95% butts in seats at Los Angeles Stadium on a Monday for a match involving a country we’re at war with vs. a country with half the population of LA County. Tell me again about the lack of buzz for the World Cup.

Crowd erupts in cheers at Iran’s first goal. Some of you may not want to hear this but fans with all kinds of flags and slogans were high fiving and celebrating together.

If UEFA had its way, nations like Cape Verde would never be invited to the World Cup. Yet now the highest rated WC performance is from a 40yo GK from there.🇨🇻 Exactly what the P5 wants to do with college sports postseason. Exclude the “little guy”. Sports are about belief, the unthinkable, “anything is possible”. That inspiration is only possible, with the inclusion of “the little guy”.

Replacing the rainbow with something even gayer.. the French

JFK once invited to dinner 49 Nobel laureates, Robert Frost, William Styron, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Katherine Anne Porter, John Dos Passos, James Farrell and Lionel and Diana Trilling, and others. His line on the occasion became famous: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Some of you were alive when that happened.

Trump is publicly taking Hezbollah’s side over Israel, and we’re about to give Iran $25 billion dollars and hope they’ll re-open the Strait of Hormuz. Actually insane.

This is so insane😭😭😭

Brilyn is Temu Charlie Kirk

The 10 hours of erecting scaffolding wasn’t to strip the letters (something that 30 minutes in a boom lift could accomplish), it was to conceal the view with a curtain because Trump couldn’t handle the optics of the letters of his name being plucked off the building.

If this is proven true he’s disqualified from representing the US in these matters and judges should so rule and refer him for bar disipline.

We already ran this scenario during the civil war and area #2 lost, numbnuts

Sir….the Japanese World Cup tourists discovered Texas Roadhouse and are calling it the "best cost-performance steak"

Genuine question. Is every country experiencing this or is this just a random Algeria Kansas subplot

A couple of Germans on a road trip have done more to inspire patriotism ahead of America’s 250th anniversary than the entirety of the U.S. government.

Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?

Very reasonable World Cup visitor question: "You guys are all so nice! Friendly, warm, and hospitable! So why did your country vote for such an awful person?" *Laura takes off hat, rubs face* We can't... we can't read, guys.

Beginning to think that spreading World Cup teams across mid-sized college towns in the American heartland was a stroke of genius.

Lawrence STOP you are breaking my heart

Some thoughts on the new Epstein Files revelations: I’ve now read everything that’s come out from the new Haberman and Swan book, and the thing I keep coming back to is the Situation Room. They held multiple meetings in the Situation Room about the Epstein files. That room is for war. It’s for national security emergencies. It is not for figuring out how to spin a scandal you’re telling the country is a hoax. While the President was deflecting or calling this old news, his own Vice President and Chief of Staff were huddled in the most leak-proof room in America because they knew how bad it really was. You don’t take a nothingburger to the Situation Room. And I have to be honest, reading all this brings back a lot of frustration about what happened in the House of Representatives. I sat there and watched Mike Johnson send the House home early to dodge a vote on releasing these files. I watched him refuse to swear in a duly elected colleague for months just to stall the discharge petition. Month after month of excuses, arm twisting, and procedural games, all to keep this information from the public. We only got the files because survivors, families, and a handful of members in both parties simply refused to let it go. So when people ask me why I talk so much about transparency and accountability, this is why. The truth eventually comes out. It always does. The only question is whether your leaders helped reveal it or helped bury it. Everyone who voted to keep these files hidden should have to answer for that. Finally, notice what’s missing from all of this is any sign that Trump’s DOJ will actually investigate the powerful men named in these files. Draw your own conclusions about why a Justice Department run by the President’s former defense lawyers might not be eager to pull that thread.