De-stigmatizing white supremacist imagery in the military shouldn’t be surprising given the Defense Secy Pete Hegseth was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” due to a tattoo of his associated with white supremacist groups. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Even after court ordered them to stop. www.raceandequityproject.org/blog/feds-us...

The sports people invited to Trump’s dinner for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, who US intel said ordered murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi:

There have been a lot of disgusting and surreal moments in the Oval Office over the last 10 months that disgrace the United States, but Trump publicly dismissing the brutal assassination of a Washington Post journalist as insignificant and blowing smoke up the ass of a despotic butcher is up there

U.S. Reps have questioned whether a contract between ICE and Charlotte-area company Hendrick Motorsports is tied to political contributions made by the company’s owner. #NASCAR Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Kenny Easley, Seahawks Hall of Fame safety, dies at 66

Now this www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... on top of extrajudicial executions of unknown persons at sea, and attacks on immigrants. It would be a small admonishment, but FIFA and the Olympics should disqualify a Trumpist US as host for the world’s sporting events.

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With the imminent and uninvited arrival of Trump’s Bull Connor in Charlotte, thought I’d share this episode from the first season of the award-winning podcast I cohost with Robert Greene, Our New South, for the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

NEW: Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in a Chicago raid are telling their stories.

As if the Trumpist administration callousness and vindictiveness isn’t enough, it exercised its obnoxiousness emailing fed workers that “the democrat-led shutdown” is over and they’ll be considered “AWOL” if they don’t report immediately to work

Much thanks to @wnba.com Players Association exec. dir. Terri Jackson dropping in my @merrillcollege.bsky.social Sports, Protest and Media class today to explain how players have used opt-outs, wildcat strikes and sloganeering to fight for more equitable treatment

Two panels commemorating Black American WWII soldiers contribution – and pointing to their fight against racism within the army – were removed without explanation. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Me @postsports.bsky.social on the bit of triumphant racial sports history W recalled in the White House that was lost in Trump’s callous vainglorious destruction of the East Wing www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Our Prof. of the Practice Kevin Blackistone will be a part of this amazing panel at Busboys & Poets Takoma on Nov. 4! #fearlessjournalism More info at busboysandpoets.com/events

The East Wing demolition and a moment lost to time, as told by @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social:

More proof this rogue government is institutionalizing whiteness, here by borrowing Nazi propaganda imagery. chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

This is how loathed these people are. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ. We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights. Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal

A "rogue nation" is one that acts outside international norms and laws, posing a threat to global security, i.e... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

When I was growing up, dad would point out places in our native DC where slave auction blocks once stood. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The Soul Patrol is dead.✊🏾 That was the nickname for the Oakland Raiders' 1970s defensive backfield, Willie Brown, Jack Tatum, Skip Thomas and George Atkinson. Man, I wanted to be one of them in high school. apnews.com/article/obit... legend George Atkinson, known for his fierce hits, dies at 78

Percussionist extraordinaire. Man, his ECM work. www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

And Edward Glazer owner of the NFL Buccaneers

Among those who funded Trump’s demolishing of the White House east wing are 0-7Jets owner Woody Johnson via the foundation named after his late mother, Mavericks owner Miriam Adelson’s foundation and disgraced former Atlanta Dream owner Kelly Loeffler www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Me @postsports.bsky.social on the quandary that Israel reminds us has beset international sports forever: What to do with those countries that are bulling through the china shop of humanity? www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Metaphorically. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

News outlets reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day. From the Mayor of DC Hip-Hop, Head-Roc. ✊🏽 youtu.be/pFwZBuD862o?...

Black unemployment under Trump has surged the past four months to 7.5 percent, while the rate for White people ticked down to 3.7 percent. The White House’s actions have disproportionately harmed Black workers. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...

We are! NU!

“We want to make sure that the bureaucracy can’t reconstitute itself later in future administrations,” Trumps OMB head Russell Vought said in April in a podcast with Charlie Kirk. He told reporters in July, “We’re having fun.” Trump administration begins laying off federal workers amid shutdown

I’m involved in two searches right now for leadership of news organizations and Bari Weiss would qualify for neither. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

ICYMI “South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'” blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/02/s...

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

More extrajudicial killings. Like some rogue state. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Never forget what Russell Vought, Trump’s OMB director pledged: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected…we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down…We want…them in trauma.” #shutdown

This was the SBA website today . h/t @npr.org on its first day w/o fed funds www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...

This is the HUD website today. This is the Trumpist who runs it (it’s the admin’s Black job). And Black households remain over represented in relying on HUD. www.hud.gov

CPJ joins legal effort to support detained journalist Mario Guevara cpj.org?p=524918

“The political narcissist lives only in the present where, almost by definition, lies don’t exist so long as there’s another interview, another media hit, another chance to keep spinning, another chance to be radiant before an audience.

Me @postsports on how sports didn’t have to avail itself to remember Charlie Kirk but in doing so took part in cleansing him of any ignominious repute www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Sportswashing works both ways when teams and leagues are complicit, @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social writes: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

ICYMI because of state media...

Classic Mitch!🤣