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Trump can't sue @realBobWoodward for libel, so he's going after free speech instead, writes @LevinsonJessica. Trump can’t do much about legal precedent, but he can certainly attack free speech: http://nbcnews.to/2QkBPf9  #Fear

.@serenawilliams and @Naomi_Osaka_ deserved better than 2018's sexist #USOpenFinal. But fans shouldn't be surprised, writes @jessicawluther. The match was one more dramatic reminder of how rampant sexism still is at the sport’s highest levels:http://nbcnews.to/2CIxPT2 

Elon Musk trying marijuana isn't shocking, but our hypocritical response to it should be, writes @MattLaslo. Most Americans have already tried pot and many use it regularly. So why all the overwrought reactions?http://nbcnews.to/2x5g2iM 

Trump can't sue @realBobWoodward for libel (or change the laws), so he's going after free speech instead, writes @LevinsonJessica. Trump can’t do much about legal precedent, but he can certainly attack free speech: http://nbcnews.to/2QkBPf9  #Fear

Jacob deGrom has picked a terrible season to have a career year. Because Jacob deGrom pitches for the @Mets, writes @williamfleitch. The agony and the ecstasy of watching the best pitcher in baseball play for the Mets:http://nbcnews.to/2QjsYu8 

My initial reactions to the diagnosis were quite common: denial, fear, anger—as well as a dose of being insulted. I decided I wasn’t going gentle into that good night, writes @WilliamShatner. Here's what I learned about life after being told I was dying:http://nbcnews.to/2MT1eOO 

Jacob deGrom has picked a terrible season to have a career year. Because Jacob deGrom pitches for the @Mets, writes @williamfleitch. Why the best pitcher in baseball may not win the #CyYoung this year:http://nbcnews.to/2QjsYu8 

The bikinis may be gone, but #MissAmerica2019 is still rooted in exactly the sorts of attitudes that #MeToo seeks to eradicate, writes @anibundel. It's time to let the beauty pageant die:http://nbcnews.to/2Nu5Bzf 

The bikinis may be gone, but #MissAmerica2019 is still rooted in exactly the sorts of attitudes that #MeToo seeks to eradicate, writes @anibundel. It's time to let the beauty pageant die:http://nbcnews.to/2Nu5Bzf 

I knew Brett Kavanaugh during his years as a Republican operative. Don't let him sit on the Supreme Court, writes @davidbrockdc. We were part of a close circle of cynical hard-right operatives being groomed for much bigger things:http://nbcnews.to/2wTeMzX 

Miss America contestants are not born, they are created, writes @anibundel. This is a system that reinforces traditional beauty standards early and often. And it's time to let it die:http://nbcnews.to/2Nu5Bzf 

Cory Booker can't 'bork' Brett Kavanaugh. By definition, only Republicans can do that, writes @LemieuxLGM. Telling the truth about a nominee's political views is the purpose of having hearings:http://nbcnews.to/2MXOWEY 

.@netflix's #IronFist is back for season two — and so is its white savior routine. The cast of the series is diverse, which is good, but the storyline itself is only intermittently progressive:http://nbcnews.to/2oQR6rE 

Serena Williams' ability makes us take for granted all that she has to overcome, writes @bgg2wl. It’s just a shame that so much of what she has had to survive comes from the same public she competes to entertain:http://nbcnews.to/2oNZBDM 

The bikinis may be gone, but #MissAmerica2019 is still rooted in exactly the sorts of attitudes that #MeToo seeks to eradicate, writes @anibundel. This pageant is simply not worth saving:http://nbcnews.to/2Nu5Bzf 

.@MacMiller wasn’t just another rapper who died too young, writes @andrewrchow. Miller's continual progress in music, as a mentor and as a person struggling with addiction makes his suspected overdose all the more crushing:http://nbcnews.to/2NlFCdB 

My initial reactions to the diagnosis were quite common: denial, fear, anger—as well as a dose of being insulted. I decided I wasn’t going gentle into that good night, writes @WilliamShatner. Here's what I learned about life after being told I was dying:http://nbcnews.to/2MT1eOO