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Bradford William Davis

@bwd.bsky.social

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2025-26 Pulliam Fellow. McClatchy columnist, Fort Worth Star-Telegram editorial board eyeblack (eyeblack.beehiiv.com) bwdsecrets.43 on Signal for secure tips [email protected] for everything else

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · Apr 5

when MLB dropped "diversity" from its career site, I reached out to every team, including those with live DEI pages.

None committed to their current efforts. Almost nobody responded!

One week before Jackie Robinson Day, my take on the leaguewide silence:

www.miamiherald.com/opinion/arti...

Most MLB teams have DEI programs. Why won’t any commit to them or talk about it? | Opinion

In the Trump era, when even Jackie Robinson is at risk, the sport is quiet about diversity efforts it used to tout. | Opinion

www.miamiherald.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 9h

it's one of the worst individual moments in sports history

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 9h

i want to throw up

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 9h

he may never know if the cheese wiz on his sandwich is actually wiz for the rest of his life

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 9h

every single thing Orion Kerkering did on that play was wrong.

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't want this to happen but i am grateful because i am free

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

LOVE DA JAYS LETS GO JAYS

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 1d

Dont act like u dont kno

2011 MLB Postseason Commercial Written in the Stars- Tinie Tempah

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 1d

Clayton getting his trachea ripped out by washed JT Realmuto, but set to Written In The Stars by Tinie Tempah

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 1d

we have never been so back (in the pits of Hell!)

First panel: “how I imagined 2025 as a kid” set with futuristic cityscape
Second panel: “how it turned out” with two people arguing whether or not the South won the Civil War

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 1d

truly anything to feel again huh?

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

LOVE DA JAYS LETS GO JAYS

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 1d

Upgraded to the three hour streaming video tier. Paid 26 quid for this bruv

Streaming service giving me a no network connection notification

Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 1d

trying to use Google Docs on the basic plane wifi I paid 13 GBP for be like

[insert person applying clown makeup meme, an image I cannot upload, because of the basic plane wifi]

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 17d

Just watched finished the first two seasons of Foundation. These books, the original trilogy and then the ones on Asimov’s later years, are some of my favorite.

This show is not them. And why I am really enjoying it. The show is such an interesting reinterpretation, and just so beautifully shot.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 17d

I like what the show is doing with time and how Dornick/Hardin/Mallow/etc are not evolutionary/linear but of the same time/all the time (the notion of time in the show is fascinating).

Also like the concept that the show knows Earth, while the books don’t touch it till later.

Just good tv.

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 1d

I'm rewatching the original run of Behind the Music. I'm almost done with S1 and I'm struck by how much the show relied on "exclusive" interviews to legitimate and spectacularize scandal. I'm also struck by how often musicians used drugs to treat illnesses that weren't legible as such by medicine.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t need my guardsman to have abs but I need them to quit immediately if the job is helping ICE beat up anyone who looks like me or my friends

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 2d

CA friends… click below to tell newsom to sign the other trans rights bills on his desk

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 2d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 2d

one day I will

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

Anarchism is more than lack of hierarchies and I suspect you know this

USVI-ComradeAnCom @usvi-comradeancom.bsky.social · 2d

Just so I understand, your position is that the current administration is anarchic in its operation. How does that work, when it is very clearly a hierarchical decision making governance. It is certainly chaotic, but anarchies are defined by a lack of hierarchical governance.

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 2d

deep cut

Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 2d

me? I'm brilliant and a pleasure to have in class

Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 2d

I know what I can tolerate at work:

smart, but mean: watch your 6, but possible ally through commitment to excellence

stupid, but nice: doesn't know much but has your best interest at heart.

stupid AND mean: irredeemable. leave yesterday.

anyway, good luck to the fine folks at CBS News!

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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