U of MD grad, All American, 10yr ABA/NBA pro; Harvard Law grad. Attorney, college hoops announcer and Sr. Lecturer at Columbia University. More to come in life

Joined October 2012
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RETWEET if you support Scott Pelley after CBS News has just fired him.
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RT @BubbatheOG: That’s a great question and most of us know the answer.
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Todd Blanche represents a key characteristic of Trump sycophants: shamelessness
Todd Blanche is covering up rape while criminally investigating a woman who won $80 million because the President (his former client) raped her. History will remember this man as an evil, corrupt piece of shit I guarantee it.
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Ms. Ball in just one of so many hidden Black gems…
À 23 ans, elle guérit la lèpre. À 24 ans, elle disparaît. Et pendant 90 ans, un homme blanc s'attribua le mérite de ses travaux. Voici l'histoire d'Alice Augusta Ball, le génie qu'on a tenté d'effacer. Elle grandit à Seattle au début du XXe siècle, dans une famille qui croyait au potentiel des Noirs. Son grand-père fut l'un des premiers photographes noirs d'Amérique. Sa mère lavait les sols pour pouvoir offrir un microscope à Alice. Ce cadeau changea le monde. Alice dévorait la chimie comme l'oxygène. Elle obtint deux licences. Elle publia des recherches alors qu'elle était encore étudiante. Puis elle s'installa à Hawaï et devint : 📷 La première femme à obtenir une maîtrise en chimie à l'Université d'Hawaï 📷 La première femme noire à obtenir ce diplôme 📷 La première femme professeure de chimie de l'histoire de l'université Elle avait 23 ans. Mais pendant qu'elle enseignait, elle fut confrontée à une urgence bien plus grande que le monde universitaire : La maladie de Hansen, la lèpre. Un diagnostic signifiait l'exil. Arraché à sa famille, on était déporté sur une île pour y mourir seul. Il existait un traitement : une huile amère et collante, peu efficace et extrêmement douloureuse. Nombreux furent ceux qui le refusèrent. Nombreux furent ceux qui moururent. Alice refusa de baisser les bras. Dans son laboratoire, elle trouva la solution que personne d'autre n'avait trouvée : Elle transforma cette huile épaisse en une forme assimilable par le corps. Une injection révolutionnaire qui sauva enfin des vies. Les patients commencèrent à guérir. Des familles furent réunies. Des personnes condamnées guérirent subitement. Sa découverte devint la méthode Ball. Elle changea l'histoire de la médecine avant même que la plupart des gens n'aient terminé leurs études. Et puis… elle disparut. À seulement 24 ans, un mystérieux accident de laboratoire lui coûta la vie. Elle ne vit jamais le miracle qu'elle avait accompli. Puis vint le vol. Le président de l'université, un chimiste blanc nommé Arthur Dean, s'appropria ses recherches, en retira son nom et les rebaptisa : « La Méthode Dean ». Pendant des décennies… 📷 Son nom figurait dans les manuels scolaires. 📷 Son nom était encensé par les médecins. 📷 Son nom était attribué à la seule reconnaissance de ses mérites. Son nom a failli disparaître complètement de l'histoire. Un vol si discret que la plupart des gens ignoraient même qu'un crime avait été commis. Il fallut 90 ans pour que la vérité éclate enfin. Des chercheurs ont mis au jour les documents originaux d'Alice. Son travail. Son génie. Ses découvertes majeures. Les projecteurs se sont braqués sur elle. Le mensonge s'est effondré. Et aujourd'hui, le monde le sait : C'était la Méthode Ball – TOUJOURS. Alice Ball a guéri une maladie qui avait ravagé des vies pendant des siècles. Elle a libéré des familles. Elle a sauvé des milliers de personnes de l'isolement et de la mort. Et elle a accompli tout cela en une seule année. Imaginez ce qu'elle aurait pu faire en une vie entière. Alice Ball méritait un prix Nobel. Elle méritait des statues. Elle méritait que son nom soit sur toutes les lèvres des étudiants en sciences. Au lieu de cela, elle a été étouffée par le silence… Jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Nous prononçons son nom parce que l'histoire a refusé de le faire. Nous l'honorons parce que d'autres ne l'ont pas fait. Nous nous souvenons d'elle parce qu'elle l'a mérité. Alice Augusta Ball (1892-1916) La chimiste qui a changé le monde avant même d'avoir eu le temps d'y vivre.
