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Author/Founder of Power Plays, @PowerPlays_news , a no-BS newsletter about women's sports. she/her ✍️: lindsay @powerplays .news
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1. **Fires up PERSONAL NEWS twitter**
This week, I am launching Power Plays, a no-bullshit newsletter for fans who are sick of sexism, and ready to see equality for women in sports.
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Stop glamorizing “the grind” and start glamorizing getting 7+ hours of sleep at night, having healthy relationships, feeling safe at work, taking sick days, being paid a living wage, working hard when you’re at work, boundaries, and self-caring your way to success.
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Shakira is 43 and JLo is 50. You can’t tell me they’re not the most impressive athletes in that stadium tonight, my god.
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You can be sad John McCain died, respectful to his family, thankful for his service to the country, and also acknowledge some incredibly troubling parts of his legacy. These things are not all mutually exclusive.
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Dawn Staley says trans women should be allowed to play women’s sports. Says she knows she’s going to get heat now before the biggest game, and she’s okay with that.
(I believe it was Outkick that asked the question.)
What an incredible statement of inclusivity from Dawn. Wow.
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I feel for HVL. She speaks out against racism and sticks up for her teammates and then her coach puts her through that on national television while she’s sick.
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I have been very upfront about how I felt about Kobe and his legacy, but this is devastating news and I’m honestly just sitting here stunned. Give yourself and others room to feel complicated feelings of grief. Thinking of his wife and daughters, and also of survivors.
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Can Anderson Cooper follow me around to all of my meetings?
"Please let her talk, she didn't interrupt you."
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I’m sorry it’s not normal to be a literal supermodel and this good at basketball and seemingly a good person idk idk idk something is suspect
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To be clear, Caitlin should 100% have a shoe. It would be malpractice not to give her a shoe at this point.
But it further highlights that it’s *been* malpractice not to give A’ja a shoe long before this.
I’m not saying not to give Caitlin a shoe. I’m saying give A’ja lots.
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I love that Kristie got to avoid the depressed USWNT plane ride home and is just reveling in her WAG duties. She deserves to get to be there for this.
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wouldn't want to make too much money off of women's sports, gotta limit it.
Nike confirm they will sell England goalkeeper Mary Earps' replica shirt in limited quantities 👕
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One thing I’ve tried to stop doing both in my writing and on twitter and in private is praising people who say they work 24/7 and never sleep. It’s not a personality trait or a skill or proof of anything other than bad time management.
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Feels right for Jerry Jones to be upset on MLK weekend.
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Yes, Dawn Staley, famously a person with no concept of sports.
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Four years ago, Adam Rippon and MIrai Nagasu were eating in-n-out burger in California, crying and watching the Sochi Olympics from their couch. Look at them now.
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Like, we were set up for the PERFECT ENDING. UConn was going to win it or lose it, but it was in the players hands on the last possession. You can't call a foul there unless it's a Draymond Green chokehold. You just can't.
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This is truly life-changing information and I’m so mad I’m just finding it out!!!
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1. Don't you dare forget the role that the
@wnba
players had in launching this wave of activism last summer.
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Well I’m fucking terrified for Brittney Griner, holy shit.
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Seeing players like Marta and Christine Sinclair and teams like Brazil, Canada, Italy, etc. go out in the group stages really puts Team USA's celebration post-Portugal game in perspective: Advancing isn't a given for anyone; it is earned and it is an achievement.
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It’s not officially a panel until a man raises his hand and has “more of a comment than a question.”
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Also, while you’re here, the phrase “do what you love and you’ll never work another day in your life” is extreme bullshit!!!
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Here's the video and transcript:
"If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play."
"Now the barnstormer people are going to flood my timeline and be a distraction to me ... and I'm okay with that. I really am."
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This is 100% on Nike. Just such a preventable, inexcusable L.
Caitlin Clark is expected to receive a signature shoe from Nike, per
@ShamsCharania
Here would be the list of active WNBA players with a current signature shoe:
- Caitlin Clark
- Sabrina Ionescu
- Breanna Stewart
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Amazing how many men become experts on the economy and accounting the second WNBA salaries are mentioned.
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The reaction to the rumors/reports about Dwight Howard show you everything you need to know about why male pro athletes stay in the closet. So much homophobia and transphobia, it is absolutely sickening.
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right now i'm thinking about how these players have to rely on their federation to properly pay them for their world cup win, and how brave it is for them to boycott before getting would could be life-changing money. and how fucked up it is that FIFA didn't pay players directly.
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I woke up thinking about Infantino's insulting speech, an abusive coach taking a victory lap, and Spain's FA pres sexually assaulting Hermoso by kissing her on the lips. It was a PHENOMENAL World Cup for women's soccer. But powerful men were adamant to show how far we have to go.
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I sometimes worry about the diabolical amount of pressure being put on her shoulders, but things like this make me feel like she’s going to be just fine. Cool to see her personality shine.
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I agree, but it’s also super important to note that the women’s Final Four was a sellout from 1993-2008. The 1996 Final Four in Charlotte sold out in 11 days. In 2002, 26,619 people sold out the Alamodome in both the semis and final. The Final Four has always been well attended.
We’ve come a LONG way from the weight room photos of 2021.
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No matter what you think of Taurasi, she’s the WNBA’s all-time leading scorer and dismissing her trash talk —which is her love language!!— as that of a “disgruntled (implied: ungrateful) veteran” is really wild. Players are competitors, not fangirls, and that’s a great thing!
This is the first direct measurement of the Caitlin Clark Effect on the WNBA. If there are any disgruntled veteran players still out there, it’s probably time for them to come along for the ride.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it is OKAY to unapologetically celebrate this win. There are caveats. There is much more work to do. There are no guarantees. But this is a huge deal and it matters and will save lives and take a day or two to exhale and soak it in.
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I’ve never related to an Olympian as much as I do to Suni Lee, who announced she might stay away from social media until beam finals so she wouldn’t be distracted, and then very clearly went straight to twitter and Instagram.
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THIS IS LITERALLY THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER READ AND WILL EVER READ
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The Team USA women trained for most of their national team careers only making $6,000 every 4 years. Last year, they risked it all to boycott the world championships and fight for a better present and brighter future for the sport. Now, they're Olympic champions.
#BeBoldForChange
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I just feel like we’re one game away from Carli saying what she wants to say, which is something like, “this team chose wokeness over winning,” and securing her lucrative future on the right-wing speaker circuit.
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Carli Lloyd is so mad she’s going to do windsprints on the field after the game.
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A terrifying amount of Americans are racist and sexist and xenophobic. That's how he's winning. It's depressing, but it's not complicated.
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So, this is the very first Carolina Panthers team photo, back in 1995, their inaugural season. Look who is right behind Jerry Richardson, front and center.
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Two things can be true:
1. Serena did not lose because of Carlos. She lost because Osaka played lights out better than she did. And stayed composed.
2. The game penalty was absurd, and this is a devastating end to the tournament.
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It’s HARD, though. For me, too! I’m trying to count successful days as days when I achieve a balance, not days where I write for 15 hours straight.
Of course there will always be times (in sports media, this is often playoffs) when hours extend. But it shouldn’t be the norm.
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The Seattle Storm are the only all-female ownership group in the WNBA composed of women with names worth saying.
#westan
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Let's never, ever forget: Venus is the reason for equal prize money at
@Wimbledon
. Perhaps her most significant victory.
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there can only be one great woman at a time, it's impossible for a man to respect two women, everyone knows this
Great to see Paige Bueckers shining on the big stage. She was going to be Caitlin Clark before Caitlin Clark, but got derailed by injuries.
32 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists vs. Cuse to move to Sweet 16.
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PSA: basketball is not over until the fall, the wnba exists!
it's fine if your sad that the nba is over until the fall, but just don't accidentally do a sexism while you're lamenting it.
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The last five Olympic all-around champions have all been from the USA -- Carly Patterson, Nasta Liukin, Gabby Douglas, Simone Biles, and now, Sunisa Lee.
