With help from my right hand stat man @michaelminnich.bsky.social, I can verify Seattle will be the first NWSL team to face the same opponent in 3 straight games — all in Orlando. The Pride hosted the Reign in the 2025 season finale & the quarterfinal, and will host them in the 2026 opener as well!

Good news WaPo, at least one person is apparently thinking daily about this issue

✅ Preseason training starts Jan. 20 ✅ More roster news coming ✅ How does the move to Spokane impact season ticket-holders? Here are some of the key updates shared at yesterday's Seattle Reign press conference: www.sounderatheart.com/2026/01/seat...

A perfect short story, no notes.

O’Steen is first teenage GK in NWSL since Mexico’s Cecelia Santiago played for Boston in 2013!

Seattle Reign have added yet another talented alumnus of Solar SC. www.sounderatheart.com/2026/01/reig...

Taking a look at the distribution of NWSL games this season. An early break for the Men's World Cup but then an uninterrupted break until October

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Folks, we’ve got a battle of petitions. Evanston’s Most Livable City Association (MLCA) contends the Stars move to Ryan Field would “would wreak havoc on Evanston and nearby Wilmette.” evanstonroundtable.com/2026/01/12/c...

The schedule is here and it’s a bit weird www.sounderatheart.com/2026/01/2026...

Heading off the "wtf is Victory" questions, this was announced in September, there was a whole "wtf is Victory" day of posting On Here

Sources tell The Equalizer that Seattle Reign FC will play its first three home games in Spokane, Washington, at ONE Spokane Stadium. The Reign announced earlier today that select home matches during the 2026 #NWSL season would be played there. 📰 equalizersoccer.com/quick-update...

We’re working to get more info on this (and will know more when the full schedule is out tomorrow), but best i can tell this is connected to the Seahawks securing home field for the NFL playoffs, which has delayed renovation work at Lumen by nearly a month

BREAKING: The NWSLPA has formally filed a grievance against the #NWSL over the "unilateral implementation" of the High Impact Player rule, saying HIP violates the CBA and federal labor law. The PA is calling for the "immediate rescission" of the HIP rule. More on @espn.com:

99% chance this is what they mean

The Challenge Cup is moving to a new date. Previously scheduled for February, the annual match between the NWSL Champion and Shield winner from the previous season will now take place in June. equalizersoccer.com/2026/01/14/s...

And the end of it has two basic calls to anyone outside of MN who cares one iota about me. 1. please call your congress rep and senators right now and tell them to stand up to the occupation. 2. Go send a couple bucks to one of these orgs. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It can be hard to be an early mover, but every departure makes it easier for other orgs to follow in your footsteps.

Hey Washington peeps... the State House is holding a hearing tomorrow on a bill to ban the declawing of cats, a disfiguring surgery which involves removing the first knuckle that cats use for walking. They’re currently soliciting feedback from the public: app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/1904

The stated reason for ICE agents being in Minnesota is because of the ongoing fraud claims around daycare and other services. The two prosecutors leading those investigations have now resigned in the wake of Renee Good’s shooting. Even the internal supposed logic of this deployment is falling apart

"[Laura] elevates players with intention and leads with clarity and consistency. This extension allows us to continue building with confidence." Laura Harvey is staying in Seattle as head coach, signing a contract extension through 2028. www.sounderatheart.com/2026/01/laur...

Compare these scenes with the BLM protests five years ago - there's *no one* stepping up to counterprotest and "back the blue". No Pr*ud Boys, no 3-percenters... they've all been recruited into this fascist army so no one is left to provoke the protestors and give cops & ICE an excuse to be violent

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016

2026 NWSL Competition Calendar is up. One change since the "2026 Schedule Footprint" announcement in July is Decision Day has been shifted from the weekend of October 31st-1st to October 24th-25th. Two weeks off to the NWSL Quarterfinals and no FIFA windows affecting the postseason.

The Supreme Court sets aside lower court decisions upholding convictions for bribery related to the FIFA scandal because the Trump administration decided to dismiss those criminal cases "in the interests of justice." The FIFA prosecution ends in a whimper. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Washington State residents: they’re trying to pull online age verification bullshittery here too. This bill would require people to upload their ID/credit card to view online adult content. You can complain to your reps here: app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2112

It's pretty wild to see big companies in 2026 still thinking they can just ostrich for a few days and everything will blow over when we've already got years upon years of evidence that everything and everyone who collaborates with Trump gets wrecked in the end

Tim raises a great point here - we should ask all CEOs and company leaders what level of tolerance their org has for CSAM and non-consensual media made by the platforms they use. Epic is okay with "a small amount", which is apparently around 150k images/day? we should probably follow up with him.

read André’s piece, and then put your feelings in this survey

Kansas City's dominant performance this season was due to the decrease in goals conceded. Seattle also saw a similar improvement

Especially since it's mainly the people w/ the most political voice & power (meaning white people) that tend to be the loudest doomers. Marginalized groups w/ less power have fought long, hard, dangerous fights for centuries & are still fighting but many white people are preemptively tapping out

Preventing the sharing of sexualised images of children is “censorship” according to Elon Musk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The only way the next democratic administration is going to do anything even somewhat resembling reforming and rooting out lawless thugs from ICE and elsewhere is due to sustained popular pressure. Otherwise, the instinct from the Dem elite to just turn the page and move on is going to be massive

Kind of makes you wonder about the feds' insistence on cutting the local police entirely out of an investigation of its shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis.

If you use Discord and want to tell them how you feel about them adding AI tools, here's a link to the survey. Share it far & wide. Let them know we don't want it. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The world's richest man runs a subscription-based automated service that removes clothing from photographs of children.

Grok producing vile sexualized deepfakes of women and children isn’t an accident www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/t...

I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

Friends, you HAVE to stop posting on that evil site.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

I asked Emma Hayes if she's okay with the #NWSL High Impact Player criteria including #USWNT game minutes - which means she has a role in determining if players qualify. I also asked if the NWSL told her the rule was coming before announcing it. Hayes' answer: www.inquirer.com/soccer/trini...

Emma Hayes indicates that Claudia Dickey and Phallon Tullis-Joyce are the top two goalkeepers on the #USWNT depth chart, though she doesn't really put either at No. 1.

Five Seattle Reign players have been called into the #USWNT January camp, the most of any club. That includes first-time senior NT call-ups for Sally Menti and Maddie Dahlien! www.sounderatheart.com/2026/01/five...

I know it sucks to have years of hard work building your social media audience wrecked because of a fascist billionaire and his edgelord followers, but you've got to walk away and stop letting your brand's ongoing presence and activity there be used to normalize this

The National Weather Service used AI to create a forecast for Idaho. Low chances of wind for the nonexistent towns of Cocrerrireod, Orangeotild and Whata Bod www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

These shitlords probably see this as a win-win. If enough people balk at buying the pass next year they can argue that demand is down, further slash the Interior budget, and use that to help justify their desire to sell off public lands to their billionaire pals for resource extraction

My personal fave is the person who clearly didn't read more than the headline and thought they were making a point by accusing us of virtue signaling