So excited about this book! "Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, & the FIFA Greed Machine," with an introduction by the one & only @edgeofsports.bsky.social. A one-stop shop for a leftist political history of how authoritarians have weaponized the World Cup & what's in store this summer.
Ed Reed (the goat safety) tells the war criminals in the White House that he won't be their flunky. www.nj.com/sports/2026/...
CRAVENSWORTH!
Totally agree. Why they love Trump: impunity > accountability
So Joe Paterno gets excommunicated from college football for covering up child-rape and all these college coaches are now cozying up to President Epstein Island. Bootlicking hypocrites.
I’m watching “The Battle of Algiers” to speak about on a podcast. If you’ve seen it, what are your immediate associations with the film?
This is a great piece that encapsulates so well why I won’t be going to any games. I fell in love with the game at the Germany-South Korea game at the Cotton Bowl in 1994, and traveled to Korea in 2002.
But my desire to travel the hundreds of miles or pay for the tickets this time is almost zero.
Agreed
It’s so grim.
Dave is always good, but this is powerful gut punch of a read encapsulating all the things us soccer fans have been talking about around the World Cup.
Feels shallow to complain about sports, but I’ve been feeling this deeply. Trump is also messing up March Madness. My top stories at The Athletic yesterday were bleak.
(The deal w/ March Madness is that the US is chartering so may deportation flights that there may not be enough planes for teams)
I wrote something @thenation.com about the 2026 Joyless World Cup. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
The clutching to the idea of "US as regime change liberators" given everything we have seen...
1) Over almost the entirety of the 21st century
2) Over the last 80 yrs of Iranian history
3) In books
.... is media malpractice and makes the position, if not farcical, some seriously sick propaganda.
Scott Jennings will be running CNN after the Ellison takeover. Count on it.
If you’re a Democratic member of Congress who trusts the Trump regime to take military action without Congressional authorization, you should immediately resign.
You’ve already abdicated your responsibility to uphold the constitution—please just vacate your seat. You are worse than useless.
If FIFA did, for some reason, regularly give out a Peace Prize, you’d think #1 on the list of criteria for potential winners would be “do not start a war with another nation in the World Cup, directly before the start of the World Cup”
The dude should have stuck to sports.
Brady Tkachuck learning what happens when you embrace a team of sociopathic assholes. And less sorry for him I could not be. Next time don't choose solidarity with Donald Trump over solidarity with your fellow Olympians on the US Women's National Hockey Team. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
Oh man. Thanks Dustin.
Read of the day @thenation.com from journalist Takashi Williams. Fantastic work.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Latter part of Sept for sure!
So good. See all of these videos and **thank you** Sarah Spain.
Seems like this should be a bigger story And congrats to the US Mens gold medal winning hockey team for being window dressing to cover up the crimes of a pederast. How proud you must be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...
Come on through DC folk!
also part of the state of our union
Is…..this as much of shit show as folk are saying? (Doing something else.)
Just got an email: “Why are you making this gold medal win political?” I saw Kash Patel swigging booze, calling Trump “boss” and laughing as the misogynist-in-chief mocked the women’s team to the delight of this SOTU-bound team. That emailer can go kick rocks. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Signed trans flag hanging at my desk at work
Since my Alysa Liu trans flag video appears to be getting attention again (so far all good), here’s the post-nationals picture of the signed flag, along with the article from nationals where I talked about it.
Link: www.thetelegraph.com/sports/artic...
