Just back from Dublin where the NFL is set to invade this Sunday. Wrote about the scene and why the people aren’t thrilled with the league’s political and economic message www.thenation.com/article/soci...

They were fighting fires burning through the Pacific Northwest. Federal agents arrested firefighters, more reign of terror on immigrants as Trump rapidly expands policing and paramilitary forces

The Fair Games coalition is assembled in Expo Park presenting their vision for a New Deal for LA's upcoming megaevents. This is a *huge* group of unions and nonprofits with a list of demands that include living wage jobs, funding for 50k units of housing, and a moratorium on short-term rentals

Sport is never just sport. It can also be a space to pursue justice. Thank you to these good people in 🇨🇦 for standing up

Surveillance company Flock is now using AI to report us to police if the bot registers *our everyday movements* as “suspicious” www.aclu.org/news/nationa...

There’s something particularly haunting about Ohio Governor Mike DeWine committing to send out the National Guard. Fifty-five years ago, another Ohio governor deployed the National Guard on Kent State College students.

Before today's politically-confected anti-trans hysteria, "the sporting landscape was not always so hostile to trans athletes." @sydney-bauer.com breaks it all down as the Supreme Court readies to take on two cases concerning trans athletes @ballsandstrikes.org ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

Trump focuses his wrath on unhoused people who’ve been targeted in his police occupation of DC, knowing he can scapegoat them while he widens his power grabs

As attacks ramp up @mkaiasand.bsky.social details the many ways we construct homeless people as “unwanted persons,” but also the creativity embodied in alternative first responder systems that enact “care work without violence.” @asle-us.bsky.social deceleration.news/asle-2025-ka...

The Trump administration is now seeking to replace PBS with “Prager University,” a far-right propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university. One of their “kids videos” has Christopher Columbus telling them that slavery was “no big deal” and “better than being killed.”

Airbnb uses the Olympics to launder gentrification, and the #LA28 Games are no exception www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...

Bang. Exclusive: The IOC Ethics Commission received a comprehensive corruption complaint against senior IOC member Ser Miang Ng, who is alleged to have mixed his many positions with family business in connection with esports and the Olympic Esports Games. www.sportandpolitics.de/corruption-c...

Ep. 164: On Athleticide @derekcrim.bsky.social and @nkalamb.bsky.social are joined by the incredible @leylahamed.bsky.social to rage about all the ways in which sport continues to play an instrumental role in Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. open.spotify.com/episode/0WGb...

Outrageous. Over 200 journalists have been murdered by the Israeli military. Grateful for the courageous truth-teller journalists in Gaza for their bravery and sacrifice to tell the stories of Gaza to the world. Shame on the continuation of funding this genocide.

That Everton has a policy to prohibit the wearing of Palestine football jerseys—a nation that participates in FIFA events under its own flag—is the most blatant example of discrimination possible, not to mention complicity in genocide.

Mo Salah is asking the right questions

“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Canada's upcoming Davis Cup tennis match with Israel is an unjustifiable violation of Canada’s obligations under international law & basic human rights. Canada must boycott,” write @nkalamb.bsky.social @dansailofsky.bsky.social & @derekcrim.bsky.social

OTD 11 years ago Mike Brown was shot 6 times by policeman Darren Wilson. The 18yo Black murder victim was then left laying in the street for 4 hours Sparking the Ferguson Uprising That shut down “multiple MALLS & big stores on BLACK FRIDAY impacting million$$$.” - OTG reporter Chuck Modiano

Important conversation from beginning to end. Rebecca O'Keeffe of Irish Sport for Palestine starts off with a master-class explanation of how sports are always already political. Must-listen convo w/ @nkalamb.bsky.social & @derekcrim.bsky.social

Worth noting that when Trump went on his anti-trans rant, LA28 Olympics Chair Casey Wasserman was more than happy to applaud him. Literally.

I teach a global class on Risk Management for Sporting Events, and while I don't make it US-centric, US 2026 and 2028 are making me update the lectures on a WEEKLY basis.

