My home-state-in-law is on the front lines of oppression, and they are standing up over there. The rest of us can do no less. Refuse intimidation. Stand up for the real American ideals.

Woo!!! One of my favorite econ papers is from @filipecampante.bsky.social and co-authors showing that doing well in Afcon can improve national integration and reduce civil conflict so🤞and excellent work Super Eagles #AFCON

Lots of people talking about Thucydides these days. Here is Thucydides' key insight about war: When your regime acts like a rapacious animal in foreign policy, you teach citizens to treat each other like rapacious animals, and your political community dissolves from the inside.

Be jealous of the pop tart that is consumed, because all they want is to be eaten. That is their only goal in life. Weep for those that live, because they didn’t reach their dream.

Danny Ramirez was good. Judge in pinstripes was fun. I don't know what order to put the bad parts in: The dark suit & shirt on dark background was a bad choice. Gretzky did not do well with the "saying team names" part. Village People should revise that Native American outfit.

"The outer shell of the empire fell off in 1991, and many mistook that for collapse. Like a matryoshka doll, within one 'prison of nations' another waited," writes Andrew Chakhoyan, an academic director at the University of Amsterdam, in this op-ed.

Incredible energy from Rodriguez. Late first half goal, and running hard as anything at 106' (which was even more than it sounds, as 15' of extra time played in regulation, and a hour -long plowing delay.

Any thoughts @scottlincicome.bsky.social ? (more on the politics than the economics, but open-ended ask) youtube.com/watch?si=rEdDMPLbGr-uk6Eq&v=hN_CVvzExpM&feature=youtu.be

The ad was accurate Painful to defend Ford but the Reagan Foundation is full of 💩 bsky.app/profile/mich...

One way that social media has driven people insane is by convincing them that political outcomes are shaped by the net allocation of care points and so politics consists in attempting to shape the amount of caring everyone dedicates to your pet issue.

This is excellent

What am I doing today? Watching Canada try to win the Rugby World Cup www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZgF...

Wishing everyone a great Fall.

10 years to the day since the miracle in Brighton; rugby has another historic result on English soil Canada take down the Black Ferns, inflicting their second ever knockout defeat, and in some fashion The semi-final that promised to deliver, has given us a result for the ages

people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“Fiscal crisis” has become a pretext for far-reaching changes that are not necessary so much as desired by uni leaders. “The tragedy…is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power.” ⬇️ www.chronicle.com/article/they...

Ukraine is celebrating its 34th Independence Day on Aug. 24, 2025. To mark the occasion, we’ve asked the staff of the Kyiv Independent to share their favourite fact about Ukrainian history, culture, or a famous Ukrainian — some of whom, you might be surprised to learn are from Ukraine.

"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."

"When war rages on the front line — with trenches, tanks, drones, and rockets — it is visible. But a far more dangerous war is fought where it goes unnoticed: in negotiations, in memoranda, in the emphasis on ethnic grievances..." writes Ukrainian author Vitaly Portnikov, in his recent op-ed.

Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.

I feel this a lot these days when I see people angry that other folks are not focused on the same atrocity they are, with the same intensity they are. I regret to say there's more than one genuine atrocity in the world at the moment; it doesn't minimize the others if one chooses another to focus on.

Someone on the Athletic is posting made up Jesse Marsch quotes under the "Snides of Marsch" label and now I'm sitting here trying to decide if I want to get in on the game as a hobby, or make a whole Snides of Marsch shit-posting account.

I don’t know what it means, but I think that’s the whole point. Let’s not make the mistake of understanding things we don’t understand, in a way that makes misunderstandings understandable. After all, it takes more than one lion to be in a flock…” 4/4 (from Michael T of The Athletic)

Snides of Marsch: "My players understand that. Either by my language, or by virtue of mime. " I love quotes, I love learning from people of the past, sports figures, historical figures, whoever. My favourite current quote is, ‘many a mickle makes a muckle’. 3/4

Snides of Marsch "so I’m pretty darn adept at being unequivocal in my barometer of speech. I think it's an important lesson in being in a leadership position to show that you're willing to be vulnerable, you're willing to make mistakes, and that's how I'm going to get better, by getting worse. 2/4

The Snides of Marsch: The Ides of Marsch: “I pride myself on my excellent communication, so I’m pleased the powers that be have seen sense. I actually took French in school, can speak a bit and I understand the accent and understand the foundation of the language and verb conjugation, 1/3

I'll put a chip down on Merz wearing a Draisatl jersey at Oilers game 5.

These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of June 12, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

This is a really fun book

Yay for this fun fixture. Note to @canmntofficial.bsky.social : your followers might be interested in this.

Excited for 🇨🇦⚽️🇺🇦 this afternoon

As the war continues, it remains to be seen whether Russia’s literary past can be disentangled from its politics. The Kyiv Independent wants to raise the question: Why do so few English-language readers know the Ukrainian authors who were the contemporaries of Dostoevsky?

Remember this pride month just because your ace friends haven't shot down five enemy fighters doesn't mean they're not valid.

Wow PSG. Just waiting now for the old giants to issue their PSR whines about how it's so unfair to them that now there's a good team in Paris.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/w...