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Keith Smith @KeithSmithNBA
Nicole Yang @nicolecyang
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.#Celtics Brad Stevens confirmed Aron Baynes (hand) will play tonight, as will Kyrie Irving and Marcus Smart.
Why Kawhi Isnât Putting Much Stock in Celticsâ Struggles
A detailed look at @jaytatum0 getting ready to debut the Nike Adapt BB. https://t.co/HsGuGEagdO
Tatum Debuts Nike’s New Smart Shoe
Nick DePaula @NickDePaula
Jayson Tatum set to debut the new auto-lacing Nike Adapt BB here in Boston â whatâs everyone think of the $350 smart shoe?? https://t.co/WSgxkUoo9i
CelticsBlog @celticsblog
Keith Smith @KeithSmithNBA
Nicole Yang @nicolecyang
Kyrie, Baynes, Smart All Available
A. Sherrod Blakely @ASherrodblakely
.#Celtics Brad Stevens confirmed Aron Baynes (hand) will play tonight, as will Kyrie Irving and Marcus Smart.
Why Kawhi Isnât Putting Much Stock in Celticsâ Struggles
A detailed look at @jaytatum0 getting ready to debut the Nike Adapt BB. https://t.co/HsGuGEagdO
Tatum Debuts Nike’s New Smart Shoe
Nick DePaula @NickDePaula
Jayson Tatum set to debut the new auto-lacing Nike Adapt BB here in Boston â whatâs everyone think of the $350 smart shoe?? https://t.co/WSgxkUoo9i
CelticsBlog @celticsblog
Keith Smith @KeithSmithNBA
Nicole Yang @nicolecyang
Kyrie, Baynes, Smart All Available
A. Sherrod Blakely @ASherrodblakely
.#Celtics Brad Stevens confirmed Aron Baynes (hand) will play tonight, as will Kyrie Irving and Marcus Smart.
Why Kawhi Isnât Putting Much Stock in Celticsâ Struggles
A detailed look at @jaytatum0 getting ready to debut the Nike Adapt BB. https://t.co/HsGuGEagdO
Tatum Debuts Nike’s New Smart Shoe
Nick DePaula @NickDePaula
Jayson Tatum set to debut the new auto-lacing Nike Adapt BB here in Boston â whatâs everyone think of the $350 smart shoe?? https://t.co/WSgxkUoo9i
CelticsBlog @celticsblog
Keith Smith @KeithSmithNBA
Nicole Yang @nicolecyang
Kyrie, Baynes, Smart All Available
A. Sherrod Blakely @ASherrodblakely
.#Celtics Brad Stevens confirmed Aron Baynes (hand) will play tonight, as will Kyrie Irving and Marcus Smart.
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Qatar and Saudi Arabia will face off in a highly anticipated football match at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup on Thursday, the first meeting between the two Gulf nations since the start of a major diplomatic crisis in June 2017.
Both teams are coming into the encounter at Abu Dhabi’s Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium after convincing wins – the Saudis beat Lebanon 2-0 while Qatar registered a 6-0 thrashing of North Korea.Â
The match, which will decide the top spot in Group E, will be played against the backdrop of a regional political dispute, which saw Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt cut all political, diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar.
The quartet accuses Qatar of supporting “terrorism” and destabilising the region, charges Doha has consistently denied.
But the Gulf crisis has already overshadowed the 24-nation tournament, which kicked off on January 5 and will run until February 1.
A land, air and sea blockade on Qatar meant that the private jet carrying a 25-player Qatari squad took a longer route and had to fly to the UAE via Kuwait.
Qatari fans have also been unable to attend the games and support the national side from the stands in the UAE, where showing sympathy for Qatar remains punishable with up to 15 years in jail.
“It’s unfortunate that politics has to interfere with sports,” said Khalid Al Mohannadi, a Qatari citizen and Doha resident. “Due to these unpleasant circumstances, we can only support the team from a distance.”
Qatar-based beIN Sports is the host and exclusive broadcaster of the tournament in the Middle East and North Africa region.
The broadcaster’s crew of around 20 people is currently in the UAE covering the tournament, along with Qatari channel Al Kass. However, some Doha-based journalists were barred from entering the UAE despite holding valid accreditation.
