Shane Thomas
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Morocco now lost back to back home AFCON final's (women and men) in successive years. There'll be fans in that stadium who were at both games.
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about 6 hours ago
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Probably owe gratitude to all involved in that. That match seemed to ignite broso Bluesky in a way I've never seen before.
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Hillary J. Haldane
about 7 hours ago
Let’s keep the love for African football going. WAFCON starts March 17. The men’s tournament was the warmup. 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦
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Anywhere from 25 yards or closer, Hanson is a problem if the ball's on her left foot. Can generate power with zero backlift. Wilms set-pieces also a threat.
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about 14 hours ago
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The level of control and accuracy in the choices made by a first time director are among the best of recent memory. If anything I’m selling Victor short as there’s so many other different and equally valid ways to compliment this wonderful film.
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Gareth-Michael Skarka
3 days ago
“Americans have been misled by pundits who proclaim the US a “nation of laws”. It makes no difference if the US is a nation of laws when courts are selective in their application. Autocracies are nations of laws, too. The US is a nation of targets.”
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MSI Reproductive Choices UK
3 days ago
Today, the England and Wales abortion statistics for 2023 were published by the Department of Health and Social Care 📊 These new statistics underline why choice and access matter more than ever. 🔗 Read our full comment:
www.msichoices.org.uk/news/new-abo...
#Abortion
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3 days ago
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Brian Phillips
5 days ago
I wrote about the rise of prediction markets, which have FINALLY made it possible for crypto bros to cosplay as war profiteers while getting fleeced by actual war profiteers
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How Prediction Markets Turned Life Into a Dystopian Gambling Experiment
What are Polymarket and Kalshi? Why are they taking over the world? And is there anything stopping actors on these platforms from exploiting almost everything and everyone?
https://www.theringer.com/2026/01/14/tech/prediction-markets-betting-explained-meaning-polymarket-kalshi
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frrms
4 days ago
Still trying to pay the rest of the month's bills. At 375/600. Thanks in advance 🙏🏾
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At this rate, you may look at the Shadow Cabinet and not see a single white face.
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3 days ago
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Je me sens le même.
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Tom Stevenson
4 days ago
The
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has argued that in annexing Greenland, the US ‘would kill Nato in one swoop’. But would it? Trump appears to think Europe’s leaders are cowed enough to accept even this.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
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Tom Stevenson | Don’t crack your teeth
‘The US needs Greenland for the purpose of national security,’ Donald Trump has said. ‘Anything less’ than ‘...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/january/don-t-crack-your-teeth
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Simon Kuper
5 days ago
Édouard Louis, great French writer of a white working-class family saga, who grew up gay in a poor far-right-voting village, tells me how he escaped, and later helped his mum to do the same. About white working-class memoirs and Cinderella
@financialtimes.com
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French writer Édouard Louis: ‘Family is a rotten structure. It produces its own violence’
[FREE TO READ] The gay author shocked France with stories of working-class poverty and homophobia. He talks to Simon Kuper about the misogyny his mother endured and why escape is his defining theme
https://as.ft.com/r/cd31555e-913e-43e5-9144-95506cae7ad3
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4 days ago
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The Athletic | Football
7 days ago
Manchester City lead Chelsea in the WSL by six points. They have won all 11 games since defeat on the opening day to their title rivals. The perennial champions are their only rivals.
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on a top-four race split in two.
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Linda Holmes
6 days ago
The increasingly common habit of screenshotting the AI summary of a Google search and presenting it as evidence must be nipped in the bud immediately. That is nothing. That is not anything, it is not a thing.
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Lenée (she/ her) says #ProtectJhordin
8 days ago
I have a terrible head cold. I'm gonna go to urgent care tomorrow to get a nose swab and all that jazz just in case. My ex has been sniffling all week, claiming "it's just allergies." I didn't believe it. I still don't.
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Ian King
8 days ago
Morning my loves. It was off to Burgess Hill Town yesterday for their match against Billericay Town, where the game wasn't especially good, but at least my hands were warm.
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The Weekend Match: Burgess Hill Town 1-2 Billericay Town - It is Cold, But I am Warm
An artificial pitch is enough the guarantee this weekend's match will take place, and an unexpected gift keeps my extremities in order.
https://unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-weekend-match-burgess-hill-town
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Adam Serwer
10 days ago
The Trump Regime Smear Machine is now a taxpayer funded venture that smears victims of state violence by justifying their killing. This should be familiar, it is a common practice in the aftermath of police shootings of black people (gift link)
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Barry Malone
11 days ago
Today in Proximities: - Burkina Faso says foiled plot to assassinate Ibrahim Traoré - Iran says “no leniency” for protesters, blames U.S. and Israel - Chinese foreign minister begins annual Africa tour As always, you can read it in under two minutes.
