A devastating loss, but strangely a pretty good performance. So unlucky not to come away with something. It’s not quite over, I think this will come down to the final day.

YOU HAVE TO SCORE THAT KAI

Yall my heart can’t handle this

Back to back Champions League semifinals is a big deal for the club and we should be proud of that, regardless of the performance.

Now put everybody in an ice bath and get ready for Sunday. That’s the season.

No Eze. No Odegaard. No creativity. No spark. No trophy.

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Really enjoyed my conversation with Erik. The Demon of Unrest is an excellent book and he writes with such incredible detail about otherwise overlooked historical moments. I learned a lot about the period leading up to Fort Sumter (including how truly awful a president James Buchanan was)

Wait what?!?

EZE YOU MAGICIAN

Michael B. Jordan really took his craft to a different level with his acting in Sinners. Well deserved.

At 16 years and 73 days old, Max Dowman becomes the youngest ever Premier League goalscorer.

A star is born for Arsenal 💫

Renaming my son Max Dowman

Agreed. I love Eze and think he’s a special player but there are some things Odegaard does that get us ticking in a different way

Arsenal lucky to escape with a draw. Far far far from our best but Madueke was the perfect sub and made a real difference. The boys are gonna have to step it up next week.

If a student writes “This is a metaphor for Arsenal being top of the league!” in their analysis of any of my poems they should automatically receive an A

If they are a Tottenham fan they get a D no matter what they wrote

I don’t care if Arsenal wins are ugly, beautiful, blue, green, or purple. Big three points from the boys. Big big result.

The Trump Administration Can’t Kill Black History Month We don’t need permission from the government to commemorate a complex past.

Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

The Trump Administration Can’t Kill Black History Month We don’t need permission from the government to commemorate a complex past.

Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

COME ON YOU GUNNERS

I feel so invested in Eze succeeding this makes me so happy

THERE WE GO BIG VIK MORE OF THAT PLEASE

Arsenal can never just make this easy

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

Trump’s Backlash to Black History The efforts to whitewash history call for a new approach to memorializing Black history.

Talked about all of this, and more, on Radio Atlantic with @hannarosin.bsky.social and @clintsmithiii.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Black History Month Is Radical Now A nation that wants to forget its past must be reminded of all of it.

I have a new essay out this morning about Black History Month, remembering in a moment when those in power want us to forget, and the importance of seeing people in the past as people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Irma you knew they were never going to make this easy for us 😭

The fact that Brentford is so good after selling three of their best players and losing their coach is wild. Kudos to them, they outplayed us tonight.

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2026 Jane Addams Book Award Honoree HOW THE WORD IS PASSED (ADAPTED FOR YOUNG READERS): REMEMBERING SLAVERY AND HOW IT SHAPED AMERICA by @clintsmithiii.bsky.social, adapted by @sonjacherrypaul.bsky.social

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The Big Vik + Kai link up is what we’ve been waiting for

Raising children to be kind, thoughtful, and empathetic. Raising children to feel loved, affirmed, and proud despite what is being told to them by some of the country's most powerful people is something generations of Black Americans have had to do. And still, it came at a cost to them too.