Reluctant Rebel

Can't emphasize enough how much this shit sucks from a nonprofit whose stated mission is to "grow the game" and "ignite a national passion for soccer"

HOLY SHIT...Dest just made a tackle on the edge of his box! #USMNT

And more to the point, on which heading and at what speed is he wearing it?

I'm at the end of book 1 of the Rick Atkinson's trilogy, The British are Coming. Think it's been mostly free of the "this was all good, just, noble" narrative.

Currently reading 'The British are Coming' by Rick Atkinson and I am extremely excited for the new Ken Burns/Sarah Botstein doc on PBS starting tomorrow.

It's rewarding with a decent plan and prep.

I recommend the Rock N Roll half in DC. If you can do 8k, you can do a half. Think it's in March. Great fun. Lots of support from n'hoods.

YouTube video by There I Ruined It I made a song entirely from 50 country artists singing "cold beer"

Ice Cold Beer: youtu.be/lR2pslqKNP8?...

And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?

Sorry, just have to do this thing real quick.

Instead of saying "MAGA" just say "Republican". They are they same thing at the moment. MAGA let's Republicans off the hook.
They can end this shit any time they want. They don't want to.

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

A photo of Corporal Max Klinger from M*A*S*H in a bright yellow dress with a pink and white parasol; the text reads "M*A*S*H is owned by Fox, Fox was bought by Disney...Cpl. Klinger is now a Disney Princess."

This is now canon, I don't make the rules

Jay Jones repeats an old joke: CANDIDATE SENT VIOLENT TEXTS!!

Mamdani gives nuanced answer about protest slogan: ZOHRAN TERRORIST!!

Email confirms Trump spent hours at Epstein’s house with victim: “Documents suggest Mr. Trump may have been more aware of Mr. Epstein’s alleged activities than….”

From a Bluesky post on which the author chose to disable quote-tweets (fair enough, and I wouldn't quote it if I weren't complimenting it: "Instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters.""

This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.

Sounds based to me. More politicians should follow sex workers. Sex work is work and sexuality is normal. The weird thing is when religious people are conditioned to toxically entangle their faith & shame with regular sexual desires. The weird thing is stigmatizing & criminalizing working people.

The thing is the moderate position is Nuremberg but instead we’re gonna get at least a decade of chickenshit talking about “professionalization,” training, and body cams- their priors are saying publicly how many “good jobs” the prison industry brings to their districts & how important cops are

all of this is also true for sexism. you tell me you think women are biologically less smart and i’ll suspect that i could probably convince you to drink your own piss

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

The emergence of Nadine and the Harried Brainstormer:

I still firmly believe that Mamdani is going to need physical security that isn't (just) NYPD.

DC should HAVE a governor! #DCStatehood

Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'.

Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy.

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I like that Dark Woke has a patriotism rooted in the Civil War. We need this.

I don't know Maryland Democrats but it might be a good time to tell western Maryland voters that the Republican party doesn't really care if they get f*cked. Is this too easy? Probably. I'm no big-brained politics doer though.

Meat of the schedule coming up. Mostly top ten teams between now and new years, but if they can bank some decent points while they're playing good ball, they can be most of the way clear of relegation.

Early season and Sunderland isn't deep, but 2 in the table is pretty sweet, and they're clearly playing for each other on what seems to be the same page tactically.

Sunderland played nearly flawless in the last ~15min away v Chelsea. Aggressive defense paired with textbook counterattacking soccer.
Chelsea were timid, wasting their last 2 corners, one short that turned to nothing, and one over the endline to end the game.