Ecuador has seemed lackluster on set pieces. Both creating chances when they take them, and in allowing too many chances on defense.

FUCKING EGG CARTEL

Morocco’s goalkeeper earned that win. Fantastic save to carry the PK shootout.

sir, a second blood spurt has been spilled on the field

Fun fact for this first half of Brazil vs Japan (🇧🇷 0- 1 🇯🇵 @ 40mins of play so far) is São Paulo is home to the single largest Japanese diaspora in any city #WorldCup en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanes...

When a Jew wins a landslide election in the most Jewish city in the United States, where massive numbers of Jews turned out to reject a terrorist org that lobbies for genocide:

Shot map Ecuador v Curacao is crazy for this #WorldCup match. Heroic work from Curacao keeper Room!

See the data and full interactive visualizations at www.nytimes.lgbt

Jalen Brunson: “You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.” A good mantra for fighting fascism too.

My mayor Muslim My Currents Jewish My pope hates AI KNICKS IN FIVE

I am starting to wonder if shutting down a chunk of midtown and forcing Knicks fans to spend an hour-plus waiting outside so a widely loathed bigot could sit in a weird glass box and stare grimly into middle distance and then fall asleep might have had an effect on the energy in the building

Sitting at a table with half Spurs fans and half Knicks fans in a Washington DC sports bar. The great unifier thing watching this game is booing the convicted felon Donald Trump every time his face shows on the TVs

Your outtie is a Knicks fan Just saw him in the crowd on NBA/ABC broadcast lol

The 2026 Recharging Reform Judaism conference adopted a resolution to bar anti-Zionists from ordination at Hebrew Union College. Andrew Rehfeld, HUC-JIR's president compared this to Jewish McCarthyism.

“On the frying pan of love, she has fricasseed my heart” has got to me one of my favorite #muppet lines. It’s Rowlf the Dog on the Jimmy Dean show. youtu.be/YOJTDGv-voM?...

this is incredible

Some of my patients are conspiratorial thinkers. They’re not always on the mark. However moments like this remind me that there really is a conspiracy: it’s the cruelty of unregulated capitalism

What do you mean Politico’s playbook email today is “The new forever war - Presented by L’Oréal Group”

Where We Live Is Our Country

Happy anniversary of orcas sinking the “Albert Cognac” yacht

How many episodes of @fivefourpod.bsky.social will John Roberts have to listen to before he admits being a Supreme Court Justice is actually a political job?

A very merry fuck Bezos tonight and every night to one and all 💫

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

“Great ad copy! The record player as orgasmatron!” -David Byrne, How Music Works page 88

"But why would you refer to these Jewish villages as colonies?" Because... that's how they described them. It's really not so complicated.

Der Spekter is proud to announce pre-orders for our 2nd Anniversary issue are open! This issue has 44 full color pages of historical translations, contemporary argument, & commentary, as well as original art made just for this special union-printed publication. Pre-order yours at the link below!

It's time for our annual Tax Day tradition! Presenting the Merrill Lunch Hungerdunger McCormack All Accountant Marching Society!

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

Power to the people always ✊ Happy Passover

REPORTER: Can you tell me, why do we eat matzah on Passover? OSCAR THE GROUCH: Well, if you must know, nosy, it's because it's flat, like the way I sing! Happy Passover, Muppet fans!

i'm glad i'm not a lawyer so i don't have to pretend banning child torture and speech are in any way related

I feel genuinely flabbergasted by the defiantly anti-journalistic approach of NYT Comms here. They're saying the NYT's reporting on the stance of the American Medical Association is correct, despite the American Medical Association saying their stance is different from what NYT reported.

Catching up on a bunch of missed podcasts and my jaw hit the floor “This week we asked the question, how did the soundtrack from an Italian movie about Swedish lesbian nightclubs become a Muppet standard? How did it build the Muppet brand? And how did it all go so terribly wrong?” @toughpigs.com

It's Purim! Our hearts are heavy, but we're seeking joy and laughter. Need a minute to laugh at the absurdity of it all? truah.org/purim2026

Today is anniversary of the 1941 February Strike against the Deportation of Dutch Jews www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...

Feliz Cumpleaños! Happy birthday to Aurora Levins Morales!!

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

Delay is an understatement! This is apparently from an automobile accident, @wmata.com are there more details as to what went down today on Georgia Ave?

And they spread measles?! www.detroitnews.com/story/news/n...

#beardedtrumpetplayer tonight’s office @ DC9, such a great band w/ Nadie Nadia & great staff at this venue

I meant what I said. Everyday I speak with patients whose lives were already hanging together by a thread. DC Council’s drastic cuts to safety net programs is like using a sledgehammer to solve the District’s medical coverage crisis, when what they needed was a needle and some empathy.

The irony of ICE leading to worse ice on DMV roadways and sidewalks www.wusa9.com/article/news...

At the beginning of the holocaust, I had 25 grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents living under Nazi occupation. 16 were killed, only 9 survived. Including 3 grandparents I grew up with. In their memories, on this #HolocaustRemembranceDay: NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE!

Family of tourists at DC’s Union Station in matching navy blue beanies. Thought it was a kinda cute coordinated winter accessory before the DC area gets blanketed in snow over the weekend. Got closer and realized they were the forced-birth activists in March for Life hats 😵‍💫

On this day in 1958, the Lumbees drove the Klan from their land at The Battle of Hayes Pond 🪶 ✊ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

Wonderful conversation with my fellow Dan, Dan Kahn! And great shout outs to my other delicious colleagues Michael Winograd, Ira Temple, and the @radiantothers.bsky.social podcast 😁

Daniel Kahn spoke with me about his new record Umru and why he sings in Yiddish. Read @derspekter.bsky.social and subscribe to their newsletter 📨 www.derspekter.org/daniel-kahn-...

The synchronized swimming segment in The Great Muppet Caper is just another reason the muppets are one of the best things to happen in the history of show business