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for any country, let alone a host country, let alone this vile kleptocracy, to interfere like this is fucking sickening. for the supposedly apolitical FIFA to give this even a moment’s consideration is worse. way to taint whatever accomplishment the USMNT reaches. way to defile the entire sport ⚽️

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The World Cup is undressing the myth of Trump’s American homogeneity ⚽️

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If [FIFA] wasn’t so busy kowtowing to authoritarian regimes and fleecing workaday fans, it could be the greatest force for global good since, well, the advent of international flight

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what a day 🇳🇱 🇸🇪 ⚽️ 🏆 🥹

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I’d given in and was going to subscribe to the Fox One service for the World Cup, but between ads during the two-per-game hydration breaks & having to see Fox News idiots’ big dumb faces every time we launched the app, decided to cancel. we’ll just watch on Telemundo, no problema ⚽️

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when you just want to be friends

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a nice intro for the curious: A (total) beginner’s guide to the World Cup (funny, too: “the expanded field means there is a chance for plucky underdogs with little chance of winning – such as Jordan, Curaçao & England – to compete with the big boys”)

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agree with this rave review of Widow’s Bay. we never watch horror, so we weren’t sure about it, but being open to the comedy & silliness has been enough. can’t wait for the last 2 episodes

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Metric, Black Sheep 🎵

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youtu.be/FP6nYVOyF…

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Joan Osborne, St. Teresa 🎵

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youtu.be/Q0ORZ6812…

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I didn’t know how much I needed this rainbow

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Lorde, Homemade Dynamite 🎵

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youtu.be/iG0vGmHs3…

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a long but fun Atlantic article on The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America (gift link)

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Florence + the Machine, One of the Greats, live for World Cafe 🎵

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arms outstretched\nback from the dead\nstreetlights bursting overhead

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authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Elections as Tools of Autocracy and White Supremacy:

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You have often heard me say: Never give up on elections. I stand behind this, now more than ever… This is the time to message that a strike against some of us is a strike against all of us.

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resurrected a copy of the website for the now-defunct Austin Computer Book Club. no longer at the “cool” URL of austin.computerbook.club, but back for posterity (and LinkedIn 😊) at computerbookclub.chrisgrayson.net hire me, I ran a Meetup for a couple years! 📚

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Ana Tijoux, 1977 🎵

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www.youtube.com/watch

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that Atlantic article that Kash Patel is suing them over is really a must-read. these are pros, and they covered their bases:

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the more than two dozen people I interviewed …described Patel’s tenure as a management failure and his personal behavior as a national-security vulnerability

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of all the times he’s claimed “it’s like nothing anybody’s seen before”, whaddya know, this time it’s true! Oil and gas crisis from Iran war worse than 1973, ​1979 and 2022 together, says IEA

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Speedy Ortiz, Raising the Skate, live on KEXP 🎵

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I’m not bossy, I’m the boss

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I finished the book How to Kill a Witch by Zoe Venditozzi & Claire Mitchell. a quick, interesting read for women’s history month 📚

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Le Tigre, TKO 🎵

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read about it at your Barnes & Noble

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I’ve shared this before, but since it’s the best performance of the best rock song ever made, a repeat should be okay. Wussy, Teenage Wasteland 🎵

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Screaming Females & Garbage, Because the Night 🎵

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I don’t use Google anymore (still liking Kagi), but I understand it remains popular, so here’s a tip on how to make the Guardian your go-to news source in Google search

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the Volts podcast is normally about clean energy topics, but this episode with Michael Hobbes about “reactionary centrism” was fantastic. clear-eyed analysis of media and punditry trends that explains a lot about [gestures] …all of this

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