A broadcasting row between Doha and Riyadh was also reignited after pirate company, beoutQ, which emerged in 2017 and is allegedly based in Saudi Arabia, aired the Asian Cup matches.
“What started out as a concerted and targeted campaign against beIN has now morphed into the largest commercial theft that’s ever been seen in the world of sport and entertainment,” Tom Keaveny, managing director of beIN MENA, said in a statement on Wednesday.Â
Football rivalry
On the field, Qatar and Saudi Arabia will renew a sporting rivalry that dates back to the 1970s.
Saudi Arabia leads the head-to-head with 17 wins and six 6 losses.Â
It is the highest-ranked Gulf side in the world at 69 and is hoping to avenge its 2014 loss to Qatar in Riyadh. Qatar won the match at the 2014 Gulf Cup 2-1 en route its third title.
According to the AFC, a high level of security is provided to all competing teams during the continental tournament.
“We expect all supporters, players and teams to be well behaved and any infringement of the rules will be dealt with under the AFC regulations,” the Asian football body told Al Jazeera in an emailed statement.
Ali Galadari, former player for Qatar’s Al Ahli football club, will be watching the match on TV with family and friends in Doha.
“Our heart is with them,” he said. “We can only watch on the screens and support them from here.”
As New York Democratic Rep. Aleandria Ocasio-Cortezâs following multiplies, so does the the Justice Democrat movement, an outside group focused on finding primary challengers for some incumbent Democrats. | Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo
Justice Democrats is forging ahead with plans to mount primaries against incumbent Democrats it deems too moderate â with the apparent backing of Ocasio-Cortez.
Justice Democrats, the liberal group that engineered Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezâs meteoric rise â hijacking the Democratic Party in the process â is ready to go to war.
The opening salvo? An eight-minute video released Wednesday starring Ocasio-Cortez and calling for a new crop of activists and community organizers to run against the Democratic machine.
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âIf you’re a one-term Congress member, so what?â Ocasio-Cortez says in the video. âYou can make 10 years worth of change in one term if you’re not afraid.â
Justice Democrats, which orchestrated Ocasio-Cortezâs long-shot bid last year against the fourth-ranking House Democrat, Joe Crowley, hopes to replicate its success in blue districts across the country.
And they have a powerful ally on the inside in Ocasio-Cortez, who can corner her colleagues in Congress to get behind what she herself has called âradicalâ policies like a 70 percent tax rate on the ultra-wealthy and a “Green New Deal.” Two of Justice Democrats’ founders, Saikat Chakrabarti and Corbin Trent, are senior staffers in her office. And Chakrabarti, her chief of staff, served on the board of Justice Democrats until he resigned earlier this week.
Since her swearing-in this month, Ocasio-Cortez and her staff have tried to create distance between the 29-year-old congresswoman and Justice Democrats, claiming to not be involved in the groupâs plans to mount primaries against incumbent Democrats it deems too moderate. But Wednesdayâs video, featuring Ocasio-Cortez and her two senior aides discussing those very plans over coffee with Justice Democrats Executive Director Alexandra Rojas, is far from the neutral position sheâs espoused.
âThat combat approach is going to upset a lot of people,â said ACLU political director Faiz Shakir, a former senior adviser to Democratic Leaders Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. âWhat sheâs suggesting is the way Iâm going to get people is by carrying a stick.â
Pressed on whether Ocasio-Cortez supports the Justice Democratsâ primary effort, Trent said sheâs not âfocusedâ on its campaign. But âyes, with 70 percent of people living in a safe red or safe blue district, for most people thatâs going to happen through the primary process.â
Ocasio-Cortez is not alone in her support for Justice Democrats’ efforts.
âI am part of a new era of social justice advocates that believe in accountability no matter what party youâre part of,â said newly elected Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who was endorsed by Justice Democrats. âItâs important to have more people like us running for office and I want to support that.â
Tlaib recently infuriated her new colleagues by calling on Democrats to âimpeach the motherf—erâ in reference to President Donald Trump at a progressive rally.
Justice Democrats doesnât consider itself the tea party of the left, but the group admits its impact is similar. Together with Ocasio-Cortez, the group is forcing the Democratic Party to recalibrate, shifting policy conversations leftward in response in the same way the tea party movement dragged Republicans to the right.
