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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

just want to highlight the talking points here again, they're amazing again, this is Ronaldo's instagram essay, his recitation of the talking points he gave to his coach, shared with the intention of making Ronaldo look like the good guy it's incredible

The notes I had approved were as follows:

‘I think it is important, because it is the truth, to clarify a few things before talking about Denmark:

I myself, and no one else, proposed a plan to Cristiano for this season with the national team. It was a long and very good conversation.

I know how much he lives and breathes the national team and the stature he has in the world — and, even more importantly, the weight and positive influence he has had on the national team for 24 consecutive years.

Cristiano accepted the plan I proposed to him.

He never questioned my decisions. He was exemplary, loyal and professional.

The plan I laid out for him did not include the Norway match. However, I felt that he had managed to recover physically from the first match and told him that I might need to use him. Cristiano agreed.

I made a mistake by asking someone of the stature of Pelé or Maradona to warm up and then not putting him into the game. If it happened today, I would not do it.

To bring the matter to an end: I want Cristiano in the national team. In fact, I do not just want him a little; I want him very much. Fortunately, he also believes in me. He believed in me at Al Nassr and he does here as well.

As for not greeting the supporters: we have already spoken about it. Someone who has played more than 230 matches for the national team does not need lessons from me about loving Portugal. It was a moment of frustration that erases nothing. He is the player who signs the most autographs, takes the most selfies and gives the most affection to the supporters. Let us not invent problems where none exist. When we are unhappy, we react. That is all.’

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 06/10/2026

"archaeology, anthropology, and sociology, which typically make hundreds of new grants—distributed zero new awards."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?"

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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no one (spooky👻) @gregory-c-leavitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i don’t know who needs to hear this but someone else getting the same rights as you doesn’t take your rights away

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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Megan Smith @megansmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pro tip for students and just humans: if you can't identify and explain your own work, you probably don't know what is going on.

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Megan Smith @megansmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That feeling when your teacher asks you to identify which essay is yours and both are written by AI.

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Megan Smith @megansmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That time the person he sold his soul for only endorsed "Eric" when there were three in the primary really hit him hard, clearly.

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Unusual Efforts @unusualefforts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Eric Schmitt about to accuse Manchester United of a host of financial crimes.

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Megan Smith @megansmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Malleable isn't the exact word I would use to describe him...

Screenshot of article where former Sen John Danforth is talking about Eric Schmitt and said "some of them used the same word to describe Eric, and the word was malleable. And one of them said during the campaign he's been playacting. In other words, he doesn't really believe it."

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Megan Smith @megansmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At least everything on that one is spelled correctly? 😅

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Megan Smith @megansmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is what it looks like when you are the one creature in the apartment that doesn't understand what was being said on TV for the last two hours. I know who is living the better life.

View of a dog sleeping peacefully because he doesn't understand English and the torture that was the last two hours on the TV

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

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Megan Smith @megansmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm just playing Mini Metro trying not to lose it while staying updated on questions I will have to answer tomorrow.

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Richard Callow @publiceyestl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Map coverage. Killing it: Missouri Independent; KSDK's Mark Maxwell; Punching above their weight: St Louis Public Radio; Slow and steady: Post-Dispatch, KC Star; What map?: the local TVs that don't employ Maxwell.

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Charles Boehm ⚽️ @cboehm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Speaking to media today, LAFC coach Marc Dos Santos said US govt restrictions on Venezuelan visitors were a factor in David Martínez's $8 mil+ transfer to FC Midtjylland. His family members were barred from visiting him following his 2024 arrival from Monagas @ age 18, complicating his adaptation...

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Turp @turpin4prez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This story should have more attention. ASU's idiot coach brought in some military prick to run a grueling boot camp-style workout in the heat, which included restricting water intake. NHL prospect player suffers a heat stroke and is probably going to die from it. arizonasports.com/ncaa/arizona...

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ASU hockey player Matthew Mayich has no chance of recovery after heatstroke, attorney says - Arizona Sports

"His body ceased functioning in a fundamental way, and this condition is irreversible," Robert Carey said.

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Missouri Democrats @missouridemocrats.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

VICTORY TO THE PEOPLE! The Missouri Supreme Court just unanimously ruled to reverse the gerrymandered, anti-democracy maps until THE PEOPLE have a chance to vote. This is only possible because of the work done by our neighbors to gather signatures and fight back!

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 02/09/2026

More harrowing reporting on this from Springfield via @rns.org's @kathrynpost.bsky.social: Two pastors detained, a student dead: Haitians in Ohio turn to faith amid fear of ICE Note the header image: That's the people praying over Pierre Damas Bel's grieving family. religionnews.com/2026/09/01/t...

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Two pastors detained, a student dead: Haitians in Ohio turn to faith amid fear of ICE

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (RNS) — ‘All I want is to see my husband back,’ said Denise Gedeon, whose pastor-husband, Joubert Adrien, was detained by ICE — one of two pastors arrested during a weekend that also...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Many of us are devastated by the death of Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old Haitian immigrant from Springfield, Ohio. He was here LEGALLY. Here’s how you can help the community.

