Bradford William Davis

Bradford William Davis

@bwd.bsky.social

2025-26 Pulliam Fellow exploring intersection of sports, transportation and environmental justice eyeblack newsletter (readeyeblack.com) bwdsecrets.43 on Signal for secure tips holler@bwd.nyc for everything else

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HELL Kennedy
@helenkennedy.com

Just installed my 26-year-old copy of Word on a new desktop. I will never pay subscription fees for software I already paid for. I will go live in a shack in the woods first.

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Matt Brown
@mattbrown.bsky.social
Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

helenwebberley.comAre transgender sports bans really about protecting women? | Dr Helen WebberleyThe data says no. Those most hostile to women are most in favour of banning trans athletes.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WELKER: Is a vote for you a vote for the Trump agenda? MIKE ROGERS: Um, I'm apologizing. I'm having some difficultly in my earpiece. But is a vote for you? I'm not sure. I'll tell you what a vote for me is. It's a great day for the state of Michigan

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Matt Imbrogno
@mimbro1.bsky.social

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Bradford William Davis@bwd.bsky.social

appreciative of your response to this one. [eyeblack] is a member supported publication—and we just passed 75 members!—partnering with our project by upgrading to a paid membership enables distinctive, critical sports journalism can thrive. www.readeyeblack.com/upgrade

readeyeblack.comBig Opioid is sponsoring the MLB playoffsThe family of an incarcerated baseball lifer hooked on its painkillers wants to know why.

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👻 BOOts
@bootsmcguinness.blacksky.app

[Nate Dogg voice] NOBODYYYYYYY DOES IT BETTERRRRRR

Bradford William Davis@bwd.bsky.social

appreciative of your response to this one. [eyeblack] is a member supported publication—and we just passed 75 members!—partnering with our project by upgrading to a paid membership enables distinctive, critical sports journalism can thrive. www.readeyeblack.com/upgrade

readeyeblack.comBig Opioid is sponsoring the MLB playoffsThe family of an incarcerated baseball lifer hooked on its painkillers wants to know why.

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Rachel Maddow
@maddow.bsky.social

"The rejection rate is at about 3% statewide, and two or three times as high as in some larger counties. “Potentially thousands of votes could be spoiled by this new guidance... This is a huge deal for North Carolina.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

nytimes.comNew Rules in North Carolina Threaten Thousands of Mail BallotsCounty election officials have rejected ballots for such issues as an unsealed “inner” envelope. Voting rights groups are urging voters to fix their ballots or vote in other ways.
Bradford William Davis
@bwd.bsky.social

really appreciated yall having me chat about the really cool, you-won't-find-this-elsewhere stuff we're doing at readeyeblack.com, and, despite the challenges of producing good storytelling in a struggling industry, building work you can believe in!

The End of Sport@endofsportpod.bsky.social

The State of Sports Journalism in 2026 @bwd.bsky.social joins to discuss the sports/media complex, pro sport GBV malfeasance, Colin Kaepernick AI slop, and Palestine and athlete activism. open.spotify.com/episode/1lfg...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
@nkalamb.bsky.social

Great meta convo about sports journalism and also deep dive into @bwd.bsky.social's vital reporting.

The End of Sport@endofsportpod.bsky.social

The State of Sports Journalism in 2026 @bwd.bsky.social joins to discuss the sports/media complex, pro sport GBV malfeasance, Colin Kaepernick AI slop, and Palestine and athlete activism. open.spotify.com/episode/1lfg...

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Priyansh
@privaricate.bsky.social

We had an engaging chat with @bwd.bsky.social on the structural crisis faced by sports journalism today, and journalism at large. Episode out now

The End of Sport@endofsportpod.bsky.social

The State of Sports Journalism in 2026 @bwd.bsky.social joins to discuss the sports/media complex, pro sport GBV malfeasance, Colin Kaepernick AI slop, and Palestine and athlete activism. open.spotify.com/episode/1lfg...

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Ashton Pittman
@ashtonpittman.bsky.social

JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.

mississippifreepress.orgKohen Wiley Shooting ‘Was Justified,’ Mississippi AG SaysThe police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s…
Bradford William Davis
@bwd.bsky.social

anyone notice how hard it is to make an apple genius bar reservation online? how the user experience regularly routes you to different support options or help guides and away from the thing you came there to do, which is a genius appointment?

