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MLS’s Polymarket deal looks even worse after players’ gambling bans | Leander Schaerlaeckens With its credibility swaying in the wake of a betting scandal, the very last thing the league needed was to be in business with a prediction platform

Well whaddya know, @leanderalphabet.bsky.social nailed it. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

10.03.2026 18:19 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Weston McKennie!

25.02.2026 21:46 👍 101 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 7
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MLS’s calendar flip is coming. Clubs are already planning how to exploit it

Starting next year, MLS will align itself with big European leagues and become a summer-to-spring operation. Executives see the change as an opportunity

18.02.2026 14:32 👍 39 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 6
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LA Lakers Co-Owner’s Firm Linked to Proposed $80 Million ICE Warehouse Deal in Texas The unwelcome facility would detain up to 9,500 people

NEWS: LA Lakers Co-Owner’s Firm Linked to Proposed $80 Million ICE Warehouse Deal in Texas — a massive facility that could detain up to 9,500 people.

14.02.2026 00:04 👍 6244 🔁 4234 💬 784 📌 557
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DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’ Immigration officials said agent shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, but records obtained by the Guardian reveal US prosecutor contradicted claims

After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting.

But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:

03.02.2026 00:45 👍 2660 🔁 990 💬 45 📌 102
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Inter Miami have reloaded for 2026 in a way no other MLS team could have Lionel Messi’s presence has been crucial to the defending champions’ excellent offseason

NEW: Inter Miami’s offseason has launched dreams of a dynasty, carefully recalibrating without Alba and Busquets and upgrading weaknesses at the back.

Just don’t view it as evidence of a new era for MLS squad building. On a cap-navigation trick no team can match. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

02.02.2026 15:27 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 2
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Benito's reaction in video form

02.02.2026 04:38 👍 1035 🔁 202 💬 11 📌 30
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Liam goes home…

www.instagram.com/reel/DUOW4_E...

01.02.2026 18:49 👍 18473 🔁 3798 💬 793 📌 451
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"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota

Via DonHarris4/X

27.01.2026 19:59 👍 12107 🔁 2445 💬 127 📌 190

This part of his quote is obviously and rightfully getting the headlines but the end of the clip is just as important:

"Saying everything that's on my mind would have a cost that's too great for me right now...I know I'm a foreigner and I am concerned, for sure."

27.01.2026 20:34 👍 299 🔁 114 💬 4 📌 2

Asked about Minneapolis, Victor Wembanyama says, “PR has tried, but I’m not going to sit here and be politically correct.”

Then says “it’s crazy that people make it seem like … the murder of civilians is acceptable.”

27.01.2026 18:53 👍 2645 🔁 471 💬 30 📌 102
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Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

25.01.2026 16:36 👍 2570 🔁 727 💬 54 📌 79

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

25.01.2026 01:15 👍 23334 🔁 11262 💬 440 📌 692
The occupation of Minneapolis: resisting Trump’s ICE 'invasion' | Anywhere but Washington
The occupation of Minneapolis: resisting Trump’s ICE 'invasion' | Anywhere but Washington YouTube video by The Guardian

Guardian investigative correspondent Oliver Laughland and video producer Tom Silverstone report from the front lines of ordinary Americans’ war with Trump’s ICE hit squads in Minneapolis and its Minnesota environs.

@oliverlaughland.bsky.social @tomsilverstone.bsky.social
@atrupar.com

24.01.2026 12:22 👍 20 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
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Man killed in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse Alex Pretti: ‘He wanted to help people’ Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research

“He wanted to help people. He was a super nice, super helpful guy," said @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social, who worked with ICU nurse Alex Pretti.

Pretti's dad recalls that his son "was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis."

@melodyschreiber.com reports:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

24.01.2026 21:31 👍 61 🔁 36 💬 1 📌 4
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NBA star Tyrese Halliburton speaks out

25.01.2026 01:49 👍 18419 🔁 3638 💬 244 📌 140
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Rare NRA pushback against the Trump administration regarding law enforcement shooting Americans with guns

25.01.2026 01:49 👍 322 🔁 117 💬 20 📌 24
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

25.01.2026 00:43 👍 24923 🔁 12847 💬 200 📌 448

I truly understand the pleas for ICE to leave Minnesota. But leaving MN to go terrorize other states isn’t what anyone wants.

ICE/DHS is kidnapping and murdering people in the streets AND IN DETENTION CENTERS.

Abolishing ICE - and holding its leaders & agents accountable- is the absolute minimum.

25.01.2026 01:50 👍 693 🔁 165 💬 7 📌 9

block immediately everyone

16.01.2026 23:56 👍 2022 🔁 1030 💬 1 📌 1

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

16.01.2026 22:15 👍 17775 🔁 6343 💬 52 📌 327
Homeland Security
@DHSgov
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Electoral power is being transferred from the hands of criminal illegals, back into the hands of American citizens.

Polymarket * @Polymarket • 4h
BREAKING: Trump has deported so many people from Minnesota they're projected to lose a Congressional seat after next census.
2:54 PM • 1/16/26 • 2.3K Views

Homeland Security @DHSgov X.com Electoral power is being transferred from the hands of criminal illegals, back into the hands of American citizens. Polymarket * @Polymarket • 4h BREAKING: Trump has deported so many people from Minnesota they're projected to lose a Congressional seat after next census. 2:54 PM • 1/16/26 • 2.3K Views

Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation:

16.01.2026 21:01 👍 3141 🔁 974 💬 63 📌 52

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car"
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

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13.01.2026 22:37 👍 25545 🔁 7569 💬 476 📌 358
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This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

13.01.2026 22:20 👍 9007 🔁 5055 💬 359 📌 685
The boy holding a bag of haribo confectionary is questioned by a masked IcE agent while three others with weapons stand by

The boy holding a bag of haribo confectionary is questioned by a masked IcE agent while three others with weapons stand by

The boy has head bowed, holding his confectionary, as he is taken away.

The boy has head bowed, holding his confectionary, as he is taken away.

A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.

He was bundled into the van & taken away.

Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”

I don’t know how America comes back from all this.

13.01.2026 17:56 👍 5424 🔁 2745 💬 352 📌 429
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430k of us vs. 2k of them, we're gonna win this

Cedar & 31st I think

11.01.2026 20:02 👍 3410 🔁 768 💬 65 📌 151
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Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

09.01.2026 19:49 👍 14125 🔁 3742 💬 146 📌 203

My anger at having to stand outside my kid’s school for two hours to ensure none of their classmates, parents, or teachers get kidnapped by my own government is only slightly tempered by the amazing outpouring of support from other parents and especially neighbors who stand against this bullshit.

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