"L.A. needs to withdraw from hosting the Olympics—the sooner the better," writes @gustavoarellano.bsky.social. "Trump would love nothing more than to traipse around an L.A. radically transformed by his deportation blitzkrieg to proclaim his mission accomplished & broadcast his conquest to the world"

This is what *athleticide* looks like, a term scholars like @nkalamb.bsky.social & others are increasingly using

"With al-Obeid’s death, the number of athletes & their family members killed in the Strip since the start of Israel’s war has risen to 662. The number of football-related deaths now stands at 321, inc. players, coaches, administrators, referees & club board members" www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

The IDF shot and killed "The Pele of Palestine", Sulaiman al Obaid, while he waited on line for food. No comment from FIFA. So we've made calls to FIFA. Whatever good that will do, at minimum aren't going to afford them the privilege of looking away. www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

The Olympic state of exception has long been handy for authoritarians. "We'll do anything necessary to keep the Olympics safe, including using our National Guard or military."-Donald Trump as he signs an Executive Order establishing Los Angeles 2028 Olympics Task Force

"Technology serves to institute new, more effective, more pleasant forms of social control." -Herbert Marcuse, The One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, 1964

Move the Olympics now - we are not a country that is safe for its own people let alone those from other countries

So, a group of progressive elected officials in Portland, Ore. are doing exactly what they said they'd do if elected? Thank goodness they are "tightly coordinated." They're fighting against powerful entities who play dirty at every turn. (Alt title: "City Councilors Actually Trying to Do Their Job")

Athletes should not have to pick between their Olympic dreams and the risk of detention and possible imprisonment in a concentration camp for themselves and their families. Hold the 2028 Olympics elsewhere. Come back when GOP is gone.

My latest @commondreams.org: "The Olympics Is the Last Thing LA Needs as It Deals With Fires & ICE," and a new poll from @nolympicsla.bsky.social shows that Angelenos agree www.commondreams.org/opinion/la-d...

You can get kicked out of Columbia on antisemitism charges for publicly agreeing with the head of J St. There is no looking glass

Trump praises LA28 Organizing Committee Chair Casey Wasserman today, calling him "a friend of mine for a long time." Part of a press conference establishing the White House Task Force on the 2028 Summer Olympics

When JD Vance jokes about ICE detaining tourists at sports mega-events, it's no laughing matter. Especially since the Trump admin is building up a massive security apparatus for the LA28 Olympics & 2026 FIFA men's World Cup

We recently ran a public poll. Here's what we found.

My latest @commondreams.org: "The Olympics Is the Last Thing LA Needs as It Deals With Fires & ICE," and a new poll from @nolympicsla.bsky.social shows that Angelenos agree www.commondreams.org/opinion/la-d...

The Olympics have a long and ignominious tradition of short-circuiting democracy, but it’s not too late for Los Angeles to make amends, writes @julesboykoff.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/la-d...

Los Angeles voters may *finally* get a chance to weigh in on the LA28 Olympics, thanks to the work of @unitehere11.bsky.social. "Proposed ballot measure could force a citywide vote on LA 2028 Olympic venues." By @davidzahniser.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

lol lmao @ climate pledge arena sponsored by fucking copilot

This is my friend. His name is Christian Smalls. He founded the Amazon Labor union Not as a professional activist, but as a worker who decided he’d had enough. Recently, he was beaten and detained by the IDF And no one in the MSM is talking about it. paydayreport.com/amazon-union...

60% in the US *disapprove* the government's support for Israel's war on Gaza. (Only 32% support, the lowest level since polling began in 2023). 52% of USAmericans view Netanyahu *unfavorably*. The gulf between the elite political classes & everyday people is massive. news.gallup.com/poll/692948/...

85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani. 79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani. 67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. 65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?

When aid sites are death traps. Ghastly necropolitics.

"Why on Earth should Californians spend our precious time & money on a fascist pageant for our oppressor? If the 2028 [Los Angeles] Olympics go forward, they’ll be little more than a weapon for Trump to use against us," writes Joe Mathews @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

10 years ago today, 10 people on Twitter changed the 2024 & 2028 Olympic Games. I along w/ 9 others countered the City of Boston & the USOC's narrative that the Olympic Games were good for Boston (they weren't.) The USOC pr team thanked me for my activism when I randomly met them at UCLA in 2016!

going to keep saying: important for a society that would like to keep functioning to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

As Gaza starves, Israel’s far right sees a dream coming true “Members of Israel’s government embrace the Trump-inspired vision of a Gaza of gleaming towers, ritzy tourism and pristine neighborhoods, but without Palestinians.” @ishaantharoor.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Amid the ongoing furor over Trump's relationship with horrid pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, read @karimzidan.com's breakdown of how his Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is embroiled in her own scandal around sex trafficking & abuse allegations from when she was World Wrestling Entertainment CEO.

Real discussion: CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me? CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking

I don't know enough ways to say fuck this