Cabo Verde won just by bringing Argentina to this point.

Lopes Cabral, que romantico!

I lived in DC on 9/11 and remember hearing military helicopters flying on a loop around the VP's House that night (my apt. building was on the loop path). It's not a sound I associate with July 4th celebrations. Nothing trumpy can ever be subtle, can it? Just one slap on the face after another.

Neal abruptly deciding to take a nap mid-'bollard death match' is somehow very relatable.

The gift that keeps giving

Neoliberalism was good for the rich, finance folks, & tech. It was bad for hourly workers, public ED, & private equity's victims. If the hyper wealthy hadn't gotten so greedy & turned to racism to justify their hoarding, the left would probably still be tinkering at the margins. DSA meets the moment

PARAGUAY! I think i lost a few years sitting through those penalty kicks

What are the odds she hires Will Lewis, who ran @washingtonpost.com into the ground?

O'Hara's case against the Ohio National Guardsman who asked MPD to detain him remains open. I hope the court doesn't buy the Guardsman's defense of qualified immunity. I'm no lawyer but if what DC did was illegal then siccing MPD on O'Hara could be an illegal order? Lots of chain of command ?s here.

Is there a patron saint for writers? I think we need one!

I fail to understand why anyone cares what Carville thinks. Not because he's old, but bc he's irrelevant. He hasn't done serious campaign work since the 90s. Bernie Sanders is old, but he's relevant. He's an elected figure engaged in political strategy. The media needs to stop interviewing Carville

From the outside, the referendum to limit MoCo's County Executive to two terms often seemed designed to specifically prevent one person--Mark Elrich--from staying on the council. Love him or hate him, looks like Elrich got the last laugh

This isn't my district, but I didn't even know Alexis Goldstein was running bc these two ejits have sucked all the oxygen out out of the room telling the entire state how awful the other one is. & they're funding their circular firing squad so well the usual dark money skunks have stayed away.

The Old Cabinet is dying, and the New Cabinet struggles to be born: now is the time of ministers

Surprised by this only because so few powerful politicians even face the music, let alone get convicted. Peace to the victims

The kind of thing you put in a FIFA peace prize citation.

🚨If you’re a Marylander, please submit a public comment opposing the ICE detention warehouse the DHS is trying to open in Washington County. It takes two minutes. 👉 NoKingsNoCamps.com Sewer system at capacity + an additional 187,000 gallons of wastewater per day = 💩 flowing downstream.

The assignment is always to fall on your sword. All the lackeys know this. And when of their members gets called to do it, the others rush about, tuttering that the lackey is to blame for doing exactly what he was told to do.

"It looks like they're brewing Yodas in there."

The self delusions about AI (it's god-likeness, its omnipresence, its inevitability) all feel like a Margaret Thatcher rerun for the tech age. There is no alternative (that I want to talk about).

St. John's Point lighthouse outside Killough. Bonus pic, fluffy elder 💛

Thinking of you @drjbw.bsky.social!

Sure Brian amd Markwayne, the loyalists behind these attacks are just itching to be Irish 🙄

Third year in a row I've come to Belfast (with students) just as race/anti-migrant riots have popped off. I love this city. It is far from perfect, but the last thing it needs is petulant, sleazy billionaires and 'professional' racists whipping up hatred.

2 US attorneys lose their jobs w/in months of being appointed by trump. Remarkably both refused to introduce charges against trump's foes. Good. But how did neither of them see this coming? Did they really think they were gonna fight crime? The assignment is always ultimately to fall on your sword.

I went to a baptist school (100% do not recommend). They weren't sure Pentecostals were going to heaven. Mormans were seen as way beyond the pale. Evangelicals are realpolitik practitioners. They'll make political alliances w/ people they're convinced won't get past the velvet rope at heaven's gates

It's hard to watch Pelly pulling punches here. Saying Weiss would have had a sterling career if she'd stayed at Free Press? But strategically it makes sense. Make your point w/out using coarse language. But main takeaway is clear. Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton are thin-skinned, compromised morons.

I didn't follow any of these people when I was on Twitter (blue or red). Realizing that all these accounts would be algorithmically forced onto my timeline tells me I made the right choice to close up shop and come here. Added bonus, I only hear about Elon when one of his rockets blows up.

Sometimes the petty nasiness is just overwhelming

I appreciate this because its a trauma informed approach (something I'm still learning about). Talking to a reporter or a researcher in a world soaked in digital media is much more fraught than it was even 15 years ago.

The guy on the left hasn't been fully trained in sycophancy because he actually sneaks a long peek at gramps snoring in his chair. The others, being better trained, know gramps is asleep & studiously refuse to look anywhere near him.

Not until I get an out of office reply telling me to reach back out at the start of fall semester!

Factual thoughts: Scott Pelley and Henry Schuster were embedded with my Marine infantry unit in 2009—it was incredibly violent in Helmand. They told our story well. Years later, my unit suffered multiple suicides, they came back to cover that too.

Bari Weiss is like an amateur extortionist. Instead of charging a business reasonable protection 'fees', she makes so many demands that the business decides to fold rather than deal with her.

Over the last 5 days @defector.com has described Nick Bilton as a "credulous dope," a "boring dunce," and a "punk ass loser." It's only Wednesday y'all!

"Devoted my career to investigative journalism and storytelling" is doing a LOT of work here. Nick Bilton once wrote a story about not being able to find a pen, because shocker, his house is now full of electronic devices! deadspin.com/asshole-cann...

US Soccer team 1930. A bunch of oldish immigrants (late 20s - early 30s) brought us to our best showing ever (3rd). Reddit thread is a banger. Bring back those socks! www.reddit.com/r/ussoccer/c...

Bari Weiss has a knack for spotting moronmaxxers.

There's so much corporate villainy in this article, but what really caught my eye was that for a period of time the GEO Group was registered as a REIT. It's like they weren't content to just be the worst guy in the prison world. They wanted an extra bad-guy badge in the housing realm. 1/2

I had to LOL at this one. The bartender at one of the restaurants i worked at had a roided out ex boyfriend named Boogie. He was on everyone radar.

Baltimore is a gem 💎

The urge to fix things that don't need fixing is Bari Weiss' calling card. That and cratered ratings.

Unlike prior visitors not from appalachia, I suspect Brandon Johnson's visit will NOT inspire an encyclical slap on the hand.

I write to figure out how to say what I want to say, and sometimes to figure out what *exactly* i want to say. Sometimes it's supremely frustrating, but there's also real satisfaction when you nail it, and the words start pouring, and then settling like a good Guinness.

All dogs are therapy dogs. Most are just freelancing.

While a subset of terminally online millenials who've baked their brains are having a moment, I had to open a tab and search "who was Harambe and what happened to him?"

Private equity is usually about extracting value out of a property/business & leaving the carcass for someone else to handle. Private equity rarely reinvests profits. For tenats this means leaky roofs, broken elevators, mold, & vermin. PE will pay fines 4 code violations bc its cheaper than repairs.

Its cool and rainy on the east coast, but the butterfly exhibit was toasty and gorgeous 😍

It has arrived!