I write about college basketball. But: My favorite 🏀 team - the one that makes me ache and cry -is the Hornets. It’s not generational trauma so much as ineffable sadness. I think this @christhompson.bsky.social is the best explainer of the team I’ve read. defector.com/can-anything...

This week’s Florida History Podcast is on the Miami v Florida rivalry in football w/ @nwblackmon.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Forgot to post my Feast Week preview here— plenty of Great SEC basketball on tap— shout out to my guy @bracketdobber.net for the assist with the elite MTE map www.saturdaydownsouth.com/news/college...

Spurrier v Bowden w/ @nwblackmon.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Imagine being the worst person the worst person on the planet knows.

The Capital Area Food Bank in Washington D.C., says it's allotted an extra 1 million meals for November, given the uncertainties about whether and when SNAP recipients will get their full benefits. n.pr/47z75Re

Part One of my conversation with @nwblackmon.bsky.social on the Florida-Florida State football rivalry - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

As a Jesus follower, I can’t understand caving on health care funding. I especially can’t understand doing it when your opposition was holding food for poor, hungry kids (among other things) hostage unless you cave on health care. Disappointing isn’t strong enough. Dismayed. Devastated.

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

CONCACAF heritage alert in the CPL final.

Lots of gold. No food for poor kids.

How the billionaire you elected acts when hungry kids need food and millions of Americans might lose their health care.

Trump shutdown.

The President wants to nuke the filibuster to end the shutdown and take health care away from millions of Americans but at least he put a tacky sign outside the Oval Office.

At thr heart of failed resistance to Trump is the colossal failure of Democrats to defend New Deal and Great Society egalitarian economic ideals. Democrats consistently capitulate to corporate, anti-worker interests. 🧵

Whether it's liberals snapping their fingers at New York Times staffer orientation or conservatives cutting off SNAP funding for millions of starving Americans, both sides have a snap problem.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

I wrote about my Dad, fatherhood, loss, and why the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party is so much more than a football game to Georgia and Florida fans. www.saturdaydownsouth.com/news/college...

Good morning to everyone except folks who think holding SNAP funding hostage for hungry kids unless you agree to cripple health care for millions of Americans is an ethical or Jesus following or “pro life” policy.

Crime? Healthcare? Economy? Football? Not looking good. Why doesn't the Louisiana governor seem to care? @timmiller.bsky.social on Jeff Landry:

Wealthier? Marlins Man or Kevin McCallister’s Dad?

people in a lot of states are about to lose their SNAP benefits. If you are in a position to help with food aid, please do. Donate to a local food pantry, reach out to people you know who are food insecure and share meals, whatever you can do!

Autism parent here. Nothing like your health savings account running out after 5 months and 2,500 in therapy sessions deductibles remaining anyway

Great thread by the brilliant Lisa Corrigan

Conservative, Trump supporting Christians trying to reconcile cutting SNAP to poor children with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but: 1. Autism isn’t a tragedy 2. Autism being largely genetic isn’t a sign of “de-evolution” and it’s dehumanizing to autistic people to suggest it is.

Good morning to everyone except the people who think Tylenol or vaccines cause autism.

So I guess it’s back to when Grealish was at Aston Villa. The opponent can do anything to him outside of actually murdering him in a football match and not get a player sent off…

Looks like Kash Patel paid off the refs in Liverpool-Everton. Multiple tackles on Grealish violated the Geneva Convention. Same old nonsense.

Empaths who are too overwhelmed and burnt out from the constant onslaught of horribleness to speak, and feel so guilty bc the societal mandate to “speak up” about every single horror is constant & nothing you say or do will ever feel like enough: I am with you. I love you. You are doing enough.

Flying on 9/11 today for the first time since 9/11. Hard to believe it’s been 24 years.

Oceans rise. Empires fall.

Naturally Everton will be docked 7 points for this

Again, a reminder that the law of the United States creates and names executive departments, not the president at any given time. "The Department of Defense is an executive department of the United States." 10 U.S.C § 111

Nobel Peace prize guy changing the name of the Department of Defense to Department of War.

Disgusting. But from a group that adores a president who insulted Gold Star families, what else is new?

Truly one of the best and most impactful pieces of journalism I’ve ever read. Has stuck with me for years.

That’s right! Grant the original SEC Champion! Sherman went back to back!

Great day to start this Civil War podcast series on the Atlanta campaign. William Tecumseh Sherman: the Original SEC Champion!!!

Manchester City the club I’ve spent most of my life supporting is becoming increasingly unlikable. Trafford is one our own. Signing Donnarumma is a betrayal. Full stop. maybe this is why when MCFC was training down the street from me this summer I didn’t even bother to show up. I’m so over them.

for those who don’t know, I wrote an e-book in 2014 about my long-term fandom of the club. But as the club became bigger and quite frankly more foreign, (I know I’m not English, but I am an anglophile). It became much more difficult to relate to them. Now it’s impossible..

The other point on this would be I’ve felt closer and closer to Everton the last few years. It’s the Howard Kendall/Peter Reid Legacy. There was so much shared history between City and Everton. So I naturally had a rooting interest in Everton also. And so that happened to me also.

Everton making me feel Hope. Not something I’m used to.

Urban giving me Tom Hagen vibes in that burgundy suit. Except Hagen was the conscious of the Corleone family

Boosting this to get it to my followers. You need to do this now, before these boosters and vaccines are unavailable.

We live in a country where many conservatives are more triggered by rainbows on sidewalks than our children being repeatedly slaughtered in schools.

The real Cracker Barrel crisis is the amount of salt they put in their ham.

Dr. James Dobson leaves a legacy of abuse, hate and a lost American church. If the apostle Paul saw the American churches Dobson shaped, they would be receiving a dandy of a letter. Dobson’s version and vision of Jesus was small.

Reminder that “slavery as a benevolent institution” was not only the South’s main argument against the morality arguments advanced by abolitionists but also a linchpin of the white supremacy arguments that were used to justify post-Reconstruction Jim Crow.