Uncle Nick

I used to be a lawyer before I realized it was the worst. he/him

[Pearl Rose @hipearlrose]

the Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the US! its watershed spans NY, PA, WV, MD, DE, VA, and DC!!! this travesty leeched toxic chemicals into the food, water and land for millions of Americans and the US GOVT HID IT FROM US FOR MONTHS!!!!!!

[Uncle Nick @ThisIsUncleNick]

@KyleTheige 100%

[Uncle Nick @ThisIsUncleNick]

@ChrisLoupos @TheDailyWolves Thank you!

[Uncle Nick @ThisIsUncleNick]

@run_bull_ Thank you!

[Uncle Nick @ThisIsUncleNick]

An image laser focused at the infinitesimal center of the Venn Diagram of @Timberwolves fans and @theFlash geeks.

[Uncle Nick @ThisIsUncleNick]

2001 would not have been surprised because my dad was a first amendment attorney and so I know how vital groups like Twisted Sister and 2 Live Crew were to preserving freedom of speech in 1990.

[Scoob @Scoobydouchebag]

Imagine talking to 2001 you and being like yeah afroman actually won a pretty big first amendment case

[Uncle Nick @ThisIsUncleNick]

@offmychestpass Agreed!

[Justin Talks Hoops @J_Talks_Hoops]

If Anthony Edwards came out and said “we are not taking the court until ICE is out of our state” he would be the most beloved athlete since Muhammad Ali

[Uncle Nick @ThisIsUncleNick]

Genuinely, what does this mean? I’m very confused.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

THE TRUMP EFFECT! 🇺🇸

[Uncle Nick @ThisIsUncleNick]

@Wolvesmuse I’d love to see Jrue Holiday or Jose Alvarado

[BalloftheWild (The Artist fka /r/Timberwolves) @BalloftheWild]

awoo 13

[Uncle Nick @ThisIsUncleNick]

@Tallsdurf Woof, this seems kinda sexist. Sure, she doesn’t have the dulcet tones of @Grady, but she’s a smart and excellent analyst.

[Uncle Nick @ThisIsUncleNick]

Where are the @Timberwolves streaming this year? I want to watch the preseason but can’t find where to log in and buy a subscription on my Roku.

[Uncle Nick @ThisIsUncleNick]

@TheHoopHerald Because they are tired as hell in midseason and they know the all star game is not the real measuring stick that stacks them up.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

I respect @ezraklein a lot, but this is dead wrong and frankly a baffling thing to say.

Charlie Kirk was the *epitome* of our modern brand of poisonous politics. Ezra tries to make the point that he went around to college campuses to debate people. And that's true, for a very tortured version of the word 'debate'.

But Charlie Kirk was not trying to build bridges. He was not trying to reach a common understanding with his opponents in the way that Ezra himself does. He was not operating in good faith, and his goal was not respectful two-way conversations where both sides can grow and change.

Kirk's goal at his college 'debates' was not to find experts on tricky issues of culture and policy and then have a Socratic dialogues and learn from them. His goal was to find a purple haired nineteen year-old sociology major with more feelings than sense, and then dunk on them. He wanted to farm clips he could use on social media to make his opponents look ridiculous, and he was good at it. When I think about how social media has changed politics for the worse, Charlie Kirk and his style of engagement is one of the main protagonists.

We live in a heavily polarized era where the parties hate each other more than they have in decades and political violence is on the rise. And while it might be distasteful to say it directly after he was murdered, Kirk was one of the people driving that hatred and that polarization. He taught his audiences to hate and fear their opponents. He egged on the public's worst and basest instincts. He flirted heavily and repeatedly with the idea of political violence.

It should obviously be said that none of that justifies killing him. Anyone who advocates for political violence is no friend or ally of mine. But for a man who wrote a book called "Why We're Polarized" to look at Charlie Kirk and say that he practiced politics the right way is delusional.

[Uncle Nick @ThisIsUncleNick]

Ran into Micah Nori downtown this afternoon on the way back from a team lunch today! Awesome dude!

SO excited about the start of the season.

@Timberwolves Wolves(almost) back!

[Uncle Nick @ThisIsUncleNick]

@NotLordJerms $40 per tooth is fucking crazy, recession or no.

[Uncle Nick @ThisIsUncleNick]

@RebelTaxi Honestly, these are kind of important historical documents. This is how so so many of us learned about the culture of these periods. It speaks to what the most important movements to a particular demographic were at a particular point in time. What a gift!