New CBS contributors announced: Grand Moff Tarkin, Lex Luthor, Norman Osborn, Cruella De Ville, Javert, Titus Andronicus, Killmonger, and the Beastfly from Silksong.

I had never heard of Gladys West before she recently died. She led a team that calculated the precise shape of the Earth, which was fundamental to the development of GPS. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_...

The asterisk is for Jessica Berman.

@equalizersoccer.bsky.social Any reason you don't have a section in your NWSL drop-down menu for the two new teams? As I have a team to root for in Boston now, I subscribed and I want coverage of my club.

My family and I silently held up ABOLISH ICE signs during the national anthem at the @uswnt.ussoccer.com game in Carson today. Security came to our seats and threatened to have @lasdhq.bsky.social remove us if we didn't give them our signs. They said it was the team's decision. U-S-A?

As long as I'm as sending out protest songs, this one speaks to the moment. It was written following the massacre of school children in Soweto, South Africa in 1976. (This is the edited edition because Fela's songs all have 6-minute introductions.) youtu.be/MOvLRB-P1ec

Dave Matthews and Tim Ryenolds playing Neil Young’s Ohio last night and ends with some Rage Against the Machine.

Good crowd at Drawdown Brewing for the @bostonisa.bsky.social watch party/meetup.

Swanny is here at Drawdown Brewing in Jamaica Plain along with the @bostonisa.bsky.social to hang out and watch the @uswnt.ussoccer.com.

If you put pepper in your socks you’re a fucking dumbass

StickerMule has been rotten for ages, as has ULINE, but as with a lot of small-art-business inside-baseball stuff, I don't expect people to automatically know. But now you know.

"I gave him my peace prize" is the first line of a terrible piece of erotica.

Becky Sauerbrunn on Instagram, “I’m choosing to release this video today, January 13th, because right now the US Supreme Court is deliberating a case that could change the future of women’s sport.” An important video:

Just in passing: off a post at @peter.petermorwood.com 's Tumblr, a discussion of Heat Vs. Flavor... but the image is worth sharing on its own. :) petermorwood.tumblr.com/post/1703856...

John Cage, submitting the sheet music for "4'33"" to his publisher: What do you think? Publisher: No notes.

lmao Mad Magazine has still got it

"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."

Not a lot of lyrical sophistication, but gets right to the salient point.

Up the Swans! www.bostonisa.com/join

Here's our lovely first scarf!

As we stand at the apex of where 2025 meets 2026, a reminder of my always life advice: - Don't be a dick - Where/when possible, wear comfortable shoes.

2025 was a wild ride. Thank you, @bostonlegacyfc.com for bringing this dream back to Boston. 2026 Starts January 5! 🎉 🍾

Berman simultaneously demonstrating that she has neither business sense nor fashion sense.

We and our fellow independent supporters groups stand with the players. #BAONPDX bsky.app/profile/nwsl...

We and our fellow independent supporters groups stand with the players.

We stand with the players.

We and our fellow independent supporters groups stand with the players. #NWSL #KCCurrent #NWSLPA

SUPPORT ALL PLAYERS - RAISE THE CAP

We, and our fellow independent supporters groups, stand with the players.

We stand united with our players, and the NWSLPA.

We stand with the @nwslplayers.bsky.social ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

We stand with the NWSLPA.

We stand with the NWSLPA in its opposition to the High Impact Player (HIP) rule and urge the NWSL to negotiate with the Players Union as required by the collective bargaining agreement.

I’ll make it easy for ya: cut the WaPo, since it ain’t news anymore but a Bezos mouthpiece

I just realized that Sam M’Fin Kerr would not qualify for the HIP designation, and man you really have to try hard to make an arbitrary list of the best players in the world worthy of more money and not include her. #NWSL equalizersoccer.com/2025/12/23/w...

You don’t redact every mention of your name from The Pedophile Chronicles unless you’re guilty as fuck

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

Jeff Shi, don't let the doorknob hit you on the ass on the way out. #wolves

#RaiseTheCapNWSL #NoMoreSideHustles #PayThePlayers Support the @nwslplayers.bsky.social here: www.nwslplayers.com/support-the-...

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

When not in use, the Rubio is powered down and placed in a corner.

Johnstone is not a good goalkeeper and I'm not sure why he continues to play. I know José Sá has issues but Johnstone is worse.

Are they making flerkens out of dogs now?

As things stand now, the NWSL isn’t fighting for Trinity Rodman. It’s fighting against her, and shadowboxing with its own potential in the process. A column, at @theathletic.com: www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...

There are a lot of screwed up things going on, but I'll just stick to sports tonight. Jeff Kent? Definitely Fernando Valenzuela. Yank** or not, I'd be fine with Mattingly. Murphy, OK if you must. But Kent? Seriously?

Drag him.

I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore

This looks like it should be a monument to all the foreign workers who died building the stadiums in Qatar.