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Your first goal of the 2025 #USLChampionship season is an absolute banger. Lexington SC's Joe Hafferty with a 30-yard half-volley into the top-right corner. Sheesh. #FutbolAmericas @herculezg.bsky.social

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We're hiring a new editor. Please share widely!

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America is finding itself in the midst of fascist chaos and I truly do not believe many people outside of the United States understand just how bizarre a country this is and how much we want to fight back against these fascist nerds. Naruto+american flag+ Molotovs Yeah this is American as hell

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Trump's #bullshitting & #gaslighting were accurately diagnosed & called out in 2015, well before the first GOP primary of that cycle. The M$M refusal adopt that accurate, clarifying framework for making sense of him is arguably THE key gift they have given him, a gift that they keep on giving.

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Okay when I said we needed better planning for the World Cup that's not what I meant

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THE MEDIAN OUTCOME OF THE PRISONER’S DILEMMA IS PRISONERS LOSING THE DILEMMA

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Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

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Even last year’s LA Times layoffs weren’t this incompetent. (Though they were close.)

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I spent years in the music industry, then journalism and ghostwriting and I'm regularly disgusted by how people will entirely build their lifestyles, opinions and alliances around whatever will get them the most clout, from defending predators and abandoning friends to promoting racism. Fake ppl

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It’s almost time. Who’s ready? 👀

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It’s like an LLM AI Axios post at the end of every story. 😆

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👇🎯 And if you don't mention Iran-Contra & the total lack of executive branch/elite accountability for it as a central reason we are here now with a Mad King running amok without any consequences, you are also severely undercutting the point.

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We’re investigating what happens when your car gets towed. Have you ever had your car towed in California? Share your story with CalMatters: cal.news/4byylj5 📝 Byrhonda Lyons 📸 iStock

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#OnThisDay in 1934 – Dionisio Mejía had 1st hat-trick (3 goals) for hosts #México, in WCQ (Italy ’34), during 3:2 win over #Cuba, in 1st of 3-game series, before 20,000 fans at Mexico City’s Parque Necaxa. Mario López scored twice for #LeonesdelCaribe.

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15 days until #USOC2025 begins ... 15 is the number of games played in the 1995 US Open Cup, the first competition in the tournament's Modern Era. By comparison, this year's tournament will feature 95 games

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“Politics does not reflect majorities, it constructs them” — concise commentary from Stuart Hall re: Thatcherism, but might as well be about Trumpism

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MLS wouldn’t exist without him: “He helped co-found the league in 1996 and has been referred to as the ‘league’s savior’ during the contraction phase of the league in 2000 when it went desperately close to going bankrupt.” www.insideworldfootball.com/2025/03/03/u...

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Year 11 covering #USLChampionship! A look at our wide-ranging 2025 TV schedule. Let’s go!!

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Bluesky has truly arrived.

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Shameful that Mexican actress Silvia Pinal and Spanish actress Marisa Paredes were not included in the #Oscars in memoriam. Two pillars of cinema in their respective countries and beyond. Pinal worked with Luis Buñuel and Paredes was in the Oscar winning ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER.

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Conclave v Anora sounds like a first-round match of Caribbean teams in the CONCACAF Champions League.

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A nation of bagholders.

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What's not mentioned in this excerpt is that this was sponsored by Third Way, a think tank that is singlemindedly devoted to convincing Democrats to cut the left out of the party. God knows the DNC has its problems, but it's misleading to frame this as a mainstream Democratic conference.

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It’s very telling and predictable that the conservative Dem plan has literally nothing to do with fighting the GOP but a lot of things to say about progressives

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I know everything about Nixon seems quaint in comparison, but this was specifically one of the crimes mentioned in the articles of impeachment against Nixon.

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This is a remarkable display of political illiteracy by NYT columnists who say that the DEI crackdown is both positive and not very important, while the gutting of USAID is negative and important. But it’s DEI that was used as the justification for dismantling USAID and most other DOGE cuts

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I will keep reporting about boxing for The Guardian but, when it comes to writing books about the fight business, I think I am done. It's finally over for me. I hate the business, but I still love boxing. The Last Bell is about this, and life, death, and much more www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...

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Why does it matter that the protagonist of The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty is a goalkeeper? jonawils.substack.com/p/the-goalke...

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Spoiler: kids started dying

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“We launched FAIR nearly 40 years ago with warnings about the influence of media owners on news content… The recent antics of Bezos show that the need to scrutinize and expose corporate media owners is even greater today.” — @fairmediawatch.bsky.social founder Jeff Cohen fair.org/home/to-cozy...

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Rewrote a clunky section of a lecture three times this morning before finally realizing the entire section itself just needed to go. Editing is all about making those decisions, and why anyone would ever trust AI to take control at that important moment in the process is utterly baffling to me.

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Gene Hackman was proud of the fact Richard Nixon put him on the "enemies" list and I think we can honor him and whatever joy his career has given you by living our lives in such a way that evil people know our names and think of us as enemies.

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550 faculty and staff at the California Institute of the Arts are unionizing with @uaw.org.

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#OtD 27 Feb 1902 Nobel prize-winning author John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California. Many of his works featured radical, working class themes, including The Grapes of Wrath, and In Dubious Battle, about a fruit pickers' strike: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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This is a good analysis by Elad. One dimension that I think is missing from the analysis, though, is the key role that dark money from the global far right has played in building up the right-wing media ecosystem.

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Thread: A viral clip of Donald Trump Jr saying on his Triggered podcast that "the US should have been sending weapons to Russia" instead of Ukraine is AI-generated and fake. Worryingly, the fake AI audio sounds near identical to Don Jr's real voice. Let's see how we can verify that it's fake.

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Watch Deftones play live rarities and the Mars Volta debut new music at their Portland tour kickoff

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Bezos emailing all Amazon MGM Studios employees to dictate that the next James Bond will be bald and wear a vest

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Our pal @alexsegura.bsky.social is doing a live Zoom writing workshop on comics and novels in conjunction with Nova Southeastern University on June 14! ANYONE can sign up and join in! So you should do just that HERE: nova.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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RIP to this titan of cumbias, the innovator of the subgenre of cumbia he dubbed "Musika de Barrios,” who we have no doubt is announcing his arrival into the afterlife with his famous lyrics, “ABUELITA, SOY TU NIETO Y YA LLEGUE!” Full story: lataco.com/grupo-kual-s... By @theglutster.bsky.social

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The world over, this is a movement driven by people who own car dealerships and work in HR. The buddy garrity right, burning everything down because they’re bored and 1 of their 250 coworkers wanted to be called “they.” There’s no punchline, that’s it.

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i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class

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First an SPD chancellor who completely clung to US leadership and refused to do anything to support Ukraine without the US. Now a (likely) CDU chancellor who says Europe needs to decouple from the US. What a time to be alive

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DEP 😢

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