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15. Lawmaker Matt Maddock Accuses NCAA Team Buses of Being Illegal Invaders?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2024, 03:19 PM

Mar 28

March Madness took a hard right turn into out-and-out irrationality Wednesday evening, when a Republican member of the Michigan statehouse baselessly claimed three buses filled with college athletes were in fact “illegal invaders” descending on Detroit from the southern border.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-lawmaker-matt-maddock-accuses-ncaa-team-buses-of-being-illegal-invaders?ref=home?ref=home

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Utah women's basketball team 'troubled and shaken' as 'disturbing' details of alleged racist abuse directed at players [View all] brooklynite Mar 27 OP

Hayden lakes the town next to Coeur d'Alene is full of white nationalists kimbutgar Mar 27 #1

I have to say, this is sadly ironic. LauraInLA Mar 27 #2

Hola fellow El Pasoan! keopeli Mar 27 #6

Hola right back! You described El Paso better than I ever could ;). And I still miss gorditas ;). LauraInLA Mar 27 #10

Utah's team are mostly white themselves. LeftInTX Mar 27 #7

I did, too. duhneece Mar 27 #11

Need to be very clear NanaCat Mar 28 #12

Hayden, not Hayden Lake. There are both. jmowreader Mar 27 #5

Oh there's plenty of super-rich white nationalists. Elessar Zappa Mar 27 #8

This is not the America I had hoped for. twodogsbarking Mar 27 #3

Me either. Trump didn't invent racism, but the racists consider him a kindred spirit. padah513 Mar 27 #4

Hopefully there is an arrest Roc2020 Mar 27 #9

This is sarcasm, right? NanaCat Mar 28 #13

True. But there is great satisfaction Roc2020 Mar 28 #14

Lawmaker Matt Maddock Accuses NCAA Team Buses of Being Illegal Invaders? StClone Mar 28 #15