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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

new Give Theory a Chance! A discussion with @drkatiegaddini.bsky.social about her excellent and timely new book Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right (@wwnorton.com). thesocietypages.org/theory/2026/... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g... @thesocietypages.bsky.social

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

New episode of the I Have Questions podcast w/ @tsingleton.bsky.social. We were lucky enough to talk to @laurajedeed.bsky.social and get her insights into MMA fandom, shifts in marketing/promotion, and what really went down at the UFC 250 fan fest! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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“A lot of fight fandom is STILL really nerdy” with Laura Jedeed

Podcast Episode · I Have Questions Podcast · June 27 · 1h 22m

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

It is wild how, across the board, our overlords are like "what if we made the bread and circuses more expensive"

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is the danger of prioritizing the I don't like the aesthetic as the critique. For people who like fighting, the show was good + the military was celebrated. Sport is magical at hiding the politics even when it seems unhideable and washing away the corruption even when it seems unwashable.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The UFC won't punish him. The UFC's incentive structure will reward him. The White House will share images of Hokit draping his NFT chain on Trump's neck. And apologists will say it is just an act. Following the Colby, Sean, Conor, and even Chael precedent. @motherjones.com @inaeoh.bsky.social

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

really insightful take as always from @dieworkwear.bsky.social (+ the reason why it is dangerous to lean to far into a critique of the aesthetics and dismissing the sport rather than focusing on all the corruption and money being wasted)

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'm just gonna leave this here.

Mayor Mamdani streamed the Knicks game on 130 LinkNYC kiosks across the city.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is the story. Questions of taste is interesting and useful, but not where the focus needs to be.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The % of ads featuring Dana White is really something - trucks, crypto, insurance, the United States. 0 featuring fighters. Can't think of another major, or even minor, sport where you see the CEO of the company and not the athletes making money off commercials. Same with the pre-event promotion.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Great talking to Joe Miller @financialtimes.com about the less than subtle intersection of sports & politics/intersection of Trump & the UFC that is playing out on the White House lawn tonight.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

One critique of the White House fights is an aesthetic one. And I think that critique matters. But the more significant one in my mind is the amount of money exchanging hands and pockets being filled (+ those hands generally being quite dirty and those pockets quite corrupt).

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Loving @inaeoh.bsky.social's turn towards the @motherjones.com combat sports journalist! Also, @juliekedzie.bsky.social and @jennmcclearen.bsky.social say a bunch of smart stuff about the about the absence of women fighters at the UFC White House event!

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This piece by Dr. Gounder both reminds us of the courage and value of Grant Wahl’s sports writing (and what we have lost) by covering the many public health failures surrounding the current ebola outbreak right as travel ramps up for the World Cup. Reminder to self to read everything Céline writes.

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Inae Oh @inaeoh.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Thank you to @kylethegreen.bsky.social for all the insights into the transactional Trump-Dana White alliance, the controversial aesthetics of MMA, and for introducing me to someone named Anderson Silva!! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Why Trump's cage fight could hurt the UFC

Dana White stood by Trump during Covid and Jan. 6. The White House brawl may dent their alliance.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I had a great time talking to @inaeoh.bsky.social about the Dana White Donald Trump alliance. If sport is, as sociologists contend, a highly visible platform where society tells the story about what we are and who we could be, the event on the White House lawn deserves a lot of analysis because…—>

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

sports.yahoo.com/mma/article/... - Very smart observation from @benfowlkes.bsky.social - amplifying a trend that we saw way back in TUF and that rose to extreme levels during covid. Also such a stark contrast to every single other major and semi-major sport. Highly recommended read!

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As UFC White House nears, Dana White is suddenly everywhere, making the case for Trump — and himself

White is charging ahead on a full-scale media blitz to promote the upcoming UFC event on the White House lawn, but the fighters who'll compete on the card are little more than an afterthought in the c...

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Listen to @tsingleton.bsky.social and I talk with adventurer, jiu-jitsu expert, and firefighter @stephankesting.bsky.social as a reminder of the cool people who still exist in martial arts combat sport. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I had the honor of talking with MMA legend @juliekedzie.bsky.social about combat sport culture and the hypocrisy of UFC fighters clamoring to fight at the White House. Thanks to @tsingleton.bsky.social for having me as a co-host.* podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... *art courtesy of Claudia Fung

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

A new episode of the Dear Adam Silver podcast! Blake Gillespie, journalist, photographer, writer, life long baller, and creator of the Spirit of Hoops project (spiritofhoops.com) talks about his essay “WILL BASKETBALL IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS WAKE YOU TO ACTION?” - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 27/03/2026

Today is a good day to follow Generative AI Slop-Free news outlets bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

new podcast project talking combat sports, culture, and politics w/ @tsingleton.bsky.social! The first three guests - Julie Kedzie, Stephan Kesting, Nate Quarry - are a dream lineup for me and I'm hoping some listeners will agree! pod.link/1531590204/e...

