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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 7h

Oh I forgot there were two “Caitlin Clark is a victim” columns

Column | All that ugly contact is messing with Caitlin Clark’s shot — and her head

What’s wrong with Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark? She’s hoping rather than knowing.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 7h

The Zionism we’ve seen recently is not good. And her full-throated defense of Bari Weiss following by her lamenting that her free speech is being censored by disagreement? Also bad!

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 7h

She made an entire video characterizing Clark as a victim of abuse at the hands of her majority-Black colleagues. She followed it up with a column & social media posts expressing the same sentiment.

Column | WNBA officiating is no longer an annoyance. It’s a threat to the game.

Referees’ failure to rein in physical play hurts players, hurts the league and hurts fans.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 9h

Describe the opposite of The Free Press in a sentence

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It’s a business story. [Highlighting begins] Everyone in journalism has known for years that there’s been a huge opportunity for a publication that employs the traditional methods of U.S. journalism—reporting, deep sourcing, fact-checking, fearlessness—to subjects that either don’t get covered enough or get covered only from a certain perspective. [Highlighting ends] If creating such an enterprise seems simple

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 8h

I applied for another full-time journalism job that I will never hear another word about, please clap

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 8h

Did you read my piece? There are links to all of it lol

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 9h

I don’t think it’s good that we have an entire class of media elites who believe that people getting mad at them means they’re doing a good job, but identifying that makes me wonder if it’s actually better to not get mad at them and deprive them of what they want.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 9h

I wonder if US corporate media is up to the task.

www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/m...

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 9h

Anyway pls subscribe to my newsletter 😊

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 9h

We are literally watching her be red pilled in real time

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 10h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 10h

I forgot I published this earlier this year looking at the transphobic race science of it all...

Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 10h

I began connecting some dots in a post earlier this year abt the way white Gen X women were talking about Caitlin Clark. There's an expanded analysis to be written, I think, as it pertains to an "anti-woke" lens permeating these formerly liberally-minded women. www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/no-playing...

"Many of the people arguing for less physicality in the W—Brennan, Jenkins, tennis legend Chris Evert—have spent their careers covering or taking part in women's sports (or both). And yet, they’re buying into the oldest sexist trope in the book, a narrative that existed over a century ago as a way to keep women out of sports altogether: That women are too weak to handle physicality in sports.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 10h

I began connecting some dots in a post earlier this year abt the way white Gen X women were talking about Caitlin Clark. There's an expanded analysis to be written, I think, as it pertains to an "anti-woke" lens permeating these formerly liberally-minded women. www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/no-playing...

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 11h

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 11h

Just… brainworms.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · Mar 14

1. When you accept 400 mil there is no free ice cream 2. Those protests were rife with anti-semitism 3. Ensuring all students can go to class without obstacles is impossible???

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · Mar 14

They've arbitrarily removed $400 million in funding from a significantly Jewish(22%) university for "antisemitism"

It is only potentially reasonable without the above context. With it, they are obviously going to hold Columbia to impossible standards, blatantly against 1st Amendment protections.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 11h

There was a while I was working on a piece looking at these views, incorporating women like Chris Everett and Martina Navratilova and Nancy Hongshead etc, and the way their whiteness perverts their viewpoints, eventually sliding into an “anti-wokeness.” Maybe I’ll try to thread that needle again.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 11h

ISRAELI GUMBO

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 11h

I used to really admire Sally’s work but I have been really disappointed in her commentary recently. There is this shift happening among a class of Gen X white women journalists that is a real bummer (see also: Christine Brennan).

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 12h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 11h

why are we applauding someone who is supposed to be a journalist as “an entrepreneur”

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 11h

reminder that the atlantic, which is run by a former israeli military prison guard, tried to acquire the free press but couldn't provide bari a big enough payday and that literally everyone on staff at the atlantic except for adam serwer has absolute trash opinions

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 12h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

What Fr Dowling is doing here was not just "offering communion to detainees". A full on Eucharistic Procession is a really fucking big deal. In Catholic theological framing, those folks were the honor guard with the very great privilege of escorting Jesus himself to the detention center.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 1d

One small not-quite quibble here.

According to Catholic teachings, Christ is just as present in the Eucharist whether it’s being carried to detainees in a monstrance or a simple vessel.

But the monstrance is a particularly solemn and traditional way of dramatizing that presence.

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 22h

12 white people (5 of them women), 3 Black men, an Asian man, and a Latino man. All the women are white.

Saturday Night Live's Season 51 Cast Members: The Full Lineup for 2025-2026

SNL's Season 51 cast lineup is officially final. See photos of new additions and learn more about the returning cast members and new Featured Players, here.

www.nbc.com

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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 1d

“Jewell becomes the first player in WNBA history to have a perfect 10-0 record in the WNBA Finals. She has now won her 3rd championship. She got everything she could have ever wanted with her trade request. But this ultimately looks like a deal that benefited all three teams involved in the trade.”

Storm Chasers @wnbastormchasers.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the conclusion of the #WNBA season after the Las Vegas Aces won their 3rd title. I wrote about A'ja Wilson, Jackie Young, Alyssa Thomas, Jewell Loyd, Breanna Stewart, and more. Open to all WNBA fans. stormchaserswnba.substack.com/p/aces-win-3...

Aces Win 3rd WNBA Championship

Final thoughts at the conclusion of the 2025 WNBA season.

stormchaserswnba.substack.com

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