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Sound Transit tallied a record-smashing day, exceeding 200,000 boardings on Link light rail during Seattle's victory parade day. Lime added nearly 60,000 rides on its shared scooters and e-bikes.

The 2025 Alvarado ICE facility incident occurred at the Prairieland Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, United States, on the evening of July 4, 2025. Officials say that eleven individuals, some in black clothing or body armor, set off fireworks and vandalized parked vehicles and a guard structure outside the center. A person in a nearby wooded area allegedly opened fire with a rifle after local police responded; an Alvarado police officer was shot in the neck and released from the hospital a short time later. Eleven individuals were arrested in the immediate aftermath; within the ensuing month, the alleged shooter was arrested after a manhunt, and five alleged associates were arrested.

Eight days earlier, Edwards made history as the first Black woman to play for Team USA at the Olympic Games.

Edwards was one of three Black women on the ice, as Canada iced two Black players of their own in forward Sarah Nurse and defender Sophie Jaques, both teammates with the Professional Women’s Hockey League’s Vancouver Goldeneyes. Nurse made history as the first Black woman to win a gold medal in women’s hockey when Canada won the Olympic tournament in 2022. She set a record for most assists and points in a single tournament in the process.

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There’s a particular sound, within calls to resist, that’s perked up my ears: Joy as an act of resistance. It goes: Call your representatives and protect your neighbors, but don’t forget your whimsy. This is not a message for the status quo, for the privileged folk raising their kids to tell my kids, “If people just followed the laws, they’d be fine!”

For those of us who run on empathy, knowledge, and a sense of justice, there’s an invitation to resist and not burn out. Even as we fight, living and relishing shouldn’t stop.

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I’ll save the deep dive into unmasking, masking, and humor for another day, but I cannot return to my cave before mentioning, perhaps, the most critical precursor to experiencing joy:

No expectations.

No demands.

Just me and my overgrown synapses throwing a strange party that no one has to RSVP for.

Canada versus the United States in women's hockey is the best rivalry in sport. The scales have tipped toward the United States, but Canada's veterans will want their final gold before this roster is disbanded.

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Canada, USA, Sweden, and Switzerland remain at the Olympic women's hockey tournament. The four nations have something in common that the rest of the field do not: competitive professional leagues for women.

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Seattle Public Schools (SPS) is seeking to add a new football/soccer hybrid field for Lincoln High School in Lower Woodland Park, but has chosen a plan that prioritizes parking over accessibility and events, scrapping a recently rebuilt soccer field and historic trees to cram two fields into a footprint that’s too small. The community has proposed an alternative utilizing a gravel parking lot to site a soccer field.

Love to see Czechia investing in women’s hockey by starting a U-16 league. Joining the DFEL or the EWHL is probably the most pragmatic, but I also wonder if establishing international play, similar to the UWCL, might be another approach.

She was a fourth-liner at the last Olympics and nearly hung up her skates. Now Stacey is playing on Canada's top line in Milan.

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I love them. Pou’s interview on Jocks and Jill’s just made everything about their marriage seem so cute.

Ghost and Flipboard are federated, so newsletters and blogs that publish there automatically create activitypub messages. It would be awesome if we could have some way to automatically add posts to a community for which posts would be relevant. For instance, if I were to move my the community for my city's soccer clubs to piefed, it would be awesome if I could create a post automatically for the local coverage here on the fediverse publishing on ghost. I'm not certain what the best way to do that would be -- allowing communities to follow other actors would mean we could have posts straight from ghost and flipboard, plus we could aggregate up various communities into multi communities (I could run one for both the men's and women's sides for all the local soccer clubs and aggregate them up into a ${city}_soccer multicommunity, and would allow us to do the migration from the legacy lemmy community cleanly (since I could follow the old lemmy community and see posts made in the old community), and would allow me to follow bot actors who post from federated sources like bluesky (for instance via brid.gy) or twitter (for instance via sportsbots.xyz), but the existing rss communities proposal would probably also make sense, especially if it allows us finer granularity on separating posts based on topic (for instance, the local newspaper sometimes combines different teams into the same rss feed, but I would want to have separate communities). It's also possible a bot is the best solution, but taking api traffic seems like an inefficient way to handle this.