Big and very shallow = very, very bad.

And PAGER is up. Very likely more than 1,000 dead from this earthquake and likely in the 10,000 range. Damage estimates in the $10+ billion range, 2% to 20% of Venezuela's GDP. Shit.

This is Richard. He's sometimes accused of not being a real dog because of his weird paws and inability to bark. Thinks his pack would say otherwise. 12/10 for all (IG: richardandtheguardians)

literally watergate

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

I stole this from the Worldcup subreddit because it makes a very good point.

Getting my final 3rd dose in August even as an adult. If you don't remember getting it you absolutely have not, they've increased the age range hugely since you were in school.

L to R: Chris Richards: biracial kid from Alabama who speaks about black history and has tattoos of MLK, Ali, and Obama Sergiño Dest: Dutch-Surinamese, emigrated to Brooklyn as a kid, naturalized Fola Balogun: born in Brooklyn to vacationing parents, raised in UK but CHOOSES to play for USA

Alex Freeman isn't the first in his family to score in Seattle — his father, Antonio, caught a pair of touchdowns against the Seahawks in the Kingdome on Sept. 29, 1996 🏈⚽️

VEGEMITE FREE ZONE

More 10-year-olds say they want puppies than parents do. What's behind the divide?

When people read about this era in 200 years they're going to be convinced most of it was an allegory and not real

the business is called what a what now sorry

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

me at kickoff of every world cup game: oh this is nice to put on in the background, maybe the team with cool jerseys will win me 90 minutes later, literally every time:

Treaty of Versailles you say. What, Munich wasn’t available?

When Trump went to war with Iran, I watched every speech anyone in the administration gave and made a chart of every reason given for going to war "Eliminate ballistic capability" was the #1 reason given: more even than preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon

Yeesh. @punchbowlnews.bsky.social punchbowl.news/pricing/

every time I try to revel in the World Cup I get smashed in the face with a reminder of all the shitty ways the administration has tried to ruin it

A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears. www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/t...

Yelling words of encouragement, as one would for a golden retriever, for Politico to cross the threshold of understanding.

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

im starting to think the deal where both sides think theyre fullfilling their wildest dreams without making a single concession may fall apart

They warned me that if I voted for Kamala Harris we’d get a new deal with the Iranian regime worse than the JCPOA. I voted for Kamala, and they were right.

fwiw Iran also agrees that the Strait of Hormuz should stay toll-free, which is why they are planning on selling services to ships passing through rather than charging a toll, because charging a toll would be against international law.

congrats to everyone except james dolan

A highlight of the Kennedy Center "watch party" last night was hanging out with @chrisgeidner.bsky.social, whom I even dragged on to The Bulwark's livestream for a while. His new Law Dork writeup is more than just legal reporting—it's vibe-capturing and even inspirational. Read through the end:

Air to Ground Message: NBA SCORE AND QTR/TIME PLS THANKS Area: Sioux Falls, SD, USA Type: Airbus A321neo A: #af701da9462 F: #fa437117ff4

Iran has promised it would never build a nuclear weapon legally, politically and religiously (fatwa from SL) for at least 60 years. Trump is buying the same thing Iran has sold thousands of time. He is really bad at this.

a worker on the scaffolding turns around and a spotlight finds him. it's lin-manuel miranda! he begins to rap about john f kennedy. we've been had

Pros: Best US performance in a World Cup match in my lifetime, (assuming Pulisic is OK) nobody got hurt, system looked great, probably could have scored six Cons: this is me

A constant frustration in analysis is people rarely answer the question you asked, let alone the question *you* think you are asking. Rather, they answer the question *they* think you are asking, which might be neither of those

This is a very smart move from the DC Circuit because DOJ would now have to ask SCOTUS for a stay with a request for a stay pending appeal still pending at the DC Circuit. It would be an absurdly embarrassing filing from DOJ, and SCOTUS would look like the weakest body ever if they granted it.

The Texas GOP just brought an elephant into the convention hall and it apparently pissed all over the place

These are the kinds of changes that will be harder to reverse

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Met today with another former State Department colleague who is now heading towards the exit at Foggy Bottom. The loss/purging of incredible human capital from the USG is one more way the administration is attacking the pillars of American power.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

This is in fact how I want my orthopedic surgeon to be dancing. 10/10 inspires confidence

Super Typhoon Sinlaku is now peaking at Category 5 strength and is likely to make landfall on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands in about 36 hours. The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is a US territory. They're going to need all the help they can get after this storm.

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

They put Michael Scott in charge of the FBI.

what was the name of the guy Reagan armed in Afghanistan again

Looking, again, for a steelman view of this. Is there ANY plausible argument that we didn’t just kill a bunch of people to no purpose and hand a giant geopolitical victory to an extremist regime after making it more entrenched and more extreme?

Can’t wait for the book in 18 months that tells of how “gravely concerned” members of the cabinet and congress were today.

Trump and the official White House rapid response account are saying that CNN is broadcasting a fraudulent statement by the Islamic Republic but it’s not. CNN is broadcasting an official regime statement that humiliates Trump. The statement is not fraudulent, it’s authentic.

Anyone watching that speech has no idea whether Trump is escalating or deescalating the war with Iran. But to be fair, neither does he so🤷‍♂️.