The senior dog is finally eating, and it’s not an overstatement to say it’s the best part of my day. Life’s been a lot of lemons lately.

The VAR official who disallowed the Egypt goal is the same one who missed the cable interference on the England goal. I think that maybe this guy should be unemployed.

A thing about the World Cup is many of the players people love to hate are, tragically, absolutely fucking brilliant footballers

Dude took a sad first half and made it better.

One quarter in and I am tied for the lead in shots in England-Norway.

I often have less than a month of prep for my courses each semester, and I always have multiple preps. I make notes throughout the semester, but trying to stay ahead of AI is an arduous task.

Calling Kevin De Bruyne the “greatest ever Man City player” in a match against Spain is fighting words.

Have you ever heard the phrase, “he’s still got his confirmation money,” or is that my father’s witticism?

This is my life.

He’s going to demand NATO give him Norway.

Someone please explain how he’s underwater with every demographic group, but has 83% approval among Republicans. How few are the Republicans?

It works for Provincetown.

Egypt's Coach Hossam Hassan couldn't control himself: "I will say what's on my mind regardless of the consequence, this was clearly a rigged match and the whole world saw it" "And I want to say one more thing, if they want them [Argentina] to win so bad, why call everyone to come and participate?"

Zlatan Ibrahimović: "I don't understand how Argentina always gets favoured by FIFA, they clearly disallowed a legal goal of Egypt and they gave Argentina 8 Penalties in the last 12 World Cup games, I don't understand why the other countries are letting it happen" #worldcup

Once again, I am just a small-town international relations professor, standing here, begging our media & our Congress to take our most important signed, ratified international treaty seriously & threats by the One Special Boy to violate it as the presidency-ending scandal that it should have been.

I’m a simple country historian, but if I had been as laughably wrong about Trump’s fascism in the run-up to the 2024 election as Haselby, Steinmetz-Jenkins, Robin, Moyn, et. al., I would simply delete my accounts, log off, & leave the historians who got it right alone for a decade or two

I’m going to need to see a picture of Mitch McConnell with today’s newspaper if Republicans want me to believe he’s alive.

Someone introduce him to the Manchester clubs…

Guy in the background was watching USMNT on his phone.

It’s going to take a lot of lemons to cleanse that Trump stink.

Mitch McConnell’s close.

Mauricio needs some lemons.

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

while we're at it, everyone that felt it was necessary to struggle session the role of Human Resources because god forbid you just accept misogyny on its face can sit with it for a while

Man got Chotiner’d without even agreeing to an interview. Astounding

I don’t think there’s much overlap in the groups, but my evidence is anecdotal. Americans who hate Trump hate his fat ass infringing on this (and everything else he’s done in this WC), and MAGA thinks it’s great. “It wasn’t a red” is more bipartisan (and wrong - it was a red). What have you seen?

Hand to God, I don’t think this is true for many football fans… or, rather, hand of God…

The only just outcome is to sit Balogun and slot him in as tonight’s starting pitcher for the New York Mets in Atlanta

The worst part of this whole thing is Trump will absolutely take credit for any success the USMNT has from this point forward. And he's gonna talk about it all the time. If they somehow won he'd literally say he is the reason that it happened. He'd call himself the World Cup President

people need to go to jail over this, its the only thing the democratic party should be saying right now. all of them, in unison, no matter the question or topic, needs to be saying “insider trading is against the law”

Proper journalism from the BBC here

Trump’s going to claim this as another peace he negotiated.

Alisson would be my choice for keeper in a Soccer Space Jam movie. Dude is not bothered by anything.

Starting to think FIFA might be corrupt. Not Trump, though; he’s a FIFA Peace Prize winner.

I cannot imagine thinking I am in charge of how another person feels, including when and how much. That’s some narcissistic nonsense.

He must be upset. Someone please get him a nice bowl of cherries and a big glass of milk to calm him before he makes his speech.

We should make it a thing to burn Confederate flags on July 4

You are right. All of us woke libs paid the witches who got you know who to use their ABORTION INFUSED POWERS to pray for huge storms in DC, it is DEI powered queer magic, if you get drenched on the National Mall you'll turn into socialist trans furries within the hour, run for your lives!

The first scene I saw of JAWS (when I was 6 yo) was Quint’s death. It did scare the bejaysus out of me.

The Roots, Philly, and the Fourth of July 🎇🎆

Happy Independence Day, from the god Jack Handey.

Remember boys, water is for weaklings. Keep covered and carry on.

Oh, the Trump Administration is attacking communists and socialists? This is surprising? Are people still unaware of what fascism is?

Another good day to read Langston Hughes (Excerpt from "Let America Be America Again")

"I went with the multitude into King's Street to hear the proclamation for independence read and proclaimed. When Col. Crafts read from the balcony of the State House the Proclamation, great attention was given to every word. Thus ends royal authority in this State, and the people shall say Amen."

sorry, we're deciding this one by goals per capita

Not now, Taylor. We’re watching Cape Verde.

The main thing I am learning about watching an Argentina game with a bunch of Colombian fans is that I’m not hating my enemies enough