The National Guard Bureau will spend $292 million to provide a "long-term housing solution" for thousands of troop members deployed in DC in "apartment-style lodging units"

National Guard Signs $292M Housing Contract for Troops in Washington, D.C.

The deal would provide 2,000 “apartment-style lodging units” for service members deployed in the city.

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To paraphrase Gramsci: common sense is nonsense and the work of politics is to put that nonsense in order in a way that builds your coalition and advances your goals

eke@eke.bsky.social · 3w ago

this feels corollary to that chris hayes post i always think about, that many voters don't have "issues," they don't think in issues, and when you talk about how their positions on various issues conflict with eachother they often genuinely do not even understand why you think it's hypocritical

I wrote about VAR

VAR Is My Mortal Enemy and Should Be Yours, Too

The 2026 World Cup has been astonishingly good, with one nightmarish exception

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Hopper visited Paris three times, studying Impressionist light and urban life but filtering it through American detachment. In Le Bistro (1909), patrons sit in shadow while the street beyond dissolves into haze—public life observed at a distance.

"This is our land. Israel has no right to lease it to the United States." The U.S. is planning a new embassy in Jerusalem, at a site that was appropriated from Palestinian families, including Columbia University scholar Rashid Khalidi's, during the Nakba.

Read this. It’s a big deal. www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/m...

Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna detained by Israeli settlers during West Bank visit | CNN

Democratic lawmaker Ro Khanna said he was detained by Israeli settlers armed with US-made rifles during a West Bank visit this week that he cast as an unfiltered look at the human toll of Israeli occu...

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This is very good www.liberalcurrents.com/gender-graha...

Gender Graham Crackup

For the antifeminist leftist, the HR Lady symbolizes the empty triumph of managerial liberalism and girlboss feminism, to be vanquished by a pair of sapient Carhartts.

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Brandon Scott has been mayor of Baltimore since 2020. The first-half murder rate has declined each year since at least 2023. From his Wikipedia page:

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · last mo.

wow, 46 to date, could see under 100 for the year. Baltimore has typically recorded around 200-350 homicides per year for my entire lifespan. Shows the decline we saw over last few years could endure

I'm giving a talk at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford on Friday: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/the-in...

A Colony Within? Debating Race, Class, and Empire in Midcentury America

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If VAR didn't exist, both 🇺🇸 and 🇪🇬 would be through to the quarterfinals. Prove me wrong.

Absolute counterattacking clinic from 🇪🇬

I am beyond the point of wanting to abolish VAR and approaching the point of wanting to arrest every VAR official and imprison them in a medieval tower

Shobeir has BVE (Big Vozinha Energy)

A Football Chant for Egypt In celebration of the World Cup, a football chant from Egypt.... https://arablit.org/2026/07/07/a-football-chant-for-egypt/

A Football Chant for Egypt

In celebration of the World Cup, a football chant from Egypt.

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Folks, no one has a RIGHT to higher office. OK? You aren't "canceling" anyone when you decide NOT TO SUPPORT THEIR QUEST FOR MORE POWER. Please let's be SERIOUS. This is not what is meant by "no one is disposable." I'm begging people to focus and use your brains. That man can still make a LIVING.

This song really captures what it feels like to be a fan of the USMNT www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrMO...

love is embarrassing

YouTube video by Olivia Rodrigo - Topic

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This is a very good article, but it fails to mention that FIFA *used* to split World Cup revenues (on tickets, broadcast contracts, sponsorship deals, etc.) with the host country. It stopped doing so at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Michael Leo Owens@milophd.bsky.social · last mo.

“FIFA takes the vast majority of the revenue from World Cup ticketing, media rights, sponsorship, concessions and parking, while cities are responsible for costs related to transportation, safety and security, extending…to FIFA Fan Fest locations, airports and even vehicles used in the competition.”

This is an elite bit 🫡

pork, cheese, broccoli rabe@garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · last mo.

I can't believe people are openly rooting for england considering He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

A powerful statement by 142 historians, representing the 142 years that the American Historical @historians.org has had its congressional charter, to say one thing: it's time to confront the AHA's Palestine Exception. In awe of these colleagues, read more: www.usscholarsspeak.org

US Scholars Speak

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My reaction to all this is basically...

Tempted to quote-tweet every sanctimonious post about FIFA's (obviously corrupt) suspension of the Balogun red card with "Wow I didn't know you loved VAR so much"

Gil is the greatest

Brad Simpson@bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · last mo.

No more appropriate day than to listen to the Gil Scott Heron 1976 poem bicentennial blues. My local community radio station WPFW was playing it. Still hits hard as ever: youtu.be/beqC_m2pU1U?...

This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team (Gift Article)

At block parties, backyards and beer halls, an expanded tournament gave immigrant diasporas large and small the chance to revel in support of their home countries.

nytimes.com

Hossam Hassan, Egypt’s head coach, carried the Palestinian flag after Egypt advanced to the Round of 16 of the World Cup. He said, “I dedicate this victory to the Egyptian and Palestinian people.”

Oh my god

I finally did it: I made a podcast. The Tour de France starts tomorrow. As the most historical of sports, what you need is three historians (myself, @stschrader1.bsky.social, @theotherjude.bsky.social) chatting about why 2026 is the year to get into cycling. www.patreon.com/historianson...

Historians on Two Wheels, Episode 1 | Charles Petersen

Tour de France 2026

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Egypt let's gooooo!!!!

I was in Egypt for the entire 2010 World Cup, and it was one of the coolest experiences with sports I've ever had. Will never forget the raucous cheers when Bafana Bafana scored in the opening match, or the celebrations at Landon Donovan's winner against Algeria (iykyk). Go Pharaohs!