I got some pushback yesterday for basically acknowledging FIFA has always been corrupt, and if you’re bothered by that only now, well, that’s on you. Most of that pushback, I soon learned, came from Arsenal fans.

I mean, FIFA literally has a line item in their disciplinary bylaws that says they may choose not to always enforce the bylaws. They literally put corruption into writing.

Not just a few people on my timeline seem to feel like FIFA just became corrupt today. Seeing the word “tainted” bandied about. Like, honestly.

Huh. So two wrongs *do* make a right.

When he finally dies, assuming he hasn’t already, do not let anyone shame you from speaking the plain truth about what kind of man he was. If the truth offends anyone, that’s McConnell’s fault.

I mean, “procedural loophole for gatekeeping power” is McConnell’s entire legacy.

Sports is always political.

I’m in Europe for two weeks and I almost hope they don’t let me back in.

I love the @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social account. But as this photo clearly shows, sports is already art by itself.

Traveling by rail is awesome and I wish there were more of it in the States

They used to sit. Across from the Capitol. While driving their vehicles.

This is the way.

It’s like putting a “Coexist” bumper sticker on a Subaru.

Okay, I’m out of the loop this week. Someone want to explain the Sixers trading for Jaylen Brown? Was the warmed over corpse of Paul George and four future picks really the best deal the Celtics could get?

It is not by accident that I’m out of the country this week. If he’s making it all about him, then it’s not about any of us.

Paraguay rn.

Owing to my distant ancestry, I typically root for Germany in the World Cup. But come on, Paraguay!

If birthright citizenship is anything less than 9-0 in favor, the whole court needs to be dissolved.

Vacation starts in a couple hours. In the home stretch of loading. Just get me on the plane already.

I’m a day late wishing Mel Brooks a happy 100th birthday. Here’s one I didn’t see anyone post yesterday.

I got fished in by Gray flirting with a no-no, and then the ninth inning happened. I hate baseball.

Chapman blowing this after Abreu made that throw would sum up the season nicely.

Moose out front shoulda told ya.

Told my kids the story of Andre’s Escobar after Paraguay scored an own goal for the US.

We always want the calls to be made right until we don’t. A line has to exist for the offsides rule to have any meaning. We’ve seen similar with the ABS system baseball is using this year, where 99.999% of the ball being out of the zone means it’s a strike.

I guarantee Jesse’s pornhub history is teeming with bisexual women.

Add “who gets a passport and what it’s used for” to the list of things Trump knows fuck all about.

Right now I’d say one of France or Argentina have an 80-90% likelihood of winning this thing. Everyone else is scrapping over the remaining 10-20.

DeMoCraTs sHOuLd tAlK mOaR AboUt SprOTs!

I always thought it was kind of weird that in recent decades, Peking became Beijing, and Bombay became Mumbai, but we still say Munich and St. Petersburg instead of München and Petrograd.

Tom Emmer needs to assimilate with the 21st century.

Samuel Alito's dad was born in Calabria, Italy in 1914, which was a completely failed state shithole at the time. You either spent your life farming dirt or got killed at 16 working for an Ndrangheta underboss. Now his son spends all day panicking about uncivilized Haitians.

The whole country slipping into fascism? Crickets. The slightest leftward tilt of the Democratic Party? “There’s going to be a war.”

I’m not bothered by the loss last night so much as the way it happened. Controlling pretty much the whole second half, but always with a bad pass or loot first touch to kill the threat. Makes me worry Bosnia-Herz could do a similar smash and grab next week.

Completely different team with Pulisic out there.

That is some of the worst defense I’ve ever seen from Türkiye just there.

In the next CBA, players with less than five years service time will be paid in "Manfred bucks," redeemable at any team-affiliated store.

Players should counter with an offer that puts a cap on ticket prices. See where that goes.

Re-watching Ted Lasso in anticipation of Season 4. Early in Season 2, Jamie and Ted are at the bar, and Jamie's asking if can come back to the team. They start talking about their fathers.

This is the moderate position. The real position is: void all decisions to which an appointee of Donald Trump was in the majority. And don't tell me there's no way to do that. That's what must happen. Finding a way is what comes next.

The Supreme Court is not a legitimate judicial body, and Democrats running for office need to stop pretending "reform" is sufficient to addressing it.

Keith Richards didn’t come up with the “Satisfaction” riff in a drunken stupor and have no memory of it until he turned the tape recorder on the next day just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable.”

If Mexico reach the finals, the game has to be played at Azteca.

Guy managed one winning campaign 30-some years ago against a radioactively unpopular incumbent, with the economy failing and a third-party spoiler taking 20% of the vote, and political media has treated him like a genius ever since. Go. Get the f out. No one wants you around anyway.

By all means, let's keep re-electing the Democratic incumbents who (checks notes) have been in office the entire time while this country has slid into authoritarian rule. That's a plan that can't fail!

Like many people who have worked in politics for decades, I am baffled and upset to see candidates who say they are going to try to make things better defeating candidates who say they are trying to make it more or less like it was in the years before things tipped over into Oaf-Style Fascism.

Crystal clear that what this guy means by “Democratic Party” is Democratic officials and elected representatives. The people who vote are just supposed to sit by quietly and allow the people in charge to triangulate their lives away.

“Our business model is based on violating copyright laws. Please give us several hundred billion dollars to keep us solvent. Also, this industry is the future and only a Luddite would think otherwise.”