i am so very sorry but marta can never retire, 95th minute in a playoff quarterfinal clinging to a 1 goal lead and she uses every ounce of energy she had left to sprint damn near the whole pitch and win a late penalty, then gives the spot kick to luana. i'm over here just being a puddle of emotions.

Please NWSL broadcasters, I beg you, offer a "so you actually LIKE soccer???" alt-cast that is focused on presenting the visual and audio info needed to watch soccer, with no extra distractions. Let me see clearly who has been substituted or booked! Save me from pre-filmed in-game distractions!

MARTA!!!!!

Wrong answers only, please.

Amazon not having a preshow for the NWSL quarterfinal is why I wished it had been ION getting this game. #NWSL #playoffs @nwslsoccer.com

The Black Women’s Player Collective has dropped a statement as well this morning on their Instagram in light of the recent comments made this week.

“It’s just unfortunate that players like Barbra have to go through that harassment when they bring so much joy to their cities and communities. These are wonderful women. And this is the playoffs, which is the most exciting time of the year.” -Vlatko on recent transphobic rhetoric(? From me)

the nwsl knows that if there’s one thing fans love it’s having the game and culture shaped by a lot of rich people who just got here

Okay, our 💜 GS #Valkyries 💜 will be on - Breeze: Kate Martin (💰) - Hive: Monique Billings (💙Go Bruins!!💛) - Mist: Veronica Burton (MIP!!! ⛹🏽‍♀️) + Laeticia Amihere (🇨🇦) in the development pool 💜 #wbb #unrivaled

Point em out. Let them stand beside you in your "time of need." Say their names just like you said Banda's name. Don't be shy now. Stand on business. Your transphobia and racism aren't alone in this league, so tell us who.

My father literally said this yesterday with his favorite complaint, "He took solar panels off the White House in 1980! In 1980! Think about where we'd be if he'd never come to power. And don't get me started with flooding Black communities with guns and crack! Where'd they get them huh?!?!"

Breaking the 12 year long GOP supermajority in Mississippi seems like a big deal. A bunch of Black women mayors seems like a big deal. Can’t wait for the hot “How Democrats winning is bad news for Democrats” takes.

Black people announce it’s still fuck Target.

There’s no reason ever again for any Democrat to suggest moderating on trans rights. There was never a moral reason but now there’s no political reason either. Somebody tell Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg. it’s joe-ver.

And THIS is why I said at least every captain needed to speak and be unified. Guess who is gonna get the hate from the Fox News crowd now? Sarah Gorden, that's who. The only Black captain. Okay, going back to work now.

This was always coming and the league’s inaction shows a pattern of lack of concern and care for athletes’ wellbeing.

When your team is already eliminated from playoffs & even playing spoiler is a far off dream so Decision Day holds no tension for you. #NWSL #woso

Here’s my my pitch for why you care about your state attorney general. The entire conservative judicial machine *depends* on conservative state attorney generals. John Roberts can’t take a case asking to destroy voting rights if a state attorney generals doesn’t bring it.

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The Jan 6 insurrection was successful, & now it gets to be preserved as a success by this administration it brought to power.

I said this on threads, but let's be honest if this man looked different very few people would be riding this hard to ignore all the red flags

““From what we discovered, the Interstate Highway System was a sort of payback for the Civil Rights Movement,” says Corral. “While these horrible laws — these Jim Crow laws — were being overturned across the country, the government was actually baking in segregation through physical barriers.””

““Whenever the government was going to route the Interstate Highway System into an urban area, they sought out the ‘redlined’ districts — the Black neighborhoods to target,” says Corral.” These are some of the facts that are supposed to be too “academic” and “esoteric” for people to understand.

“From the 1950s to the 1970s, federal contractors building the system deliberately mapped routes that rammed through and dismantled Black neighborhoods — payback, some say, for gains made during the Civil Rights Movement.”

88 years of Jim Crow. 246 years of slavery. I am allowed to overgeneralize periodically on social media. Call it reparations

Praying for everyone. What a terrible situation.

It was a bone headed foul after he let the ball get swiped. It was stupid and shouldn't have happened 😡

This is some bullshit on SEVERAL different levels. It conveniently ignores the former openly trans NWSL players because it doesn’t fit the anti-trans/“save women’s sports” propaganda and fuels the hatred towards Black women who play in the NWSL (it wasn’t just Banda who was targeted by those people)

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

They’re using AI to make videos of Black women yelling about their EBT cards on Tik Tok. I knew this would be the first way they would use AI to come after us. Please stop using it! Stop feeding the machine!

You know what is a weird thing I miss about regular TV seasons? Obligatory seasonal holiday episodes. Like, no one dropping 8 episodes in July is going to give you an unhinged Halloween ep, a totally inappropriate murder on Christmas ep, and probably some weird Valentine's Day nonsense.

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Yeah I’m not trusting a white man with a nazi tattoo under any circumstances. I don’t care when or where he got it. I’m a hard no on nazi tattoos.

Naomi Girma covers up everything. She is our cheat code

That’s the kind of kneejerk dismissive advice that makes me violent. Telling people to just grow their own food is tantamount to telling them to eat cake.

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I'm so tired of people poaching the Valkyries. We've had them for just a few months!

one thing about racism is the way people will ignore the most likely explanation for something like having a Nazi tattoo for 20 years. the most simple and obvious explanation was that he knew what it was and kept it. his excusers need to stop the embarrassing mental gymnastics.

Listen, it's not my fight. Ol boy in Maine is y'all's cousin, not mine. But idk, a n**i tattoo seems like a disqualifier to ME. But hey, I'm just the target of their hatred, what do I know.

You all know what a huge proponent of giving grace I am. It’s a core to my being. Finding ways to empathize and give grace to people who have made mistakes. BUT NOT EVERYONE GETS GRACE It is not just handed out to everyone. Grace is NOT always justified and it is extremely not justified here

lack of good judgement extends to not thinking this would get out and not getting ahead of the fact that in the age of the internet it most certainly would...

Part of why Trump is portrayed as more popular than his numbers show is that it gives the leadership in these institutions the license to make their preferred changes in trying to shape public life.

Mark is one of the best owners in basketball yet one of, if not the WORST owners in football. LMFAO! Like bitch! Is it oochie Wally or one mic?!

Yes, and let's also remember #YourSlipIsShowing, the Black women activists who predicted all of this first and received no credit. "Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color... If only more people had paid attention."

White people have a kind of intra-white respectability politics about the level of racism that's considered permissible in polite company and I think a lot of polite racists are mad the gutter racists are tarnishing their good name. I don't care for any kinda racist but I love myself, so. 🤷🏽‍♀️

DON'T PLAY OUT THE BACK

I recently discussed this in a talk. On one side of tech, there is a real move to develop system redundancies. You need them for security, trust, safety, etc. On the other side, tech is telling education it can & should strip its redundancies. Watch what they do as much as you hear what they say.

Protests require infrastructure. Successful ones anyway. There should be a solid list of demands. There should be people you can call to bail you out if you are taken. There should be people in charge of aiding the injured if it comes to that. There should be lawyers there.

the adhd cycle of procrastinating on things so you get overwhelmed and then you're so overwhelmed that you procrastinate harder as multiple life fires spiral out of control

The Congressional Black Caucus’s silent partnership with AIPAC www.thenation.com/article/soci...