Berny Belvedere
@bernybelvedere
Senior Editor @TheUnPopulist.net. Executive Director @ismapolicy.bsky.social. Views my own.
Appreciate the reports coming out confirming the Trump intervention’s effect on the U.S. squad—*and*, in the other direction, on Belgium—but it really was obvious from the start. It wasn’t the reason they lost—but it affected them.
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Candace Owens's former employer on how she "loves to sling nonsense"—as if this were some new development, rather than a defining feature of her public persona from the start.
Reminder that the "get politics out of sports" brigade is at bottom really just a "get *your* politics out of sports, and inject *my* politics into it" chudwagon.
Gonna tell my grandkids this was the president of the United States (and I hope they won’t believe me).
This is hot nonsense, as evidenced by the fact that Tim Howard, Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey, Stu Holden, and just about every other American who plies his trade in soccer commentary manages to do so without provoking the reactions Lalas does. It’s not an America thing; it’s a Lalas thing.
Plummeting burglary rates spell trouble for one often overlooked group: locksmiths who change the locks after a break-in.
Hoy juega Argentina! 🇦🇷 Vamos por la cuarta estrella, muchachos! #WorldCup2026
Absolute clown Martinez turned out to be. The single biggest vulnerability for Portugal entering this WC—arguably its strongest-ever side—is Ronaldo’s inclusion. To suggest he could play next WC is malpractice.
Could not have picked a better time to wear an Arsenal jersey ✌️🤙
One feature they are highlighting is that the network status bar on your incredible new T1 will read “TRUMP”
Wait until you hear about the depravities you can commit in America and still get to be president.
Before that? A review of a book on presidential pardons; a dispatch on India's digital authoritarianism; a convo on the Manosphere; Fukuyama vs. Rubio's Christian-nationalist Western civ; a report of Trump's latest abuses; and a piece on how Miller's immigration agenda constitutes ethnic cleansing.
Here are our last few posts: A longtime journalist on anti-Muslim discrimination in Texas; an expert on the DOD/Anthropic saga; a CNL-aligned YIMBY liberal on reclaiming globalism; an ISMA panel on the subcultures of the neo-right; and a progressive Rabbi on antisemitism within his political side.
An undeniable takeaway from a casual stroll through this ideological subculture’s discourse spaces is how completely sane they all are.