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A fancy pigeon strutting with a top hat on his little head, painted in acrylic over a maroon background

I was right he did need a top hat.

a combination urgent care and taco bell

I'm at the combination

nwsl owners do not want to have the best league in the world, they want widespread mediocrity that they can position as 'parity' and 'the most competitive league.' it's literally the nfl model attempted in a sport with a global market that can and will leave the nwsl behind.

"We want Trinity in the NWSL and we will fight for her." -Jessica Berman, November 20, 2025

As always, actions speak louder than words.

Fallon continuing his tradition of making some of the worst people in the world seem self deprecating, lovable, and harmless

Kyrsten Sinema is getting paid to push for a Chandler data center When the ex-senator threatened Chandler over a data center, she was working as a paid lobbyist. She might suck at it.

When Kyrsten Sinema spoke in favor of an AI data center at an Oct. 16 Chandler City Council meeting, she failed to mention she was there as a paid lobbyist.

Now, Sinema may have created an opposition she hoped to avoid.

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Chelsea lol

Amen to that, particularly with how Beltway media is access journalism. Same applies to academia.

Nuzzi bears her own responsibility for any deaths caused by RFK Jr heading HHS.

Leeds 👀

The Trump regime is harassing black and brown immigrants – including U.S. citizens – to get them to leave the country. The racists have changed costumes and methods: Instead of men in bedsheets burning crosses, it's masked thugs smashing car windows, zip-tying kids and tear-gassing neighborhoods.

MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report.

Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.

Anti-vaxxers are the scum of the earth and have no place in any society. These quacks at the FDA, RFK Jr. included, should be labeled as murderers and dealt with the same way the gestapo will be dealt with.

they want you and your family dead

Bill Kristol has gone so far left he's joined us in chastising Hakeem Jeffries for being a morally bankrupt turd. He's gonna be Che in like a week at this rate

Nigel Farage aide fronted Tony Bloom’s £600m betting syndicate, court told High Court claim alleges George Cottrell was the ‘whale’ for betting syndicate of Brighton owner, who has special dispensation from the FA to gamble on football

This story has everything, man.

The fact that one of the main figures is a Premier League owner nicknamed "The Lizard" who has an exemption to anti-gambling rules because he's a professional gambler yet he STILL probably broke the rules, is just one part of it. www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Stories are there, but they float, and only when one begins to listen, ask, and pay attention do they land. In an era governed by the tyranny of speed, stories are always afloat because few actually care about others’ stories, and the excuse is that they don’t have time. We are governed by speed because we allow speed to govern us. The cab driver’s father-in-law’s frostbites, just like nursing assistants’ body aches, are inconsequential for us and this world but are significant for them. They embody not only the pain of their bodies but the pain of this era. Their bodies become where pain clings to so that fewer others will need to experience pain. I’d like to invite my readers to slow down, even just a little bit, and to care for others’ stories, especially the bodily ones. Ethnography has an unforgiving quality to it because when you see people in the field, you can’t unsee them; when you hear someone’s stories, you can’t unhear them. Ethnography can never be tidy because it’s so close to an ever-messy, changing, and vibrant being that is life. To try to smooth out the ethnography is equivalent to leaving out the “unpretty” people and corners. I slowed down when faced with such “unprettiness” – I dwelled on it. This is my ethnographic responsibility – to not speed up when coming across the unprettiness but to stare right at it long and hard. from Yueqi Alex Cheng, "Reinventing Care: Nursing Assistants’ Embodied Resistance Working in Public Hospitals in Changsha, Hunan" for Graduate Liberal Studies at Duke University, December 2025.

Two committee members, Anne Whisnant and Eileen Chow, and a third, Ralph Litzinger, off camera, plus the new MA herself, Yueqi Cheng

Had our first graduate thesis defense of the academic year here at Duke - for Yueqi Chen's absolutely lyrical ethnography on nurses' aides working in public hospitals in Hunan, China.

Sharing, with permission, a beautiful passage from Yueqi's thesis which I found really moving:
#everynightapoem

Lawsuits allege USA Gymnastics, SafeSport failed to prevent sexual abuse by coach The former coach at the center of the cases was arrested in August on federal child pornography charges.

Two gymnasts have accused USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Center for SafeSport and the owners of a prominent Iowa-based youth gymnastics facility of failing to prevent a former coach from sexually abusing girls, according to civil lawsuits.

Come on, man.

US: ICE Arrest at FIFA Event Spotlights Dangers for World Cup The arrest and return of an asylum seeker who took his children to the Club World Cup soccer tournament final on July 13, 2025, raises serious concerns about the safety of noncitizens attending the 20...

@hrw.org has documented the case of a man who was arrested at the final of the FIFA Club World Cup, which he had been attending with his young sons, and deported. www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

A Fentanyl Vaccine Is About to Get Its First Major Test ARMR Sciences of New York is trialing a vaccine in the Netherlands to protect against fentanyl-related overdose and death.

NEW: A first-of-its-kind vaccine for fentanyl overdose is about to be tested in people. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/a-fent...

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Why do I love living in Boston? Yo-Yo Ma playing the Bach cello suites before bringing Mayor Wu out to duet for an encore, that’s why.

We know now that martial law was lifted in about six hours, but that night, none of us knew what we were in for. South Korea remains deeply divided, and politicians continue to politicize the incident for their own gain. But it’s the power of the people that will stay with me for a long time.

Today marks one year since the Dec. 3, 2024 martial law declaration that rocked South Korea and still reverberates today. What’s on my mind today is the grit of South Koreans who rushed to the National Assembly that night, in freezing weather, to demand a return to democratic government.

Iconic image from the night of martial law

Bloody hell, Michele Kang is ruthless. This is the front office equivalent of signing away Orlando Pride's best player.

He always gets the mute button when I grudgingly watch Fox's coverage of the sport

I'm retroactively glad that didn't happen, even though I had no idea what English football was at the time