World Cup 2026. If Trump continues to menace host cities and keep qualified teams in visa limbo, I can foresee trouble, boycotts maybe. The usually gutless FIFA has said the cup is bigger than any country, any leader open.substack.com/pub/josephsf...

Is there no aspect of popular culture that this admin doesn’t hate? ICE will be enforcing immigration laws at the Super Bowl in Santa Clara. Noem calls the NFL “weak” for handing halftime to Bad Bunny, saying it “won’t be able to sleep at night” following its move

Hegseth. In recent years, more active-duty service members have died by suicide than in combat. The Department of War reported 492 suicides in 2022 alone, and the rates among younger enlisted soldiers - the rank and file Hegseth wants to subject to harsher “discipline” - are among the highest

This is the first in a series of roadside dispatches on America reckoning with its own past – on the measures towns have taken, or refused to take, to confront their histories and turn recognition into meaningful repair. Thank you @eji.org josephsfurey.substack.com/p/well-alway...

As for the Unite the Kingdom protest… Dave Male, Gary Bloke, Pete Feller, Steve Chap, Andy Mann, Dean Geezer and Tony Dude are coming to a kebab shop near you soon. Double shish and a broken window.

Kash Patel meant Valhalla, New York. He wasn’t expecting to see Charlie Kirk at Odin’s banquet hall of slain warriors but in suburban Westchester. Cue images of LARPing Vikings with plastic polearms at a Renaissance fair off the Taconic State Parkway

Nuno’s out. Postecoglou the bookies’ favourite? Forest have become a manager tasting menu

Happy with the Champions League draw. Tougher games at the Emirates. Top eight, here we come #Arsenal

My Pal Maggie Wish I’d never emptied the pool. I’m hot as a junkie’s spoon. Going down the nail bar now to get my toes done and have a row with the young girl, Marikit, who always pulls faces at the state of my feet. #poem #poetry

Grimsby batter United. Amorim’s billion-pound squad sunk by League Two fishmongers

Manchester United trail Grimsby 0-2: something smells fishy and it's not the Mariners

One city, two school shootings, a single day. The White House’s answer is to marshal troops for political theatre in Washington while meeting the routine slaughter of children with prayerful platitudes. #minnespolis

Mugsmashers open at the back, even to a player deficit. Luckypool #Arsenal

Glad we didn’t sign Sesko. I now doubt he’ll be one for the future after his stint with Utd. A dumpster of a team. Still enjoying Saturday’s afterglow with the news that neither Saka nor Ode will be out too long #Arsenal #Eze

That Gyökeres goal had the stamp of authority. It said: "You'll be seeing a lot of this." His finishes are inevitabilities made from timing, power and a refusal to give defenders a quiet minute. BOOM. #Arsenal

That Maxwell interview couldn’t be more damning. It appears orchestrated to rehabilitate her image, shift the narrative away from accountability and potentially secure her favourable treatment - all while giving victims the cold shoulder. She’s a convicted sex trafficker

Spuds crowing about romancing Eze away. Coo-coo-a-choo, tinfoil trophy boys

Beautifully put.

Joe Flacco. Maybe there’s hope for me not having to pause playing Madden to stretch out my lower back

No excuse for letting United have time on the ball. Choke them out, make them cough it up. We’re waving them through like they’re on the guest list

Trump’s homelessness plan focuses on removal, institutionalisation and conditional aid rather than expanding affordable housing stock or rent protections. It will violate civil rights, push vulnerable people out of sight and increase homelessness in the long run

ICE says tax-dodging Dean Cain will be using his diminished powers to leap over due process in a single bound Nothing says protector of the weak like cuffing toddlers with Superman’s old tights Next up: Lou Ferrigno signs on with Border Patrol, and KITT from Knight Rider patrols the Rio Grande

Are you an agent or a publisher looking to add to your list? There are FANTASTIC authors left in the lurch by Unbound who need homes for their existing bools and for sequels / new books. A thread, grouped by genre. Please reskeet! Here’s YA spec fic & fantasy:

They say the IRS keeps meticulous records. Somewhere in a vault, there’s a ledger with Billy Long’s name on it, and under “Notable achievements” it just says: sat on a chair, broke the chair, left the building

ChatGPT-5 - the ouroboros effect is strong in this one. This LLM is gagging on its own tail

His name is Jared L Wise. During the January 6 Capitol attack, he can be heard, on video, shouting “Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!” at police officers as rioters assaulted them Pardoned by Trump, he has since been employed by the DOJ, who refers to him as a “valued member” of the administration

