Despite the pretenses being a Floridian, Trump will always be a New Yorker at heart, hence why he plays the Village People, loves opera and still talks to Maggie Haberman even when she writes something he doesn’t like.

Pausa de hidratación

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

Corny as it may be, I make it a priority to read the Declaration of Independence, Douglass’s “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July” speech and the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution every Fourth of July. What are some other foundational texts you would add?

Mexico has spent 40 years chasing a return to the World Cup quarterfinals.

Don't look now, but Trump has been whiffing on his endorsements lately: -He endorsed Pamela Evette for governor in South Carolina and only double-endorsed in the runoff -He endorsed Burt Jones, who lost to Rick Jackson -He endorsed Feenstra, who lost to Lahn www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

#AMWriting community: What we listening to while writing/editing? I'm on a Billy Strings kick.

Mexico versus England? Somebody needs to do a wellness check on Morrissey.

Randomly thinking again about how Gouverneur Morris died because he stuck a whale bone up his pee-pee hole to clear a urinary blockage.

I love America because it is a place where a young couple paid a penny to cross the US-Mexico border, worked in sugar factories and the fields of California. And then, thanks to hard work, Pell Grants and community college, their great grandson could work covering politics at the White House.

A professor of mine at community college put it to me this way: owning slaves was the equivalent of having a Mercedes Benz. Not everyone had one, but it damn sure was a sign of status in America and you aspired to have them as a white person

So is Messi already considered the GOAT ahead of Maradona? Or does he need a second World Cup for that? And even then, hard to say anyone is better than Pele, who has three.

"In the squares of the city, in the shadow of the steeple, By the relief office I seen my people; As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking Is this land made for you and me?"

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

Happy 75th anniversary to 'the most elaborate wedding ever staged'!!

Me on July 4 during a heat wave in DC

The signing of the Declaration of Independence was just that. The war still needed to be won. A Constitution came later. Abolition of slaves later. The right of women to vote even later. All of us must finish and perfect our union. Happy Fourth of July, everybody.

My end-week column: Trump still has a tight grip on the GOP. But he has thrown a few meatball endorsements lately. It’s the logical conclusion of his inability to have anyone upstage him. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Not the first person to say it, but this Argentina run has a real Last Dance feel to it given Messi’s age. Not to mention a generation of dudes who might have their last World Cup like Luka Modric and Ronaldo. Plus you got the young boys like Haaland and a relatively young USMNT.

Vozinha was and is a dawg. What a game to remember even as Argentina wins.

Who needs Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce when you have Sidny Lopes Cabral? Anyone watching that game on their phones in the Garden?

Golazo from Sidny Lopes Cabral, level again

Feels like this is over

Vozinha is a dawg

Great piece by @jamellebouie.net about what Thomas Jefferson meant when he said "All men are created equal" and how it has been interpreted since then. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

seriously what the actual fuck is that first touch, great pass and even better finish

Does Cabo Verde have any plan to put a goal on the board? They played pretty defensively

How can USMNT win without Folarin Balogun? Look how Mauricio Pochettino replaced Harry Kane www.nytimes.com/athletic/741...

Brilliant move by Tom Perriello

WHAT?!

The girls spent weeks in and out of school, dealing with the trauma of their images being sexualized and shared rampantly by an AI nudify app. They were trying to get back to normal, but at school, they watched their harasser high five his friends in the hallways. www.404media.co/radnor-high-...

Somewhat related: kind of amazing how Charlie’s death did not galvanize the young right but instead became a fuel for various factions to weaponize against their various enemies.

“.. Manufacturing jobs got a post-Covid bounce that's largely faded.” - @eddyelfenbein.bsky.social #NFP

That did not fit the definition of a red card.

The question for Jon Ossoff is this: If he wins by a big enough margin in a swing state like Georgia 2026, does he see it as a mandate to go for the White House or a sign he needs to stay put? He has two kids younger than five.

Some white guys who say "inshallah" need to start saying "Astaghfirullah" instead.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok." I asked a FIFA World Cup ref and I wound up getting a red card for raising a finger

If Victor Marx loses the primary for Colorado governor, we may never find how many people he’s killed. And I am still really curious.

This story blames a supposed “uptick in violence” on Boston not having 600 more cops. But halfway through the article, you find out homicides are down compared to last year. And two-thirds of the way through, you find out they're down by more than half!

He's right. We can talk about the Colfax Massacre of 1872. The biggest lynching came in 1891 in Louisiana when a mass mob murdered 11 Italians. In 1898, a white supremacist coup in Wilmington overturned the fusionist biracial government. There's also the 1921 Tulsa race massacre/pogrom.

ICE officers have arrested people at check-ins with immigration authorities, during traffic stops and on the street. The push has apparently yielded results, with recent arrest numbers roughly doubling from the 1,000 picked up each day earlier this year. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

Remember when people said that Platner behaves in a way similar to other working-class men and people upset about it were smoothgroins?

this video from the bbc about texas bbq is frying me

With all due respect to my coworkers and bosses from England, this weekend, the Lion sleeps tonight, while the Jaguar of El Tri awakens. ¡Viva Mexico, cabrones!

Can Trump tariff Brazil for Balogun's red card?

I am watching this game on Telemundo and politics has so cooked my brain that anytime I read “Pelota,” I read it as “Peltola” and think “what does fish have to do with this?”

For those who might be a little too young to forget, Chris Kluwe went to bad for same sex marriage in Maryland when it was not that popular to do so. He’s pretty consistent on LGBTQ+ rights.

Mike Lawler’s district voted for Kamala Harris. #NY17

USA USA USA USA

This ref is a punk