The last 3 are all WOC, w/ Lee being the first Hmong-American ever in the Olympics.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
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Can we, as a national media, stop interviewing Carli Lloyd?????? She says the exact same thing in every interview and has for the last 5 years. For someone who claims she doesn’t need to be liked she certainly is searching far and wide for validation.
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Everyone say it with me: *MEN’S
Texas Tech will be first Under Armour team to play for the college basketball title.
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can we get a 30-for-30 just on alyssa naehr taking that penalty kick, i keep thinking about it, i don't want to talk about what happened before or afterwards just everything about that decision and that execution
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When WNBA players endorsed
@ReverendWarnock
on August 4, 2020, he was polling at just 9%, behind D. Matt Lieberman (14%), R. Doug Collins (20%), and Loeffler (26%).
I've seen enough. Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) in GA's special Senate runoff.
#GASEN
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Here’s
@kalanibrown21
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“Okay, Donnie. Coooool.”
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so many people are tweeting out a photo of the Storm in "Vote Warnock" t-shirts and captioning it, "thank the Atlanta Dream," and CONSIDER THIS ME YELLING AT THEM TO FUCKING PAY ATTENTION TO THE WNBA AND NOT JUST TWEET ABOUT THEM FOR CLOUT
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If Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn, and Sam Mewis all called me out publicly in the same day I would cease to exist forever.
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This game alone should be the end of amateurism. So many — Duke, ticket scammers, sponsors, and businesses all throughout Durham — are making so much more money than usual b/c of Zion. He makes nothing, and gets hurt in the game, months before he can cash in. It’s disgraceful.
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I agree with this sentiment 100%. And the spotlight on the Spanish team from winning has helped. But I fear they weren’t heard because they won; they were heard because it was done on live TV, and because of Rubiales’s speech. Even successful women need hard proof to be believed.
Women should not have to win to have our voices heard.
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Remember, the USWNT gets more money if the USMNT does well at the World Cup, so patriotism away, fellow USAins.
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I’m not saying to ignore the tough parts of Bryant’s legacy. But be careful not to “well, actually” someone’s grief. This is a tragedy.
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A Katie Ledecky tribute.
i know i’m not a soccer expert but what’s going on
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the fact that men first swam the 1500m free in the olympics in 1904, and yet women were just permitted to swim the event in the olympics *today* is just another example of the absurd barriers mediocre men have historically placed on women to artificially enforce their superiority
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As we sit here at 10pm on a Saturday to watch what was meant to be the USWNT R16 game, I take solace in the fact that as much as we all hate Vlatko right now, nobody hates him more than Fox Sports executives.
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Area Man Discovers Outfit Changes
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Brittney Griner on what today meant, seeing her jersey lifted into the rafters at Baylor: "I feel seen."
WHEW.
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92,003!!!!!!!!!! THEY DID IT!!!! NEBRASKA VOLLEYBALL SET THE WORLD RECORD FOR ATTENDANCE AT A WOMEN'S SPORTING EVENT.
THE WORLD RECORD.
92,003!!!!!!!!!!!
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“I’m going to do whatever it takes” says man unwilling to do the one thing it takes.
Kirk Cousins, who refuses to get vaccinated, says he’s willing to sit inside a plexiglass structure at work to avoid getting infected with Covid
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Dwyane Wade on ABC said he's already gotten calls from other NBA alums asking about getting involved in WNBA ownership. We love to hear it.
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Love this:
@De11eDonne
’s friend made her a makeshift orange carpet since she missed All-Star, and also gave her a trophy for being picked last in the draft 😂 Great impressions of Cathy and Holly, too.
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Just thinking about how their socks must feel makes me want to die.
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Kelsey Plum will earn ~ $50k her rookie year in WNBA.
Markelle Fultz will earn ~ $6mil his rookie year in NBA.
History made.
For the first time, the No. 1 selections in the NBA and WNBA draft have come from the same school and conference.
#ProDawgs
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I kept it together until she said “I wouldn’t be Serena if there wasn’t Venus.” Now I’m loudly sobbing.
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This is going to piss off both wnba haters and wnba twitter and I would just like to remind everyone that fiancés are allowed to be biased it’s okay!!!!!!!
