Neil W. Blackmon
@nwblackmon.bsky.social
Dad. Husband. Attorney. Journalist. Citizen.
I love bookstores, sports (especially basketball), great music and empathetic, kind people.
I love bookstores, sports (especially basketball), great music and empathetic, kind people.
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Neil W. Blackmon
@nwblackmon.bsky.social
· Nov 14
A couple thoughts on Matt Gaetz, who I’ve known since high school and college debate.
1. He was a poor debater. (I was an All-American, making name at least a fair critic). He was nowhere near nationally competitive in an activity filled with America’s best, brightest young minds.
1. He was a poor debater. (I was an All-American, making name at least a fair critic). He was nowhere near nationally competitive in an activity filled with America’s best, brightest young minds.
I wrote about how there is plenty of blame to go around in the Charles Bediako litigation.
The thing that’s missing is leadership— and it is what college basketball desperately needs.
www.saturdaydownsouth.com/news/college...
The thing that’s missing is leadership— and it is what college basketball desperately needs.
www.saturdaydownsouth.com/news/college...
More than anything else, the Charles Bediako case demonstrates college basketball's leadership vacuum
Charles Bediako, James Nnaji and many European players who have flooded into the NCAA ranks threaten the sport as we know it.
www.saturdaydownsouth.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 PM
I wrote about how there is plenty of blame to go around in the Charles Bediako litigation.
The thing that’s missing is leadership— and it is what college basketball desperately needs.
www.saturdaydownsouth.com/news/college...
The thing that’s missing is leadership— and it is what college basketball desperately needs.
www.saturdaydownsouth.com/news/college...
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Interesting. Do you guys think I should become a soccer fan
Dude, just become a soccer fan and your problem is solved
MY TAKE: There's nothing better than live sports on TV when you wake up. The toxic American mania for starting games at 9pm must be vanquished. NFL games should kick off at 6 in the morning. NBA games can start at 7:30 because you actually have to pay attention
January 30, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Interesting. Do you guys think I should become a soccer fan
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‘In a very real sense, Trinity Rodman is Greenland’ is a level of getting lost in the sauce I’m not sure we’ve ever seen.
January 30, 2026 at 12:23 AM
‘In a very real sense, Trinity Rodman is Greenland’ is a level of getting lost in the sauce I’m not sure we’ve ever seen.
Truly remarkable.
Fox News is incredible. You have all these New York City elites and frat boys who grew up on Long Island pretending to be middle Americans and the con has worked so well for all these years.
The people on that channel have nothing in common with the actual Trump voter. FULL STOP.
The people on that channel have nothing in common with the actual Trump voter. FULL STOP.
January 27, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Truly remarkable.
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Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
The Atlantic has met the moment.
Can’t say that about enough big media outlets
Can’t say that about enough big media outlets
January 26, 2026 at 12:58 PM
The Atlantic has met the moment.
Can’t say that about enough big media outlets
Can’t say that about enough big media outlets
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Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Top 5 player at Florida ever
Haugh is going to go down as one of the best players in Florida history. I’ve been watching the program since the late 1980s and I would put him in the same category as the Vernon Maxwell’s, Mike Miller’s, Chandler Parsons’, Stacey Poole’s etc.
January 14, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Top 5 player at Florida ever
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No, autistics do not “lack empathy”: “Where researchers had assumed impairment, they found autistic people applying moral principles more consistently—even to strangers, even when costly.” By Ludmila Pradlova.
**This includes non-speakers &/or peeps w/ID**
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/posi...
**This includes non-speakers &/or peeps w/ID**
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/posi...
What the World Got Wrong About Autistic People
For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits made them miserable. All wrong.
www.psychologytoday.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:45 PM
No, autistics do not “lack empathy”: “Where researchers had assumed impairment, they found autistic people applying moral principles more consistently—even to strangers, even when costly.” By Ludmila Pradlova.
**This includes non-speakers &/or peeps w/ID**
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/posi...
**This includes non-speakers &/or peeps w/ID**
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/posi...
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CONGRATULATIONS to the newly elected NASR Executive Board for 2026-27! 🎉
President: @laurelpfahler.bsky.social
Vice President: @nwblackmon.bsky.social
Secretary: @amcalabrese.bsky.social
Comms. Director: @cjcoreschi.bsky.social
Spanish Lang. Media Liaison: Andoni Biurrarena
President: @laurelpfahler.bsky.social
Vice President: @nwblackmon.bsky.social
Secretary: @amcalabrese.bsky.social
Comms. Director: @cjcoreschi.bsky.social
Spanish Lang. Media Liaison: Andoni Biurrarena
January 2, 2026 at 10:04 PM
CONGRATULATIONS to the newly elected NASR Executive Board for 2026-27! 🎉
President: @laurelpfahler.bsky.social
Vice President: @nwblackmon.bsky.social
Secretary: @amcalabrese.bsky.social
Comms. Director: @cjcoreschi.bsky.social
Spanish Lang. Media Liaison: Andoni Biurrarena
President: @laurelpfahler.bsky.social
Vice President: @nwblackmon.bsky.social
Secretary: @amcalabrese.bsky.social
Comms. Director: @cjcoreschi.bsky.social
Spanish Lang. Media Liaison: Andoni Biurrarena
The miracle of Christmas isn’t that everything worked out perfectly.
