Johnny Smith (@sportshistprof) 's Twitter Profile
Johnny Smith

@sportshistprof

Sports Historian, Professor @georgiatech, and author. Next book: JUMPMAN: THE MAKING AND MEANING OF MICHAEL JORDAN.

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Norman Ornstein (@normornstein) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dems have the Senate majority for the next 60-plus days. Use it! Not just to confirm judges. Hold your own pre-confirmation hearings. Foreign Relations on Tulsi Gabbards ties to Russia. Intel Committee onJohn Ratliffe's misconduct on intelligence in Trump's first term. 1/

Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Most Americans don’t realize how essential the federal government is to their daily lives, until it stops functioning. We are about to learn how disruptive incompetence can be when unqualified people are in charge.

Yoni Appelbaum (@yappelbaum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is a very big deal. For two centuries, states have competed for growth, going to great lengths to attract residents. Now, blue states are actively driving them out, and effectively turning people away.

Grace Panetta (@grace_panetta) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New polling from Data for Progress confirms a strong inverse relationship between news consumption and support for Trump. Those who paid "a great deal" of attention to political news were Harris +6 while those who paid "none at all" went +19 points for Trump dataforprogress.org/insights/2024/…

New polling from <a href="/DataProgress/">Data for Progress</a> confirms a strong inverse relationship between news consumption and support for Trump. Those who paid "a great deal" of attention to political news were Harris +6 while those who paid "none at all" went +19 points for Trump dataforprogress.org/insights/2024/…
Richard Stengel (@stengel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So much of this is an attack on expertise, on the idea that there are actual experts who know more than a reality tv host. Because once you succeed in denigrating experts, you have no one to question you who has any, well, expertise.

Robert Reich (@rbreich) 's Twitter Profile Photo

GM just announced a round of layoffs, impacting 1,000 workers. But the company reported Q3 earnings that put it on track for record profits this year. Its CEO received $27M in compensation in 2023. And GM announced $6B in stock buybacks this June. Textbook corporate greed.

David Pepper (@davidpepper) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A core problem: in America, we generally have to pay for the truth, but the disinformation floods us for free. Need to solve that fast.

Robert Reich (@rbreich) 's Twitter Profile Photo

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. 

The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.

Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There is significant evidence to suggest that when Pam Bondi was the Attorney General of Florida she was bribed by Donald Trump to avoid an investigation into fraud at Trump University. nytimes.com/2016/09/15/us/…

Tommy Vietor (@tvietor08) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Pam Bondi, Trump's new Attorney General nominee, recently registered as a foreign agent to lobby on behalf of Qatar. Specifically, she's helping Qatar whitewash its awful record on human trafficking.

Pam Bondi, Trump's new Attorney General nominee, recently registered as a foreign agent to lobby on behalf of Qatar. Specifically, she's helping Qatar whitewash its awful record on human trafficking.
Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Pretty crazy someone can be charged federally with interfering in an election and those charges get dropped because they win an election.

Kimberley A. Martin (@bykimberleya) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Amon-Ra St. Brown told me the #Lions installed the fake stumble TD pass play THIS wk. DET called it earlier in the game but didn’t get the look they wanted, so they waited. Right before LaPorta scored, St. Brown heard the crowd groan, and he KNEW it was done perfectly #OnePride

Amon-Ra St. Brown told me the #Lions installed the fake stumble TD pass play THIS wk. DET called it earlier in the game but didn’t get the look they wanted, so they waited. Right before LaPorta scored, St. Brown heard the crowd groan, and he KNEW it was done perfectly #OnePride
Paul Putz (@p_emory) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Back in the lab ✍🏻 Looking forward to working on book # 2, an Eerdmans Publishing project. It explores how Christians have shaped the sport of basketball, from Naismith to the present, and the deeper meanings they’ve found in the game. History, theology, cultural analysis 🏀

Back in the lab ✍🏻

Looking forward to working on book # 2, an <a href="/eerdmansbooks/">Eerdmans Publishing</a> project.

It explores how Christians have shaped the sport of basketball, from Naismith to the present, and the deeper meanings they’ve found in the game. 

History, theology, cultural analysis 🏀
Tim Alberta (@timalberta) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Everyone who studied the matchup concluded the Lions win w/ 40 runs + 25 passes. Instead we get 43 passes + 23 runs. Go figure.