international soccer is the world's most popular reality show among men (complimentary), and if people want to follow the same characters after the World Cup, the answer is to casually watch the Champions League, El Clásico, and the EPL's Manchester & London derbies.
i almost feel sorry for the MLS and its fans being like "soccer is great, stick around"....ok...but we want to watch the players we've been watching in the world cup....
@websterkaroon@barbaraslavin1 So many articles, panels, and presentations by countless scholars, journalists, and dissidents—for decades!—making this same point and still we’re left with the dumbest outcome
Colombia's President Petro: "A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."
There's an old saying in Schelling—I know it's in Hegel, probably in Schelling—that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as... as... tragedy... the second time as... as... it's funny if it happens again
I learn so much from novels. Types of knots, types of boats, types of whales, parts of whales, methods for processing whales, what can be made from whale, shape of whale, what the whale did, the whale's likely motivation, color of said whale, metaphysical ramifications of said co
Last week, Fetterman got on Fox News to criticize Biden's liquified gas export pause.
In 2018, he had joined Sunrise and @RepDanielle to rally against fracked gas pipelines.
When a constituent asked why he flipped, he mocked her, then walked into a member-only elevator.
Almost unfathomably cruel and stupid for Democrats to start an arms race with Donald Trump over who's "tougher" on immigration on a warming planet https://t.co/DfmcTU5Q2g
It’s funny hearing old folks blame TikTok for young people’s support for Palestinian rights, as if their own views weren’t shaped by decades of pro-Israel messaging. The young have access to a far greater range of views than you ever did, they can see what you refused to see.
.@chrislhayes: “There is no terrorist attack, no matter how horrific—and truly Oct. 7 was horrific—that can wash clean what we are seeing in Gaza and what we as Americans and our government are abetting. It must end. We must stop it.”
It is staggering to kill 11,000 people in <40 days. The Troubles in Northern Ireland, which are seen as a time of great violence, killed ~3,700 people—combatants and civilians—in 29 years