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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 34m

💣 ⚽️ 👮 🙀 Josh Wander, the brash American businessman who came close to buying Premier League team Everton, once one of the biggest multi club investors in football, is charged with fraud by US authorities.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...

Brash Investor in Global Soccer Clubs Is Charged With Fraud

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WIRED @wired.com · 3h

Then there's Russ Taylor. "It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement."

(Editor's note: Taylor was plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack. He was later pardoned by Trump.)
www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 25m

Please allow @josimarfootball.bsky.social, @pbsportswriter.bsky.social and myself a minute of self-congratulation. We wrote a total of 39 articles on 777 Partners' house of cards. It was time well spent.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...

Brash Investor in Global Soccer Clubs Is Charged With Fraud

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 53m

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 55m

1. Friends, I have a major career update. And it is bittersweet.

My time at Rolling Stone is coming to a close this week.

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Dave Robinson @davidrobbo.bsky.social · 33m

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4h

BREAKING: The bodies of 29 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks have been brought to Gaza's hospitals over the past 24 hours, reports the health ministry.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0

Dave Robinson @davidrobbo.bsky.social · 34m

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Homan: "If the hateful rhetoric continues, there will be bloodshed. People are going to die ... there is going to be more bloodshed unless this hateful rhetoric stops."

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1h

JB Pritzker appearing at a press conference now with several former military officials - generals and admirals - to denounce Donald Trump's use of the military against Americans. He says CBP and ICE are acting like Donald Trump's "own personal secret police"

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Patrick Boyland @paddyboyland.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: Jordan Pickford has signed a four-year contract extension. Negotiations, which started formally around a month ago, seamless

Idea, if all goes to plan, is that goalkeeper will see out his career with Everton

Story + analysis
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www.nytimes.com/athletic/660...

Jordan Pickford signs four-year Everton contract extension to 2031

The 31-year-old has kept 91 clean sheets in 326 appearances for the Merseyside club since joining from Sunderland in 2017.

www.nytimes.com

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 2h

A story in three parts

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blaaaaaaaaaines @blainecapatch.bsky.social · Sep 27

okay okay OKAY here are all 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

1. Slip out the back, Jack
2. Make a new plan, Stan
3. Hop on the bus, Gus
4. Drop off the key, Lee
5. Shit in the bed, Fred

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Dave Robinson @davidrobbo.bsky.social · 2h

99.9999% of the hateful rhetoric is coming from Republicans and the right/far-right. So there's that.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 2h

Your grandfather fought the Nazis. You guys embrace the Nazis

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

Johnson: That is not the principles of the Republican Party. You want me to articulate them? We fought the Nazis, we defended that evil ideology.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

The Congressional Black Caucus’s silent partnership with AIPAC

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Yet to this day, the Congressional Black Caucus—the long-standing corps of lawmakers dedicated to safeguarding civil rights (and known as “the conscience of Congress”)—has not issued a formal declaration condemning Israel; it hasn’t even produced a statement calling for a ceasefire. The CBC’s silence isn’t accidental: More than half of its current 61 members have been endorsed or funded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful US lobbying arm for Israel’s agenda. In the 2023–24 election cycle alone, AIPAC endorsed 26 of the caucus’s members, raising $4.6 million for them and another $3.5 million for Black Democratic candidates.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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WIRED @wired.com · 4h

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4h

the elon musk doge plan was to kill black people. its working.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5h

The tiny African nation of Lesotho had victories in its HIV fight. Then, the US aid cuts came. Now Lesotho’s care system is crumbling. Clinics shut down, workers were let go, and patients stopped treatment. Experts are sounding alarms.

In Lesotho, US aid cuts leave people living with HIV in limbo

Lesotho, once with the world’s second-highest HIV rate, faces a health crisis as U.S. aid cuts dismantle vital HIV treatment programs, leaving patients without care.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4h

BREAKING: The bodies of 29 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks have been brought to Gaza's hospitals over the past 24 hours, reports the health ministry.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0

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Axios @axios.com · 4h

When Axios began reporting on this story, Fetterman texted, "Enjoy your clickbait!"

Asked a follow-up question, Fetterman said, "Please do not contact."

Axios @axios.com · 7h

SCOOP: Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are maneuvering to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary, threatening to tear the party apart in the biggest battleground state in the nation.

Scoop: Dems plot Fetterman ouster

www.axios.com

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 17h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Irish News 🇮🇪 @news-flows-ir.bsky.social · 6h

‘Maybe it’s the most difficult recovery in history’: Gerard Deulofeu’s battle to play football again

Almost three years after his last game the former Barcelona and Everton player is in Udinese’s gym each weekday morning, refusing to give up The morning light is still sharpening, training its...

‘Maybe it’s the most difficult recovery in history’: Gerard Deulofeu’s battle to play football again

Almost three years after his last game the former Barcelona and Everton player is in Udinese’s gym each weekday morning, refusing to give up

www.theguardian.com

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Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social · 7d

One transfer window. That's all it took to blow up a promising season. Well...that and my own enduring incompetence at a game I've been playing for 33 years.

Anyway. Episode 14 of FM Classic is here.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

Reasons why Kathy Burke is the best amongst us, pt247:
She kindly offered to send a copy of her book. I explained living in a rural property in Costa Rica with no real postal address (I gave her what passes for our address to demonstrate) would be a logistical nightmare for her.
Two weeks later:

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 6h

Polling is either the most important thing in the world (when it’s Corbyn polling at 27%) OR it’s not worth bothering about (when it’s Starmer polling at 17%).

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