The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Heritage American just means your ancestors owned slaves and committed genocide.

The Spirit Squadron’s statement on the ongoing negotiations regarding Trinity Rodman’s contract and the salary cap.

Remember when @nwslsoccer.com defended former @sandiegowavefc.com, Ron Burkle, when he was named in court documents as having knowledge of Epstein's sex trafficking. Here is a freshly released picture of Epstein with Bill Clinton and who appears to be Ron Burkle.

"you're a man" ad hominem "you were born a boy" sunk cost fallacy "you're amab" false dichotomy "you have xy chromosomes" false equivalence "trans people are mentally ill" non sequitur "changing your sex isn't possible" skill issue

one reason i adore women's sports is because large portions of every fanbase aren't fooled by bullshit. most fans in men's sports accept pro-owner/anti-labor arguments, but nwsl and wnba fans right now are both saying 'nope we see what you're trying to do, just pay players what they're worth k thx.'

BREAKING: The NWSLPA opposes the #NWSL's proposed "High Impact Player" rule. PA exec. dir. Meghann Burke tells @espn.com that the NWSL is controlling and interfering with which players can access a certain pot of funds. The PA's proposal is to raise the cap by $1M, the proposed "HIP" amount. MORE:

The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.

Many have tried but no one can kill the MLS SuperDraft, it's too powerful

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Anyways I’m here on MLS SuperDraft day, the holiest day of the year, to remind you of the greatest social media handle in the history of SuperDraft picks. MLS peaked at this very moment.

NWSL champ Jess Carter had strong words on the racist, anti-trans rhetoric targeting Black players. “[I]f you're making these comments, it's probably because you're not beating them… Because if you were winning, you wouldn't care.” More w/her here: im-curious-roey.beehiiv.com/p/im-curious...

Notice how Trump and Republicans were having the worst couple weeks in the administration's history and they decided to pivot to hardcore attacking trans people?

Let's be clear: this is an attempt to erase trans people from existence. The policy itself is going to kill kids, and it's not many steps from this to things like banning gender affirming care for adults, designating transness itself a mental illness, etc etc.

the republican obsession with trans people is creepy and fucked up

Frame: these African women soccer players aren't really women Negation: actually they were all assigned female at birth Kirby: TRANSPHOBES ARE ALWAYS RACISTS. They are trying to define whose bodies are acceptable. The league must reject that project, not claim to meet its standards

Today, Wednesday, marked 14 days from the NWSLPA's grievance filed on behalf of Trinity Rodman against the NWSL. Sources tell me that the deadline for the league's response to sustain or deny the grievance in writing has been extended. Full context of the grievance and process 👇

you don’t have to watch that man, you could do all kinds of healthier things… like drinking bleach

Pay-to-attend #WorldCup26 Fan Festival tickets are now on sale: www.ticketmaster.com/fifa-fan-fes...

Nigeria, Malawi, Zambia, and Ivory Coast are new additions to the travel ban list of countries with partial restrictions 🫠

I don’t understand how geographically it’s the right call for San Jose. We would be taking away the teams that are geographically the closest. San Jose to LA = ~360 miles San Jose to Portland= ~670 miles It will kill fan travel culture.

RIP Cali Clasico. 1996-2027

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

Crucial difference between the Rodman & Wilson deals: Rodman's reported contract was a 4-year deal, NWSL's apparent objection was over the cap hit in 2028-29. Wilson had a player-held option for one season, and chose to exercise it. The contract was already accepted by NWSL.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

congratulations on a history full of lawsuits, firing casey stoney while she was out of the country, hiring jill ellis, landon donovan, and rebecca lowe's husband, losing naomi girma and jaedyn shaw, forfeiting a home game due to a poor pitch that also tore megan rapinoe's achilles, and so much more

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

🧵Amnesty International, and numerous allies including @sportrightsall.bsky.social, recently wrote to FIFA and numerous football federations, to reiterate our concerns regarding the FIFA 2034 World Cup in #SaudiArabia.

the good that you do persists in this world

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.

Cena should have left the jorts in the ring

Lmmaaaoooooo all these people heartbroken. YOU THOUGHT CENA WAS GOING TO WIN HIS LAST MATCH?

Camera work crazy focusing on those faces

The Last Time is Now

This is exactly what I've heard from those inside the VA. They're basically trying to protect everything they can in hopes that it will rebuildable after this administration.

Doctors say a Supreme Court decision on conversion therapy could weaken protections for LGBTQ+ youth across the country, affecting laws in about 20 states. Read more www.sfpublicpress.org/health-exper... #SCOTUS #LGBTQRights #HealthPolicy

Can we have a day this week where I’m not crashing out about one of my soccer clubs?

The high impact criteria is bullshit, likely would result in racist outcomes and the NWSLPA should think long and hard before agreeing to it. bsky.app/profile/nott...

On the one hand, more ways for players to be paid what they're worth is good. On the other hand, tying it to metrics like 'commercial profiles' seems like a way the Bandas and Chawingas and Manakas of the world could have their earnings capped for no good reason.

Again, as a reminder, Naomi Girma wasn't even nominated for a BDO the year she won a Shield and a gold medal while playing every minute. She'd qualify because she's a US player, but we haven't dealt with our biases enough to tie people's salaries to this. Ion like it.

Yeah, man. Marketability is directly affected by our biases. Especially racism/colorism/featurism. We gotta be honest about these things even when a higher potential salary isn't tied to it. The fact that a higher salary is tied to it isn't great. That 2020 work folks were supposed to do, get to it.

I'm told that Paul Rothrock is in advanced conversations with the San Jose Earthquakes & all though there are a couple of other clubs still interested, #Quakes74 is currently the front runner. The #Sounders haven't closed the door on Rothrock but ultimately is up to the player.

The most embarrassing part is that she is a contract lawyer by trade

turns out signing a cba then vetoing a proposed contract by claiming it "violates the spirit of the rule" gets the attention of contract lawyers and congressional oversight committees

so Jess… before you lose your job… wanna radically change course and start listening to people who know better?

Lmfao NWSL gone end up on the hill and in court being foolish.