Sad. Angry. Numb.
Those are my initial feelings about @washingtonpost cutting its Sports Section.
@PostSports was one of the gold standards in sports journalism.
I grew up reading The Post and fell in love with journalism.
This is a dark day for sports media.
Gutted by the Washington Post eliminating its sports department.
This is the paper I grew up with, the one I trusted, and a city like D.C. without serious sports reporting is just inconceivable.
Thinking about the friends and colleagues who lost their jobs today. 💔
I've had the opportunity to work with so many Washington Post sports reporters in my career, and I'm always blown away by their process, the care they take with a story, their ability to make readers feel a connection to something they previously knew nothing about. If these
FINAL DAY of @CollSportsComm Membership Appreciation Week! Today I'm shouting out all those SID wives, husbands, partners, kids, etc. and I got some help from one of my faves, @KBach51 at American. Love having you all on the journey with us!
#CelebrateCSC ❤️💙
I think today was an inflection point - maybe small, but real.
The President, having launched a global trade war, feted in the Oval Office a Central American dictator who runs a mega-prison known for starvation and torture - a prison to which our government has, by its own admission, sent at least one person "in error."
They disappeared a man without a single criminal charge who's lived and worked here for 15 years - who was alleged to be a member of a gang based in a state he never lived by one anonymous informant. No other evidence. No trial. No conviction. Nothing but a legal order that he not be deported to El Salvador, where he's now serving a life sentence.
The Supreme Court just ruled, without any noted dissent, that the government must facilitate the man's release.
But Trump and his dictator friend said no. They laughed. They mocked the journalist who asked whether they'd abide by the Court's order. The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the White House Deputy Chief all lied about the facts of the case. Then the President repeated his proposal to send American citizens to the dictator's prison, and asked him to build five more.
The same day we found out that the government knowingly disappeared a PhD student for nothing but an op-ed, a man's 19-year old son who agents admitted was the wrong kid, and a visa-holding Russian scientist at Harvard who forgot to declare frog embryos at the border.
But: it's all breaking through. It's getting more coverage. More people are paying attention. More elected Democrats are speaking up. More conservative pundits and legal scholars are speaking up. Even Joe Rogan thinks it's bullshit.
Now we have to keep pushing. This is much bigger than immigration or deportation policy - this is about whether we live in a free country or a police state. It's the whole ballgame.
Our 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓!
Coach Simp took us to the top, and now he’s staying for more.
Congratulations to @CoachDSimpkins on ✍️ a contract extension through 2029-30.
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