@pave2112.bsky.social
“Jäger, like Fukuyama, is a prisoner of his political pieties. But there is a synthesis, lurking in the shadows of the end of history: the Final Girl, beaten yet unbroken, who may yet defeat the Last Men.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-h...
The End of History and the Final Girl
Anton Jäger’s "Hyperpolitics" is, at its best, late marginalia for "The End of History and the Last Man." At its worst, Jäger, like Fukuyama, is a prisoner of his political pieties.
liberalcurrents.com
Everything Finally Clicks For Man After Getting Diagnosed As Stupid https://theonion.com/everything-finally-clicks-for-man-after-getting-diagnosed-as-stupid/
A note to publicists: Maybe hold back from saying how much your client loves what they're promoting unless you're absolutely sure. Meet the fabulous Mr T www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T
He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?
theguardian.com
This is one of the most incredible interviews with a celebrity that I've ever read.
Simon Hattenstone@shattenstone.bsky.social · last wk.A note to publicists: Maybe hold back from saying how much your client loves what they're promoting unless you're absolutely sure. Meet the fabulous Mr T www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
They’re just really concerned with free speech on campus and academic freedom bsky.app/profile/polp...
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 3w ago'mere' authoritarians seek to capture the state & a few key sectors for fascists, every institution must brought low & made complicit in the new social order
Please enjoy these 93 glorious seconds of Godzilla 2000 shaking the hands of children and posing for photos.
I find the discourse around "wokeness" to be dishonest and tedious, but this is what I wrote about it a couple of years ago and I think it remains correct: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
MLB owners of losing teams getting ready to point to the Dodgers for why they need a salary cap
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · last mo.Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
This was an incredibly helpful primer on what's going on with China www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...
Opinion | What Americans Need to Understand About China (Gift Article)
Kevin Rudd, a former prime minister of Australia, went back to school to try to understand how the Chinese president thinks.
nytimes.com
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
Got this at Readercon. It’s PKD’s first novel, wasn’t published until after his death and it isn’t scifi. Very intrigued to read it. his work is a huge influence on my writing. A Scanner Darkly changed my philosophy for why I write, who I‘m writing for & what I should capture about humanity.
Spoke to my friend Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes today
I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"
Has the refereeing been good this World Cup? Not really. So why have people been happy with it? Because there's been less of it. Fewer fouls, fewer cards, fewer penalties, less VAR.
World Cup Day 16: The secret to good World Cup refereeing? Less refereeing
Referees have been less involved and people love it. Plus, some serious concerns about the World Cup pitches.
thinkoutsidetheball.substack.com
Do people know this is the Bosnia manager's first soccer coaching job after a post-playing career of professional poker and constantly criticizing the national team on social media
This essay is stunning in its moral and intellectual clarity, and also in its gorgeous sentences. I'm not sure if I'll read the book, but I'm so glad I read this review of it. lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...
A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books
Did the Weather Underground have a point?
lareviewofbooks.org
“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:
Eric Adams Among Lineup Of Children Escorting Turkey Players Onto Pitch
My baseball question would be how he thinks Tony Vitello is doing managing the Giants.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 3mo agoBuster Posey so out of his depth
You can trace the SF Giants' downfall to Peter Magowan stepping down as the control partner (and then passing away), the owners pushing out Bill Neukom as the control partner after the 3rd WS title & the right-wing Johnsons taking over. These guys just want to make $$. Don't care about baseball.
i did this so much yesterday i was threatened with divorce 22 times
