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Spirit Squadron @spiritsquadron.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you for shouting out our donation drive! Here’s the link in case anyone is interested in donating or sharing: give.capitalareafoodbank.org/team/782134

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Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 9h

Offer still available. 100% free. Have another person or two willing to gift a few tix as well. Will keep reposting until they’ve been claimed or tix are sold out.

Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 1d

Want to buy a couple ppl affected by the gov shutdown and/or unable to afford it, tix to the spirit’s quarterfinal Sat.

Requirements: 1) you’ll cheer for the spirit & can be @ Audi field Sat @ 12pm 2) you comment/DM interest & # of tix (ex: 1 for solo, 4 for family) by 8pm ET tonight.

Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks for sharing! Please send to anyone who may be interested. Extended to today at 8pm ET. The timing is not a hard deadline, just want to secure tix before they sell out 🤞🏻

Hey Spirits! @heyspirits.bsky.social · 16h

This is awesome, forward to anyone and everyone who qualifies!

Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 1d

Want to buy a couple ppl affected by the gov shutdown and/or unable to afford it, tix to the spirit’s quarterfinal Sat.

Requirements: 1) you’ll cheer for the spirit & can be @ Audi field Sat @ 12pm 2) you comment/DM interest & # of tix (ex: 1 for solo, 4 for family) by 8pm ET tonight.

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Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 1d

All good! Extending to tomorrow at 8pm now to see if anyone is interested before they (hopefully) sell out

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Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 1d

Going to extend to tomorrow at 8pm ET and cross post a few other places. Pls pass along to anyone who may want to go 🫶🏻

Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 1d

Want to buy a couple ppl affected by the gov shutdown and/or unable to afford it, tix to the spirit’s quarterfinal Sat.

Requirements: 1) you’ll cheer for the spirit & can be @ Audi field Sat @ 12pm 2) you comment/DM interest & # of tix (ex: 1 for solo, 4 for family) by 8pm ET tonight.

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Lesley Ryder @lesleyryder.bsky.social · 1d

It’s interesting to see how the responses today have been framed, whether it’s focusing on a player’s exceptional talent, or that if they were assigned female at birth.

No one in this league should be subject to transphobic hate because transphobia is based on hateful rhetoric and trash science.

Lesley Ryder @lesleyryder.bsky.social · 1d

Inbox: NWSLPA Releases statement condemning attacks on players

"We stand firmly with all our members - including, and especially, the African women who have been targeted by divisive and demeaning rhetoric”

**Media Release**
NWSL Players Association Issues Statement Condemning Attacks on
Players
Asheville, N.C. - Today, NWSL Players Association Issues Statement Condemning Attacks on Players:
"We stand firmly with all our members - including, and especially, the African women who have been targeted by divisive and demeaning rhetoric. Every NWSL Player was assigned female at birth. Every NWSL Player has earned her place in the women's game, and those whose eligibility is being questioned have already competed on the world's biggest stages: the Olympics and the Women's World Cup. Our league is better because they play in it.
The NWSL Players Association's strength has always been its clarity of purpose: to confront the real threats to women in sport - underinvestment, lack of media attention, abuse, exploitation, and the constant pressure to look or behave a certain way. We know how to meet the challenges we face as a collective, and we reject any effort to undermine our shared strength.
This week should be about what's happening on the field - the start of the NWSL Playoffs, as Orlando faces Seattle on Friday night at 8pm on Amazon Prime - not about those exploiting manufactured controversies for attention and financial gain. If you want to keep women's sports safe, invest in the women who make them possible - their dignity, their rights, and their joy."

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Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to all reposting! No interest yet. Sports are what bring me joy during hard times. Hope I can gift some joy/fun to someone who needs it this weekend.

Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 1d

Want to buy a couple ppl affected by the gov shutdown and/or unable to afford it, tix to the spirit’s quarterfinal Sat.

Requirements: 1) you’ll cheer for the spirit & can be @ Audi field Sat @ 12pm 2) you comment/DM interest & # of tix (ex: 1 for solo, 4 for family) by 8pm ET tonight.

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Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 1d

Want to buy a couple ppl affected by the gov shutdown and/or unable to afford it, tix to the spirit’s quarterfinal Sat.

Requirements: 1) you’ll cheer for the spirit & can be @ Audi field Sat @ 12pm 2) you comment/DM interest & # of tix (ex: 1 for solo, 4 for family) by 8pm ET tonight.

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Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 1d

If there’s a lot of interest, I’ll randomly choose a couple ppl sometime after 8pm ET, then purchase and transfer the tix via email.

