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I write the Expecting Goals newsletter (expectinggoals.com) and I'm gonna try to bring soccer analytics to bluesky. Let's see if it works. He/him.
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This is genuinely slanderous.

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

This is one of those places where it really is just pure money in politics.

submitted 2 hours ago • 48 comments

the basic concept here is clear -- crypto has shown incredible capacity to move money into Congressional races when it identifies an enemy, and they prioritized this vote, and Democrats decided it wasn't important enough to take the hit on 2026 and 2028 I dunno it's bad but the whole system is bad

submitted 2 hours ago • 14 comments

as we know when Trump says stuff like this, it's a sign of great weakness not strength

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

watching a socialist go into just win baby mode is so beautiful

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

it cannot be overstated how little interest Cuomo has in standing up to Trump

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

In response to a Q from @maxrn.bsky.social, Lander said: "This is a critical time to have a mayor who will stand up to ICE and stand up to Donald Trump... I am very grateful to the other mayoral candidates who came out here to call for my release and I really hope New Yorkers will elect one of us."

submitted 3 hours ago • 13 comments

you may not like it but this is what peak group stage performance looks like

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

I found this helpful for the judge election here in Brooklyn (about which there hasn’t been much reporting)

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

it has now been over two decades with Bibi forcing his intelligence apparatus to come up with lies about the Iranian nuclear program to sell to the US in the hopes of getting the US to go to war for him and it looks like maybe it's going to work, we finally elected a president dumb enough

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

NYC mayoral candidate and state senator Zellnor Myrie is speaking outside 26 Federal Plaza in NYC right now. He says as a lawyer, the legal terminology for Brad Lander’s arrest is “fucking ridiculous”

submitted 4 hours ago • 12 comments

I really would not have bet on Hochul and Newsom both understanding the moment here and the straightforward case against fascism, but I'll take it

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

HAPPENING NOW: New Yorkers are protesting against ICE’s illegal arrest of NYC comptroller Brad Lander.

submitted 4 hours ago • 260 comments

Fluminense shot locations some real RETVRN shit fans yell shoot, the players shoot, proper football

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

what's great about La Liga is that, understood structurally, it's primarily three incredibly wealthy, elderly Spanish men who are constantly feuding and making up like a real housewives franchise you never know what any of them are going to do

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

this is exactly right what we are seeing from center-left institutions right now in NYC is a kind of centrist identity politics, totally unmoored from any objective consideration of the merits of the candidates and their policies

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

One of FIFA’s biggest mistakes (which isn’t surprising considering their inherent sexism) is not launching the women’s Club World Cup first. It’s actually desired and would be so well received, which would have laid the blueprint for the men and given FIFA proof of concept to sell.

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

One begins to wonder if putting the dumbest motherfucker ever to live in charge was a mistake.

submitted 1 day ago • 476 comments

I think it is bad for the president to declare war on Iran via post

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

"The IRA will be hard to repeal and help democrats" *monkey paw curls* because Republicans will choose to maintain IRA subsidies and cut Medicaid

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

the most glaringly obvious way to turn this into a thing to be cared about was to start with woso

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments