There is a giant window open in Democratic politics for "I want Israel to exist as a vibrant Jewish state, but also I oppose offensive arms sales & want to see Netanyahu & his allies in the Hague for ethnic cleansing." Almost no one is taking it. That is really bad for Israel and Jewish people. /1

If Russia wants to test NATO's resolve, they're welcome to do that and see how long Kaliningrad stays a part of the Russian Federation

The problem as I see it with "anti-gentrification" ideology is that low-income neighborhoods are that way because they are some combination of environmentally blighted, without access to transportation, or some other such. So how do you make places more livable without increasing their value?

People like Ryan Grim and Briahna Joy Gray will seek to rehab and welcome any critics of Israel even if they're outright Nazis. Megyn Kelly hasn't earned Briahna Joy Gray's solidarity yet but there's one way she can get it regardless of what other genocidal intentions she has

A lot of Russians know full well that China has always had sights on reversing Russian territorial gains during the Century of Humiliation, and the only way Russia can avoid that now is basically by being a Chinese vassal state.

It's no longer than National Mall, it's the Darth Mall

THIRD PLACE ANALYSIS! You know you love it. Based on tonight's results, Senegal have now qualified out of Group I. Even if all three third-place teams end up passing them tomorrow they can be no worse than 8th. Congrats! Iran simply needs one of tomorrow's teams not to pass them to move on to 32.

Well, US fans? Belgium it is in the round of 16, likely. We don't have Tim Howard, but we do have a better offense? TBD.

GROUP G INBOUND and if you're a US fan, this is one you've been waiting for because the Group G winner will be on a collision course with the US in the round of 16! Everyone assumed it would be Belgium, but that is a dicey proposition right now! Here's the deal, as clean as I can make it:

Blue Sky is a sports app

CAPE VERDE

GOAL TO SPAIN! If these scorelines holds Cape Verde will be a second-place qualifier and Uruguay will be mathematically eliminated, giving a lifeline to a now-desperate South Korea and Scotland as they scoreboard-watch to see if they will qualify in the top eight.

GROUP H ONGOING! Scenarios here are really complicated but CAPE VERDE still has a path to finish top of group (yes, I know) if both they and Uruguay prevail and CPV does it by one more goal. Two draws here would see CPV in third place but not guaranteed of passage, while booking Senegal's ticket.

The entire fuckin point of the national mall is loitering

Important second goal by Senegal--puts them ahead of ROK in the tier of third-place teams by virtue of total goals scored

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" are literally the first ten words of the first amendment.

WORLD CUP POSTING IS BACK! Group I is up. France and Norway are both in, but Norway must win to take 1st place, while France need only draw. In Senegal/Iraq, a draw will certainly eliminate both teams. Iraq would need a huge win to have a chance, while SEN would want at least two for comfort.

Speaker Johnson is threatening me with a very good time

Note for all Democratic candidates: Do not promise bipartisan cooperation. I do not want to hear the word "bipartisan" in any campaign you do. I want to hear about a total program of deMAGAfication of government and a damnatio memoriae of Trump, stripping his name from wherever it sits in honor

Nowhere is this more true in my experience than the Northern Virginia suburbs! Formerly a pretty lily-white community, now among the most diverse communities you'll encounter. The desegregation may not be happening in urban cores but it is certainly happening in suburbia and it's part of MAGA panic.

So...there's a huge problem that's going to keep on getting worse. Instagram reels are full of outrageously antisemitic content, and this stuff is getting hundreds of thousands of likes, millions of impressions. A lot of young leftists will have ended up sharing and promoting this shit.

What did the Haitians and Somalians ever do to MAGA? Nothing at all. But there is nothing that MAGA will ever hate more than Black immigrants. They grudgingly accept ADOS as a consequence of their forebears but Black immigrants will them with unbridled rage.

Literally the business owners in Springfield love employing Haitians because they work their butts off and don't like hiring white people because they're too unreliable and addicted to drugs but go off about work ethic, culture, and values Megyn. Also, griot is the bomb

Good. Buy back the parking meters. The fact that their revenue was leased out in the first place is an absolute disgrace.

