Raoul Meyer

Saka, Rice, Konsa, Eze, White, Madueke, Lewis-Skelly, (potentially) Dowman. That’s a lot of England players in the Arsenal squad. For England’s sake, Bellingham to Arsenal is a no-brainer.

Brought my oldest child to vote on the first day of early voting. Poll workers announced that they were a first time voter and the polling station erupted in applause. Democracy rocks.

Any fans of reading out there who are in or will be visiting New York City in the next week should check out this small exhibit (admission for teachers is $10 and well worth it): posterhouse.org/exhibition/r...

Finally we're fighting back! This ad goes so fucking hard youtu.be/Gt_IZoM9KuQ?...

In honor of John Dewey and his often-impenetrable prose, I’m going to say this: Democracy Begins at School (Which is why authoritarians hate any schooling they can’t control)

Can we stop for a second and think about how stupid a combination "ballroom and military complex" is?

A gentle reminder that Elon Musk spending $280M of his $900B net worth is like me having $1000 and spending 30 cents.

I suspect that part of what's behind the GOP's trans panic strategy is that they believe gender affirming care, especially surgery, will be straw that breaks the Medicare for All camel's back.

“Flight Without End” is one banger sentence after another. Example: “I have no pangs of conscience as regards my indolence, it is just that my indolence brings in no money whereas the indolence of everyone else is well remunerated.”

Inscribed on the heart of every billionaire (and perhaps their tombstones): “Only money confers the right to live.” - Joseph Roth

“Anyway, I am quite unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world.” - Joseph Roth

Has anyone used a.i. to create the gorilla channel yet?

So, I saw the Musk documentary ... it should be a series rather than a single film. Some of the stories are compelling -- the Tesla autopilot lawsuits, the DOGE fiasco -- but others aren't, perhaps because it's hard to tell a story of financial shenanigans when they are this complicated.

What’s the most obvious error in a book that made you question whether the rest of what the author wrote could be trusted?

A potential upside of all this a.i. mishegas? The triumphant return of principal-agent law!

October will see the release of two of the movies I am most excited to see, both documentaries!

The Thing should have his own stand-alone MCU movie.

Take of the Day #2: Any education reform needs to start with doubling the number of teachers so that class size is 16-18 and each MS/HS teacher is responsible for 90 students MAX (+ pay them MIN $75K).That’s what rich people in cities like NYC are paying $75K per year for and what all kids deserve.

Take of the day #1: Billionaires pushing a.i. wake up every day knowing that nothing they do matters. Their money will keep growing regardless of their actions, they don’t help people, they don’t make anything useful. They want the rest of us to feel as empty and meaningless as they feel.

As my contribution to the Mamdani discourse, I’m going to leave this here: www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/why-do-...

Apropos of nothing in today’s news, it’s ok to forbid certain purchases and sales. You can’t buy or sell organs, or children, or certain drugs or weapons no matter how much money you have or what your politics are. Some prohibitions are good.

This Halloween I'm going to dress as a cartoonishly priapic soldier to make fun of Pete Hegseth. Who's with me?

The new military fitness test:

“Trump lies again, offering impossible ‘dividend’ checks in desperate attempt to buy your vote” — this should be the headline.

Happy Labor Day! If you find yourself tempted to complain about the job protections, wages, and benefits of unionized workers, take a breath and ask yourself, "Why don't I have those benefits, too?"

My hot take of the day: We need to be talking more about Olivia Miles and the Minnesota Lynx.

We do not 'have to' embrace AI.

"If I can pay for it I should have it" and "If I don't wan't to pay for it I shouldn't have to" are two sides of the same coin and that coin is the currency of the GOP realm.

I'm definitely not watching a speech by an addled dimwit who presided over the beginning of an epidemic that nearly killed him, passed massive tax give away to the rich and repeatedly blamed everything on his predecessor tell me that the ONLY reason he lost an election SIX YEARS ago was fraud.

I know it’s my Arsenal bias, but why not bring on Saka after the goal? He’s a better defender than Rogers who was moved to the left anyway. Too many center backs and not enough players defending at the top of the box where the danger came from.

The GOP should just put a magic 8 ball out to answer questions at confirmation hearings at this point.

@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com I am begging you to re-consider your editorial policies. Too many of your articles are so long and almost gleefully abstruse as to be nearly unreadable and frequently unpersuasive. If your goal is to persuade us that we need a new Reconstruction, hone your rhetoric.

Also, "semiquincentennial" is way too optimistic and less accurate than "250th anniversary" My 50th birthday was not my semicentennial. That's just dumb.

The U.S. celebrates independence on the wrong day. It should be celebrated on September 3, the date that the Treaty of Paris was signed. If the colonists had lost the war, the Declaration of Independence would be a footnote, and the U.S. would be Canada.

I truly believe that the normalization of nighttime bookstores would change the world.

This lunch includes all five of the main Dutch food groups: cheese, cucumber, geometry, boredom and sorrow, with most of the vitamin content provided by the soul-destroying view of endless flatness spilling off the far-flung horizon.

Along with John J. Cafaro, I need photos of Curtis E. Wood, the CEO of the "woman owned" company that resurfaced the reflecting pool for $14 million.

petition to stop calling it the "MOU" and label it "Trump's Iran Deal," until it becomes an actual treaty or whatever it's going to be.

I stopped into two bookstores on the UWS today and neither had a display of LGBTQIA+ books for Pride. It's still June, right? What is going on?

What a contrast, in so many ways: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fmj...