The Ask poster in the wild. 🔥🔥🔥

Tenacious B(aptiste)@phonics.bsky.social · 6d ago

And the people who spent 2024 convincing you that Joe Biden was drooling all over himself & barely sentient sat there nodding silently & marveling at the President’s ability to connect with the concerns of ordinary Americans squeezed by higher prices while nibbling on their crème brûlée

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w ago

The entire speech is just rambling gibberish. My God.

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump administration pauses $1 bln in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota www.reuters.com/world/us-hea...

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

BREAKING: the clock struck midnight and our bipartisan housing bill is now law. Trump refused to sign it, but he couldn't stop it. This law is GROUNDBREAKING. It will build more housing, bring down costs, and for the first time, stop private equity from buying up homes.

I did it I wrote the article wish me luck Lionel Messi is the GOAT, Ronaldo is not, why just about every statistical analyst agress www.expectinggoals.com/p/messi-rona...

Why Messi keeps thriving as Ronaldo fades: The GOAT's always been the best

I'm not proud, or tired

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New NBER paper finds that the congestion zone in NYC sped up emergency responses by over a minute - about 5-6%. Great stuff! www.nber.org/papers/w35414

Congestion Pricing and EMS Response Time: Evidence From New York City

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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THIS IS A REAL STATISTIC 🤯 Player-tracking data on Sofascore AND Fotmob confirm: Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha, 40, has attempted and completed more dribbles at the 2026 World Cup (1) than Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo (0).

OK we can add "ripping out a state of the art filtration system for the reflecting pool because Obama installed it" to the list of things Trump has done out of absolute bitter jealousy of the first Black president.

If these were cars, you'd need a 6-story parking garage and it would take 2 hours to empty out after the game. People would leave the game early to "beat the rush" and would have missed singing Take Me Home, Country Roads together.

Best Side Cycling@bestsidecycling.com · 2mo ago

Match day in Seattle means we need ways for people to get around. A whole army of Lime scooters / bikes at the ready for the game to end

A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.

my god, it's real

Raffi Melkonian@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You can go through the strait free, but it takes 2 days, or you can subscribe to Hormuz Plus.

Great @danielsperrykc.bsky.social piece for us today, about how the wonderful town of Lawrence, Kansas fell in love with Algeria: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

How Algeria won over a Kansas town – and became the World Cup’s unlikeliest love affair

Lawrence, a college town of about 100,000 in northeastern Kansas, has embraced Les Fennecs with a fervor that has surprised everyone but the people who live there

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😳 via @futi.live

If you’re stressing about how to get to tomorrow’s World Cup game, we have some advice. The main one is: Don’t drive. www.sounderatheart.com/2026/06/how-...

How to get to World Cup matches in Seattle without losing your mind

Spoiler alert: Don’t drive.

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Heads up: The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow it to refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that don't turn over voter rolls to the federal government. Dems say it's clear evidence the Trump admin is trying to unconstitutionally intrude on state-run elections.

Postal Service Seeks to Block Mail Ballots in States Resisting Trump Demands

nytimes.com

UPDATE: Now it’s Ivory Coast supporters caught up in Trump & Stephen Miller’s racist World Cup dragnet. ⚽️ 🇨🇮 www.thesun.co.uk/sport/393789...

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

I don’t remember any World Cup where shitty stuff like this happened, & I can remember every World Cup since 1978. This referee is one of the best referees in the African Football Confederation (AFCON), & FIFA is standing there useless.

US confirms it denied entry to Somali referee set to take part in World Cup

Award-winning referee Omar Artan was 'determined to be inadmissible due to vetting concerns' after arriving in Miami.

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ICYMI: The right-wing think tank that developed Trump's anti-DEI policies is now shopping model legislation designed to turn minor protest offenses into felonies under a novel theory it calls "CIVIL TERRORISM" 🫠 by @lhn.bsky.social

The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests

The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech.

wired.com

CDOT Commissioner Cheaks should announce on Monday morning that the city will be phasing out "door zone" bike lanes starting immediately, as they are inherently deadly.

Studies consistently find that retail business operators tend to overestimate the proportion of their customers who travel by car. In Berlin, for example, retailers estimated that 22 per cent of their customers drove. In fact it was only 7 per cent. findingspress.org/article/2449...

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3mo ago

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

Been a minute, but I felt an itch to write something ahead of the World Cup. On the things the game can give us: medium.com/@samstejskal...

World Cup watch parties have become part of the event’s fabric, and there will be no shortage of free options for soccer fans in the Bay Area over the next month.

Bay Area World Cup watch parties offer communal experience without steep ticket prices

World Cup watch parties have become part of the event’s fabric, and there will be no shortage of free options for soccer fans in the Bay Area over the next month.

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OPINION: The political significance of Tuesday’s election isn’t simply that Mayor Daniel Lurie’s allies won (and won handily) — it’s where they won, columnist Allison Arieff writes.

Mayor Lurie just got a mandate to build

OPINION: The political significance of Tuesday’s election isn’t simply that Mayor Daniel Lurie’s allies won (and won handily) — it’s where they won, columnist Allison Arieff writes.

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