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Ken J. Makin retweeted
Clearing his name after he’s no longer here to see it.
Rest in peace, Professor Jason Arday. You deserved your flowers while you were still, here. #writing #WritingCommmunity
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The NFL has concluded that the process surrounding Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts being cleared to play in Week 5 with a superficial blood clot “was handled appropriately,” a league source tells @TheAthletic nytimes.com/athletic/7708077…
Ken J. Makin retweeted
Today is Monday & my frustration w/folks that do panels, festivals, award shows, & interviews about inner city issues yet only show up to TALK about the work needed to be done. Especially during voting cycles.
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Black men have the worst response rate from elected officials, I wonder why they might be disengaged from voting…
Hundreds of thousands of Black men are sitting out elections in Ohio. Almost no one is asking them why. ms.now/news/ohio-black-men-v…
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I don’t really care for all the people wishing Americans protested like the French because when there was a nation-wide protest that started from Black people challenging police brutality, a lot of people were cheering on the police and state kidnapping and running people over
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Given everything that's happened with Jalen Hurts, I thought it was best to speak with a physician—a Black woman physician. Like many other Eagles fans, she doesn't play about QB1 either. 👩🏾⚕️🩺 phillytrib.com/news/local_ne…
Ken J. Makin retweeted
We found Wu-Tang's infamous 1-of-1 album, "Once Upon A Time in Shaolin" — once purchased by pharma bro Martin Shkreli — and played it for Method Man (and you) for the first time.
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'As the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries prepare to face each other Saturday for the WNBA championship, Dream star Angel Reese models a story of persistence that finds echoes more broadly in the league itself.' -- @differencemakin
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“The group called Obama Workers United said employees are dealing with heavy workloads, cutbacks to benefits and high turnover.”
Workers at the Obama Foundation and Presidential Center said they're forming a union. abc7chicago.com/post/obama-f…
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Voicemail box full of love and gratitude for the 𝑀'𝑽𝑃 💖📞
@WNBA
Ken J. Makin retweeted
This is an unequivocally false statement. Players inside and outside the organization have repeatedly issued complaints with the Fever Fanbase. While it’s not all Indy fans, it’s certainly a trend. To say the attacks have “no basis in reality” is disingenuous.
Ken J. Makin retweeted
Saban on Gameday at 10:50a: “Protect College Sports! Thank you Trump for saving college sports!”
Saban at 11:50a: “If I were still coaching? I’d do whatever it takes to convince [MSU QB Kamario Taylor] to get in the Portal”
Yup, that about sums it up 👍
Ken J. Makin retweeted
They shut down the only school left in the Lower 9th Ward and want to take it over to build a new Cop City for NOPD to train with the military.
#StopCopCity has come to New Orleans.
New Orleans police, EMS look to turn this vacant 9th Ward school into a training facility nola.com/news/crime_police/n…
ALT New Orleans police, EMS look to turn this vacant 9th Ward school into a training facility
Ken J. Makin retweeted
It’s not lost on me that individual WNBA teams are going above and beyond to send the Connecticut Sun out in style when the league itself has barely acknowledged the team
Still don’t think we’re mad enough at the fact that the first Native-American owned sports franchise was stolen from the Mohegan Tribe and gifted to Tilman Fertitta for pennies on the dollar
You know, the guy who essentially paid for his ambassadorship to Italy by donating millions to Trump
Ken J. Makin retweeted
Under capitalism if you steal from your employer you go to jail but if your employer steals from you then you need to win a class action lawsuit to get back what they stole, and they suffer zero consequences. Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force.
Since 2023, more than 200,000 Dashers in New York City were underpaid or paid late under the City’s delivery worker pay rules. These errors were unintentional, but that doesn’t make them acceptable. Dashers should be paid in full, on time, every time. We take full responsibility, and we’re deeply sorry.
We’ve reached a $131.5 million settlement with the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. Every impacted Dasher will receive the amount they are owed, and they’ll be contacted directly with payment details.
We understand the impact of even one missed or late payment. We’ve addressed the issues that caused these errors and made changes to prevent them from happening again.
Read more here: about.doordash.com/en-us/new….
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s…
The City of New York asserts this was not a mistake.
“For years, DoorDash failed to count every hour worked by delivery workers,” Mayor Mamdani said. “This was not a rounding error or an accidental mistake.“
Ken J. Makin retweeted
The Bucks nearly starting a nationwide wildcat strike is unquestionably the most important moment in the NBA in the 21st century, but Obama & LeBron & Adam Silver worked extremely hard to make it disappear
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ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport.
She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury.
It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players.
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The Paramount/Warner Brothers merger seems facially illegal, and the state AG lawsuit challenging it is very strong.
It’s troubling to hear that the states may now settle for behavioral remedies, allowing the deal to go through subject to various promises from the firms. Behavioral remedies routinely fail, and the stakes here are particularly high given that a strong democracy requires open markets for sound journalism and creative expression.
The states were right to step up, and I hope they keep fighting to protect this market, its workers, and the millions of Americans who value a free press and a vibrant film industry.