Chuck

STL Cards, LA Chargers, Bulls, and the Wolfpack

[NC State University @NCState]

“NC State is better than Duke and UNC.” —@NoahKahan tonight at Carter-Finley Stadium 🙂‍↕️🐺

[PBS News @NewsHour]

NEW: A third of Americans approve of the way President Donald Trump is handling the economy, the latest PBS/NPR/Marist poll finds.

The number amounts to his lowest-ever approval rating on an issue long considered to be one of his strengths with voters. https://t.co/3XuU1Cf4CR

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

WHO WANTS A BEER SKATE?!

RT for your chance to win the hottest drinking device in sports.

[Chuck @ChuckWolfpack]

@BillSimmons The reasoning of your take is flawed. Teams consistently cut first round picks before the season even starts because of the limited number of teams and roster sizes. There is an excess of talented players.

[Chuck @ChuckWolfpack]

Red Panda is a living legend.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

.@ilona_maher was mic'd up during Red Panda's halftime performance 🤣

[Joe Giglio @giglio_OG]

American Wankster

[Cory Vaillancourt @The_CoryV]

Students from Western Carolina University are heckled as they march to their new polling place — 1.7 miles down a busy highway with no sidewalks — after the Jackson County Board of Elections & the State Board of Elections voted to close their on campus polling site to save $6k

[Camilo Montoya-Galvez @camiloreports]

CBS News Exclusive: An internal DHS document shows that less than 14% of nearly 400,000 individuals arrested by ICE in President Trump's first year back in power had violent criminal records.

It's the most detailed look yet at who ICE has arrested.
https://t.co/zMt5Y2vfCJ

[Travis Fain @TravisFain]

"Tillis’ letter referenced an incident in which agents busted an American citizen’s window in Charlotte, and another in which a different citizen in Cary was arrested at his workplace before agents dumped him and his belongings in the woods."
https://t.co/mO7Mdo4fHH

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

Spent two seconds researching Alex Pretti, the man this administration immediately called a domestic terrorist

[Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep]

From NPR: Details about Alex Pretti, the legal gun owner shot by federal agents.

No video has yet shown Pretti “brandishing” or holding the gun federal agents say he had. Some video analysis indicates an agent took the gun just before Pretti was shot while on the ground.

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

A @nytimes video analysis shows that after agents restrained Alex Jeffrey Pretti & removed his gun from the skirmish, an agent appears to fire 4 shots at Petri.

That agent & another then fire 6 more shots at Pretti while he lies motionless on the ground. https://t.co/ZPGBxgRIpu

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

Okay so,

1) an American citizen exercises his First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and his Second Amendment right to bear arms, out of apparent concern that a tyrannical federal government is violating basic protections afforded under the Constitution

2) after coming to the aid of an unarmed woman who's been shoved to the ground by a masked federal agent, the citizen -- impaired by pepper spray, holding nothing but a cell phone -- is dragged to the ground by a group of other masked agents

3) during the scuffle, shortly after one masked agent removes the weapon from the restrained citizen's person, several other masked agents open fire, unloading 10 shots from close range and killing the unarmed citizen

4) despite video evidence, a spokesman for the federal government says the citizen approached agents with a gun, provoked a violent confrontation, and planned to "massacre" law enforcement

You really want to defend this? Go ahead. Just know, you look like an absolute fool.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says. https://t.co/r3uyyj3LWL

[WNBA @WNBA]

COOK ROOK 😱

Aziaha James gets busy in the lane with the hesi plus the finish

DAL-IND | ION

[Chuck @ChuckWolfpack]

@joeovies We had waffle cones that killed the tub and staff pulled in the cutout.

[Chuck @ChuckWolfpack]

We just finished off the @giglio_OG and @joeovies Salty Peanut Butter Fudge at Franklin Street @two_roosters

[David McKenzie @mckenzielaw]

North Carolina NIL Deals Are Close To Being Exempted from Public Records Laws

Nobody noticed, but the North Carolina General Assembly has passed HB 378 and sent it to Governor Stein's desk. The bill gives NIL deals a special statutory exemption from the Public Records Law. N.C. Gen. Stat § 132-1 et seq.

The only problem with that is that this new bill conflicts with N.C. Gen. Stat. § 126-23, which requires all salary information for state employees must be publicly disclosed—including "pay, benefits, incentives, bonuses, and deferred and all other forms of compensation paid by the employing entity.

Of course, UNC, NCSU, App State, and ECU will argue their athletes are independent contractors to avoid § 126-23's disclosure requirements. But this position will make no sense under basic agency principles.

This issue comes up all the time in copyright law. When someone commissions a sculptor to create a statue, the relationship typically qualifies as independent contractor—the sculptor retains copyright ownership. However, the analysis changes dramatically when the commissioning party provides the tools, supplies the marble, and—most critically—exercises ongoing control over both the creative vision and execution methods. Under these circumstances, the sculptor becomes an employee under traditional "master-servant" principles, and the employer owns the resulting work as a work for hire. The determining factor isn't the nature of the work, but rather the degree of control exercised over how that work is performed. Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid, 490 U.S. 730 (1989).

Universities exercise absolute control over athletes— far exceeding typical employment relationships:

* Dictating practice schedules, workout regimens, and game participation
* Mandating specific routes to run and techniques to execute
* Controlling diet, sleep schedules, and medical treatment
* Requiring specific clothing down to the socks worn
* Restricting social media and public statements
* Imposing academic requirements

The athlete has virtually no autonomy—the hallmark of an independent contractor. The idea that he or she should not be subject to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 126-23 is preposterous.

Regardless, this is another assault on public records and the public domain. Governor Stein should veto the legislation.

@JoshStein_ @murphsturph @TheAssemblyNC @joeovies @giglio_OG @newsobserver @jwatsonfisher @themhartman @ByDavidTeel @chapelfowler @Jon_Blau