Complain all you want, but after you win a gold medal in hockey it is an honor and a privilege to travel to the White House and shake the hand of a lunatic pedophile who has spent the last few months absolutely terrorizing people who live in the state that cares the most about hockey.

"Holy shit, did WE ever make the right decision" - The US Women's Hockey Team

“Everything is so political,” says the athlete, excitedly front row at the Stanley Cup of politics

This aged so well.

This is what terrifies me.

I think it is very possible the fascists lose power through sheer incompetency, which I imagine is what institutional Dems are counting on. They are banking on Trump losing without them having to be heroes in any way. But it is a dangerous gamble and ultimately a recipe for disaster.

Watch live: The @workingfamilies.org State of the Union Response, delivered by @summerlee.bsky.social:

The thing is that Republicans are all blood-thirsty psychopaths but none of them want the actual carnage performed in their town because it’s bad for the town!!

Matthews is used to ppl using him, from childhood coaches to GMs, it's how hockey culture operates. He's also just doing what he's always done, walking all over ppl he thinks don't matter in order to suck up to ppl who do, and not just getting away with it, but constantly getting rewarded for it.

Suitor's dead on. What's happening IS just hockey culture — fucking over people who don't really matter while sucking up to people who do, and constantly getting rewarded for it. There's no reason for Heated Rivalry fandom to get so worked up by canon events (the reality of the world around them).

Just realized that Auston Matthews — captain of the Maple Leafs Auston Matthews! — is coming as Trump's guest to the state of the union, thereby putting his reputation and celebrity behind this admin's explicitly stated agenda of making Canada the 51st state. And the Leafs org is... fine with this?

A thread on how a White House visit can technically be considered apolitical, but being Donald Trump's guest during the state of the union is a different thing entirely. The US men's hockey team is explicitly aligning themselves with his administration and his agenda by doing this.

we are well past the point when any of these mainstream outlets deserve the benefit of the doubt they serve the extraction class, not the public interest

Incredible list showing the who's who of media outlets that are getting the tariff story wrong- NYT, Axios, Business Insider, CNBC, Forbes, The Hill, News Nation, WSJ, LATimes, Wash Post, CNN, CBS. Good grief.

SCOOP: IL-9 congressional candidate and current state senator Mike Simmons had police called on him in Buena Park while canvassing for votes. No arrest was made. Here’s the video of the interaction @senmikesimmons.bsky.social recorded and shared with me.

The woke Hughes brothers were ~so~ turned off by Kash Patel crashing their party that... they went on to party with him for hours and post about it on instagram.

Unironically the team with any balls bsky.app/profile/bria...

Benefit of the doubt is a privilege

Locker room talk doesn’t stay talk.

Well, this is kinda why women have been calling for men to have our backs in the heat of the moment, when it’s so easy for them to just go along with it. Folks might say, ah, it was just a stupid laugh, ok, but on behalf of demeaning the women they pretended to support. They could have hung up

That's my default assumption in every situation now, that behind closed doors, men mock and demean us. (Not all men, but Trump got reelected because of male support which increased among all demos. And that was not about the price of eggs)

Throw this together with the fact that Jason Robertson, one of the top goal-scorers in the US, was snubbed from the USA roster, look at his stats and over multiple years, and then remember that he's Asian American, and things start making sense in the worst way

in public, the men's hockey team has been supportive of the women's team, going to games, cheering them on, saying they were inspired by the OT golden goal must be gutting to feel that support and then get first-hand evidence that behind closed doors, when it's just The Boys, they're laughing at you

The concept of hating women so much!!! that even the team that won gold in the exact same sport as you are a punchline — that you share with a rapist. Woooof.

The latest edition of my newsletter is about a subject I've been obsessed with since I was a snot-nosed 20-something telecom beat reporter: The U.S. press simply refuses to acknowledge that widespread corruption at the hands of unchecked corporate power is THE reason for most U.S. dysfunction.

