Match Notes 4/11/26: Scoring Goals, Popping Smoke Brooklyn FC 3 - 0 Charleston Battery

smoke bombs and the emerging contradictions between club, stadium, and fans

that was supposed to say "once again." Tottenham Hotspur have certainly disappointed me more than once

well, Tottenham Hotspur have disappointed me once. now to tune into the New York Knickerbockers

World Cup 2026 Might Be a Disaster. But What If It Isn’t? In spite of... everything

What troubles me isn’t really ‘what happens if people don’t show up?’ so much as ‘what happens if they do?’

JD Vance Twice Tells Pope Leo XIV to Stay Out of American Politics A stunning reversal for a Republican Party that once raged at JFK for promising to keep his Catholicism out of the White House — eight weeks before Vance publishes a book on his Catholic conversion.

"MAGA Republicans want the Church’s opinion on abortion, but nothing else." you don't say

I have an announcement

might be something to do with the pedophilia and rape

Who owns Brooklyn Football Club? A multi-club, multi-sport ownership group extending from Quebec to Naples

an initial attempt at understanding the ownership group behind Brooklyn Football Club, featuring Kelly Ripa, "Chicken Finger sensation" Raising Cane's, and Antonio Gramsci

I love to read a good magazine story www.curbed.com/article/dogs...

Who owns Brooklyn Football Club? A multi-club, multi-sport ownership group extending from Quebec to Naples

an initial attempt at understanding the ownership group behind Brooklyn Football Club, featuring Kelly Ripa, "Chicken Finger sensation" Raising Cane's, and Antonio Gramsci

Who Owns Brooklyn Football Club? Notes Towards an Investigation

have been distracting myself from The Situation in the Middle East with this preliminary investigation into who owns Brooklyn Football Club: little did I know, BKFC is part of a multi-club, multi-sport ownership group stretching from Quebec to Naples

very exciting hell yeah

The Reckoning • EQUATOR Hormuz and the end of American hegemony

"Hormuz does not yet signal the end of this hydrocarbon dollar complex, which has always been a combustible mix of power and volatility. But it does reveal the structural changes that would be needed for a hegemonic transition."

Reporter-Researcher The New Republic is looking for journalists with up to five years of professional fact-checking experience for the position of reporter-researcher. An institution of liberal journalism in America, The...

and at $60k it still pays like one! tnr.bamboohr.com/careers/153

*takes drag from cigarette* I remember when this was an entry-level position

thinking about how close that bullet in Butler, PA was

🙄🙄🙄

I feel nothing about the Nasa launch. sue me!

This seems like strangely religious fundamentalist and exterminatory behaviour from the liberal bastion and only democracy in the Middle East, but I’m sure there’ll be a gaggle of the most detestable columnists on the planet explaining why this is actually more complex and correct shortly.

hands off PIX!

not to do lib doomerism but if they strike (or severely restrict) birthright citizenship that's pretty much the ball game as far as the republic is concerned

Prison and Port: Lineaments of Migrant Detention in South Texas | The Brooklyn Rail In April 2025, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons obscenely declared that the agency must handle deportations as Amazon does package delivery. This promise is becoming a reality. In early 2026, DHS pur...

"More than a mere homology or reactionary wish fulfillment then, the Amazon Prime-ification of deportations and migrant detention evokes an internal relationship between incarceration and logistics, prison and port, worker and detainee."

That Ireland (an allegedly neutral country) is still allowing US and Israeli planes full of munitions thru its airspace and troop transports refuel at Shannon while Italy, Spain and France (NATO Members) refuse is certainly something worth thinking about

The nonsense case against birthright citizenship Meet the conservative legal minds telling the Supreme Court to side with Trump.

icymi, why so many people are approaching tomorrow with dread, fury, and a willingness to burn the court to the ground if—

Match Notes 3/28/26: Fewer People, More Drums, No Goals Brooklyn FC v Louisville City FC

this week's Match Report, from Brooklyn FC men's fourth loss on the spin. even as the rest of the stands remain empty—it was a very cold night, to be fair—the supporters groups are getting more organized.

yes... YES

"the field of geography is split between tech nerds and communists."

insane and of a piece with the tactic of blocking Muslims from accessing Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan, but also kind of hilarious insofar as it forces evangelical Christian zionists to pretend like they care about Catholics

this fucking guy www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/w...