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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good time to revisit this piece from @athenakugblenu.bsky.social: "If Black contestants get a raw deal on #TheTraitors, that definitely is reality TV" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If Black contestants get a raw deal on The Traitors, that definitely is reality TV | Athena Kugblenu
We shouldn’t be surprised when our experiences on competitive TV shows or the football field are consistent with everyday life, says comedian and writer Athena Kugblenu
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I remain convinced that Marta isn't going to miss an opportunity to play in a World Cup in her homeland but this would be dope... That said, Tobin Heath should've been their first call. www.nytimes.com/athletic/760...
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Netflix in talks with Megan Rapinoe and Marta over potential Women’s World Cup analyst roles (Gift Article)
Netflix secured the exclusive broadcast rights in the United States and Canada for the 2027 and 2031 editions of the Women’s World Cup.
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not sure what @marypeltola.com did to warrant this gift.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Trump is seeking to destroy a memorial to a man because that man is not him. He is seeking to destroy a memorial to culture because culture does not embrace him. It’s really as simple as that."
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Perhaps the most consequential voice in #WNBA history is hanging it up after this season. Congratulations to Madame President on an amazing career. The sky's the limit on what Nneka could do next. boardroom.tv/nneka-ogwumi...
boardroom.tv
EXCLUSIVE: Nneka Ogwumike Is Retiring From the WNBA On Her Own Terms - Boardroom
Nneka Ogwumike sits down with Taylor Rooks to reflect on her career, 2016 championship, leadership, WNBA retirement, and what comes next.
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Mitchell Northam @northam67.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In her 2nd Truck Series race, Dystany Spurlock savored small victories. The first Black woman to drive in NASCAR is still a student of the sport. Next year, she plans to run full-time in ARCA. "The best time for me to learn is when I'm actually racing." www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
usatoday.com
In second NASCAR race, Dystany Spurlock learns, savors small victories
Dystany Spurlock is learning on the fly in NASCAR. The first Black woman to drive in the series competed in her second race on Saturday at Richmond.
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I need to know at what point Season 4 of #TedLasso stops being terrible. Surely there's a TV critic who's watched screeners who can give me some hope. Because we're two episodes in and Ted's goofy charm is not charming me in the way it did in Season One.
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I, for one, am shocked. I was told a massive takeover of the Party by Democratic Socialists was happening. ,😐 (I hope this doesn't change the plans of the James Carville types who swore they were leaving the party.)
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12/08/2026
The Republican platform is simple: they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it.
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
One easy way to separate the real fans from the fake ones in the #wnba is to ask: "between the Chicago Sky and the Indiana Fever, two players genuinely hate each other. Genuinely. Who are they?" If they don't know, fuck them and their opinions. x.com/awfulannounc...
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Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) on X
"If you want to call it the jealous nature, the legitimate hatred for somebody because of what they believe in and because of what they look like… I could say it's a targeted attack" – Boomer Esiason ...
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Alana Beard is one of those folks that Syd Colson warned us about. archive.today/UCPnt youtube.com/shorts/nkAx4...
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I absolutely detest the level of surveillance that we're subjected to on a regular basis, but this is why I have cameras now. This exact situation.
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I've been saying in the group chat, Washington is going to be so dangerous in the postseason...mainly because they're entire rotation is going to be resting for the entirety of #FIBAWWC. Meanwhile, whoever they're playing in the opening round is going to have multiple players playing in FIBA.
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Oh no!
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Happy for both these players. Shakira, Shakira though... (shout out to Lisa Leslie). 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾 Shakira works so hard during the off-season to level up her game and, then she sadly gets hamstrung by in-season injuries. It's all coming together this season.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 10/08/2026
NEW: A Dubai-based real estate company paid Trump $12.5 million during his first year back in office while it sought to build data centers in the US, according to CREW analysis.
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Dubai developer paid Trump $12.5 million while bringing data centers to the U.S.  - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
A Dubai-based real estate company paid Donald Trump $12.5 million while another arm of the company sought to build data centers in the U.S.
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Yeah, girl, they're inside your locker room. #wnba
Via Just Women's Sports: a graphic featuring a picture of Indiana Fever Coach Stephanie White and her star PG, Caitlin Clark. Atop the picture it says: 

"There are a lot of Folks out there who want to divide us" - Stephanie White on her team limiting distractions this season
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Kayla set a new record and Marina is like, "okay, bet."
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This baby is so cute! 🤩
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Excited to see how Jose Fernandez demands accountability for everyone but himself during his post-game presser. #wnba
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If she'd kept the main thing, the main thing, no one would be talking about it now.
