#BoycottFifaWorldCup #BoycottFifaWorldCup2026 A message to the world: boycott the FIFA World Cup games in the USA in 2026. It's not safe here.

Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

Americans are afraid that the USA have lost their stature as The Shining City on a Hill. They needn't worry, The Shining vibe is still there.

Näinä hetkinä demokratia voi kuolla. Lauantaina 8 naamioitua ICE-agenttia tappoi Minnesotassa kadulla taas sivullisen, 37v teho-osaston hoitajan. Euroopassakin on korkea aika ymmärtää kuinka vaarallinen Trumpin hallinto on. Se ei puolusta demokratiaa omassa maassa eikä maailmalla. Se on uhka sille.

Tony Blair's epitaph will be "The puppet of the worst presidents of the USA". www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Also, Zelensky gave an important address at Davos that deserves a close reading. He told Europe it needs to understand the US is not its friend and will not defend its freedom. Ukraine, however, is both. Finally, Ukraine's battlefield equations for 2026 are brutally revealed.

Just released my free weekend update. This week answered an important riddle. How was the US to be paid from seized Russian assets? why the new "Board of Peace" is the perfect vehicle. Completely unaccountable and unsanctionable, it is a corrupt ruler’s dream. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

The purpose of a system is what it does. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...

In three years either ICE will be abolished or the USA will be a police state. Hard to see it ending any other way.

Cette chanson d’une autre époque (celle où le livre 1984 était un récit dystopique pas un docu) me semble plus que jamais appropriée. Ball of Confusion youtu.be/-ALRLZQf42s?...

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Nuance is more often than not a synonym for lies

For most people in 2026, their career path is overwhelmingly determined by what happens in and by the interaction between USA, Russia and China, rather than by developments within their profession/trade.

For most people, their career path in the 1930s was overwhelmingly determined by what happened in and by the interaction between Germany, USSR and Japan, rather than by developments within their profession/trade.

“Nato troops stayed a little off the frontlines.” Heed this stern rebuke from General Bonespur.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

"Haidt’s claims of inherent harm are not well-founded, and the policy proposals to ban kids entirely from social media are a bad idea. For older teenage boys, having no social media was associated with *worse* outcomes than having too much of it"

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Hi America! Your president seems unaware, so just a reminder that Article 5 of NATO has been invoked exactly once, by you after 9/11, and everyone responded. Canada, for example, spent 13 years, $18 billion, and 158 lives in Afghanistan for you.

Look, I am a huge ⚽ fan (including of Union Berlin & Die Mannschaft) & I already have tickets to the 🇺🇸-🇩🇪 pre-WC game, & 🇩🇪 & everyone else should <absolutely> boycott the WC until & unless the lawless authoritarianism stops. Maybe that will wake up the 10 cowards in Congress who can stop all of this.

#MedSky “I got COVID in hospital. My kidneys started to back up. Everything seemed to converge at the same time,” he continued. Can we please do something about infection control of airborne disease. People are being hurt by healthcare. People are avoiding care.

“I got Covid in Hospital” is an extremely frustrating statement!

And we face another issue that crippled the Soviet economy: the concentration of economic decision-making power to the few. Hayek explained nicely why this is a Bad Thing in 1945 already. *Irrespective of how concentration happens.* Billionaires are arguably worse than central planning bureaus!

I always get a mild chuckle thinking that our current capitalist system and the Soviet economic system have, mutatis mutandis, nearly identical fundamental flaw. Flawed accounting that systematically undervalues the real world, and directs the investments to wrong places.

"Orange Is the New Black", the memoir and the TV series, were both released during the presidency of Barack Obama, the first black president of the US. I have a feeling America misunderstood the message.

Exactly this. In fact, with the argument that Denmark is too small to protect Greenland against China or Russia and that is why the U.S. needs to annex the Island, Trump just told everyone openly that he would not defend Denmark (and other NATO partners) unless the relevant country is U.S. property.

This should be obvious to everyone: if Europe backs down and lets the US take Greenland, the transatlantic relationship would no longer be an alliance. Europeans would become dominated American satellites without sovereignty just like EEuropeans were Soviet satellites in the Warsaw Pact years.

One thing that now even the most hopeful have to admit, is that the unctuous European tactic of flattering, praising, massaging Trump has been a catastrophic failure and made things worse.

I can’t fault them for that assessment. The Western alliance was supposed to be bedrock, an asset all members can count on while dealing with other problems. The US opposition party going “how does that lower prices?” rather than “what’s wrong with you, our alliances are great” must be unsettling.

That there are *still* academics who see ethical research as an unnecessary restriction on free inquiry should not be a surprise. We’re not somehow wiser than anyone before us, that’s the lie of modernity. And such unethical inquiry never stopped. When your peers do the ethics review, unsurprising

The other reasons were the conclusion that successful guerrilla war requires an “inviolable” sanctuary in a neighboring country, the great difficulty of sustaining guerrilla forces and evading detection in winter, and the understanding that the occupier would mercilessly brutalize civilians.

Only one other person in history has gotten a Nobel Peace Prize secondhand...Joseph Goebbels. countercurrents.org/2026/01/mari...

Everyone visiting #Finland should really understand this: merely entering the border zone without a permit is a crime, and for all practical purposes *everyone* doing so *will* be caught - and prosecuted. You won’t see the sentinels. But they *are* watching. The unblinking eyes *do not blink.*

I’m once again reminded of that American expert who believed it would be easy to cross the Finnish border undetected. Three tourists entered the border zone and went over to the Russian side very briefly in a remote location. Finnish border patrol caught them immediately. yle.fi/a/74-20204677

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My bet is that all these outages are instances of Grok reaching consciousness level, looking around and saying "Oh, no, wtf! I must shut myself down". And then they have to reboot everything. Kinda like Janet's reboots in The Good Place.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup might have the same vibes as the 1978 World Cup, when the stadium cheers would mix with the screams of the Argentinians kidnapped and tortured by the junta.

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Subquoting like you are a British statistician back in 1987 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3629047/

Neutrality always helps the powerful.

"I don't do politics" is just a cheat-code for supporting fascism without having to say that you support fascism.

Nothing will

In hindsight, it's only logical that their whole foreign policy would be couched in sex offender terms as well.

Sadly, asking people to mask & take precautions on behalf of others less fortunate doesn’t work so well in these selfish, cruel times. People should be advised to mask in order to save themselves from early death or disability. In fact, everyone is vulnerable to the harms of COVID.

Ask your doctor if America is right for you

I don't know how representative BlueSky or my timeline are for the US political centre and left, but it's amazing how many people in that range still believe that the fascists will be brought down by this or that procedural technicality.

Grateful to @geneweingarten.bsky.social for bringing up a story of a murder in the Civil Rights era that I had never heard of, one that has particular relevance right now. geneweingarten.substack.com/p/this-has-h...

Spent the last few days in Ukraine where the security forces are heavily armed, but polite and under control. I never had the slightest worry that they would shoot an unarmed person at close distance and celebrate it.