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@TheRealHoarse
Sep 4, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
While this will seem hyperbolic and problematic for its own reasons, I’m just gonna put this down:

Nike is poised to do more for Colin Kaepernick’s standing than any business has done for any hero of civil rights at any time in U.S. history.

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It is a crass and vulgar reality but in our capitalist, profit-driven, celebrity-loving culture, advertisers have the power to platform athletes with more reach and authority than even the media.

Nike will profit from this but was as a society stand to profit even more.

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It won’t be lost on me that Nike isn’t a perfect corporation and isn’t acting out of selfless altruism.

Nonetheless, we’re about to watch a cycle of moral ascendency that took decades with Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali as it plays out in mere months.

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It should not take a Nike.

It should not have taken this long.

Now comes the rise though...

...and I’m here for it.

Can’t wait to see what Colin Kaepernick and Nike do next, in fact.

#JustDoIt

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Oct 5, 2018
Ok, hear me out here for a second.

We have a weekly tradition on my timeline.

Every Friday, I ask people for one good thing that happened in their lives that week.

I’m sure none of us feel much like doing that today...

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However, this tradition matters to me.

It goes back a lot further than my Twitter tenure.

I went through some serious sh** a few years back when everything in my life burned down.

One of the things that got me through it was always looking for at least SOMETHING good.

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It wasn’t even the FINDING IT that mattered. It was the act of looking.

It takes your eyes off of the wreckage and reminds you that even when it seems all bad, there is at least some good.

So, even if it’s forced, it matters this week. Probably more than most.

3/
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Oct 5, 2018
Just gonna lay this down here...

Behind the public facade of McConnell being all in on Kav, Treason Turtle knows that R voters tend to vote best when they're voting angry.

Repubs got their best polling news in two years this week. The potential for a Kav loss woke the base.

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While a highly public defeat would seem like just that - a defeat - McConnell inevitably knows that it could be just the ticket to saving control of the Senate in November.

In ordinary times, I'd see the push to vote on Kav as a dire sign.

Today though, not so fast...

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A Kavanaugh defeat at the hands of Murkowski, Collins and Manchin wouldn't hurt Murkowski or Collins much (if at all) but would hurt Manchin - and more importantly, would probably swing the generic ballot 3-5 points nationwide.

A loss here would be a win in 30 days.

3/
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Oct 3, 2018
I’m just going to gush for a second.

The NYT’s sprawling exposé on the fraudulent myth of a successful Donald J. Trump is just everything journalism is supposed to be.

It’s a soaring journalistic achievement of legwork and research. It’s a careful unraveling. A distillation.
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It’s the kind of comprehensive investigative reporting that topples tyrants and preserves democracies.

It is a masterwork.

A Pulitzer is due and all but assured.

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Yet, at the same time it is also an accidental confessional and partially indicting of the Times’ itself.

Tucked among the 13,000 words is a single paragraph about the Times’ role in erecting the false edifice of the swaggering, young impresario who never was.

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Oct 3, 2018
Folks who have survived narcissists will get this one...

When you’re close to a narc, you develop an internal, subconscious weatherman.

You can read the room. You can feel the narc’s temperature like it’s air temp.

You can viscerally feel the volatility level. The danger.

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You can read their emotional state but more importantly, you can read what it means for YOUR emotional state.

It’s an “external locus of control”.

You pick up cues others wholly miss. You process shit you can’t explain.

It’s helpful and exhausting. Hypervigilance is both.

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With Trump, all of that is both helpful and not. It’s unfun but makes it all familiar.

Others with narc experience, weigh in here...

I can feel the Trump temp with not a whole lotta exposure. Just a glimpse is enough usually.

3/
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Sep 29, 2018
Y’all will invariably fill my mentions with endless chides about my fact-based dislike of Avenatti but here’s something that ought to be processed regardless:

The right LOVES Avenatti’s grandstanding. It’s the only good thing that happened for them this week.

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The right wants to spin all of the accusations against Kavanaugh as a political hitjob.

They want to turn attention from the actual accusers to the Dems attached to them. Avenatti, Feinstein, etc.

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The more political these victims, their coming forward, and their stories can be made to seem, the easier it is for the right to dismiss them as just a political assassination.

The WH has allegedly opted to prevent the FBI from interviewing Avenatti’s client, Julie Swetnick.

3/
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Sep 29, 2018
Tissue warning.

Yesterday, in the hall of the Senate, these two women found themselves facing Senator Jeff Flake with only a moment to change his mind.

The woman on the left, Ana Maria Achila, spoke first.

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Then, with the elevator doors closing, choked with emotion, desperate to be heard, desperate for all survivors of sexual assault to be heard, Maria Gallagher spoke.

“I was sexually assaulted.”

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Until that moment... with all the world watching... with cameras snapping... with the elevator doors about to close... she had told no one.

Maria Gallagher’s mother learned her daughter had been sexually assaulted the moment we did.

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