This is also known as communism with Chinese characteristics

NEWS --> Gov Josh Shapiro confirms to me that Pennsylvania won't join Trump 250 gala. “This president routinely makes patriotism partisan and personal—it shouldn’t be that way,” Shapiro tells me, noting that PA businesses didn't want to participate. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2123...

Maybe our reserve center backs are reserves for a reason lol

perfect capsule summary of the first 10 minutes from @rodger.bsky.social

Sure, we conceded, but we look dangerous, creative, exciting and fun. Don't think I've seen a USMNT like this...ever?

HOLY DAMN! are we just that good? This is wild y'all

GROUP D GAMES INCOMING! While most Americans will of course be watching the USMNT, the Australia/Paraguay matchup will be the one with ramifications. The US is guaranteed 1st place. Australia just needs a tie to win 2nd and advance. A tie would be meh for PAY and likely advance them as a 3rd place.

WORLD CUP UPDATE: Group F is complete, Sweden is guaranteed to be in the Round of 32 as a top 8 3rd place finisher. With the 3rd place in Group F being guaranteed advancement, it is now a 100% chance via the algorithm that the US will play Bosnia-Herzegovina on July 1, no matter what else happens.

Putting out a nationwide manhunt for someone who dipped their hand in the Reflecting Pool is some high level DPRK shit and it is outrageous that we are here

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

GROUP F GAME STAKES: Both sitting on 4 points with a +4 differential, both NED and JPN are nearly guaranteed to progress unless they somehow lose by 5+ goals to SWE and TUN respectively. Not likely. Even a loss could see SWE through as a third-place as long as it's only 1-0 or even 2-0. Meanwhile..

So...data centers aren't AI-specific. Compute can be used for anything. The reason we're opposed to building them is because we're giving sweetheart deals to consume land and water for bullshit. But who the fuck is going to pay to turn a giant warehouse on former farmland into a community center?

!!!!! ECU 2-1 GER If this shock result holds: 1) Ecuador will be guaranteed a Round of 32 spot as the best of the five third-place teams finished so far. Mathematically certain to be among the top 8. 2) Still a tiny mathematical sliver that BHI does not qualify, but 99.7% US will still face them

It really sucks to be ruled by one man’s pathologies.

One other note: If Ecuador do not beat Germany, then it will be 100% guaranteed that the US will face Bosnia-Herzegovina in the round of 32. An Ecuador win will allow for a tiny mathematical sliver odds of a different opponent for the Stars and Stripes.

WORLD CUP THIRD PLACE SCOTLAND UPDATE: Of the four third-place teams that have completed all three matches, Scotland ranks...fourth. Given Curacao and Ecuador losing to CIV and Germany, respectively, that is likely to change. Unless something wild happens, the 3rd-place here will have 2pts max.

Mask off, hood on

If you spend more time lamenting that Russian sanctions are overbroad than about Russia's attempted genocide of Ukraine, then you are just a straight campist pretending that you're concerned about people's wellbeing

The Supreme Court believes that there are exactly two forms of racial discrimination that the law must prohibit: Black people going to college, and Black people voting

I've been waiting for a long time to see when exactly Ukraine was going to establish a beachhead on the Kinburn Spit (right across the river from Kherson) and it seems that they just might have done that. This is like a mini D-Day. Big news.

Russia is losing literally a thousand soldiers a day, each being killed or maimed like this. It's astonishing that Russians aren't in revolt about this. Literally a thousand guys a day dying while not even winning any territory.

There is, I'm going to keep on repeating myself, a significant strain of "leftism" that was very eager to see Ukraine be conquered and see USAID be dismantled, to watch millions die, other millions be subjugated to an imperialist genocide, in order to "weaken capitalism"

Again, I'm going to illustrate this from my time in Congress. Even with the Trump Admin and a GOP Congress, we successfully fought against budget cuts that would have curtailed USAID rice to Ethiopia. Tens of thousands might have died otherwise. And nobody here besides us knew or cared. Harrowing.

As Karl Marx said, the scariest words in the English language are "I'm from the United States and I'm here to help" or something to that effect

Was about to go "wtf are you talking about" but then my sarcasm detector kicked in. Nice job Jeff

This is absolutely ridiculous. Moderates/old guard still dominate Democratic Party leadership and a significant portion of the caucus, and they're freaking out because actually left-wing voters are getting the representation they want in very deep-blue seats. Off the charts whining.