How the FA banned women’s football in 1921 and tried to justify it A year after more than 50,000 turned up to watch Dick, Kerr Ladies play St Helens, a ban was introduced that was to last half a century

Related: I particularly enjoy this aspect of women's football history

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Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics.

The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

A reader who was at the scene this morning sent me these videos of an ICE street rip at the courthouse parking lot (note the Nissans, that’s.. new)

Great.

Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women

Priceless post from the official White House social media

Ruby Bridges being on social media rn is why I’ll never not cuss a mf out when they say “it happened so long ago”

Secretary of War Pete Hegs... • © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

General George Washington required Continental Army soldiers be inoculated for smallpox. We would not have won independence if he hadn’t.

You dumb chucklefuck.

The Jerusalem Cross is a symbol of the Crusades. Disingenuous people argue it’s “just a representation of Christianity and not bigoted”

But we all fucking know the Crusades was about massacring anyone that wasn’t Christian.

Pete Hegseth has a HUGE one tattooed on his chest

It’s a symbol of hate.

How Email Open Tracking Quietly Took Over the Web You give up more privacy than you might think each time you open an email.

In honor of Tim Cook's stepping down, here is the story of how I emailed him, not once but twice, with open email tracking enabled, only to discover that, not once but twice, my emails to the CEO of Apple were opened on a computer running Windows.

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Sometimes your kids are assholes and send you photos of their walk home from work

The Mask is Off: Major Anti-Abortion Group Calls for Arrest of Abortion Patients Students for Life says it should be "an easy vote"

It was only a matter of time: the powerful anti-abortion org Students for Life has endorsed legislation to imprison abortion patients.

The move marks the biggest shift in anti-abortion politics in decades. jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-i...

This piece is incredibly important. Read the whole thing.

Deep sigh

Bus typo: Help us score the gift of life, DONATE BLOOB

BLOOB FOR THE BLOOB GOD!

Back in the day Steve King of Iowa said this stuff and was run out of Congress

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Justice Department demands Michigan county turn over 2024 ballots Michigan Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel dismissed the latest election inquiry from the Trump administration as “absurd” and “baseless.”

Now DOJ is demanding 2024 ballots from Michigan without a proper legal basis. Is it just a coincidence that it’s targeting swing states like Michigan, Georgia, and Arizona in the lead-up to the 2026 election?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

This is the reason the stock market is completely disconnected from the real economy.

Reminder that there are actual diplomats and experts we could send

Going on Sunday morning talk shows to issue prebuttals for war crimes instead of going to church is a choice

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Good morning @21sted.bsky.social
Thank you for including me in this amazing pack filled with many awesome people to follow.
Everyone should try to participate in the General Strike on May 1st
Have a splendid Saturday

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The May 1 general strike is in less than two weeks. I believe it has to succeed for American democracy to have a fighting chance

Our feeds should be flooded with posts like this, but they aren’t

I’m a little concerned

True! Fun fact: They did this because someone leaked Robert Bork’s rental history during his confirmation battle.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

The way she's pursing her lips to stop from laughing is simply delightful.

They will never boo Russia. But they will boo our allies.

a woman is smiling with the words " i am a librarian " next to her ALT: a woman is smiling with the words " i am a librarian " next to her

Introducing the teen to The Mummy.

We're watching the open web as it existed die in real time.