Of course they did.

Aw, poor Tillman... #WorldCup #USABEL

"Pausa de Hidratación" sure has more of a ring to it. #WorldCup

WHAT.

So I'm guessing that the Lalas fella is providing comments on Fox and I really should just stay on Telemundo, right? #WorldCup

Dang, that really wasn't offside. #WorldCup #USABEL

You know who was also credibly accused of rape (and allegedly paid off a victim)? Christiano Ronaldo. Just as a quick reminder how much people care about violence against women generally.

Catching up with the news…

Here is an interview with the amazing Bryant Simon about his new book on the history of public bathrooms, titled, "For Customers Only: Public Bathrooms and the Making of American Inequality" 🗃️ #EduSky: www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

"The strength of American democracy has always depended on the public’s ability to encounter a complete and honest account of its past, told by those trained to do that work with rigor and integrity." Statement by the @oah.org on the recent White House Report: 🗃️ #EduSky www.oah.org/advocacy-sta...

Why, guess who didn’t notice the mascara smear under her left eye until she came home and shall now look like a sad panda in her driver’s license photo that she had taken 30 minutes earlier? That’s right. 😅😭

I’m afraid that I don’t know where I have read this saying first, but it cannot be repeated often enough in both professional and personal contexts: If you suffered in your life and want other people to suffer, too, because you have “turned out alright,” you have not, in fact, turned out alright.

One of the most astonishing aspects of tales like these is that it shows, once again, what self-appointed critics of the purported “liberal bias” of college professors think that we do. And of course, I just slap a “history rooocks!!!” label on my classes and tell folks about “pro human explosion.”

JOB ALERT: Come work with me in the History Department and Africana Studies Program at Carleton! We are hiring a TT assistant professor in African history. The position is open to all geographical and thematical subfields in African history. 🗃️ #EduSky #Blackademics africanstudies.org/jobs/tenure-...

FIFA appears to be strongly committed to corruption and thus will not care, but maybe there’s a peace prize in there for Belgium?

As far as I’ve seen, people of my generation either absolutely adore or absolutely despise “Wonderwall.” (I’m, unfortunately, in the latter camp. Torture… TORTURE.) #WorldCup #England

Mate, mate - hot lemon with honey, and stop talking for 12 hours. Congrats, though 🙂! #Kane

this match is drunk

CHAOS REIGNS ALL HAIL ERIS GODDESS OF SOCCER!

WHAT. #WorldCup #MexEng

That footage just now from the stadium filled to the brim with Norwegian fans was amazing! #WorldCup

unimpressed

You are KIDDING me!!! #Haaland #WorldCup

I... do not quite understand these refs lately... #WorldCup

Thank you for the - as always - great suggestion, @theferocity.bsky.social. And oh, my heart... ❤️🐑

Cape Verde’s World Cup heroes have landed back home, greeted by saluting airport staff and hundreds of fans 🇨🇻 Today is also the 51st anniversary of the country’s independence. Have a day, Cape Verde 💙

Traditions. #IndependenceDay

Mbappé just straight up laughing at them in the final minutes was somewhat satisfying. Absolutely bananas refereeing... Oh well, allez les Bleus. #WorldCup

Sidny Lopes Cabral's goal was simply unbelievable. What an achievement, Cabo Verde 💙. #WorldCup

Cabo Verde are already absolute legends. 💙 #WorldCup

"Victoria Cruz, veteran of the Trans Rights Movement, dies at 79. She was at the Stonewall Inn on the night of its 1969 police raid, and she later became a forceful advocate for survivors of anti-trans violence." RIP, Ms. Cruz. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/n...

Happy #250th anniversary, United States! I have published an essay (in German) with the German Federal Agency for Public Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) on the 250th, African American history, and the ongoing fight for legal and social equality. 🗃️ #EduSky www.bpb.de/themen/norda...

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

When I tell you that I was a little confused for a second when my brain just skipped "Swift" as I read this headline...

High time for a baby elephant, don’t you agree?

Bob from Chicago. 💪 #Schism

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Haters will say that I have meetings and should focus on them, but, by Zeus, I am determined to take in 30 minutes of Lamine Yamal playing in the #WorldCup between 2 and 2:30 PM.

I should add that I was rather frank in this forum about gender, racism, Black Studies, and my intellectual genealogy. It was great to be in conversation with such great scholars. I also felt that given this stage in my career why not lay the cards on the table.

JOB ALERT: Come work with me in the History Department and Africana Studies Program at Carleton! We are hiring a TT assistant professor in African history. The position is open to all geographical and thematical subfields in African history. 🗃️ #EduSky #Blackademics africanstudies.org/jobs/tenure-...

Wow, that was a gorgeous second goal for the US! 💙 #WorldCup

This is how I learned that Minnesota has a Potato River. "The Crissy Lake Dam project would improve safety, reconnect more than 100 miles of fish habitat and restore much of the Pomme de Terre River." www.startribune.com/minnesota-pl...

Yoooooo...

Allez Sénégal! 🇸🇳

🙄🙄🙄 #EmpireStateBuildingIncident

Catching up briefly with the #WorldCup and Dr. Congo is in the lead?! Daaaaang!!! 🩵

I have decided to just pretend that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's concurring opinion on birthright citizenship is the official 250th anniversary speech for the United States. Happy 250th anniversary, USA 🎉! And here is part of Justice Jackson's conclusion - as the rest of this text, it is fire. 🗃️

No one has encapsulated ~this~ feeling better than Annie Lee.

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

Some people really read, e.g., Luke 2:1-20 and still decide that it makes sense to publicly state that their faith, as it is explicated in those verses, makes them “averse” to “low-wage foreigners.” Incredible (quite literally).