On the contrary, it is that despite intense strain on Mary and Joseph’s relationship, a long and arduous journey to Bethlehem…
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On the contrary, it is that despite intense strain on Mary and Joseph’s relationship, a long and arduous journey to Bethlehem…
🧵
December 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The miracle of Christmas isn’t that everything worked out perfectly.
On the contrary, it is that despite intense strain on Mary and Joseph’s relationship, a long and arduous journey to Bethlehem…
🧵
On the contrary, it is that despite intense strain on Mary and Joseph’s relationship, a long and arduous journey to Bethlehem…
🧵
The GOP blocking health care funding for poor, sick folks and children while loudly celebrating a poor child born in a stable who grew up to speak truth to power and heal and minister to the sick is a little too on the nose.
December 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The GOP blocking health care funding for poor, sick folks and children while loudly celebrating a poor child born in a stable who grew up to speak truth to power and heal and minister to the sick is a little too on the nose.
The health of a relationship is directly proportional to how much instagram content you send each other and how quickly it’s viewed.
This isn’t an opinion. It is science.
13 out of 10 therapists agree.
This isn’t an opinion. It is science.
13 out of 10 therapists agree.
December 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The health of a relationship is directly proportional to how much instagram content you send each other and how quickly it’s viewed.
This isn’t an opinion. It is science.
13 out of 10 therapists agree.
This isn’t an opinion. It is science.
13 out of 10 therapists agree.
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David Moyes 4.0 - what is going on?
December 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
David Moyes 4.0 - what is going on?
Global organization that hosted a World Cup in Qatar, a slave state built on the back of migrant human rights abuses, awarding a “peace” prize to Donald Trump, is a little too on the nose.
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Global organization that hosted a World Cup in Qatar, a slave state built on the back of migrant human rights abuses, awarding a “peace” prize to Donald Trump, is a little too on the nose.
Missing my friend Grant Wahl today.
He would have hated the draw ceremony but been so fired up to host the World Cup.
He would have hated the draw ceremony but been so fired up to host the World Cup.
December 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Missing my friend Grant Wahl today.
He would have hated the draw ceremony but been so fired up to host the World Cup.
He would have hated the draw ceremony but been so fired up to host the World Cup.
I write about college basketball. But:
My favorite 🏀 team - the one that makes me ache and cry -is the Hornets.
It’s not generational trauma so much as ineffable sadness.
I think this @christhompson.bsky.social is the best explainer of the team I’ve read.
defector.com/can-anything...
My favorite 🏀 team - the one that makes me ache and cry -is the Hornets.
It’s not generational trauma so much as ineffable sadness.
I think this @christhompson.bsky.social is the best explainer of the team I’ve read.
defector.com/can-anything...
Can Anything Make The Hornets Make Sense? | Defector
The Charlotte Hornets are once again miserable crud. At 4–13, they are down there sloshing in the fermented trash juice of the Eastern Conference. The Hornets are perhaps a somewhat more buoyant grade...
defector.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I write about college basketball. But:
My favorite 🏀 team - the one that makes me ache and cry -is the Hornets.
It’s not generational trauma so much as ineffable sadness.
I think this @christhompson.bsky.social is the best explainer of the team I’ve read.
defector.com/can-anything...
My favorite 🏀 team - the one that makes me ache and cry -is the Hornets.
It’s not generational trauma so much as ineffable sadness.
I think this @christhompson.bsky.social is the best explainer of the team I’ve read.
defector.com/can-anything...
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This week’s Florida History Podcast is on the Miami v Florida rivalry in football w/ @nwblackmon.bsky.social
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Episode 327: Florida v Miami
Podcast Episode · The Florida History Podcast · 11/25/2025 · 21m
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November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This week’s Florida History Podcast is on the Miami v Florida rivalry in football w/ @nwblackmon.bsky.social
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Forgot to post my Feast Week preview here— plenty of Great SEC basketball on tap— shout out to my guy @bracketdobber.net for the assist with the elite MTE map
www.saturdaydownsouth.com/news/college...
www.saturdaydownsouth.com/news/college...
Previewing Feast Week for SEC basketball
Feast Week might not be what it once was, but there's still plenty of great college basketball action for SEC fans to watch.
www.saturdaydownsouth.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Forgot to post my Feast Week preview here— plenty of Great SEC basketball on tap— shout out to my guy @bracketdobber.net for the assist with the elite MTE map
www.saturdaydownsouth.com/news/college...
www.saturdaydownsouth.com/news/college...
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
Imagine being the worst person the worst person on the planet knows.
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Imagine being the worst person the worst person on the planet knows.
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The Capital Area Food Bank in Washington D.C., says it's allotted an extra 1 million meals for November, given the uncertainties about whether and when SNAP recipients will get their full benefits. n.pr/47z75Re
The shutdown could be nearing its end, but high demand for food assistance lingers
The Capital Area Food Bank in Washington D.C., says it's allotted an extra 1 million meals for November, given the uncertainties about whether and when SNAP recipients will get their full benefits.
n.pr
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The Capital Area Food Bank in Washington D.C., says it's allotted an extra 1 million meals for November, given the uncertainties about whether and when SNAP recipients will get their full benefits. n.pr/47z75Re