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Katelyn Best

@kabest.bsky.social

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Former full-time soccer writer, now law student and occasional soccer writer / opinions my own / kesha scholar / beefy jock on the inside, febrile nerd on the outside 🌮🏆 🏳️‍🌈 she/her

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Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 10h

As the kids say, you ate with this

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Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 19h

Riley Gaines won the biggest participation trophy of all time

Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 19h

Btw a cursory look at the study she cites shows that it was later updated to disclose an authorial conflict of interest

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Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 19h

Deeply disappointed in Liz Eddy here, who I've always liked and respected. A reminder that we have a lot of work to do when it comes to educating the public about why trans inclusion isn't just morally correct, but competitively sound share.google/Gjf9a1Sl01eL...

National Women’s Soccer League must adopt gender standards to keep growing

Recent controversies across women’s sports — from swimming to track and field — have highlighted professional soccer lacks clear eligibility policies, unlike a growing number of other competitions.…

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Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 2d

It's pretty cool that ICE gets bullied by regular degular people in every city they go to

Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 3d

Log off and go for a hike or something Rory

Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 5d

Damn you're right

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Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 5d

Pretty much every vegan food is ultimately seeds

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Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 7d

All parades deserve to exist in New York City

Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 8d

Man I understand that 5 is maybe a low number to retire but if there's anybody who deserves it it's Ali

Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 8d

Another thing I can say now that I'm no longer an Angel City employee: it's corny as fuck to make a sign or t-shirt that says "Cedars-Sinai" on it to wear to a game and more people should say this

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Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 8d

It never stops shocking me how in every other industrialized country, there's a general consensus that food should be edible

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Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 9d

Of course there's blame to go around, Providence also delayed approving treatments multiple times

Thankfully I have this photo of my dad and his motorcycle buddies, rest in piss Brian Thompson

The writer's dad and his two buddies sitting on their motorcycles giving the camera the finger

Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 9d

He was probably toast regardless, but it's hard not to think that maybe if he'd been diagnosed earlier he could have gotten chemo and had a few more years, which is all just sort of an actuarial problem to the absolute fucking psychopaths that run these places

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Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 9d

Just connected the dots on the fact that my dad was a patient at Oregon Medical Group, which got bought by United Healthcare a few years ago, causing all the doctors to quit; my dad waited months for appointments multiple times and wasn't diagnosed with cancer until a few months before he died

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Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 17d

got named EIC at CBS News

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Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 17d

Bari fuckin Weiss dude

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Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 21d

What I'm learning in law school

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Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 23d

Gavin Newsom is a slimy little weasel with no moral convictions but he kinda ate with this ngl

Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 23d

Remember to vote!!!!

Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · 23d

Remember to vote!!!!

Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · Sep 18

Also the thing about telling Kimmel to apologize—how far off are loyalty oaths, do we think?

Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · Sep 18

This is about Bob Iger btw

Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · Sep 18

This Kimmel thing is so, so bad—a network taking a show off the air because one of the regime's guys issues vague threats about it—it's giving "working towards the führer"

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Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · Sep 18

This Kimmel thing is so, so bad—a network taking a show off the air because one of the regime's guys issues vague threats about it—it's giving "working towards the führer"

Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · Sep 7

You know.....whatever happens, we're all safely in the hands of the Buddha...... #GFCvLA

Katelyn Best @kabest.bsky.social · Aug 23

Reminder that immigration is good and we should say so

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