Elon Musk keeps killing people but remember, he is very rich.

Cape Verde score their first World Cup goal ever and it’s a 30 yard bomb!

I think it would be a neat exercise to draft an Actual Constitution explaining how things actually work to students that they can compare to the formal Constitution. The president declares war unilaterally, it takes 60 votes for the Senate to approve most bills, the debt ceiling. Etc. The basics.

I know Doku was out, but Ceci n'est pas la même équipe that absolutely throttled the USMNT six weeks ago

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If Trump went within eyeshot of the Reflecting Pool, there must be media pool notice of that fact and photographic evidence of it, right? Right?

Fathers’ Day memories. My dad, Bernie Copelovitch, on his 35th birthday, 1974, rocking the greatest shirt in the history of shirts. Happy Fathers’ Day to the best man I know & the master of high fashion & high hairlines.

A question that has answered itself since January 2025, if not January 2017.

Fathers’ Day memories. My paternal grandfather, Joseph Copelovitch z”l, the King of the Montreal Schmatte Business & always the best dressed man in town, with my Nanny, Molly Joselewitz Copelovitch z”l, on their wedding day c.1929.

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"the left has ceded all notions of patriotism to the right" is a real [citation needed] claim

It’s not just that he obviously doesn’t belong with Henry, Zlatan, & other historical greats, or with the great USWNT players like Lloyd who are now commentators. It’s that he has this gig when the Black men on past USMNTs (Howard, Edu, Beasley) are unquestionably better than him at this, too.

🔥"Did Lalas enjoy an elite playing career? No. But does he do the background reading that could compensate for his relative lack of standing in a conversation with titans like Henry & Zlatan? Also no. But is he charming or funny or charismatic or otherwise magnetic on screen? Eh, no." Whew!

It remains hilarious that Republicans keep insisting Trump is a master dealmaker when he's never really had any success at all at making deals as president. Not just Iran, either. He's sitting on majorities in both Houses of Congress but hasn't accomplished anything there. He's an utter failure.

Unfortunately, esp in FPTP system, the skills required for campaigning and governing are only tangentially related

On Earth-2, 🇬🇧 simply elected Ed Miliband & 🇺🇸 simply elected Hillary Clinton, despite their lackluster political skills, & the Anglo-American world is so much more stable & prosperous after a decade of boringly competent center-left policies & governance. We could have had reasonably nice things.

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🧵👇🎯 Look, 🇬🇧 should do what it wants, but the idea that growth reforms & reversing two decades of needless austerity & bad public investment choices is somehow mutually exclusive of or a substitute for reversing the worst economic & geopolitical own goal this side of electing Donald Trump is silly.

The terminology I use for this position is “left liberal materialism”: what matters is equality before the law, a robust public sector tasked with supporting human flourishing, and the rejection of romantic identitarianism in favor of material progress, individual freedoms, and humanistic values

Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces had a very busy night that resulted in many kabooms in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories: • Oil depot of the oil loading terminal,Kerch,Crimea • Radar station "Kasta-2E2",Kurortne,Crimea • Radar station "Nebo-U",Kerch,Crimea

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Maybe someone can tell leaders at my alma mater, so they can edit or retract their shoddy & misleading report on declining trust in universities:

Buried lede here on trust in <checks notes> universities relative to <checks notes again> every other societal institution. Seems like a problem for The Narrative™️ that cannot fail (it can only be failed).

Seems like a great time to be gutting the social sciences & humanities & telling kids constantly through both implicit messaging & explicit funding priorities that the only worthwhile things to study in school & college are business, computer science/AI, & STEM subjects 🧐🤔

Again, we simply aren’t having the same National Conversation™️ about gas prices, inflation, & the Least Responsible Economic Policy in 40 Years that we were having when Joe Biden was POTUS amidst a raging global pandemic. Like, not even remotely close, even though it's all orders of magnitude worse.

Say what you will about the #BrexitShambles & I have. But the great thing about parliamentary systems is that you can replace the chief executive w/o just waiting until the next election or depending on toothless extraordinary measures that have never been successfully used in 250 years of politics.

👇🎯 This, plus 50 years of systematic public underinvestment in all of the things that would have compensated the distributional & geographical losers from deindustrialization, justified (at least in 🇺🇸) by faux deficit hawkery & Ronald Reagan’s shabby talking points about government as the problem.

Happy Father's Day 🖤

The richest man in the world dismantled USAID which has led to an Ebola outbreak and developed a technology that identified a girls school to bomb.

yeah unfortunately the point at which security agents started manufacturing crimes to so they could arrest people to support the delusions of a single personalist ruler was the point at which the story stopped being silly heavy-handed metaphor and started being of real concern

Don’t. Print. Lies (about higher education). In. The. (Higher education) Newspapers (from people who haven’t worked in higher education in two decades).

Have you considered finding opinions about college teaching from someone who's actually been in a classroom at some time since the Bush administration?

The U.S. has absolutely no right to impose tolls for transiting the Strait of Hormuz. It’s actually an act of war and/or piracy against the entire world.

Curaçao's goalkeeper, who just set the World Cup record for saves in a 99 minute game (15!), plays for Miami… in USL. He plays MINOR LEAGUE AMERICAN SOCCER. And he just stood on his head to get Curaçao their first World Cup point. The beautiful game, indeed.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains.

this is disgustingly antisemitic and a direct endorsement of antisemitic fascist propaganda. it's disgusting.

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

A classic. I mean, stop it. I never wanted to move to <Brooklyn>. My comments are always questions. And high-top Chucks absolutely hurt, both feet and back, even when I’m wearing Darn Tough socks. As for word counts and artisanal whiskey, get off my damn lawn 🧐😂

Again, I guess this wasn't news earlier because Haberman & Swan needed to make money publishing books instead of doing their jobs. Congrats again, too, to the elites who told us this man was a credible Treasury Secretary because it’s a Big Club & he had the right degrees & went to the right parties

Stein’s Law remains undefeated 🇬🇧

EPSS 2026: That's a wrap! 🎊 Thanks to all presenters, discussants, chairs, section chairs, volunteers, & participants for making this conference such a success. Safe travels, and see you at EPSS 2027 in Copenhagen!

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Nmecha’s pass is perfect, too

Textbook case of "no you do not get to say 'Zionist parasites control America' and pretend you aren't an anti-Semite."

Undav!!!! 🇩🇪

biggest takeaway from this tournament has to be, if you still hate immigrants you're a huge loser

The problem isn't that the Dem fPOTUSs are appearing with GWB. The problem is that the 4 of them aren't loudly & collectively calling for Trump's resignation or removal & condemning the fascism. Bush was awful but he wasn't a fascist. The national front must be a big tent, & these guys need to lead.

The first rule of the US making a deep run at the World Cup is that we do not talk about the US making a deep run at the World Cup.