@heyspirits.bsky.social can you help spread the word?

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Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 1d

Want to buy a couple ppl affected by the gov shutdown and/or unable to afford it, tix to the spirit’s quarterfinal Sat.

Requirements: 1) you’ll cheer for the spirit & can be @ Audi field Sat @ 12pm 2) you comment/DM interest & # of tix (ex: 1 for solo, 4 for family) by 8pm ET tonight.

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Claire @wosoclaire.bsky.social · 1d

I understand that the NWSL is trying to defend their best player, but this framing creates and reveals the reality that Black women have to be literally the most ELITE OF THE ELITE to "earn" minimal protection, while mediocre/terrible white women enjoy the protection of systemic silence

NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 1d

A statement from the National Women's Soccer League.

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Crystal @simply-crystal.bsky.social · 1d

I am once again asking the @washingtonspirit.com to do better. I know this team has no problem speaking on injustice in our own back yard and acting in solidarity with the DC community; solidarity within the league should be a no brainer.

Southern Sylvs 🍉 she/her @southernsylvs.bsky.social · 2d

And THIS is why I said at least every captain needed to speak and be unified. Guess who is gonna get the hate from the Fox News crowd now? Sarah Gorden, that's who. The only Black captain. Okay, going back to work now.

Lesley Ryder @lesleyryder.bsky.social · 2d

Fox News has picked up Elizabeth Eddy’s column, and the response from the Angel City players.

I’m hearing Eddy will appear on Fox and Friends tomorrow morning.

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Diaspora United Podcast @diasporautdpod.bsky.social · 2d

Before anything bad happens tomorrow (and it likely will if someone is going on THAT network),

Protect Black Women. Protect Black Girls. Support Black Women. Support Black Girls. Donate to the BWPC. Support Black media. Protect OUR sport against abusers, predators, bad actors and opportunists.

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Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 4d

If my team had bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th at home in game 7 of the World Series and all that just happened, idk how I would have survived. The emotions!

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victoria zeller (buy ONE OF THE BOYS) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 4d

if the baseball game is still going at 2AM we’ll get to see what happens when we go back in time to 1AM. i hope the game resets to that moment. how could you possibly know that WONT happen?

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Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 4d

Umm I hope this is just an abundance of caution

Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 6d

Sending you so much love 🫶🏻 Parental relationships like this really suck.

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Rose Room Collective @roseroomco.bsky.social · 7d

We along with our friends at @spiritsquadron.bsky.social are coming together to start our first annual food drive to fight hunger here in the DMV.

Our community is stronger when we come together to fight for what’s right and just.

If you can, join us:

give.capitalareafoodbank.org/team/782134

Green and yellow sign that says “first annual supporters food drive” with cans of food in the center. In the corners it says rose room co and spirit squadron.

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Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 8d

Same! Never heard/seen anything like that up here. Can’t believe it happened 3 times.

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Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 8d

Well, there was an DC alert this morning apparently… hsema.dc.gov/alerts

Alert DC - Current Alerts

hsema.dc.gov

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Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 8d

Truly wtf is going on!

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Jason Anderson @jasondcsoccer.bsky.social · 19d

List of road closures/no parking zones for tomorrow, which will see the Spirit-Pride game at Audi and a huge No Kings protest happening at literally the same time

Washingtonian @washingtonian.com · 19d

Organizers say they are expecting more than 100,000 people to attend the largest “No Kings” rally in DC being held Saturday, October 18.

Organizers Say More Than 100,000 Expected for DC’s No Kings Protest Saturday - Washingtonian

Here’s to know about speakers, road closures, and more.

www.washingtonian.com

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Emily Olsen @emilytholsen.bsky.social · 20d

An update on Trinity Rodman's injury:

The USWNT and Spirit forward's initial scans on Thursday showed a positive long-term prognosis, according to sources.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/672...

Trinity Rodman to miss USWNT camp with injury, hopeful for return before end of NWSL season

Rodman is set for a three-week rehabilitation process before a reevaluation of the right knee injury

www.nytimes.com

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Erin M @emm331.bsky.social · 21d

CP23’s retirement announcement and all the content really has me in my feels 🥺

A lot to be said about how systems that should have protected instead failed her, but also about how she truly left the game better than she found it, on and off the pitch. I hope we all get to witness 1 final goal 🤞🏻❤️

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NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · Oct 5

ABSOLUTE CINEMA.

A moment for THAT Rosemonde Kouassi game-winner 🎥

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