Dang. No kidding. Song of the week (It’s on Spotify too, if you don’t want to deal with YouTube)

Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.

Finally, the real games begin

The arm on NBA star Kelsey Plum, who throws a rolled-up jersey to her dad sitting in the upper bleachers. www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUn...

Reupping this again. Wasn’t the point of expanding to a 32-team elimination format so that teams would be spared the ridiculous fate Iran has now met? Why are we doing this

Unbelievable. Game should’ve been over a full minute ago

Someone just needs to score a dang goal. I am on team offense tonight

The big 5 I remember most are Fleetwood Mac, Carly Simon, Allman Brothers, Bruce Springsteen, Kinky Friedman

Who the hell was offsides there for Colombia?

This is actually something I’ve only recently come to appreciate, playing in a league with no offsides rules of any kind The rule is not just important to keep strikers from standing in the goal. It’s really about focus. Defenders have to watch the ball and the forward they’re covering

“Get off my lawn”

Tragic

You almost feel bad for Argentina, having to face the juggernaut Cabo Verde in the round of 32

Fox Sports talking about, if these scores hold, Cabo Verde’s “improbable” berth into the knockout rounds, but it is in fact highly probable! 75% of all teams advance from the group stage!

Spain takes the lead. Show Luis Suarez. Let me see his face

A year and a few days ago. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/jun...

he doesn’t know passports are given to people who already live here does he

Just watched the highlights from Senegal-Iraq. Damn

AI comforts the comforted and disturbs the disturbed

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

One year ago.

Will someone who knows about Canada tell me what this means?

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.

I bet a pro-American 250th anniversary celebration—one that celebrates freedom, democracy, the Declaration, the Constitution, the Founders, various great Americans, the American Creed, We the People, e pluribus unum, the shining city on a hill, and other patriotic stuff—would've been pretty nice.

A good Civilization/Final Fantasy mashup, and I could die happy. Like Civ but set in Ivalice, FF music, story mode, a job system built into the combat, mark hunts instead of barbarians, a magic tree like the tech tree. I think there’s a lot of potential. I’m imagining Tactics but as a city-builder

ngl this was probably the most entertaining match of the Cup so far.

Hopefully it doesn’t get in their heads. It was always going to be a weird game anyway, with US having already won the group, and with Türkiye probably fine with a draw as well (again, 48 teams was a mistake)

Trusty with the finish. Gorgeous. Eat shit, Türkiye

Kind of insane how fucked the Lions have been since this moment. They were riding high, vibes on the way up, future was bright and then this happened. Absolutely cursed themselves.

"in-hospital mortality increases for Black, but not White, patients as hospitals reach capacity... We identify rationing by wait times as a mechanism, documenting that sicker Black patients wait longer for care than healthier White patients"

Probably posted this one before but… “Record heat on the East Coast, in the Midwest, and in Europe. They’re bombing the shit out of each other in the Middle East.… So will you help me out? If I say it’s ok, will you say it’s ok?” Song of the week, 20 years ago

My one opinion about AC is that humanity evolved just fine without it, but the climate we evolved for is now a thing of the past

Fox is talking about the “highest scoring World Cup since 1958” and the “most exciting World Cup ever,” and I gotta say, now that group play is wrapping up, I think on the whole I am not a fan of the expansion to 48 teams

Not going to reply, because I do not have time today to get lit up again by people desperate for a fight But as a reminder, this is not true: “John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality”

People also love to say defund the police was a failure because every city in the country did not immediately cut police budgets. Social movement outcomes have a long time horizon and may not always show up in the exact demands the movement made

It's easier for media to portray the election as an attack on American Jews than to delve into what NY-10 really was: The second most Jewish Congressional district in the US having a referendum between two Jewish candidates on what it means to do Jewish politics in the age of Trump and Netanyahu.

Should be called “Composite Day,” but I get it, not as catchy Regardless, you should do this

This feels like a subtweet

We have moderates. For at least 10 years now we’ve had nothing but moderates and a far right, and it is already not “ending well.” Very hard for me to take seriously any complaint about the emergence of any movement which might upset the objectively awful status quo by being too progressive

As a Tennessean, I am somewhat partial to Croatia and their checkerboard jerseys

I think it helps that there's no moral dimension. The press has so thoroughly abdicated any responsibility to take Trump to task for the evil he does they can hardly start now - but fluffy incompetence they're allowed to go hard on.

I bet this was a lot of fun to write, lol

Not happy about the Landor decision, but I do think it’s correct. This is always the problem of Spending Clause legislation. It creates a duty in a recipient of federal funds, but not a right

Ronaldo already with two ugly misses while unmarked in the box, as is customary Maybe it’s only because I watch international soccer, but I have never been so consistently underwhelmed watching a so-called generational talent, in any sport

I kinda wonder if the cost of the reflecting pool situation being in the tens of millions makes this particular debacle resonate a little more with people Waste on a scale we can actually comprehend, unlike what has happened with USAID, for example

Senegal’s had a few good chances here, could easily equalize if they don’t make another big mistake like that

“It’s a distraction.” Yes, let’s please keep distracting him from destroying the world

Is the pool the most important story? Of course not. Is it something low-info voters can wrap their heads around? Is it emblematic of how Trump handles everything (corruption, incompetence, lies)? Is Trump making it worse with his own implausible lies? IMHO, yes. So, yeah, worth discussing.

Lotta philly people on here Not Taking Responsibility for this weather delay 👀 But also, if Iraq comes out and wins this in the second half, I will covert to an Eagles fan