It's insane how lenient the USA is with intoxicated driving. Over 10,000 people die EVERY YEAR from it in this country. And yet it's a slap on the wrist crime that *might not even get you fired from your highly public job.* We need to shame and punish this behavior out of society.
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Ben Dowsett
Профиль Vivelysports & tech | regular contributor to WIRED | also: ESPN, Defector, Ringer, Scientific American | tips: bdowsett.nyfwc@gmail.com Signal: bdows.99 | leftist who does not stick to sports | Free Palestine
Look, it's possible to stand up to money-grubbing rich people through collective action! Something we wouldn't know anything about in this country.
Nathan Kalman-LambUEFA has just unanimously decided to boycott both men's and women's World Cups over FIFA's attempt to sell the global game to private equity. Damn.
It’s literally impossible to have “good faith concerns” about an issue that does not exist. “Trans people are damaging women’s sports” is a fake issue. Simple data proves it. It doesn’t exist. By definition, you cannot support it “in good faith.”
victoria zeller⚔️ (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)enough of this shit
If “Blue No Matter WHO” folks actually believed their own message, they’d be throwing support behind El-Sayed as the clear favorite in a vital race. But they aren’t doing that. Wonder why!
W.E.D.em BoyzHighest quality poll to date has Abdul El-Sayed up 15 points
Blue No Matter Who! Wait not you
brent sewer socialist🚰🌹This is absolutely insane, imagine if a progressive elected official was refusing to support Haley Stevens if she won! You’d never hear the end of it. Centrists are the ones who are dividing the Democratic Party with their Islamophobia and purity tests.
The inability to consider Palestinians as humans while claiming to care about universal human rights and dignity is such a massive contradiction. And yet so many people comfortably inhabit it.
#StupidSuezA beautiful and excellent conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Makdisi brothers on how Palestine remains the most glaring hole in American liberalism.
Reminder that if Hamas actually bombed a synagogue in Israel, it would lead the news for multiple days. Israel would demand (and receive) billions more dollars in US tax support in response. But it's just the IDF. Move on with your day
IDF Hannibal BrigadeHamas violates the ceasefire and bombs a synagogue in the middle of Israel today. If you’re wondering why that didn’t make the news, it’s because it’s actually the IDF bombing yet another mosque in the center of Gaza City.
There are plenty of real conversations to have about how MAGA folks have been conned and tricked across the last decade. But then there's this shit. No amount of political trickery makes you any less pathetic if you watch this and do anything but cringe.
Aaron RuparHannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."
And an ongoing genocide! This should bother you if you have a soul!
Lupita NihongoToo many corroborating stories to single one out but we must contend with that if you pay US taxes you currently fund a global human trafficking organization & you are either willing to collectively sacrifice any comfort or convenience to bring it to an end or you are okay with it continuing.
It's time for us to stop acting shocked that voters prefer candidates who serve their interests instead of pocketing their money and laughing at them.
John NicholsDemocratic socialist Francesca Hong has opened a substantial lead in the Wisconsin gubernatorial race’a Democratic primary contest, according to a new @statenavigate.org poll. Another big poll, from Marquette University Law School, drops Wednesday.
Fascinating article, even more impressive they were able to capture the ogre in such rich detail
MediaiteFetterman Hits Back After Progressive Senate Candidate Threatens to Put An ‘Ogre on a Pike’
This is great, anyone interested in the nuts and bolts of how IMAX works should read it
Corey Atadfor @gqmagazine.bsky.social, i talked to IMAX projectionists at BFI and IMAX Melbourne about what it takes to run the giant film format (think: manually pouring water into busted cooling systems; avoiding explosions)
Many of Israel's biggest myths are finally crumbling, but a major one that's still out there is the idea that Israel's path to evil began with Netanyahu. Nah, it began decades before Netanyahu was born.
#StupidSuezA pretty bland piece that uses reheated leftovers of a narrative to pin the entirety of the public opinion shift on Israel-Palestine onto one man. Interestingly, public opinion of Israel was still going down when the Bennett-Lapid government was in charge. Might this indicate something deeper?
Got buried by LeBron on Friday - My feature on cutting-edge technology that's not just helping athletes and refs, but also showing a huge impact in IDing/treating major conditions like Alzheimer's, autism and more:
Ben DowsettEye tracking & training methods are becoming all the rage in sports, from top NBA refs to hockey goalies, IndyCar drivers and more. And the same tech may hold the key to IDing and treating some of humanity's most well-known medical conditions. Feature for ESPN: www.espn.com/casualgames/...
One of the biggest successes of the GOP (with the tacit assistance of mainstream Democrats) in recent decades: Turning politics into sports, where devotion to the team is all that matters. A stance on any issue can be abandoned instantly if the team says so.
ceejthe thing about having actual principles is that when a politician I respect does some stupid shit I can just be like, “that sucks, knock it off” instead of inventing an imaginary world where I’m forced to defend stupid shit for procedural 4d chess reasons
“But I’ll get breaking news 45 seconds slower!!” you whine, while crafting another post that will be liked by 85% bots and will be used to continue training the MechaHitler AI machine
Kevin Tompkinsimagine still posting on a platform owned by a man who says this because "my friends are still there", or "the engagement is better", or any number of pointless excuses