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

New Dear Adam Silver! Rafi Kohan, author of Trash Talk, shares his experience giving the keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology and why the petition that followed demonstrated a misunderstanding of talking trash. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

#sociology peeps: I am organizing a section at ASA called neuroscience, cognition, and sociology. Please submit. Please pass around. Papers need not do both neuroscience and cognition...

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

new GTaC! A discussion with Dr. Chris Connor about his research on the electronic music scene and gay dating apps + life lessons that can be taken from the respective projects. thesocietypages.org/theory/2026/...

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

MASA Winter Webinar: “On Community in Martial Arts" 4 February, 9:00AM-10:30AM - Online via MS Teams www.eventbrite.com/e/masa-winte... feat. panellists Lyn Jehu, University of South Wales and Jack Sugden, Liverpool John Moores University, discussion led by Kyle Green, SUNY Brockport.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 25/01/2026

A reminder that they defunded the police that target white collar criminals and corruption — at the exact same that time they lavishly funded the police that killed Alex Pretti.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“I was confused as to why the victim was on his side, because that is not standard practice when a victim has been shot. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds.”

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This is INSANE. A SCHOOL. “The guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down,” a school official, who spoke to MPR News on condition of anonymity said.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

So ends an era of ASA’s public facing journal as @contexts.org officially leaves print behind and moves completely online. I've somehow spent 1/3 of my life w/ @contexts.org starting on the grad board under the leadership of @chrisuggen.bsky.social, Douglas Hartmann, and @lettapage.bsky.social

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

a screenshot of text from a website. it reads:

The History of the January 1 Birthday
The tradition dates back to the early days of organized horse racing, long before electronic timing and online records. Race organizers needed a simple way to group horses by age since a horse’s age often determines what races they can enter. Instead of tracking every horse’s exact birth date (which would have been a logistical nightmare), they decided that all thoroughbreds would share one official birthday: January 1.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Check out @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social's excellent review of @mlamont.bsky.social's Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World & @ruha9.bsky.social's Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want in the newest issue of @contexts.org - journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

An amazing list of quality journalism/writing worth reading and supporting! Thanks to @marisakabas.bsky.social for sharing.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

a belated Thanksgiving thanks to James Hamilton for creating the Posters Basketball podcast and filling the hole left in my heart when @netw3rk.bsky.social and @sheaserrano.bsky.social pulled the plug on Six Trophies. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Posters Season 1 - YouTube

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

New episode of the Dear Adam Silver podcast! Abigail and I spoke to Maryam Amirvaghefi about the dark humor underlying her (*incredible!) art, the shared experience of losing, her sport fandom origin story, and trying to avoid reductive readings of her work --> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

can't claim hero status but I am proud and happy to provide a space for nerds like @drcrmatthews.bsky.social!

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

new GTaC! @drcrmatthews.bsky.social joins for a wide-ranging conversation on the co-production of knowledge, radical honesty in the methods section, finding inspiration in the work of Simone Weil, and understanding research as sacred. thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/... @thesocietypages.bsky.social

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

With the absence of any news to occupy your mind, you probably are wondering what Zach Snyder used to accessorize his dapper suit for the 2023 Hollywood Reporter profile. And, if you can only remember the top portion of the photo you would be justified in guessing a croquet mallet of course! Well…

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

This looks to be a great and necessary conversation!

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

In my personal newsletter this week: 51(ish) things you can do to make a difference. amandalitman.substack.com/p/50-things-...

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50 things you can actually do

If you're feeling helpless

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Another great issue from the @contexts.org crew! Check out @kaareeenah.bsky.social's review of @karenlevy.bsky.social's Data Driven and Madison Van Oort's Worn Out! - journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... - I really appreciate the part on moving from an either/or to a both/and approach to organizing.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

co-hosted Dear Adam Silver podcast and spoke to Emmy Award-winning writer, comedian and producer James Hamilton (@thejamham.bsky.social) about basketball fandom, the changing media landscape, his favorite jerseys, and his about to drop podcast Posters! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

@firstpublics.bsky.social is asking the type of questions that I think all academics should be asking at this moment. Honored to be included on an advisory board made up people I value and respect and excited to see where this project goes! thesocietypages.org/firstpublics...

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Toward a More Inclusive First Publics - First Publics

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

new GTaC! @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social and @ariellekuperberg.bsky.social stopped by to discuss their new book Bound by BDSM: Unexpected Lessons in Building a Happier Life: thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/... @sunybrockport.bsky.social @thesocietypages.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

one relevant starter pack: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

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