Matt Hodler
@mhodler.bsky.social
assoc professor uri 🌊 | ex-swimmer | former bartender & bus-washer | miamioh uncg uiowa | race, gender, class, nation, & sport | views & typos = mine | he/him | cis
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every single person writing credulously about "elon will put people on the moon" should have to pin this post to their monitor
February 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
every single person writing credulously about "elon will put people on the moon" should have to pin this post to their monitor
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I thought about why I’ve been pushing back on stolen midterm fears. What’s the harm of worry, even if it doesn’t materialize?
It’s this. The regime has less capacity than it’d like, and tries to make up the difference with bluster. If people act as if it’s true, that grants the regime more power.
It’s this. The regime has less capacity than it’d like, and tries to make up the difference with bluster. If people act as if it’s true, that grants the regime more power.
don't carry maga's water for them. don't try to work out how there's some secret loophole in the constitution that magically ends democracy. there isn't. that's the whole fucking point you fucking dopes
February 10, 2026 at 12:57 AM
I thought about why I’ve been pushing back on stolen midterm fears. What’s the harm of worry, even if it doesn’t materialize?
It’s this. The regime has less capacity than it’d like, and tries to make up the difference with bluster. If people act as if it’s true, that grants the regime more power.
It’s this. The regime has less capacity than it’d like, and tries to make up the difference with bluster. If people act as if it’s true, that grants the regime more power.
Did Anthony Joshua give JP a visit to sort him out or something?
February 10, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Did Anthony Joshua give JP a visit to sort him out or something?
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When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts
February 9, 2026 at 11:05 PM
When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts
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Megyn Kelly just shouting “FOOTBALL IS OURS” at Piers Morgan about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show is the perfect example of this moment in time. Put it in a time capsule and send it out into space.
February 9, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Megyn Kelly just shouting “FOOTBALL IS OURS” at Piers Morgan about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show is the perfect example of this moment in time. Put it in a time capsule and send it out into space.
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Stories like this are why we can’t let clubs capitulate on Pride nights because bigots might be angry in their mentions.
There has to be a better world than this…
There has to be a better world than this…
Everyone celebrating or encouraging athletes in men’s sports for coming out post-Heated Rivalry need to understand the context the show exists in. This soccer ref went viral for proposing to his fiancé on the pitch & then they were assaulted in their home after receiving threats.
Bi Soccer Referee Pascal Kaiser Attacked Following Viral Public Proposal
Kaiser said that he had received threats containing his address.
www.them.us
February 9, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Stories like this are why we can’t let clubs capitulate on Pride nights because bigots might be angry in their mentions.
There has to be a better world than this…
There has to be a better world than this…
We just had a class discussion where a student confidently stated that things had gotten better for gay men in sports because of Caleb Williams’s fingernails.
But when I asked him why more men hadn’t come out as gay or bi, he had no answer. Sadly, this attack & the threats may be an answer
But when I asked him why more men hadn’t come out as gay or bi, he had no answer. Sadly, this attack & the threats may be an answer
Everyone celebrating or encouraging athletes in men’s sports for coming out post-Heated Rivalry need to understand the context the show exists in. This soccer ref went viral for proposing to his fiancé on the pitch & then they were assaulted in their home after receiving threats.
Bi Soccer Referee Pascal Kaiser Attacked Following Viral Public Proposal
Kaiser said that he had received threats containing his address.
www.them.us
February 9, 2026 at 11:55 PM
We just had a class discussion where a student confidently stated that things had gotten better for gay men in sports because of Caleb Williams’s fingernails.
But when I asked him why more men hadn’t come out as gay or bi, he had no answer. Sadly, this attack & the threats may be an answer
But when I asked him why more men hadn’t come out as gay or bi, he had no answer. Sadly, this attack & the threats may be an answer
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@delauro.house.gov is my Representative in Congress. I like and support her. But this is a serious mistake. She is caught a trap in which leadership always sinks into legislative compromise. It’s the myopic electoralism @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social have warned about. 1/
“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said.
“Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back.
“Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”
“Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back.
“Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”
DeLauro to pressing clergy: 'I will not vote to abolish ICE'
The Connecticut U.S. representative found herself at odds with faith leaders.
www.ctpublic.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:33 PM
@delauro.house.gov is my Representative in Congress. I like and support her. But this is a serious mistake. She is caught a trap in which leadership always sinks into legislative compromise. It’s the myopic electoralism @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social have warned about. 1/
Irish immigrant, married to a US citizen with a green card, MA driver’s license, & work permit was detained by ICE in September. He refused to self-deport and had been languishing in Texas camp since - 1 of 1000s
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Irish immigrant, married to a US citizen with a green card, MA driver’s license, & work permit was detained by ICE in September. He refused to self-deport and had been languishing in Texas camp since - 1 of 1000s
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
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To be unapologetically joyful, to take up space, and to not water down or translate your identity, but celebrate it as it is, is the most defiant and powerful thing you can do.
I think this is right. I also think... how do I phrase this...
I think the focus in the English language on how joyous and unifying the show was is a little odd. Maybe I'm just old enough and white enough to have been able to watch the show with doubled vision... But I felt defiance, power and 1/3
I think the focus in the English language on how joyous and unifying the show was is a little odd. Maybe I'm just old enough and white enough to have been able to watch the show with doubled vision... But I felt defiance, power and 1/3
The people who thought Bad Bunny was divisive are, if anything, more incensed by “we are america,” in their terms it’s the most offensive and outrageous thing he could have said
February 9, 2026 at 12:37 PM
To be unapologetically joyful, to take up space, and to not water down or translate your identity, but celebrate it as it is, is the most defiant and powerful thing you can do.
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Back to back brutal Super Bowls for guys named Drake
February 9, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Back to back brutal Super Bowls for guys named Drake
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Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
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Seeing fieldworkers produce their own histories, knowledge, narratives, and generally assert their power and voice over the world has been sugarcane plantation owners' greatest fear.
February 9, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Seeing fieldworkers produce their own histories, knowledge, narratives, and generally assert their power and voice over the world has been sugarcane plantation owners' greatest fear.
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In case you missed the moment.
Art is powerful
Art is powerful
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
In case you missed the moment.
Art is powerful
Art is powerful
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This was a little over a year ago
February 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM
This was a little over a year ago
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One of the last competent American elites. It also helped that every single person complaining about it was supposed to be nearing the tenth year of their Colin Kaepernick boycott.
every corporation in america going "FINALLY, we can say slurs again and not pretend to love gay people" while Rog and his army of rockefeller republican q-zip guys ruthlessly churning the numbers to find out lots of people sure do love this bad bunny fella
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
One of the last competent American elites. It also helped that every single person complaining about it was supposed to be nearing the tenth year of their Colin Kaepernick boycott.
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It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 AM
It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
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What can you do with a history degree?
February 9, 2026 at 1:52 AM
What can you do with a history degree?
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"The task of the artist is determined always by the status and process and agenda of the community that it already serves... As a cultural worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible." Toni Cade Bambara
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:46 AM
"The task of the artist is determined always by the status and process and agenda of the community that it already serves... As a cultural worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible." Toni Cade Bambara
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OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
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We are all Americans! We forget our shared, linked history.
And went all the way north to include the US and Canada! All of the Americas, South, Central, and North!
February 9, 2026 at 1:39 AM
We are all Americans! We forget our shared, linked history.
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And went all the way north to include the US and Canada! All of the Americas, South, Central, and North!
February 9, 2026 at 1:37 AM
And went all the way north to include the US and Canada! All of the Americas, South, Central, and North!
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Like, I think my ancestors were whispering in my ear when we saw the sugar cane that the spent their lives being forced to cultivate for no pay, with no freedom
If you were hoping for some sort of overt political statement: see the literal plantation Benito created to perform in.
February 9, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Like, I think my ancestors were whispering in my ear when we saw the sugar cane that the spent their lives being forced to cultivate for no pay, with no freedom
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous