From 12 years ago, when this was already pretty well understood by various folks in Turkey with whom we consulted: freedomhouse.org/report/speci...
<Cracks open the Turkey case studies>
The World Cup kicks off this week, but more than 1/4 of the participating countries face travel bans, tighter restrictions, or high visa rejection rates from our government.
President Trump's extreme anti-immigrant agenda is making the country less welcoming to fans and causing chaos and fear.
As I said to a colleague, this report is either disingenuous or naive, and I'm not sure which is worse
My mayor Muslim
My bagel Jewish
My Nike kicks
Spurs in six?
Also giant chunks I'd completely forgotten that are prophetic, like the Panther Moderns, an edgelord terror cult/mercenary gang that seems to be doing mass casualty events for the lulz
Also, and unoriginally: hilarious how much Cyberpunk 2077 and whatever else is just a pale imitation of the real thing
Reading Neuromancer for the first time since I was a teenager and holy hell that's a great genre book
In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
42 points on 23 2nd-quarter possessions (1.83 per) for the Knicks.