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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 1d

David Bowie's album "Heroes" was released on October 14, 1977

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 12h

77 million + American voters aspired to have these people as their “leaders”.

Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 1d

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ressia.bsky.social @ressia.bsky.social · 14h

#WNBA #PayThePlayers

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 3d

Photos from #Mass50501 rally outside main BOSTON area DHS/ICE facility.

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 3d

www.mass50501.org/events/20251...
#Mass50501
Drop by the rally today; show your support and meet some good people!

Burlington Bastion of Democracy — Mass 50501

Join us on Saturday, October 11th, for a peaceful standout from 5am-7pm in front of the Burlington ICE facility.

www.mass50501.org

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 4d

I just don’t get the appeal of Polievre AT ALL.
I’ve got Canadian nephews & their friends who voted for him last time around. I understand how toxic Justin Trudeau was for many the last few years…but this was Carney.
#Polievre; Don’t Canadian youth have active “douche detectors”? ffs?

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 4d

My money's on Bonner.

Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 4d

Thumbs & elbows up to all of you commenting on this thread.
Sure, "hockey matters".
But puck-handling skills don't excuse abandoning your country when push comes to shove.
I'm living in the US rn (dual-citizen married to an American woman living in the USA) but I know who I am and what's right.🍁🍁🍁

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 4d

...same. I wish all of us strength.
#WNBA has taught me to go beyond the binary, so try to find the joy wherever it might be.

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 4d

Following - then loving - the #WNBA is a fantastic journey. I'm a roundball fan in all arenas and got caught up in the sheer electricity of Caitlin Clark's game her last 2 years in college. So I followed her to a deep dive into the W.
Now I LOVE the league and the players.
I'm a better sports fan.

Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 4d

Take the time to read this one, by @benpickman.bsky.social Young boys being interested is so important, not just for the league but for women in general. Respect for women in one arena carries over.

A new generation is embracing the WNBA, including young boys

www.nytimes.com

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 5d

C'mon; it's been a chance to see one of the all-time greats (#A'ja) at her peak (w/props to Jackie & Chelsea) and a coaching masterclass by Becky Harmon.
One of the hallmarks of the W is to drop the zero-sum binary & appreciate the good.
The rest of the sports world should take notes.

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 5d

www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/s...
#WNBA
#WNBA’ja
A’ja’s picture rising up to nail that jumper to seal the game 3 win over AT & DB is iconic.
And I LOVE her “I already understood the assignment” to Becky’s time-out instructions.
Phenomenal player, person.

A’ja Wilson plays hero as Aces take commanding 3-0 lead over Mercury in WNBA Finals | CNN

A’ja Wilson’s last second game-winner led the Las Vegas Aces to a commanding 3-0 lead in the WNBA Finals and stun the Phoenix Mercury.

www.cnn.com

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 5d

#WNBA?
#WNBA’ja.

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 7d

Looking up the term orthogonal in my dictionary, and yep, it fits.

Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 7d

People want to watch top level women’s basketball. Whether that is #WNBA or another new entity is the question.
These current CBA negotiations could determine either direction.
Not that you’re wrong about people with money; they may only learn after the exhausted all the alternatives.

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 7d

Owners always think it is about “them”.
They’re about to learn something.
The women of the #WNBA are different in the best possible way. They do everything with their whole heart, their whole soul, and they know their worth.
With these #CBA negotiations, they’ll go
the distance; as long as it takes

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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 7d

The Athletic’s @sabreenajm.bsky.social on what she witnessed in games 1 & 2 of the WNBA Finals, whether we should be reading more into Alyssa Thomas’s hand injury, the cost-benefit of letting A’ja Wilson eat & what to expect next in the WNBA CBA negotiations.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 7d

Love #SabreenaMerchant & #SarahSpain #GoodGame consistently the most enjoyable podcast on my list.
Especially love that #BigCitrus (S+ 2 contributers) aren’t afraid of controversial takes & if it doesn’t land just right or new info comes out, they’ll revisit it & self-criticize (and/or double-down).

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 7d

youtube.com/shorts/Fnask...
#NatishaHeideman hair & makeup by Dijonae Carrington #Nae #WNBA

DiJonai turned Natisha into DiJonai 😳 #wnba #makeover #studbudz #glowup

YouTube video by Who Likes Sports

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 7d

For now, Kathy is useful. She takes most of the “incoming” that could easily be directed at Silver. Also, replacing her with a quality hire who would be suitable to the players as well as do the dirty work that the NBA owners and equity partners EXPECT of the #WNBA commissioner is not easy.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 9d

Things to consider:

Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter

Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed

You are a witness.
Expose it.

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 10d

I didn’t mean that #Unrivaled in particular wants to end the W.
But the players are (and should be) serious about getting an equitable settlement.
If not, there are many options for the them.
Unrivaled was just a glimpse of an opportunity.
People want to watch the woman’s game.
#WNBA? maybe…

Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 10d

Professional women’s basketball is here to stay.
Does the #WNBA understand that if they blow this (as they seem hell-bent to do) there will be other funders who will put that league together.
#Kathy, #Adam; are you paying ANY attention at all to #Unrivaled?
You are not the only game in town.
#Phee

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Michael 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @booker23.bsky.social · 14d

Lead with THIS apnews.com

Linda Marie @lindam174.bsky.social · 14d

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NR @nosecomplaint.bsky.social · 14d

How absolutely DUMB and egotistical do you have to be to not only believe this, but to TELL SOMEONE THIS, let alone that "someone" being Phee, one of the best players in your league????

Caitlin would be FINE without the WNBA. It's helped her, yes, but this is genuinely an insane thought

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 14d

In a conversation with Cathy Engelbert, Napheesa Collier noted that Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Paige Bueckers and other young stars are driving massive revenue for the WNBA, but are making so little from their rookie contracts.

The commissioner's response, per Collier:

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