Old Man Schindler

This is still a democracy. I'll be damned if we're gonna just give these pathetic fascists power they don't have.

He was so damn good today.

Do you have an easy way to figure out what when your model has shown our best chance of a title since 22-23?

You make me proud to be a fellow Carleton grad!

Horrible.

Listening to that record got me through the week of the first Trump election. That appearance on SNL was something.

Both club football and international football would be improved if the September / October and November international breaks were combined into a single 4-5 week break in October.

This seems important:

Important.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Brentford need to recruit well or they could be in trouble.

Selling Isak?

I think it’s mostly about the opportunity cost - keeping him probably blocks a move for Eve or Rodrygo so I am fine with a fee around 10-12 million (double if it’s a premier league team - I’d certainly be trying to convince West Ham to make a bid).

As an Arsenal fan I truly can’t understand the absolute head loss going on here.

No Democrat who does this has any right to tell leftists to back the Democratic nominee for president no matter who it is. "Vote blue no matter who" has to go both ways.

Thank you for what you said and how you said it today James.

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

they’ve even plowed tens of billions into a man-stealing operation so vast and unaccountable that it makes the fugitive slave act look like a modest and responsible use of federal power

Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times

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This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country

Too bad West Ham only buys beefy boys. Trossard would be good for them.

Hard to tease out team style effects since Brentford don’t play in the midfield. I think this is basically a fine deal - he should be able to take dead minutes, knows the league and will be happy in his role.

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Polling data from Harris & Associates 1966. Q: Do you approve of what Freedom Riders are Doing? 22% approve 61%disapprove18%no opinion.

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

[Exit King.]

Proud Carleton College with a huge co-sign on that!

No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol

No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol

No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol

No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.

There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.

They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

Leao?

My morning bluesky experience (when my feed is mostly European/UK soccer stuff) is more pleasant than my afternoon/evening (USian politics). (He says, replying at 336 edt)