Credit to Trump: He challenged Europe to contribute its fair share, and Belgium has stepped up by supplying 80% of the goals

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

Spain gets off the bus to Down With The Sickness playing here in Dallas and now I'm gonna run through a wall.

the first cheating scandal in the Tour de France happened in the second year of its existence, when the winner of the first TdF and a bunch of other cyclists got DQ’d for riding cars and trains during the race.

Kinda fucked up they let Norway field a space marine on their team imho

From the Telemundo broadcast just now by the commentary team during a slow-mo replay of the goal and a shot of Haaland with his hair down: "This is a perfect goal. The ball didn't touch anything." In exaggerated, gravely, dramatic voice: "TERMINATOR"

Brazil rn…

👇🎯 The real way you know this is that those very same elites, from Ezra Douthglesias on down, have not responded to the wave of Democratic/liberal victories across the country in 2025-26 with the same Narrative™️ in reverse. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

This is a prime example of why right-wing populism slides so easily into antisemitism. You need a populist framing of "the people" versus "the elites," but you can't frame the elites in strictly economic terms, or else you end up with leftism. Hence you need another way to define "elites."

This really is a vintage World Cup: terrific football, ties - you bet! - and now: a dazzlingly dodgy decision for the hosts. The US now only needs to master 'chants that are not boringly literal' to become a footballing nation.

If you think “greasy” and “corrupt” weren’t already signature traits of FIFA then you must be new to this international soccer thing. This doesn’t crack the top 100 worst things Trump’s done OR the top 100 worst things FIFA’s done

This is the not-so-secret reason why Congress has so many doctors and lawyers and coal barons and so few bartenders. It’s not that bartenders lack ambition or civic pride!

CABO VERDE LEADS 1-1

So I said “Bobby Lee, it sounds like you’re just feeding brigades to emplaced artillery” and then Longstreet started crying.

You know why no one's going to the Trump state fair? No rides. They just have that one stupid ferris wheel. If you're going to have a "state fair" you need a good two dozen janky machines from 1972 that look like they could break down at any moment run by felons. Otherwise why bother showing up.

a fun fact about SSPX is that the main founder was a Vichy regime sympathizer and one of his founding bishops was an outright Holocaust denier. both excommunicated in the 80s I’m no JPII stan, but you KNOW that was one thing former Polish Resistance member Karol Wojtyla was NOT going to stand for

A follow-on consequence to this is that even the most generous read of Ezra Klein’s intellectual project, trying to understand the intellectual underpinnings of his ideological opponents, is a joke. Their ideological underpinning is that they’ll make whatever claim they want in order to gain power.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Phil Weiser wins Democratic nomination for governor in Colorado.

BREAKING: Melat Kiros has won the Democratic primary in Colorado’s 1st district. The democratic socialist has unseated the district’s 29-year incumbent by running on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, ending forever wars and more.

the official publication of the American Jesuits using the word "schismatic" is a sign that things are really popping off

Huge thanks to Paraguay 🇵🇾 for reminding everyone in what can be achieved in football by following the Two Basic Rules

And where is the left wing Hoover Institution, the left wing Heritage Foundation/AEI/Manhattan Institute, the left wing New York Post, the left wing Bohemian Club?

As a practicing lawyer I completely agree.

Cool that James Madison envisioned everyone having a rocket launcher but the authors of the 14th amendment explicitly stating their intentions doesn't count for some reason.

S-tier interventions: Break up Facebook! Dissolve X (and nationalize SpaceX)! B-tier: regulate algorithmic feeds (there are probably a few ways to do this well and many ways to do it poorly) D-tier: ban social media for kids F-tier: everything else Democrats have proposed to date

the way he said the whisper part out SCREAMING is just so on brand

can't forget the "don't fuck with the money" canon of statutory interpretation

I will once again remind folks that a very sizable chunk of what looks like Congress not doing anything to push back against the president is in fact a consequence of the Court disabling/destroying all the ways Congress has tried to push back.

The Democratic Party lost the working class because it went all in on Neoliberalism. Then the promises that the party made to voters turned out to be empty promises because there are no private market solutions to affordable high-quality housing, healthcare, education, transportation etc.

Wankee Doodle Handy!

Such a good thread here. Very @liberalcurrents.com coded

This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up

the fundamental double standard in American politics is that any given Democrat is supposed to have an opinion on Darializa Chevalier but no Republican will ever be pressed on Randy Fine, Brandon Gill, or Andy Ogles

You either die recruiting Carl Reiner at a sporting event or you live long enough to become Carl Reiner at a sporting event

new yorkers en masse have expressed their enthusiasm for democratic socialism. but these forty men surveyed in the waiting room of the coeur d’alene family court have a different perspective

This is like if Raymond Felton started complaining that Jalen Brunson was destroying the Knicks.

new cope cage just dropped

We have a new entry in the climate dictionary under “irony”

oh my god

What infuriates me about this story is that it is precisely the kind of dramatic “scoop” that should have every reporter in DC working 24/7. But while the media loves drama when Trump creates it, you are not going to see the big media orgs amplify this (no disrespect to StatNews but they’re niche)

🤔🤔🤔 www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...

“we’ll just pay him off and get on his good side” congratulations you have now convinced him you are a convenient bank account that he can tap any time he’s annoyed

Austria-Argentina is a top-tier "just to be clear, what exactly did your great-grandfather do for work" game

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

if you need me, i'll be on the floor turning over the phrase "we almost invaded greenland for red lobster" in my head for a while

No joy to be found today. No satisfaction. Just frustration and a profound sense of squandered opportunity iandunt.substack.com/p/the-traged...

Countries with pyramids are currently undefeated in the World Cup