The USMT would’ve lost to any team in the WC with that performance. Cape Verde back home, watching:

Ban VAR red cards

My favorite part about the Telemundo coverage of the World Cup is when the broadcast cuts to various American celebrities in the crowd and the commentators have no idea who they are.

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Not to be a Debbie downer, but I wouldn’t call a 6 to 3 decision on something as blatantly simple and clear in the constitution as birthright citizenship a *major rebuke* of the current administration.

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

Really rooting for a Martinez to Martinez to Martinez setup for a goal in this match

The Ghanaian kits are my favorite so far

Maybe it’s petty that I want to read every reflecting-pool-algae story but I can’t help it. Put that green water in my veins.

I’m sympathetic to this argument that the hydration breaks are just built-in commercials, etc. But it’s also hilarious to hear European soccer fans complain about the intrusion of commercials into the game while they’re wearing jerseys advertising Virgin Airlines or Jeff’s Wild Fish n Chips

The goals in this Iran v New Zealand match are some of the best of the tourney so far

Quite an opening line: A federal judge on Friday declined to block the White House from holding cage fights on the South Lawn on President Trump’s birthday, just days before the Sunday event was set to take place.

Knicks’ fans, you know who is to blame for this

Better headline: Congress sort of does its job

Senator Talarico. Senator Cooper. Senator Platner.

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Pretty surreal that we invited the King to celebrate our 250th year of independence from his country while also hoping he’ll remind our congress how democracy works

Love to kick off Easter Sunday with war crime threats

I'm not sure about you, but I think the collapse of US hegemony, a global price spike and recession, and a new ground war in the Middle East are far worse than drag queens reading books at the library.

Well he erased the terrible speech/war headlines for a day, which I’m sure is the point

i swear this gov is a TV show. the head of intelligence got hacked and used his real name for a porn account. the head of dept of war accidentally texted war plans to a journalist. and now former head of homeland security grappling with husband's secret cross-dressing double life in anti-LGBTQ admin

Utterly consumed by Afroman trial

Really love that this guy looks like this, sounds like this, and talks like this, and still somehow manages to believe that the white race is innately superior.

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

“The cuts are a sign that Jeff Bezos, who became one of the world’s richest people by selling things on the internet, has not yet figured out how to build and maintain a profitable publication on the internet.”

The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.

Y’all remember Hillary’s emails?

now on You Tube... @lauralippman.bsky.social @awhcolumbus.bsky.social @thejeremybjones.bsky.social and the best of 2025! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojcb...

I say again

GOP suddenly in favor of gun control

This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

Everything should be the top story all the time. It’s so hard to keep up.

Oh…what’s the deal with those files about the private island and whatnot? Forgot about those

“The Department of Homeland Security was formed after 9/11 amid international terrorism threats. Now, its most visible targets are domestic.”

“The influencer, Jake Lang, who was among the pardoned Jan. 6 rioters, was eventually chased into the lobby of a hotel by a throng of counterprotesters who threw water balloons at him when outside temperatures hovered around 10 degrees… “They blasted music from the Disney musical “Frozen.” “

My kingdom for a snap election

If we make it through this, so many people are going to jail

Scott Simon reading one of Renée Good’s poems on weekend edition this morning: www.kuow.org/stories/opin...

Guys, Margaret Atwood finally called

Real weird how “America first” suddenly feels just like every other Republican administration from the last 40 years

We need more history majors

A disgrace: North Carolina is dead last in public school funding effort and second to last in public school funding level. Yet, the General Assembly is the only legislature in the country that hasn't passed a budget — and they're driving us off a fiscal cliff. www.13newsnow.com/article/news...

Top Book Nook 2025 shows-chosen by listeners: 1. Stephen Cannell (2003) 2, Laura Lippman 3. Andrew Welsh-Huggins 4. Indu Sunderasan (2003) 5. Jeremy Jones 6. Megan Abbott 7. Beth Macy 8. Normandy Farms (2002) 9. L. Annette Binder 10. Phil King @thejeremybjones.bsky.social @bethmacy.bsky.social

carve the turkey, turn the ballgame on

If we all just agree to buy some Trump steaks would he stop with all this? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

Ugh, today is gonna feel so long

The lack of empirical evidence in the “anti-conservative bias in higher education” panic is really striking. We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.

If you teach in the UNC system, consider signing this petition ASAP. UNC system leaders are expected to announce in coming days plans to force instructors to publish their syllabi, claiming that our syllabi are public records and not our intellectual property. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...