Good riddance, Boston.

This is a worrisome history of Israel using the distraction of the World Cup to launch attacks as we prepare for the World Cup next month. (From Kuper’s *World Cup Fever,* 245.)

I’m used to explaining to people who don’t know any better that my 14yo who had #T1D, not only *can* easy sugar but that sugar is, in fact, life saving at certain times. I just didn’t think one of those people who would need to have that explained is the US Secretary of Health + Human Services. 1/2

SASH member Mark C Franek's new book “American Soccer Nation” has just been published. We talk with him about the role of soccer history in advancing soccer in the US. www.ussoccerhistory.org/eleven-quest...

Justice Kagan: "I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.'

New Cato study, using 30 years of federal, state, and local budget data, finds immigrants have reduced U.S. deficits by $14.5 trillion since 1994. It directly contradicts years of claims by nativists in Congress and the administration that immigrants are “behind the growth in debt.” zurl.co/Tp7M9

Seemingly author of every book on the history of soccer in the United States notes at the outset that their book doesn’t cover the women’s game. My question is why not? I’m not sure you can understand the men’s game here without attention to the development of the women’s game.

Jon Ossoff with a TRUTH about who it is Republicans represent.

Watching X Files and Mulder just killed an AI by putting a floppy disk in the machine and maybe we should give that a try

“I have a PhD in atmospheric physics. I spent a decade measuring greenhouse gases from satellites. The thing that made me good at it was reading poetry. It trained me to notice what was not being said in a dataset. Every critical decision I made as a scientist was interpretation, not computation.”

Opinion | How Not to Talk About Your Colleagues in Texas and Florida We’re not fighting a lost cause. By Ben Wright: https://bit.ly/41Z4Xi1 #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years

An indoor street soccer facility (free to play) with a soccer jersey/apparel shop *and* a soccer history bookstore (or maybe a lending library?) attached. Several large screen TVs to show current and or/classic matches.

If I were a Democrat trying to make some headway in Utah, I might point out that Trump put someone in a key decision-making role who blithely dismissed the safety of 3.5 million Utah residents, and joked about how no one lives there.

In my happy place with my 10yo, ready to watch RSL take on the 🐐.

I’ve been looking for tickets to the RSL-Inter Miami game for most of the last months to take my 10yo, whose own passion initiated my own interest in soccer a couple of years ago. With tickets currently going for between $410-$5600/seat, I’d give up hope. 1/2

Salt Lake City has almost twice as many registered Dems as Republicans. But for decades, the districts have been drawn to each take a slice of the city and suburbs. Utah democrats have suffered for years without any representation in Congress despite controlling the state’s population center.

Letter: If you’re concerned about the future of dual language immersion in Utah, I urge you to contact your USBE member, the state superintendent of public instruction and your legislator.

7th graders in our local school district each job shadow someone on an appointed day. I was honored to have a friend’s son, an aspiring historian, ask to shadow me. On Wednesday, he attended classes with me in the morning, then we researched all afternoon in BYU’s Special Collections.

Before orange slices as soccer halftimes treats, there were lemons. “One of the new rules of the [Utah] soccer union is that the Home team … must furnish lemons for the visiting team.” “Complete record of the 16th Ward Soccer Club,” 1922, Salt Lake City, Utah.

How is any of this real life?

ATTN: Utah Legislature.

Jefferson going back and gluing passages from Revelation back into his Bible.

Beyond the very valid critique here, I do not understand the appeal of “spend[ing] a human year in 10 minutes.” I like reading. I enjoy films and listening to entire albums. I find pleasure in conversing with friends and chatting about nothing and everything. What’s imagined here sounds miserable.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

I love my teenager.

Inject this into my veins.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some Zen to the feed.

The kids are all right: a short story. My kids are in a Chinese DLI program. Last month, their teacher complimented a student’s Jordan 1s. He explained that when he migrated from China, he chose “Michael” as his English name because he loved Michael Jordan. 1/

As the world continues to crumble, historians keep churning out first rate scholarship. Today I finished @csschmitt.bsky.social’s The Predatoy Sea, which will make you rethink entirely slavery and captivity in the 17th century Caribbean. A masterclass of scholarship.

And we're just going to keep this going. Imagine how far we can push this with an actual Democratic Party

Top 20 counties that I have moved most left from 2012 to 2024. Incredible. #Blutah

Easter dinner.

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

A big part of Donald Trump's appeal among his ~30%, ride-or-die core is that he's the first president to be sincerely, authentically stupid and incurious in the exact same way as the fabled Median Voter. *Nothing* about his unintelligence is a gimmick or a put-on.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Pulisic hasn’t scored for the USMNT since the CONCACAF Nations League match against Jamaica in November 2024, when he celebrated by doing the “Trump dance.” Just saying.

Cayden Boozer’s errant pass at the end of that game is the first thing that’s made me believe he’s just 18 years old.

The humanities are absolutely vital to a functioning democratic society.

Pope Leo on Palm Sunday: “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood’ (Is 1:15).”

My book, *In Dependence*, is newly out in paperback, and @nyupress.bsky.social is celebrating Women's History Month by offering 30% off related titles. That means you can snag a copy for only $21! (use code HOLIDAY at checkout) nyupress.org/978147984231...

Check out the Founders Day sale at @pennpress.bsky.social!!! 50% off all books, including this one! 🗃️ www.pennpress.org/978151282814...

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

My 14yo, just before bed: “Dad, can you explain what’s happening in Israel, Iran, and Palestine right now and how did they get to this point.” Me:

Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.

Johan Cruyff died 10 years ago today. I idolized him as a kid, and one of my first truly long, obsessive pieces was a definitive history of his time in DC, which @paultenorio.bsky.social encouraged me to write. I’m still proud of it to this day. www.nytimes.com/athletic/184...

Elementary school pickup line reading. @protagonistsoccer.bsky.social