It's a good day to be great.

🌽: NCAA Championship
🆚: Wisconsin
🕡: 6:30pm CT
📺: ESPN 2
📍: Columbus, OH
📻: Huskers Radio Network

Congratulations to Dani Busboom Kelly on being named the AVCA Coach of the Year after leading @UofLVolleyball to an undefeated regular season and the program's first trip to the National Semifinals!

#NCAAVB

✨Exciting job opportunity✨

The The Sacramento Bee service journalism desk is hiring!

We're looking for a collaborative, audience-focused reporter to help readers navigate life in Sacramento and issues that affect communities across California. (thread)

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🏆 L-ROD GOT THE NOD. 🏆

#B1G Defensive Player of the Year.

Congratulations Lexi Rodriguez. 💪

On the parched west side of the San Joaquin Valley, California’s drought has created a windfall for companies like Big River Drilling, which can hardly keep up with demand for new wells as farmers seek to extract more water from underground.

#Thread

📷: Craig Kohlruss

ok Brianna J. Taylor !!!!

Just in time for holiday travel: I wrote about how facial recognition scans are ramping up at airports, along with some invasive methods we might encounter in the future (possibly odor and brain scans) discovermagazine.com/technology/air…

In this country, you can even kill white people and get away with it if those white people are fighting for Black lives. This is the legacy of 1619.

“To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.”

— James Baldwin

not all of us live on Christmas tree farms like Taylor Swift did so please let us know where we can that kind of holiday vibe in Sac friends

If was in the market for a home (which I'm not, because I am one of many being priced out), I'd be competing against major investors with their loads of cash.

Interesting story via Mila Jasper for The Sacramento Bee: Here’s what they’re doing in Sacramento:

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The dangerous, conspiracy theory-driven spirit behind the deadly Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riots has spread across California as far-right extremists and anti-government activists mobilize in the state to disrupt the work of local elected officials.

#Thread

📸: Paul Kitagaki Jr.

NEW IN THE BEE: A toast to mocktails.

Nonalcoholic cocktails, wine, beer and kombucha are here and they have recently become better and more popular in #Sacramento , following a national trend.

#Thread

✍️: By Benjy Egel
📸: By Paul Kitagaki Jr.

I AM ALL TOO UNWELL 🥲

It never would have been possible to go back & remake my previous work, uncovering lost art & forgotten gems along the way if you hadn’t emboldened me. Red is about to be mine again, but it has always been ours. Now we begin again. Red (my version) is out

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This is my last day of life before #RedTaylorsVersion . Midnight. Tonight.

The origins of a racist, whites-only church started with fantasy novels and, eventually, found a home headquartered in the foothills north of Sacramento.

Here’s an in-depth look at its history — and why its neighbors are rattled and worried.

#Thread

📸: @XMPhotos

THE FRIDAY BEE: The pandemic drove new golfers to find the appeal of the greens.

Sacramento golf courses aim to turn that cash boon into a boom. ⛳ | #Thread

📸: Photo by Hector Amezcua He/Him/El

As a newcomer myself, this story by Mila Jasper really made me excited for my move.

Thank you to all the Sacramentans who shared their knowledge with us.

Moving to Sacramento? This is what the locals want you to know:

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For The Sacramento Bee

NEW IN THE BEE: Some California inmates who've worked as firefighters for the state while incarcerated claim that once new good conduct credit rules took effect, their projected release dates were pushed back by as much as a year. #Thread

✍️ Sam Stanton is also on Threads as sammackstanton

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