Tom Orsborn
@tom_orsborn
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Sportswriter for 40 years at San Antonio Express-News, covering everything from preps to the Cowboys to the Spurs. Proud San Antonio College alum. 🌈 ally.
San Antonio, Texas
Joined November 2009
One week later, it all still seems so surreal. From inside the drawing room: A look back on a spring night in Chicago that changes everything. #Spurs
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GM Brian Wright's understated, classy reaction stands out among drawing room memories.
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An MRI in Los Angeles this morning revealed Dylan Harper has a left calf strain but no ligament damage, a Spurs spokesman said. He is day to day but will be out through at least this weekend.
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Love Toronto and Canada. Same for Los Angeles, and happy for that city after all it’s been through this year.
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San Antonio prep football legend Warren McVea, who led Brackenridge to the 1962 state title before starring at the University of Houston and helping Kansas City win a Super Bowl, died Saturday at age 79, his daughter said. https://t.co/c5ltegaVuO
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The speedy running back led Brackenridge to a state title in 1962 before starring at the University of Houston and helping the Kansas City Chiefs win a Super Bowl.
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Over 170 American citizens were dragged off and held by U.S. Immigration Agents Against Their Will, ProPublica Finds — ProPublica
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The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And...
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keep in mind a trans person did not even kill charlie kirk
🚨 The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: https://t.co/r7kCinlv0J
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I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. I also obtained an internal Trump administration memo stating
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In desperate villages in southwestern Uganda, not only are aid cuts killing children every day, but the death toll is accelerating.
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The summer season put serious heat on our blood supply. Donations have dipped to such critically low levels posing a risk to patients in our community. We are asking every eligible donor to please give blood as soon as possible to stop the shortage.👉 https://t.co/rXeeuu4Ku2
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For 15-18 years they were willing to DIE for this country and this is how Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth treat them. Disgusting.
The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement benefits.
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We recently donated vital equipment to a blood bank in Monterrey, Mexico, which included gently used blood pressure cuffs and vein finders that will help screen donors to support safe blood collection.🌎🩸 Espero que disfruten! 🙌 #GlobalImpact #BloodDonation #DarVida #PorVida
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Austin NFL icon 'Night Train' Lane rides again in documentary | Golden https://t.co/V1sGBvXpiM via @statesman
statesman.com
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"To meet his mass deportation goals, Trump is stripping legal status from thousands of immigrants who followed the rules." Another act of profound cruelty from Trump, Stephen Miller, and the crew. Read Isabela Dias' new article on this travesty. https://t.co/NEAkLQTsRH
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Inside the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.
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🖤💚 Help Texas Heal 💚🖤 The @spurs have joined 31 teams across the state to launch the Texas Sport for Healing Fund in response to the flooding in Central Texas. 🗓 Auction runs July 25 through August 7 📍 https://t.co/9Bd2ylfAOL
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Spurs join 40 pro sports teams to launch “Texas Sport for Healing Fund” in response to Central Texas flooding. Fans can support through a national online auction. “Now, more than ever, it’s essential to lean on one another to help our community heal," said RC Buford, SS&E CEO.
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Growing up after WWII, I always hoped concentration camps were history, not current events But here we are: migrants in squalid conditions, no due process, and $45B in new camps to come Coming to terms with an American nightmare. My new column
inquirer.com
Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.
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A blunt warning in 1975 from a prominent staffer at a Chicago newspaper didn’t stop 20-year-old journalism major Elaine Noll from pursuing her dream of becoming a sportswriter. On the pioneeeing career of a brave, persistent San Antonio journalist: https://t.co/mIUlt0pmLj
expressnews.com
Working at the San Antonio News and the San Antonio Express-News from 1976 until her death in 1985, Noll broke barriers as one of Texas' first female sportswriters.
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The San Antonio and San Angelo Food Banks are hosting emergency flood relief food and resource distributions at select locations, and we need your help! Register to donate your time at an upcoming emergency distribution at https://t.co/hfcQ6ttRmH.
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Emergency Response Update: Upcoming flood relief distributions below. Registering in advance is required. Kerr County - Fri, July 11 https://t.co/J531SeT22e Kerr County - Sat, July 12 https://t.co/WfZDfxZEQx Tom Green County - Sat, July 12 https://t.co/QQbgyrV9Vp
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'In an interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior official, said the county did not have a warning system bc such systems are expensive, and local residents are resistant to new spending. “Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” Kelly said.' https://t.co/YptvNbRto4
nytimes.com
Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
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