Isa Simon
@isa33simon.bsky.social
Write about Success Stories of #FrenchEntrepreneurs🇨🇵 in #LosAngeles ✨ Sports🏀⚽️ and Culture😎 #Storytelling @FrenchCluster.com/insights (scrolldown) From #SantaMonica 🌊 CA #Paris2024 💙 #Fifa26 #LA28 🥇🇨🇵
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The unplanned American dream of Nassim Baziz:<br/>NBA & BAZ'N Camp from French suburbs to Los Angeles — French Cluster
Explore how NBA-licensed agent Nassim Baziz turned his passion for basketball into a global success. From humble beginnings in France to launching Baz'n Camp in Los Angeles, discover a camp that unite...
www.frenchcluster.com
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France’s rise in the NBA is reaching another level behind Victor Wembanyama.
Shaun Powell outlines how years of development and emerging young stars have helped transform France into a global hoops power on the NBA App!
📰 nba.smart.link/mp0frtbgi
Shaun Powell outlines how years of development and emerging young stars have helped transform France into a global hoops power on the NBA App!
📰 nba.smart.link/mp0frtbgi
February 13, 2026 at 9:21 PM
France’s rise in the NBA is reaching another level behind Victor Wembanyama.
Shaun Powell outlines how years of development and emerging young stars have helped transform France into a global hoops power on the NBA App!
📰 nba.smart.link/mp0frtbgi
Shaun Powell outlines how years of development and emerging young stars have helped transform France into a global hoops power on the NBA App!
📰 nba.smart.link/mp0frtbgi
January 29, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Beautiful actors, beautiful acting, sweet soundtrack, amazing Sorogoyen ✨️
L’heure des raisins a sonné. Faites vos vœux, c’est bientôt votre tour.
January 8, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Beautiful actors, beautiful acting, sweet soundtrack, amazing Sorogoyen ✨️
Almost a Santa Monica winter❄️
January 7, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Almost a Santa Monica winter❄️
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If you plan to ring in the new year under a cozy blanket with a good book, we've got (more than) a few recommendations for you:
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
n.pr
December 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If you plan to ring in the new year under a cozy blanket with a good book, we've got (more than) a few recommendations for you:
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Mon nouveau film documentaire « L’Argentier » sera diffusé dimanche 14 décembre à 21h sur Canal+.
Une plongée dans les arcanes du foot, du business, du showbiz, et des affaires avec l’omnipotent Jean-Claude Darmon.
Une coproduction : Bien Sûr Productions - Black Dynamite Production - Mediawan
Une plongée dans les arcanes du foot, du business, du showbiz, et des affaires avec l’omnipotent Jean-Claude Darmon.
Une coproduction : Bien Sûr Productions - Black Dynamite Production - Mediawan
December 13, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Mon nouveau film documentaire « L’Argentier » sera diffusé dimanche 14 décembre à 21h sur Canal+.
Une plongée dans les arcanes du foot, du business, du showbiz, et des affaires avec l’omnipotent Jean-Claude Darmon.
Une coproduction : Bien Sûr Productions - Black Dynamite Production - Mediawan
Une plongée dans les arcanes du foot, du business, du showbiz, et des affaires avec l’omnipotent Jean-Claude Darmon.
Une coproduction : Bien Sûr Productions - Black Dynamite Production - Mediawan
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"Images can move people, can educate people, can enlighten people, can flip misconceptions, can bridge people. I still believe in photojournalism," @lynseyaddario.bsky.social tells contributor @samfragoso.bsky.social.
Photojournalist Lynsey Addario on balancing work and family — when work is a war zone
The Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist has been kidnapped and thrown from a car. Still, Addario says, parenting two young kids can be more challenging than war reporting.
www.npr.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"Images can move people, can educate people, can enlighten people, can flip misconceptions, can bridge people. I still believe in photojournalism," @lynseyaddario.bsky.social tells contributor @samfragoso.bsky.social.
AWSOME🔥🔥 article !!! Perfect snapshot of heartfelt journeys of two great French Basketball Lovers and Entrepreneurs ✨ 🇨🇵🏀🇺🇸 🎇 #FrenchBasketball
"You forget the struggle" [...] "Ten years, you're not making any money. You keep believing that you're going to make it."
"You forget the struggle" [...] "Ten years, you're not making any money. You keep believing that you're going to make it."
A few years ago, as I was reporting on Victor Wembanyama, I became fascinated by his agents and how they built their business. Here’s a story about two best friends who made it big. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/b...
Call My Agent, the Basketball Version
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
AWSOME🔥🔥 article !!! Perfect snapshot of heartfelt journeys of two great French Basketball Lovers and Entrepreneurs ✨ 🇨🇵🏀🇺🇸 🎇 #FrenchBasketball
"You forget the struggle" [...] "Ten years, you're not making any money. You keep believing that you're going to make it."
"You forget the struggle" [...] "Ten years, you're not making any money. You keep believing that you're going to make it."
Passionate and intimate 🔥🔥
“Everything feels like it’s falling into place.” I profiled Heat star Norman Powell @theathletic.com A story about home, belonging and Jamaica: www.nytimes.com/athletic/682...
