Or not 🤡. Remember-this is the team that Jill Ellis led for a few years then helped sell for a record amount to her "friends" from her UCLA coaching days. But the team still operates out of TRAILERS for their training environment, does not have a true professional training center.

Ticket prices for the USMNT's World Cup opener in LA: – Category 1: $2,735 – Category 2: $1,940 – Category 3: $1,120 Prices for the 2026 World Cup final: – Category 1: $6,730 – Category 2: $4,210 – Category 3: $2,790 More prices and info here @theathletic.com:

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

NWSL: Here's the complaint for the lawsuit against Jill Ellis, which was filed on Monday.

People seem to be missing that this lawsuit was filed after Jill demanded money from the new ownership that she claims she is owed. If not for that, this suit would likely not have come to be. Jill didn't learn from her frivolous defamation lawsuit to not overplay her hand.

BREAKING: Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died.

This has ruined my day, RIP Jane Goodall. Conservation wouldn’t be the same without you.

Both, SD Wave and Ellis are still involved in litigation with former team employees regarding Ellis’s alleged behavior and culpability in abuse experienced by former SD Wave employees.

In San Diego news: ‘Wave owners sue Jill Ellis over her exit from club.’ Lawsuit is unrelated to treatment of team employees but rather, “alleging that she lied about her intentions of staying with the Wave throughout purchase negotiations last year” www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...

If the political crisis in the U.S. happened in a Third World country, the New York Times would write a story headlined “(Country X) Is Fast Becoming a Dictatorship.” So why not that headline for the U.S.?

For @flaminghydra.com I rewatched All the President's Men and considered what it means in a day and age where your paranoia is increasingly justified:

"I want to call for a change of leadership at the league level when it comes to officiating," Cheryl Reeve said. She said the crew for Game 3 was "fucking malpractice" and said Collier "probably has a fracture." Reeve did not take questions in her 2 minutes of remarks.

Bitch, can you please stop vacuuming?

Broadview’s mayor decried the “relentless deployment of tear gas, pepper spray, mace, and rubber bullets” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents against protesters outside a suburban processing facility.

Yes. @cristianfarias.com nails this. Not just the core holding of the Court’s immunity decision, but CJ Roberts’ gratuitous opining that the President’s control of DOJ - even for sham prosecutions - cannot be reviewed, imperils every person on Trump’s enemies list. nymag.com/intelligence...

this woman has been working at Nintendo for almost 20 years and nearly a decade longer than the guy she is replacing how much more qualified does she have to be lol

🚨 HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 For the next month, we're doing an experiment: live-streaming as a core campaign strategy. Every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday, I'll be streaming with guests, games, and (of course) my cat, Heater. And if this works, we'll keep doing it. Join us tomorrow, 7 PM CT.

Let me know if you are expecting to get raptured so I can feed your cats.

Sakeik said ICE agents wrote numbers on their wrists — she was #4. The Palestinian woman next to her had a #3 on her wrist.

In May, Kordia’s legal team told reporters that she hadn’t had access to halal meals, which meant she had lost nearly 50 pounds since her arrest in mid-March.

Now, she is using her platform to bring attention to the plight of women in detention, like 32-year-old Palestinian Leqaa Kordia, the second Columbia University protester arrested this spring, who has since been dubbed “the forgotten prisoner” while sitting in ICE detention for nearly six months.

“Being detained was one of the hardest, most difficult challenges that I’ve had to face in my entire life. Physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually challenging,” Sakeik said. “I wouldn’t wish this upon anybody, not even my worst enemy.”

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year.

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But still. There's my time figuring out what the heck is going on. There's finding a person. There's paying that person fairly for their time, which was easily half a days work. Any money you give us goes directly to all of this!

First: Nobody at the Miami-Dade clerk of courts would answer my phone calls. Nobody. I tried everything. So I had to pay another journalist to go to the courthouse, physically make a request, and then physically get an answer! We got lucky. I used to work in Miami and could ask around easily.

First blog back from book leave is on why there hasn't been more follow-reporting on the latest domestic violence allegations against Tyreek Hill. It's a gift link but I'm also gonna talk on here about how your subscriptions and/or contributions make this possible! defector.com/why-there-ha...

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Jessica Berman receiving a healthy dose of boos as she is introduced at CPKC Stadium for the @nwslsoccer.com Shield presentation to the @kansascitycurrent.bsky.social And I'm so here for it.

I remain in awe of Courtney Smith for trusting me with her story when we barely had a website up and running. And somehow our readers got her story out far and wide, even though we weren’t on Apple News and didn’t have gift links. Thank you!

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Well, this is quite the honor. Courtney’s Story has been selected by Apple News as part of its 10 years, 100 unforgettable stories series. If you use the app, scroll down today to A Decade of Apple lNews. That will take you to the sports selections, including this one from @defector.com

Here's another reason why Chicago Botanic Gardens' recent decision to start charging entrance fees for people who walk/bike/transit there in order to lower car parking costs was a bad idea. The phytophile Mecca just got booted from a guidebook because of it. chi.streetsblog.org/2022/03/07/b...

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

this exists it is called thinking

Check who owns your newspaper, and boycott the American press manipulating Canadian politics. Harper sold us out. #ElbowsUp #BoycottPostMedia #cdnpoli

It's become clear that Charlie Kirk is worth more to Trumpworld dead than he ever was alive. defector.com/charlie-kirk...

The Raid. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

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ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Look I really don't think Jimmy Kimmel is the most important issue of our time, but it's a really obvious stupid bad decision you can easily get libs to rally around It's useful, basically

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Yeah so I personally didn’t predict the FCC chair beefing with Artie from Glee when I signed up for Twitter dot com in 2009 but maybe I just lack imagination

Everyday it’s mad libs

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