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Feeling much more confident than I was about team USA going into the gold medal game against Canada. They’ve found a real groove at just the right time

My inner @daveweigel.bsky.social was awakened today by a similar question. Really putting to the test how much you can float the idea of giving the American people checks without actually giving them any

Under the Defense Production Act of 1950, I think we should (very briefly) nationalize Clavicular, and have him do a detailed breakdown on the mandibular plane angles for each member of team Slovakia — and if we win, team Canada. Just to knock them off their game a little

Another goal from Dylan Larkin!! Oh captain my captain

Pausing for a moment of gratitude as I hear the dulcet tones of Scott Hanson talking about hockey

As a break from this bonkers news day, read my journalism origin story in @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social 's excellent Your First Byline newsletter. yourfirstbyline.substack.com/p/my-first-b...

Folks, Alysa Liu is an Amtrak girlie too bsky.app/profile/vuma...

At least Paul Krugman is having some fun with all of this open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Trump telling Semafor’s Shelby Talcott that Gorsuch and Coney Barrett are “an embarrassment to their families” seems quite intense and threatening

Why is this presser lit like a telenovela?

NEW: Metadata left in a PDF exposes the people behind ICE's "mega" detention center plans, including the director of the Newark ERO field office and a former GEO Group executive. @regret.bsky.social with more:

Like to an extent we may not have seen since COVID

Trump: “I’m allowed to destroy the country, but I can’t charge ‘em a little fee.”

Trump: “I want to be a good boy.”

Okay also what is up with the lighting here

Wow, Trump just did a redux of the Mike Pence January 6th tweet, saying Coney Barrett and Gorsuch “didn’t have the courage to do what’s right for our country” without mentioning them by name. He says he’s “ashamed, absolutely ashamed” for the court, and literally congratulates the other justices

It’s actually scary, like maybe the scariest Canada can be in a post-WW1 context

They're having trouble getting jurors in one of the cases against Elon Musk because "so many people hate him so much" www.law360.com/articles/244...

If you’re looking at Trump’s return to the rally stage as a dry run of the SOTU speech, it could end up being rougher than people think. He was doing a whole bit about how fun it was when he said you’re gonna get sick of so much winning… a decade ago.

UPDATE: DOJ has restored the doc showing 4 FBI formal interviews with the Trump accuser, which I reported accurately was taken down. (We still don't have access to 3 of the interviews.) Link: justice.gov/epstein/file... Proof the link was down earlier today: web.archive.org/web/20260219...

Alyssa Liu hittin’ em with the “that’s what I’m fuckin’ talkin’ abouttttt” is one of my favorite American moments of the last few years

put it in the Louvre

One of those where Canada played the better game, but the US had a goalie with an out of body performance. Aerin Frankel, national hero.

Sick idea for a pass from Heise that led to that goal. Wowww

Obviously I am so here for this. Overtime hockey on Bsky, turning this site into The Canuck in Chelsea for an afternoon

Hillary Knight is such a fun player to watch. Also downright terrifying from an opposition POV, she plays so extremely heavy on the puck

Well this might just be an all-time USA v. Canada game

Today, Trump hosted the first meeting of the so-called Board of Peace at the building that served as the headquarters for the US Institute for Peace. But that building is still the subject of a major court case after being forcibly taken over by DOGE last year. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Damn, Canada looking very very good so far

I don't love that I've gotta call some people during this gold medal game, but hopefully Abbey Murphy will score several goals by the time I'm back

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

SCOOP: DHS strikes $1 billion purchasing agreement with Palantir. The news comes as Palantir leadership struggles to address internal tensions over the company's work with immigration enforcers. Here's how it was announced internally: www.wired.com/story/depart...

New — I wrote about WINNING for a change!

Three of these interviews do not show up in the Epstein database

Was on a call during OT but USA babayyy, immaculate goal from Quinn Hughes

This would explain Hedman (h/t Jackie Redmond)

I really do not understand how Sweden deploys its very stacked men’s hockey lineup

Currently looksminning

Big day for Barry Diller’s alter ego who briefly ran for RNC chair

I’m not really sure if there’s an empirical answer for this, but does something about the existence of a melting snowbank make NYC dog owners even less likely to pick up dog poop? Complete and total shutdown until we figure out what the hell is going on.

Wow, Mitch Marner with a dangle befitting of a national hero. Incredible game winning goal

Whoah whoah whoah, Czechia with a 3-2 lead over Canada with 7 mins to go in the 3rd after a lovely goal from Palat. Czech bench is going crazy, now on the verge of eliminating Canada from the men’s tournament

This MacKinnon-McDavid-Celebrini line is so fun to watch

A lot going on here, in terms of your typical SUNY Albany subplot

The FIFA president is having a pretty rough time defending the Trump peace prize at the forum Don Jr. and Eric are hosting (also in a CNBC interview)

Burnt hair and Sydney Sweeney conservatism. And Brett Cooper, bc of course she’d be there

when big tech companies say that AI will save the planet, what kinds of AI are they actually talking about — and what's their proof? i took a look at some great new research from @ketanjoshi.co and talked to other experts about how a lot of this talk is probably bullshit:

Another thought I had here is which one yard line. Is he saying crypto is doing so great that its metaphorical offense got pinned back to their own end zone? That’s not how football games start, unless you really mess up on the kickoff