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RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 4h

OMG if any sport SCREAMS “private equity-esque,” it’s pickleball.

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 4h

I don't know if the Savannah Bananas are private equity owned but they have private equity vibes. Same goes for pickleball and Dubai chocolate.

RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 4h

I looked there too, lol. I guess time will tell. The studio commentators also saw the card get flashed but didn’t seem to know at whom.

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RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 4h

Unclear. I think an NC player. One of their players was calling for a handball to be called against us and stoppage time… and it was borderline… and I think she may have continued to express her disagreement with the ref’s decision after the final whistle.

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RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 5h

Someone just got a red card after the final whistle in NC.

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RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 5h

Welp. We really needed to kill this game off.

RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 5h

Shut up, dude whining about time wasting.

RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 5h

I thought that looked offside.

RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 6h

TRINNNNNN!!!!

RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 7h

My goodness, WHAT A BALL from Croix. #THATSTHESPIRIT

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RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 1d

Turned on the US game to see we’re loosing. It’s going to be embarrassing when we don’t make it out of the group next year.

RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 1d

Yup

RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 1d

All so that Amazon doesn’t lose its govt contracts.

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RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, that call never happened…

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 1d

And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds good to me!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 2d

I guess the Amazon Post’s 23 remaining subscribers will have something to talk about tomorrow when someone else wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d

A columnist still at WaPo.

Headline: "Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize."

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RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 2d

Well, fingers crossed for them Monday. Hopefully they can staunch the bleeding for the rest of this match.

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RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 2d

AMERICA FIRST!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 2d

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 2d

The Old Red Devils just ain’t what they used to be.

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RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 2d

Well, England is a very good team..better than Belgium, I think.

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RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 2d

Is this a qualifier?

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RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 2d

..because having an American citizen do the real HT show isn’t American enough for them.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Turning Point USA announced it will host counterprogramming to the Super Bowl halftime show, called “The All American Halftime Show,” as MAGA critics have been enraged over the selection of Bad Bunny as the 2026 headliner.

MAGA rage over Bad Bunny at Super Bowl sparks an alternative show

Counterprogramming hosted by the group that Charlie Kirk founded spotlights the growing political polarization surrounding one of the biggest events of the year.

www.washingtonpost.com

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RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 3d

History is a circle.

Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 3d

Want to hear re: a president who wanted his opponents physically beaten & was accused of wanting to be king?

My lecture on Andrew Jackson

In this cartoon from his presidency, he’s standing on a shredded Constitution w/a book titled “Judiciary of the US” at his feet

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vri7...

A cartoon from the early 1830s mocking Andrew Jackson as a king.

RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 4d

That is two goals, just put on a platter. Stop playing out of the back, Arsenal.

RhettDC @rhettdc.bsky.social · 4d

WPOOTBGW 🙄