On the ocean, wayfinding meant reading swells and stars. On a field in Springdale, Arkansas, it meant reading space, movement, and one another.
Read Jordan P. Hickey's new Longreads story about the Marshall Islands' first-ever national soccer team.
https://longreads.com/2026/04/21/marshall-islands-soccer-team/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #Sports #Soccer #Football #WorldCup #MarshallIslands #Marshallese #Belonging #Diaspora #Migration
The Marshall Islands’ first national soccer team discovered what “home” can mean—on a field in Arkansas.
Read Jordan P. Hickey’s new Longreads story, “The Wayfinders.”
https://longreads.com/2026/04/21/marshall-islands-soccer-team/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #MarshallIslands #RMI #Diaspora #Belonging #Home #Migration #Soccer #Identity #WorldCup #Sports
Three ships successfully cross the Strait of Hormuz since the blockade was announced, including #MarshallIslands -flagged vessel _New Future_ , #Vietnam -flagged _NV Sunshine_ , and #Panama -flagged tanker _Auroura_ , which was recently sanctioned by the #UnitedStates for its links to Iranian oil trading.
https://en-wp.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_crisis
https://en-wp.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
https://en-wp.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_crisis_(2023%E2%80%93present)
Three ships successfully cross the Strait of Hormuz since the blockade was announced including #MarshallIslands -flagged vessel New Future, #Vietnam -flagged NV Sunshine, and #Panama -flagged tanker Auroura, which was recently sanctioned by the #UnitedStates for its links to Iranian oil trading.
https://en-wp.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_crisis
https://en-wp.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
https://en-wp.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_crisis_(2023%E2%80%93present)
• The Marshall Islands: The story of the 67 nuclear bombs detonated in the Pacific, including the Castle Bravo test, which was 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima blast.
• The "Polygon" and Secrecy: The Soviet Union’s main test site in Kazakhstan, where over 450 tests were conducted in absolute secrecy, leaving local populations to suffer the consequences in silence.
Dark facts about SpongeBob:
Despite the Hawaiian music and theme, Bikini Bottom is actually located near Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. The United States has dropped nuclear bombs on this island in the past, as part of nuclear testing. When you see nuclear explosions in the show, that isn't stock footage, that is actual footage of Bikini Atoll being hit with nuclear bombs. The show may be implying that the United States has dropped multiple nuclear bombs on Bikini Bottom.
#SpongeBob #SpongeBobSquarePants #BikiniAtoll #NuclearBombs #MarshallIslands
US Marines with puppies, the Marshall Islands, WW2, ~1942-1945
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