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@timothydee.bsky.social
There are some who call me... Tim?
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We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).
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get in loser we're doing tv timeouts for soccer
News: Every 2026 World Cup match will feature two "hydration breaks," no matter the weather.
Each half will pause for exactly three minutes midway through.
It's a player welfare measure. It also has sporting & commercial implications.
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Each half will pause for exactly three minutes midway through.
It's a player welfare measure. It also has sporting & commercial implications.
More @theathleticfc.bsky.social:
2026 World Cup to feature three-minute hydration breaks in every half throughout tournament
Every game will pause for three minutes in the middle of each half, which will essentially split the match into quarters.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
get in loser we're doing tv timeouts for soccer
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We lost so much when we lost Grant. Not only was he the greatest American soccer writer but he had the guts and integrity to call out corruption, sexism, and bigotry regardless of what it cost him personally.
Very few people in sports media (or any media) are like this!
Very few people in sports media (or any media) are like this!
I wish Grant Wahl was here rn
December 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We lost so much when we lost Grant. Not only was he the greatest American soccer writer but he had the guts and integrity to call out corruption, sexism, and bigotry regardless of what it cost him personally.
Very few people in sports media (or any media) are like this!
Very few people in sports media (or any media) are like this!
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The United States deserves complete and total humiliation re: the World Cup and the Olympics. We're a toxic country and we're actively harming the international order while committing breathtaking human rights violations at home and abroad. I hope the world stays home. bsky.app/profile/lavi...
Ahead of today’s World Cup draw, articles in Italy’s La Repubblica & Spain’s El País on how there may be immigration raids at games & people who posted a social media message that Trump administration didn’t like could face deportation.
www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/...
elpais.com/us/migracion...
www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/...
elpais.com/us/migracion...
Agenti anti immigrazione negli stadi e visti blindati: negli Usa mondiali di calcio da regime
Il capo della task force della Casa Bianca: ingressi vietati ai tifosi di Iran e Haiti e controlli negli stadi a caccia di clandestini
www.repubblica.it
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The United States deserves complete and total humiliation re: the World Cup and the Olympics. We're a toxic country and we're actively harming the international order while committing breathtaking human rights violations at home and abroad. I hope the world stays home. bsky.app/profile/lavi...
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I am begging one, JUST ONE, congressional reporter to follow up with Mike Johnson by asking, "What are the American people to make of a Speaker of the House who tells us daily that he's not aware of what's happening on Capitol Hill and the White House?"
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I am begging one, JUST ONE, congressional reporter to follow up with Mike Johnson by asking, "What are the American people to make of a Speaker of the House who tells us daily that he's not aware of what's happening on Capitol Hill and the White House?"
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We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
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The right's now hegemonic argument that cocaine is actually a chemical weapon and that mere suspicion of having it on your boat justifies an order to kill everyone aboard is astoundingly insane
December 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The right's now hegemonic argument that cocaine is actually a chemical weapon and that mere suspicion of having it on your boat justifies an order to kill everyone aboard is astoundingly insane
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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
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Indiana GOP is going for it: They've released a proposed map that'd likely lock in a 9-0 GOP congressional delegation & flip the 2 currently held by Dems. Indianapolis would be cracked into GOP seats, and Gary would be drowned in red.
The big question: Will the Senate still stop it?
The big question: Will the Senate still stop it?
December 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Indiana GOP is going for it: They've released a proposed map that'd likely lock in a 9-0 GOP congressional delegation & flip the 2 currently held by Dems. Indianapolis would be cracked into GOP seats, and Gary would be drowned in red.
The big question: Will the Senate still stop it?
The big question: Will the Senate still stop it?
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
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“why the fuck are we invading Venezuela” should really be on at least a couple of chyrons
November 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“why the fuck are we invading Venezuela” should really be on at least a couple of chyrons
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Huh. Interesting. Wonder if there is a way of describing that particular type of order, and whether you definitely have to follow it or are supposed to not follow it?
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Huh. Interesting. Wonder if there is a way of describing that particular type of order, and whether you definitely have to follow it or are supposed to not follow it?
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I know the war is already lost, but I believe we should attempt to do something about branding with days of the week. "Black Friday deals starting this Sunday." Unacceptable. "It's a Thursday edition of Sunday Night Football" no it's not, that isn't true.
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I know the war is already lost, but I believe we should attempt to do something about branding with days of the week. "Black Friday deals starting this Sunday." Unacceptable. "It's a Thursday edition of Sunday Night Football" no it's not, that isn't true.
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With the Epstein Files dominating political news, Trump is doubling down on rigging maps.
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
With the Epstein Files dominating political news, Trump is doubling down on rigging maps.
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the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
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Criminal organization attempting to conceal evidence bsky.app/profile/brad...
DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Criminal organization attempting to conceal evidence bsky.app/profile/brad...
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They know what they’re doing is wrong.
DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
They know what they’re doing is wrong.
Holy shit Van de Ven!
November 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Holy shit Van de Ven!
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Dick Cheney sent my generation to fight an unnecessary decade-long war in Iraq that killed and maimed and traumatized hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Americans.
That’s his only legacy.
That’s his only legacy.
if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Dick Cheney sent my generation to fight an unnecessary decade-long war in Iraq that killed and maimed and traumatized hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Americans.
That’s his only legacy.
That’s his only legacy.
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I am going to save most of my ire today for whatever Democrats come out of the woodwork to do the whole "I disagreed with Dick Cheney on a number of things, but he respected Constitutional norms and wanted what's best for America" horseshit. I predict there will be several.
November 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I am going to save most of my ire today for whatever Democrats come out of the woodwork to do the whole "I disagreed with Dick Cheney on a number of things, but he respected Constitutional norms and wanted what's best for America" horseshit. I predict there will be several.
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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A Republic, if you can keep it.
Q: What did you mean when you said you're prepared to send 'more than the National Guard' into American cities?
TRUMP: if I want to enact a certain act, I'd be allowed to do whatever I want. The courts wouldn't get involved. Nobody would. I could send Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines -anybody I want
TRUMP: if I want to enact a certain act, I'd be allowed to do whatever I want. The courts wouldn't get involved. Nobody would. I could send Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines -anybody I want
October 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A Republic, if you can keep it.
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If we gin up a shooting war with a country full of brown Spanish-speakers there would be, I'm guessing Trump's and Stephen Miller's thinking goes, no limits on and no effective judicial review of what the jackboots do to brown Spanish-speakers on American soil.
October 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
If we gin up a shooting war with a country full of brown Spanish-speakers there would be, I'm guessing Trump's and Stephen Miller's thinking goes, no limits on and no effective judicial review of what the jackboots do to brown Spanish-speakers on American soil.
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At what point will someone in power explicitly state that Trump is trying to foment war in South America in order to give his domestic authoritarian initiatives a fig leaf of a national defense rationale? bsky.app/profile/newn...
Trump’s decision to send aircraft carrier to South America will leave Mideast and Europe with none
apnews.com/article/airc...
apnews.com/article/airc...
Trump's decision to send aircraft carrier to South America will leave Mideast and Europe with none
President Donald Trump’s deployment of the nation’s most advanced aircraft carrier to South America is pulling the ship out of the Mediterranean Sea.
apnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
At what point will someone in power explicitly state that Trump is trying to foment war in South America in order to give his domestic authoritarian initiatives a fig leaf of a national defense rationale? bsky.app/profile/newn...