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Tammi Gaw

@tammigaw.bsky.social

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Sports Lawyer and strategist. Risk management nerd. Sports medicine in a former life. Purveyor of snark. Intolerant of racists, bigots and fascists. Lover of dogs, hiking, whisky and good music. Found in Scotland. She/her #InvestInWomen

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Tammi Gaw @tammigaw.bsky.social · Nov 12

Greetings to old and new friends/colleagues. Me: a snarky sports lawyer/consultant who also did sports medicine, expert on US college sports, and teacher on risk management in sporting events. We moved to Glasgow with our bonkers dog Nessie and love whisky, languages and travels.

a close up of a woman 's face with the words `` let 's get a shift on . ''

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with the words `` let 's get a shift on . ''

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 7h

NEW: We obtained recordings from a crisis pregnancy center conference where anti-abortion law firms like Alliance Defending Freedom admit that CPCs are free to make referrals for abortion pill "reversal" at the same time they claim they’re being censored.
An @autonomynews.co @motherjones.com collab:

Abortion Pill “Reversal” Is a Hoax. It's Also a Powerful Right-Wing Legal Strategy.

Speakers at a crisis pregnancy center conference made rare admissions about the challenges of providing so-called abortion “reversal,” and indicate its importance as a litigation tool.

www.autonomynews.co

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 58m

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1h

The Voting Rights Act has done more than perhaps any other statute to build a multiracial democracy

which is precisely why the Supreme Court’s conservative justices have spent decades casting the law as constitutionally unsound

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act

The Republican justices already know where they’re going. They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to get there.

ballsandstrikes.org

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An Elder Gay--Deezy @thatwriterdeezy.bsky.social · 1h

A key reason why the world is burning

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 9h

men are not socialized to be equitable partners.

They are socialized to believe they are dominate partners

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 4h

No 👏 Kings 👏 includes 👏 Draft 👏 Kings

Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 6h

CNN is covering prediction market odds from an online casino as if it’s actual polling data

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Tammi Gaw @tammigaw.bsky.social · 2h

Absolute 🔥🔥 from @wagesofwins.bsky.social here

David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · 2h

Spoke with the amazing Sarah Spain about the quest the WNBA players are on to get the NBA to pay them something.

The NBA owners seem to think paying the players is not something they should be doing as owners of the WNBA.

@sarahspain.com and I disagree!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

Coming Back for S*** Sandwiches with David Berri

Podcast Episode · Good Game with Sarah Spain · 10/15/2025 · 40m

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2h

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 2h

ABC losing millions in ad revenue because they wanted to put Shonda Rhimes "back in her place" was a harbinger of things to come. Them folks will absolutely take the L if they think you will also suffer.

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Miss Recreate @missrecreate.bsky.social · 6h

When “they” said they wanted to go back to when America was great - part of that was being free to treat women like this. Like women exist for their pleasure.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8h

I hate to think what boys and young men are learning from watching such behavior and how it makes girls and young women. Parents need to teach that this is not acceptable.

Tweet by Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) saying: “This is gross,” quote-tweeting Aaron Rupar. The embedded Rupar tweet reads: “Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, ‘I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling.’” Below is a photo of Donald Trump seated, speaking at a table with flags behind him, and captioned “Thank you, darling. I don’t know.”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

Say less

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 3h

Prison abolition includes abolition of the Christian morality used to justify imprisonment.

Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 8h

I would rather stand in the ranks of an army of fuckups than desperately try to keep my place in a dwindling clique of angels.

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Fix your hearts or die. @darktexture.bsky.social · 4h

@sarahspain.com is excellent

David Berri is too

I hope the WNBPA is talking to ppl like Berri

Coming Back for S*** Sandwiches with David Berri

Podcast Episode · Good Game with Sarah Spain · 10/15/2025 · 40m

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 3h

Fascinating resume from the EIC there

Experience

Editor in Chief

Colossus

2025 - Present · 10 mos

Deputy Editor

Tablet Magazine

2021 - 2025 · 4 yrs

Senior Advisor

U.S. Department of State

2019 - 2020 · 1 yr

Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Officer

US Army

2014 - 2019 · 5 yrs

Staff Writer

The American Interest

2012 - 2014 · 2 yrs
Education

Kenyon College

BA, Russian Language and Literature

2007 – 2011

Saint Petersburg State University

Russian Language and Literature

2009 – 2010

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 3h

Idiots who let their hatred of Maduro create a shit show.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump says he's now "looking at land" strikes on Venezuela

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Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 3h

Brett Kavanaugh is actively dumb. Just listened to recent arguments before the Court—dude’s questions legit do not make sense or even follow, logically.

Truly stunning that he and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson have the same job—in fact, he’s a senior colleague, in terms of seniority on the bench. ⚖️

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 3h

Imagine having witnessed WWII and you're getting ready to die and all you see is Nazi **** being brandished out in the open?

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 4h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 6h

Elise Stefanik is scrubbing photos of herself accepting awards from the vile Young Republicans caught in the Politico group chat. She supported every single one of them in New York State.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans want to bring back the good old days in health insurance when companies could refuse to provide insurance because someone had a history of cancer or diabetes cepr.net/publications...