Bradford William Davis
@bwd.bsky.social

appreciative of your response to this one. [eyeblack] is a member supported publication—and we just passed 75 members!—partnering with our project by upgrading to a paid membership enables distinctive, critical sports journalism can thrive. www.readeyeblack.com/upgrade

readeyeblack.comBig Opioid is sponsoring the MLB playoffsThe family of an incarcerated baseball lifer hooked on its painkillers wants to know why.
Bradford William Davis@bwd.bsky.social

I wrote about a Big Pharma titan paying billions in opioid related settlements, a baseball family ruined by their son's addiction to its painkillers and...MLB's Official Pharmaceutical Partner issa new [eyeblack]

readeyeblack.comBig Opioid is sponsoring the MLB playoffsThe family of an incarcerated baseball lifer hooked on its painkillers wants to know why.

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Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

A video game reverse engineering community has shut down because many games can now be trivially reverse engineered and decompiled with AI: "The community aspect of decompilation has been broken." www.404media.co/video-game-r...

404media.coVideo Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy"Historically, decompilation has been a brutally difficult, time consuming task." Now, AI is trivially doing it.

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BT
@mode7.bsky.social

A perhaps underexplored effect of vibecoding and gen AI is a lower barrier for racist agitprop.

Bradford William Davis@bwd.bsky.social

“Poornography” is an essential and, sadly, durable concept for filtering the media we consume, including, also sadly, video games. really strong essay from @andrejgee.bsky.social

substack.comVideo Game ‘Hood Warfare 2’ Is Anti-Black “Poornography”Last week, anonymous game developer Trapstar Games released Hood Warfare 2, one of the most racist games I’ve ever seen.
Bradford William Davis
@bwd.bsky.social

reposted because I conflated oxycodone and hydrocodone. similar but not the same!

Bradford William Davis@bwd.bsky.social

On June 25, 2019, AbbVie announced it was acquiring Botox-maker Allergan, which was until recently, the US's second-largest generic opioid supplier. On July 1, Tyler Skaggs overdosed on a counterfeit fentanyl pill made to resemble a generic oxycodone pill. www.readeyeblack.com/p/big-pharma...

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Bradford William Davis
@bwd.bsky.social

I'll add another thing. When Tyler Skaggs overdosed in 2019, MLB reportedly confirmed and then later suggested in repeated instances that the league would pursue its own independent investigation on opioid use. I asked MLB about the status of this investigation, but the league did not respond.

Bradford William Davis@bwd.bsky.social

I wrote about a Big Pharma titan paying billions in opioid related settlements, a baseball family ruined by their son's addiction to its painkillers and...MLB's Official Pharmaceutical Partner issa new [eyeblack]

readeyeblack.comBig Opioid is sponsoring the MLB playoffsThe family of an incarcerated baseball lifer hooked on its painkillers wants to know why.
Bradford William Davis
@bwd.bsky.social

this is important for procedural concerns I've tracked through eyeblack of instances where MLB has been accused of failing to conduct rigorous investigations regarding allegations of serious misconduct—in this case, violence against women. www.readeyeblack.com/p/your-life-...

readeyeblack.com'Your life is over, bitch'MLB decided against suspending a former baseball star accused of choking his ex-fiancée. She says the league's choice enabled his continued abuse
Bradford William Davis
@bwd.bsky.social

this should tell newsroom leaders something I think is very obvious: actively chasing "conservative" news readers doesn't make sense. because conservatives don't read the news!

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Bradford William Davis
@bwd.bsky.social

a purply state that will likely end in a close U.S. Senate race, yet the largest paper in the city can't find someone who thinks Mike Rogers won without being explicitly racist. this is loud!

Bradford William Davis
@bwd.bsky.social

purely as a business proposition: there's no sense in trying to reach them on ideological lines when they not sharing the most basic assumptions about what constitutes truth

Bradford William Davis
@bwd.bsky.social

If you watched the "MLB Wild Card Series **presented by AbbVie**" you heard or saw that brand hundreds of times. In 2022, AbbVie settled thousands of lawsuits totaling over $2B accusing them of illegally marketing its opioids by downplaying their risks and failing to divert them from the streets.

reuters.comAbbVie to pay up to $2.37 billion to settle U.S. opioid claimsAbbVie Inc has agreed to pay up to $2.37 billion to resolve thousands of U.S. lawsuits against its Allergan unit over the marketing of opioid painkillers, state officials announced on Friday.

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Prem Thakker ツ
@premthakker.bsky.social

My gosh. Mike Huckabee's top aide: —Covered up an embassy report on Israeli killings of 9 Americans —Fabricated Orwellian reports on Israeli settler violence & the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" to make it sound good for Israel —Questioned staff on whether they were “pro-Israel” or “pro-Hamas”