I was ready to roll my eyes at the idea of a half-time show at a WC final but “Dudamel conducts the Electric Mayhem” is unexpectedly fa—oh wait they’re finished ok now this is shite again

I wonder if President Trump is enjoying BTS.

An all-Muppets Super Bowl halftime show would be amazing.

Close enough. Count it

Ooh, the ref’s given a yellow against an Argentine. Is he working on a 15-minute delay?

NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /

I have loved watching the World Cup so much this year. Some much needed joy (and safe heartbreak). The best has been watching my football/soccer skeptic parents get into it. My Mom has not missed a game and might now be Mbappé’s biggest fan. Four years seems too far away. 🌎 ⚽️

argentina’s strategy of “sucking at soccer and mauling anyone with the ball for 85 minutes until messi stops walking and decides to score 3 goals” going perfectly so far

Gonna need more shots of the ref when they’re talking about these fouls for uh reasons

Can’t believe the ref gave the Fox announcers a yellow card for confusing Brad Pitt with Matt Damon smdh.

there’s my president rooting for his future home argentina

Me to my son a few minutes ago: “That ref is ripped.”

Really hope the New York Giants are scouting the Argentine players, they need some quality offensive linemen.

I’m not a Millei fan but props to him for not wanting to jinx his team and deciding to watch this game the same way he’s watched all the World Cup games. #jinxscience

dudes rock

Congrats to Argentina for getting through the ritual hand-slapping without fouling anyone

I’ll put your godson in touch with my eightysomething dad, they have a lot in common.

Well, that’s one of you.

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

i am not even hostile to using an LLM to try to fix something but this is great marketing

I am looking forward to seeing more money spent trying to bring Matt Damon home.

Troy Jackson has effectively secured the Maine Senate Democratic nomination

On FTN, @beckerdavidj.bsky.social shreds Trump's BS about election security. "Hardly a week goes by where someone in this administration doesn't threaten election officials with arrests. This week we had at least two prominent administration officials doing that. It's become almost a running joke."

Victor’s hypothesis might have some validity, but as a university administrator who teaches classes I’m not sure I have any better grip on solutions. Part of the problem is that AI is an incredibly fast-moving target.

"Under the change, responsibility for investigating cases involving federal immigration officers would likely fall to Homeland Security Investigations, an arm of ICE, effectively leaving the agency to investigate itself, according to guidance circulated among F.B.I. and ICE agents."

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

Only ICE will investigate ICE now. That doesn't seem suss at all.

Something I talked about repeatedly in 2024: 20 million people, to say nothing of 30, would be the largest forced population transfer in human history, larger any of the three post-WW2 transfers (partition of India, expulsion of Germans, partition of Palestine) or the post-WW1 Balkan cases.

Academics and columnists are two professions that have something very relevant in common: people are selected for the profession by an ability to clearly articulate things at a descriptive level, but upon arriving in the profession start getting tormented by the low efficacy of this.

The Trump family and administration's embrace of the Tate brothers and intervention on their behalf shows that whatever Donald Trump doesn't want us to know about his association with Jeffrey Epstein, the same vicious misogyny persists. The Tates are the new Epstein.

But the theme of this particular conference — a reconstruction agenda — was precisely about proposing solutions!

Thread. Rapists running a coercive sex ring AND transmitting CSAM AND inducing other men to abuse women and girls in turn. The alleged behavior is legitimately monstrous and it’s a HUGE deal that the Trump regime is undermining law enforcement to help/free them. Epstein in real time

TMI

The Odyssey is pulling $260 million this weekend, well on its way to becoming the biggest movie of the year. It has a 95%/97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Everyone loves it. Please enjoy this exchange.

This is the Odyssey we're talking about! Stop wandering!

Hegseth wants the US military to be more Spartan, which does unfortunately involve being beaten up by the Persians

I’m sorry but the only person who should be denied access to the grocery store is this person.

The World Cup ends Sunday, but the increased surveillance won't, write Ranking Digital Rights’ Tayrine dos Santos Dias and Leandro Ucciferri. Their investigation maps the companies behind the data harvesting, predictive policing, and aerial surveillance installed across 16 host cities.

www.liberalism.org/p/liberal-ne... Apropos of some of the conversations coming out of #LibCon2026

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

There was a lot to like at ISMA's conference this week. I don't want my Angry Poasting to give the impression otherwise. But I am here responding to one specific panel, whose worldview is a serious impediment to securing long term victory (with a shout out to @dandrezner.bsky.social within)

I guess I wrote gloomy today. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

The single most unethical reporter I ever dealt with- and as senator Kennedys press secretary I spent more time dealing with tabloids than just about any other flack on Capitol Hill

A news release from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Andrew Tate, 39, had been charged with seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for

I love how Trump's 2024 campaign was based on the premise that EVERYONE ELSE was just chomping at the bit to engage in a pointless, endless war in the Middle East, and only Donald Trump could save us.

BREAKING NEWS | Two U.S. service members were killed Friday in an Iranian attack in Jordan, bringing the total number of confirmed U.S. military deaths in the U.S.-Iran war to 16, U.S. officials said.

Broke some news tonight that the 30 year old federal court, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, got its first case ever and created a hastily made website. www.courtwatch.news/p/alien-terr...

Doing some deep cleaning and really how could I possibly throw this away it might come in handy!

Just saw The Odyssey and my dad energy is cranked to 11 right now. I’m gonna go home and fix some plumbing.