Annette Gordon-Reed

It’s very instructive that this is considered acceptable. It means that many of the people we assume are our friends really are not.

Jefferson on Race A Reader Edited by Annette Gordon-Reed Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford Copyright © 2026 by Princeton University Press

I think it’s time…

New York

One thing I’ve noticed about paying attention to the World Cup is the amount of really racist things I see people saying about the teams. Of course we have racism here in the US, but the casualness with which deeply racist things are said among the soccer fandom is quite something.

Oh no! Sam Neill, New Zealand Screen Actor and Leading Man, Dies at 78 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...

It can be for specific things—not everything. Wasn’t there some commencement ceremony where they switched to AI to call out the names and it screwed it up. What is wrong with having Professors call out the names of students? It is exactly RIGHT. Why was it so urgent to use AI for that?

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

I kind of wanted Norway to win, but this is really cool. youtube.com/shorts/tCksN...

I love it.

I actually watched the Spain-Belgium match. My first time watching a pro soccer contest.

Count Binface. Something else to watch from the UK.

Wow. What a great performance.. youtu.be/St6jyEFe5WM