I loved that the Swedish-Tunisian-Mexican crowd loudly jeered the onset of the "hydration"/commercial breaks. More of this, please.

En GOD morgon!

The England team have apparently had their training kit stolen en route to their base for their first match. We really shouldn't hold the World Cup in third-world countries like the USA.

The World Cup in Mexico is ON! Wish I was there.

New article out (and I really like the title): "Parents of the Revolution" It's open access and here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

¡Vamos Depor!

I dont have a horse in this race, but I still feel so bad for Hearts today. Heart-break, indeed, and so boring with the continued 2-club dominance...

New article out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

1/ As Victory Day approaches in Russia, warbloggers are increasingly despondent and predict the fall of the regime in the face of drone attacks and social and economic problems. They perceive a rapid worsening of the situation and a sense that 'things can't go on like this.' ⬇️

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

Why EU>US again (what, no ballroom)

April 29, 2026

I’ll be giving a research seminar at KTH in Stockholm on Monday, April 27, on our work analyzing three decades of UN climate through COP High Level Segment country statements. The seminar is open to the public, and anyone interested is warmly welcome. Details here: www.kth.se/climateactio...

Targeted sanctions, coming at last.

can’t say what i want to happen to these people for legal reasons

Way ahead of you. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Once again: this is exactly what LLMs and chatbots are designed for. This is them doing their designed function. Mass production of meaningless text so someone who wants to do harm has cheap access to the aesthetics of justification www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

Is Trump dead and his "truths" now AI-generated? Praising Allah on Easter Sunday seems far-fetched even for him...

If we bought a few less bombs, we could probably afford nice things. One thing I'd like to see from the next presidency would be to appoint a special commission to prepare a report on the actual cost to defend the United States from attack. Not foreign wars. Just the cost to defend this country.

In their frantic, paranoid attempt to block Telegram and VPNs, the Russian state censors today have achieved what Western sanctions could only dream of: they have accidentally nuked their own internal banking infrastructure.

Many More Should Have Also Been Prosecuted….

Italy's commitment to boycotting World Cup's hosted by ethically immoral countries is quite impressive.

It is really, really wild how persistent and prominent this remains in common LLMs. There seems to be an air of "well they fixed that" and it is 100% not true: most of the energy just seems to be going towards 'being plausible enough to be accepted', ie style and not accuracy or truth

"Armed conflict causes long-lasting environmental harms" is now in press. And open access, of course. journals.sagepub.com/toc/easa/4/1

This is very interesting

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

People who thought credibility and individual leaders didn’t matter much in international relations were taking years of cultivated and maintained credibility for granted, and didn’t sufficiently consider that a major power would voluntarily throw so much of it away by empowering a leader with none.

Roomnesia.

Why does Trump need allies to help him in a war he’s already won?

That they are moving now tells us everything you need to know about the "extensive" preparation for this war. All of these failures rest entirely in the lap of Pete Hegseth. Unlike other democracies where defense agencies are, um, laid back, OSD has much authority/practice shaping mil ops 1/2

BREAKING: World interconnected. Economies interdependent. People besides you get a say. Cultivating relationships has long-term value. Picking unnecessary fights with everyone at once: bad idea. Really sucks to have national leaders shocked by that, and who will quickly forget that they learned it.

New article by Dept. of Govt. associate prof. Anthoula Malkopoulou identifying structural similarities between "dirty hands" and democratic self-defence and analyzing how normative theorizing about the former can guide approaches to the latter. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Remember that the Russian economy is bust.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... Just a friendly reminder - Russia is still invading Ukraine.

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

Higher oil prices, eh. That will be good for Russia and whoever (Trump) just sit on a bunch of oil it wants to cash in on (from Venezuela) and put in private bank accounts (in Qatar). The corruption is staggering.

Tired of winning, yet?

So I hear that Iran has attacked pretty much every US base across the Middle East. When will we know how many casualties?

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Desperately launching wars to get an excuse to cancel elections...?

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Strongly recommend this excellent piece. It actually understates the US failure: Brazil and S. Korea aren’t outliers. Quite the opposite. Since 2010, 31 democracies have convicted or banned leaders from office. Accountability is the democratic norm. America is the sole outlier.