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🏆⚽️✈️ After winning the NWSL championship Saturday night, Gotham FC have just departed San Jose on board the very same all-white Avelo jet (N805VL) that lost cabin pressure with shackled ICE abductees aboard two weeks ago and had to make an emergency landing in Las Vegas 😬
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Looked like the Torrent had their third goal of the night, as Hannah Bilka banked the puck off the back of Maschmeyer, but it is waved off by the officials.

Commercial timeout...

@pwhltorrent.bsky.social 2 - 2 @pwhlgoldeneyes.bsky.social
6:12 left in P3

#SeattleTorrent #PWHLSeattle
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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#OnThisDay in 1903, Chief Joseph attended a UW football game. "I saw a lot of white men almost fight today." historylink.org/File/10286 #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
Poster for Chief Joseph's lecture, November 20, 1903
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Pretty cool that 12.99 will now get you access to a mind bending drama based on highly structured and inscrutable rules with themes of identity and free will set to a backdrop of corporate desperation and overreach and also severance is on there I guess
theathletic.com The Athletic @theathletic.com · Nov 13
NEWS: MLS will no longer be behind a separate paywall on Apple TV beginning in 2026.

MLS Season Pass will no longer exist, and all MLS games will be available on the Apple TV streaming service.

More details from @paultenorio.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Nov 9
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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my convo with @susierantz.bsky.social about the @seattlereignfc.bsky.social

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Reign on me: Seattle's NWSL team heads back to the playoffs - Soundside
The Seattle Reign play the Orlando Pride in a win-or-go-home match this week. Do they have the potential for a deep playoff run?
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November 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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This needs to be shared more widely. It's on Facebook, which AFAIK doesn't allow direct links to its posts. Terry clearly wants it to be shared, so I don't feel bad about posting it in multiple screenshots.

Terry Wallace was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
A brown cloud arising from an underground nuclear test in Nevada. Dry Nevadan hills are in the background. The scientific encampment to control the test and take data is in the lower right. This is the Baneberry nuclear test, and it is not how underground nuclear tests should look. Screenshot of a Facebook post: Terry Wallace On December 18, 1970, a nuclear weapons test was conducted in an underground shaft at the Nevada Test Site. The test, code-named Baneberry, was detonated at a depth of about 900 feet. Baneberry was a relatively small weapons test and was conducted at Yucca Flats (a large playa) in alluvial soil derived from surrounding deposits of volcanic tuff. Within the alluvium, there were intermittent seams of montmorillonite clay that were saturated with water. The drill hole was filled with a concrete plug and sorted materials; the procedure for plugging the hole was consistent with previous tests at Yucca Flats, which aimed to fully contain the radioactive products within a cavity produced by the nuclear explosion. In the case of Baneberry, the detonation seemed normal until about 3 ½ minutes after the “boom,” when a large fissure opened up a few hundred feet from the test shaft, and a boiling cloud of radioactive debris rose above the Nevada desert (Figure 1 is an image of the Baneberry release). The cloud rose about 10,000 feet above the test and was visible in Las Vegas, 100 miles away. The cloud spread radioactive dust across a broad area, contaminating 86 workers at the test site. The total radioactive release was 6.7 megacuries (for comparison, Chernobyl released 200 megacuries), including 80,000 curies of iodine-131. Two of the workers who were contaminated died in 1974 from myeloid leukemia. The accident resulted in a six-month suspension of nuclear weapons testing, and a root cause analysis revealed three geological issues that combined to create the release: an unrecognized fault in the alluvium, a buried escarpment between the alluvium and limestone, and the structural weakness of the water-saturated clay. Post continues (2) the structural weakness of the water-saturated clay. The summary conclusion of the root cause analysis indicated that a thorough geological analysis was needed for all future nuclear tests, and it recommended the establishment of a containment evaluation panel (CEP) for the approval of any tests. This panel required that “successful containment means no radioactivity detectable offsite, and no unanticipated release of activity onsite.” Of the 200+ tests that occurred after the creation of the CEP, only four tests had releases—the worst of which was a test called Diagonal Line, detonated about a year after Baneberry, and resulting in a release of 6,000 curies. I started my career at Los Alamos National Laboratory as an undergraduate student in 1975 employed by the J Division, which was responsible for providing the containment package for LANL nuclear tests. My first project involved modeling the small earthquakes that occurred after an explosion. Once an explosion is detonated, it creates a cavity by vaporizing and compressing the surrounding materials. This cavity is expected to collapse over the following days or weeks to create a porous chimney that traps the gases produced in the explosion. This containment strategy is unique to the geology of the Nevada Test Site and is not applicable to other testing environments, especially crystalline rock (like the North Korean Test Site). Over the three years I worked as a student at LANL, I analyzed data from more than 70 tests, which initiated my career in forensic geophysics and eventually led to my becoming the 11th Director of LANL. On September 23, 1992, the U.S. conducted its final explosive nuclear Post continues (3): On September 23, 1992, the U.S. conducted its final explosive nuclear test, code-named Divider (a LANL test). Shortly after the test, President Bush announced a test moratorium that was extended indefinitely by President Clinton. This ushered in a new era in which nuclear weapons were evaluated not through explosions but by scientific tools that verified material properties through dynamic testing and advanced computer simulations that encapsulated the complex physics of nuclear reactions and explosions along with the material properties derived from non-explosive experiments. The Directors of Los Alamos, Livermore, and Sandia are required to write an annual stockpile assessment letter that assures the nuclear stockpile's reliability; this letter is finalized after a yearlong assessment of the safety, reliability, and performance of both the nuclear and non-nuclear components of all weapon types in the U.S. arsenal. The letters are highly classified and closely held, but no letter has indicated that the U.S. needs to return to nuclear testing. This is hugely significant not only for the U.S. but also for the world—the moratorium on testing represents a small step toward a world that recognizes that nuclear weapons are not weapons of war, but rather instruments of deterrence. On October 28, President Trump announced that the U.S. would restart nuclear weapons tests: “Because of other countries’ testing programs, I
November 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Will Klein in a "Rapinoe/Kaepernick 2020" shirt
three siblings sit in front of a Christmas tree, 2019. Will Klein, right, wears a maroon shirt saying "RAPINOE KAEPERNICK 2020."
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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🏈 HOU 12 - 27 SEA
3:01 4Q

