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Underfund to make gov’t institutions not function as well as they could, then say the institution doesn’t help, and use that as an excuse to cut funding more. Even if the institution is more cost-effective and provides better care than civilian options. Or if the service wouldn’t occur otherwise.

Not that you need to hear it from me, but took some out of town family to the updated Elliott Bay Trail and I think it’s my new “must visit” item for all my visitors. What an absolute gem.

I’m sorry, did a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate just ‘Won’t somebody think of the neo-Nazis?’ during a live TV debate?

NFL announcers usually sound like they’ve been locked in a room studying tape for the last 96 hours, whereas MLS announcers usually sound like they found out which teams were playing about ten minutes before they went on air

I've been arguing that Trump's fraudulent Fraud Task Force looked like Stephen Miller disinformation. www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen...

Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?

Dream window for the #USMNT. 🇺🇸 Four games. 13 debuts. 8 teenagers. Four debutants with goals. 12 goals scored. Two wins over South American opposition. And clean sheet wins over your two biggest regional rivals, Mexico & Canada. New faces. Young talent. Big results. #USMNT

Cook Political Report just shifted the Kansas Senate race from Lean Republican to Toss Up. Trump won Kansas by 16 points, 57-41. Hard to know what to make of this, but it sure looks as if there are now many paths to a Dem majority.

The TNT broadcast completely missed the 3rd goal while cutting away to show the 1st and 2nd goal. Yikes.

Wow I'm so amped up for the latest edition of USA v Mexico! I can't wait to tune in and get the excitement building. *turns on TV 20 mins before kickoff* TNT: All Elite Wrestling TruTV: Some weird prank show w/Anthony Davis (mislabeled as USA v. Mexico) Telemundo: Actual pregame coverage.

Can’t wait until the ‘Berhalter robbed us of two years of his own son’ discourse

I agree with this but also it’s really important to distinguish within your own thinking why this is not analogous to “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Which is to say…in the rush to declare AI as unworthy of blame in itself, it’s very easy to actually argue it is not dangerous at all.

Mauricio Pochettino gave 11 players their senior USMNT debuts today against Peru: 🇺🇸 Cavan Sullivan 🇺🇸 Peyton Miller 🇺🇸 Justin Ellis 🇺🇸 Diego Kochen 🇺🇸 Julian Zakrzewski Hall 🇺🇸 Mathis Albert 🇺🇸 Zavier Gozo 🇺🇸 Brookyln Raines 🇺🇸 Frankie Westfield 🇺🇸 Adri Mehmeti 🇺🇸 Neil Pierre

Julian Hall scores his debut goal, but what a nasty ball from Sebastian Berhalter. Pure filth. 🔥 #USMNT

Saw exactly where he needed to be and fought like hell to get there The finish wasn't nearly as pretty as the two passes before it but "forward who knows where to be and will scrap for goals" absolutely plays at the international level

Audi Field announced attendance this weekend: Washington Spirit 15,588 D.C. United 14,189

AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...

The #USL announces that it has reached a new agreement on revenue sharing w/its men's professional clubs. National revenues such as sponsorships & media rights will now trickle down to the clubs to a greater degree. This is key if the USL is to attract new investors. www.espn.com/soccer/story...?

Hey @tedlasso and TV in general — doctors aren’t supposed to date their patients.

Yup. When the civil rights organization I previously worked for opposed Clark's nomination, we had to include a section titled "Member of Discriminatory Private Clubs" because of his participation in these exclusionary organizations. civilrights.org/resource/opp...

"Kennedy's department cited seven articles, two of which were apparently made up entirely and three of which did not exist in the journals to which they were attributed..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

vlatko was moved to sporting director then the owner called jesse marsch to ask who to hire as coach, then yeeted the best defensive midfield prospect in the country without replacing her. none of these were vlatko-coded decisions, i’m surprised he lasted this long.

The WSJ newsroom published a stunning story last week about Sen. Fetterman’s unwillingness or inability to do his job, and like clockwork, the WSJ editorial page chimes in a few days later, flailing wildly in an attempt to knock it down. www.wsj.com/opinion/demo...

