It begins ⚽️
They won’t steal our joy.
Today’s opening match is Mexico v South Africa. Preview courtesy of this Nigerian cat on IG. The context is the latest round of xenophobia in SA
(The other context is Nigeria didn’t make the finals this time but we’ll address that later 😂)
Among the union wins:
- The right to walk off the job during World Cup matches if federal agents threaten worker safety
- Pay raises: over 30% increase in automatic gratuities for bartenders and servers, cooks earn $40/hr
- Privacy protections for workers' immigration status for event credentials
LOL
"The writer was deputy national security adviser for strategy in the first Trump administration and is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution"
I don't give a good goddamn about Taylor Swift but I thought the "Stevie Knicks" shirt was pretty neat.
When you're The Economist you want to berate young people for turning to socialism while also proposing the far right's rise is due to the public's mendacity. But you made this world by cheering neoliberal policy since Thatcher and Reagan. The culprit isn't the youth, or the public. It's you.
Right on. By Jesse Weaver Shipley in the Brooklyn Rail.
brooklynrail.org/2026/06/arts...
FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT
alex nguyen
A very positive development.
Great move by UEFA in their running war against the Infantino regime at FIFA. And also simply decent.
