The Thread
Stories
Every meaningful drop gets a companion story. Citations included.
Twenty Years, Ten Warships: The Tifo That Sent Arsenal to Budapest
On May 5, 2026, an 'Over Land and Sea' tifo dropped at the Emirates and Arsenal went to their first Champions League final in 20 years. Days later, Thierry Henry told Bukayo Saka that if this team wins the final, they will be remembered as the 'Unforgettables.' This is the story behind the design.
Alex Pretti: Ten Shots in Five Seconds and the Asterisk on the Second Amendment
On January 24, 2026, Alex Pretti — a VA ICU nurse, a legal gun owner, a bystander helping a woman a CBP officer had just pushed to the ground — was tackled, disarmed by one agent, then shot ten times in five seconds by a different agent's service weapon while he was already unarmed and pinned. The administration said he shouldn't have brought a gun to a protest. The story behind the 2A Warning Label and THEY DID tees.
Redacted: The Receipts of the US-Israel Aid Project
Fifty stars replaced. Thirteen stripes blacked out. The flag redesigned to match the foreign policy. This is the receipts list — the MOU, the supplementals, the bombs, the lobby, the voting record. None of it is conspiracy. All of it is documented.
You Are the Boot: Reclaiming the Gadsden Flag from the People Who Pretend to Carry It
The Gadsden flag belonged to revolutionaries in 1775. It belongs to the people who do the actual work, in any era. It does not belong to the people who fly it from a pickup truck while cheering on masked federal agents. The story behind the You Are the Boot and Tread Daddy shirts.
Eze's Boyhood Dream: The First Arsenal Derby Hat-Trick Since 1978
Eberechi Eze grew up a Gooner. In summer 2025 he was a phone call away from Tottenham. He took the other phone call. Three months later he scored a hat-trick against them in the North London Derby — the first Arsenal hat-trick in the fixture since Alan Sunderland in 1978.
Anti-Citrus: The Smear That Hides a State Project
Saying Free Palestine doesn't make us anti-citrus. It doesn't make us anti-Jewish. It makes us anti-genocide. Those are different sentences and they have always been different sentences. The story behind The Juice Box T-Shirt.
Sumud at Sea: The Flotilla, the Hospital, and the Witnesses They Could Not Bomb
The Global Sumud Flotilla sailed in autumn 2025. Nasser Hospital was struck twice in seventeen minutes the same year. Both stories are the same story: a project that needs the witnesses to stop. The shirts are the part that does not get bombed.
Holy Schlit: Twelve K's and a Rookie's October in the Bronx
Cam Schlittler's first postseason start. Yankee Stadium. The Boston Red Sox. Eight scoreless innings, twelve strikeouts, zero walks. The kind of October performance that gets a number painted on a column at Stan's by sundown. The story behind the Holy Schlit tee.
48 Hours to Nepal: How a Social Media Ban Brought Down a Government
In September 2025, Nepal banned twenty-six social media platforms in a single decree. Two days later, parliament was burning, the prime minister had resigned, and Gen Z had taken the capital. The story behind the 48 Hours to Nepal Tee.
This Is Not Liberation: When Federal Troops Came for Washington, DC
In 2025, the President federalized DC's National Guard, deployed troops onto the streets of the capital, and called it liberation. DC residents — who pay federal taxes and get no senator — called it occupation. The story behind the THIS IS NOT LIBERATION shirt.
Dehumanized First: The Vocabulary Is the Violence
In December 2024, corporate media discovered the word dehumanization — but only in defense of executives. The same outlets that called layoffs right-sizing and denied claims a medical loss ratio suddenly remembered grammar. They dehumanized us first. The story behind the Dehumanized First shirt.