A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.

You show me a NYT writer, I’ll show you someone who’s never taken Research Methods and Design

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28 people died because the nearest hospital was too far away. Dr. Jermaine Johnson decided that wasn't acceptable. So he did something about it. This June, Lower Richland got its first hospital. Hear how it happened: https://youtu.be/wFMEcfvphf4

... in a distant land. Now 20, DM will have that in-person support in Denmark. "It's never OK," MDS said of restrictions on family visits. "But imagine at age 18." (These policies have also impacted other players from abroad, particularly those from Africa/Latin America/global south nations.)

Speaking to media today, LAFC coach Marc Dos Santos said US govt restrictions on Venezuelan visitors were a factor in David Martínez's $8 mil+ transfer to FC Midtjylland. His family members were barred from visiting him following his 2024 arrival from Monagas @ age 18, complicating his adaptation...

It’s harder for a player to keep the faith when Everton doesn’t just renegotiate Folarin Balogun’s transfer over potential medical issues… but then asks him to take a pay cut at the last minute. A big headline in there from Romain:

Another twist in the dizzying BaloGate saga: French journo Romain Molina reports Everton asked Balogun to accept a reduced salary after their late-breaking concerns from his medical. This directly contradicts UK-based reports that "nothing changed with Balogun's personal terms" in the final hours

"For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cuts Lancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up."

My god. The damage his re-election has done. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

INFANTINO’S REVENGE: FIFA fires Chief Operating Officer who was critical of its president frontrow.soccer/vfmhs

@timmiller.bsky.social on a child begging to go home to Venezuela while her pregnant mother is held behind razor wire, denied an ultrasound, and kept in detention despite having broken no laws: “This is fucking sickening.”

Malawi lost to Cameroon in the WAFCON final, but still qualified for the World Cup for the first time. Led by the Chawinga sisters, it's hard to understate how incredible it is that the WAFCON debutants ranked No. 153 in the world made the final. Ed Dove dove in on ESPN:

Sex trafficking investigations stalled and prosecutions declined in the past six months because of staffing shortages, funding cuts and immigration enforcement, according to Reuters interviews with 25 former prosecutors, current agents and victims' advocates. Read the special report reut.rs/4fWSJ1k

Just insanely Orwellian. People here lawfully have now been declared unlawful by policy fiat so they can be treated like criminals & subject to intrusive, humiliating surveillance.

I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.

Exclusive: Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked agency staff last month to escalate the amount of aircraft at a seven-acre fire that had started near his mega-ranch in Idaho.

I have a new piece up @msnowreports.bsky.social, on ICE’s plans to give its field agents electroshock gloves. Giving poorly trained and vetted agents a means of inflicting serious pain almost invisibly while serving a govt that not only refuses oversight but relishes in their violence? Not good.

Gov. Beshear: I've read about the ICE shock gloves. My concern is that they are going to the worst trained, most aggressive law enforcement unit ever seen. The idea that the party of "don't tread on me" is now trying to give even more weaponry to a group that has proven they will tread all over you.

NYT: "Far out in the Pacific Ocean, Ecuadorean fishermen have been attacked by unidentified 'gringos' using drones, survivors say." Now, Washington Post: "The mysterious strikes targeting multiple Ecuadorian fishing boats...were carried out as part of a covert CIA program." 1/🧵

NEW FROM ME: The US Air Force has done dozens of secret ICE flights to Honduras since early June, in the largest and most regular use of their aircraft in Trump's second term. Read it here now, or read it in NYT six months from now. gillianbrockell.com/the-air-forc...

This is all by design. Trump and McMahon cut staff and are dismantling the Department of Education without giving a second thought to the students they will hurt or leave behind. We can stop this. We can fight back. And eventually we will rebuild the Department of Education.

Polling can be an important democratic tool, but it can also be weaponized against voters. Understanding how polls work and how to identify legitimate ones can strengthen voters’ judgment and make democracy more resilient against manipulation. bit.ly/3SuDWBS