Mikel Merino scored in the 88th minute on a rebound yielded by backup Belgium goalkeeper Senne Lammens, and Spain advanced to the World Cup semifinals with a 2-1 victory
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Professor Penn returns from Independence Day unsettled, not because the Fourth lacked fireworks, but because the celebration exposed how little sacred responsibility remains beneath the noise. He moves from the Latin Mass, Hebrew ritual, handwritten checks, cash, biometric scans, and digital convenience into a larger warning: a free people can surrender themselves quietly when every sacred barrier is replaced with “accessibility.” The episode connects that spiritual flattening to politics, where low participation, unlimited party money, and a weakened Republican ground game leave ordinary citizens watching the kingmakers retake control. Penn then turns outward to Ukraine, Gaza, NATO, and the machinery of permanent conflict, arguing…
Professor Penn and Royce White continue the George Floyd Square story with Edwin and Angela Williams, digging into the legal fight, business losses, barricades, police withdrawal, and the city’s alleged failure to protect small business owners after the unrest. Edwin lays out how the Cup Foods case, property-value losses, lack of access, and pending summary judgment connect to a much larger question about whether Minneapolis business owners can still receive justice under the rule of law. The conversation turns toward the nonprofit money machine, with Edwin arguing that federal and state recovery funds were routed through preferred organizations while real LLC businesses at the center of the damage were left behind. Angela adds a direct…
Professor Penn and Royce White mark America’s 250th anniversary by returning to Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence, and the unfinished moral contradictions at the heart of the founding. The conversation centers on Jefferson’s rejected anti-slavery passage, his warning that he preferred “dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery,” and the tension between America’s Christian principles and the compromises that allowed the country to be born. Penn and Royce connect slavery, abortion, the 14th Amendment, borders, feminism, identity politics, and the rule of law as recurring battles over ownership, freedom, responsibility, and truth. Royce argues that America’s founding promise was not comfort, dependency, or safety,…
Professor Penn opens by challenging America’s assumptions about time, progress, science, and material reality, arguing that the modern world has trained citizens to move in a straight line toward dependency, technocracy, and control. The conversation ties this spiritual and philosophical frame to the fight over election integrity, Supreme Court rulings, the SAVE Act, party money, and the machinery shaping the upcoming midterms. Penn warns that wedge issues like war, abortion, guns, and election fraud are increasingly treated as industries, keeping citizens emotionally trapped while political money and institutional power keep rewriting the rules. The episode moves into Minnesota politics, with Jacob Frey backing Angie Craig, Peggy…
Gov. Mike Kehoe declared a state of emergency after up to a foot of rain fell overnight in the southeastern part of the state. More storms are in the forecast.