A newspaper career ends, but he is surely not done yet. #CBJ #Crew96
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A newspaper career ends, but he is surely not done yet. #CBJ #Crew96
This is a United States senator, on his official government account, publicly saying full white nationalism & great replacement theory is central to the country’s identity & the GOP platform. Also: explicitly opposing Lincoln’s message in Gettysburg Address (reference to “proposition”)
The red state im currently sitting in has a higher violent crime rate than Illinois, this is Not About Crime
They don’t care about the actual crime stats guys. The first time I was personally blamed for the Chicago crime rate, I was a kid going to school a hundred plus miles away. Sometimes I wish people would just use the n word.
Pritzker: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.
The ideal American child is lovingly kept alive during nine months of pregnancy only to be killed for the correct, conservative reasons immediately after being born.
Today from the Coors Field scoreboard:
BDC!
Nope. There’s only a single flag so it’s okay.
What’s worse than a fart noise? The Columbus Crew in 2025.
going on shark tank to propose an uber-esque service in which parents all pay for a ride share that picks up everyone's kids and drops them all off. Hell, could even pick them up before school
Based on what evidence, rich New Albany man who donates solely to GOP campaigns?
Happy #LaborDay from all of us at Antifa HQ.
happy labor day to all you workers and parasites
“I think it’s harmful — even hateful at times. But it’s not a hard choice for me between a candidate who sometimes says hateful things and one who wants to use the power of government to silence opposing views they conveniently deem hateful.” How’s that working out Mr. Derrow?
In 21 games with Gazdag the Crew have 31 points. Porter’s last year had 32 points during a similar time period leading up to his eventual firing. There’s a good chance they don’t get 6 points in the final 6 games. The Union must be laughing all the way to the bank.
Anyways. His family foundation has over $3 million in assets and we are supposed to believe he speaks for average Ohioans about what OSU should teach to students. This guy voted for Trump, wrote about that he would, and then claims civil debate is what we need around here.
I have to assume that the Dispatch received a check from this guy to resuscitate his image. He is published over and over and over. They interviewed him in a video once where he said his two favorite columns went unpublished because he “wasn’t buying his own argument”
Rich New Albany man censured by his own school board colleagues and who has only donated to GOP candidates knows a thing or two about oozing bias.
Pink Phony Club
I’m sure any punishment will be completely toothless, and lack any real bite.
Only you can prevent forest fires
Coincidentally, Gianni Infantino was on hand to celebrate InterMiami raising the Spitter’s Shield.
Take a bite out of this crime.
It really is not much fun at Columbus games these days. The good days were far too short.
I worked on a team with someone who was a bit wild. He wasn’t the best but he was important in ways that were hard to measure. If your best person is also that wild one, that is really hard to replace.
I do not want
At least we are feeling it together.
Beating Atlanta probably means they avoid the play in game. Anything else and this team is fighting to keep the 8th spot.
At Atlanta (1.5 points) At NYCFC (0 points) Toronto (3 points) At Chicago (0.5 points) At Orlando (0 points) NYRB (1 point) 6 points feels like play-in game to me.
It’s like watching an AI generated video for the prompt: show me the Columbus Crew playing NancyBall
I think Aidan Morris also thinks like this.
Also, I don’t want to see Daniel Gazdag starting in the next few games. Enough with this unlock selling job. He adds nothing to this attack and he doesn’t prevent goals.
He takes zero risks. For all that talk about Nancy wanting players to reach beyond themselves, Gazdag has done nothing to show that applies to him.
I’d like to see him not play.
Turns out that a high risk, high reward strategy works really well when you have at least a couple of players who think like this
The Daniel Gazdag trade is potentially the worst DP move the Crew has ever made.
That last six games in 2022 had 1 win, 3 draws and 2 losses. (6 points) Other than Toronto at home, I don’t see games I can confidently see a win. Maybe the Atlanta game on the road.
Am I saying that someone needs sacked in 2025? Nope. Not at all. I'm saying that the good times are over and barring a complete change in performance in the last 6 games, this 2025 season will be a massive failure.
The attacking high risk, high reward approach is scoring wise, not much different than the season when Caleb Porter was sacked. The defense is worse. The strategy seems to have been found out and with Nagbe out, the team is struggling to fill the hole in the midfield.
The 21 game 2025 stretch had 12 multi goal games The 21 game 2022 stretch had 10 multi goal games. It is really hard to look at 2025 and consider this a success by any metric.
During that 21 game stretch in 2025, the Crew scored 33 goals and gave up 34. They were scoreless 3 times and held other teams scoreless 2 times. During that 21 game stretch in 2022, the Crew scored 27 goals and gave up 22. They were scoreless 7 times and held other teams scoreless 8 times.
I know this is totally arbitrary but if we look at the 21 regular season games after the #Crew96 traded for Daniel Gazdag they have 8 wins, 7 draws, and 6 losses (31 points) if we look at the same 21 game range in the 2022 season, they had 7 wins, 11 draws, and 3 losses (32 points)
On August vacation?
