Many of the superteams from last season are struggling to balance the books. The salary cap for each team is $7 million, and min/max salaries are capped according to years played. So the Aces for example have a roster of 12 vets, each of whom is expecting a significant raise from that $7m. #wnba

For people who don’t understand - as part of the pressure on the league to renegotiate pay, all but 2 of the veteran players in the WNBA signed short term contracts to ensure that they would be free agents under the new Collective Bargaining Agreement. Now big names are on the move all over.

Someone or some people in Vegas are going to have to take a massive discount . #wnba

Every single one of Curt Miller’s trades from last season has left except MHA (and I don’t expect her to stay either). #wnba

Anthropic, an AI company, hosted Christian religious leaders at its headquarters last month. Anthropic staff sought advice on how to steer Claude’s moral and spiritual development as the chatbot reacts to complex and unpredictable ethical queries.

Atlanta Dream fans while the rest of y’all keep refreshing the transaction page #wnba

The raid comes just days after Israel secretly approved 34 new illegal settlements in the West Bank.

This is too much for Shakira Austin - especially because DC have Kiki and Stef, a high draft pick this year. #wnba

Is Tash maybe headed back to DC? Because the New York numbers don’t add up anymore and DC are short a PG now that Sug is in Portland and Georgia has never played a professional game. #wnba

Ahem. 😏 #wnba

Skylar to Chicago. #wnba

Watching the Chicago Sky front office: #wnba

Madi Scott would have made more sense but go off. #wnba

I would not be surprised if Sky also went to Indiana. Close to family, Steph White matches her intensity, and physically she can probably withstand whatever bizarre training regimen they have going up there that cost so many young players their season. Although DB did say the vibes were off. #wnba

Skylar Diggins has confirmed that she’s leaving Seattle on her socials. End of an era. #wnba

Whose news are you waiting on? Now that Atlanta is more or less set mine is Skylar Diggins Gabby Williams Satou Sabally Odyssey Sims Alanna Smith BLH #wnba

Hot take - there’s no plan for Connecticut and the league is using it as a clearing house for teams that need the cap space. Also not sure if Mezziane makes a return. This might be Roneeka Hodges’ team now. #wnba

It’s like the Notre Dame W girlies are in a race to see who would have the title of “first million dollar contract in WNBA history”. Marina has won this round, although given its sheer length Arike’s will probably be the largest. Still waiting to see what Sky will do. #wnba

This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@siddharthamitter.bsky.social we got a 97.4%. The classics are making a comeback.

I guess this makes room for them to draft Azzi although it would be wild for her to go ahead of Betts. #wnba

The W is asking y’all to chill on the free agency news because you’re messing up the news cycle. We’re supposed to be talking about the draft today. 😂 #wnba

BREAKING NEWS: Lebanon's war death toll has risen to 1,950, according to the country's health ministry.

Is diplomacy dead?

My understanding is the Valkyries are in talks with Gabby Williams and I don’t expect Mo Billings to return to the team

A big reason for Atlanta’s banner year. The question now is how big BG’s discount is gonna be? #wnba

“…legal pressure is now colliding directly with OpenAI’s legislative strategy: the company is backing an Illinois bill that would shield AI labs from liability even in cases involving mass deaths or catastrophic financial harm.”

Yuck. Prediction markets should not exist and athletes should not be allowed to invest in them.

Bri Jones is coming back to Atlanta! Dream fam, we up!! #wnba

For standing against violations of international law &, more importantly, for the preservation of human life, Israel boots Spain from the Civil-Military Coordination Center, which oversees the ceasefire in Gaza, & threatens that other Weestern states will pay an “immediate price”.

Cleveland is getting a #WNBA team while New England has none.

If #WNBA GMs listened to some of y’all the Aces would have 28 players each, all front court players plus Jackie Young and KB. 😂 you realise each team can only carry 12 people right?

Do you guys know how much childcare in the US costs? I wouldn’t be surprised if Sky went to Chicago for a supermax and the chance to be close to family in Indiana so she can save money on childcare. No more ring chasing, just make sure the babies are okay. #wnba

Nneka Ogwumike is going back to LA, according to her Instagram. #wnba

I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️

How’s that Board of Peace thing going? 👀

This is an interesting framing because one presumes all the cored players will be getting million dollar deals. 😂 first by a few hours?

More people died in Israel's latest bombing of Lebanon than died in the 2020 Beirut port blast Brilliant reporting by @rayajalabi.ft.com as.ft.com/r/3d576d7b-9...

Seven Sudanese women were detained by the UAE backed Rapid Support Forces militia group in Nyala, Darfur for organising a workshop on women’s rights in international treaties Sudanese activists are asking members of the public to help advocate for their release.

"It took Israel only 10 minutes to carry out one of the worst mass-killings in Lebanon since the end of the country’s civil war in 1990." “..what I’m most sad about is that my pretty Lebanon, our beautiful Lebanon, soon it will all be brought down to the ground.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Black Sinners fans, please consider submitting all of your brilliant essay ideas to this call for abstracts by Friday, May 15, 2026, as this looks like it will be an amazing Sinners Reader: The Blues, Black Horror, and the Jim Crow South anthology, as edited by Black English prof, DuEwa M. Frazier!🔥

Both lawsuits seek financial damages and an injunction forcing the company to change its data-collection and disclosure practices.

Is this something we were wondering about?

I’d rather Atlanta took Madina Okot to play behind Bri Jones and BG. Need a more dynamic centre and more size. Also may Toronto take Raven before Indiana does - Indiana’s whack approach to training burned through 3 PGs last season and Raven deserves better. 🙏🏿 #wnba

Intriguing! If she sticks on a roster Madina would be the 2.5 Kenyan to play in the #WNBA. (Olivia Nelson-Ododa is half-Kenyan).

Sometimes I post here about the birthing moms in the W and how important they are because pregnancy and childbirth are still cited as reasons to stop women pursuing sports. Last week Emma Bates, one of the most decorated runners in the US, was dropped by a sponsor because she announced a pregnancy.

If your #WNBA team has had a coaching change, how many women have they hired as assistants? Someone should run the numbers on the assistant coaches too.

Fam, Chennedy Carter has history with Atlanta. I think she’s a hooper and deserves to be in the league but there are a lot of burned bridges with Atlanta - and the team does not need another shooting guard. #wnba

A day of pain in Lebanon. Reporting soon @irishtimes.com