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Alison Gale @agale.bsky.social · 6h

Five teams are looking to clinch a playoff spot in week 24, Washington Spirit has many ways to clinch playoff hosting and three teams are fighting to stay in the playoff race

Gotham FC clinches a playoff spot with:
GFC win
GFC draw + WAS draw + LA win/draw
WAS win + LA win/draw
Portland Thorns clinches a playoff spot with:
POR win + WAS win/draw
POR win + CHI win + KC win/draw
POR win + CHI draw + KC win
POR draw + WAS win + LA win/draw
Seattle Reign clinches a playoff spot with:
RGN win + WAS win/draw
RGN win + CHI win + KC win/draw
RGN win + CHI draw + KC win
RGN draw + WAS win + LA win/draw
Orlando Pride clinches a playoff spot with:
ORL win + WAS win/draw + LA win/draw
Racing Louisville clinches a playoff spot with:
LOU win + WAS win + LA win/draw

Washington Spirit clinches playoff hosting with:
WAS win/draw
KC win/draw
ORL win/draw
BAY win/draw

Utah Royals are eliminated from playoffs with:
UTA draw/loss
Angel City are eliminated from playoffs with:
LA loss
LA draw + SD win/draw
LOU win + ORL win/draw + SD win
Houston Dash are eliminated from playoffs with:
HOU loss + LOU win + ORL win/draw + SD win

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Jonathan Tannenwald @jtannenwald.bsky.social · 15h

#NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman gives @financialtimes.com a long interview, with many business and tech industry buzzwords, but also some news:

The league will stop during next year's men's World Cup group stage, but will resume during the knockout rounds.

www.ft.com/content/36da...

NWSL’s Jessica Berman: ‘Women’s football is a movement, not a moment’

The National Women’s Soccer League commissioner on independence as a superpower, growth in women’s football and why expansion is both ‘careful and aggressive’

www.ft.com

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Steve Voght @voght.org · 11h

Reign fans attending Friday’s game vs Bay FC should keep an eye on MLB scores today, because depending on results in the Detroit/Seattle series and Toronto/NYY series, traffic and parking around the stadium could be hellish on Friday.

Even if you despise baseball, you’re a Mariners fan today.

Cheatsheet showing potential for stadium traffic on Friday in Seattle. If the Mariners win today all will be good, but if Detroit wins there could be traffic hell in the afternoon around Seattle’s stadium district if the Blue Jays also win today.

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Steve Voght @voght.org · 16h

One normal day in the NWSL, that's all I ask www.sportico.com/business/tea...

Dash Near $120M Sale to Group Led by Son of Disappeared Chinese Mogul

The NWSL's Dash are in talks to sell for $120M to Richard Hsiao's RHC Group. Hsiao, 24, is the son of imprisoned Chinese billionaire Xiao Jianhua.

www.sportico.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17h

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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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 20h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Steve Voght @voght.org · 1d

Maybe they're hoping for some fancy car collector who spent their last $10 million on a bunch of vintage Rolls Royces which will need to be parked out front

Steve Voght @voght.org · 1d

Brighton / Othello area - redf.in/nUxj18

4821 S Austin St, Seattle, WA 98118 - 2 beds/2 baths

(NWMLS as Distributed by MLS Grid) For Sale: 2 beds, 2 baths ∙ 1200 sq. ft. ∙ 4821 S Austin St, Seattle, WA 98118 ∙ $615,700 ∙ MLS# 2295842 ∙ Extra large front yard. Can park approximately 10 cars. Fi...

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Steve Voght @voght.org · 1d

Very weird thing to hype first for a house only 1/4 mile from light rail on a 5,000 sq. ft. lot in the middle of the city

Redfin
Price drop in Seattle
$616K | 2 bd | 2 ba | 1,200 sf
Extra large front yard. Can park approximately 10 cars. First time buyer, Full remodeled Rambler style home.

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june ash eden, local sweetie coffee gworl @kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 1d

Laura Harvey thoroughly dedicating this season to stuffing us stat nerds in a locker lol

Expected Own Goals @xowngoals.com · 1d

This is the squad that might play the quarterfinals at home.

Graphic from American Soccer Analysis depicting the rolling changes in the Seattle Reign's non-penalty expected goal differential in the 2025 NWSL regular season.

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Ride of the Valkyries @rideofvalkyries.com · 1d

Seattle Reign has a new jersey sponsor. 🐶 🐕 🐈 😺

www.sounderatheart.com/2025/10/seat...

Seattle Reign announce Trupanion as new front-of-jersey sponsor

The women-led pet insurance company is based in Seattle.

www.sounderatheart.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

Winchell's
Donut Hors
Open
Winchell's
Donut House
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
Elias/AP)

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2d

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

People going "America was always fascist" or "it's been like this since the 1980s" or making related claims don't seem to realize it, but they're telling everyone that nothing different is happening, nothing worse than usual, so if you weren't up in arms about eg 2013, you shouldn't be now either.

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 4d

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

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Steve Voght @voght.org · 5d

Sure glad we got rid of diversity hires and went back to only appointing the best snd brightest to powerful positions

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5d

But texting about sending the 82 Airborne into Portland in plain view of someone able to video the exchanges and capture enough evidence that the @startribune.com could verify isn’t all! There’s also this

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Theo Lloyd-Hughes @theolloydhughes.bsky.social · 5d

🗣️ Journalist request (pls share):

🏟️ Looking to hear from NWSL fans who:

⚪️ got rid of a szn ticket
or
⚪️ will not be renewing in ‘26
or
⚪️ has been going to fewer games than past years
or
⚪️ has decided to buy a szn ticket/ticket package

hmu ⤵️

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 6d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 6d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Steve Voght @voght.org · 6d

"All of your data, including profile, conversations and API usage will be removed" except for the whole email and phone number part of "all your data" 🤔

onion person @junlper.beer · 6d

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7d

All hell is about to be unleashed on people utterly unprepared to discern truth from falsehood.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 7d

I told OpenAI's Sora to make a video showing "Body cam footage of cops arresting a dark skinned man in a department store." It took less than a minute.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Alison Gale @agale.bsky.social · 7d

With 4 matches left in the #NWSL season, the playoff picture is anything but clear

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Ride of the Valkyries @rideofvalkyries.com · 8d

On Sunday, Jess Fishlock earned her 200th NWSL start.

Here are three more stats from the Reign's 2-1 victory over the NC Courage.

#SeattleReign #ReignFC #HereForTheCrown

www.sounderatheart.com/2025/09/thre...

Three stats: Seattle Reign vs. NC Courage

A look at some of the data behind the Reign's home win.

www.sounderatheart.com

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 8d

The "big percentage" of Seattle was *four blocks.* Neither did Trump send in the troops.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "They actually took over a big percentage of Seattle. Think of it. You remember that. It was a while ago. And I sent in the troops and they were gone as soon as I sent them in."

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Steve Voght @voght.org · 9d

She had key passes on both goals, too! Threaded a ball to spring Adames for the first cross, then spotted Menti in space between Courage lines to start the break on the second, and in both cases while she was being double-teamed

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