ICE is quietly arresting more people than ever. After months of releasing no detention data at all, the new numbers show a record 1,474 arrests a day in early July, the highest daily pace of the entire Trump administration. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-quietl...

Given how I feel as a Spaniard, I suspect the pain of losing the World Cup would have been much greater than the satisfaction of winning. Prospect theory vindicated, I guess.

"La segmentación económica, las redes sociales y la tecnología se conjugaron para hacer más evidente la de por sí amplia desigualdad existente en el país." elpais.com/mexico/opini...

See, the problem is that people don’t read history books anymore. To find a different world, we need to go back to… *checks notes, flips pages*… 2025

Spain’s Nico Williams gave his mother, Maria, his World Cup winner’s medal after Sunday’s final ❤️💛 Nico's parents trekked some 2,000 miles across the Sahara from Ghana to Spain as refugees. Now, their son is a world champion 🥹

Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”

With its victory, Spain becomes the first nation to simultaneously hold the World Cup crowns in both men's and women's soccer.

I’m exhausted

Watching Fox for the last 30 minutes. Only one thing is clear: Messi plays. Is there a rival (or 10 Messi’s teammates for that matter)? Unclear

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I am so, so sad to report that Yousof voluntarily returned to Iran this week, along with his wife and children. While they seem safe and relieved, it is deeply distressing for his professors and friends who believe that Yousof and his work (and people like him) can help to improve global relations.

football is for the fans

No: YOU are checking air quality in East Rutherford, NJ

Complementaries between AI and human labor (derogatory)

The best moments before an important football game are the days leading up to it. Game day (and the game itself) is pure suffering.

I heard the Spanish football team referred to as following ‘Socialist tactics.’ I see it! They follow Engels’ three principles of the Dialectics of Nature 1. The Law of Unity and Conflict of Opposites 2. The Law of Transition from Quantity to Quality 3. The Law of Negation of the Negation

Say what you will about Disney but long before Male Influencers were ever part of the public imagination they warned us about what a danger insecure aura farmers are to the community.

Stomach issues the day before the World Cup final? Get a puppy to sleep in your lap

They used all the available goals. Tomorrow it’s 0-0 and penalties 😬

england rn

let's remember some guys www.expectinggoals.com/p/lionel-mes...

After returning to the US, I've continued using the same mouthwash I used in Spain. In Spain, the brand recommends 10 ml for 1 minute. In the US, 20 ml for 30 seconds. Even mouthwashes reflect the two different ways of living.

Update: well that’s wild y’all. Filter on top is a clean, unused one fresh out of its packaging. Filter on bottom was the same when I installed it yesterday evening; this is what it looks like after roughly 24 hours of HVAC in Chicago’s blanket of wildfire smoke.

The 2025 numbers are really striking. www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Da...

The Real Madrid of national teams

Wearing a Barça shirt, which I guess sends mixed signals re Sunday's final

Even the White House pet (had he one) would be involved in corruption

There’s a (very recent) precedent for Spain v England in a World Cup final…

I see Dear Leader ordered new decorations at SLC airport. These pictures weren’t here one year ago.

In the era of virality, social media, and footballers’ hyper-exposure, it’s extremely satisfying to make it to the World Cup final with Mikel Oyarzábal as the striker

Bye, Europe 💔

At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890

Midfield matters

1/5 Acabo de leer el documento del que todo el mundo está hablando. Sí, el estudio que relaciona la ideología con el apoyo a Messi (la izquierda) o a Ronaldo (la derecha). El titular, como era de esperar, es una gran exageración. Me explico. x.com/abc_es/statu...

A group of economists and tech leaders (including 15 Nobel laureates, and the chief economists at Open AI and Anthropic) are warning about the disruptions A.I. could cause, and calling on policymakers to prepare. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/b... #EconSky

Spain faces France in the World Cup semifinals on France’s National Day while I’m in… France. No middle ground: It will be the most awesome or the most miserable World Cup experience of my life.

El martes por la noche, tras el partido, va a ser un gran consuelo pensar en Rajoy y demás gentuza patria

Lindsey Graham, key ally of Donald Trump, has died after sudden illness, his office says

Lindsey Graham has passed away after a brief illness, his office told me tonight. The longtime senator and staunch Trump ally had just returned from Ukraine. Will have more in a story soon.

Happy anniversary of that time the post office asked me to provide evidence that my package was not delivered.

You have to understand Haaland's place in the World Cup ecosystem

I will always stand by the “No Pedri, No Party” principle, but it’s true that he was weirdly out of tune against Portugal

Two years after the first submission, my job market paper "The effect of a woman-friendly occupation on employment: U.S. postmasters before WWII" is now published at Explorations in Economic History ☺️: doi.org/10.1016/j.ee... #econhist

The story in a nutshell. 1. Qatar bribed Trump with a large aircraft. 2. Trump spent $400 million in taxpayer money to make it luxurious. 3. It is insecure for use as Air Force One. 4. He intends to keep it as his own when he leaves office. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

E. Jean Carroll is finally set to get justice after a jury concluded that Trump sexually abused and defamed her. trib.al/BdWHcax

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

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