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!🤣

Me @postsports.bsky.social: What if Black college athletes considered the Trumpist anti-DEI politics etc. of states where colleges are recruiting them like women athletes are of schools in states with reactionary restrictions on their reproductive health? www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

A study of women's basketball recruiting shows the impact of state abortion laws, writes @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social.

“ABC takes Jimmy Kimmel off the air over remarks on Charlie Kirk’s killing.” This from Trump’s FCC dude who supported Trump’s EO against censorship, online. Free speech the bedrock of democracy is facing an existential threat from Trumpists that many warned of. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Eswatini, South Sudan, Rwanda and now Ghana are African countries complicit in Trump’s human trafficking. “Lawsuit says U.S. deported migrants to Ghana to sidestep restrictions” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

From the legendary political writer David Broder almost a quarter century ago: wapo.st/46wsbPv

Taney, as ghastly as he was, didn't take a jackhammer to as many key components of our Constitutional system.

The only difference between Roger Taney and John Roberts is 161 years

To be clear, the gov’t says skin color can be used to arrest us but must be ignored when it comes to education and employment. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The other time a Confederate Army attacked my hometown Washington DC was July 11-12, 1864, when Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early led an assault on Ft. Stevens, about 3 miles from my house, and was repulsed. Such a retrograde time we’ve been tossed in. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

Nauseating. www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...

How we rode the DC Bike Ride this morning before the We Are All DC March against the Trumpists attempted takeover of my hometown

The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social

Ticket sales are so poor, the Stuttgart Ballet will be performing for an Opera House between 4 and 19 percent full …BodyTraffic, the Los Angeles troupe booked for the smaller Eisenhower Theatre October 29 and 30, is at 12 percent capacity. www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/03/s...

It’s been 100 years since A. Philip Randolph organized Black sleeping car porters and got them into the AFL while half the affiliates were whites only. And in WWII he told FDR he’d lead a march on Washington if the armed services and fed bureaus weren’t desegregated. He won. BlackLaborMatters✊🏽

With Lee Corso being celebrated today, what I wrote about him four months ago: “…with a president who has all but turned the word diversity into a slur, Corso should be recalled for what he was early in his college football career, over 60 years ago…” img3.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Susan Monarez has a Ph.D. earned from research on technologies to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious diseases, particularly those affecting low- and middle-income people. RFK Jr. a lawyer fired her for not supporting his vaccine skepticism and the anti-intellectual president’s

In August 1897, a French force sent to assert colonial control over the Menabé kingdom of the Sakalava people in western Madagascar massacred a local army. King Toera was decapitated and his head sent to Paris where it was placed in the Museum of Natural History. www.bbc.com/news/article...

She was the first Black woman on the Federal Reserve's board www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trumpists have said Abrego would “never go free” in the United States, and ICE said it could deport him to Uganda within days. (“Then they made him an officer and right away he became the biggest bastard you ever saw.” —author Thomas Heggen)

On Aug. 23, 1791, enslaved people in what now is Haiti and the Dominican Republic rose up against French colonialists and gained their independence in 1804. Today UNESCO’s International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition celebrates enslaved Africans fighting for freedom.

Another day trying to keep up with the retrograde Trump admin isn’t easy but here’s another from @washingtonpost.com about how it is working to lay waste to my hometown DC: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is who these ppl are: Mississippi Gov. Reeves is sending 200 MS National Guard troops to DC for Trump crime crackdown, despite DC's violent crime rate at 494 per 100,000 residents and Jackson, MS, at 537 per 100,000, and Jackson's homicide rate at 78 per 100,000 and DC's at 26.

"I think the time has come when we have to stop pretending that we are a sports organization that lives on another planet.” www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and…unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (under articles 8(2)(a)(vii) and 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Rome Statute). www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/vl...

One of the remedies Gene Sharp mentioned in his book From Dictatorship to Democracy was undermining the morale of a dictator’s police. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

This is the person who stands as the Trump admin’s middle finger to doctorate degreed historians who build and curate our museums. Another on-brand vastly unqualified hire.

I've never been so disheartened. I never could have envisioned our country regressing as hard and as fast as it has. We went from "Saying the quiet part out loud" to the quiet part being the overt messaging of the party. Scary times and I don't think anyone is coming to save us.

It seems like July 1919 in DC all over again.

This www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... isn’t about DC because there is no emergency. This is pretext for doing the same in any other city, particularly any city predominantly of color, that didn’t vote for this guy for president.

Me @postsports.bsky.social on what is Trump’s latest retrograde act, restarting a youth fitness campaign that has little to do with the overall challenges to well-being kids face today. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

It’s just like this president to resurrect the archaic youth fitness campaign that has little to do with the overall challenges to well-being kids face today. Column by @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social:

“Jared Wise is a valued member of the Justice Department and we appreciate his contributions to our team.” Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops - NPR www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

The heinous vindictiveness of Trump. How’d this happen? Remember Episcopal Church Bishop Mariann Budde urged him to show “mercy” during a Jan. 21 interfaith service to immigrants and the church refused to help him resettle white South Africans. www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/u...

Trying to keep up with all the Trump admin corruption isn’t easy but here’s another @washingtonpost.com story on a matter it uncovered: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trumpism is metastasizing through the republic eating away every single institution. wapo.st/4l75a9S

Before I covered sports, I covered the economy. Reported and analyzed BLS data monthly. Interviewed then first woman BLS commish Janet Norwood a statistician regularly. BLS collects data. Period. It doesn’t make up stuff which Trump does and wants it to do. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I said farewell to the @washingtonpost.com today, after 30 years. My note to my friends and colleagues, threaded:

The 18,500 children killed in Gaza. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

“…the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated, deliberate action to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip. In other words: Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.” www.btselem.org

The absence of lifeguards on the Maryland side of Assateague Island has drawn concern from lawmakers…after the National Park Service cut the positions due to federal budget constraints. Last year, lifeguards at the beach made more than two dozen rescues. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

Another example of why I wrote www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/... that this country under Trump is unfit now to host world sporting events. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

ICYMI. (Wonder how these kids will grow up to think of this country? Accurately, I suppose.) www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Nice legacy. Was unaware. @le-tourdefrance.bsky.social paulsherwenproject.com

Bomb a hospital. Hit a place of worship. March them on a Trail of Tears. Starve them. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...