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[Chef Andrew Gruel @ChefGruel]

Yes, it does. If you break ground beef up immediately, it releases moisture and steams before it can brown. Leave it in one layer like a steak, let a deep crust form, flip it, then break it up. More Maillard reaction means richer, beefier flavor and better texture. Game changing technique.

[Bae Guevara @Kaimandante]

I am so tired of these Black centrists & Dems in general acting as if it is "white" to be on the left and want things like higher wages, affordable housing and healthcare.

[Joe Freihofer @joe_freihofer]

📍Last night, Guadalajara became the first city to witness the power of Lumumba Vea on the World Cup stage as Les Léopards 🇨🇩 returned this year to the tournament after a 52-year wait 🙌 @Gdl2026

[Killa 🌺 @KillaKreww]

Keke Palmer knew she had met her match when Jenifer Lewis explained why she ended an engagement over a tree and went OFF on people criticizing her standards and non-negotiables in relationships 😭💀👀

“Nothing is non-negotiable, I don’t negotiate SH-T… you be nice, have a good time, or go the f-ck home. Life’s too short. I’m 69, I got 30 some years left. GO F-CK yourself!”🤣

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Alan Greenspan bade us farewell today. A man who was celebrated as the central bankers' central banker based on the conviction that markets are divine and volatility is a virtue.

His epitaph? A singular, glorious confession: “I found a flaw in my model of the world.” A flaw, he said, as though it were a leaky pipe, not a total collapse of the intellectual architecture that anointed him Oracle. For decades, he preached that the self-interest of the predator was the invisible hand of the common good.

Then, in 2008, the beast devoured the table, and to his credit he blinked, admitting that his entire worldview—the one that central bankers canonized and the world swallowed—was a fairy tale for rentiers.

He did not, of course, admit to culpability. That would require a moral compass, a device notably absent from his Ayn Randian toolbelt. No, he merely noted the flaw, as a meteorologist might note a gust of wind, and returned to his well-earned silence.

So farewell, Maestro. You helped erect a broken global casino economy, but at least you had the decency to read the autopsy report aloud. Alas, countless millions are still paying for your asterisk. https://t.co/ftWXeIeAQr

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.

Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.

On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.

And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.

But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.

History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.

https://t.co/sGfebPkDXR

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

this is a really great point, and it's something that is frequently forgotten in the therapy. Speak that's prevalent right now about how people may not have gotten the parenting that they deserve. That may be true, but parents are their own people, and they have their own path through life and their own lessons to learn. The idea that they exist 100% to serve you as their child is a little misguided. Yes, they should provide help and support as much as they can. But they are separate human beings from you. We do not get to lay claim to, and own, our parents' lives.

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

Holland, the Netherlands, and Dutch, explained!

This one always confuses me!

[MisterChip (Alexis) @2010MisterChip]

#OJOALDATO - Ninguna selección, en TODA la historia de la Copa del Mundo, había perdido un partido tras tener una posesión superior al 70% y tras realizar 30+ remates.

Entonces apareció Turquía y lo hizo en dos partidos consecutivos, sin marcar un solo gol y jugando el segundo de esos encuentros con superioridad numérica durante casi una hora.

Turquía 0-2 Australia: 72% de posesión de Turquía y 30 remates totales.
Turquía 0-1 Paraguay: 78% de posesión de Turquía y 32 remates totales.

0 puntos y 0 goles con un 75% de posesión media y un total de 62 remates (y 3 goles de los rivales con sólo 6 remates a puerta)

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here is Mamdani's entire speech at the Knicks parade, which is easily the best speech I've ever heard at an event of this sort

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

This is unreal.

Iran is giving up something it never wanted and only used as leverage - in exchange for virtually EVERYTHING it ever wanted:

fairness and justice. Nothing more.

While this is a brutal, brutal defeat for Israel and war hawks in Washington- it’s a huge win for the American people. Iran has always been the natural choice and partner in the Middle East. Having better relations with Iran is absolutely in US interests - politically and economically.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Back in March I wrote 👇 that Iran was winning, and not only strategically but tactically too, but I genuinely didn't expect it would eventually lead - 3 months later - to a complete US surrender.

Because, make no mistake, this is what the "deal" that was just signed is: a complete US surrender, the likes of which it has never signed in its entire history.

Let's compare it with the 2 other most famous US capitulation agreements: the Paris Peace Accords with Vietnam in 1973 and the Doha Agreement with Afghanistan in 2020.

The most significant difference is that both the Vietnam and Afghanistan deals, despite being documents in which the US effectively conceded defeat, contained at least some face-saving provisions for the US.

For instance, in the Vietnam deal, North Vietnam accepted the continued existence of the South Vietnamese government, promised peaceful reunification, agreed to maintain the 17th parallel as a dividing line, and accepted international supervision. These were real (if ultimately unenforceable and unenforced) concessions.

Same thing with the Taliban: they guaranteed Afghan soil would never again be used to attack America, and agreed to negotiate a political settlement with the then Kabul government. The latter commitment was never seriously pursued - but both existed and gave the US a narrative: at least it could claim its post-9/11 objective had been secured on paper.

The deal with Iran is completely different: it doesn't contain a single meaningful concession from Iran. The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz is merely the reversal of a wartime measure they took in response to the US-Israeli attack. And the "reaffirmation" that Iran won't build nuclear weapons is just this: a reaffirmation of a position Tehran has had for decades.

