Matt Hodler
@mhodler
faculty 🐏⚓️ | ex-swimmer | former bartender & bus-washer | miamioh uncg uiowa | race, gender, class, nation, & sport | views & typos = mine | he/him | cis
I’m reading Portnoy’s new book for a project, & this excerpt exemplifies the pettiness, contradictions, & ignorance in it. While writing about the Barstool Fund, a private effort that seemed to have helped many small businesses, he can’t help but attack Mamdani with a weird personal & false attack
Naz—esque posts from DHS about a multicultural team full of first gen, naturalized, and immigrant workers
Having just read CLOWN WORLD, which is an important expose on Tate’s online presence - especially their War Room chat forum teaching other men how to entrap women into sex acts & doing webcam - & has credible reporting of Tate raping 2 women in ENG which was reported to cops over 10yrs ago
Oh, the irony of Dave, a man who needed rescue at sea after untying his boat from Nantucket mansion before checking if its engine worked & who lives in a mansion, travels by private jet, and gets VIP treatment everywhere he goes, to accuse others of lacking common sense &/or living in a fantasy
glad @victorerikray.bsky.social is writing about what’s (been) going on at the University of Iowa, my graduate Alma mater, which has been under attack from powerful RW interests for at least a decade and a half (or basically since the State went for Obama)
This weekend I finished @dannyfunt.bsky.social’s EVERYBODY LOSES. It’s a great primer for understanding many of political, social, and economic processes and impacts of sports gambling
Fun, but chilly, day alongside 30,000+ others to watch Boston Legacy lose their inaugural match against Gotham (+ NKOTB halftime show)
“A fratriarchy is a social system organized by ‘the rule of brother‘…allow its members ’to have the freedom to do as they please & to have a good time,’ to protect & promote ‘the self-interest of the association of men itself,’ and to exclude & diminish ‘female values.’” we wrote on BS but works 👇
JFC, New York Times. A third term is against the law. You have to put that in the headline rather than literally just write his wants
On Oct 4, I worked w/ my AAUP coworkers to host a gathering of multiple labor groups & people to strategize. RI Sec of State spoke, as did RI AFL-CIO prez ⚓️ Yesterday I marched w/ my wife, Jemma 🐕 & 30,000+ RIers Both Saturdays gave me hope, inspiration & connection to others who want to do more
Is it (racist) hypocrisy for the NBA & sports media to pile on Ja Morant for “gun gestures” when (White) politicians use real guns in campaign ads and White Supremacist mass shooters get plea deals?
Newport Craft Brewing has a partnership with URI newportcraft.com/newport-newp...
“In other words, competence.” One week ago, Trump guts key aviation safety committee
At least *these* NY assholes were rightly punished for their actions today
🚨URI’s Sports Media & Communication program is hiring 🚨 TT Asst Professor We're looking for candidates with teaching &/or research in one of the following sport-specific areas: strat comm, PR, social media &/or data ABDs & Early Career applicants encouraged 👇 Apply by Jan. 13, 2025 LINK below
“Netflix has created a pyramid scheme of attention, with no end in sight…yet if the streamer admitted how little impact its movies make, it would undermine its long-running pitch to audiences, Hollywood talent, and their business reps…To Netflix, auteurs are a means of legitimacy, nothing more.”
Captain America retires. What an amazing career - and looking forward to what she does next
Post-election articles have used terms like “bro-acracy” & “broligarchy” & “tech bros” to try to explain & predict. Our analysis of Barstool Sports’s self-produced 2020 documentary operationalized “fratriarchy”