The original Canada Soccer-CSB deal is one of the worst I've ever seen in sports. With significantly improved terms, this may be a bigger game-changer for the Canada national teams than anything the men do at the World Cup this summer: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

We’re so lucky to have people like Jeff highlighting stories like this. He captures this story, like he does with so many others, with a wide lens like few others do.

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"I also drive around with my passport and green card. My kids have an extra note in their bag, just in case mom and dad don't come home, which, in its instance, is something that brings back childhood memories of me being a war refugee. It's not a pleasant thing to carry. -Khaled El-Ahmad

Excellent article, well contextualized and fantastic quotes.

NEW: Minnesota United CSO Khaled El-Ahmad on adding James Rodriguez to “evolve the culture,” a late-winter surprise in a “mentally tough” moment amidst Metro Surge. “This is the right place for him because of the community, how we stand up for each other.” www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Walz: "The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here. There's going to be accountability on things that happened, but one of them is the incredible and immense cost borne by the people of this state. The federal government needs to be responsible."

I started this story in January and it me took way too long to complete just given everything that's happened, but it was never just Minneapolis under attack, and it felt important for people to understand how widespread this is, even if I wish my own timing on publishing was better here

ICE's surge in Minnesota menaced the suburbs and rural areas, too - and the response in those areas can look different and is less dense geographically. People all over the state stood up response networks and mutual aid www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far. In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.

“I was just listening to news that they're going to end it, but at the same time they are still arresting people. It's hard to believe what they're doing.”

“It’s a two-way road. We have a community that supports our soccer team, and we have a soccer team that supports our community.” 🗣️ @wesburdine.bsky.social I wrote about solidarity and soccer as @mnaurorafc.bsky.social puts community first under occupation by ICE. www.nytimes.com/athletic/703...

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NEW: As Tottenham readies to appoint a seventh manager in seven seasons, those longtime flirtations from Mauricio Pochettino are harder than ever to ignore. A dream reunion would require patience from a club that, lately, is anything but. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I’m relieved that this violent paramilitary force will be removed from our streets, but I won’t believe it until they're actually gone. Minnesotans deserve justice and accountability, and I won’t stop until we get it.

Just like all of Trump's other sycophants, Homan never speaks from a position of weakness. But let this be clear: the occupation of Minnesota was an unmitigated disaster. Not only for the immense harm committed against us. But also because it will destroy Republican majorities across the nation.

Still in “I’ll believe it when I see it” mode when it comes to ICE and the entire administration, but our community will be happy to help them accountable to this claim.

It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag

This was in SAINT PAUL you guys. There’s more than one city here. Please learn to use a map or say “Twin Cities”

Been using whiskey stones in my bourbon more often lately, because fuck ICE.

I’m not sure I’ve read more work from any individual soccer writer than I have from Matt Doyle. Nobody in the landscape does more to plug readers into local coverage across a sprawling league. Plus, a confirmed great hang. Wherever he goes, I follow. Worth subscribing (and paying) from jump.

NEW: A month out from the 2026 season, the NWSL landscape has been rocked by a pair of trades for rising USWNT midfielders. @ellabrockway.bsky.social and I on the Claire Hutton and Croix Bethune blockbusters. It’s a great day for Bay FC. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Fan Prepares To Obsess Over Meaningless Pre-Season Rankings www.thenutmegnews.com/current/2026...

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) to Acting Director of ICE Todd Lyons: "People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are un-American and outright fascist. If you don't want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one."

We are facing a humanitarian crisis here. Each passing day we learn of new neighbors who haven’t left their homes and have fallen through the cracks. Lots of people aren’t connected to mutual aid networks. Just terrible suffering caused by the federal government.

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I live in a highly diverse neighborhood in Saint Paul, and ICE has routinely targeted our community for over a month. Some neighbors have launched a mutual aid fund to help impacted residents who can’t safely leave home cover food, rent, utilities and essentials. www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...

On today’s @totalsoccershow.bsky.social, @joeclowery.bsky.social, Taylor, and I make sense of James Rodríguez’s move to Minnesota, Cole Bassett to Portland, and Jorge Ruvalcaba to New York. Plus our projected risers, fallers, and Moves We Like as opening kick nears. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3T4...

I spent some time with families in Minnesota who haven't been able to leave their homes in weeks due to the pervasion of federal agents outside.

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In neighborhoods like St. Paul’s Frogtown, among the state’s oldest immigrant communities, animal rescue organizations have seen a surge in the number of pets needing care, left behind when their humans were suddenly detained.

Local businesses across the Twin Cities are suffering and owners say ‘ Metro Surge’ could be worse than Covid-19

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.

Just honked my horn at an ICE agent next to me at a light after he threw his Hardee’s bag out the driver’s window. Better believe he motioned to the holster on his belt, he was so offended.

Excl. The USA forward Catarina Macario has turned down an offer of a contract extension at Chelsea, the Guardian understands. She's attracting interest from around the world, incl. Europe, and her future is now in major doubt after she was left out of Chelsea's squad list for the #UWCL knockouts.

The behavior typical of every FIFA Peace Prize winner.

This is a major, huge, humongous deal that will go largely unnoticed because of the broader chaos engulfing our politics. But, suffice it to say that the government is broken when the courts explicitly say they can't trust the administration to tell the truth.

The window to impress on Mauricio Pochettino is waning, and the pressure is on for the No 9s on the bubble

This cannot be reformed.

NEW: With the transfer window shut for most of the world, the USMNT’s strikers know their club form will make or break their World Cup hopes. Beyond Balogun and Pepi, it’s a clash largely played in the Championship and MLS. May the nets ripple in their favor. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

“military-grade intelligence tactics” “Pattern-of-life” intelligence Bro, you are eating microwaveable Campbell’s Soup for every meal and crashing out in front of the Home2Suites while you’re geared up like you’re in Fallujah

Bring back shame

Quick reminder everything they say is a fucking lie. We are facing a major healthcare crisis due to the occupation. Pregnant people are regularly missing care & do face an impossible choices. Occupying agents ABSOLUTELY enter hospitals for enforcement purposes and have since they arrived.

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

"Shame! Shame! Shame!..." #iowa

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months