"Congratulations on like, arguably the best career that anyone has ever had in the history of any sport ever."
-Megan Rapinoe to Sue Bird 🗣️
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I don't see how Jill Ellis can remain involved with the league or women's soccer in general in any way, shape, or form after this. San Diego needs to act.
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Reporters teasing potentially serious allegations that have real victims and basically telling everyone to get their popcorn ready is super gross
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why am I up after midnight watching the Uswnt lose have I learned nothing from the World Cup
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I repeat: YOU CANNOT “SETTLE” FOR AN OLYMPIC MEDAL THAT IS NOT HOW THIS WORKS
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Their soccer team is essentially a USWNT farm team. Stanford athletics are so important to women's sports and the fact that they're such an afterthought is so fucking infuriating.
Stanford has been in the top 10 in the last year in women’s basketball, volleyball, beach volleyball, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming, cross country, and water polo, and men’s soccer, baseball, gymnastics, volleyball, rowing, water polo and I’m sure I’m missing some
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What an incredible moment to have the top coach of the top team on the biggest stage face the question head on and stand up for trans women. Dawn Staley is remarkable.
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Me: I’m a sports reporter
Guy I’m talking to: Oh, do you like sports?
This is the
#1
response I get from men I’ve just met when I tell them what I do. It happens All. The. Time. I’m assuming male sports reporters don’t get asked this question?
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“Not marketable”
If you can’t market A’ja Wilson that’s a *you* problem.
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Giannis is on IG Live being driven to get 50 chicken nuggets by his very pregnant GF, with one trophy on his lap and the other on the floor between his legs, singing “I woke up like this, I woke up like this” and talking about how he stole the championship trophy from the team 😂
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SportsCenter breaking down a Duke men’s game route immediately after that Stanford/Iowa State classic is just the epitome of a mood killer.
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Remember: Lindsay Whalen was one of the first white athletes to get involved in the BLM movement. In 2016 she joined the 3 other Lynx captains -- Moore, Augustus, and Brunson -- to hold a pre-game press conference about police brutality. This was months before anyone took a knee.
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I actually hate this. You knew there’d be unprecedented demand. Stock up. And also, get other jerseys for sale, too.
Fanatics sold out of Caitlin Clark's Indiana jersey in sizes XS, M, L, XL and XXL within an hour 🤯
(via
@darrenrovell
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“Our lawsuit is in the fucking trees. Pay us, bitch.”
My god this is legendary.
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I agree with Carli Lloyd and I miss Jill Ellis. I will never forgive Vlatko for this.
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Check on your strong friends, check on your friends who are falling apart, check on your silent friends, check on your loud friends, check on your successful friends, check on your struggling friends, just check on everyone because you never know.
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Could we maybe not be promoting relationship advice from Kobe Bryant?
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WOW, Delle Donne’s opt-out request was denied. She has to either play this summer, or sit out and forego her salary.
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I honestly cannot get over this story. She was sent a $857 check from USA Bball after she led them to a gold medal. She cashed it. They told her it was a mistake. SHE RETURNED THE $857. And yet, Alabama HS Sports Assoc is acting like they're doing the NOBLE THING banning her.
In my latest story, Alabama is doing the impossible, and making the NCAA seem *reasonable* when it comes to amateurism:
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i'm sorry i know with everything going on in the world i shouldn't be caring about nick cannon's procreation schedule, but 3 babies in 3 months with 3 different women -- two born just two weeks apart -- is truly just BANANAS.
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Oh *NOW* you think we should listen to the voices of players?!?!?!?!?!?!
College universities and athletic conferences need to put politics aside and come together to find a way to safely play college football this season.
The players want to play. Shouldn’t their voices be heard too?
#WeWantToPlay
#GoDawgs
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My latest, on Wisconsin’s Marsha Howard, who is still protesting racism during the national anthem and has no plans to stop. We spoke about Grassley’s attack, the support of her team, and the responsibility she feels to black students at UW, just 2% of pop
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I wish this was happening during a Medvedev match. We need his commentary. He’d be up in the rafters doing the negotiating himself.
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i'm sorry people are now calling kim mulkey a "woke white liberal" LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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