House Democrats may criticize Justice Democratsâ campaign as destructive or misguided, but other progressive groups are cheering them on.
As Ocasio-Cortezâs following multiplies â she has 2.4 million Twitter followers and counting â so does the the Justice Democrat movement. Every time Ocasio-Cortez pushes a 2020 contender toward one of her policy positions, Justice Democrats revels in taking the credit.
But the question remains whether the two-year-old group can deliver a repeat of Ocasio-Cortezâs stunning victory, which capitalized on a low-turnout primary and a sleeping incumbent. This time around, establishment Democrats see them coming.
âI hear members talk about [Justice Democrats] from time to time,â said Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), a Crowley confidant and former vice-chair of the caucus. âThey do wish that they would recognize that our own members arenât the enemy. …We probably agree on 90 percent of everything.â
First on their target list is Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), an anti-abortion centrist who supported an incumbent House Republican over a Democrat in 2018 and has previously sided with the GOP on immigration.
âAn outside group thinks they know south Texas politics better than I do, I think [theyâre] going to find out,â Cuellar said. âMy district, Iâve polled it and polled it and they are moderate and conservative Democrats.â
The groupâs criteria for picking primary target is unclear and at times contradictory. Two weeks after the 2018 elections, Justice Democrats leaders said they wanted to launch primaries against more âwhite, male corporate Democrats similar to Joe Crowley.â But Cuellar is Latino and nowhere near as progressive as Crowley. Heâs an obvious target for the liberal group because he votes with Trump more than 60 percent of the time, and is against Medicare for All.
But if Justice Democrats follows through on going after Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) â one of their prospective targets â it would be for entirely different reasons. Rice is a progressive. She has voted with Trump just 28 percent of the time and cosponsored legislation to slash fossil fuel dependence. She is popular in her district. But Justice Democrats still has her in its sights.
âYou can tacitly support Medicare for All and a Green New Deal and we still might primary you because thereâs energy in the district to find someone more charismatic and compelling who is actually going to be a movement builder,â said Waleed Shahid, communications director for Justice Democrats.
Pressed on whether Ocasio-Cortez supports the Justice Democratsâ primary effort, Trent, her spokesman, said sheâs not âfocusedâ on their campaign. But âyes, with 70 percent of people living in a safe red or safe blue district, for most people thatâs going to happen through the primary process.â
Rice, in a statement to POLITICO, said “I’d gladly put up my strong progressive record against any potential challenger.”
Justice Democrats âwould love to run challengersâ against all the Democrats who donât support a Green New Deal or who take corporate PAC money, Shahid said. But the organization has less than a dozen staffers who all live in different states, and no headquarters. It relies on âsuper volunteersâ to do much of the work.
So Justice Democrats is picking targets carefully, based on a combination of factors: Is there a charismatic challenger? Is the challenger able to activate energy in the district? Are the voters in the district unhappy with their incumbent?
âOn paper [Crowley] was left of center of the party,â said Shahid. âItâs important to leave room for districts like that where thereâs a long-time incumbent who kind of has a machine and voters want a change and itâs hard to notice that on paper, which is why itâs hard describing what our criteria are.â
Shahid confirmed that Justice Democrats is keeping a close eye on Riceâs district, taking cues from the small, grass-roots contingent and polling released by progressive activist Sean McElwee of Data for Progress. Though McElwee operates separately from Justice Democrats, the group regularly talks to him about potential primary targets.
While its target list looks haphazard and its ideological yardstick difficult to gauge, Justice Democrats’ overarching goal has remained the same: To root out long-time pols who embody the big-tent Democratic Party and replace them with more Ocasio-Cortezes.
It’s a fight that Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) and other Democratic leaders want to avoid.
âIf any of our attention is diverted to primaries … itâs not what we want to do,â said Bustos, a moderate Democrat who represents a district that Trump carried. âHenry Cuellar is a hard-working member of Congress. Heâs a good man, and we want to make sure he comes back. I hope we donât have to turn our attention away from what is most important to survive with this fragile majority that we have.â
One of Justice Democrats’ endorsed candidates, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), agreed.
âIt is quite inappropriate for groups to decide on whether or not somebody deserves to represent their district. Those decisions need to come from the people that we represent,â Omar said.
