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Dad, here mostly for the soccer. Let’s go Hokies, DCU, Washington Spirit, and Swansea City! Appreciator of native plant gardening, birds, and whales. He/him 🌲🌻🦩🐋⚽️🏀🏳️‍🌈
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It seems strange to say this: I love both these new US kits. Nike nailed it this time around 👏 👏 👏

My latest newsletter takes a deep dive into Alex Cooper and her continued affiliation with Barstool Sports, and why that makes a partnership with the NWSL especially ill-advised for a league attempting to re-brand after multiple sexual and workplace abuse scandals.

It’s not enough. Tesla will not salvage the company unless they fire Musk. www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

Luka Modric makes the first-ever UEFA Champions League appearance by a Swansea City AFC co-owner #stats #swanseacity #uppaswans

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social.

So much political discourse right now in the US is boiling down to "I didn't believe the bleeding person who told me the wolf at the door was dangerous to me. Because I thought the wolves only hunted them." And I don't know what people think can happen as long as that is still the conversation.

It’s hard to think of a single act by a single human that instantly damaged as many plans, careers, dreams in as many places around the globe For a supreme (and cruel) narcissist, the rush must be exquisite The whole world has no choice but to watch this wretched man

The tariffs are catastrophic. But so too are the abuses of power, so is the corruption, so are the police state tactics, so is the destruction of our health care infrastructure, so are the ways our national security is being endangered, so are the attacks on our core freedoms.

Feels weird that Chelsea and Man City aren’t playing each other today #WSL

Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."

The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.

Apologies to the black hole. futurism.com/universe-tra...

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Tigres just posted a new angle of Jacquie Ovalle’s goal, and it’s as magical as you’d expect.

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

Call it by its name: Trumpcession

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

#UnmaskingMusk

Return of The Mac was right there

Sentnor hype train has left the station

Naomi Girma would’ve blocked that #CHEEVE #WSL

Power has been out at my house for the last 40+ hours, but I found a TV in time for @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social 1 on 1 final. Let’s go!!!

What a two minutes Everton fans around the world just had #EVELIV

MCI-RMA living up to the considerable hype!

Dear Women’s Sports fans, which app(s) do you use for schedules, scores, and tv coverage across multiple sports and competitions? Specifically I want all things USWNT, NWSL / Washington Spirit, WSL, NCAA soccer, and basketball. Is that too much to ask?

“Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself before taking the field for Kendrick Lamar’s show. “Are you going to take a stand?”

The Great Heaps

Seal must be down bad to have agreed to this

Phew! What a week. I sincerely hope that you*, dear reader, will carve out 20 minutes to properly enjoy this incredible musician’s work. *not you, fascists www.npr.org/2025/02/07/g...