Miguel Garcia ☭

SoCal native. Xicano 🇲🇽 Applied Cultural Anthropologist (M.A.), Politics & sports. Tweets are my own & not representative of my employer @sportsasaweapon

[Miguel Garcia ☭ @Miggsolution]

Raaaaiiideerrrsss!!!!!

#RaiderNation

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

After undergoing a meniscus trim Tuesday, the Raiders believe there’s a realistic chance Brock Bowers will miss only one game and return for Week 2 at the Los Angeles Chargers, per sources. Team will see how he’s feeling this week, but a potential return next week is within the realm of possibility.

[Luther Luke Campbell @unclelukereal1]

I do not support the Protect College Sports Act. College athletes have no real representation at the table—no union and no collective bargaining—while the NCAA, conferences, schools and their lobbyists help write the rules. You cannot call it “protection” when the players have no voice.

[ProFootballTalk @ProFootballTalk]

By giving extended airtime to Ted Cruz on @CollegeGameDay, ESPN continues its not-so-subtle advocacy for the Protect College Sports Act, which is aimed at limiting player pay and restricting player freedoms. https://t.co/cNLhvyzXAz

[lindsey ok @lindseyyok]

Seriously why do they all look like this

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Ted Cruz interrupted during ESPN appearance by fired-up crowd chanting, "TED, YOU SUCK!"

[Kalshi Hoops @KalshiHoops]

Kevin O'Connor on the Lakers adding Walker Kessler:

"There's a reason why [Kessler] costed that much. He's an elite interior defender, elite lob guy, elite interior finisher, elite screener and he started hitting spot up threes last year. There's a chance we look back at this deal as... an underpay depending on how he performs and how he stays healthy."

(Via @KevinOConnor)

[Honestly Jake @Honestly_Jake]

Average bat speed of 78.4 MPH wtf...

If he kept that up over a whole season that would rank him 3rd in all of baseball, behind only Jordan Walker and Junior Caminero... holy fuck

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Huey P. Newton said, “I do not expect the white media to create positive Black male images.” A white woman strangled her three children to death, and yet the lone Black male juror who refused to acquit her is now being cast as the problem. She is given context, sympathy, illness, and complexity. He is given suspicion.

She committed the violence, but he becomes the villain for refusing to excuse it.

Here’s something Black folks have long understood, in the United States a Black man does not need to commit violence to be treated violently.

[حيدر | Haydar @chronicalihere]

After the US singled out Osama Bin Laden as the culprit behind 9/11 and began conducting airstrikes on Afghanistan, the Taliban offered to turn him over if the US presented evidence and stopped it's attacks. The US rejected their offers bc they "didn't negotiate with terrorists".

[ANTICONQUISTA @ANTICONQUISTA]

🟥 This is the last speech of Chilean Socialist President Salvador Allende. Allende spoke to the people through Radio Magallanes as the CIA-backed coup was underway. He pledged that he would not resign and would give his life to repay the support of the working class. He paid for his loyalty to the people with his life.

The dictatorship arrested and tortured the journalists of Radio Magallanes for having transmitted the president's last message. This was also the last broadcast of Radio Magallanes, its building was also bombed.

video via @peoplesdispatch

🟥 THIS IS WHY THE UNITED STATES IS THE MOST H@TED COUNTRY IN ALL OF THE WORLD!!!

#Chile #unitedstatesofamerica #allende #salvadorallende #history #imperialism #todayinhistory

[Nazia Kazi @NaziaKaziTweets]

Never forget that, after 9/11, the US proclaimed it would use the opportunity to take out the governments of 7 sovereign countries: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, and Iran. Never forget, 39 million people became refugees because of this plan.

[Chad Moriyama @ChadMoriyama]

Kyle Tucker ... absolute cinema. What an edit, lmfao. https://t.co/1M59KMGqMb @DodgerHogs

[ابراهيم ناجي Ibrahim Naji @Ibrahym22Nagi]

Calling us Houthis is like calling the Iranian people Khomeinis. Wouldn't it be better to call us Yemenis instead of Houthis?

I wish that were the case, because "Houthi" is the title of the leader of the Yemeni revolution, Sayyid Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, while the entire population participated in the September 21, 2014 revolution. Therefore, you should call us by our true name: Yemenis or Ansar Allah (Supporters of God).

The name "Houthis" is used by our enemies to belittle us and deny our existence as a state, government, people, and army. Therefore, I hope you will not call us by the name our enemies use for us.

[APHoops @APH00PS]

Derrick Jones Jr. previously expressed interest in staying in LA on a similar-value deal—estimated at $10–13M annually—but if he now prefers a trade, the Clippers would likely honor his request and work to get him to his preferred destination, per @TomerAzarly on @ThirdApron Podcast.

“I think sometimes agents see different opportunities around the league to play more, make more money, contend for a championship potentially so that could also weigh into it. If they see a better opportunity elsewhere, they’ll approach the Clippers and the Clippers, in good faith, will try to get them where they want to go.”

(via https://t.co/ohqaHsZcNZ)

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

Don’t expect any of today’s coverage of 9/11 to mention the active-duty US Army Special Forces soldier who, while on the CIA’s payroll, trained Al-Qaeda and taught them how to hijack airplanes before being disappeared into US government custody, where he remains to this day.

[Jim Garrison Keillor @books_rum]

Everyone fucking knew 9/11 was going to happen! Literally everyone!

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

Keep in mind, Yemen is the poorest country in the world, dead last on the list of per capita GDP. People in Haiti are TEN TIMES richer, on average, than Yemenis. Yet in direct military confrontations, the Houthis have been defying the USA, Saudi Arabia, and Israel for 20+ years.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Saudi Arabia has now confirmed it shut down its East-West oil pipeline following “multiple attacks," per Bloomberg.

[dart @poordart]

For those who dont speak Arabic, he says:

"This - this right here is why Americans dont have healthcare"