ICE agent who shot man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer 

I wrote about VAR

Given how much I've enjoyed watching Messi play for twenty years, it's impressive how unlikable the Argentine team is this year. Rooting hard for Spain.

Hand ball against Yamal first, no?

No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum

That bullshit first yellow on Embolo really hurts.

Truly bizarre refereeing decisions in favor of Argentina.

"These hoodlums come in with machine guns – M4, an American-made machine gun – and they detain us. They block off the road. And then they ⁠call the IDF and the IDF is on their side, not on the side ​of the ⁠Americans."

Lots of youth soccer discourse in the aftermath of the USMNT's World Cup exit. So, I wrote about "pay-to-play" — what it actually is, why it's a problem, why it's different in the U.S. vs. elsewhere, & why the real issue is "pay-to-travel-and-play." Free to read (ironically...) @theathletic.com:

My friend is dead. A driver, through neglect, recklessness or malice, has killed Louisa. I’m beside myself with grief and filled with righteous anger at a city that has stalled and slow-walked safety improvements for all road users. Louisa should be here with us.

Ouch.

The Telemundo announcers are discussing how, "through no fault of their own," the US players have now earned "the antipathy" of "the entire footballing world." They're also openly speculating about whether the political controversy distracted the players.

Amen you John Strong; "go watch your local team." Bravo to Belgium.

Turner doesn't do that.

Look if you think it’s fine for Trump to corruptly get a red card revoked (or “suspended”) bc FIFA is already corrupt, maybe you understand the MAGA mindset better than you think. “All politicians are corrupt so it’s ok for Trump to be corrupt” is a very common maga rationalization

FIFA has how made up some kind of insane appeal process and could rescind the Balogun red card recension no notes www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

england should simply get to miami early and establish a dense network of burhs.

Doesn't look like a pen to me against Norway. But at least it won't matter Ismail Elfath generally had a good game.

let’s fucking go

Paraguay to the World Cup audience:

Who would have known Argentina would have so much trouble battling a remote Atlantic archipelago?

Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.

Messi with the same challenge Balogun just did and he didn't even get a card. #USMNT #WorldCup

Phew

Belgian trying to steal this game from Senegal like it’s a precious cultural artifact.

Looks like a pen to me

I hate watching penalty shootouts. I turned it off.

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

David Streever did nothing wrong. David Streever simply spoke with moral clarity. That the ICEstapo saw that moral clarity as a threat is revealing. We should memorise the email Streever sent. We should quote it at them. We should set it to music; put it on stickers, spray it on walls.

On the one hand, this is illegal harassment of a friend of mine based on his constitutionally protected speech. On the other hand, if ICE agents are busy tracking down citizens on vacation with their kids, they aren't able to shuttle as many people into camps.

ICE visited a Rochester man who lives off Park Ave. to warn him about his speech. This is unacceptable and scary.

Fantastic from Belghali. WOW.

Davinson Sanchez offsides by LITERALLY an inch. Luckily it doesn't matter, Colombia wins the group! Vamos!

Wearing my Juan Agudelo jersey in honor of Colombia playing tonight #NERevs #ConOrgulloColombiano

Wow. Cape Verde! I did not see that coming.

This is an authoritarian nightmare. It is how the Soviet Union would handle science funding: a top-down control with distribution being made on the authoritarian basis of the political preferences of a central planner. This will chill academic freedom and kill American science.

"The new rules will be sold as getting rid of DEI but that is an excuse to bring in the commissars. The new rules don’t depoliticize science they create even more politicization with the sign flipped, and the drafters admit it." marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Esmir x Tajon 🥹🫶

#NY25 Dem primary election yesterday: Morelle 24k (62%), Wilt 11k (30%), 38k votes, turnout 18%... #NY25 primary 2020: Morelle 43k (68%), Wilt 20k (32%), 63k votes #NY25 primary 2018: Morelle who was not an incumbent yet) 16k (45%), non-Morelle (Wilt, @rachbarnhart.com, McFadden 19k (55%), 35k votes

Ronaldo realizes that he can no longer score on direct free kicks, so he has Portugal do a free kick routine that results in the GK clobbering him. Love it.

My statement on the deployment of a Monroe County Sheriff's deputy to DC.

To find out what the odds were that Ronaldo scored first, google "Ronaldo Las Vegas"

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

If we get through this current moment, part of whatever comes next is regulating these vehicles out of existence, no matter how long it takes. No society should tolerate such a deadly consumer product that serves no purpose other than making people feel tough and strong. (I know, I know. Guns, too.)

NEW EPISODE: Is the way we think about criminal consequences for drivers who harm pedestrians and cyclists another form of motonormativity? A study from Professor Ian Loader of the University of Oxford challenges how the law sees driving and offers solutions. podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/r...

Even as it's being dismantled by its oligarch owner, the Washington Post continues to put out fantastic reporting, this time on Tulsi Gabbard taking orders/directions from a cult leader. Bravo @jonswaine.bsky.social

You're gonna want to read this. Gift link: wapo.st/4viLSnW