Dave Zirin

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Sports editor @thenation Edge of Sports TV at http://youtube.com/therealnews Host of the Edge of Sports Podcast. Co-host of WPFW's The Collision.

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Choosing the Super Bowl as weapon of mass distraction before bombing the most densely populated area on earth was a decision made by Benjamin Netanyahu today. #Ceasefirenow #Rafah

www.thenation.com/article/soci... “I CALL HIM GAMBLOR”

Seen the Robert Kraft Super Bowl ad on fighting anti-Semitism bathed in Dr. King’s memory? There are a set of politics behind it that King would have found abhorrent. My take. therealnews.com/patriots-own...

Following the Supreme Court breathlessly is like wondering whether the Iron Sheik (RIP) had an honest shot against Hulk Hogan (racist scumbag)

Short video of me breaking down Bob Kraft’s seven million dollar Super Bowl ad buy and the political agenda driving it. therealnews.com/patriots-own...

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Hello! Dipping my toe back in bluesky. How’s the water?

Haven’t been on bluesky in some time. Hi! Wrote this about Deion www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Deion Sanders and the Joys of Hypewww.thenation.com While other college football coaches pine for the past, Deion Sanders has taken advantage of new rules and made the present fun.

I wrote @thenation about the end of the @nytimes sports page. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/new-york-times-sports-page/

The End of the “New York Times” Sports Page Is a Tragedywww.thenation.com In a union-busting move, the most important newspaper in the country killed its sports page.

Twitter is like a shitty strip mall with a gun shop and porno store (an avalanche of porn on twitter now), while some racist billionaire asshole on the corner with bad hairplugs lectures you about the deep state.

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This is the endgame for the AMPTP w/r/t all artists in all trades. Actors, directors, writers, costumers, DPs, electricians, production designers. Pay you for one day, use AI to duplicate your labor, fire us. This is why we're on strike, why SAG is on strike, and why we have to win.

Holy fucking shit at the SAG press conference right now Fran Drescher said the AMPTP offered on AI concerns that background actors can get paid for one day’s work, get scanned, and their image recycled digitally without limits.

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This Jeff Passan quote about the baseball lockout is really interchangeable with the Hollywood strike. TL;DR ownership/management is easily replaceable and provides very little, if any, value. Talent is very hard to replace and creates all the value

Deluded or just a bad ol' fashioned case of white obliviousness.

i am just catching up on this but it seems pretty bad (and outright deluded) to launch a social network without explicitly blocking people from using the most well-known racial slur in the english language as a username

Fulfilling a dream. Staving off the nerves. Interviewing Dr. Harry Edwards for @EdgeofSports TV. And it was a blast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lng3zi9p94I

150 years of Black activism in sports w/Dr. Harry Edwards | Edge of Sportswww.youtube.com The central place of sports in American life lends immense influence to athletes to shift the culture of the country—and for more than 150 years, Black athle...

Finding the marketing for the Barbie movie very have your cake and eat it too. No idea if the film will be like that. But all these products becoming films and then attaching incredibly talented directors and actors to them so we think it's something more than it is...leaves a queasy taste.

These utterly unhinged far right campaigns against educators hurt universities and hurt students. Case study right now at Texas A&M https://www.kbtx.com/2023/07/12/celebrated-new-leader-am-journalism-rescinds-acceptance-over-hostile-environment/

Celebrated new leader for A&M journalism rescinds acceptance over ‘hostile environment’www.kbtx.com Kathleen McElroy was praised as the perfect person for the role, now she’s no longer moving forward with the university

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I used to think there was an immense moral hazard in forfeiting Twitter to the Nazis, since bad news editors were still using Trending Topics as an assignment editor. I no longer believe that. That Earth has been scorched. I think it’s okay for most people to just let it go.

At what point do we all spit at these people simultaneously and flood them out of the building?

Several lawyers who have had business before the supreme court, including one who successfully argued to end affirmative action, Venmoed a top aide to Clarence Thomas for "Thomas Christmas Party" "CT Christmas Party" "CT Xmas party" etc.

Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmowww.theguardian.com Payments to Rajan Vasisht, an aide from 2019-21, underscore ties between the justice and lawyers who argue cases in front of him

Tonight! 7pm on TRNN! The Dr. Harry Edwards interview!

L'Union fait la force! https://shorturl.at/nsJM8

'Haiti, what's that?' - the team chasing England and changing mindsshorturl.at Haiti are playing in their first Women's World Cup. After natural disasters and a presidential assassination, the nation is ready for a positive spotlight.

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There are just so many fucked up parts to this story: The abortion happened before Roe v Wade was overturned. A young man was involved but only got probation while the mom and daughter face jail. Facebook gave the cops their private messages. A friend turned them in. This is all just so so fucked up

NEW: A Nebraska mother who helped her daughter end her pregnancy with abortion pills has plead guilty to three charges. The daughter plead guilty in May and will be sentenced next week. Both face two years in prison for accessing healthcare the state made unavailable

Nebraska Mom Pleads Guilty to Giving Abortion Pills to Her Teen Daughterjezebel.com Jessica Burgess faced eight years in prison for helping her then 17-year-old get abortion pills. A plea deal brought it down to two.

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Thanks to greed and union busting, there is basically no one at the New York Times whose job is to cover the New York Yankees. I mean that's insane. And it's why we need unions.

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IT’S UP! @edgeofsports.bsky.social on Rapinoe!

My latest piece for the Nation: on the forthcoming, post WC retirement of the most consequential US soccer player of the last twenty years: the one, the only, Megan Rapinoe. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/megan-rapinoe-retirement/

The Megan Rapinoe Era Only Ends When We Stop Fighting Backwww.thenation.com The most important soccer player of her generation is saying goodbye after the 2023 World Cup. But her legacy will persist as long as athletes stand up for those who can’t stand up for themselves.

Politics of twitter: a Helen Keller joke at service of an anti-Biden joke that also postures as some kind of edgy, anti-FBI joke. And none of it is funny. And all of it is gross. And if they had to choose between mocking the Feds or people with disabilities, the Feds would be safe. Twitter sucks.

In researching a tribute to Megan Rapinoe for thenation.com, I am struck by how she has spent years wearing an unbothered grin while telling the worst political actors in this country to f--- off. We must treasure our joyous rebels.

The EdgeOfSports TV interview I did with Dr. Harry Edwards drops Wednesday. Counting the hours!

Your moment of Zen…..My goodness, Cedric Mullins

My issues with what we lose when the A’s resettle in Vegas. https://youtu.be/fP2yQCR0Xug

Oakland A's Vegas move shows Rob Manfred hates baseball | Edge of Sportsyoutu.be After decades in Oakland, the A's are moving to Las Vegas, where a promised stadium of gigantic proportions awaits. The decision has not only been devastatin...

Nikki McCray-Penson. Rest in Peace. 😢

Can an Oscar nominated performance ever be described as underrated? I don’t know. But I do know that a largely unknown Viola Davis is in just two scenes in Doubt and leaves an impression even greater than the film’s lauded stars, and we don’t talk about it nearly enough.