England - France final, winner keeps the Bayeux tapestry.

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise (flipped), by Giovanni di Paolo, 1445, 📸 by Mark Smith

Crap month for pro-Ukraine caucus tho

Date: What do you do? Me: I'm a kleptozoologist Date: Isn't it cryptozoologist? Me, stuffing my pockets with lobsters from the tank: that's a common misconception

Hang out with Block Club at Dorothy’s Silent Book Club on Sunday. 📍 2500 W. Chicago Ave. ⏰ 6-11 p.m. Sunday More info: blockclubchi.co/4fqmqr3

Isn’t Belgium really 2 countries so it should be best of 3 or something?

I enjoyed -- or at least greatly appreciated -- this New Yorker look back at Habermas. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... I mean I definitely enjoyed it, I just wish I had more clarity about how we move forward out of this modern abyss we've dug.

The light and color palette of this make it look almost exactly like a century old watercolor postcard.

I can't believe people are openly rooting for england considering He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

By request: this is the TV test pattern stained-glass window that’s providing the colours (I made it at a workshop I took at Corning last summer to learn how to build using lead channel).

I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off

Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon, 2006

i think there are a lot of people who would find it very hard to believe that the field of economics could produce this paper. and yet! Acemoglu is like the mainstreamest and most successful economist working today. some priors could use an update. www.nber.org/papers/w35336

Lordy that’s some smoke.

Same vibes

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

I published a book on American democracy almost a year ago now. This is the conclusion.

Make America Great Again — Reopen the Borders And let any soul become a citizen after 5 years of residency en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...

Celebrating America the right way (with a huge mustard stain).

I have mixed feelings today, but am going to try to focus on the America and Americans I want to celebrate. Those that have nudged us towards or shown us the ideals of what we could be as a nation. Folks like Studs Terkel, Jane Addams, and so many more. Celebrating and taking care of us.

It’s in this moment that we need to remember the Adamsian virtue of being intransigent moralists www.liberalcurrents.com/now-is-not-t...

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.

Golazo from Sidny Lopes Cabral, level again

Incredibly sad. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/w...

A nation of immigrants. This interactive map lets you zoom in by census track on which countries of origin are most prominent where. Super cool. Happy 4th. Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

also

La Tulipe - built in ealy 1970s. r/brutalism

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

The Hideout's "Day In The Country" is this Sunday, and the poster is just perfect www.hideoutchicago.com/shows/a-day-...

“Centrist”

Thank you for the idea. I’m quite pleased with this, even though my wife’s instinctive question was “Does he blink?”

i have eaten the shrimp that was at the culvers' and which you were probably saving for the rich forgive me they were delicious so crispy and so opulent

The amount of human suffering, injury, and illness that has been avoided by the advent of hormonal contraception is staggering; the amount of human potential, talent, and innovation that it has unleashed should make you weep with gratitude.

every stupid screwup in this admin is either 30 Rock-coded, Veep-coded, Curb Your Enthusiasm-coded or Always Sunny-coded. Algaegate is all four at once. Very powerful.

PLANNING.BMF

Keir Starmer Resigns Amid ‘Not Being Very Good Prime Minister’ Scandal

Remember when Scarlett Johansson came out with an album almost entirely of Tom Waits covers? Is this what aging is gonna keep being like, just remembering shit?

Elston bike lane does not get enough credit!! It goes by some car dealerships but was 95% protected or buffered for this trip! Shameless divvy plug, that's a FREE 43 minute e-bike

Black Watch Series III, by Gene Davis, 1974

Looking for that classic supper club vibe? These spots around Milwaukee serve up steaks, fish fries and plenty of nostalgia:

me, walking into the British museum

Piping plover nest and egg in New Hampshire. #pipingplover #birdsky

1/5 Corner Fish Bar, south London (2022) Photo: © Nico Froehlich / British Culture Archive

Must feel so amazing right now to be a Vietnamese man in NYC named Nicks Nguyen and hearing the whole city chant your name

Imagine if/when they take his name off the building in Chicago

Honestly @theonion.com should be publicly funded—it does so much for the common good.

This map is absolutely fascinating

Rainbow lightning in Springfield (credit to my sister)