Headline from The Guardian: Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?

Yeah geez weird impossible to know I guess

He lies and says he’s in love with them.

an underrated, unforgivable belief that remains prevalent among pols and normies is that a rising tide lifts all boats when it’s been clear forever that a rising tide simply drowns the people on low lying land

ICYMI #baseball #MLB

CAN MARTA HOST A SOLD OUT CONCERT WITH E40 IN OAKLAND NO I DIDNT THINK SO

Norm get hyped about Flau'jae!

Let's goooooo!

I so love it when people find this out, lol

KC’s $600m in Royals stadium funding could make end run around public vote In the wake of Thursday's passage of an ordinance by Mayor Quinton Lucas to give Royals owner John Sherman $600 million in city money toward a new downtown stadium, Kansas City councilmember Johnathan...

Direct democracy is historically a stumbling block for sports subsidies: Royals owner John Sherman could certainly pour money into fighting a stadium ballot measure, but it's been proven way easier to win over a handful of local elected officials.

EZI EZI EZI!
OI OI OI!

(Really thought Storm were going to lose her. Over the moon!)

Oh, thank GOD! EZI MAGBEGOR, you ARE a Seattle Storm!

We should organize a single day when we go to the teams’ IG, Twitter, FB and Threads pages and comment under every post, telling them to get over to Bluesky.

I do it all the time to the Storm. (Clearly my sway is impressive considering they have posted on Bluesky a total of exactly NONE times)

🥰🥰🥰🥰

Breaking: We’ve updated tonight’s Ichiro Replica Statue giveaway.

it was foretold

The last true baseball superstar brought low by the undeniable force that is The Seattle Mariners. Make this the new team logo.

That was so, so funny. Thank you, you stupid cursed baseball franchise that I love. Mariber!

totally normal statue. Find a new slant

10/10. no notes

You may not like it, but this is what peak Mariber looks like

totally normal statue!

mariners: totally not cursèd franchise

lollllll. This is so Mariners

image of cher from the movie moonstruck saying "snap out of it"

Working on a new initiative for dealing with the Crisis of Masculinity:

I personally don’t love that a baseball team named for a law enforcement division known for violently oppressing Mexican and indigenous Texans has the gall to put “Tejas” on their jerseys when it suits them.

Life's Rich Pageno
Automatic Free Throw People
Around the Rim
New Adventures in Highlights
Monstorrs
Up
Out of time
Reveal
Reckoning

Double Crossover with Courtney M. Cox

Courtney Cox joins to discuss her @illinoispress.bsky.social book on race, gender, and athletic labor in women's basketball, exploring international fieldwork and innovative models like Athletes Unlimited.

open.spotify.com/episode/2Pf6...

Elise is good people. I'll miss her on Storm broadcasts but she deserves the top job!

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