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‘They’ve taken away her superpowers’: NBA champion sounds alarm on Caitlin Clark’s future

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Two-time NBA champion Mychal Thompson has been a Caitlin Clark fan since she started in Iowa, but he’s not liking what he’s seeing with the Indiana Fever.

In a now viral post on X, Thompson wrote: “I’m hearing from a reliable source the Fever don’t want Caitlin no more ... SPARKS ... Go get her ... NOW!!!”

The tweet piqued BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock’s interest.

“Do you stand by your original tweet that, according to a reliable source, the Indiana Fever do not want Caitlin Clark?” Whitlock asks Thompson.


“Well, that’s what I’m hearing, you know, from all the contacts we have around the basketball world,” he responds, pointing out that from just watching the Indiana Fever, it “looks like they don’t want the Caitlin Clark that we fell in love with at Iowa.”

“They seem to want more of a benign, more of a pedestrian point guard. So, I don’t think her style fits the way they’re using her,” he continues.

“They prefer to have more of a traditional type of point guard, not a point guard who can shoot from the logo threes. We want that Caitlin back, and we’re not seeing that Caitlin anymore,” he adds.

And according to Thompson, what’s happening to Caitlin Clark is rare in the world of sports.

“Have you ever seen this before where you have this transcendent superstar and they seem to have adopted a system that doesn’t work for Caitlin Clark?”

“Never seen this in any sport,” he responds.

“It’d be like taking the serve away from Serena Williams. A coach telling her, ‘No, I don’t like that big serve you have, so let’s have a more traditional serve,’” he continues.

“They’ve taken away Caitlin’s superpowers,” he adds.

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Trump greets crew that restored Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in visit to the White House

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The workers who restored the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial were all grins and laughter when they visited the president at the White House Tuesday evening.

President Donald Trump signed hats for each of the workers after they completed their mission to clean up the reflecting pool in time for the 250th anniversary celebration of the Declaration of Independence.

The president joked to reporters that the pool might become filthy again under another president but that it would remain 'perfect' while he was in office.

A video of their visit was posted to social media by White House communications adviser Margo Martin. She said each of the workers also received an official presidential challenge coin.

The renovation was completed last week and included draining the pool, cleaning it up, painting and sealing it, and then refilling it.

"This was highly sophisticated material, industrial strength, that could last for 100 years, applied by very talented people, many of whom came from the Great State of Oklahoma," the president said on Truth Social.

"The material is thick, strong, flexible, and has a natural, beautiful color, the dark blue of the American Flag!" he added.

The president joked to reporters that the pool might become filthy again under another president but that it would remain "perfect" while he was in office.

"It's really beautiful. It's something for you to see. It's incredible," the president said after the pool reopened. "You know, it's really amazing."

The pool was constructed and opened in 1922. A new circulation and filtration system was installed at the pool during renovation under former President Barack Obama.

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The president said the renovation would also keep the pool from leaking.

"I'm very proud of it," Trump said from the Oval Office. "I'm very good at building things and constructing things."

The restoration of the reflecting pool was initially estimated to cost $1.8 million but ballooned to more than $13 million. A group of historic preservationists filed a lawsuit claiming the application of a blue coat altered the "historic character" of the pool without proper preservation review.

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OpenAI: China Pushes Tariff, Data Center Propaganda

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Chinese propagandists have been trying to use OpenAI's flagship chat to gin up opposition to President Donald Trump's tariffs and intervene in American debates over data centers and artificial intelligence, OpenAI said in a report published on Wednesday.

Fla. High Court Allows New Map for Midterm Elections

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The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed new U.S. House districts drawn by Republicans to be used in the midterm elections, marking another victory for the GOP in a nationwide redistricting effort aimed at helping the party retain its slim House majority.

Chaos Continues in Northern Ireland: Anti-Migration Rioters Clash with Police, Set Vehicles on Fire

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Violent scenes were witnessed in Northern Ireland again on Wednesday as tensions remain high in the wake of an apparent attempted beheading on the streets of Belfast, allegedly at the hands of a Sudanese asylum seeker.

The post Chaos Continues in Northern Ireland: Anti-Migration Rioters Clash with Police, Set Vehicles on Fire appeared first on Breitbart.

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Homeless people on Skid Row claim they were PAID TO VOTE — and not for Spencer Pratt

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Allegations of voter fraud in the Los Angeles mayoral primary election were bolstered by some homeless people on Skid Row claiming they were paid to vote for the leftists in the race.

Republican-leaning Spencer Pratt was shut out of the jungle primary, which allows the top two vote-getters to proceed to the general election.

'I was just trying to make 5 bucks, you know? But I didn't do the fraud.'

Some Pratt supporters became suspicious after Pratt initially won second place in the partial results announced on Election Night and then the gap whittled away with each tranche of ballots that were counted.

A pro-Pratt TikTok account posted video of the claims from homeless people recorded in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday morning.

"It was like two bucks," said one unidentified woman who claimed she was paid $2 to vote for Bass.

"Yeah, they come out here all the time," she added.

The TikTok creator told the New York Post that he was tipped off by a friend who worked in the area and claimed to have seen political volunteers operating in the neighborhood.

One of the men in the video called himself Kevin Shepherd and said he was paid $4 to vote for Bass. He said he negotiated the price up from $2 and that he was also allowed to vote for Raman, but not Pratt.

"They gave you an optional choice," Shepherd said.

Rene Johnson, 39, claimed she was paid $5 to vote for Bass but was unclear about the documents she signed.

"But, you know, at the time, I didn't know that that was going on," she said. "I was just trying to make five bucks, you know? But I didn't do the fraud."

However, an investigation into her claims found that there was no vote under her name from Skid Row, but there was one with that name and age in the nearby Inglewood election, which has a mayor separate from that of Los Angeles.

The Post said it was unable to independently verify the claims in the video.

"Everybody said it was normal," the content creator said to the Post.

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The Justice Dept. said it was investigating accusations of voter fraud in the California elections but noted one claim, that Pratt received no votes in one tranche of ballots, was untrue.

California's electoral system was widely mocked after results were delayed far past what is typical in other states. Some pointed to the delays as evidence of fraud, but officials have denied the claims.

One report indicated that 185 voters for Raman were registered in a homeless shelter in Venice that had received $600,000 through the efforts of the socialist city councilwoman. Others pointed out that the hundreds of votes in the Skid Row area would not have made much of a difference in the gap between Pratt and Raman.

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