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Johnny Smith @johnnysmith135.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This is fantastic! Congratulations!

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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Incredible feeling to be listening to @npr.org while driving my son to daycare and hear my interview with @amartinezla.bsky.social about "EVERYBODY LOSES: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling," out tomorrow! Here's a link if you're interested: www.npr.org/2026/01/19/n...

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'Everybody Loses' chronicles the rise of America's sports betting boom

NPR's A Martinez speaks with journalist and author Danny Funt about his new book, "Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling."

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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Folks, “Moses and the Doctor” has finally arrived.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities. Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness. 1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.

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Johnny Smith @johnnysmith135.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Those were good times, my friend!! Thank you for all the encouragement!

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Our 2025 Editors’ Picks are here! Lit in Translation & Sports co-editor @becquer.bsky.social recommends Luis Martín-Santos's "Time of Silence" (trans. Peter Bush) & @johnnysmith135.bsky.social & Randy Roberts's "The Fight of His Life."

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Public Picks 2025 - Public Books

What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Exactly right. The book was released because Democrats on the House Oversight Committee kept up the pressure on Jim Comer and forced a subpoena. Even in the minority, congressional Democrats can still make an impact.

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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

You deserve a break on Sundays that doesn’t break the bank.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

It seems to me one of the best arguments to the court is that if this is truly a national emergency, the president’s own party controls Congress but has done nothing to address it with legislation, so how can it possibly be an emergency?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

my bluesky

A dedication page to a book. The page says "To my family. Please don't read this."

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

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Opinion | Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

This is the headline I show my students when we talk about Alabama adopting its current state constitution in 1901. I teach in Alabama

Headline of the Montgomery Advertiser in 1901: "Citizens of Alabama Declare For White Supremacy and Purity of the Ballot"

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Johnny Smith @johnnysmith135.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I teach M/W this semester if you’re wanna stop by sometime

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Johnny Smith @johnnysmith135.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I love that! Thank you for sharing. I hope you’re doing well!

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 20/08/2025

The History of Sports in America course I took at Georgia Tech with @johnnysmith135.bsky.social is so foundational to my work now, even I'm in the environmental journalism space. These odd courses are where students are really pushed beyond their comfort zones intellectually without them knowing it

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Johnny Smith @johnnysmith135.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Alex! What an incredible compliment! Thank you. I always appreciate hearing from students. I’m curious: Is there something specific about the course that helped you most or something that has stayed with you?

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.”

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 09/01/2025

I like this concise explanation for how Germany fell into line behind the Nazis, written by a journalist in 1939 and quoted in Richard J. Evans's 'The Coming of the Third Reich' (2003). (2/6)

A passage from 'The Coming of the Third Reich'

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

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Johnny Smith @johnnysmith135.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I’ll say it again: Love the cover.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/08/2025

New in PN: The sordid origin of 'America First,' explained by a historian “Mainstream opinion in the '30s wasn't pro-Nazi but it wasn't anti-Nazi in any meaningful way either. People would say, ‘Germany for the Germans — what’s offensive about that?’ Nationalism has a certain accepted sensibility."

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The sordid origin of 'America First,' explained by a historian

"They were not keen on fighting Nazis."

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 09/08/2025

Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.

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Johnny Smith @johnnysmith135.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

@pablo.show Pablo, I thoroughly enjoyed the Jesse Owens episode. Question: can you please follow me back so I can send you a DM or email me at jsmith427@gatech.edu?

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Prof Lou Moore @profloumoore.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

This is awful

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/06/2025

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has a plan to overhaul college education — by embedding its artificial intelligence tools in every facet of campus life.
If the company’s strategy succeeds, universities would give students A.I. assistants to help guide and tutor them from orientation day through graduation. Professors would provide customized A.I. study bots for each class. Career services would offer recruiter chatbots for students to practice job interviews. And undergrads could turn on a chatbot’s voice mode to be quizzed aloud ahead of a test.
OpenAI dubs its sales pitch “A.I.-native universities.”

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Gee. What will he do with election results he doesn’t like?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

“‘This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,’ they argued.” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Lawyers question legality of Alligator Alcatraz, ask federal judge to intervene

“This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,” pl...

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Johnny Smith @johnnysmith135.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Thank you, Paul!! Appreciate you!

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Paul Putz @paulputz.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

In my view @johnnysmith135.bsky.social is one of the best sports historians in the game. If he writes something, I'm going to read it. I just pre-ordered his latest, co-authored with Randy Roberts, and can't wait to check it out. www.amazon.com/Fight-His-Li...

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The Fight of His Life: Joe Louis’s Battle for Freedom During World War II

Amazon.com: The Fight of His Life: Joe Louis’s Battle for Freedom During World War II: 9781541605060: Roberts, Randy, Smith, Johnny: Books

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Don't worry. They're going to take care of Cletus and make sure his rural hospital doesn't go belly-up when Medicaid money dries up. But for um, more "urban" Medicaid populations? lol

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🚨 NEWS: Stephen Miller's group has filed a federal civil rights complaint against the Los Angeles Dodgers and their principal owner Guggenheim Partners accusing them of engaging in "unlawful discrimination under the guise of 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' (DEI)."

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Rarely has MAGA policy been so clearly articulated. Denying sick Americans healthcare doesn’t matter as long as their masked, racist security force gets funding - By Order of the Vice President.

A post by JD Vance . It says:

Everything else—the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Decimating the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge in critical areas at one of the great and unique public university systems for purely ideological reasons will surely go down as one of the great disasters in the history of higher education in the United States.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I desperately wish the media paid more attention to this heinous act of political violence in my home state of Minnesota.

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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

“For a country supposedly locked in an existential competition with China, it is bizarre to eviscerate the fastest growing source of energy supposedly to save money while simultaneously providing tax breaks to, of all things, metallurgical coal miners.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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The GOP Tax Bill Will Destabilize Tomorrow's Power Grid

The intensified attack on wind and solar power threatens capacity at a time when AI demand for electricity is surging.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

We are disinvesting in science, and education, but there is always money for MAGA worship

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