ON THE POD: Jill Thomson of Scottish Sport for Palestine on the complaint to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court against the presidents of FIFA and UEFA. tiny.cc/6fyz001
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Really hoping USNT athletes take this cue.
Don’t know what the answer is. But it seems important to say it
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
War is a terrible and disgusting thing. Waging it by choice rather than by absolute last resort is reprehensible.
May God forgive us.
This is so crazy.
A ban on talking about bans!
Seems like a good time to bring this back 😶
Publicly supporting women is nice, but what really matters is what men do behind closed doors. What matters is how they hold each other accountable.
The men’s hockey team shouldn’t get a pass because they were in the locker room—that’s where women need their support the most.
"When he made that joke, we laughed. It was wrong. We regret that and wish the President had never made a joke out of his contempt for women athletes in general, and for our teammates in particular."
The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Complaint accusing the Presidents of FIFA and UEFA of aiding in war crimes and crimes against humanity in the occupied Palestinian territory has been filed with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. FIFA President Infantino and UEFA President Čeferin have been accused of aiding and abetting war crimes (specifically, the transfer of civilian population into occupied territories) and crimes against humanity (specifically, apartheid) under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Communication was formally filed with the ICC Office of the Prosecutor on 16 February 2026.
A 120-page filing has been submitted to the ICC accusing FIFA's President Infantino and UEFA's President Ceferin of "aiding and abetting war crimes (specifically, the transfer of civilian population into [Palestine] occupied territories) and crimes against humanity (specifically, apartheid)."
OMG now I can’t unsee Enron
This is so good.
Reading a 2021 article by Lindsay Parks Pieper about "sex controls" in skiing. The sport has one of the longest, most invasive histories of sex testing in all of sports. Did not know this.
Friends!
The New School has cancelled one of its most popular graduate courses, Global Soccer and World Politics.
We want to host this course for @resistanceschool.bsky.social ahead of the 2026 World Cup.
Interested? Fill the interest form here!
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Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"
If you build your sporting competition around nations, that’s a political choice. The creation of a nation state is political. The maintenance of a nation state is political. The idea that the Olympics is not political is ridiculous on its face.
Oh my god.
Of course!
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In case it isn’t obvious, that bit about men’s ski jump was a joke. The sex test for women athletes is not.
Every new Botstein revelation is a reminder that no one should run anything for 50 (!) years
If women have to take a sex test at least in this sport men’s genitalia should be measured and tracked. defector.com/penis-scanda...
Not one eyebrow lifted even a tiny bit.
Sorry for all the type’os. This is apparently how I register my ambivalence about the discursive ecology of social media platforms.
That weekend helped me to understand something. Private, elite liberal arts college alumni & faculty often have a unique kind of anger, a deep & lasting injury. No wonder. The level of gaslighting was intense & specific!
Claudia Rankine seemed on the program to, in essence, hold down the Black feminist position. And she was fantastic. But the whole thing just felt wrong. I feel relatively safe in saying most of the women on the program regretting participating in this event.
There was no room at all of the politico-philosophical issues at the core of feminist legal study. And, furthermore, no one organizing that had the competency to see the way the conference reproduced intersectional assumptions in separating race and sex on the program.
The "education" I took from that weekend was that Bard couldn't commit to confronting the real questions of the moment. That event was organized at the height of #metoo as a chance to have deep conversations with Brodsky, Halley, and myself, or give Gaitskill her own space to read her work.
