there is infinite money for weapons, non-educator vice chancellors of nothingness, and tech-grift corporate welfare but zero money for teachers, libraries, tuition

Phils hold on one nil after the late score from JP Crawford. Reds looked like they might have some chances in stoppage time there, and if they tied it one had to worry what might happen if it came to PKs.

🇺🇦🔥 Ukraine has likely disabled up to 40% (!) of Russia's oil refining capacity. The fuel shortage affects approximately 50 million Russians, according to the Financial Times.

Excellent thread on this:

Yes Platner's video was combative, graceless, conspiratorial, and all-but-designed to sabotage whoever it is that replaces him, but on the other hand he kept himself from literally saying IT WAS THE JOOS which must have been very hard for him.

Good to see that Platner's campaign died as it lived: without a single ounce of grace or dignity from the candidate or his staffers. What an absolute disgrace.

Colleges/universities (incl. my employer) have spent the past few years tripping over themselves to show they're at the cutting edge of adopting LLMs for anything & everything, but few to none have centered (even acknowledged) the existential threat to instruction as-we-know-it that they represent.

On the night of July 3, Russian riot police swept central Moscow near Kitay-gorod, detaining around 100 people, two-thirds of them minors. Teenagers describe being beaten and shocked with stun guns inside police vans. However, no charges were filed. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

This is a very compelling argument for Bellows.

Trump sports curse quickly approaching Ted Cruz territory.

👇🎯 My frustration at the near-total lack of loud, public collective action by university presidents is precisely because of this. The idea that we can just ride out a year or two & it will all be fine & back to business as usual is head-in-the-sand denial. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Haven’t been logged in and trying to get work done, but feel compelled to say what I’m sure has been said several dozen times on here: Everything He Touches Turns To Shit

Be the America that Ukraine thinks you are.

ah, a retweet from the sensible, not-a-gutter-racist ideologue chris rufo

This is surreal they have a live camera on him watching fox news while they show his tweets

This is 100% correct and is a symptom of a very flawed conception of “the people” that even some otherwise very smart people cannot seem to get beyond. On the one hand it is baked into our political discourse, but it almost always smuggles in Rousseauean nonsense — there is no volonté générale.

ah, looks like something from that liminal spaces subreddit

great where am I going to put *that* one

Wouldn't it be funny if they walked out of there and were suddenly like this Onion bit youtu.be/lpzVc7s-_e8?...

the provinces decline to offer tribute, the armies return in defeat, the temple of the arts has closed its doors, and the name of the Emperor is scoured from the palaces by his own magistrates. now the sun and storms turn against him. the Mandate is lost.

Obviously JT hits a HR on America Day

Gov. of Pennsylvania has the opportunity to center Philadelphia as the cradle of liberty on the 250th anniversary of the declaration and goes with this tiresome pablum instead

After Bono pushed it past The Edge of the goal on that long shot, it appears that Morocco may have at last Found What They're Looking For on the counter.

I have the sound off bc I’m theoretically trying to get work done, but is the guy who just scored the own goal the same guy who was knocked unconscious several minutes earlier but bafflingly allowed to continue playing?

Kyiv. The number of people killed in russia’s nighttime attack on has risen to 27. More than 90 people were injured. #Ukraine #Ukrainianview

every successful sports league in the world has discovered that structured and predictable gametimes function to ritualize the fan experience and maximize both viewership and the build of drama before matches what this world cup presumes is, what if they didn't

Uh well this joke seems silly now huh.

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

After snagging Lab(a)ron in the draft, Sixers add D. Wade in free agency. Multiple championships incoming.

Man both the goals were phenomenal

Yeah that was a helluva an individual effort

Im so exhausted by this pattern. Historians spend years in the archives to write detailed accounts of the past. Only for journalists, doctors, podcasters, and now cartoonists, to swoop in and get paid a lot of money to trot out the same work, "uncovering hidden histories" that are not at all hidden.

Dutch goalie is a f'cking wizard

56 Dead Dolphins Found Along Black Sea Coast as russia’s War Pushes Ecosystem Toward Collapse 🖊️ Katherina Popilnichenko united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

Announcers just realizing on the 5th replay that the guy who got taken down did an amazing job getting it to Gakpo. Actually only one of them finally realizing it. Incredible.

Look, folks, Italy not in the tournament so the closest-to-correct joke is “they're from Croatia”?

Wow.

Still pissed about this.

Feeling for him right now

The More Honorable Than It Needed To Be Match of Kansas City

How have these announcers not noted that the “some but not all 3rd place teams make it” has reintroduced the possibility of a Disgrace of Gijon scenario and that it just happens to be **Austria vs. Algeria**(!) but that until now neither team had been remotely playing that way.

Lying on national media like this should have legal & financial consequences

Love just as much that BC Place is apparently the one exception to this rule for reasons I don't even know to appreciate, pure magic from FIFA.

Easily* my favorite demented FIFA thing at the World Cup is their insistence on generic stadium names because they are so insane about sponsorships. No, Ivory Coast is not beating Curacao at “Philadelphia Stadium” that's not what it's called. (*obligatory: favorite demented thing SO FAR)

Uh oh, looks like this price is right contestant spun his racism dial so hard that it broke.

Revisiting this, since the disappointing results necessitate changes

Compare Mamdani to Massie, for example. Mamdani has made much more of an effort to connect with Jewish voters & turn off antisemites. Meanwhile Massie all but embraces antisemitic voters but he gets only a fraction of the approbation Mamdani does

This is also why the occasional Trump loss does not rebut the manifest fact that the Roberts six are partisan Republicans.