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Soccer nerd. Sometimes I even do soccer poasts.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · Jul 23

Ahh! This explains the new followers. Welcome!

You should listen to @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social where @michaelcaley.bsky.social and I do soccer yammering that’s occasionally about soccer.

Like today when we talked about Euros (the currency) and the Turkish Lira.

Bluesky @bsky.app · Jul 23

Ahead of tonight's MLS All-Star Game, we've put together a starter pack to help you join the American soccer conversation here on Bluesky! ⚽

Any other accounts we should add? Let us know 👇

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 25m

Yes though tbf fbi challenge coins have a long history of being cringe in particular.

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 31m

You (me) unable to let your brain rest for 10 minutes without ingesting this social feed. You (me) too are everyone is 12 now.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 44m

a fortunate quirk is that doing food and medical support for impoverished children, foreign and domestic, *also* is about the biggest bang it is possible to get for our buck.

so you can analyze aid on a moral basis or a realpolitik basis and you get the same answer: we should do it

Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 46m

Here's the thing. I am a lucky person and pay a fair bit in taxes. I can think of no better use for my tax dollars than feeding children, because I think all people are equally deserving of basic humanity.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 49m

Also people sure did not find Kamala Harris building a broad democracy defending coalition emotionally satisfying.

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 1h

Upgrading myself from Bluelaska curious to experimenting with Bluelaska.

MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 3h

Fantastic news to wake up to!!! Fairbanks, Alaska has dumped their Trumpian Mayor and a Dem flipped that Mayoral office last night!

We love to see it! 😍😍👏👏

Mayor David Pruhs concedes mayoral race to Mindy O'Neall

City of Fairbanks Mayor David Pruhs conceded the mayoral race to candidate Mindy O’Neall Tuesday night during a watch party at Bobby’s Downtown Restaurant.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 1h

On the bright side there’s only one or two more Prime Days before AI nukes this source of revenue.

Of course as with every other source of revenue digital revenue loses its replaced by more or less absolutely nothing.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 8h

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 1d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 21h

Six y.o. sneaking onto the timeline there!

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 21h

Definitely wouldn’t be posting dessert posts if Kimmel wasn’t on air.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 22h

The most bipartisan impeachment trial in history.

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 22h

I mean they could have impeached him.

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 22h

Nobody really wants to hear this but the Republican Party as it existed in 2016 was a meaningful check on the style of Trumpism we’re seeing now.

The Republican Party of 2024 has been close to entirely remade in Trump’s image from congress to executive staffing.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 23h

I suspect this is going nowhere. But it sucks people even have to worry about it.

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 23h

Many are yes but there’s also just like a lot more of them across gov.

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 1d

Fwiw the law doesn’t even oblige future congress, it just makes it so future appropriations bills must specify they are not making fed employees whole in order to not make fed employees whole.

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 1d

I get what you’re going for here…but more of this will be like janitorial staff, daycare workers at military bases, mailmen, etc etc.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 1d

They’re definitely gonna try and stiff a whole bunch of federal workers…though I guess that’s better than trying to illegally fire them. www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously Palestinians are far and away the primary victims of Israel's genocidal war undertaken in the wake of the October 7, 2023 attacks. And no one should take that away. But there is a part of me furious at the Israeli government for stealing away my ability to just grieve as a Jew.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. Shutdown means gov employees get furloughed but “excepted” officials continue to work without getting paid (sometimes in the event of long shutdowns offices will rotate who gets excepted). Here they’re threatening to stiff furloughed folks, though they had been threatening to fire them so.

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 1d

(Lots bad here but this isn’t my wife, she’s not furloughed, she’s working while not getting paid).

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 1d

1. This is bullshit. In previous shutdowns furloughed employees have been made whole but after the last Trump shutdowns, congress, anticipating a future admin might try and stiff ‘em, passed a bipartisan law requiring it.

2. In a week they’ve gone from threatening to RIF furloughed workers to this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 1d

6 y.o.: “Mommy how do you spell buttface??”

Mommy [completely unphased and without missing a beat]: “Honey if you want to spell butt stuff you will need to learn go spell for yourself.”

6 y.o. [thinks it over]: “Mommy, how do you spell cute waffle?”

Parenting ladies and gentlemen.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 1d

Defector is a great site that I love that is actively left/liberal not passively left/liberal.

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 1d

Listen I’m gonna keep posting about it twice a month or whatever until I get that call lol