lots of people want desantis to go away for obvious reasons but it's not gonna work because his supporters want blood & they don't care if the rollout was embarrassing. they'll love him even harder. looking a fool, lying outrageously, seeming cruel, none of that is fatal anymore
desantis might indeed eventually flame out but the people on that side are playing a different game. nothing is embarrassing to them anymore. nothing is too outrageous. you just have to beat them because they're not going to beat themselves or bow out semi-gracefully anymore.
May 15, 2023 ā¢ 6 tweets ā¢ 2 min read
With understanding that this is easier said than done: I'm still looking for/hoping for prominent black Floridians, esp. those who are top college football recruits/transfers, to use this as a pretext to boycott all schools affected by this bill. If they don't want us, don't go.
With no disrespect to any other place Iāve worked the past 20 years, nothing was as fun or exhilarating as being part of BuzzFeed News in its infancy. There was so much talent and energy and a real sense of mission. That it was all ruined within a decade is really depressing
Dec 22, 2022 ā¢ 4 tweets ā¢ 1 min read
if anything, i'm haunted by the idea that there's parts of my parents' lives that i don't know anything about and i'm trying desperately to get up to speed while I'm here with them. i'm just ... interested in them. so some of that is us just meeting each other where we are.
That ain't a good answer. But beyond the obvious things, my mother and i laugh at the same things and like getting in a car and going anywhere. my pops and i are getting better as we get older, and there's not a person in this world i want to watch football with more than him.
Dec 21, 2022 ā¢ 4 tweets ā¢ 1 min read
Think about how many times her partner has narrowly averted getting beat up over her bullshit smh. Weād either have to break up or sheād have to go to games without me.
To get me to watch a game from the stands, it needs to be on level of: CFP semifinal and/or all my best friends gonna be there so we can fight our way out of need be. I feel sorry for that brother but the last few years have seemingly turned the fan experience into MAGA rallies
Dec 7, 2022 ā¢ 5 tweets ā¢ 2 min read
The only child shit is actually pretty gravy when you're young. When you get older? Man, it'd be nice to have some help.
Heh. It's funny (not *actually* funny) that you say that but yeah. That's where my revelation about this started.
I was thinking this too - been thinking it since last year, even - but more along the lines of: If America was the country it purports itself to be (warm, devout, compassionate, smart, a man who climbed out of poverty) he would be a clear contender even if he didnāt want to be.
I also had forgotten Deion had to scramble to get that degree that allowed him to become a college coach, because his academic record prior to that was notable only in that it led to a change in Florida state law lol latimes.com/archives/la-xpā¦
lol there's absolutely nothing about this particular set of political beliefs that would stump any black person who knows better. please, try to meet even one of us.
So you're telling me there's a subset of white people who don't think black people should have equal rights but are for spending money on massive public programs that disproportionately exclude black people??? Wow. Fascinating!
Dec 4, 2022 ā¢ 6 tweets ā¢ 1 min read
They BET not šø
DO YOU BELIEVE???
Dec 3, 2022 ā¢ 35 tweets ā¢ 4 min read
Literally took less than half of one (1) football season to see how cool and fun USC could be again. There's just not another program like this, man.
In 2007, I interviewed John David Booty about the perks of playing at USC and he told me that ā for some reason ā Ashton Kutcher invited him to play catch over at Jon Voight's house. You just can't do that in, like, Columbia.
Nov 3, 2022 ā¢ 4 tweets ā¢ 2 min read
I assume this isnāt about those hundreds of thousands of children who were orphaned - to say nothing of the thousands who died themselves - but if youāre really just excited for Republicans to steamroll all precautions, please just say it with your chest. scientificamerican.com/article/the-nuā¦
Motherfuckers are so beholden to ātest scoresā at the expense of keeping people safe. Like, why we should care about test scores? People have their whole lives to learn, and not just to enter some already nonsense race to college thatās already weighted toward the privileged.
if you've used a wire reference with me anytime in the last 20 years, i've likely just nodded and said, "oh yeah that's what's up." if you didn't ask any follow-ups, that's on you.
Jun 3, 2022 ā¢ 4 tweets ā¢ 1 min read
That Non-Afrikan woman is simply the vendor! ššš
I canāt believe this is real.
Not really saying anything novel here but itās almost inconceivable how the best shooter in league history is also one of its best off the dribble and an All-Star-level distributor. He really is perimeter Shaq, but if Shaq couldāve hit free throws at the league average.
I can say things like that now because Iām no longer bitter about the 2018 WCF and Bron doesnāt have anything left to prove. Itās not growth, itās just clarity.
Jun 2, 2022 ā¢ 4 tweets ā¢ 1 min read
My pops was like, āYou're definitely going to send Desmond to private school now, right? What with all these school shootings.ā And I was, like, āactually seems like a safer course of action would be to send him to a large urban high school abandoned by white families tbh."
His grandparents, who have now lived in Texas for more than 50 years, seem very disturbed that I take a much more dim view of private and suburban white-flight schools than they ever did.
Jun 1, 2022 ā¢ 4 tweets ā¢ 4 min read
After a 7-week absence i finally returned to Hang Up and Listen to spend 2/3s of my time talking about racism and slapping people over money w/my good friends @josh_levin & @BWDBWDBWD. The dude @jack_hamilton also swung by to talk NBA Finals. Good times. slate.com/podcasts/hang-ā¦@josh_levin@BWDBWDBWD@jack_hamilton And while mulling over the Anderson v Donaldson dustup, I realized I wanted to say baseballās ācultureāāincl a crowd booing 1 of the gameās few black American stars over his objection to a slick Jackie Robinson comparisonāis likely 1 of the things that cost the game Kyler Murray
May 27, 2022 ā¢ 7 tweets ā¢ 2 min read
Neither in college nor in my 1st years as a journalist did anyone talk about applying skepticism to police statements. Itās something you come to learn by trial and error, *or* you tacitly believe the police are mostly good and infallibleāwhich isnāt exactly unbiased reporting.
The burden of proving or disproving bias in reporters never seems to go the other way on this one: placing your trust in āauthoritiesā is as much an editorial choice as believing theyāre fundamentally liars.
Jan 30, 2022 ā¢ 14 tweets ā¢ 2 min read
Joe Jackson. Richard Williams. Earl Woods. ā¦ Sonja Norwood? LaVar Ball?
Pleasantly surprised to learn that Norman Lear is still with us.
Dec 30, 2021 ā¢ 4 tweets ā¢ 1 min read
If this holds, Tennesseeās DBs are gonna be on Coach 30 by tomorrow afternoon.
āOk, the momentās too big. You piss down your leg and let the big man just go on about his business ā¦ just like your mama."
