Matt Carroll

Husband, Father, Healthy and Happy. Does it get any better?

[Matt Carroll @CoachMattC]

@SmothersForum Why did the Sahara do them dirty like this?

[Matt Carroll @CoachMattC]

@FSU_Softball Absolute thievery!!

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@FSU_Softball Congratulations!!!

[Matt Carroll @CoachMattC]

@FSU_Softball Fantastic win!

[Matt Carroll @CoachMattC]

@mje_51 you are killing it in the booth.

[Matt Carroll @CoachMattC]

@FSU_Softball How about we move up in the box so we can hit this slow stuff!!

[Matt Carroll @CoachMattC]

@BigJim__11 @accnetwork @ACCsoftball @clemsonsoftball @FSU_Softball I've watched every inning. Stands were pretty full for the first game this morning.
Get the ESPN app and stop your whining.

[Matt Carroll @CoachMattC]

@6abcadamjoseph Once again, watching you cover a parade in Philly from Naples FL. You gave me a shout-out during a TG parade years ago, and I still get comments from friends every year. Enjoy this!

[Matt Carroll @CoachMattC]

@Allstate I think the Mayor of Philadelphia just inadvertently made the next All State commercial. "Check the spelling of your cities football team before getting up to chant it in front of the whole city. And check Allstate for savings on car insurance. "

[Matt Carroll @CoachMattC]

@mcuban @KamalaHarris Then do it now. Or maybe sometime in the last 3 years. Oh wait, she was too busy with the border. 🫤

[Matt Carroll @CoachMattC]

The new seats are rocking! #GONOLES

[Matt Carroll @CoachMattC]

@SpaceX @NASA @Space_Station @inspiration4x @Axiom_Space @JAXA_en @esa I was glued to the feed that day.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

BRAZIL IS ON THE BRINK

I’m reporting to you from Brazil, where a dramatic series of events are underway.

At 5:52 pm Eastern Time, today, April 6, 2024, X corporation, formerly known as Twitter, announced that a Brazilian court had forced it to “block certain popular accounts in Brazil.”

Then, less than one hour later, the owner of X, @ElonMusk announced that X would defy the court’s order, and lift all restrictions.

“As a result,” said Musk, “we will probably lose all revenue in Brazil and have to shut down our office there. But principles matter more than profit.”

At any moment, Brazil’s Supreme Court could shut off all access to X/Twitter for the people of Brazil.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Brazil is on the brink of dictatorship at the hands of a totalitarian Supreme Court Justice named Alexandre de Moraes.

President Lula da Silva is participating in the push toward totalitarianism. Since taking office, Lula has massively increased government funding of the mainstream news media, most of which are encouraging increased censorship.

What Lula and de Moraes are doing is an outrageous violation of Brazil’s constitution and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.

At this moment, Brazil is not yet a dictatorship. It still has elections and the Brazilian people have other means at their disposal to confront authoritarianism.

But the Federal Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court are directly interfere in those elections through censorship.

Three days ago I published the Twitter Files for Brazil. They show that Moraes has violated the Brazilian Constitution. Moraes illegally demanded that Twitter reveal private information about Twitter users who used hashtags he considered inappropriate. He demanded access to Twitter's internal data, violating the platform's policy. He censored, on his own initiative and without any respect for due process, posts on Twitter by parliamentarians from the Brazilian Congress. And Moraes tried to turn Twitter's content moderation policies into a weapon against supporters of then-president Jair Bolsonaro.

I say this as an independent and non-partisan journalist. I'm not a fan of either Bolsonaro or Trump. My political views are very moderate. But I know censorship when I see it.

The Twitter Files also revealed that Google, Facebook, Uber, WhatsApp and Instagram betrayed the people of Brazil. If such evidence is proven, the executives of these companies behaved like cowards: they provided the Brazilian government with personal registration data and telephone numbers without a court order and, therefore, violating the law.
When Twitter refused to provide Brazilian authorities with private user information, including direct messages, the government attempted to sue Twitter's top Brazilian lawyer.

When I lived in Brazil in 1992, I was very left-wing. At the time, Lula and the PT's slogans were “Without fear of being happy”.

In recent days, I have spoken to dozens of Brazilians, including professors, journalists and respected lawyers. Everyone tells me they are shocked by what is happening. They told me that they are afraid to speak their mind and that the Lula government is complicit in creating this climate of fear.

Brazil belongs to the Brazilians. It is not my country. As such, there are limits to what I am capable of doing.

But I can say things that many Brazilians do not feel safe saying: Alexandre de Moraes is a tyrant. And the only way to deal with tyrants is to confront them. It is up to Brazil’s senators to confront the tyrant. And it is up to the people of Brazil to demand that their senators do so.

[Matt Carroll @CoachMattC]

Still not over it. #FSU #FSUFootball #MARCHINGCHIEFS
#FSUMARCHINGCHIEFS #CFPlayoffs

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@CFBPlayoff @espn @ReceDavis

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@MalcolmJon46729 @BarrettSallee Yes, yes I do.

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@EricMacLain why is everything facing Louisville if we are the home team / top seed.
Paid to be on the 50!
This is wrong!

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@theACC @accnetwork @FSUFootball
We are the top seed / Home team. Why I'd everything facing the other side?!!!!!!!

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@EricMacLain Who at FSU hurt @KirkHerbstreit ? Can we suggest counseling?

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@COREYKENT Sounding Great!
Estero FL.