Dreadful performance defensively. Every single goal was the fault of the defence. Harry Maguire & Luke Shaw particularly culpable. If you needed more evidence that a left back (& a centre back, for that matter) are required in this squad build, today is all the evidence you need.
🚨 PSG confirm Ferran Torres has joined on a five-year contract. He'll wear No.9. Guaranteed fee in the region of €45m.
PSG decided they wanted Torres before the World Cup. He made it clear in talks he only wanted PSG.
French champions attracted by his versatile profile.
Torres already knows Luis Enrique, who gave him his first opportunity with the Spanish national team.🇪🇸
🗣️ Torres: "I’m delighted to be beginning a new adventure at such an ambitious club as Paris Saint-Germain. I’d like to thank President Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, Luis Campos and coach Luis Enrique for giving me the opportunity to join the team, which I hope to help win as many trophies as possible."
This is very obviously true and what it hints out but doesn’t explicitly state is that the very premise shifts the moral burden away from those with power to those without it, from the oppressor to the oppressed. No one forced Biden/Harris to take their genocidal position.
Really enjoyed this; we covered lots of ground:
Why neocons are pushing Flock cameras and ubiquitous state surveillance generally; how it relates to neocon foreign policy; the dangerous condition where elites no longer fear the people over whom they rule; attempts to breed a placated, content public; the prospects for new coalitions in domestic politics, and much more:
The British government has refused to publish any information it holds on an Israeli firm suspected of interfering in the Scottish parliament elections, on the grounds that doing so may "prejudice relations between the United Kingdom and any other state"
More here ⤵️
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So utterly detached from reality, impervious to any facts on the ground and unashamed by the flimsiness of the vision articulated here. The main thing that has accelerated since the launching of the Accords has been this family's own grift in the Middle East.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kamala Harris’ 2024 Presidential campaign:
“And yet… why are we here? Are we here to just act like white men have acted everytime before?”
“The struggle means to me not just that we would get the boot of our necks, but that we would destroy the boot, that this would not happen to other people.”
@briebriejoy@nocturnalbottle It was a Feb 2020 event hosted by Rising Majority on a conversation between grassroots activists & lhan Omar, AOC, Ayanna Pressley & Rashida Tlaib
Now that things have gone way too far, they want us to believe the problem is a few “radical settlers.” It isn’t. The problem is the settlement movement itself—stealing Palestinian land—and the state that enables, funds, and protects it. Even settlers who never personally attack a Palestinian are living in settlements that are illegal under international law.
So if I have this right: the CIA itself understands and is saying that Israel manufactures false intelligence to make Trump fear non-existent threats from Iran so that he will continue to use American resources and sacrifice service members to fight their wars for them? Huh.