Idea: mandatory retirement age for Congress equivalent to the average U.S. life expectancy (79) so they actually care about improving it.

on background is out. on foreground is in

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Absolute find!

That opinion is not restricted to those classes sadly as the reaction to the shuttering of USAID showed.

The highs are among the best episodes of tv ever produced and the lows are almost camp. No show like it on tv imo

Hey, I wrote a thing! It's about why MLS might want to be more like the NBA and not the NFL, as it has more natural similarities with the modern MLS. One thing I didn't write was how the NBA really has understood the social media content creators culture. They've created programs to allow content

"you should continue to invest untold sums in our company regardless of the state of our present books because if you keep the faith one day we'll be a profit-engorged behemoth like the public utilities"

Was the ref in San Diego-Toluca really arguing that Ingvartsen wasn’t playing the ball on that first penalty?

never ceases to amaze me how the modern conservative movement is full of the most pathetic, cowardly people on earth

I think San Diego might be a problem.

From Player to Coach | João Paulo's Seattle Sounders Journey youtu.be/KRWyvtotdcQ

From my kids school experience: thus cap forced pta to cease funding of school supplies and stop underwriting afterschool enrichment. Seems a suboptimal directive.

Oscar Pareja was the second longest tenured head coach in MLS. 1. Brian Schmetzer, Seattle — 2016, midseason 2. Greg Vanney, LA Galaxy — 2021 3. Pablo Mastroeni, Real Salt Lake — 2021, midseason

Maybe the funniest thing about all the “outrage” ginned up by Clay Travis and Alexi Lalas about my questions to Brian Schmetzer, apparently not a single Twitter user was bothered enough to actually come after me on Twitter. Just lots of name-calling in the responses, but no one actually @-ing me.

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

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It’s kinda weird that verified 6-foot-1 Jake Paul is like an inch taller than 6-3 Donald Trump, right?

Reed Baker-Whiting gets his first start for Nashville.

Interestingly, Freddy Juarez is filling in for Brian Schmetzer at today’s Matchday -1 presser ahead of the CCC match.

My online shop is having a sale with triblend t-shirts as low as $22. Support Auntie Pho you know you want to (or should be) likkitp.threadless.com/designs/aunt...

I once got 955 comments telling me to kill myself for writing a dumb Athletic column so I expect that basketball guy to stop before hitting 956 out of respect

TIL there was a ‘formal’ boycott of Target that could be called off. Meanwhile, most of us have simply stopped shopping there.

WE HAVE AN EPISODE FOR THAT @chrislhayes.bsky.social: youtu.be/CfqRx8cA7b4?...

That Spokane trip lines up with March Madness, and the NCAA told teams "extreme flexibility ... will be necessary" because of a nationwide charter aircraft shortage.

For those wondering, the Sounders have apparently always bussed to VAN but now mostly fly to PDX (I don’t know why). More interestingly, they’re flying commercial to Spokane. Apparently, the charter industry is squeezed such that it became prohibitively expensive for what is a 45-minute flight.

If you’re willing to fire your coach after three weeks, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t just do it in the offseason.

Seattle Sounders defender Nouhou reacts to his new contract extension that will keep him with the club through the 2028-2029 season with club options for 2029-2030. #sounders #soundersfc #mls #soccer #nouhou

While cities largely knew what they were getting into, ticket prices have clearly changed the dynamic. Any city would be crazy to sign up for another FIFA event without a hard ban on dynamic pricing and enforceable guarantee on ticket costs.

Just thee league games so far but Vancouver have been extra parsimonious on defense in 2026, even compared to 2025 when they were near league best. They’ve allowed just one goal in the first five games all comps. Sounders have got a task ahead of them in CCC.

We didn’t get a time-table for Yeimar’s return but Schmetzer did note that the CB’s MRI is being sent to a specialist in England. Schmetzer quipped that “it’s not good” when you do that.

Brian Schmetzer called the choice between Danny Musovski and Osaze De Rosario at striker is “one of the toughest choices I’ve got.” Fresh off signing a new deal, I think De Rosario is likely to get another start but Schmetzer noted that fixture congestion will give Musovski plenty of opportunities.

Everyone stop what you're doing, the Mariners are selling fries, nachos, and fish and chips in ferries now. www.mlb.com/mariners/bal...

NEW: The Pike Place PDA reports foot traffic was up 5.4% in 2025 (first year of the pedestrianization pilot) over 2024, 8.5% over 2023.🚶🏼‍♀️📈 They say 2025 was "the strongest year ever for percent rent" (a sales metric based on their tenants income). Overall they were $4.7 million in the black.💲📈

Hassani Dotson in concussion protocol so won’t be available vs Vancouver. Apparently happened in St. Louis although he played whole game.

Paul Rothrock is back in training.

We had previously reported on new deals for Alex Roldan, Danny Musovski and Nouhou but apparently Osaze De Rosario has a new deal too. www.soundersfc.com/news/sounder...

and notice how he doesn't form a commission to outlaw doing steroids and jacking off

What's hilarious is that these putatively commie-hating right-wing anti-coffee bros all end up sounding like Karl Marx

TL;DR I’m pretty sure the Sounders still have somewhere between $3M-$3.9M of GAM regardless of what last Friday’s release says.

A kind of funny scheduling thing I just noticed: Seattle and Vancouver have the same pair of opponents on the weekends following their CCC matches. VAN host Minnesota this weekend and SJ the following, and SEA visit SJ, then Minnesota.

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

As I’ve started to expect recently, they won’t actually be ripping out the FieldTurf at Lumen. They’ll be burying it under like a foot of grass. It’s a bit deeper than what they did last summer, but very similar. www.seattletimes.com/sports/world...

I’m going to guess they were gambling on legal sites.

I’m a simple man but if you film your commercial in my neighborhood while carting around a bike and then close it out with a “on your left pun” you’ve definitely got my attention. (More fun puns in politics!)

the san jose state volleyball player who outed a teammate in the cruelest way is doing interviews again and making it clear she was mad because … the trans teammate was her friend. like an actual friend that cared about her. she freaked out because she realized she was friends with a trans person

Musovski hasn’t started a game and is already among the leaders for raw xG.

I want you toknow that proclamations like this come from the softest dude you will ever meet whose greatest challenge in life is waiting ten minutes in line at Merridee's

Home teams started 17-1-3 and have gone 9-11-3 since. That includes road wins by two truly terrible teams (Montreal & Toronto) today.