We went to Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair for the U.S.’s 250th anniversary. But the 16-day celebration is proving to be less than successful. Watch @premthakker.bsky.social explore the disastrous fair. Subscribe to zeteo.com for more!

MSNOW put together collection of clips of Fox anchors talking in front of the Great American State Fair.

Belgium 0-2 Senegal 51'- Ismaïla Sarr

Canada has progressed further than Germany at the World Cup. A sentence I never thought I’d write.

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...

Stephen Eustáquio was the hero for the #CanMNT, as he powered them to victory in their Round of 32 clash against South Africa Here's @AlexGangueRuzic with the recap from this one, as Canada continued a historic run at the 2026 World Cup READ👉 https://bit.ly/4wjlhYb

So Argentina’s football structure is built on the abuse and molestation of young boys and no one hardly gets punished for it. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Better check the Uruguay keeper’s betting accounts….

Chris Hayes: Trump’s reflecting pool is looking a lot less “American flag blue” and a lot more “Iranian flag green.”

This video appears to confirm it was a Russian air-defense missile — not a Ukrainian drone — that blew up that Moscow refinery’s storage tank today, creating the "flying saucer" footage. (This video was shared on Telegram by Russian military expert Yan Matveev.) t.me/arrowsmap/11...

Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you:

"As far as Trump is concerned, the problem was solved when he decided upon a solution; it immediately and irrevocably became everyone else's problem the moment he stopped thinking about it." defector.com/promises-mad...

Scotland should be a permanent fixture of every World Cup. Automatic qualification as a mascot, a talisman for vibes.

my god

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

ayup

In a nutshell:

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Raising the Flag Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

The tide is turning….

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

if you haven’t seen it theonion.com/i-am-the-god...

Whitecaps to the Vegas? Yeah, sure, maybe. But let's talk pressure points. theprovince.com/sports/socce...

Wait what

Can’t wait for like, 500 articles that are like “as I dived under a table to hide from the shooter I realized I had to be even more sycophantic to the White House”

New playlist BELIEVE IN ANYTHING: CANADIAN INDIE ROCK IN THE 2000s 🇨🇦Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/2xk... 🇨🇦Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 🇨🇦YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

COURAGE UNDER FIRE: Journalists are responding to Trump's intimidation tactics in the most forceful way possible

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

“sadness this decade has been forged by the fact of, and the feeling of, a permanent unrelenting economic crisis, amplified by a uniquely negative news & media environment, and exacerbated by the rise of solitude & the declining of trusted institutions.” www.derekthompson.org/p/if-america...

e42 of 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90S: THE 2000S is on wolf parade's "I'LL BELIEVE IN ANYTHING," because all the truly great love songs should be fueled by panic, terror, chaos, and fundamental uncertainty open.spotify.com/episode/1Lkw...

Zohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.” America’s Mayor can’t miss.

We Gen Xers swing right harder than our parents. Why? We grew up with Reagan's vapid certainties, still bullied kids or endured bullying, accepted gender stereotypes handed down to us, and had jobs offering the last gasp of New Deal protections. I talk about it here. wp.me/pzXeC-le5

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

This is real

This is incredible from Sebastian Berhalter. Deep in second-half stoppage time, makes a crunching tackle to end a dangerous Portland counter and win back possession. 25 seconds later he finishes it off at the other end with a banger of a game-winner.

Whether or not the war resumes by Friday — or sooner, since Israel is still bombing Iran — it’s time to talk about humiliation: What kind of military humiliation we are experiencing; and what, productively, can emerge from that humiliation.

“GOD IS A COMEDIAN… This is a clusterfuck of historic proportions and everyone who's ever held a rank knows it.” Do yourself a favor and read this piece on the absurdity that is Trump’s Iran War and the ever-shifting justifications. open.substack.com/pub/no01/p/m... A taste:

OH. MY. GAWD.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

During a White House event on college football, Trump mocked and shut down a question about Russia allegedly helping Iran target U.S. assets. “What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We’re talking about something else,” said Trump.

SCTV’s punk rock parody on Mel’s Rock Pile which is legit good and with actual eighties punk energy, not corny, huge huge laugh at the look on Candy’s face as the drummer when they cut back to him. youtu.be/ThrkJKxRNXo

The mix is a bit muddy—bass and drums overwhelm the rest. Sounds ferocious though.

"Instead of respecting my inalienable right to be debated, they just… blocked me. Like I’m some kind of annoyance, rather than the iconoclastic and fascinating truth-teller which I know myself to be."

YOU ASKED FOR THIS! Downfall. Kristi Noem Edition:

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.