FFS - Every bit as trenchant and insightful as you would imagine with the following statement at it's end. "This article was generated with the support of AI and reviewed by an editor. For more information see our T&C."

Meanwhile the only viable solution to restoring shipping in the Strait of Hormuz remains a negotiated settlement – a prospect made even more difficult by the risk of further escalation of the renewed military conflict.

And he’s very much not alone. I would sooner crawl through cut glass than support the DSA’s positions, but if holding hands with them and singing “The International” is how I can help stop MAGA, I’ll break out some Billy Bragg records and start practicing.

Today I will be supporting the country where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.. England over Argentina. C'mon lads!

The ICC indicted Bibi in 2024 for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Gaza war, including the use of starvation as a method of warfare, murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts

It's only illegitimate when it comes for you.. “Rubio is dressing up his quest for impunity for American war crimes under the label of national sovereignty, which ignores the sovereign right of other nations to invoke the ICC for crimes committed on their territory.”

Bonne Fête Nationale mes amis en France In honor of which I will be supporting France over Spain in today's World Cup Semi-final. Bonne chance, les Bleus..

Also, primaries are a shitty way to select candidates. “The elevation of small donors, in effect, may address one type of bias (the outsized influence of the wealthy) but neglect or worsen another type of bias (the growing influence of the most extreme voters), which is no less problematic.”

One of my favorite actors has left the stage.. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

My daughter's cat - Fuckin' Buckets. (Real name Fluffy)

I feel ya, Carl..

Russian mobile fire group training goes wrong while using a YakB-12.7 rotary machine gun originally built for Mi-24 helicopters.

Sportsmanship.....

This is a familiar pattern to anyone who has watched Washington’s post-9/11 wars unfold: the application of force against a state actor produces not the intended capitulation but a scattering of the threat into forms harder to deter and easier to escalate.

“There’s a petulance and a vindictiveness that is endemic in these people,” he said. “It’s reminiscent of the anti-communist paranoia of the McCarthy era. It’s no different.”

Ducks.. Cheap imports of Chinese poultry The European Commission launched an investigation on Thursday into Chinese Peking duck after several EU producers complained of unfairly low prices harming their industry.

I absolutely love this guy.

I do not think dude is in a position to dictate terms.. Go home, Graham, you're done. "[Platner] said he would officially file to withdraw from the race once he's assured his replacement in the race against Republican Susan Collins is selected in a 'transparent and democratic' way."

EGAN-JONES: “.. when the divergence between capital and labor becomes politically intolerable, policy turns toward redistribution and toward the regulation of capital. .. “.. it is that adjustment for which investors would do well to prepare now.”

World Cup Quarter-final picks 1 - France over Morocco 2- Spain over Belgium 3 - Norway over England [It hurts me to say it] 4 - Argentina over Switzerland

These are the people who stand on the beach watching as a tsunami bears down on them..

Thank you, China for pointing this out. The report in Naval & Merchant Ships pointed to fires, electrical failures and propulsion issues on America’s most advanced warships in recent months.

Vote Binface, Clacton!

I can dream, can't I?

Bombing Iran into submission didn’t work the first seven times, but doing it an eighth time with fewer bombs surely will.

Backing this push are Wall Street firms, which want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and America’s largest employers, who want to avoid class-action lawsuits from their employees.

"The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that 'it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.'" www.texastribune.org/2026/07/07/k...

There's a long way to go but this is encouraging.

The tit-tot-tat continues..

Just when FIFA and Gianni Infantino looked ready to be crowned the most corrupt, despicable sports organization in the world, the IOC steps up and says "hold my vodka."

May this someday be what greets Fox News viewers

Back in the 80s I was extremely active in postal affairs - rate cases and the like. The feckless a-holes in our government are going to eventually succeed in privatizing the USPS..

The federal government is rewriting its rules governing ranching on public lands to increase the number of cattle, sheep and other livestock grazing on 155 million acres in the West, an area twice the size of New Mexico.

I swear.. I thought it was a sniper in a gilly suit.. I will NEVER understand "fashion."

I suspect the screenplay is already in the works.. www.politico.eu/article/ukra...

I can’t believe it’s come to this, but we’re now officially in the nihilistic “Bring back Blatter” era. Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter – last seen looking like he was sleeping in his car yet somehow finally contriving to be cleared of corruption charges on appeal last year –

The U.S. was outplayed on a level that transcended politics. There are matches that make you want to write whole dissertations on sociology and aesthetics, and then there are matches that make you want to go “derp.” This one was a “derp.”

🎵🎶 Like a Rhinestone Cowboy 🎶🎵

From The [London] Times

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATING MORTGAGE APPLICATIONS OF FIFA REFEREES

Sound familiar? "The fact that you do not have a criminal record is not your merit, but our failure.” Whether Dzerzhinsky actually said this is doubtful. What is not in doubt is his governing philosophy: “We represent in ourselves organized terror — this must be said very clearly,” he once said.

JUST IN: FIFA DECLARES DONALD TRUMP WINNER OF THE 2020 ELECTION

And the snowball starts it's roll downhill..

What's the effing point?

Wolfers is spot on here. The history of "work" revolutions has been to shift the balance of work away from "brawn" and towards "brain," removing the need for physical labor. If you diminish the need for "brain work" what is going to be left?

As much as I would like to see the USMNT do well in this tournament, I am on TEAM UEFA here. If Balogun plays and helps the USA to a victory over Belgium, the win will be forever tainted. The repercussions of FIFA's action will endure regardless.

As a former youth soccer coach and referee.. I felt that the red card on Balogun was unnecessary. A yellow was, I thought, a more appropriate card to show. That said, it was debatable. Once the card was shown, harsh or not, that should have been the end of the matter. The suspension should stand

To put it less politely, the country that first forged democracy, sent man to the Moon and invented the internet can do better than being led by what many see as a clown show. Although, it may be precisely that which accelerates change.