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Passionate and intimate 🔥🔥
The role of psychology in driving people's economical decisions : it is difficult to rationalize. Financial markets are hardly efficients in this area of meme stocks and Dogecoin.
Par exemple, why do markets go up on Fridays and down on Mondays ? (and tend to rise at year end)
#BehavioralEconomics
Par exemple, why do markets go up on Fridays and down on Mondays ? (and tend to rise at year end)
#BehavioralEconomics
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The role of psychology in driving people's economical decisions : it is difficult to rationalize. Financial markets are hardly efficients in this area of meme stocks and Dogecoin.
Par exemple, why do markets go up on Fridays and down on Mondays ? (and tend to rise at year end)
#BehavioralEconomics
Par exemple, why do markets go up on Fridays and down on Mondays ? (and tend to rise at year end)
#BehavioralEconomics
Basketball forever🔥
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Basketball forever🔥
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À 34 ans, il prend la tête de la ville la plus puissante du monde. Fils d’immigrés, socialiste revendiqué, Zohran Mamdani est le visage d’une Amérique urbaine en mutation, lassée des promesses centristes et des fractures sociales.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/2Jq
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/2Jq
November 5, 2025 at 7:35 AM
À 34 ans, il prend la tête de la ville la plus puissante du monde. Fils d’immigrés, socialiste revendiqué, Zohran Mamdani est le visage d’une Amérique urbaine en mutation, lassée des promesses centristes et des fractures sociales.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/2Jq
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/2Jq
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And Brook Lopez ends the third quarter by blocking yet another Sharpe dunk attempt
LA Clippers LEAD 87-82 through 3 quarters. This game feels like the October visit from Trail Blazers last year. Beware of Rayan Rupert...
Zubac: 21 points, 9/12 FGs.
LA Clippers LEAD 87-82 through 3 quarters. This game feels like the October visit from Trail Blazers last year. Beware of Rayan Rupert...
Zubac: 21 points, 9/12 FGs.
Shaedon Sharpe has tried to dunk on Clippers rim protectors at least three times and it hasn't worked out just yet.
Batum the latest to block him
Batum the latest to block him
October 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
And Brook Lopez ends the third quarter by blocking yet another Sharpe dunk attempt
LA Clippers LEAD 87-82 through 3 quarters. This game feels like the October visit from Trail Blazers last year. Beware of Rayan Rupert...
Zubac: 21 points, 9/12 FGs.
LA Clippers LEAD 87-82 through 3 quarters. This game feels like the October visit from Trail Blazers last year. Beware of Rayan Rupert...
Zubac: 21 points, 9/12 FGs.
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October 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”
October 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”
Happy Saturday !!! 🇨🇵🔥✨
Ousmane Dieng saved the Thunder from OT in the final game of their preseason!
Not a bad way to head into the season
#nba
Not a bad way to head into the season
#nba
October 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Happy Saturday !!! 🇨🇵🔥✨
French🇨🇵 + Basketball🏀 = 🔥🔥🔥 (that's why!)
Time and time again, one realizes that talking to this guy is unlike talking to most guys.
September 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
French🇨🇵 + Basketball🏀 = 🔥🔥🔥 (that's why!)
Welcome l'Automne!! 🧡🍂🍁✨🐿
September 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Welcome l'Automne!! 🧡🍂🍁✨🐿
Super interessant...
US&France were built on immigration
&diversity. US values financial markets & offers little social protection. However... both nations inspired fights for freedom in the world.
Can we understand the current
democratic French crisis by looking at what's going on in the US ?
US&France were built on immigration
&diversity. US values financial markets & offers little social protection. However... both nations inspired fights for freedom in the world.
Can we understand the current
democratic French crisis by looking at what's going on in the US ?
September 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Super interessant...
US&France were built on immigration
&diversity. US values financial markets & offers little social protection. However... both nations inspired fights for freedom in the world.
Can we understand the current
democratic French crisis by looking at what's going on in the US ?
US&France were built on immigration
&diversity. US values financial markets & offers little social protection. However... both nations inspired fights for freedom in the world.
Can we understand the current
democratic French crisis by looking at what's going on in the US ?
Reposted by Isa Simon
More than 100 members of the Writers Guild of America East and their supporters jammed the sidewalk in front of Walt Disney Co.’s Lower Manhattan headquarters Friday to protest ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
Film and TV writers — and Michael Eisner — blast Disney for benching Jimmy Kimmel
Writers Guild of America members rally outside headquarters of ABC in New York City to protest the suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.
www.latimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
More than 100 members of the Writers Guild of America East and their supporters jammed the sidewalk in front of Walt Disney Co.’s Lower Manhattan headquarters Friday to protest ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
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Robert Redford dreamed of a festival in the mountains. Ultimately, he reshaped Hollywood
Robert Redford dreamed of a festival in the mountains. Ultimately, he reshaped Hollywood
With his founding of the Sundance Institute and development of America's signature indie showcase, Robert Redford redefined independent filmmaking as we know it.
www.latimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Robert Redford dreamed of a festival in the mountains. Ultimately, he reshaped Hollywood