As a reminder, there is a 2003 fatwa by Khamenei that forbids the production and use of any form of weapon of mass destruction, so "reaffirming" it costs Iran exactly nothing.

Meanwhile, the list of concessions and costs on the US side is staggering:
- Permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon
- A US pledge to respect Iran's sovereignty and not interfere in its internal affairs
- Full lifting of the naval blockade
- Withdrawal of all US forces from the region within 30 days after the final agreement
- A $300 billion reconstruction and development fund for Iran
- Termination of all sanctions: UN, IAEA, and every unilateral US sanction, primary and secondary
- Immediate Treasury waivers for Iranian oil exports and all related banking, insurance, and shipping services
- Full release of all frozen Iranian funds and assets, to be spent however Iran's central bank sees fit

So very concretely this is the US agreeing to 1) end the war and withdraw its forces, 2) end all hostile measures towards Iran that were in place before the war (the sanctions, the frozen funds, the interference in internal affairs, etc.), and 3) send hundreds of billions of dollars in what are, effectively, war reparations.

If that's not a complete surrender, I genuinely don't know what is.

And, cherry on the cake, in an absolutely perfect touch of historical irony, Trump literally signed this surrender agreement in Versailles (I'm not kidding: https://t.co/VLSduQtRJW).

History rhymes, but rarely this loudly, all the more because the historical 1919 Versailles Treaty was also signed in June!

Of course, it's fair - very fair, even - to suspect that Trump will not honor this deal. If he's proven anything in his political career, it's that he is agreement-incapable. Plus there's the Israel dimension: the document does say that the war should "end on all fronts, including Lebanon," but Israel has already made clear it considers itself unbound by the agreement.

As such, what I suspect will happen - as I wrote the day the MOU was announced (https://t.co/Hbh669Gvta) - is that the deal will split in two. The immediate concessions - blockade lifted, oil flowing, funds unfrozen - will happen (some already have) and probably stick, because reversing them would mean restarting the very war the US humiliatingly lost.

The deferred provisions - the negotiations on nuclear, the sanctions schedule, the reconstruction fund - will probably enter permanent limbo because, as I wrote then, the US won't get better terms on nuclear after showing they couldn't get them on the battlefield. And given sanctions relief and the $300 billion are tied to a final deal that requires resolving the nuclear question, and the nuclear question requires leverage the US no longer has, the whole structure is circular and never-ending.

On the Israel-Lebanon question, things are trickier. Israel, in some way, finds itself in a South Vietnam situation with its patron having negotiated a surrender over its head. The difference is that Thieu was too weak to sabotage the Paris Accords, whereas Netanyahu isn't: his ability to escalate in Lebanon gives him a de facto veto over the deal's most fragile provision.

Realistically speaking though, it's hard to imagine the US willing to restart the war, which is its own form of deterrence: if Israel keeps striking Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire, Iran can now retaliate with far greater confidence that the US won't come to the rescue - which ought to give Israel pause.

In effect, the end result is that the US security umbrella over Israel just got a lot thinner. Which means that, for the first time in a long time, Israel has to calculate the cost of provoking Iran without assuming the US will absorb the consequences. This points towards restraint, at least for any rational actor. But then again, the same government that dragged the US into this war in the first place has not exactly been a model of strategic rationality...

In any case, it's undeniable that Iran has just achieved something no other country has managed, ever: it withstood the full force of the US and Israeli military machines, and extracted a surrender agreement that makes the Paris Peace Accords look like a US victory by comparison.

To refer back to the title of my article below 👇: this was the first multipolar war, and Iran has definitely earned its place as one of the poles.

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

A must read by @WIRED on the Epstein-like secret society that has hijacked our government, run by Peter Thiel.

The white hat who exposed the dark network listed Democrat Congressman Jim Himes (CT-04) as one of its members.

Any comment, @jahimes?

https://t.co/HZq1VVp5Tj

[NoteS. @NoteSphere]

Dr Congo, Ivory Coast & Senegal proudly portrayed African identity with their World Cup arrival fits.

[Sıradışı Bilgiler @bilgibilgi_1]

Meksikalı bir arkadaşım gösterdi, yumurtayı böyle yapın

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

"Even the Nazis tried to tone things down a bit. Before the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, acutely conscious of how it might be perceived by foreign visitors, the Third Reich tried to soften some of its harder, more intolerant edges. Antisemitic signs and images were removed from shops and other public places. Der Stürmer was removed from newspaper kiosks. Paragraph 175, the country’s strict anti‑homosexuality law, was temporarily suspended.

By contrast, the 2026 men’s World Cup is being co-hosted in a country utterly indifferent to what a foreign visitor might think of it. In this respect, the US of Donald Trump is tonally different to any host of a major sporting event that has preceded it: a country that actively wants you to see the darkness in its heart, the inhumanity at its core, that gets off on your revulsion."

Jonathan Liew, "Omar Artan Scandal Reveals Gianni Infantino for What He Is: One of Sport’s Greatest Cowards"
https://t.co/fd6FlBsnpt

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Smart ways to fold your clothes

[The Wolf Man @iTheWolfman]

Radio Taiso (Radio Gymnastics), a Japanese sport frequently recommended by trainers, is highly effective for maintaining shoulder health, correcting posture, and strengthening the shoulder girdle.

[Imani @youdoingtoomuch]

Chicago so great yet you came outta nowhere and put New York’s dick in your mouth. Okay.

[𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐑 🇬🇭🇬🇧 @Ohene_Khojo]

Most people don’t know that’s how to tuck in a shirt.