Kristin Bartus
@kristinbartus.bsky.social
Writer, mom, bumper sticker lover.
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Given how expensive World Cup tickets are, I have to wonder if this will actually hurt MLS tickets sales as opposed to giving them the boost many league officials seemed to be assuming. A lot of soccer fans are going to destroy their ticket budgets on these games.
This is, in case you were wondering, by far the most expensive World Cup ever.
Tickets are largely more expensive than NFL and Super Bowl tickets.
An updated piece putting FIFA's prices in the context of all points of comparison:
Tickets are largely more expensive than NFL and Super Bowl tickets.
An updated piece putting FIFA's prices in the context of all points of comparison:
How soaring World Cup ticket prices compare to Super Bowl, other major sporting events
The 2026 World Cup final could be the single most lucrative match in soccer history.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Given how expensive World Cup tickets are, I have to wonder if this will actually hurt MLS tickets sales as opposed to giving them the boost many league officials seemed to be assuming. A lot of soccer fans are going to destroy their ticket budgets on these games.
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Superb reporting about @hsph.harvard.edu Makes me wish for = reporting on @UW school of PH.
Excerpt from Katherine Wu's story observes H "has excelled in several fields [deemed unworthy] of federal funds: #infectious disease, health #equity, #climate change, #global health." shorturl.at/6sCqf
Excerpt from Katherine Wu's story observes H "has excelled in several fields [deemed unworthy] of federal funds: #infectious disease, health #equity, #climate change, #global health." shorturl.at/6sCqf
What Happens When Trump Gets His Way With Science
Harvard’s School of Public Health is broken.
www.theatlantic.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Superb reporting about @hsph.harvard.edu Makes me wish for = reporting on @UW school of PH.
Excerpt from Katherine Wu's story observes H "has excelled in several fields [deemed unworthy] of federal funds: #infectious disease, health #equity, #climate change, #global health." shorturl.at/6sCqf
Excerpt from Katherine Wu's story observes H "has excelled in several fields [deemed unworthy] of federal funds: #infectious disease, health #equity, #climate change, #global health." shorturl.at/6sCqf
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Why are the richest people the biggest heartless dicks to the people in desperate circumstances?
You will have to face your creator someday who clearly said “what you do to the least of these you do to me”
I used to like Phil. Saudi sellout
You will have to face your creator someday who clearly said “what you do to the least of these you do to me”
I used to like Phil. Saudi sellout
December 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Why are the richest people the biggest heartless dicks to the people in desperate circumstances?
You will have to face your creator someday who clearly said “what you do to the least of these you do to me”
I used to like Phil. Saudi sellout
You will have to face your creator someday who clearly said “what you do to the least of these you do to me”
I used to like Phil. Saudi sellout
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Fucking yikes
This...looks terrible? Is the magazine making some point about what AI still can't do, because otherwise, I don't get why you'd go out with something that looks like it was put together with safety scissors and Elmer's Glue.
December 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Fucking yikes
Sorry boys, I’ll be there looking like a motherfucking rainbow! 🌈🌈🌈
Long before the draw, local organizers in Seattle had earmarked a FIFA World Cup match in the city as a chance to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.
But now, the two teams playing – Iran and Egypt – have objected to any such celebrations taking place around the stadium.
https://cnn.it/4agpfsR
But now, the two teams playing – Iran and Egypt – have objected to any such celebrations taking place around the stadium.
https://cnn.it/4agpfsR
December 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Sorry boys, I’ll be there looking like a motherfucking rainbow! 🌈🌈🌈
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Applying my 4-category alarm rating:
- Voting rights
- Free Elections
- Civil liberties 🚨
- Rule of law
- Voting rights
- Free Elections
- Civil liberties 🚨
- Rule of law
“Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the ‘biggest waves of censorship’ on its platforms in years.”
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Applying my 4-category alarm rating:
- Voting rights
- Free Elections
- Civil liberties 🚨
- Rule of law
- Voting rights
- Free Elections
- Civil liberties 🚨
- Rule of law
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Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."
