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Michael Mirer
Michael Mirer
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Associate Professor studying sports-related media and journalistic professionalism at UW-Milwaukee. Aspiring boat guy.
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We as a country don't deserve this, but we have earned it.
Not beating the accusations that the NBA treats the W like it's the Europa League. If the Dream come close to filling State Farm on Thursday at lunchtime with three days' notice it will be an amazing accomplishment
BREAKING: Game 6 of the WNBA Finals will be held Thursday at 12:30pm ET at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, sources told ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne. It will be a double-header with the Atlanta Hawks’ game, which will be moved to 8pm.
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I think the answers here are for the NBA to go dark on WNBA Finals days or to limit home games to the arenas that aren't shared (a shrinking number as the league expands). Honestly this gets harder with a 50-game schedule.
There will be a Game 6 of the WNBA Finals in Atlanta. But nobody knows yet where or even when the game will be played despite a furious round of negotiations spilling into Sunday between the WNBA, NBA, Valks, Dream and Hawks. What we know, with @ramonaespn.bsky.social www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...
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Apollo and Daphne, by Daniel Seiter, 1675-99, 📸 by @jeffreyphelps // @milwaukeebrewers.bsky.social
To me the problem is not the pardon power, it is the preemptive pardon. A normal pardon is setting aside a finding of fact for extenuating circumstances. Before the finding of fact, pre pardons are just the direction of DOJ resources, which shouldn't be determined by former presidents.
Thought experiment: if the Constitution said that it required the Rule of Law, would that preclude Trump from being immune to criminal prosecution and invalidate pardons given to accomplices and coconspirators?
The Democratic candidate who wants my vote in the 2028 primary should promise to cooperate fully with any state-level investigations and to honor every international extradition request for people put beyond the reach of the federal courts.
Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...
Is that Britt McHenry the former ESPN personality?
1. So let me get this straight — based on all the reporting… Britt McHenry, a now-former official in Trump’s State Department, made a snarky comment to a group of men who were heckling Kyle Kuzma and calling his fiancée, Winnie Harlow — the Black model who has vitiligo — “ugly.”
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Milwaukee Bucks owner Jimmy Haslem also.
Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.
Me: Political news coverage is too poll driven and that should change <monkey's paw curls>
Yes, the mere threat to use news distortion/broadcast hoax to go after reporting about polls violates the First Amendment. No, I don’t think broadcasters will challenge this in court, at least not before the election (and the chilling effects already would have worked their magic on news coverage).
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