For your travel and ticketing team, it's already mid-season! We have tickets for matches through May up for sale now. Remember our $19.74 supporter home tickets? They've been re-signed for another season. We'll see you on the terraces! weareecs.com/shop/

This book was terrific, there is a lot to learn and think about how this relates to our own struggles. Get it now from PM press! pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

Seattle City Hall right now, where students from around the city have gathered after a mass walk-out to protest ICE:

We have to stand together, all of us, to stop this. It's time to get off the sidelines and into the game. Your silence is deafening, @soundersfc.com

🧵for the night owls

"Dems coalescing around 5 things that fall far short of what the American people are demanding" is exactly what you'd expect at this point, isn't it?

NEW: Reflections on a soccer Saturday, from a state under siege by the FIFA Peace Prize winner. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

but it wont, we know they wont - Congress will fail to do anything meaningful about all of this and the more we pour ourselves into expecting them to the less we expect ourselves and our communities to meaningfully look after each other. We are all we got

Tried to go to the farm store, made friends with the cattle dog.

Hey you with the pro-democracy anti-authoritarianism newsletter that you’re publishing on Substack! Yes you. Move your newsletter to Buttondown, Ghost, or beehiiv. Why are you intentionally publishing your work on a platform that funds Nazi speech? Stop doing that please.

And they should win every single one!

Nobody will stop him but us.

Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Block block block.

Join us at Sounders training Saturday morning to welcome the team to the 2026 season in ECS style! Check your email or discord for details, see you there!

Craig Waibel looking at a summer window, with the ability to make a move:

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

Seattle friends! Are you a local sports fan, resident or business owner? I'm writing A Thing about preparations for the World Cup. Were you one of the people excited to bring the World Cup to our city? Have your feelings changed over the past few months? Are you willing to be quoted?

Strongest Avenger 🔒

y'all Kristi Noem absolutely deserves to be impeached but please, please be wary of Dems who try to use an impeachment vote on Noem (fine, but not gonna end in removal) as a substitute for action on ICE funding (real, hits them where it hurts)

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

ICE abducted 3 people on Aurora in north Seattle today - not seeing ANYONE talk about this archive.is/3pbID

I know it sucks to have years of hard work building your social media audience wrecked because of a fascist billionaire and his edgelord followers, but you've got to walk away and stop letting your brand's ongoing presence and activity there be used to normalize this

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I expanded a bit on my thoughts from yesterday about Twitter benefitting from the hesitancy of big entertainment and news accounts to leave even as it becomes more toxic and more toxic www.sounderatheart.com/2026/01/its-...

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

I am once again asking why leagues/teams/news sources which claim to be elevating women and promoting equity remain on that toxic cesspool of a platform. Looking at you @nwslsoccer.com, @wnba.com, @thepwhl.com, etc etc etc. You're not on Truth Social or Gab, you don't need to stay on Vichy Twitter.

All AI is fucking slop. Pass it on.

Sometimes standing in solidarity is as simple as going a block or 2 in any direction. It's not that hard, you can do it!

Happy New Year!

Boeing will produce 25 new fighter jets for the Israeli Air Force, reigniting concern about the aerospace manufacturer’s connection to the ongoing violence in Gaza.

One side effect of years of supporting @cascadiangamers.bsky.social is that you'll open a random bag while cleaning your home office and find numerous autographed things. Stefan Frei gloves, MLS all star team kit signed by the whole 2017 roster, Sounders team signed scarf... Thanks CG!

Only 4 people walked out of our theater of 30 people watching Anaconda, so I think that means it deserves way better than 51% on rotten tomatoes.

#OTD 1909 – Boxing Day league match between Seattle and Tacoma transitions to a friendly when Seattle arrives with just 8 players. Three Rangers players join as guests to make it 11v11 in 0-0 draw.

"Jerusalem is Palestine. Fuck Trump" 📍Celtic FC, Scotland

This is terrifying. Every image posted on Twitter can now be easily edited via AI by any user. If you haven't deleted your account, at least go delete your image posts.

Turns out the 1st Amendment doesn't work when regime allied oligarchs purchase the media and censor unfavorable content willingly.

“I use it to write boring emails, etc.” Your mental muscle for interpersonal communication has atrophied. You have relegated another person to nothing more than an inconvenience.

LLMs should never be used in creative endeavors on any level. They shouldn’t be used as a stand-in for any social interaction. Ever. The human experience requires friction. We cannot create without it. We cannot express ourselves or connect without it. Intimacy doesn’t exist without it.

Rothrock close to re-signing with the Sounders probably has nothing to do with me wanting to watch this video again www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TDH...

Let's fucking gooooooo!!!!!

Want an Andrew Thomas POTY video - I got you www.youtube.com/watch?v=BezM...

The end of season party is tomorrow! Get your tickets in advance, or at the door!

Seattle Sounders made their way to Canada. December 10th on frigid, frozen land. Román Torres sealed the deal with a PK, and Stefan Frei saved us with his all-holy hand. Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, Sounders won, brah, all without a shot on goal.

The Brazilian serie a is WILD. The season ended today with just 4 points separating qualification for Copa Sudamericana and relegation.

Let’s not forget who Leo Messi and Inter Miami can’t stop. The Seattle Sounders.

Home ownership is such a pain in the ass.

For anyone who’s unfamiliar, it’s worth noting that the next Bandcamp Friday (where Bandcamp waives its revenue share) is in two days, so now’s the perfect time to cancel your Spotify subscription and put that money toward buying actual music from actual artists!

#OTD 2001 – Brian Schmetzer, 39, Sounders player in both NASL & A-League eras and Seattle native, is named Sounders head coach. He served as player/assistant coach with Seattle SeaDogs from 1995-97 and is coaching director of Emerald City FC.