Freshman Democratic Rep. Katie Hill, who flipped a red seat in southern California, survived a tough primary in which Justice Democrats backed one of her competitors.
âItâs a dangerous strategy,â Hill said of the groupâs decision to single out incumbents. âRight now I think we should be focused entirely on keeping the people who just got elected, keeping our majority, winning the Senate and getting Trump out of the White House.â
Justice Democrats’ strength lies in its combative tactics, social media presence and connection to Ocasio-Cortez â not its fundraising prowess. Last cycle Justice Democrats raised $2.4 million, according to FEC filings. That doesnât count the nearly $900,000 it helped candidates raise through small-dollar fundraising emails.
Shortly after joining Justice Democrats on a call announcing plans to launch primaries against Democrats, Ocasio-Cortez launched a leadership PAC. Those are typically used to raise money for fellow candidates and expand a member’s influence within the party. The mission of Ocasio-Cortez’s Courage to Change PAC is to support candidates âideologically alignedâ with her, but is ânot for the specific purpose of” mounting primaries against incumbents.
Progressive Caucus leaders Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) have distanced themselves from Justice Democrats. And for the first time, the caucus’ fundraising arm is hiring a full-time staffer devoted to candidate recruitment in the 2020 cycle.
âIf there are progressive candidates who emerge in districts, a sitting Congress member whoâs doing a good job shouldnât be worried,â Jayapal said. âI am expending zero energy in trying to recruit other candidates to run against Democrats.â
Last November, City Girls set out to find the world’s greatest twerker, recruiting the best and most bodacious to be “flewed out” to Miami and compete for a $25,000 prize. (Why not?!) Today (January 16), we get to see the final result in the South Florida rap duo’s “Twerk” video, directed by Daps and co-starring the one and only Cardi B.
I cannot stress how NSFW this thing is â you’ve never seen so many butts in your life. They twerk on a beach, they twerk on a yacht, and they twerk in what looks like an industrial twerk warehouse. Naturally, Cardi and Yung Miami lord over the festivities by trading bars about their butts while covered in striped body paint (Cardi’s a twerk tiger and Miami’s a twerk zebra).
The titillating video reaches its climax when the finalists hit the dirt and show off some seriously mind-bending moves â the (very flexible) winner literally lights up a joint while twerking upside down. If that’s not worthy of $25,000, then I don’t know what is.
“Twerk” follows an exciting few months for City Girls, who appeared on Drake’s smash “In My Feelings” last year and released their first studio album, Girl Code, in November. Cardi, meanwhile, has been teasing a new album â the follow-up to last year’s Grammy-nominated Invasion of Privacy â that’s expected to arrive this year.
“I don’t get this 10-year challenge, time is not something I acknowledge,” she tweeted, along with two of the same bomb photos side by side.Â
Can we just talk about this?
Time is not something I acknowledge.
TIME. IS. NOT. SOMETHING. I. ACKNOWLEDGE.
Time does not control pop sensation Mariah Carey, because pop sensation Mariah Carey is above it. She doesn’t acknowledge it; therefore, it doesn’t dictate her life. Mariah Carey’s cells don’t age and die, because she is above Time. Mariah Carey is the closest that humankind has gotten to achieving immortality.Â
For reference, here are some photos of Mariah in 2009. Nothing has changed.Â
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Twitter users paid digital tribute to their queen.
Mariah you’re the queen of not aging you look the same in every pic
The clip appears early in the film, as Malorie (Sandra Bullock) flips through TV channels portraying different scenes from the apocalypse. One briefly shows the silhouette of a train engulfed in flames.
This is the second time this specific footage, provided by stock image company Pond 5, has been used in a Netflix original project. It first appeared in an episode of Netflix’s Travelersâalthough the series’ production company recently apologized for using the footage without first identifying the source, and promised in a statement to remove the clips.Â
Per a conversation with Mashable, Netflix has determined that they will not do the same in the case of Bird Box and the film will remain as is.
The full source clip of the incident can be seen below. Netflix’s application of the clip in Bird Box can be found at time stamp 1:59:31.Â
Notably, the use of news-based stock footage in entertainment is a well established and common practice, but viewers continue to question the legitimacy of exploiting a massive tragedy.
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