sorry there's no "but USA made it this far" upside here USA could've went out like Cabo Verde who played the game of their lives, taking Messi & Argentina to the limit instead USA went out like that video of 100 elementary school kids playing against the Japanese national team

A younger USMNT played a better Netherlands side closer and tougher than this four years ago, and did so halfway around the world. Wonder what the biggest difference was. Any ideas?

ngl was not expecting the insightful, sober USMNT commentary thread to come from my councilmember

Watching the USMNT go out like this after the way Canada and Mexico fought for their lives really sucks.

WC2026 vent post. This is not good enough. Reaching the quarters has to be the standard. Anything less is a victory of low expectations. Our boys came out in a daze that showed they weren't mentally ready for the match. Not that we lost, but how.

The only patriotic song I will tolerate today m.youtube.com/watch?v=fTS2...

Spain, Uruguay and Argentina could not beat them during regulation time. They showed courage , tenacity and talent. And they entertained the world doing it. 👏👏👏

reread the Declaration of Independence in advance of the Fourth of July, and the list of all the injuries that the British crown inflicted on the colonists straight up reads like Trump's to-do list www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The greatest singer of Cabo Verde was Cesoria Evora, and it is because she mixed with melancholy with joy. Sodade: youtu.be/ERYY8GJ-i0I?....

The Balogun red card can be overturned, if Mike Pence has the courage

fun fact: Balogun in Yoruba basically means "general" or "commander" but most literally translates to "war dad"

Kavanaugh on 2nd Amendment: Guns laws in 18th century control forever. Kavanaugh on 14th Amendment: Times change and the Constitution should too.

“If presidents are to be immune from prosecution while in office, it’s all the more important that Congress and the public have access to the information that would empower them to hold the president accountable in other ways” the if is worth CHALLENGING too but for right now? — YES

This is pretty much it.

Slaughter couldn't be clearer in its thru-the-looking-glass view that democracy dies not at the hands of limitless executive power but at the hands of (heaven forbid) “increased subservience to congressional direction.” How Congress became the least democratic branch is a trick I still can't figure.

More evidence for @adamserwer.bsky.social's thesis that the current Supreme Court hates the Reconstruction Amendments and seeks to recreate the antebellum Constitution.

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

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This guy doesn’t miss.

I think DOJ/HSI aspires to go national with Antifa threats using the MN case as a backbone. And that could be an order from Blanche. emptywheel.net/2026/06/26/t...

Another one: In January, a guy wrote an angry (but non-threatening) letter to former ICE chief Todd Lyons after the Good, Pretti killings. Last week, ICE agents tracked him down at the NYC hotel where he and his daughter were staying after returning from a vacation in Finland.

"White evangelicals are conditioned in an authoritarian environment and predisposed to obey authority, to respond favorably to claims of certainty and moral simplicity, and to crave order...Which Trump has expertly manipulated." Also, that headline!

"The Treatment of Iran’s World Cup Team Exposed the West's and FIFA's Double Standards" Iran’s football captain was asked about LGBT rights. So, why then wasn’t the U.S. team captain asked about the U.S. bombing of the girls' school in Minab, asks Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo?

This was by design of course. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

additionally, if there is ANY possible non racist motive for an explicitly racist action, Alito says you must accept it as the actual motivation. meanwhile, ANY use of race consciousness to prevent or alleviate discrimination is unconstitutional under “equal protection”

Candace is the expert on kids and social media that politicians and the media pretend Jonathan Haidt is. And here she is debunking his whole schtick.

As a Watergate historian, this might be the dumbest and worst take we’ve seen from JD Vance in a long time. And it’s also a complete misunderstanding of Nixon and Watergate.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

... That is a penalty. Consider the 10 seconds of bullshit from FOX panel, but if that was done to Kane being tackled like that. FOX taking heads would going on and on and on how the ref blew the call ...

The U.S. is the only country in the World Cup without universal healthcare. Fact Check: True. How embarrassing for us that our citizens are the only people who are so easily manipulated and controlled by the Epstein class. Thanks Putting Workers First! @puttingworkers1st.bsky.social

I wonder how many of us would be as composed as Iran has been at a World Cup where they’ve been treated badly every step of the way.

from the description in NYT, this looks a lot like transnational repression of a Colombian immigrant by the US on behalf of the far-right Colombian presidential candidate

The Trump administration’s lawless killing spree at sea continues.

This is where the tension is. The team has the black players talking about Juneteenth and the consequences of slavery on the same day that this happens.

literally just shed a tear at jozy altidore, a usmnt player whose parents are haitian immigrants, interviewing ricardo pepi in spanish. this place can be so fucking cool if we let it.

As luck would have it, Sean from New York, who used to work for a pool company, was nearby to talk about this blue stuff.

There's so much to say about this, but what is particularly striking is that the keynote speaker said absolutely nothing about using Claude to write his academic work until I intervened in the Q&A. It appears that he was not going to share this fairly important detail unless asked..

For long-suffering American fans, watching Thierry Henry and Zlatan just base on Alexis Lalas may be the best part of this World Cup. Years, years, years of long-suffering pain, washed away in glorious contempt.

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Trump's emergency plea to the DC Circuit to stop removal of his name from the Kennedy Center included this odd reference to a bylaw that had never been mentioned before in the litigation. It's looking increasingly like it was passed last week—and maybe on Thursday, the day before the petition.

Future historian department: -Front page of today's NYT reports creation of world's first trillionaire. -Lead op-ed of same NYT is about worst-ever Ebola outbreak, which *this VERY SAME trillionaire* enabled, with his "chainsaw" destruction of US public health in the world. The book writes itself

i hope media executives are taking note of the tens of thousands of people who for several hours on a friday night have stayed glued to livestreams of scaffolding being built just so they could witness his name getting knocked off a building

This is a sitting district court judge empowered to make factual findings and he can’t even tell whether that was an “attack”?

As you read about this abusive raid, remember that Georgia found that Elon Musk violated the rules on his mail-in ballot campaign in 2024 but the FBI has not raided him.

RIP David Hockney - a cat friend of the arts. David Hockney's Enigmatic Sculpture Of A Cat Auction - Artlyst artlyst.com/david-hockne...

Sorry but I'm about to make 'raving about the David Hockney exhibition in Paris' into my whole personality. An incredible booster shot of colour and energy and joy.