A book that chronicles the NFL's protest movement and how a small group of heroes took on the NFL, and President Donald Trump...and won.
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Journalist, USA Today sports race and inequality editor. Fmr. B/R, NYT, Washington Post. Author of nine books. Trekker. Tips: MJFreeman@usatoday.com.
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Old enough to remember the outrage of the right when Colin Kaepernick took a knee.
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BREAKING | NBC News: Edward Kelley, 33, awaiting trial on charges tied to assaulting police at the Capitol on January 6th, has been charged by the FBI with obtaining a list of law enforcement who investigated his alleged crimes and later discussed plans to kill the investigators.
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Opinion | By halving his net worth in nine months, Elon Musk has done more to reduce income inequality than Bernie Sanders ever did.
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People really need to understand how mainstream it has become in some tech VC circles to argue that journalism itself is dangerous as an idea and should be abolished, and that it will be up to the tech world to carry this out.
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“I was just trying to highlight the fact that he talks about bullying and doxxing…and he’s a pro at it,” she said. “He harassed me back in 2018, he talked shit about me in the court of law, he sued my source. Like, I've been through the ringer with this guy.”
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Lopez said she hadn't tweeted details about Musk's jet. Instead, she had been cataloging what she considered his hypocrisy over doxxing and targeting private citizens.
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Just spoke to , the Insider columnist who has aggressively reported on Musk for years, including on alleged safety lapses at Tesla. Her account was suspended today without explanation, she said.
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A clip of creator/host of Soul Train Don Cornelius playing 1-on-1 basketball against singer Marvin Gaye with singer Smokey Robinson refereeing the game. The game was shown on an episode of Soul Train that aired on May 7th, 1977.
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She just tweeted about Musk yesterday. She’s an excellent journalist.
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BREAKING: Journalist Linette Lopez is suspended.
She has reported for years about Elon's dubious business practices at Tesla.
Her sources have previously been targeted by private spies hired by Musk.
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I’m still trying to understand how a professor justified calling police on a student because the student didn’t apologize for yelling back when she yelled at her. POLICE. As in, she called law enforcement to bring guns to to the class and drag a student out. For not saying sorry.
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Blocked for Trek splaining
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Replying to @mikefreemanNFL
But the Klingon empire survived.
You're thinking about the Romulan Empire and Romulus
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If someone offered you $5000 to drive a car around the corner and back,
But as you get in, you look down and you see this:
are you getting paid or no?
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Time to die
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I keep encountering these wonderful versions of “Sweet Dreams”. Here’s the latest discovery! You’re gonna LOVE these gorgeous and massively talented young peeps!
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I’m a @Tesla investor and I want @elonmusk to get off @Twitter. The value of my shares has been cut in half since he made his move to take over this platform. I love my Model 3, but he is killing the company with his antics. washingtonpost.com/technology/202
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Yes, my Twitter account was permanently suspended, by
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15 of the top 20 by follower count are porn. The top non-porn personal accounts are the UKIP Gamergate guy and a Bolsonaro supporter who recently got Elon Musk’s attention with claims of election fraud.
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Twitter Blue round 2: I’m travelling and haven’t looked at this in detail yet, but my tracker has taken 66 million profile snapshots of 18 million distinct accounts since Monday’s relaunch, and it’s found a grand total of 2,215 new sign-ups.
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BREAKING: Five Louisiana law enforcement officers have been charged in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene. These are the first charges linked to a death officials first blamed on a car crash before body-camera video showed officers beating Greene.
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Twitter is the Klingon Empire after Kronos exploded.
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In 24 hours, Elon Musk banned accounts he said he never would, made up new rules to justify it, threatened legal action against a 20-year-old, pontificated on how doxing is banned on the platform, and then immediately doxed a man.
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From PBS, "In 1918, Henry Ford purchased his hometown newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. A year and a half later, he began publishing a series of articles that claimed a vast Jewish conspiracy was infecting America."
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We also remember his family and community as they grieved that year during during the holiday season. No one was ever convicted for his murder. In 1924, an African American was lynched in the United States every 22 days.
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Taking a moment to remember Sam Smith, a young teen who was lynched in Cane Ridge on this day in 1924.
#ThrowbackThursday
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"She did not believe in talent as much as hard work. She never told an aspiring writer they should give up, rather that they should learn, study, observe, and persist. Persistence was the lesson she received from her mother, her grandmother, and her aunt."
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Also been playing this oldie on my runs. You’re welcome.
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Coming off Twitter break briefly to say there’s almost a stubborn begrudging dimwitted refusal to accept that Jalen Hurts is great and the Eagles are for real.
Okay, see you people later.
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Logging off Twitter this coming week. See you people soon.
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The Carolina Panthers leadership tried to write off the season, Steve Wilks didn’t write them back.
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1.1 million Americans have died of COVID since this tweet.
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Signed every copy of my memoir Uphill at the Orlando airport’s Hudson News store. Have at it.
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Jalen Hurts with an interesting/honest answer about if he's motivated by naysayers:
"I carry my scars with me everywhere I go. I don't forget. Do I waste my energy worrying about the opinion of someone else, the opinion of a sheep? No. I truly invest my focus in getting better."
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The number of Twitter employees in Slack is dropping significantly — looks like more than 100 people were just let go.
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NEW: Elon Musk is threatening to sue Twitter employees who leak confidential information to the press. He's asking staffers to sign a pledge indicating they've understood. Here's the email:
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Holy crap Russell Wilson hit head hard on the turf
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Tom Brady: 9 for 19, 78 yards, INT
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I’m trying to think of a great player that I’ve ever covered who fell off such a gigantic cliff so quickly as Russell Wilson did this season.
None coming to mind.
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