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@EdgeofSports
Aug 26, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Players want to do more than just wear a slogan on their backs #JacobBlakeshooting
“We’ve gotta take responsibility,. Like, what are we willing to give up? Do we actually give a f— about what’s going on, or is it just cool to wear ‘Black Lives Matter’ on the backdrop, or wear a T-shirt? Is it really doing anything?” - Fred VanVleet, Toronto Raptors
Police and their militia cronies hate these kinds of actions because it centers the attention exactly where it should be centered: on the shooting of Jacob Blake and the enduring problem of police impunity.

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Sep 20, 2023
When the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" anniversary comes around, the media always forgets the full name, which leaves out "jobs" and erases that the march was, yes, for Civil Rights but also anti-racist economic justice. Why am I bringing this the hell up? (1/2)
The "jobs" component was the influence of Rustin & @UAW head Walter Reuther. Today as openly racist @GOP candidates are "wooing" white UAW members with anti-union appeals to racism and nativism, the union would do well to embrace their past and tell them to go to hell. (2/3)
@UAW @GOP Fain's rejection of Trump on class grounds is very welcome. But an explicit rejection of Trump's racism and open dalliance with fascism feels urgent. A rejection of his upcoming "rally" and even a picketing of that rally would be welcome. (3/4) cnn.com/2023/09/19/pol…
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Jun 6, 2023
What if I told you that there were people who believed that the PGA, was some kind of a moral, even patriotic, alternative to the LIV golf tour? The PGA is what it has always been: a bunch of ham faced, julep drinking, amoral scoundrels. cnbc.com/amp/2023/06/06…
The PGA big wigs, so shocked and outraged by Saudi Arabia’s incursion into their game, will now drink scotch, smoke cigars and, with their new partners, laugh loudly over the sounds of the bone saws.
This is sports-washing: a push by Saudi Arabia to use sports in order to be accepted as part of the community of leading nations. Their message: forget the human rights violations. Just take the fucking money.” The PGA took the fucking money.
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Jun 5, 2023
I'm sorry, CNN and Ms. Phillip. But you can't just tweet this disgusting opportunistic slander by @NikkiHaley without pointing out that it's a lie; that trans kids are the most vulnerable to suicide and to blame them for the despair felt by so many young girls is truly sick.
Not even DeSantis is blaming teen suicides on trans kids. This is truly sick. I know @NikkiHaley doesn't care about anything other than getting that polling number over 1%. But CNN has to have some moral duty to not pump these lies out into the ecosystem without comment.
If Haley blamed, say, Nike for the teen suicide rate, you better believe CNN would offer a clarification making clear that this was batshit crazy. Yet blaming trans kids is just another news hook, a hook that does a hell of a lot more harm than blaming Nike.
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Mar 28, 2023
The people in the athletic world who took yesterday - of all days - to celebrate the exclusion of trans kids from playing sports, using military language about stopping their “invasion”…as a full scale, GOP demonization was taking place after Nashville, are beneath contempt.
I’m weary of calling people out and naming names, partly because it seems to give them confidence when critiqued and they play victim, while people munch popcorn and watch. Not interested in that game. More interested in making one point very clear…
People who ally with the far right to keep trans kids off the field, are doing more than opening the door for further exclusion and demonization. They are actively building the far right. They are building a culture of violence that will draw blood well beyond the trans community
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Mar 27, 2023
Upsetting on every level. But the part that demands a closer look is that Lamar says he requested a trade March 2nd. That’s almost a damn month ago. Where are the trade partners? Where is the leaked expressed interest? Collusion is no illusion.
I really wanted him to stay a Raven. There was a magic with qb and organization at times that felt special, even historic. It really seemed like the problems could be worked out, but parties have to want it to work and I have doubts about both sides, not just Lamar.
(My kid’s room is a shrine to John Wall and Lamar. Rough few years. Time to redecorate!)
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Mar 25, 2023
We’ve discussed this. You need two categories for Denzel: prestige and re-rewatchability. Prestige: Glory, Malcolm, Hurricane, Fences: Macbeth…. Re-rewatchability (meaning if you’re flipping channels, you stop) : Man on Fire; Training Day; Ricochet; Inside Man; The Mighty Quinn.
And I know I did five, not four. It was out of protest to the very idea of using Mt. Rushmore as a guideline. You’re welcome.
Two two least seen up there: Macbeth (Joel Coen!) and The Mighty Quinn (Sheryl Lee Ralph renaissance!) should be the first two you see.
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