today’s playoff hype video!! caption is “good cop bad cop going into the playoffs 😤” #nwsl

Not gonna lie, between Cheney, Mamdani, Sherrill, Spanberger, and now Sean Dunn (the guy who threw the subway sandwich at the CBP officer, and who was JUST FOUND NOT GUILTY!)… it's been a not-terrible week.

Two prosecutors are now going to have to deal with the question, “wait aren’t you the guys who lost the sandwich case?” for the rest of their lives.

Ellis: "Requiring the government to comply with its obligations under the Constitution, in particular the Fourth Amendment, is simply not a harm."

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

She knew what she was doing by writing for the Post. She knew her words would be used to target players like Banda, Kundananji, and Chawinga. She's a bigot who is calling for invasive testing to "solve a problem" that doesn't exist. Its racist transphobic bullshit and has no place in this league

As the kids say, you ate with this

Raise your hand if you forgot that Elizabeth Eddy was still a rostered player in the NWSL. ✋🏽

In addition to any moral or competitive arguments, 1. This is a fake problem. There aren't any trans women in NWSL. There aren't any trans women in the immediate pipeline that I'm aware of. 2. Using Banda for the cover photo here is obviously just extremely racist.

Hey Pete! You can just post here like normal, and not post screenshots of you posting to the other place.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social: "The Republicans attacks on the No Kings protests are sickening. To them, only pro-Trump speech is protected. If you oppose Trump - you 'hate America' or you're a 'terrorist'. What they're trying to do is simple: suppress turnout this weekend. Don't let them win."

Can understand not taking Hal but can’t understand taking Shaw over Croix but whatever— it’s just fuel.

What does Croix have to do at this point

Standing and defending the fundamental truths of the Republic means rejecting and opposing loathsome people like Johnson.

We are now officially at the point where the US federal government shutdown is functionally not addressed in any way on the @nytimes.com home page. What an absolute joke.

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown. Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

The US federal government shutdown is now so minimal of a news story that the current home page of both the @washingtonpost.com and @nytimes.com apps have ZERO STORIES OR UPDATES about it. It’s like our media no longer gives a shit about a MASSIVE thing that should not be this humdrum.

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

Let’s be clear: Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans forced a government shutdown tonight. Rather than address the health care crisis that they created just earlier this year, they refuse to come to the table and do their jobs. What happened to the art of the deal?

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

ay man. AY.

Political violence is always bad. And we should politicize the hell out of their deaths. We should demand the country stop and honor them.

"Speech... it ain't free no more... If you wanna say something nice about the president's thick, yellow hair, or that he can do his makeup better than any broad? That's free. But if you wanna do a joke like, he's so fat he needs two seats on the Epstein jet? That's gonna cost ya."

The playoff race is hot, and I believe in patterns. If I didn't cover every team, it wasn't done as a slight, I promise.

one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them

/4 But it’s perfectly reasonable to point out that the people who will wave the bloody shirt over this — the people who support Charlie Kirk — are evil hypocrites who endorse and excuse violence every day. Refraining from celebrating doesn’t mean tolerating bullshit. bsky.app/profile/thre...

Hey @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social and @404media.co — *fantastic* piece on Lofi Girl today! My one quibble: it's a little weird that in all the links in the piece, there's not one link to the actual YouTube channel or livestream that's the subject of the entire piece?

Absolutely amazing. Tonight’s English-language coverage of the Gotham/Alianza Concacaf game… has no announcing at all. Just crowd noise (from the 400 people there). Paramount+, you absolutely SUCK at this. #woso

/11 In short, fuck these fascist shitbirds, fuck you if you voted for them, fuck you if you apologize for or countenance them.

Immediate presidency-ending scandals, for anyone from Truman onward, now happening daily. This is what happens when the far right authoritarian party has already captured Congress. Every check in our system boils down to Article I reigning in Article II, & there is no chance of that happening now.

Seems on the nose that the right-wing screed in the latest U-LINE catalog includes a bit about how it's a shame that young employees can stay on their parents' health insurance, meaning they their jobs can't abuse them with the expectation that they have to take it lest they lose healthcare.

Breaking: Federalism.

The ONLY bad thing about the current infighting between DOJ and the FBI is that I keep having to see the fascist fucking faces of Dan BingoBongo Bongino and Kash Crazy Eyes Patel in my social media feeds.

just doing some research 🔍👀

This is flawed and incorrect instruction from Memoli to #NIH staff. The core problem is that Memoli has zero power. He can’t stop grants from being rejected for using “diversity,” because that’s being done by Vought and DOGE. He’s a puppet.

again, don't rank cuomo. just the shittiest, pettiest, laziest person.

If this report is accurate, Trump is trying to let VA doctors deny care to veterans based on political party or marital status. It’s unethical, dangerous, and puts veterans’ rights, VA accreditation, and the integrity of American medicine at serious risk. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is so fucking gross.

Join us today as we fact check Jay Bhattacharya as he testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the NIH budget. Watch here! www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-r...

NEW: A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration cannot force grant recipients to halt programs that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion or acknowledge the existence of transgender people in order to receive federal grant funding. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

"the defendants violated the Privacy Act and departed from cybersecurity standards that they are obligated to follow. This was a breach of law and of trust. Tens of millions of Americans depend on the Government to safeguard records that reveal their most private and sensitive affairs."

Trump congratulates the National Guard in Los Angeles for doing a great job despite the fact they had not yet even arrived. This brings up a quandary we all face: How do we know when Trump is just brazenly lying versus when he's experiencing another creeping advancement of his cognitive decline?

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

Watch this. All the way through. Resistance is everywhere, and this is solid public education about the impact of DOGE and their chainsaw cuts.

Do the vast majority of pediatricians and their representative body, the American Academy of Pediatrics, support today’s announcement on restrictions to the COVID vaccine? No. Who do you trust? Suits or your child’s doctor.