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When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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Andrew Bird - "O Holy Night"
December 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Andrew Bird - "O Holy Night"
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Northwestern University alumni: if you hate the capitulation to Trump by NU's administration, please sign this letter. And share with your fellow alumni. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign-On Letter from Northwestern Alumni
On November 28, 2025, Northwestern bent the knee to Trump. People were very upset over the course of that day. We got the formal agreement along with some analysis. Kevin Brown then wrote an analysis ...
docs.google.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Northwestern University alumni: if you hate the capitulation to Trump by NU's administration, please sign this letter. And share with your fellow alumni. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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December 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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tfw you’ve had a spectacularly bad week and your brother goes to get you a Fudgie The Whale™️ to cheer you up but they don’t have any.
it’s the thought/concept that counts
it’s the thought/concept that counts
December 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
tfw you’ve had a spectacularly bad week and your brother goes to get you a Fudgie The Whale™️ to cheer you up but they don’t have any.
it’s the thought/concept that counts
it’s the thought/concept that counts
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I’ve worked in public libraries for 20 years, today was the first time we’ve had to tell someone they couldn’t bring their chainsaw in the library.
December 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I’ve worked in public libraries for 20 years, today was the first time we’ve had to tell someone they couldn’t bring their chainsaw in the library.
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So that's at least four people walking or biking in Seattle who have been hit by drivers and transported to the hospital - just today alone.
Seattle Fire is currently responding to a driver hitting someone walking near 15th Ave NW and NW 85th Street.
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
So that's at least four people walking or biking in Seattle who have been hit by drivers and transported to the hospital - just today alone.
Next Heated Rivalry ep doesn’t drop till Friday, so I here I am watching the Kraken on HBO and just hoping for the best…
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Next Heated Rivalry ep doesn’t drop till Friday, so I here I am watching the Kraken on HBO and just hoping for the best…
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Skagit County has ordered Mount Vernon and upriver communities of Hamilton, Rockport, Marblemount and Concrete to evacuate to high ground as soon as possible.
Everyone in Skagit County living in the 100-year floodplain will likely receive an evacuation notice today.
Everyone in Skagit County living in the 100-year floodplain will likely receive an evacuation notice today.
December 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Skagit County has ordered Mount Vernon and upriver communities of Hamilton, Rockport, Marblemount and Concrete to evacuate to high ground as soon as possible.
Everyone in Skagit County living in the 100-year floodplain will likely receive an evacuation notice today.
Everyone in Skagit County living in the 100-year floodplain will likely receive an evacuation notice today.
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WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
December 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
Merry Christmas from the least religious city in the country 🎄🎄
December 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Merry Christmas from the least religious city in the country 🎄🎄
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My dad was a state judge and made me take the KERRY EDWARDS bumper sticker off my car in 2004 because the title was in his name.
When I was a judicial law clerk in Montana, Pres Bush flew into the Billings airport for a rally.
I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.
And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.
And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Judge Emil Bove Faces Ethics Complaint for Attending Trump Rally
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
My dad was a state judge and made me take the KERRY EDWARDS bumper sticker off my car in 2004 because the title was in his name.
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Connor Stallions tell us what you know
December 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Connor Stallions tell us what you know
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December 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
TAKE ACTION! We're leading the charge to impeach and remove RFK Jr before he puts more lives in danger — and we need your help.
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The sports dude keep your dick in your pants challenge. Sigh.
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The sports dude keep your dick in your pants challenge. Sigh.
This would be a lot more meaningful if she wasn’t an effing TERF in agreement with some of his anti-trans actions..
"I'm so proud to be an American, but I'm embarrassed for what Trump is doing for our country....Speaking up is the actual patriotic thing to do when you see something wrong." [Martina Navratilova for @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social, 2:11]
WATCH: Martina Navratilova is “Pissed Off as Hell”
She grew up under a totalitarian regime. Trump’s America looks scarily familiar.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
December 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This would be a lot more meaningful if she wasn’t an effing TERF in agreement with some of his anti-trans actions..