England is more talented at every position, but this is the first Mexico squad in years where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. England is also finding out why Concacaf is so difficult. It’s really hard to play against Concacaf teams at home, and they will challenge you in every facet.

All these things can be true: 1) The U.S. gov (esp. Trump) intervening is and looks bad. 2) FIFA has a history of corruption and selectively applying rules. 3) Lack of transparency makes FIFA look worse. 4) Balogun’s red was given due to the ref misapplying VAR rules and should have been overturned.

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/178182...

Secrecy surrounding executions in Florida has left victims’ families, prisoners and lawyers searching for clues about the governor’s selection process. “He could be deciding who is next to die by throwing darts at a list of names,” one lawyer said. with @nytimes.com

I wish loss to the British in all ways every day and especially today.

An IDF soldier throws a stun grenade into a vehicle carrying several Palestinian young men after stopping it in the Qalandiya refugee camp www.reddit.com/r/policebrut...

AI isn't 'inevitable'. Banning and resisting it isn't 'going against the tide'. We can reject this narrative and determine our own future. But it will be a fight, and it will take greater tech literacy. Which tools are bad and which are not? Who are the bad actors? Which politicians are fighting?

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

A detainee at Texas’ Camp East Montana immigration detention facility attempted to kill himself. In notes, staff dismissed the incident as a “suicidal gesture made to force security staff to release him” from isolation. with @texastribune.org

It’s 43 minutes past midnight. This is downtown Oslo.

This is specifically in regards to the Trump admin’s effort to redefine “public service” for loan forgiveness purpose, where they wanted to put in place new rules that would let them exclude people working at a bunch of liberal orgs (their official justification was paper thin).

You should never expect a young man to refuse to play in the most important match he might ever get the chance to play in, because of the actions of a man he has never met _who has spent the last year and a half fighting to eliminate the thing that made him a US citizen._

This is NOT what the FIFA World Cup is about. The FIFA World Cup is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

Centrists had ten years of The Most Important Election Of Our Lifetime to take decisive action to save us from fascist implosion and at every turn you insisted you couldn’t do anything—yet. Manipulating the anxiety of our need and fear to collect reluctant Lesser Evil votes. People are done.

How could we not also include banning Tik Tok and teenager's social media access? This will absolutely get us the youth vote.

Yeah this is the thing we easily forget. The U.S., even fully blue, is still very rightwing. Dem socs here are centrists anywhere else. The fear of communists and anarchists here is a fear of basic liberalism. Collectivism isn’t radical! bsky.app/profile/aufe...

It’s super funny that *now*—after dem socs have been dominating across the board—is when centrists go “Should we… do something?” lmao completely unserious political ideology. Good riddance!

Cackling

actually caring about anything is an example of "luxury beliefs" held by white baristas (barista being a job notorious for its luxury) what the base really wants is: nothing

We have the chance to make history in Wisconsin by electing State Rep @francescahong.bsky.social to Governor Fran is a working families candidate, 100% people funded, condemns Israel’s genocide in Gaza, & demands abolishing ICE. Give her a follow, donate to her, & if you’re in WI then vote for her!

I see that Lis Smith helped run another person's campaign into the ground. I have no doubt she'll be snatched up by Gavin Newsome which is very encouraging.

A reminder that Michigan AG Dana Nessel indicted 8 students on trumped up charges for the crime of being opposed to Israeli apartheid and genocide, then she, Jake Tapper, and Dana Bash *made up* a quote from Rashida Tlaib criticizing this to call her an antisemite, and then the case got dismissed.

I really do enjoy a good England faceplant. Can Mexico give an ole academic something to cheer about during these tough times?

Israel recently damaged Lebanon’s vital Qaraoun Dam, raising fears of a structural failure. Experts say the attack reflects Israel’s long-standing ambition to control Lebanon’s water — and mirrors the water apartheid it imposes on Palestinians. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/how-...

Centrist Democrats: "Nothing can be done except for more tax cuts. Also we love the police, the military and some wars. Also we will say 'kitchen table issues' twice a day. Vote for us."

Gov. Beshear should demand proof of life. If his state has lost a senator, its people deserve to know and deserve a replacement. The seat doesn‘t belong to the Republican Party.

Republicans may be running out the clock on disclosing whether McConnell is even alive, purely so a filing deadline slides past and Thomas Massie can't grab the seat. A man's actual mortality reduced to a procedural loophole for gatekeeping power.

Since 2021, 82 Flock contracts have been canceled across 28 US states — nearly half of them during this year alone.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

LolSob. But also just Lol.

I started driving down to DC (I live in the ‘burbs) the moment I heard PF was there. But yeah, they were gone before I could even get on the Metro. I do know some locals clowned them and tried to ruin their photo op.

yeah this is PF's MO. they show up unannounced, do the dull fascist equivalent of a flash mob and then bail. coward shit. if they stuck around long enough they'd be eating concrete faster than you can say 51st state.

I will uplift the good folks at Free DC who can always use more people and resources: freedcproject.org

In other "excellent news from religious bodies", the US Presbyterian General Assembly has formally voted to start the process to (correctly) declare white Christian nationalism a theological error incompatible with the teachings of Jesus: pres-outlook.org/2026/07/pcus...

A. People in DC did not know those fascists were planning to march. B. They marched for 15 minutes and then turned tail. C. People in DC would have been out there had they known they would be there. D. Do people know how people in DC (who actually live in the city) roll?

By far the best story of the tournament. Beautiful.

You can really see whether someone does or doesn’t want the change they claim they do just off their inability to Lock In on the oppressors because they’re too busy pettily beefing down at the uprisers.

"Perjury is the native tongue of law enforcement"- Gore Vidal www.pennlive.com/crime/2026/0...

The people who have tried through hook and crook to transform this country into a real multi-racial democracy are worth uplifting.

I don't want to hear politicians running on "we need to see each other as neighbors again" bullshit. No I want you to run on expanding the commons and offering actual SPACES in communities where people can gather across differences. That means no rhetoric but ACTUAL $$$ invested.

the people that built their heaven on your land are telling you yours is in the sky - Nina Simone

I’ve been thinking about the America I’m proud of and that I want to celebrate tomorrow, and it’s things like hip-hop and blue jeans and sending a man to the moon and this.

Mind you these are the same people who told you “wokeness went too far” and now they’re passionate and adamant defenders of Elon’s white supremacy generator

ICE must provide bond hearings within 90 days to detainees awaiting removal decision, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals says ‘The Constitution has not changed,’ said the conservative court in a decision that could change the fate of hundreds held in Mississippi mississippitoday.org/2026/07/03/i...

We're constantly told that women can never compete with men and yet Kelsey Pfendler is about to set the record for the fastest solo row from California to Hawaii, beating the men's record by a full week. What an incredible feat of athleticism, endurance, and grit.

new metaphor just dropped

ICE Kept Arresting Immigrants at Manhattan Courts After Judges Said Stop, New Filing Says Legal groups accuse immigration enforcement of operating outside the law by maintaining courthouse arrests despite explicit regional and national judicial blocks. www.latintimes.com/ice-kept-arr...

A Christian teacher from Iran taught Houston preschoolers for years. Now she's in ICE detention www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...