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Tom Oates
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media and cultural studies | author of Football and Manliness | co-author of Forming the Public | views are my own
NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have violated federal ethics law in significant ways when filing his most recent disclosures of his assets and liabilities, ethics experts told ProPublica and @texastribune.org.
Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
The Republican U.S. Senate nominee from Texas appears to have omitted rental income and multiple mortgages from his recent financial disclosures, making it difficult for voters to get the full picture...
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Parkour, a sport that involves jumping over railings, rolling on the ground and scaling walls, has a reputation for being for the young. But in Singapore, an instructor is using parkour to teach seniors strength, balance and how to fall safely.
Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Fortune cookies were invented in the United States by a Japanese immigrant.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3mo agoMarsha Blackburn's new ad is so racist that it makes me wonder if mainstream Republicans could have gotten away with something like this back in the 1980s or 90s.
Friends, they’re not even trying to hide their voter suppression. ⬇️
“I feel that if we don't take seriously the ways in which racism is embedded in structures of institutions, if we assume that there must be an identifiable racist who is the perpetrator, then we won't ever succeed in eradicating racism.” — Angela Davis
It’s as if this entire tournament has been designed to punish supporters
The Athletic | Football@theathleticfc.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew Jersey’s NJ Transit is currently planning to charge more than $100 for return rail tickets from New York’s Pennsylvania Station to MetLife Stadium for FIFA World Cup games. The 18-mile rail journey ordinarily costs $12.90 for a return ticket. 📝 @adamcrafton.bsky.social 🔗 nyti.ms/3QaZJwX
the NCAA women's tournament getting Red Panda and the NCAA men's tournament getting the Chainsmokers is a great example of how toxic masculinity harms men too
Fact checking fraud claims: Heritage Foundation claims 1,620 cases of voter fraud from 1982-2025, including 100 cases of noncitizens voting. That's about 0.000008% of more than 1.3 bn votes cast at that time. We also know that nearly all the fraudulently cast votes were for Trump.
Fact-Checking the Debate Over the Republican Voting Bill
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I know this is an obvious thing to say but we should talk more about what a racist this guy is. He’s as racist as George Wallace or Strom Thurmond but unlike them he often escapes having racism mentioned as a leading cause for all his decisions.
Event announcement: Iowa Colloquium on Sport and Culture: 2026 Birrell-Parratt Lecture Friday, April 3, 4:00pm CST; Sarah K. Fields, University of Colorado Denver “Name Image, and Likeness: Past Battles, Present Complexities, and the Future of College Sports”
Sport History Opportunity (Event announcement)
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The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.
Michael Scott level attempt to win hearts and minds
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8mo agoGreenland has universal health care and far higher standards of healthcare than are found in Louisiana and most of the US. In the meantime, Trump has blocked funding of the ACA, meaning that tens of millions of Americans are about to lose their healthcare coverage.
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
What is the “equal time rule” and why did CBS enforce it?
Student debt is a generational injustice. Why are we squeezing graduates harder than the super-rich? | Gaby Hinsliff
Student debt is a generational injustice. Why are we squeezing graduates harder than the super-rich? | Gaby Hinsliff
Reform of this stealth tax is long overdue – and with it, a shake-up of the whole university system, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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They won’t let the science stop them from doing nazi style purges of trans folks from public life. It’s never been about evidence or data.
Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · 8mo agoWhat's that you say! It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
The Supreme Court will hear two cases today challenging state bans on transgender athletes. These bans are about erasure. Not fairness.
Bans of transgender athletes about erasure, not fairness | Opinion
U.S. Supreme Court will hear challenge to bans on participation of transgender athletes, with far-reaching implications.
usatoday.com
Twitter is owned by a fascist, Facebook and the Washington Post have gone MAGA, and now CBS News is about to be turned into far-right state TV. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.
Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families said that investigators have found child care centers at the center of recent fraud allegations were operating as they should.
Minnesota department finds child care centers targeted in viral video operating normally
The state Department of Children, Youth, and Families said it visited the nine facilities at the center of right-wing claims of fraud and found them "operating as expected."
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Thinking this is wrong is not radical. Thinking it isn’t is.
This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.
