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[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

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[Will Brinson @WillBrinson]

Will Wade no showing the meeting with Boo Corrigan would be a lot more offensive and surprising if he hadn’t already no showed the last month of the season

[One Pack NIL @OnePackNIL]

We've had a GENEROUS donor step up. Any donations made between now and 3PM will be matched up to $5000. LFG!

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[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@jamestalarico: I've had a lot of interviews with national media. No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. No one's asked me about the cost of prescription drugs. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.

The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. Undocumented people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.

Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare. Undocumented people aren't defunding our schools. It's the billionaires and their puppet politicians

[Pack O' Wolves @Pack_O_Wolves]

@RaleighWx How close will we need to be before the models will be reliable? Have travel this weekend and trying to figure out when to decide on alternate arrangements.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Joe Rogan: You don't want militarized people in the streets snatching up people…Many are U.S. citizens without papers on them. Are we really gonna be the Gestapo? 'Where's your papers?’ Is that what we've come to?”

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Shared today by Bev Perry in the Expand Dem Values in the House and Senate Facebook group.

I need to say something that's been bothering me for a while, and I'm saying it as a Marine Corps veteran who leans center-right.
This isn't partisan. This is observation.
We've slow-faded into accepting militarized police as normal, and nobody seems to notice or care.
Even as a USMC pilot, I went through six months of infantry training as an officer before flight school. I've worn the gear. The helmet, the tactical vest, the whole kit. And I can tell you from experience, it changes you.
There's a psychological shift that happens when you strap that stuff on. You feel different. You carry yourself different. You start seeing the environment differently. In the Marine Corps, that shift was appropriate because it's a combat culture and organization.
But these are American streets. American citizens. And we've got law enforcement dressed like they're kicking down doors in Fallujah to serve warrants in suburbia.
What happend to high standards and real policing tactics? Think Adam-12...Officers Reed and Malloy. Crisp uniforms. A revolver. A baton. High standards and professionalism. They looked like public servants because they were public servants. They de-escalated. They talked to people. They were part of the community.
Now? Tactical gear, beards, ball caps, Oakley sunglasses, sleeve tattoos, and a tactical kit that would make special operators jealous. And we've turned it into a fetish. We celebrate it. We assume that because someone looks hard, they must be a professional.
They're not.
I loved the Marine Corps. But I'll be honest, I was also blinded by it for a while. Mission first. Unit over everything. And that mentality made sense in that context.
But law enforcement doesn't get that critical examination. "Back the Blue" has become a shield against accountability. A blanket assumption that a badge plus gun equals hero. That tactical gear equals competence.
It doesn't.
Most people who join law enforcement aren't special operators. They're average people who desperately want to belong to something bigger than themselves. I understand that impulse deeply, it's why I joined the Marines. But wanting to belong doesn't make you qualified. Looking the part doesn't mean you can perform under pressure. And wrapping yourself in warrior aesthetics doesn't make you a warrior.
Old school law enforcement represented something. Standards. Bearing. Discipline. Professionalism that was demonstrated, not costumed. A revolver and a baton meant you had to rely on your training, your words, your judgment, not overwhelming firepower.
What I see now in law enforcement is the costume without the culture. The gear without the training. The authority without the accountability.
Are there good people in law enforcement? Of course. I know some personally. But this reflexive "law enforcement can do no wrong" mentality is lazy, dangerous, and intellectually dishonest.
A woman is dead. And before we sort ourselves into teams and start assigning blame, maybe we should ask harder questions:
Why do we accept a militarized police force as normal?
Why do we assume tactical gear equals tactical competence?
Why have we let "Back the Blue" become a substitute for actual standards?
I wore the uniform. I went through the training. I know what that gear does to your head.
It shouldn't be normalized on American streets against American citizens.
And we shouldn't pretend everyone wearing it is qualified to carry it. The fact that he called her a “fucking bitch” after he shot her three times should be a huge red flag for all of us.

[Cory Smith @RCorySmith]

Hey guys, @SavageWolvesNIL and @OnePackNIL are making a push to drive up NIL for the transfer portal.

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[Technician Sports @TechSports]

Tre Holloman to Quadir Copeland.

📸Alex Manuel

[Michael Tracey @MichaelTracey_]

This is a big nothing burger. It’s standard NDA contract language. Until all schools contract terms are public this protects the school.

The post/story is written by a player’s agent/lawyer so he’s just doing his job wanting the least amount of restrictions on players.

[Trilly Donovan @trillydonovan]

It's the last day of Hoopsmas!

I’m giving away random college basketball gifts every day until Christmas.

The last gift is a FrostBuddy of your choice!

Link: https://t.co/oAdnJomwZl

All you have to do is RT to enter! Good luck!

[Conor Friedersdorf @conor64]

Good news: if you want to know what happened in CECOT to the Venezuelans the United States paid to imprison there, you need not wait for the 60 Minutes story to be ready. You can simply read this:

https://t.co/R58BxwDONi

[First and 16 - A Big 12 Podcast @Firstand16_Pod]

This weekend showed how now is a good time to reconsider mega conferences.

1. Duke is in the ACC Championship game not because they are the best, but because they avoided having to play the best.

2. Texas A&M avoided playing the top five teams in the SEC, while playing the bottom six. One has to wonder how good they actually are.

3. BYU, Utah. And Texas Tech all had to each play each other, which in today’s era of mega conferences is super bad luck. If any had avoided the other, we are looking at multiple Top 10 teams.

4. Tiebreakers for the top teams are coming down to the result of a game between two teams who are 2-10 and 3-9 overall.

Let’s go back to 10-team conferences. Everyone plays everyone.

[One Pack NIL @OnePackNIL]

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[NFL Draft Files @NFL_DF]

Devon Marshall vs. Duce Robinson and Florida State:

🐺 2 INTs
🐺 8 pass breakups
🐺 0 TDs allowed
🐺 7.7 passer rating allowed
🐺 14 targets
🐺 4 catches allowed

[Pack O' Wolves @Pack_O_Wolves]

@statsowar @YouTubeTV Happened in the early games too. My kids are scared every time the game goes to commercial.

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

There’s a fundraiser in memory of Drue Eliot, the daughter of NC State DC DJ Eliot, who passed from cancer last week. The Eliot family is raising money to fight cancer and hopes that people learning about Drue’s battle can inspire others in their fight. https://t.co/PYEikniPbI

[Pack O' Wolves @Pack_O_Wolves]

@joshwgoodson The opportunity to hire Wade was a perfect storm that finally went in our favor. Would be entirely unrealistic to expect the same for football.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.