darrin overholt

[T3 @T3Bracketology]

People with financial ties to a University should not be on the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee

[The Gare @TheGare7]

This was what Bubba Cunningham “leaving the room” for the North Carolina discussions looked like

[Duke Better @DukeBetter]

if UNC making the tournament this year is the thing that finally forces the NCAA to stop putting sitting ADs on the bracket committee, then it will all have been worth it

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

Pay attention to this: Musk is trying to make our air traffic control system "dependent” on him by integrating his equipment, which has not gone through security and risk-management review.

It's corruption. And it's dangerous.

Fire Elon Musk.

https://t.co/uYUjdOpNqr

[Duke Digest @DukeDigest]

Guys take off your tinfoil hats, it’s just one giant coincidence.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Black Saturday: The Day the United States Ceased to Be a Constitutional Democracy

The Moment Democracy Ceased to Function

🧵1/10: Saturday, March 15, 2025, may have seemed unremarkable to most Americans. But in time, history will remember it as Black Saturday—the moment the United States ceased to function as a constitutional democracy.

For the first time in modern American history, a sitting president openly defied a direct federal court order—and nothing happened. No intervention. No enforcement. No consequences.

A legal ruling was issued, and the White House simply ignored it.

The White House’s Decision: Power Over Law

Inside the White House, the decision was not about law—it was about power.

A federal judge ruled against the administration. The debate inside Trump’s team was not whether the ruling was legal, but whether they could get away with ignoring it. They decided they could. And they were right.

This was not a clash between equal branches of government. It was the moment the judiciary was exposed as powerless. The courts do not have an army. They rely on compliance.

But a court that cannot enforce its rulings is not a court—it is a suggestion box.

And a presidency that can ignore the courts without consequence is no longer constrained by law—it is an untouchable executive.

Trump did not declare the end of judicial authority in a speech.

He demonstrated it in practice.

This is how democratic systems collapse—not with a single act, but with the normalization of defiance, the expectation that a ruling can simply be brushed aside.
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[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

It’s important you understand this.

The people in this photo were residents of the USA that were denied due process. They were rounded up and shipped to a prison in El Salvador—without trial, without evidence—simply on suspicion of gang affiliation.

This was done in defiance of our American courts that deemed the action illegal.

They could be legal residents. They could be innocent bystanders. They could be asylum seekers. For all we know, they could be U.S. citizens.

Now, they’re trapped in one of the most violent prisons on Earth, enduring brutality beyond what most of us can imagine.

If you don’t find this morally repulsive, then you are morally repulsive.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

On Friday, the Trump administration tortured a man from New Hampshire.

Fabian Schmidt—a legal U.S. resident, an electrical engineer, a father—was detained at Logan Airport.

They stripped him naked. Denied him food, water, and medication. Threw him in a cold shower.

To this day, the DOJ has not filed charges against him.

Why? To coerce him into giving up his green card. A man with no ongoing legal issues. A legal resident of the United States just trying to go home.

This is third world behavior—it's cruelty for cruelty’s sake.

It’s a warning shot to every immigrant, every student, every doctor, and engineer who might want to come here: You are not safe.

This is not America.

[Craig Silverman @CraigSilverman]

BREAKING: The head of the $42 billion BEAD program to bring broadband internet to rural and unserved areas has left the Commerce Dept.

He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink:

[Duke Men’s Basketball @DukeMBB]

Selection show with the squad 🕺

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

If you read this as just bluster, you’re not paying attention.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

If the U.S. government can now jail people in foreign prisons without any due process whatsoever, how is any American safe?

There’s no public safety rationale for deporting criminals and gang members without a hearing to prove that they are who the government says they are.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Congrats to all the mainstream media folks who bought the Trump spin about not being associated with Project 2025.

https://t.co/20UUcW0EJi

[Duke Men’s Basketball @DukeMBB]

ACC title game top 5!

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

Yesterday, I took my 21 year old dog to the vet to put her down.

I sat in the car with her and cried. She sat on my lap and started licking my face.

We turned around and drove back home. It wasn’t time for her to go.

[Just saying @kangaroos991]

#VoteThemAllOut ⤵️

[The Brotherhood @BrotherhoodCBB]

Kon Knueppel put on a masterclass in Charlotte, leading Duke to an ACC Championship even without Cooper Flagg

63 points
17 rebounds
14 assists
5 steals
49% FG
22-24 FT
+18

The ACCT MVP

[Maia @maiamindel]

The New York Times estimate of how many people would die from USAID cuts *this year* is just staggering. Nearly two million from AIDS relief cuts, half a million from vaccine cuts and from food aid cuts each, 600,000 from of malaria and tuberculosis cuts. Genuinely monstrous

[darrin overholt @darrinoverholt]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 Invest in the support our teachers desperately need. Provide them with the monetary and support staff they need.