fun random thing from the first game of mariners-tigers: that was jim sinegal, costco founder and of “if you raise the price of the fucking hot dog i’ll kill you” fame, sitting front row with his family

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

La squadra di ciclismo Israel-Premier Tech cambierà nome nel 2026

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

"A free education is incompatible with fascism. Education is likely to be one of the great battlegrounds upon which is waged an intense and desperate struggle for power." —John Dewey and Goodwin Watson, “The Forward View”

Pretty boring to see Americans and Europeans jack off against each other over who is more fucked up politically

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

it's been repeatedly proven that giving people free money is cheaper than not doing it

With TRON ARES about to hit, here’s a bit I wrote for @crooked-marquee.bsky.social on the original TRON and it’s fabulous composer, the amazing Wendy Carlos

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

MLS 🐐, that’s it

legitimately the most country and western thing about Zach Bryan is that he is reflexively, militantly anti-cop. nothing more country than that.

Some context on what this might mean: last weekend Zach Bryan played the largest ticketed concert in US history, selling 112,408 seats at Michigan Stadium.

At some point fans who blame the US will have to come to terms with the fact that this development is just the natural consequence of the meritocratic pyramid system at work as it’s intended. It’s always been about haves and have nots, and those that have can get to have even more

Uefa going out of its way to disavow something it has actually approved is a real head scratcher. Reminder that Relevent, which filed the lawsuit in favour of overseas games in the US, is a Uefa partner. 😵‍💫

Here's the top U18 players (2007 born or younger) 🥇: Rayan Elloumi - Whitecaps 2: 26 points, (2.10 p96) 🥈: Stefan Chirila - FC Cincinnati 2: 24 (1.07) Then a 3 way tie for third with 23 🥉: C. Adams - Crew II: (1.27 p96) 🥉: J. Lacher - NYCFC II: (1.03) 🥉: M. Saja - Miami II: (1.00)

With the MLS Next Pro season officially over, it's as good a time as any to revisit the top players by MVP Points (explainer linked): 🥇: Sam Sarver - North Texas SC: 42 points, (1.81 p96) 🥈: Yu Tsukanome - Tacoma Defiance: 41 (1.74) 🥉: Jason Shokalook - Chicago Fire II: 47 (2.10)

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

I will never fully give up my stock on Pellegrino island. He’s the clear evidence of just how much the right context matters, but at San Diego the question isn’t if he’s as good as the guy at Bodø, he just needs to be a serviceable compliment to the DPs and he’s been the best in the spot so far

Denkey’s goal is goal of the season right? Not really a question imho, every single part of that play is performed in the best way possible to a soccer player

Rapids are an order of magnitude better with Bassett as an 8 and an actual winger on the wing but for whatever reason Armas has spent the whole stretch run playing Bassett as a winger and the Rapids are going to miss the playoffs because of it.

This is a totally reasonable question to ask. Carnell was fired in the middle of last year, was out of a job 12 months ago. To go from that to lifting the Shield is a hell of a journey. *Of course* anyone covering the game wants to hear Carnell's thoughts on it.

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Supporting Dc United must be like living perennially in the “worst day of your life so far” meme

🇬🇪🔥 In Tbilisi, protesters set up barricades and set them on fire!

Chelsea ad boards at Stamford Bridge promoting their “soccer schools” cc: every asshole from the UK who’s ever been in my mentions

I’ll be honest I didn’t imagine I’d see a future where Taylor Swift not only knows what Real Madrid is but name drops it into one of her songs

Idk if it’s because I just switched to Apple Music and the new TS album is one of the first full length albums I’ve listened on it, but the sounds and the palette on this record is insane. And for an artist that has been refusing to write hooks recently, there are more than I expected. THE SWEDES!!!

We’ve reached peak dude. This is too many dudes.

After 2 rounds, the USA leads the U20 World Cup in: xG xG Against* Field Tilt Field Tilt Against PPDA in attacking third Possession Started in Final Third (tied w/ Colombia) They are 2nd in: Possession Set Piece xG

Frankie Westfields High Value Actions tonight (either progressive or +0.015 g+)

This feels like Jokic propaganda, and it’s time we had a serious conversation about Jokić being unable to elevate any of his teammates to all star status. LeBron made Mo Williams in All-Star. KG made Wally Szczerbiak an All-Star in a west that had Duncan, Dirk, Webber, Sheed and Malone at F

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

I came up with an idea on how to counter the most uncounter-able play in all of soccer. My idea is probably pretty dumb, but writing dumb things has never stopped me from publishing them before so here it is: medium.com/@alessandroa...

this album is so good and honestly messy is kinda one of the least interesting songs music.apple.com/it/album/im-...

"that's a cross" "across from where?"

four goalkeepers? in this economy?

I had the worst lunch. Honestly. Maybe @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social could cover the rise in the far right, in racist attacks and, you know, the effect on millions of British people instead of platforming them every night I'd settle for @theguardian.com doing even basic coverage of racism in the UK

El ataque de Israel contra la Flotilla Global Sumud es un crimen contra el derecho internacional. Exijimos a Israel la liberación inmediata de cualquier detenido. La UE debe romper relaciones con Israel ya.

My occasional collaborator Kap Su Seol has good details on what happened with the South Korean workers who got ICEd and the international politics and economics at work here: jacobin.com/2025/10/trum...

The year is 2003. 17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity." Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how the Trump plan for Gaza is eerily similar in its premises to the plan that both Trump’s envoy and Putin have been asking for Ukraine, asking the most vulnerable party to completely concede on every single point

The whole world agrees that Israel and the US are committing a genocide. Now Palestinians are being asked to accept a deal that gives the US and Israel full control with no guarantees of peace. Israel has broken the ceasefire in Lebanon hundreds of times and attacked 6 countries in 2 yrs.

I struggle to think of an editorial board that's been more overtly racist and genocidal that the NY Times one. This is on the level of Putinist bullshit about denazifying Ukraine.

Or, maybe, Israel could go 10 minutes without murdering civilians.