“The tactical heart of soccer,” Richard Cleary writes, is “the contest to create and control space.” What might the experiments conducted in these "laboratories of spatial invention" tell us about spatial contests elsewhere?

excited for this new project from one of the most interesting English-language publications going phenomenalworld.org/issue/issue-...

I can’t believe someone with a master's degree in "truth" from New York University would do this www.wired.com/story/future...

some thoughts prompted by a cool book open.substack.com/pub/fieldwor...

still wanting for a definitive account of why gen AI's primary use case seems to be the materialization of the fascist dream world www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/w...

“Get your fucking hands up before I shoot you!” an officer in Galveston shouted while pointing her gun at a 17-year-old she had cornered in a yard. The teen had run off campus after he was caught with a vape.

the office laptop workers need to go back to the office so the coffee shop laptop workers don’t have to hear their meetings anymore

yes!

Passion Pit's "Sleepyhead" is an insane omission

I feel nothing until Lange and Vinai's heads are on spikes

haven't read a piece this thoughtful in the Times in ages

horrifying article in at least three different ways www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

can't knock the hustle

to whatever extent this is true, it is because people like Briahna Joy Gray and Sana Saeed are part of a class fraction of "left" content creators that is even more disconnected from actually existing movements of workers, the poor, and the oppressed than the organized left is.

Pope decries the rise of AI-directed warfare, saying it leads to a spiral of annihilation. apnews.com/article/pope...

On 28 May, @equatormag.bsky.social will host a free online event featuring @newlefteviews.bsky.social and @mona-ali.bsky.social – about the fallout of the war in the Middle East and the end of American hegemony. Register here! equator.org/events/after...

Really cool

I love googling "africa is a country" and getting a smarmy AI response from google that no, actually, africa is not a country. just give me the website!!!!

take the hearing aides anon

for those interested in land struggles and resisting the forces of organized abandonment: pitch in to help build the first meeting of the Internationalist Abolition School, to be hosted this summer by the MST

just a historical note that I never miss an opportunity to bring up, Taibbi infamously fought (and overruled) the Rolling Stone fact checkers who flagged that the vampire squid does not actually have a blood funnel with which to jab anything

looks like Jeremy Corbyn IS beating the allegations

"It’s not that soccer has no history in the United States, but that the history of soccer in the United States is the history of a social form constantly struggling to take root and constantly being uprooted." substack.com/home/post/p-...

I won the pulitzer prize for writing niche thinky blogs about lower league american soccer for my 45 closest friends #thankyou #blessed

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

reflections on my first away day, with Brooklyn FC, in the New Jersey rain

only in The Atlantic do you get such braindead ledes as "Has the president been reading Hegel? No. But imagine if he did?"

thinking about that Tyler the Creator tweet a lot these days

I remember when they were running these stories about millennials posting on twitter www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/s...

Discussions of "violent rhetoric" are so annoying because nine times out of 10 it's just a plea to silo it where it belongs, like the president threatening to kill every single person in Iran

Do I need to know about “shoplifting discourse”

for one thing it'll take union leaders who don't collaborate with the bosses in spreading the technology that destabilizes teachers' and students' lives

Very healthy empire we’ve got here

as far as aging goes I'm fine with grays I just can't handle the three eyebrow hairs sticking out in every direction

what if, instead of making things better, we made them worse www.ft.com/content/3634...

smoke bombs and the emerging contradictions between club, stadium, and fans

well, Tottenham Hotspur have disappointed me once. now to tune into the New York Knickerbockers

What troubles me isn’t really ‘what happens if people don’t show up?’ so much as ‘what happens if they do?’

"MAGA Republicans want the Church’s opinion on abortion, but nothing else." you don't say

I have an announcement

might be something to do with the pedophilia and rape

an initial attempt at understanding the ownership group behind Brooklyn Football Club, featuring Kelly Ripa, "Chicken Finger sensation" Raising Cane's, and Antonio Gramsci

I love to read a good magazine story www.curbed.com/article/dogs...

an initial attempt at understanding the ownership group behind Brooklyn Football Club, featuring Kelly Ripa, "Chicken Finger sensation" Raising Cane's, and Antonio Gramsci

have been distracting myself from The Situation in the Middle East with this preliminary investigation into who owns Brooklyn Football Club: little did I know, BKFC is part of a multi-club, multi-sport ownership group stretching from Quebec to Naples

very exciting hell yeah

"Hormuz does not yet signal the end of this hydrocarbon dollar complex, which has always been a combustible mix of power and volatility. But it does reveal the structural changes that would be needed for a hegemonic transition."

*takes drag from cigarette* I remember when this was an entry-level position

thinking about how close that bullet in Butler, PA was

🙄🙄🙄