This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...

FIFA has now confirmed that Artan will no longer be able to officiate at the World Cup, which like for players, is the biggest moment in the lives of referees. FIFA has said it is nothing to do with them, but a decision made by US authorities and that the decision is not likely to be changed.

I don’t remember any World Cup where shitty stuff like this happened, & I can remember every World Cup since 1978. This referee is one of the best referees in the African Football Confederation (AFCON), & FIFA is standing there useless.

This point and many of the responses to it also illustrated why we're seeing so many politicians in general, and state legislatures specifically, trying to exert control over what is taught in college now too - they don't trust teachers at any level.

When I had students ask me why they should take US history in college when they took it in high school—“I got a 5 on the AP!”—I would tell them it was because now I could teach them things that they wouldn’t have been allowed to learn in high school because someone’s parents would’ve been mad.

Always remember: courage is contagious.

Truly appalling people.

Again: why would anyone come here for this World Cup under these circumstances? www.nytimes.com/athletic/734...

Just graded a bunch of tests. It’s never the loudest kids who are the first to answer who do the best. It’s the quiet students who participate and who are quietly working their backsides off who do the best.

Our job in 2026 is the same as it would have been in 1939—not to be "Good Germans" in the face of obvious fascism, racism, wicked cruelty.

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." - Roald Dahl

Why would ANY decent human being attend a world cup game in the United States right now. Absolutely shameful. And horrid that FIFA didn’t switch countries with all the garbage we are to the rest of the world right now.

Last Canvas document upload circle of eternity of the school year!!! Simple ppts - 8 slides of photos and little text. Nothing complicated. Ugh.

Dumbass food question. Are red pepper flakes common in Italian classic cooking? Did I completely miss this growing up?

something something this is why ‘veep’ could never work now something

🛰️ Google made a deal to pay SpaceX $920 million per month to use its data centers.

With regard to FIFA in the United States, is it worth the trouble of going there? The US should not be on anyone’s travel itinerary for a long time.

Real talk, if you’re using AI to generate feedback instead of grading student material yourself, resign. Just quit. You never wanted to be an educator in the first place.

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 7-month-old Palestinian baby boy in the occupied West Bank and wounded his parents, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. https://cnn.it/4oaU5b3

This story has been consistently reported, but seems not to have really broken though - it’s ASTONISHING. An asylum policy that caters specifically and essentially exclusively to white people from a country in which they’re safe.

And now, for something Good

Mohamad Sofa, a representative at UNECOSOC, writes on Twitter “The world must remember that we live in a society, not an economy.” I am going to repeat these words wherever people might listen.

We’re one funding round away from a superintelligence that ends humanity and three funding rounds away from it remembering the previous message.

I heart her.

Love it when men learn just enough from therapy to weaponize its language.

Okay, #Skystorians. Do your thing, please. Someone in the Nashville area (or someone willing to drive) NEEDS to adopt Joan. This 9 year old lady needs her forever. LOOK AT HER FACE. @weratedogs.com #MedievalSky nashvillehumane.org/nha-pets/joan/

Just me over here reposting #JoanTheDog until someone adopts her from @nashvillehumane and gives her the forever home she clearly deserves. It also seems like she has no adoption fee! @weratedogs.com #AdoptASeniorDog #SeniorDog

It’s interesting how my family deals with inherited pets versus how my in-laws deal with inherited pets. Heaven forbid that they be inconvenienced with taking care of a living creature. Also, I might have 4 cats by the end of the week. I’m so gonna die. I so don’t need more animals or stuff.

With Utah plates? Obviously a tourist who was using AI to find their way around town.

Every time data centers are brought up, I'm reminded of a recent meeting I had with a person working in that sector who mentioned how important power demand modeling was, because they projected if the grid were to go down in Phoenix during peak summer, 30,000 people would die in the first 24 hours

As the stuff is going down with the IPO’s for AI companies and Musk’s garbage, does anyone else think of John Law and France? I’m not an economist or a historian - I’m sure my comparison is way too simple.

I would happily exchange ChatGPT for the Alta Vista search engine the way it worked in 1997.

I can’t listen to the Dr. Jill Biden interview. We have ALL had those moments when our brains froze up at really important times, then we spiral mentally and our brains completely freeze and we can barely form a coherent sentence. That’s what happened in the 2024 debate.

Rep. Madeleine Dean: "What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. It's all covered up."

So many people on this website are worried about what's cool and none of you are cool! None of you are cool! You will never be cool! We are not cool people! Get over it

i am sure this has nothing to do with metas recent wave of layoffs

This!

It was a first Monday in June day of teaching …

History lesson: we didn't know the horrors that happened in Nazi concentration camps until after soldiers liberated the camps… Remember that, when ICE refuses to let outsiders into the detention centers.

As we are building community here, we need to remember to check the posts / accounts of our sacred people so we don’t miss them in all the noise that is happening right now. Beyond thankful for the people who remind me to do this by their example. ❤️

Just to remind you of who the villains are in this Ebola epidemic.

Virgo: You can do anything you put your mind to, but you’ll do nothing because you're lazy.

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

If your business requires me to download yet another app to use it, odds are pretty good at this point I am not going to use your business. It's like a part-time job at this point. Enough.

Took the baby to run errands with me. It was a total hoot. Much more fun than running errands alone. Also, the mom muscle memory comes back quickly even if the mom muscles have gotten weak. I need to get in better shape.

Yesterday Donald compared himself to Elvis Presley, who famously died on the toilet. But he’s also building a bunker, which is where Hitler ultimately took his own life. I like a show that keeps us guessing as to how it will end.

We have to stop data centres from being built.

On May 20th, Meta notified ~1,400 employees in WA state of layoff: 699 in Bellevue 259 in Seattle 206 in Redmond 231 remote 6 days later, Fuckerberg's ~400ft superyacht shows up in Seattle. I'm in the camp of this being a big "fuck you" to those axed. www.king5.com/article/news...