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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

*One down one to go in the Bay* Thank you all for an incredible, packed out, shoulder-to-shoulder book event in Oakland last night! Howard Zinn was with us. One more Bay Area event! Saturday! 2pm! Adobe Books in San Fran. In convo with favorite author Adam Mansbach! Hope folks can come on through.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On the road with the book. Watching a lot of tv on planes. As someone who - with maybe two exceptions - can't stand superhero movies, Lanterns is the best TV show I've seen in eons (well, Lanterns and Furious together. Both awesome Fall surprises). Lanterns is also the best-cast show on television.

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

F*cking hysterical. The Ravens players were all given invites to stand with Trump today at a Baltimore photo op and only four showed. Three of the four were the punter, the kicker, and the long snapper. I’m dyin’ 😂

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

shes saying this on the same network that just interviewed a guy who said he spent 18 days in heaven chilling with jesus christ

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Kevin B. Blackistone @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

NY Times says this Columbia, MD, company www.lmdagency.com/about-us was paid by Trump admin to make the loathsome narcissistic ads flooding TV now. LMD quotes Howard Zinn in its business philosophy. “Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer $$$ for Ads Praising His Presidency www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)

The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wrote about the Manchester City scandal as a textbook case of sportswashing in plain sight. In our whipsaw age of impunity, some potential accountability—if not comeuppance—for Manchester City is conspicuously refreshing. For @gqmagazine.bsky.social www.gq.com/story/manche...

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Everything You Need to Know About the Explosive Manchester City Scandal

Last week, an independent commission determined that the illustrious soccer club had engaged in extreme financial chicanery totaling a whopping $1.2 billion.

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It has been a difficult stretch of authoritarianism - of all political stripes - on the march. But "the power of tyranny is overestimated (not in the short run, but in the long run), and can be overcome by the unity and the determination of apparently powerless people." - H. Zinn

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Artists for AI" like Kelly Clarkson are corporate robots - basically AI in bellowing, human form - and leave the word "artist" absent of meaning. Art if nothing else is about intentional creation. This is an "artist's" call for artistic cyanide.

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unstuck in time @billypilgrim26.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're basically trafficking children.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today’s absolute must read from @julesboykoff.bsky.social and @edgeofsports.bsky.social. 👇👇👇

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ireland players wore black armbands in yesterday's match against Israel. Captain Dara O’Shea chose not to shake hands with Israel's captain. Ireland players bowed their heads during Israel’s national anthem. My latest w/ @edgeofsports.bsky.social for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My latest piece for @thenation.com written with the inimitable @julesboykoff.bsky.social His name is Gavin Bazunu and it's a name worth knowing. www.thenation.com/.../ireland-... "Irish Goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu’s Refusal to Play Against Israel Puts Him on the Right Side of History"

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Irish Goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu’s Refusal to Play Against Israel Puts Him on the Right Side of History

Bazunu’s decision raises the perennial question: Why is a country that is currently committing a genocide allowed to compete in the first place?

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyone in Brooklyn Tuesday September 29th? Come on through to Chilo’s in Bed Stuy where I’ll be talking about Howard Zinn at the best dang taco bar in town! Details and free tickets at the link! www.eventbrite.com/e/dave-zirin...

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Dave Zirin's The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn

Dave Zirin speaks on his new book The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Very kind, beautifully written review of The People’s Historian, if there are any Howard Zinn fans out there that might want to check it out. 🔥👊

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey folks! Tonight in *Denver* I’m speaking about my book The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn at the great bookstore Tattered Cover (Aspen Grove location) at 5:30pm. Please come on through or tell a Denverian friend! prh.com/peopleshistorian

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Can’t discuss. Just threw up in mouth

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Come on out to Powell’s on Wednesday! Powell’s is an international treasure.

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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Watch my full discussion with the indomitable @edgeofsports.bsky.social about the incredible, radical life of Howard Zinn on @therealnews.com YouTube channel: youtu.be/4YBzc2vb3xw?...

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MAGA wants to ban his books. Who was Howard Zinn?

YouTube video by The Real News Network

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I got to talk for a few minutes with Chris Hayes about Macklemore, the solidarity of his Irish tour mates, why we should never retreat an inch on saying Free Palestine, and what it all has to do with Colin Kaepernick. Check it out if curious grabien.com/file/getmedi...

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David Zirin on All in With Chris Hayes 9/16/26 (via StudiGo) :: Grabien - The Multimedia Marketplace

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Do you know what really grinds my gears? When billionaire, sex criminal, genocide-defenders tell us what voices we are and aren’t allowed to hear. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Justice for Macklemore

The rapper has been dumped from Ed Sheeran's tour for saying "free Palestine." That's a disgrace.

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Question for Greenblatt’s ADL: What does it say about your politics if they are so indefensible you need a billionaire sex criminal to silence your critics? What does it say about you that you would cheer the aforementioned billionaire sex criminal as some kind of personal hero? Moral rot.

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Turns out the person who demanded that Macklemore be removed was Patriots owner Bob Kraft under threat that he would cancel their tour stop at the Patriots stadium. Oligarchal pressure stomping the first amendment. Also Ed Sheeran is a fucking coward. Writing about all this now.

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thread about my book "The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn!" Consider checking it out prh.com/peopleshistorian

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Arch Manning > Archibald Leach > Archie Bunker > Archie Manning > Archie Andrews

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just saw a 2 hour 40 minute non-stop action "humans vs aliens" film out of South Korea called Hope. It was quite long!

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Rece should have made Ted more comfortable, perhaps by calling his wife ugly. Then he would also have earned Ted's undying devotion. (ESPN is now a MAGA foghorn, if you haven't noticed. Suffice it to say, they are buying low. And it's going to get lower.)

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In May 2003, writer Simon Wessley opined about “World Trade Center Syndrome”, claiming that traumatized, anxious Manhattanites were experiencing a psychological problem, and not the real physical symptoms they were reporting. Thousands would later die from exposure to toxic chemicals from 9/11.

How have we reached this state of affairs?
Our reactions to the anthrax episode cannot be seen in isolation, or without reference to our general views of health, illness and risk.
Similarly, the emergence of 'World Trade Syndrome', a vague collection of symptoms among the residents of Lower Manhattan, blamed on various 'toxins' released after the collapse of the Twin Towers, only makes sense in the context of a seemingly endless list of other mysterious symptoms and syndromes that are blamed on similar toxic disasters.

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An incredible night. A terrific crowd. Red Emma's is so iconic. Check out the book at prh.com/peopleshistorian

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Tonight, 7pm, at the legendary @redemmas.org bookstore in Baltimore, I'll be speaking alongside @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social about Howard Zinn and his titanic legacy. Please come on through!

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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well, now, printing something like that is conclusive. It's interpretive, requiring an absence of objectivity, rather than simply describing a cut-and-dried piece of evidence, like Zohran Mamdani's responsibility for 9/11, when he was under 10.

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My latest piece @thenation.com "We Can’t Let the Kaepernick Era Be Erased From History." *Critics say the Black Lives Matter movement in sports went too far. It didn’t go far enough, and the backlash has been brutal** www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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We Can’t Let the Kaepernick Era Be Erased From History

Critics say the Black Lives Matter movement in sports went too far. In reality, it didn’t go far enough, and the backlash to it has been brutal.

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’ve never traveled to Australia. If you have, perhaps you could help answer: if you had a strenuous athletic event Down Under, would you rather fly in a week early and give your body a chance to adjust or would you rather get off the plane the day before, take a long nap, play, and then GTFO?

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