One meeting with JD Vance did for Viktor Orban’s career what it did for Pope Francis

Every week, football gives you more than you can process. A midweek Champions League collapse. A transfer rumor that makes no sense. A goal so filthy you watch the replay six times.

And what do you do with all of it? You text your friends. You screenshot a tweet. You start typing a take and delete it because it needs more context than a group chat allows. That’s The Kickaround. A new weekly series on FFN. Quick takes, trends, what to watch, who to follow. Every Monday.

I haven't seen any good explanations of what happens when a USN ship "interdicts" a Chinese oil tanker. Do they just float in front of them on a block even though stopping a tanker is extremely difficult? Do they just sink it? Arrest everybody and leave the tanker unmanned? Taunt them, and then threaten to taunt them a second time? Seriously Sparky, what are ya gonna do here? And I'm sure you've thought through what China is going to do if you damage one of their ships. Uhhhh, right?

I was thinking of how much trouble I had registering for Ceramics class every semester in college. These 30 retired ladies would constantly register because they got to use the giant silo kiln, and they would take up all of the class space.

I don't know why I was thinking of that, but Viktor Orban got creamed, so there's a lot off my mind.