1/ What an amazing win for #LAFC in the #MLSCup in what may have been the greatest MLS Cup ever. Per MLS: We're confident in saying this was the greatest MLS Cup – if not the greatest game – the league has ever seen. mlssoccer.com/news/best-mls-…
2/ LA Times: #LAFC’s first championship comes in greatest MLS Cup final. “It was like a Halloween movie,” Vela said, “and then we finished with a Hollywood movie.” #MLSCuplatimes.com/sports/soccer/…
4/ GOAL: It was an instant classic, perhaps the best game in #MLS history. A heavyweight title fight between incredible teams, #LAFC and the Philadelphia Union, who each were on the verge of winning on several occasions only to throw it away. goal.com/en-us/lists/ba…
5/ UKSport: #LAFC won the best and most exciting #MLSCup in Major League Soccer history. Substitute goalkeeper John McCarty made two saves on penalties to lead the hosts to a true Hollywood end. uksport.news/lafc-overtakes…
6/ Uproxx: By the time the dust settled, #LAFC could call themselves champions via a penalty shootout in the greatest game that #MLS has ever seen. uproxx.com/sports/lafc-wi…
7/ Front Row Soccer: It was the best #MLSCup ever. You can’t ask for more excitement, drama and entertainment than this. No MLS Cup final has seen anything like the rollercoaster both teams had to endure. frontrowsoccer.com/2022/11/05/off…
8/ Coda to WashPost's #ThomasFloyd: Only in #MLS can a team win a title with an extra-time equalizer from a former $111M Real Madrid star and shootout heroics from an ex-member of the Rochester Rhinos and Ocean City Nor’easters. Long live #MLSCup .
1/So the lead promise in the GOP's "Commitment to (Screw) America" is "Fight Inflation and Lower the Cost of Living", in which they seek to blame Biden for inflation but have no plan of their own. #VoteBlue2022#inflationsltrib.com/opinion/commen…
2/That's right - no plan. "A party that talks about a single problem so relentlessly must have a solution to offer. So the Republicans must be out on the hustings offering chapter and verse about their answer to inflation, right? Alas, no." #VoteBlue2022latimes.com/business/story…
3/ Zip, nada, rien. Even if you don’t like the Democrats’ economic philosophy, it's at least coherent. Republicans don't have such a clear vision, and in many ways, that’s worse than having policies you disagree with. #VoteBlue2022#inflationbloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
1/On this day, #JimmyCarter was defeated by Ronald Reagan on the one-year anniversary of the hostage crisis. His Presidency deserves reevaluation and if today's Republicans had 1 percent of his decency, the world would be a better place. bennetkelley.wordpress.com/2015/08/22/the…
2/The latest historian Presidential rankings list him as #40 in a key category - luck. He had to deal with inflation caused by the end of Nixon's price controls and two oil shocks - the OPEC embargo and the Iranian revolution.
3/ Had the mission to rescue the hostages in Iran succeeded he likely would have been reelected.
1/ As we celebrate #LaborDay an often overlooked facet is the history of the Labor movement and how workers seeking better pay and conditions often were met with fatal force, extradition or arrest.
2/ This includes the #GreatRailroadStrike of 1877 in which the National Guard and federal troops were used to suppress the strike and fired into crowds with an estimated 100 deaths nationwide. #LaborDay
3/ The 1886 #BayViewMassacre in Milwaukee in which the state militia opened fire against peaceful demonstrators calling for an 8-hr workday killing 15. #LaborDay
1/ My starting point for #SupremeCourt jurisprudence since 2000 is a telling quote from Joel Klein's "The Natural" in which a Republican Senator concedes to Clinton that Republicans don't believe in government, but they love power.
2/2000: #BushvGore, the Supreme Court stays the Florida recount with any opinion justifying the stay and then reverses the Fla. Supreme Court recount order as violating the Equal Protection Clause in a per curiam opinion that can't be cited as precedent.
3/2002: President Bush signed the #McCainFeingold campaign finance reform law, which foolishly included a restriction on the use of independent expenditures for commercials 60 days before an election.
1/Tonight, for the 17th time in the last 50 years, the #StanleyCup champion returns to defend their crown. This time, the #TBLightning are going for that rare feat - a three-peat and #dynasty status.
2/Three-peats and dynasties themselves are relatively rare. Below is a tour of the dynasties from the last 50 years starting with the 1974 Oakland #Athletics completing a three-peat with a 4-1 win over the #Dodgers with this home run.
1/ #GivingTuesday#COVID19 Thread
The global pandemic has been devastating and we can help on Giving Tuesday. One way to help is to give to a COVID charity that is giving grants to an array of communities impacted - such as #GlobalGiving.
2/ If your goal is to assist those on the front lines, Americares has provided more than 34 tons of PPE to health care workers on the front lines of the outbreak to facilities in 40 states. #GivingTuesday#COVID19#Americaresamericares.org/emergency-prog…