Haiku on Elliott Smith’s birthday Barlight on her back, she leaves like she always leaves - before the chorus. The song folds itself like a note too sad to send. It knows who it’s for. #haiku #poetry

Sticks head in cannon #arsenal

Let's have another before half time, Arsenal... cheers, Norgaard

Epstein’s lair. His proclivities laid bare. A safe space for sex offenders. Much like Trump’s current administration. #epsteinfiles www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

Darren Beattie, a white supremacist who called for the sterilisation of low IQ individuals and criticised “feral populations”, is now acting president of the US Institute of Peace, remaining the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs concurrently

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Emil Bove is a legal bidet for authoritarian filth, snorting the ashes of his credibility off the porcelain. A pallbearer of justice.

Trump’s been accused of sexual misconduct more than 30 times. His model agency fixed visas for young girls and routinely abused them. None of that put a dent in his core support. It’s good to watch the frothing imbeciles squirm now - under the cold appraising eye of Jeffrey Epstein

Would you like anything with your coffee, sir? What about a teenager with acne wanging on to his mum about grooming gangs for 20 minutes. I couldn’t help it. “You sound like you’ve been groomed yourself. By a bald white bloke shouting at the sea in case a tanned kid on a pedalo reaches the beach.”

Thirteen years ago, I went for a drink with “the poisoner of Iquitos” and missed an appointment. There was an unseemly fuss when I finally turned up two days later. I had sent a text but it finished halfway through a sentence. I miss the jungle.

I’m sick of Trump’s supporters describing his plainly addled state as stagecraft. Forgetting he appointed Jerome Powell, threatening to fire him, then reversing course - it’s a sign of hospice-ready mental feebleness. Trump’s enbidenment

C’mon Brendan, we’re going down the Boxty. I’ll take a Teeling. A double. “A hungry feelin’, came o’er me stealin’ and the mice they were squealin’ in my prison cell…” #amreading #amwriting #amdrinking

As someone who has vowed to conduct the largest mass deportation in US history, I’m surprised Trump knew nothing about Liberia, which was founded by the ACS to “repatriate” freed Black Americans - often against their will or best interest - to West Africa.

It's that time of year again, and I'm slowly moving the contents of my website over to Substack. There's a lot of love in this piece, whatever your stomach may tell you. And suerte to my pals who are waiting for the rocket to sound this morning. josephsfurey.substack.com/p/taurus-ris...

@nytimes.com You scandal sheet. NYC is a capitalist crime scene. As for your hit piece on Mamdani, way to go sourcing shit from Crémieux, unrepentant “race scientist”

Happy Independence Day, America. You got rid of one pack of greedy hounds 249 years ago – there's always hope

Forget the talk about a ​“programmatic review”. This freeze looks like his latest use of children as leverage in a culture-war ransom note. Six different grant streams were picked because they help the constituencies Trump wants to hurt www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/bil...

DNC More Threatened by 33-Year-Old Socialist in Queens Than Actual Fascist Coup Attempt. Sources say Zohran Mamdani’s principled stance on Palestine more destabilising than January 6.

Wishing America a Juneteenth that’s not just commemorative, but alive with reckoning and resistance. The battle is far from over, and I am honoured to link arms and keep the flame moving forward

The Trump administration’s weighing up adding a further 36 countries to its travel ban. Soon its World Cup will be as international as its World Series #worldcup2026 #worldcup josephsfurey.substack.com/p/world-cup-...

The road is calling. Been writing about that abstraction for the past week. When it takes the definite article it is no more asphalt or geography than a dream or meditative state that one must enter into, not blast through. Here’s home, between motels, for the latter half of the year. #vanlife

I see this is doing the rounds again. Hpësoj is the name of the finger-painting done by the CEO's five-year-old daughter in lingonberry preserve. It means "refrigerator quality" and every IKEA employee has to hang a print of it in their kitchen.

FIFA dropping anti-discrimination messages ahead of the Club World Cup is a clear signal that the game’s moral compass has been pawned. Infantino is a gutless lickspittle. Not good news for the World Cup proper josephsfurey.substack.com/p/world-cup-...

As late as Saturday afternoon, DHS and ICE spokespeople insisted arrests would hold steady; Trump’s Sunday‑night order – issued after eyeing protest crowds – quintuples the daily quota, as per Stephen Miller's orders, and zeroes in on Democratic‑run cities. Pure revenge apnews.com/article/trum...