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Len Elmore retweeted
HOLY CRAP Trump actually accomplished a miracle. Here is what he got out of Iran: - Reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium by about 98% - Limit uranium enrichment to 3.67% purity (far below weapons-grade) - Cut the number of installed centrifuges by roughly two-thirds - Only enrich uranium at one declared site (Natanz) - Stop enrichment activities at Fordow and convert it into a research facility - Redesign the Arak heavy-water reactor so it could not easily produce weapons-grade plutonium - Ship out or dilute excess enriched uranium Allow extensive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Permit continuous monitoring of nuclear facilities and supply chains - Accept “snap” inspections under expanded monitoring rules - Avoid building new heavy-water reactors for years - Stay within strict limits on uranium stockpile size and centrifuge development for set periods ranging from 10–25 years Ooops, sorry! That was the JCPOA that Obama signed with Iran, only to have him tear it up, kill 140 kids, get hundreds of Americans injured, 13 killed, and gas prices to surge 50%.
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Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it. This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect. "Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage. You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail. Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates. Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you. And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again. And you're calling Greenland poorly run? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no. 'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years. And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess. So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth." - Tony Locke
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Boycott: Public Safety Notice: Do Not Engage or Retaliate in Provocation-Based Encounters freedmennation.org/post/boyc…
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I've been thinking lately about the countless activists during the Civil Rights era who fought for the Voting Rights Act — including my friend Mickey. He was my protector. I want to share a little bit more about what he meant to me.

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"It was eleven weeks between the time Jackie Robinson and I came into the majors. Eleven weeks. Come on. Whatever happened to him happened to me. I knew it was segregated times, but I had never seen anything like that in athletics. I was embarrassed. It was tough. I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks." Larry Doby. Bill White later noted that Larry Doby had to go to the Chicago White Sox clubhouse to get a first baseman’s glove for his first MLB warmup, since none of his Cleveland teammates offered him one. In 1945, Larry Doby was stationed on Ulithi, a volcanic atoll in Caroline Islands between Guam and the Philippines. Seven-time All-Star from 1949- 1955. 1st Black player in the American League. 1st Black player to hit a home run in World Series. 1st Black player to hit a home run in an All-Star game. 1st Black player in the American Basketball League (preceded NBA), when he signed a contract for the 'Patterson Crescents'. 1st Black player to go directly to the majors from the Negro leagues. 1st Black player to lead either league in home runs. World Series Champion in 1948. Two-time American League home run leader in 1952 and 1954. American League's RBI leader in 1954. "I give myself five years. If I don't make it by then, I'll give up on the idea and get out of baseball ..." Larry Doby. Let's make July 5, "Larry Doby Day."!!
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Besides being the most dishonest and incompetent president in US history, Trump is INSANE. 😳👇
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No lies here…😆
GOP Congressman Andy Barr tells the totally not made-up story of a TSA agent blaming Democrats for extreme wait times at the airport
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Trump’s indefensible, immoral, and reckless war of choice has MAGA once again spreading insane lies. Their BS is an insult to our intelligence. I’m calling it out.
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Courage! Curt Flood deserves to be in the HOF and every pro athlete who has benefited from free agency owes him a debt of gratitude.
When Howard Cosell asked Curt Flood, during a TV interview, how could he compare his rift with professional baseball to slavery when he was making $90,000 a year? Curt Flood told Cosell: “A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave” Jackie Robinson and Hank Greenberg were the only two connected with baseball who testified on Curt Flood`s behalf. "Flood v. Kuhn" was no more about Curt Flood, than "Roe v. Wade" was about Roe and Wade." In my HOF!!!
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When Howard Cosell asked Curt Flood, during a TV interview, how could he compare his rift with professional baseball to slavery when he was making $90,000 a year? Curt Flood told Cosell: “A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave” Jackie Robinson and Hank Greenberg were the only two connected with baseball who testified on Curt Flood`s behalf. "Flood v. Kuhn" was no more about Curt Flood, than "Roe v. Wade" was about Roe and Wade." In my HOF!!!
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President Trump, the felony fraudster convicted of 34 criminal counts, wants to be seen as “tough on fraud.” Here's the reality Republicans don't want to admit: In just one year, Trump’s pardons wiped out more than $1.3 billion in restitution and fines owed to victims and survivors of crime.
NEWS: Ranking Member @RepRaskin releases a new Committee staff analysis exposing how Trump’s corrupt pardon spree of nearly 1,600 criminals deprives victims of $1.3 billion in restitution and fines owed to them and American taxpayers.
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People will not acknowledge this throw or play because its “Aaron Judge”but this won USA this ballgame Homeruns was HUGE but this was a winning play like it or not.
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Buttigieg: "The president's political operation was raising money off images at a dignified transfer. Any politician who does that has no business leading American troops into war. If the president is willing to raise campaign funds over the bodies of America's war dead, he is unfit to be the commander in chief."
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So happy for Bill White. Well deserved getting the Buck O’Neil Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Baseball Hall of Fame. What a career: 7x Gold Glover…5x All-Star..’64 World Series champ…2 Top 10 MVP finishes. Bill was a long-time mainstay in the Yankees broadcast booth 1971-1988 and he was the National League president, 1989-94. And, he was the first full-time Black American to be a play-by-play man in MLB.
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