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La mejor Selección de la historia

Por Ariel Greco © Página 12
July 15, 2026

Un tiempo después de Qatar, Rodrigo De Paul osó decir que esta Selección era la mejor de la historia. Y claro, desde varios sectores, incluídos campeones de otras camadas, le saltaron a la yugular. Hoy, después del épico triunfo ante Inglaterra, ya no quedan dudas. Este ciclo es el mejor y más glorioso período de la historia de una de las camisetas más pesadas del mundo, incluso cuando todavía falta un capítulo más el próximo domingo.

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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

-Thomas Jefferson

‘A first step to fascism’: critics denounce Trump administration replacing slavery exhibit at George Washington’s ​home

© The Guardian
July 16, 2026

Critics say the Trump administration acted under the “cover of darkness” to replace an exhibit exploring the lives of nine enslaved people who lived at George Washington’s ​Philadelphia home with a version that is overly sympathetic to enslavers and that whitewashes the country’s origins.

The installation of new information panels followed a six-month fight between the city of Philadelphia and the Trump administration over an enslavement memorial at the President’s House, the former home of both Washington and his presidential successor John Adams.

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The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

-George Washington

Drained reflecting pool reveals Trump’s ‘American flag blue’ liner is now closer to gray

© The Guardian
July 16, 2026

The newly drained Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s bottom surface has noticeably faded since it was lined with a protective coating in a color Donald Trump called “American flag blue” this spring.

An Associated Press reporter and photographer viewed the fenced-off reflecting pool on Wednesday from the top of the Washington Monument. The new liner appears grayer than when the pool was repainted and refilled with water in early June. Debris that had been visible earlier this week after the pool was drained is now largely gone, after work crews removed it.

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photo by: Maja Hiti

As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash

-Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)