Reposted by Stuart RockoffScott Aukerman @scottaukerman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Should this ceremony really be allowed to give an award out for sound? 1040156
Reposted by Stuart RockoffAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...nytimes.comFIFA drops anti-racism, anti-discrimination messages for Club World Cup 44293543181
Reposted by Stuart RockoffMississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 13/04/2025The Mississippi Humanities Council funds book events, museums, historic sites, the Mississippi Freedom Trail markers and hundreds of other projects annually. About 70% of MHC’s funding comes from the federal government. The Trump administration just cut it all off. Read more: buff.ly/66tkhX1 66438
Reposted by Stuart RockoffSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025"There's some good people in this country. That's what gives me strength to keep going. Somewhere in Mississippi, whether he's afraid to speak out or not, somebody here is good, some of these white people, and one day they'll speak out. And until that time I have to fight." youtu.be/5h2MzXavgEg?...youtu.beFannie Lou Hamer's America | Full Film | America ReFramedYouTube video by WORLD 212624
Reposted by Stuart Rockoffpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales" 485192602131
Reposted by Stuart RockoffGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025A good day to remember that the main beneficiaries of federal spending, for the most part, are red states. It’s blue states like CA and NY that pay more than they in return. Trump is pausing the pipeline of moving money to his own supporters. 1737193
Reposted by Stuart RockoffMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Me when the zoom camera is off 34144376
Stuart Rockoff @sturockoff.bsky.social · 11/01/2025www.nytimes.com/athletic/603...nytimes.comPaid to lose, college basketball’s worst team takes the L’s to make ends meetMVSU is the Washington Generals of college basketball, paid to lose spectacularly to big foes. They endure for the experience and the money. 010