From UnderdogWNBA on Twitter: Sophie Cunningham: "The WNBA media, all we ever do is cover everything except basketball ... You can talk about other things, those are great stories, it shows fans who people outside of the court, but I think we gotta keep the main thing the main thing."
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them." defector.com/the-right-ha...
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The Right Has Created Its Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector
A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN p...
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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
This rhetoric is ideal for listeners who believe trans women are an issue that they're supposed to care about, but don't actually have any real-world experience with them. The hypothetical trans girl who's supposedly causing all this trouble in the WNBA is the perfect tool for the conservative movement. She can't fight back, she can't disprove anyone's assumptions, and she can't garner sympathy when she's the target of hate. The perfect trans girl is the one who only exists in the imagination of the loudest cis people. Her monstrousness, the need to "protect young girls in a locker room" from her, gives them permission to enact policies that in reality only harm the anonymous girls, cis and trans, who want to play sports without the invasive scrutiny of gender-obsessed adults.
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Song of Good Hope" by Glen Hansard, performed at his funeral today by Eddie Vedder, Markéta Irglová, members of The Frames youtu.be/HLlSx3B5iyk
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Eddie Vedder, Markéta Irglová, Thomas Bartlett and The Frames perform at Glen Hansard's funeral
YouTube video by The Journal
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
She's still going through free agency?! This is Chicago Sky levels of incompetence by the Phoenix Mercury.
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Marisa Ingemi @mingemi.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Maybelle Blair throws the first pitch to Kelsie Whitmore
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Batter up! Hear that call! The time has come for one and all To play ball. www.autostraddle.com/womens-profe...
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Pro Women's Baseball Starts Today: Here's Every Out Gay Player On The Field
The Women's Professional Baseball League starts this weekend — here's all the gays to watch out for.
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Marina and her rookie!
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
When CC said she was betting on a game, no one had a thing to say. Now Paige and Angel do it, a group of bad faith actors chimes in and the league issues a response. The league's inability, both with this and the situation in Seattle, to identify folks operating in bad faith is so frustrating.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’ve seen a lot of Oscar speeches; I don’t think any kicker has stuck with me quite like just imploring the audience: “Make art. Make art.” With the addition of “tanks,” which has charmed me out of my shoes since the first time I heard him say it in 2005. youtu.be/qx8yLvb0gZM?...
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"Falling Slowly" winning Best Original Song Oscar®
YouTube video by Oscars
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Genuinely heartbroken by this news. One of my favorite artists of all time whose music soundtracked some of the most pivotal moments of my life. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
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Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning Irish singer-songwriter, dies aged 56 in motorcycle crash
Frontman of chart-topping band the Frames had huge success as the star of 2007 romantic drama Once
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I look forward to this being the last I have to hear of Lalas for a long time.
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I wonder: how does it feel to be the one person in the White House facing consequences for their grifting?
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Sports will break your heart every time.
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Dance party to close out the day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4YR...
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Beyoncé - 7/11
YouTube video by Beyoncé
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
VAR is fucking useless.
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It feels like I imagined that obvious #ESP handball. Called out by the opposition but was ignored by the refs and wasn't flagged by VAR. Commentators discussed it briefly, even consulting their rules expert, but no one brought it up again?
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I appreciate all the people raising their voices to criticize the youth development pipeline in soccer that is very clearly broken. However, there's an insistence in suggesting that the issue is limited to just "men's football" when it is so clearly not. youtube.com/shorts/zTYrY...
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On this week's minisode, Tobin and Christen talk USMNT and rebuilding for our future ⚽🏆
YouTube video by RE
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Genuinely so happy for her.
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The defense looks completely out of sorts. #BELUSA
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It's always "Fuck Ronaldo" for me. Good riddance.
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Everything that man touches turns to shit, I swear. www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...
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Belgium granted right to appeal against FIFA's Balogun ban decision
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
What a match. #ENGMEX #WorldCup
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Is #FIFA corrupt? Absolutely, yes. But today's intercession on behalf of the #USMNT and Folarin Balogun, is not without precedent. sports.yahoo.com/articles/cri...
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How Cristiano Ronaldo is the precedent for FIFA changing Folarin Balogun's USA red-card suspension
One of the all-time greats may have helped out the United States here.
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Southern Sylvs 🍉 she/her @southernsylvs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Mexico, put 20 on em. The Black American delegation does NOT play about Selena Quintanilla Perez. Never have, never will.
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Oh no, Tah!
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Neuer!
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The idea that a team that hadn't made it out of the group round since 2012 was/is a favorite... C'mon man. I love DFB but be serious.
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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nat @natthedem.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Finally.
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Pengu the Penguin Waving Germany Flag
ALT: Pengu the Penguin Waving Germany Flag
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