My assumption is that actions like this are testing the legal grounds and FIFA's tolerance for the US to deny entrance for players and whole teams. FIFA should respond strongly by disqualifying the US team.

Ríhanna doesn't have an official legal defense fund because multiple crowdfunding websites have shut down her campaigns. please donate to her directly and send her well-wishes on Facebook. Venmo: venmo.com/u/Rihanna_Ke... www.facebook.com/share/p/18uT...

Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

More info & talking points on HR 8705, which has passed out of committee & is waiting to be introduced to the House. (As if Sunday evening)

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

SpaceX's rocket crashed into the ocean. The team cheered it as a "rousing success". (was better than the last 2) 🙄 Blue Origin's rocket blew up on the launch pad. And what about NASA? They launched the Artemis II mission, perfect launch, 10 days in space perfect landing. But let's fund SpaceX. 🙄

happy birthday america, i got you the corpse of a 30 year old one hit wonder shuffling around in front of a fight pit next to a giant hole in the ground that used to be the east wing all at the pleasure of an octogenarian rapist with dementia

On May 1 , 1865 , freed slaves came together in Charleston , S.C to pay tribute to the Union soldiers that had been deceased and put into a common burial after the war launching the first #MemorialDay. There were 257 deceased Union soldiers.

"I'm really angry that this scifi writer whose work was stolen to train a probability machine that depletes water tables and raises electricity prices and is accelerating the transfer of wealth and capital toward men who actively hate other humans doesn't like 'AI," what a lack of vision they have"

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live: (Only bands I've seen more than once) 1. Sonic Youth 2. Ramones 3. Beastie Boys 4. A Tribe Called Quest 5. Fishbone 6. Parliament/Funkadelic 7. DEVO 8. Descendants 9. Pearl Jam 10. Jesus Lizard

So, Trump is making his own version of the Basij.

They” didn’t leak Trump’s tax returns. An IRS contractor did - along with thousands of other tax returns - during Trump’s first term. Biden’s DOJ prosecuted the contractor, who got the max: 5 years in prison. This is shameful spin from SDNY U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton.

"They leaked his tax returns, they tried to destroy him." If revealing your official tax returns -- something every single president and VP for forty years before Trump did voluntarily -- could possibly "destroy" you, that is the scandal.

For as left wing as Bluesky is I think a lot of people remain weirdly disconnected from the fact that "Israel has committed genocide" is as close to a consensus position among actually existing Democratic voters as possible

I’m calling on the General Assembly to vote to reconvene for special session to impeach or censure the Governor. Governor Polis commuted Tina Peters’ sentence after the legislative session, likely in an effort to avoid accountability for misconduct. The people of Colorado demand accountability.

As a guy with half a trillion dollars, I have lots of options: 1. Enjoy a 100% stress-free life doing whatever I please in unfathomable luxury all over the world with people of my choosing 2. Have 87 meltdowns a day on a website

the academic bargain has been this: you sacrifice $100k+ of lost income & savings to go to grad school to get a TT job making less than an avg. middle manager, if you're VERY lucky, but to counterbalance that you get job security forever. w\o that last part the ROI on academic labor makes no sense.

The Anti-Higher Ed bill SB1 has barely gone into effect and the Ohio Legislature is already trying to pass another set of restrictions and unfunded mandates meant to drive more Ohioans out of the state. actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

NEW: Mayo Clinic, the massive U.S. hospital network, is using what it describes as “Ambient Listening” to record patient interactions with nurses, including in emergency rooms, then using AI to process that collected data.

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about

ASPS announces its 2nd biennial Graduate Student Prize, intended to encourage and recognise outstanding scholarship on the broader Persianate world by graduate student members of ASPS. www.persianatesocieties.org/asps-jps-gra...

ASPS is pleased to announce its 2nd Biennial Virtual Graduate Student Conference, to take place online, Sept 25 2026, hosted by the Sharmin & Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University. Deadline for Submission of Abstracts is July 24 2026.

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

This hit me so hard this week.

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

Yup.

😕🇺🇸 a rigged system

the absolute size of the national debt gets overstated in importance, but it changes the dynamic when (a) the underlying spending *isn't* being invested in infrastructure, science, and the long-term health and well-being of people and (b) the US is internationally viewed as unstable and unreliable

Trump Bulldozed a 1,000-Year-Old Archeological Site to Make Room for a Second Border Wall DHS was in talks with the wildlife refuge that hosts the ancient site to make sure it was protected, a local archeologist said. theintercept.com/2026/04/30/a...

Once again, I'm happy to announce one of the worst kept secrets (but now we have dates!)... ASPS 2027 will be in Dushanbe, 9-12 August 2027. Abstracts due 30 September.

Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wrong Amount Of Water https://theonion.com/report-every-place-on-earth-has-wrong-amount-of-water-1851544516/

everything in american politics boils down to this

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

I've talked a lot of shit about the idea that the Saudis could just buy a film industry, but if they come out of the gates with an epic about the Sasanians...

Respectfully lol wtf is this? I couldn’t tell at all from the trailer that it was supposed to be about the Battle of Dhu’l-Qar. Did they shoot the whole thing in Southern Morocco or sthg? What’s with the jacked-up Sassano-Assyrian fusion imagery too? youtu.be/fraAGOuT3sA?...

Well, you can't accuse him of being woke.

Trump never misses an opportunity to remind you that he was born too rich to ever buy his own groceries.

Winning campaign slogan here if anyone wants it.

BTW the people who spent the last few years advocating for Palestine were clearly 100% right that normalizing war crimes and genocide there would just increase the likelihood of inhumane actions elsewhere. Just saying.

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

The vibes RN

We won't last 33 more months of this. This must stop. We must make it stop.

Prosecuting and purging the Republican Party was Biden’s one job. When he failed to do his duty it was just a waiting game to this moment.

for me impeachment isn't what we should be after. this president and most of his cabinet and staff should be prosecuted for corruption, fraud, war crimes, obstruction, and all the various crimes they have committed. i will only vote for a presidential candidate in 2028 who commits to this.

Drag him out by his cankles, prosecute him for what’s in the Epstein files and/or hand him over to The Hague for war crimes. Before it’s too late.