Scorigami is quite unlikely (less than 1%) in this game.
October 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Jess Fishlock. No caption needed. 🔥🐉
October 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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wizard frog is insane
October 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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30 years ago today, the Seattle Mariners won the American League Western Division Championship. www.historylink.org/File/3420
Mariners pitcher Randy Johnson strikes out Tim Salmon of the Angels to help Seattle win its first AL West title, October 2, 1995
October 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Gift 🎁 link
Federal cops ‘instigating’ confrontations with protesters outside ICE building, Portland police official says in court
Assistant Chief Craig Dobson said federal officers were “causing some of the ruckus” at the ongoing protests.
www.oregonlive.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Good morning, Mariners fans.

MLB has uploaded the entirety of the bottom of the eighth and top of the ninth of last night's playoff-clincher on YouTube.
Josh Naylor and the Mariners win a COME FROM BEHIND THRILLER and are Postseason-bound! 🔱
YouTube video by MLB
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September 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1909, a luxurious bathroom opened beneath Seattle's Pioneer Square pergola. historylink.org/File/2950
Pioneer Square pergola, Seattle, 1910
September 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.
September 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Dominique Malonga runs the floor and ties it, Seattle goes nuts
September 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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They’re divided by supporting a soccer team and a cruise line? That makes no sense
soundersfc.com Sounders FC @soundersfc.com · Sep 16
Gotta stay loyal 😆💚
A family with a “house divided” sign and members wearing Seattle and Miami gear
September 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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The Pitt won Outstanding Drama Series at the #Emmys, and R. Scott Gemmill dedicated the award to healthcare workers:

"Respect them. Protect them. Trust them.”
September 15, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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sounds like demelo is up and alert, now time to see if jessica berman has learned anything, at least this time she should at least still be awake
September 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Reign FC has loaned midfielder Ji So-Yun to Birmingham City of the Barclays Women’s Super League 2 through the end of 2025.

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Seattle Reign FC Loans Midfielder Ji So-Yun to Birmingham City — Seattle Reign FC
The South Korean international joins Birmingham City on loan through the end of 2025 Seattle Reign FC today announced that midfielder Ji So-Yun has been loaned to Birmingham City of the Barclays Wom...
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September 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Well well well.
August 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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MORE LIKE JORDYN BIKE-EMA AMIRITE
August 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Mondesir, more than any player I can think of in recent memory, very often has me asking "would a blonde white girl from California have been whistled for that?"
August 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Incredible things are happening at T-Mobile Park.
Humpy getting run for the Salmon race
August 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM