"U.S. soccer culture still selects for income much more than we do for talent," Doug Andreassen, former president of youth soccer in Washington state — and former head of U.S. Soccer’s diversity task force — told @wlrnnews.bsky.social

Please support the Sameer Project as they welcome Eid. They write: “Eid is generosity. Eid is gratitude. Eid is obedience to Allah. Eid is caring for one another - and The Sameer Project is making sure children in Gaza know they are important.” chuffed.org/project/1804...

Hey that's me!

My friend @rpmirabella.bsky.social saying exactly what we all feel ❤️

🚨 This is not just a post — it’s my child’s life. Amal’s son is critically injured and needs immediate medical care after being shot. The family cannot afford the treatment alone. Your support can make a difference. Please donate and share to help save his life. chuffed.org/project/019c...

Welp. If you relaxed this morning, you can un-relax

What does it mean to rise, resist, and raise your voice right now? Authors and illustrators, including Jackie Woodson, Sharon Draper, Margarita Engle, are joining us for a virtual event to answer exactly that. Don’t miss it!

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.

Winston Fucking Churchill

Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction! Read more here: buff.ly/r2NOkNr

Sharing from the other site: For those who would like to make a contribution to continue the legacy of her work, Alice's GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...

Going to try this approach next time I coach my daughter’s team.

Red Cup Day is Starbucks’ biggest sales day of the year. Customers across the country line up before dawn for free reusable holiday cups, marking the kickoff of the coffee giant’s most profitable season. This year the event falls on November 13, and Starbucks Workers United, the SEIU-affiliated...

“We have seen pigeons fall from the sky, shot down by drones. My nephews & nieces cried over them as if they had lost loved ones.” In Gaza, survival means union—even across species. We're bombed together, starved together, displaced together. We do not abandon each other, says Hend Salama Abo Helow.

Spoonin wif mine tedwerd bare, Coco, on #Caturday. Hims an nise bare. #cats #catsofbluesky #blackcats

This is a perilous moment for democracy in the United States, but I couldn’t be prouder of the Knight Institute’s work right now, and I don’t take for granted that we have the freedom and resources to do it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As several Western nations announce their recognition of a Palestinian state ahead of an upcoming UN General Assembly vote, Israel is accelerating its illegal annexation measures of the occupied West Bank to render a Palestinian state impossible. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/isra... #Palestine #Israel

Forever disturbed by the way the cops are at the beck and call of the most irritating white person you've ever met as an armed hall monitor

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Pre-order THE MUSEUM OF FUTURE MISTAKES from @boa-editions.bsky.social today! www.boaeditions.org/products/the... @taliakolluri.bsky.social says, the book "takes a blade to the seams of ordinary lives to reveal the uncanny nature of the storm that roils beneath the surface for us all."

Ruh roh

we are fucking broken as a society when mainstream news publications are saying things like "the school shooting industry is worth billions"

“We have observed approximately 90% of the workers targeted for terminations due to a perceived association with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are women or nonbinary,” said an attorney representing federal staffers. (Published June)

You guys see where this is going? Right?

I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.

Agents amass in DC, unclear why or which agency. Some masked. Residents: “You’re in a church parking lot—get out!” “We don’t want you kidnapping our neighbors!” Agents start recording too. Soon decide to leave, some mockingly wave their phones. They zoom down the 25mph road, skimming by our feet.

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

"Not long after we met, I knew I wanted to spend my life with you. Let me know if you’d like these opening lines to be warmer or more emotional. Do you want me to personalize them in some way?"

It's almost like gutting the NPS and illegally firing thousands of rangers and wildland firefighters was a stupid idea.

Zohran Mamdani won Hakeem Jeffries's district by 12 points.

I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣 Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡

'Unprecedented': Israeli directive bans dozens of Americans, Europeans for advocacy - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/unprecedented-israeli-directive-bans-dozens-american-european-advocacy

Private Prisons and ICE and billionaires will get all of your money, Americans. Try to survive in Trump and the GOP's America...if you can. Inshallah.

A physician at a Sudanese clinic said basic antibiotics probably would have cured a three-year-old boy’s chest infection. The medicines had been scheduled to be delivered in February. Then the new U.S. administration froze foreign aid programs. wapo.st/4kgohOr

They are sending roving bands of masked thugs with the stated goal of kidnapping 20 million brown people to transport them to any country they can pay to take them. All this has been cleared by The Stolen Court. This is not deportation. This is ethnic cleansing.

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

Boosting -- please donate and share to help Mohamed feed and support his family.

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

‘The United States was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley knows that war is good for business.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the military technology industry: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

“The distance between what is said, and what is known to be true, has become an abyss…The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands - we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.”

Europe is so morally rotten and weak that it has left a small ship carrying food and medicine unprotected and the lives of its crew, which includes the best European person in the world, subject to the whims of the most enthusiastic and unrestrained mass murderers in the world.