Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialAlex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 6hGood interview that gets to the crux of the problem and also the issue where people are playing dumb. "So there are no other salary caps in sports, then?" Not ones without the players negotiating over the terms! 0668
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialHolly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I want to unpack this a tiny bit, which I think I can do without getting anybody in too much trouble: One verrry underreported aspect of campaigns like this, for obvious reasons, is “which TV pundits have the same agents as athletes they’re covering” 146378
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Plus, there is a significant risk of sexual assault or harassment *by* police during the reporting process. I always think about Lauren McCluskey's story of calling the police over 30 times before she was murdered. They didn't help her, but they did do this:sltrib.comUniversity of Utah police officer showed off explicit photos of Lauren McCluskey to his co-worker<b>UPDATE</b><i>: Logan police announced </i><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2020/05/17/logan-police-will" target=_blank><i>an internal affairs investigation into Officer Miguel Deras</... 324391
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yeah. That’s exactly what happened. 26670126
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules. 293418826
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialSteven Godfrey @stevengodfrey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The other day I was in a tailspin because I didn’t feel like I was well versed enough in immigration law to write a football story… then I remembered a Fox News anchor took over the Pentagon and calls himself the Chief of War 316820
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’” 1731681737
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialFriendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner. 3520331028
dvdrots.bsky.social @dvdrots.bsky.social · 05/09/2026@dannyheifetz.bsky.social @dannybkelly.bsky.social @craighorlbeck.bsky.social 0.5 ppr. Of Rodriguez/Kelce/Boutte/K Johnson/Shaheed, who do I drop for a kicker? 000
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce 12934981233
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Grotesque 19780363
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati... 8336611833
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 07/08/2026“Car dealerships will take you hostage to induce you to sign a bad deal” is a thing I would not have believed until it literally happened to me when they tried to coerce me into surrendering a leased vehicle instead of buying it out circa 2021 when used prices were skyrocketing 1877389
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors 292203352
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialDonie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026This is exactly what I run into with conspiracy theorists — a stray, unverified claim gets treated as if it debunks the real story, and it almost always falls apart under scrutiny. Wild to hear that pattern showing up at 60 Minutes as Cecilia Vega describes it. 13880253
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026This is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID. One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions. Early indicators of mortality are very worrying. 4224691186
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026They could have kept doing this forever quietly but LINE GO UP brain means they’re going to smoke themselves out before 2030 947330
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/07/2026NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...thebulwark.comHe Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor. 11045352482
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialJessica Shortall @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 08/07/2026This woman has been the subject of three NYT pieces in 2025-26 22251241163
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/07/2026everybody who looked the other way on dealbreaker after dealbreaker because they were so stoked on their great white populist hope deserves the humiliation she’s going to be forced to bear instead. yall made her into a sin eater because you wanted a slur-saying left so badly 112229319
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialPrince Caspian @nysea.bsky.social · 05/07/2026The entire jersey shore, as far as the eye can see, is private parties setting off industrial strength legit fireworks from the beach. None of that shit from the gas station. Guys who got a guy. 912812
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I’ve said this before, but: Threads is fascinating because it’s what happens when you forcibly transfer people whose primary use of social media was commenting on, like, antivaxx Instagram reels into a format where their posts alone can go viral 121174131
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I think that it is insulting to everyone including Ezra Klein to continue pretending that he's this idiot child with the memory of a goldfish and start accepting him for who he is- a guy who's into this stuff but also wants to be liked by everyone 1355097
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2026The headline finding: NYT coverage flipped from affirming and protective of trans rights to skeptical and supportive of restrictions. The turn begins in 2022. By early 2025 the paper's coverage as a whole had crossed the line. 136346
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialamanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 29/05/2026ICE is targeting journalists at Delaney Hall. They’re hitting photographers, breaking fingers and smashing off lenses. 3343862040
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class. 152129805103
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 04/05/2026I know people involved in california water stuff and if you bring this particular incident up they have to go take a walk however stupid you think this whole thing was it was stupider than that 282229430
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 02/05/2026as always, once you understand the influencers are in more or less the same economic position as the classic petit bourgeoisie a lot of things about our present politics fall into place maxread.substack.com/p/the-tiktok...maxread.substack.comThe TikTok electorateYoung men, social media, and the TikTok subject 0316
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 25/04/2026And was quickly informed they were not helping lmao 215812
dvdrots.bsky.social @dvdrots.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Another g for the rich kids #gostanford #pleasegetasportbackontrack 000
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 17/04/2026This was absolutely one of the most striking things about moving from suburban Atlanta to Manhattan when I was in my 20s. I remember being back home for a visit and, like, struggling to articulate to my parents just how different—and how much better and friendlier—the world felt on foot. 351439199
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialGus Bova @gusbova.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...texasobserver.orgLongtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas AirportThe state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years. 15845892713
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/04/2026And she has since been deported. Link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... 7834461559
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 05/04/2026there were 1,600 murders in New York City in 1975 there were 303 murders in New York City in 2025 New York City's population increased by about 30% over that time period 30957197
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialBennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 04/04/2026US State department revoked innocent people’s green cards based only on their last name and Laura Loomer’s input and then publicly lied about it 731098
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/04/2026one of my strongest and clearest takeaways from spending all of Lent knee-deep in ICE death reporting is that Camp East Montana should be razed to the ground and every single person who built it, worked there or approved their decisions deserves criminal charges. it is beyond what I imagined. 12548937
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 03/04/2026it’s not surprising exactly but it is still shocking just how fast we’ve moved from “woke was excessive” framing to open and explicit white male supremacy 4058701465
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 03/04/2026All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...rpc.state.gov 4745301949
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/04/2026yep, this is a case of hegseth wanting a whites-only military bsky.app/profile/nanc... 613706780
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialvictoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 01/04/2026 98211
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/03/2026“The Phoenix Police Department will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020”abc15.comNo Phoenix officers will be disciplined after protesters falsely charged as gang membersPhoenix police will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020. 19440751935
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/02/2026It was never about fairness in high school sports, it was always about destroying trans people’s lives 1685160
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialDheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJshorturl.at7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol CustodyThe girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them. 18454053163
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialFubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social · 13/02/2026This is just unconscionable man 8463972457
Reposted by @dvdrots.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/02/2026I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind. This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine. Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.nytimes.comOpinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump 2724935889