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Burkina Faso, Iran, China
Today's three stories you should know
https://www.proximities.news/p/burkina-faso-iran-china
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RogerEbert.com
12 days ago
"Whitlock didn’t steal scenes as much as he elevated them, becoming a part of the fabric of storytellers like David Simon and Spike Lee, who knew exactly how to use this stealthy genius,” writes
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in his tribute to the late Isiah Whitlock Jr.
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A Brilliant Actor and Even Better Person: Isiah Whitlock Jr. (1954-2025) | Tributes | Roger Ebert
A tribute to the star of The Wire and several Spike Lee joints.
https://www.rogerebert.com/tributes/a-brilliant-actor-and-even-better-person-isiah-whitlock-jr-1954-2025
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Ian King
11 days ago
A piece about Martin Chivers:
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Thank you, Mr Chivers
The death of Martin Chivers is a shock, a player who served Spurs with distinction, and with whom I had a couple of (tenuous) links.
https://unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/thank-you-mr-chivers
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London Review of Books
13 days ago
‘The US occupation of Iraq happened in part because no one learned the lessons of Vietnam, and it seems that whatever happens in Venezuela, no one has learned the lessons of Iraq or Afghanistan – forever wars against which Trump campaigned.’ Forrest Hylton on the blog:
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Forrest Hylton | Murder Inc.
US foreign policy in South America used to differ from its approach to Central America and the Caribbean. In the 20th...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/january/murder-inc
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Barry Malone
14 days ago
Today in Proximities: - At least 50 killed in Nigeria market attack - Syrian government and Kurd-led SDF fail to reach deal - Myanmar releases 6,100 prisoners in amnesty As always, you can read it in under two minutes.
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Nigeria, Myanmar, Syria
Today's three stories you should know
https://www.proximities.news/p/nigeria-myanmar-syria
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Ian King
13 days ago
On Maresca, Amorim, Nancy, head coaches, managers, and the difference between the last of those two.
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Chelsea, Manchester United & Celtic kick off what promises to be a year of Too Much News in style
We're only five days into 2026, but already two of the Premier League's big-hitters and a Glasgow Giant have dispensed with their managers. Slow down please, everybody.
https://open.substack.com/pub/unexpecteddelirium/p/chelsea-manchester-united-and-celtic?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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The Cutback | Substack
14 days ago
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Manchester United's season so far: Quietly impressive
Assessing United at the halfway mark and what they need to finish strongly
https://www.thecutback.com/p/man-utd-season-so-far-2025-26
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A Jackson Pollock painting or England's bowling?
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13 days ago
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Ian King
14 days ago
Saturday turned out to be a freeze-out across the non-league game, but I didn't have anything like a wasted Saturday. But we do need to talk about what feels like a lack of process when it comes to matches being postponed.
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The Weekend Match: We need to talk about the late postponement of matches
We all knew it was going to be bad on the first weekend of the new year, but the circumstances of some match postponements was, frankly, farcical.
https://unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-weekend-match-we-need-to-talk
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Nikita Gill
17 days ago
In 2026, we must stop letting techbros decide what art is and how it should exist.
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Was just saying in a group chat how in the past year she stopped being an exciting young talent with a world class ceiling. She’s now just world class.
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Seated!
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17 days ago
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Ian King
18 days ago
A bit of a review of 2025. Not much of one, I have to admit.
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The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
2025 has been a fundamentally contradictory year for football, but the signs for 2026 are already looking ominous.
https://unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times
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Erin Biba
18 days ago
I stg if a single one of you non-New Yorkers try and tell us New Yorkers that we’re not allowed to criticize or yell at Mamdani I’m gonna lose my entire shit at you. Part of the reason we WANT people like him in office is we can tell him when he fucks up.
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A rare and joyful example of watching a film and me straight DiCaprio meme going “I know that place! I’ve been there! And there! My sister lives 15 minutes from there!”
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18 days ago
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Isn’t this basically the plot of Mickey 17?
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Tribune
21 days ago
A timely new book published this year by the cultural critic Philippa Snow observes how the female celebrity magnifies the experiences of her everyday civilian counterparts, using examples from Pamela Anderson to Amy Winehouse.
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Blondeness as a Form of Sacrifice
A timely new book published this year by the cultural critic Philippa Snow observes how the female celebrity magnifies the experiences of her everyday civilian counterparts, using examples from Pamela...
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/blondeness-as-a-form-of-sacrifice
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