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@claybird1.bsky.social
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Small biz owner (Hot Yoga and gym) Dad of 2. Husband to 1. Wrestler. Pearl Jam and Drive By Truckers fanatic. UNC and NCSU.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.
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Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Aside from everything else with that site, I just don’t get the need for you to evangelize about it. You are there. Cool. Enjoy. You are like a kid that quits a team sport. You gotta convince one other kid to quit to validate your decision.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some say he’s the Joe Rogan of presidents.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mr Lincoln as a companion song is really jarring.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think it’s the media way to diminish the win. People were fucking pissed well before the stupid war. Their voters weren’t going to vote. Now they may but not for them
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
That super majority can be broken this year. So not so irrelevant
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Irrelevant? lol ok
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I live in NC and would love to hear how Stein is so bad on trans issues.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Coulda been this one www.nfl.com/news/simone-...
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Simone Biles engaged to Texans safety Jonathan Owens on Valentine's Day
Olympic great Simone Biles said it was “THE EASIEST YES” when her fellow elite athlete Jonathan Owens popped the question on Valentine’s Day.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NFL.com wrote quite a bit about Kelce and Swift. Like a whole lot.
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NFL.com | Official Site of the National Football League
The official source for NFL news, video highlights, game-day coverage, schedules, stats, scores and more.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I watch this vid every time it comes across my timeline. This is how these “man on the street” influencers should be treated everywhere they go. Good on that kid.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Things I learned this evening. TJ “Stonewall” Jackson’s sister Laura split with her brother over the Civil War, AND when she found out he’d died in 1863 said she “would rather know that he was dead than to have him a leader in the rebel army” DAYUM
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
He should’ve paid attention to what they did to Carter
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
She’s going to make so much money on the right wing grift train
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
When I see Hasan in his suit I see Borat and I cannot unsee it.
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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
youtu.be/SfNeKco5et8?...
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Anti-Gun Liberals, We Need To Have A Talk
YouTube video by Black Flag Civilian
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Giving Warren Zevon vibes
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
They’ve rolled out their MAHA influencers like Dr Drew to say it’s nothing to even worry about.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Eric and Don Jr going to lay down in front of the plane to stop it.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Are there even enough troops in the region to invade and hold any part of Iran?
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Unlike those two Messi is still producing at the highest of levels. No reason to think he couldn’t go another cycle.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Educate yourself you jackass. Have a day you deserve. I’m done educating you
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/G...
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From the soccer community on Reddit: Landon Donovan: "I played in Germany when I was 17. The guy who coached our under 16 team was 60 years old and had been doing it for 25 years. He wasn't trying to ...
Explore this post and more from the soccer community
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZD-...
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The American Youth Soccer Controversy
YouTube video by Brodie Brazil
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Neil what is your experience with coaching youth athletes?
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
You think 16 and up is when basketball players in this country encounter superior coaching to soccer players in the same country? You are helpless.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Read this article you dope. pauljspacey.com/america-socc...
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The \\"Best Athletes\\" Myth Is a Lie. Here's America's Real Soccer Problem.
The 'best athletes' myth lets America dodge its real soccer problem. The fix is coaching, development, and ending the worship of size and speed.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
NBA players have access to American basketball coaches (who are the best in the world) starting before middle school. Basketball camps here are run and staffed by the most elite players and coaches worldwide. They are identified and put into that pipeline early. That you don’t know that is hilarious
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I agree. But there are lots of factors. And American sport culture parents are a major factor
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Let’s see what Landon Donovan says. sports.yahoo.com/articles/lan...
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Landon Donovan Calls Out USMNT's Youth Soccer System- 'Disaster'
USMNT legend Landon Donovan critiques the soccer youth system in the United States.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
By the time he was in middle school he was attending camps with elite coaches and athletes. The United States has an elite basketball coaching funnel that incentives talent and gets them in front of elite coaches for the age group. We simply do not have those coaches of that level for soccer.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Ok. You clearly don’t know how athletes develop skills. Do you think American basketball coaches just roll out the balls and say have fun? Do you know that someone like LeBron is being coached by elite American coaches from the time he is about 5 years old? Jesus
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If there’s no skill development it doesn’t matter what athletes you have. That is the point
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
And neither of them would’ve fit your idea of a real athlete. Pele was 5’8. Maradona 5’5. But sure the size of our basketball players matters.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
lol. Pele and Maradona played their first pro games with world class Brazilian and Argentine coaching at age 15 ya dope.
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Seinfeld: George's Truth About Lies
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The greatest soccer player to ever lace them up is a guy that is 5’7. No level of size or speed has surpassed that skill. And fwiw there’s not even getting to “a certain level of skill” here in the USA. They all have to go overseas for that.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Wouldn’t be anywhere the level of Beckham bc he wouldn’t have skill training from age 8 or so up. Skill development is key. Beckham had world class coaching as a child. AI wouldn’t get that here.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Have you ever seen an American athlete not play soccer all their lives and suddenly pick up the sport as an adult and succeed? I can name several in the NFL
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
You cannot make up for lack of skill with athleticism in soccer. It doesn’t work like that. It those players in the nfl or nba filtered into USA soccer they wouldn’t get the skill training.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I get it. My sister played in the youth national pipeline then high level D1 soccer in the early 2000s. You could see it then. coaches favored size of players. Girls that were not skilled but bigger than the competition. Skills were afterthoughts. That’s not true in other systems.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Our dominance is not what it was but our women are still what they aspire to. Coaching at the youth level will eventually kill that advantage in full similar to the men. Skill development is an afterthought in our youth system. Men and women.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Our dominance is not what it was but our women are still what they aspire to. Coaching at the youth level will eventually kill that advantage in full similar to the men. Skill development is an afterthought in our youth system. Men and women.
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
True and this is a product of the early adoption of women’s soccer combined with funding from Title IX. Women worldwide came here for college soccer bc there were no pro or even amateur opportunities for a long time. It’s apples and oranges to compare that to men’s soccer
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Bingo.The US were early adopters for women’s soccer and title IX provided resources and a semi pro type system that our women came up in. Our college system was perfect for developing our women’s team in the absence of a pro system like the men had worldwide. Women from all over came to play in that
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claybird1.bsky.social @claybird1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The problem is the coaching. Not the lack of athletes. From youth up the priority is winning some bullshit competitions. Not skill development.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I might be watching the best sporting event of my lifetime
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
there are fools who think this sport is boring
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