I'm going to need people to update how they shit-talk people who want stuff done. "Oh, they're mad that they're only getting 30% of what they want" really rings different when the 70% of shit we're not getting is "someone to shut down the concentration camps."

"The American culture of elite impunity is clearly deranging to society, stoking the cynical nihilism that redounds to the benefit of people like Trump. Today, thanks to the Biden administration’s feckless dithering, the number of people deserving of Andrew-style treatment is long indeed."

Every single story about every aspect of U.S. dysfunction should have some reference to the fact that the country is generally too corrupt to function in the public interest thanks to unchecked corporate power

wow. A couple of hours after the futures markets opened crypto, led by solana, started crapping out. 9% down in under an hour, the graph looks like a cliff's edge. A leveraged whale tapping out, creating a cascading effect? What goes on?

Fucking hell. This is supposed to be the site I lurk and retweet on, not post. US hockey has so much to answer for.

All Desis know a Kash Patel growing up. A dorky kid with massive self-esteem issues, super insecure, who desperately wanted to date white girls who kept rejecting him. Desi Children, don't be a Kash Patel.

Matthew Tkachuk. He’s the guy on the right holding the jersey gazing lovingly at Trump in this picture.

We sure did.

There are people whose job it is to interact with dangerous waste, but that doesn't mean it's good for them. And I know this makes me a shrill, whiny loser, pointing this out, but that waste *is* dangerous and there *are* costs to spending a lot of time in it

I don't want to hear how powerless you are. I want to hear about how you are turning over every last statute to find every piece of power you have and leveraging it to flip the tables. That is what ordinary Americans are doing every day: using whistles and love to try to help their neighbors.

I still remember the woman who spoke at a protest about being released from the Denver facility--about how politicians would go in and look at the people being held but never stop to talk to them.

Absolutely gutted by this @ahylton26.bsky.social interview with a first grader who was left home alone for hours last month after ICE arrested her father outside their apartment.

This would be a much more convincing argument if the 4 nations tournament hadn't gone from a friendly rivalry/ honoring of Gaudreau to team USA practically frothing at the mouth wanting to win for Trump. And we had pretty much the exact same lineup for the Olympics.

Not surprised at all, after the way so many went on their knees for Trump during the 4 nations. Talk about lose/lose games.

When I talk about more people turning out in spite of repression (or in response to it), people who've read a few articles about nonviolence say, "That's what happens! Violent efforts to repress nonviolent movements backfire!" But they often don't. It's special when people respond by showing up.

I have a visceral contempt for many members of the male US hockey team, and think Hockey Canada is steeped in exploitation and abuse. Was rather hoping for just about any other country to advance to the finals and win. On the upside, at least now it's over.

Thought of these as typical late-stage capitalist companies, like Exxon and Cargill. But it kinda sounds like their hoarding of capital, plundering of resources, despoiling of the environment, aren't externalities but rather actual goals, necessary preconditions for the world they plan to usher in.

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

Fascinating happenings over at Microsoft, another stock guaranteed to hit the moon again, according to all state-of-the-art (Open) AI generated news sources.

"Karen was told repeatedly that ICE agents are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'I was told this by multiple sources,' she says. 'There is all the incentive in the world to find a reason – any reason – not to let someone go." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Oh no. Oh nooooo. Xbox's new CEO is a natalist/birthrater. How did MS miss this in their opsec? Literal stone's throw away from the likes of Palmer Luckey. "Will my son have classmates in the future? ...the fertility rates are declining." Then she suggests the fix is... AI? Timestamped:

This administration whined to the SCOTUS that they should not have to pay out SNAP even though they were legally obligated to do so. They spent so much cash appealing a court case they knew they were gonna lose just for spite and to waste taxpayer money just to make life worse for poor Americans

Happy #Caturday 😸

Extremely funny to log on to this site populated exclusively by communist furries who work in software development and go “does the left like ANY technology?”