The US citizenship process is already ridiculously arduous and dehumanizing and the government wants to turn it up to 100. www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-...

If Brazil wins a World Baseball Classic qualifier on Carnaval Tuesday I’m declaring it the new national sport.

86% of Brazilians disapprove of the Jan. 8, 2023 insurrection attempt carried out by supporters of ex-President (and Trump ally) Jair Bolsonaro, according to a new poll.

And unlike Jan. 6 in the US, the share who approve of it doesn't appear to have grown meaningfully in the two years since.

But this is exactly what NFL games in the U.S. are like.

The Major League Baseball Players Association is still very good at being a union. www.nytimes.com/athletic/552...

what in the world is nike doing

Saw Gilberto Gil live in Bahia last night, 2024 off to a pretty solid start.

Fascinating background on the Shohei deal: He grew up in 0% inflation, low/negative interest Japan.

"For his generation, the Time Value of Money has been an irrelevant and academic concept...$1 million in 10 years’ time is worth just as much as $1 million today."
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The name is very Georgia but the overall aesthetic absolutely screams "Kentucky quarterback."

mine too

Feel like you didn't really have to listen that closely to Tyler Childers' music to find "includes a gay kiss in a music video" pretty unsurprising, but then again lots of people believe Born in the USA is a patriotic anthem. bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023...

Lula returned to the UN today, declared his election last year and victory for democracy & delivered his diagnosis of why and how the far-right has advanced around the world.

This graf from the New Yorker piece on Elon says just about everything. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

There’s a first time for everything, I guess.