So much for the bracket opening up for the USMNT 🤦🏻‍♂️

Showing that Zendejas cojones replay in slo-mo was diabolical #usmnt

Technically, they’re Remains now.

I know the USMNT probably gets a better round of 32 matchup if they finish 2nd, but I’d love for Türkiye to drop points here so the US can run out a reserve squad next Thursday.

I’d set decent odds the NFL implements “hydration breaks” in the middle of each quarter before the decade is out

Jameis Winston, huh?

Inject this into my veins www.espn.com/soccer/story...

If literacy is in decline, why are bookstores booming?

James Corden, huh?

“U.S. soccer player surprised to learn there are fans of U.S. soccer” is an Onion headline www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Wow. Taiye Selasi’s “Firstborn Immigrant Daughter” in this week’s @newyorker.com is the best new short I’ve read in some time. Maybe even years. 🖋️📚

Rivers honestly moves a lot like late-career Big Ben. Better than I expected

Wake Up Dead Man is so so good. I hope the future installments get better theatrical runs 📽️

Happy 90th birthday to Jacques Pepin! My favorite nugget about his fascinating life is that he pursued a PhD in French Literature, but his thesis proposal on the history of French food in the context of literature was rejected for being too frivolous. It’s a shame because I’d 100% read that. 📚💙 🧑‍🍳👨‍🍳

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.

Avatar is the best sci-fi film series of the 21st century 📽️

Non-MAGA Survivor fans are in for a rough night

It’s obvious that *before this week* Trump had never heard about Venezuela nationalizing its oil industry (in 1976!) but now it’s a casus belli in a shitshow that makes the 2002-03 run-up to invading Iraq look like a model of planning, preparation, and logic.

Not for nothing but federal law contains several statutory provisions that restrict, if not outright prohibit, this unilateral action by the senile dementia patient in the Oval. War Powers Act. War Crimes Act. Anti-Piracy Act. Neutrality Act. All still on the books.

Belichik to Ann Arbor I’m calling it

Shadow Ticket is such a blast! 🖋️💙📚

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

Supreme Court to decide if the Constitution says what the Constitution says.

I still think they blundered the World Cup format when switching to 48 teams. Gimme 8 groups of 6 teams. Each team is guaranteed 5 games. The knockout rounds don’t get watered down. ⚽️

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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

"I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government."

There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions. 📽️

Hosting the World Cup is great and all but not having to play in qualifiers is boring. Oh look, another friendly. ⚽️ #usmnt

They’re all just looting the treasury now

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Cue the Clase / California Penal League jokes. In all seriousness, legalizing sports gambling was a mistake.

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Need to keep saying this: Again imagine the reaction from US corporate media and Congressional Republicans if a 79 year old Democratic President sounded like this - having no idea what is happening around him.

I empathize with Blue Jays fans. I also find this meme hilarious. (h/t to Reddit user u/exequutor)

Yamamoto’s gotta be MVP, right? Crazy we’d get there after Ohtani’s game 3.

Watched A House of Dynamite. The first two sections were outstanding. Kathryn Bigelow is excellent as sowing tension. Acting is terrific. The music elevates. There are some uh-ohs with the plot, which have already been discussed ad nauseum on Bluesky and elsewhere. Regular thumbs up.

I wanted the 19th

I’m pleasantly surprised how many baseball skeets I’ve seen without even having to go to the MLB feed. I’m afraid that with every new inning Rob Manfred is going to invent another stupid rule to make sure the die hard fans don’t get to enjoy something like this ever again.

George Saunders has a new novel on the way! Sad to see Phoenix/Tempe isn’t on the promo tour, but excited for the book nonetheless. He claims it’s his craziest! 📚💙🖋️

On top of the now 78 year drought and the ‘97 and ‘16 game 7s, losing to the team you beat in the regular season, who only made it b/c MLB owners realized they could get more money by letting in extra wild cards, money that they don’t use upgrading the roster, is a dick punch and a half #guardsball

For the record, there already was a Major League III. It stars Scott Bakula and a young Walton Goggins, and it’s incredible. 📽️🎬🎞️🎥 #mlb #guardsball

A Rangers pitcher plunking a guy with the bases loaded to eliminate the Astros is objectively hilarious #Guardsball

Ooh the #booker shortlist came out today. Who’s winning?

So many people skeeting “I told you so” about the rapture like it’s already midnight

Today, the president of the United States of America said that the country's current pediatric vaccine schedule was "too much liquid... going into that baby" and then issued a decree announcing that anti-fascism is terrorism

I don’t know what upsets me most: (1) the announcement itself (2) the realization that now they proclaim to know autism’s cause, they’re going to set their sights on another group of marginalized people (3) they’re going to start blaming neurodivergence on mothers