The Egyptian Football Association has submitted an official complaint to FIFA against the French referee François Letexier and his team, requesting an investigation into their refereeing decisions today, raising concerns of discrimination www.shorouknews.com/mobile/news/...

Egypt absolutely got screwed this game. This isn't a game. This is FIFA making sure Argentina advances.

Earlier from our Egyptian cheering section in London. It should’ve been 3-3 but what a brilliant effort Masr❤️🇪🇬🇪🇬

Masr!! Absolute euphoria here in Cairo! What a brilliant brilliant match!

Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

"The proposal revived bitter memories in Lebanon, which the Syrian military occupied for nearly three decades. It also baffled Syrians, whose government has made clear over and over again that it has no interest in meddling in its neighbors’ affairs or entering into more wars."

Will never stop being annoying that this guy has been Catholic for a week and now he accuses other people of heresy while going “well that’s just his opinion” about the pope

No previous president has ever manipulated American foreign and domestic policy in order to make himself a billionaire. Unprecedented www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

China emerges as a relative winner from the Strait of Hormuz crisis. "One main takeaway is that the crisis has demonstrated Beijing’s ability to use prices, export controls, subsidies and a managed currency to absorb shocks in its economy."

I do not think there is sufficient appreciation for how catastrophic yesterday’s decision in Slaughter is for this country. As Justice Sotomayor said in her dissent and she intoned from the bench yesterday, “today the majority reshapes our Govt.”

White House officials secretly awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500m for the construction of the East Wing ballroom in an unusual arrangement that sidestepped typical contracting procedures designed to control costs, according to a copy of the agreement www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

"It is also a measure of how degraded our expectations of the SCOTUS are, and how complicit it is in Trump’s project of democratic backsliding: we are unsurprised when the SCOTUS drops a 90 year old precedent and overturns legislation to at the behest of a President who denies democratic outcomes."

“The presence of mines means shipping through the Strait of Hormuz will operate at less than half of prewar levels for months even if a US-Iran peace deal holds, a top shipping executive has warned.” Harry Dempsey, Alice Hancock, and Andrew England, @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/a073...

Trump's favorite part of his daily intelligence briefing are videos of fishermen in the Caribbean being murdered by US soldiers, which attendees call "Hegseth snuff films," The FT reports. bsky.app/profile/donm...

Oh look, there are consequences for stupidity.

Riad Salameh, Lebanon's central banker for 30 years, embezzeled $300 million from Banque de Liban to a shell company whose beneficial owner was Raja Salameh, who then laundered that money through HSBC and back to the Salameh brothers' personal accounts in Lebanon. www.ft.com/content/cb64...

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. The Islamic Republic estimates that charging for security, safety and environmental services in the strait would bring in $40 billion a year ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Across southern Lebanon, Israel destroyed 11,095 buildings, damaged 17,891 housing units, according to a UNDP assessment. Photojournalist Marwan Bou Haidar documents the scale of destruction in Srifa, Bir el-Salasel, and Tebnine.

"An Indiana University instructor who showed a graphic in class that listed the “Make America Great Again” slogan as covert white supremacy has lost her job." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...

Churchill was also the PM when the British caused a famine in Iran during WWII by forcibly requisitioning stores of grain there.

So this is what you call a toll that you do not want to call a toll….

“The entire National Science Foundation budget is less than what we spent in the first week of the war with Iran. The National Institutes of Health,… accounts for a fraction of 1 percent of all federal spending” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

On the heartbreaking death of Lebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil in Tyre. Her house was hit during Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon two weeks ago. In the words of her friend, "She absolutely refused to be displaced, which was fitting for someone so determined."

I heard his wife Samantha Power on NPR a few days ago talking about what a genius he is. True story. bsky.app/profile/clan...

As expected. "The Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that the crucial waterway would be closed to all vessels as it accused Israel of “crimes” and the US of a “violation of its commitments” under a ceasefire."

What makes my heart heavy is that 13 servicemembers and a school full of girls died for no reason except to attempt to boost a sad old man’s ego

In fact Trump always stabs you in the face.

Here is work showing some of this effect. It is important, however, to see the form that this takes ‘in the wild’ in terms of the erasure of actual women-led scholarship in LLMs by multiple modalities, so I intend to run some bibliometrics myself and put the results out. arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Really feels like Trump bombed the shit out of a country and then surrendered

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

All of this death, destruction, and harm to livelihoods around the globe for no clear strategic gain and likely negative strategic losses for years to come.

"The details of the deal are unclear, but the announced framework suggests that Mr. Trump has won few of the terms he insisted that he would. It is a humiliating comedown for him and the nation he leads."

“They definitely went after the wrong set of people. Not only are we pissed, but we know how to navigate these situations,” Nataro told Devex. “You’ve unleashed them and left them unemployed. So, what did you think was going to happen?”

Sucks that this 64 year old Rocky & Bullwinkle joke still hits now

I’ve also grabbed this from Twitter, absolutely haunting sound of the bells ringing out this morning.

This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.

The Iran war in seven charts ft.trib.al/REOPEe2

It will take nothing less than a 3rd Reconstruction to undo the damage done in the past 17 months and hardly any of the people who truly understand this currently hold elected office.

"The decision by Saudi Arabia, once a key financial and political backer of Lebanon, underlines Riyadh’s efforts to help stabilise the fragile state at a critical period as the authorities struggle to rein in Hizbollah and Israel launches daily strikes on the country."

👀👀👀 "Iran will consider all of Elon Musk’s companies in the Middle East as military targets as it retaliates against the U.S., Iranian state media outlet Fars reported Thursday." www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/i...

Good interview w/CIP's Matt Duss: I do think that the Biden admin’s Gaza policy was beyond just a policy dispute. It was a policy of supporting genocide. I think part of restoring accountability is making clear that the senior officials who carried out that policy should not work in government again

"As much as Egypt is keen on seeing the Syrian state continue to transcend HTS capture, the second Egyptian state official says that formalizing diplomatic relations will largely depend on “the extent of the cake that Egypt would be getting in the reconstruction.”

Israel has carried on with its offensive, launching a wave of strikes on southern Lebanon and has issued more forced displacement orders for suburbs in Tyre. Al Jazeera’s Obaida Hitto reports on the strikes he witnessed in and around Tyre.

The elimination of shared governance at universities is directly connected to the consolidation of power and degradation of democratic institutions that we’re seeing at the national level

"Israel and the United States have long known, and tolerated, that each was spying on the other. But an intensified Israeli effort to learn about U.S. positions in talks with Iran has crossed a line, according to some American officials."

came faster than i expected