The thing that gets me is that people say we have the best coach and that the talent is there. Maybe. All I see is an attacking group that has zero chemistry and nobody to connect the back to the front quickly.
This describes the zero risk match that I watched. #Crew96
Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.
It’s weird because Nancy has preached that making mistakes is acceptable. However, this team doesn’t try anything interesting.
There is absolutely no joy to this #Crew96 right now. It’s not joyful on the pitch and it’s certainly not joyful to watch. There was one interesting moment where Wessam flicked to Rossi who then couldn’t shoot on frame. They are robotic and bland and slow.
That was a soccer game.
They were working on communicating policies
Go back to the toilet to find the answer to your question.
We signed a guy who said to cross me the ball and then decided never to do that.
If #Crew96 don’t figure this thing out in the next 45, then we are cooked. Put a fork in 2025 if that happens.
Zero
Red Bulls aren’t sitting back and #Crew96 still can’t get a sequence leading to a shot. It’s rather concerning. I’m concerned. Quite concerned.
#Crew96 decided to fix the too many shots with no goals problem by taking no shots.
Pretty sure he cracked his rib.
Starting lineups on Match Day 30 for New York Red Bulls vs Columbus Crew on Saturday, August 30, 2025 at Sports Illustrated Stadium. #RBNY #Crew96 #RBNYvCLB
Pretty sure he’s anti substack
Columbus Crew’s Yehven Cheberko is chasing trophies in MLS while relishing his return to Ukraine’s national team. Exclusive interview with RG ⬇️ rg.org/news/soccer/...
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Bro. Columbus >>>> Austin, TX
Oh no. MLS’s minister of culture lost again. How sad.
Earlier this summer I was at a friends house. One of your board members was there. We talked about indie news for hours.
Independent news is the way to go. I started paying attention to Matter News in summer 2020 and they have been a solid local news source that I love supporting.
Spectacular.
Here’s your reminder that Vivek Ramaswamy moved his own business out of Ohio to Texas #gobucks #hornsdown
I bet he doesn’t even know the soccer team he owns plays today.
Eating good today.
“Slightly Confused Mauricio Pochettino Leads Ohio State Chants on Big Noon Kickoff” sure is a sentence we all would have predicted we’d be saying a year ago
Lego is no longer sending individual pieces to the U.S. due to Trump ending the de minimis exemption. This man ruins everything. www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
Holding back on the Crew/MLS flag policy outrage worked. I’ve seen something similar a few times in the last 5-6 years to maneuver quietly so that the wave becomes almost impossible to push against. Straight out of Sun Tzu. “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” #Crew96
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.
Welcome to the resistance , Nascar fans. www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/l...
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Or the section of Harrison Afful fans.
The federal government is threatening to take over a private company’s assets and somehow that isn’t in the headline.
This is one of the ways that white supremacy weaponizes civility: by implying that certain people get to be served, and other kinds of people (you know what kinds) need to be grateful, without interrogating it.
yo this guy is cooking
They were busy working on advertising the watch party.
They only had 7 months to get this all figured out though. Thats such a short runway.
The Columbus Crew lied to their fans about a league-wide policy that didn’t exist. Pathetic. www.nytimes.com/athletic/657...
This is such an own goal for #crew96 and MLS. Issa and they player personnel team were working to sign Wessam for 7+ months. It’s pretty clear no one else in the FO gave the implications of signing the Palestine national team’s #9 a moment’s thought until the ink was dry.
One Crew fan was ejected, and others say there were threats of one-year stadium bans, for bringing Palestinian flags to a game. They defied an MLS policy, but the Crew had misstated that policy... and fans in other cities think the policy is something different. Inside the tension:
Also, why was a fan punished for wearing a national team jersey of our player?
Cat is out of the bag. Mike Arace is no longer a Gannett employee at the Columbus Dispatch. I’m sure we will hear more from him soon.
If you’re a sports team that is going to make things up as you go and oversell league policy in the process, I suggest maybe trying another fanbase besides Columbus Crew fans.
It also strikes me how the Nordecke is considered a partner of the team but then the team took the hostile approach to a thing Crew fans have always done for players. Then the team enforced a made up policy by punishing those customers recently and only backed down when NYT called for clarification.
“They’re making it up as they go along. It’s tied together with chicken wire, duct tape and hypocrisy.” - @chrislamacchia.bsky.social
Sure sounds like Crew lied to their fans about MLS’s flag policy and only changed after media pushed. #Crew96
Thanks, Google Ai “Polo uses horse-sized horses.”
The Ohio GOP could just reverse their course on solar and wind. Too easy tho. The liberal gremlins would be energized by that.
Start eating. A lot. And stop exercising.
It's always been like this, and it's because the elites are essentially self-preserving, and civility has always been the tool by which non-elites are condemned.
It is all tough to absorb.