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BK? @whitesox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My “We Operate Under U.S. Law” ad is raising a lot of questions already answered by the ad.

DC metro car ad:
KALSHI RULE #4
WE
OPERATE UNDER
U.S. LAW

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Megan Smith @megansmith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Love my Leipzig fans who have the banners honoring the history of Zentralstadion. I especially love that we choose the same references (me in essays in my German sport class a decade ago and them with the choreo today)

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I see there are many Men™️ who are not archaeologists or specialists in the ancient Near East making prognostications about ancient financial systems and how we behaved in the past and how it applies today and I need them all to STFU and read one book.

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chilton 👁 @chiltonm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

[guy who’s still not over Indiana Vassilev voice]

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Unusual Efforts @unusualefforts.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Can we put in a plug for 21 Thunder, a short lived but fabulous footie-based telenovela??

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”

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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application

The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.

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Carolyn (they/she) @carolynwill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

we really need to do something about the weekend being only two days

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Megan Smith @megansmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I give my class sections National Park names because the section number gets confusing with the block schedule. Really weird how Denial National Park went under my radar this long. (Really need to slow down when reading, kiddos.)

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Megan Smith @megansmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

That Tim Miller video is another heartbreaking story. I don't even know what else to say. I'm thankful for people like the Texas Immigration Law Council doing this work. For more on the Texas Immigration Law Council: txilc.org

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Home - Texas Immigration Law Council

Show up for our neighbors. Give to keep Texas together. DONATE TODAY Important Updates Immigration Habeas Practice Alert: Post-Buenrostro-Mendez v. Bondi FIEL Houston v. Paxton – What Texas Nonprofits...

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 18/08/2026

Trump has kept this family locked up for six weeks even though the mother is pregnant, even though they came to the U.S. legally, even though they broke no laws, even though *they were trying to self-deport*. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfPR...

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A 7-Year-Old Trapped in Hell Is Begging Senator Katie Britt for Help

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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RB-Fans.de @rb-fans.de · 17/08/2026

„Für Messestadt und den Verein“ ❤️ Teil 4/4 ✅ Respekt und Danke an die Szene, absolut großartig geworden! 👏

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/08/2026

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick. (Published February)

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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

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Megan Smith @megansmith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

They decided it was just an aura without pain, even though I haven't had that before. 🙃

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Megan Smith @megansmith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Not sure if this is silly but was at the ER because the pain of my migraine went away but then I suddenly couldn't see out of my left eye (not usually a vision change person). At registration for the ER, I couldn't give my social security number and then had to go through a stroke assessment. 😅

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Megan Smith @megansmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm only a little obsessed and have only tortured one friend with pausing and discussing lighting while trying to watch for the first time.

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Megan Smith @megansmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

On equal footing, THE CINEMATOGRAPHY. All credit to the team. I'm using it as an example in class this semester. www.whats-on-netflix.com/interviews/h...

Three women (Saoirse, Dara, and Robyn) stand side-by-side with hands clasped in a dimly lit, vintage-decorated room, looking toward a wooden casket in the immediate foreground. The cross is out of focus. The woman on the left wears a bright red turtleneck sweater and jeans; the middle woman wears an orange jumpsuit over a teal turtleneck with a cap; and the woman on the right wears a grey sweater with blonde hair pulled back.

Three women (Dara, Robyn, and Saoirse) stand together on a grassy, mountainous hillside looking upward off-camera with concerned expressions. On the left, a woman wears a dark blue suit, red beanie, and red sneakers. In the center foreground, a woman wears an oversized light blue button-down shirt and pink polka-dot pants. On the right, a blonde woman wears a long, belted dark blue coat. The green grass is a vibrant contrast with the blues in the costumes.

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Megan Smith @megansmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Not everyone finds some enlightened better path. And I don't think you need to witness that from people involved in your trauma for your own processing. In fact, I find it pretty disturbing we seem to imply it does for a "good" ending. (CC: The Good Place and Ted Lasso and many others)

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Megan Smith @megansmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Rewatching ep 8 of How to Get to Heaven from Belfast. I appreciate the depiction of trauma and not being able to hide it or push it down forever. Possibly more than that, I appreciate not giving Nora (or Margo) a redemption arc.

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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Wasn't expecting the Missouri Supreme Court chief justice to warn against running out the clock on the redistricting referendum lawsuit 👀 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice warns GOP against running out the clock on redistricting referendum

Powell urged the court to handle the matter “expeditiously” to leave sufficient time for the appeals process.

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 10/08/2026

Catholic sisters are playing a key role among clergy and other religious leaders who have been organizing demonstrations and vigils at ICE field offices and processing centers in places like Chicago, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia — and in Ohio.

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‘Even the nuns are mad’: Catholic sisters are standing for Haitians outside ICE offices

In Ohio, they're playing a visible role among religious leaders who have been organizing demonstrations after mostly Springfield-area Haitian residents were summoned to report to immigration enforceme...

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hey look, the system Republicans put into place is working as planned. (Happy belated Moms' Equal Pay Day, fwiw)

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