United are a mess and that wasn't exactly a demolition but there was still more than enough today to say: hey look, some players back and midweek rest and Spurs look a lot better.

So stupid. They just threw off the gloves at the start, with no provocation. They start fighting an hour earlier and it is assault. Do it once the game starts, and it is normal and fine. If you like fighting, watch boxing or UFC. It is idiotic that this isn't just allowed but de facto encouraged.

Love what Ange stands for. And I think he's been unlucky. But starting with Deki, Bergvall, and Bentancur in midfield with the FBs also pushing up aggressively away from home? Insane decision. If that's your midfield, you need to play a double pivot or keep one of the FBs back. But no. #tottenham

Bentancur awful and Deki & Bergvall leaving him out to dry. Tel awful on the left. Danso touch is poor. Porro poor (again). Kinsky poor. Sarr's decisions bad (again). Son looking a bit cooked. Didn't see the Liverpool game, but it musta been real bad if this was an improvement for #Tottenham.

People really see that as the final straw for Ange? A fixture we never win? With a completely depleted squad? Onto the next, COYS

Antonin Kinsky *exists* Spurs after a month of Fraser Forster: KINSKY IS OUR NEW GOD

Manhattan should look like Tokyo and Long Island should look like the Netherlands. LA should look like CDMX and Barcelona. We need to build our way out of this.

there needs to be a specific term for this, for when successful countermeasures are later taken as evidence that the issue was overblown. See: Y2K, the Ozone Hole, Vaccines. Hindblight or something.

watching spielberg’s WAR OF THE WORLDS for the first time in some years and that first attack set piece is, uh, way more upsetting than i remembered

92% reduction in injury claims compared to a human driver, over 25 million miles? Sounds pretty safe to me. Where can I sign up? www.theverge.com/2024/12/19/2...

Infuriating. Between Biden’s infirmity, his ego, and his team’s greater loyalty to him than to country or party, they both put the country at risk during his presidency and handed the WH to his nemesis. https://www.wsj.com/politics/biden-white-house-age-function-diminished-3906a839?st=Cf7dGH

Amen! It’s gotten way too dangerous out here on these streets. https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2024/12/18/traffic-tickets-towing-fake-car-tags-scofflaw

It's been a heck of a year! www.theverge.com/24323593/way...

Tottenham would win the league if they could play Southampton or Man City every week

I'm endlessly kind of baffled by the lack of urgency on housing California. This is the state's number one problem—a crisis so bad that's imperiling national Democratic ambitions. And all we can pass are heavily compromised bills that take effect in like five years, if ever.

Matthew Futterman isn't just a superb sports journalist, he's as good a journalist, in any genre, as there is working today. This is as heartbreaking as it is excellently written. Horrible that so many men like this get away w/it and that so many women have suffered. www.nytimes.com/athletic/596...

After 7+ hours in a plane, my back was happy not to get a Tesla 3 for my Uber in CA. Got a Ford Mustang Mach-E instead. What is the deal with these awful American EVs? Stiff as a board ride that rattles the teeth. And uncomfortable back seats that are even stiffer. 😡

My issue with the criticism towards Ange is that most of it is exaggerated, lacks context, or is just straight up based on nonsense. There are areas where he got to improve. But those things shrink in comparison to how much his coaching and leadership is a credit to the badge.

I learned this more than a decade ago as a productivity/management tactic. I didn't have time to stay on top of all the news, and I gambled that my reports would bring me what I needed or that I'd hear about it passively. Totally worked out (and I too work in a field where news is a critical input)!

What a gloriously ridiculous team we are #COYS

But: Of all the strange Tottenham wins over City, I make this the best.

Apropos of nothing...

Every word @jerusalem.bsky.social writes here is gospel truth. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Population migration to red states from blue ones isn’t an act of God, it’s the direct result of failed housing policies in Democratic led states.

Fascinating, and saddening, article. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

I’m glad she’s home. www.fws.gov/press-releas...

Four of the world's top female tennis players replaced their coaches recently. In all 4 cases, they dumped a male coach to hire another man. A bit perplexing to me that there is not one female coach in the mix. www.nytimes.com/athletic/589...

The Freddie Freeman slam is going to go down as this century's version of the Gibby walk-off. An iconic, historic, dramatic moment that set the stage for a Dodgers World Series win against another behemoth team.

Absolute all-time disaster game from the Yankees. I don’t have words.

Preach!!

Let's go Dodgers!!!!

Weird observation. The crowd volume of Yankee Stadium on the Fox broadcast is so much quieter than the LA games. Is that because the stadium is actually a lot quieter these 3 games, or is it just a different sound mix by Fox? The crowd energy just feels super muted compared to the games in LA.

Would love to break NYC and have that haunt them forever

Lads, it's United.

And the Spurs go marching on!

there should be tornado sirens but for auroras so everybody knows when to go look

this is gonna be what solving the housing crisis looks like in a ton of US cities with high prices

Yes! www.axios.com/local/washin...

United go a man down when down a goal at home, and ETH makes defensive subs, playing not to lose worse. Ange would never.

Best 45 of the season, but we really, really should be further ahead

Late. High. Studs up. Can’t dispute it.

It’s hard to come up with a more obvious own-goal of policy than deterring international students. They bring in revenue, they build relationships and soft power, they either bring in talent or export values and ways of thinking… just win-win-win, and yet…

It's stories like this that motivate me and my Waymo colleagues to continue acting with urgency. Safe autonomous driving technology, like the Waymo Driver, can contribute to achieving Vision Zero, which is urgently needed. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Billie Jean King with Snoop Dogg: "Both of us were born and raised in Long Beach, California, and graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School. LBC forever in our hearts."

Why does NBC insist on showing the number of sets won rather than just the set scores for tennis and volleyball etc.? The tiny amount of upper left hand screen real estate they save isn't nearly as important as giving viewers that critical info. Just stupid. #olympics #Paris2024

Paris's hottest club is Five Rings. This place has everything! Singing decapitated royals. A metal horse that is also a boat. Queer threesomes. Bearded ladies, amputees, and giants. A burning airship. GOATS. The ghost of Celine Dion. And flags... so many flags. #Olympics #openingceremony #Paris2024

Important thread. Glad @kenwhite.bsky.social got the help he needed, and his advice is 100% right. If you need help, get help. F' the stigma. Health is health. If not for professional mental health help that he got, I would have lost my father 25 years earlier. I'm so grateful for that extra time.

This is one of the worst things I've ever watched in my whole life.