sidelining salaries and suspending federal services.
The agency cautioned that the shutdown’s estimated effect on the economy is “subject to considerable uncertainty.”
For example, CBO said it isn’t sure how federal employees and contractors adjusted their spending while not getting paid, or how agencies will adjust their spending and goods and services now that the shutdown is over.
CBO’s shutdown report was released alongside the agency’s annual report detailing the nation’s economic outlook for the next decade. That annual economic outlook report doesn’t include the effects of the shutdown.
The agency estimated that the U.S. federal budget deficit will hit about $900 billion this year and exceed $1 trillion every year beginning in 2022.
CBO’s projection of the federal deficit for 2019 is about $75 billion less than what it was last spring, namely due to a decrease in emergency spending.
Two years into Trump’s tenure, the national debt is expected to soar, to almost $29 trillion in 10 years. That debt held by the public would be the largest percentage since 1947 and more than twice the average of the past 50 years.
Over the weekend, while performing at her Las Vegas residency that she kicked off in December, Cooper walked on stage for the tune, sending the crowd into a collective shock. After trying to figure out how to install his headpiece, Cooper joined Gaga in a rousing rendition of the breakout hit song from the film that their characters sing together. Gaga got choked up singing the number by herself in December, but it looks like Cooper’s support steered the course to completion.
The moment began with a tender embrace between the two stars and Oscar nominees from the film. Gaga then kissed Cooper on the cheek as he got set up. They then launched into the soft song while they held hands, him sitting on a stool beside her as she played the piano. Cooper then stood as they matched voices in the third verse as lights continuously flashed in the background. The magical moment ended with the two sitting close to each other on the piano and singing intimately.
“Shallow” is making some huge noise this award season. It recently received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. It’s also nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year at this year’s Grammys. “Shallow” already snagged the award for Best Original Song at the 2019 Golden Globes. It can’t possibly get any bigger than this, even if it tried.
A former member of Blink-182 and frontman of Angels & Airwaves, most know DeLonge as a as a kick-ass singer and songwriter. But he’s also an author, director, and entrepreneur who launched To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science, an organization dedicated to exploring science and the possible existence of extraterrestrial life. And in case you missed it, DeLonge writes children’s books now, too.
The 43-year-old’s latest book for kids, Who Here Knows Who Took My Clothes?, is surprisingly advanced in the sense that it’s about a grown ass naked man.
If that somewhat puzzling description captured your attention, you’re not alone. And you’re also in luck, because the father of two just released an animated version of it (complete with voiceover) for the whole world to enjoy.
Jam-packed with rhymes and illustrated by artist Ryan Jones, DeLonge’s book follows a man on his journey through a park, to bus stop, and into cave in the hills to find the thief who stole his clothes while he was taking a bath.
It’s a bit strange TBH, but then again, so is DeLonge. And it turns out he and the clothes-stealing creature from his book have something in common: They both think nudity is hilarious.
While I will admit I’ve never seen anything quite like the animated version of DeLonge’s children’s book, the first time I watched it a weird sense of nostalgia came over me.
I couldn’t quite understand why, but after a few minutes of asking myself, “What’s this remind me of again, what’s this remind me of again?” it hit me.
DeLonge, who’s clearly always been amused by nudity, said he “thought it would be funny” to write a children’s book about a dude running around in his birthday suit.
“Truth is, I never imagined that the book would’ve turned out as good as it did, but Ryan’s fun and rich artwork married perfectly with my sense of humor,” DeLonge explained in a statement. “Then Zach Passero and his incredible animation skills entered the picture and we wound up making something that I think is really special.”
For DeLonge — who authored another children’s book, The Lonely Astronaut — younger-age books are so enjoyable to write “because they’re similar to songwriting – they’re short pieces of poetry that rhyme.”
And while there may be more children’s books in the mind of DeLonge, he’s currently working on developing his graphic novel, Strange Times, with TBS.
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