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Tom Oates

@tpoates.bsky.social
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media and cultural studies | author of Football and Manliness | co-author of Forming the Public | views are my own

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy Pub Date to SPORTS, POWER, AND RESISTANCE: An Introduction to Critical Sports Studies edited by @tpoates.bsky.social and Travis Vogan! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... #Sports #MediaStudies #AmericanHistory
Sports, Power, and Resistance
An Introduction to Critical Sports Studies
Author: edited by Thomas P. Oates and Travis Vogan
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Tom Oates @tpoates.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It’s not subtle
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/09/2026
NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have violated federal ethics law in significant ways when filing his most recent disclosures of his assets and liabilities, ethics experts told ProPublica and @texastribune.org.
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Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
The Republican U.S. Senate nominee from Texas appears to have omitted rental income and multiple mortgages from his recent financial disclosures, making it difficult for voters to get the full picture...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/08/2026
Parkour, a sport that involves jumping over railings, rolling on the ground and scaling walls, has a reputation for being for the young. But in Singapore, an instructor is using parkour to teach seniors strength, balance and how to fall safely.
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Tom Oates @tpoates.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Shameful
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
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Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Fortune cookies were invented in the United States by a Japanese immigrant.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Subtle
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The White House • • Follow
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A nation built on unity.
Whose Broad Stripes & Bright
Stars Through the Perilous Fight
THE WHITE HOUSE
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"Let Us Have Peace" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
A painting of Grant and Lee shaking hands
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Friends, they’re not even trying to hide their voter suppression. ⬇️
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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
“I feel that if we don't take seriously the ways in which racism is embedded in structures of institutions, if we assume that there must be an identifiable racist who is the perpetrator, then we won't ever succeed in eradicating racism.” — Angela Davis
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Tom Oates @tpoates.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It’s as if this entire tournament has been designed to punish supporters
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
the NCAA women's tournament getting Red Panda and the NCAA men's tournament getting the Chainsmokers is a great example of how toxic masculinity harms men too
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Fact checking fraud claims: Heritage Foundation claims 1,620 cases of voter fraud from 1982-2025, including 100 cases of noncitizens voting. That's about 0.000008% of more than 1.3 bn votes cast at that time. We also know that nearly all the fraudulently cast votes were for Trump.
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Fact-Checking the Debate Over the Republican Voting Bill
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I know this is an obvious thing to say but we should talk more about what a racist this guy is. He’s as racist as George Wallace or Strom Thurmond but unlike them he often escapes having racism mentioned as a leading cause for all his decisions.
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North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) @nassh1972.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Event announcement: Iowa Colloquium on Sport and Culture: 2026 Birrell-Parratt Lecture Friday, April 3, 4:00pm CST; Sarah K. Fields, University of Colorado Denver “Name Image, and Likeness: Past Battles, Present Complexities, and the Future of College Sports”
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Sport History Opportunity (Event announcement)
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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.
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Tom Oates @tpoates.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Michael Scott level attempt to win hearts and minds
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
What is the “equal time rule” and why did CBS enforce it?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/02/2026
Student debt is a generational injustice. Why are we squeezing graduates harder than the super-rich? | Gaby Hinsliff
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Student debt is a generational injustice. Why are we squeezing graduates harder than the super-rich? | Gaby Hinsliff
Reform of this stealth tax is long overdue – and with it, a shake-up of the whole university system, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
They won’t let the science stop them from doing nazi style purges of trans folks from public life. It’s never been about evidence or data.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Tom Oates @tpoates.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
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Tom Oates @tpoates.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Never change, AFCON
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The Supreme Court will hear two cases today challenging state bans on transgender athletes. These bans are about erasure. Not fairness.
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Bans of transgender athletes about erasure, not fairness | Opinion
U.S. Supreme Court will hear challenge to bans on participation of transgender athletes, with far-reaching implications.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Twitter is owned by a fascist, Facebook and the Washington Post have gone MAGA, and now CBS News is about to be turned into far-right state TV. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/01/2026
Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families said that investigators have found child care centers at the center of recent fraud allegations were operating as they should.
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Minnesota department finds child care centers targeted in viral video operating normally
The state Department of Children, Youth, and Families said it visited the nine facilities at the center of right-wing claims of fraud and found them "operating as expected."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Thinking this is wrong is not radical. Thinking it isn’t is.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.
Total buyouts for 15 fired coaches in 2025: $228 million. That's a record by nearly $100M.

Kelly $54M
Stoops $38M
Smith $33.5M
Napier $21M
Freeze $15.8M
Gundy $15M
Wilcox $10.9M
Pittman $9.8M
Franklin $9M
Pry $6M
Foster $5M
Bray $4M
Dilfer $2.4M
Beck $1.7M
Norvell $1.5M
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Over 600 people were sanctioned for comments made after Charlie Kirk's killing. (One man spent 37 days in jail for sharing a meme about Republicans' indifference to gun violence.) But Trump can implicitly threaten to hang Democratic members of Congress and it's old news before the weekend's over.
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Opinion | Trump and MAGA’s rules of civility only apply to their critics
A recent report found more than 600 people faced sanctions for speech after Charlie Kirk's killing. But the president and his supporters put no limits on their own incendiary words, says Anthony L. Fi...
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Could the Epstein Files kerfuffle take down Trump? Sure, maybe. Which could end up with Russell Vought and Steve Miller transferring allegiance to a MJT or Tucker Carlson or whomever. Don't take your eye off the big picture. It's the fascism, stupid.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I lost a job for calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi, but this is cool.
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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
“Reimagining” is a fancy term for austerity. www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
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Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Amy Johnson to transition into senior advisory role
This latest personnel change comes just weeks after UNC announced that Rachelle Feldman, vice provost for enrollment, would be leaving her own role. These changes are part of a larger restructuring, w...
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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 15/10/2025
oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.
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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
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Tom Oates @tpoates.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
You hang up first. No you hang up first. Ok, we’ll count to three and hang up. 1. 2. 3. You didn’t hang up either! 🥰
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
#WarRavagedPortland
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Republican Sunday: YOU HAVE AWAKENED A DRAGON OF WHITE RAGE WE WILL SWIM IN THE BLOOD OF OUR TERRORIST ENEMIES AS THEIR CHILDREN WORK OUR SLAVE CANPS Republican Monday: we’re sweet widdle puddy tats what never hurted a fly and the mean man’s post fwightened us so bad we cwosed up our widdle eyes
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Tom Oates @tpoates.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
“Americans are free people, and we do not take infringements upon our liberties lightly. The time has come for resistance and to reclaim our God-given right to free expression.” Rand Paul in January. Also Rand Paul:
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 16/09/2025
cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11
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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
No word has ever done more work for rightwing politicians & pundits than “they”
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Tom Oates @tpoates.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Self proclaimed Christians
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Tom Oates @tpoates.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Mamdani 1 FIFA 0
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Hitler targets ethnic and religious minorities. Critics see big risks.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I doubt a Black reporter could have done this story and been "invited in." But, apparently, the Times does not consider that this fact may bias their story? How is segregated access "objective?" Whiteness is a credential often presented as neutrality.
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Tom Oates @tpoates.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
More safety tips from the party that claims the COVID vaccine is more dangerous than COVID.
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Tom Oates @tpoates.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Note that the same folks pushing this depraved perspective are simultaneously limiting our ability to critically question what our present “culture and society…treat as no big deal.”
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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
How many more studies need to be conducted worldwide to show that giving people things they need actually helps them.
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
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