I'm a long time NHL fan and brand new World Cup watcher (blame it on @msentropy.bsky.social). All I'm gonna say is; Infantino makes Bettman look like a Prince of chivalry and honesty.

“I officially hate that fucking guy [Messi]” he said Mashallah

So proud of my SoCal born and raised hockey player boyfriend for his outrage over how much #Argentina  cheats. #Egypt  Exposure therapy works!

each line is a new adventure

“Germany lost the World Cup because rap music and Black people”

he’s serious

#Breaking: SCOTUS upholds Birthright citizenship, ruling against Trump’s attempt to overturn the 14th Amendment. I love that this decision comes in the middle of America 250 AND World Cup 2026. Poetic. 1/2

I’m in Lawrence at those very moment and there’s nothing with Algeria on it for sale. And it is 100 percent wild with Algerian flags flying from peoples cars and kindly old Kansans exchanging high fives and Algerians when they bump into each other on the street. Kinda amazing.

Latest update in Algeria-Lawrence, Kansas love affair memes: LFK (Lawrence Fucking Kansas) officially recognizes the merger with Algeria by sharing its nickname: ALFK (Algeria Fucking Kansas) ❤️🇩🇿💚🌻

Mashallah Morocco!

“Fucking Zlatan is roasting the Netherlands” - things I never expected my boyfriend to say I AM SO PROUD

ALGERIA THROUGH TO KNOCKOUT

Lawrence of Algeria, Kansas: I love you so fucking much. Yalla LesVerts!

MATCH DAY

Trump’s ‘Great American State Fair’ vs World Cup, Egypt - Iran

Y’ALL. Algeria gear has sold out so fast in Lawrence, Kansas that it’s impossible to get — so now locals are just making their own shirts to support #LesVerts  🇩🇿❤️🌻💚⚽️ Someone posted their kid’s shirt design on Facebook today (LFK is Lawrence’s nickname: “Lawrence Fucking Kansas”) LOVE IT

Congratulations, Cape Verde!!!! Cape Verde has made history yet again in this, their very first World Cup, as the smallest nation in history to reach the knockout stage!!

I'm a proud Saudi Arabia hater who eagerly seizes the opportunity to talk shit every single chance I get, so I don't mind when KSA qualifies for the World Cup It just gives me a bigger platform for my rants

fun fact about this ex-boyfriend and Lawrence, Kansas history: his dad was William S. Burroughs' drug dealer

C'mon Cape Verde - DESTROY Saudi inshallah

The Mom of my ex-boyfriend from college just sent me this from Lawrence - Algeria and Kansas bringing people together in all sorts of unexpected ways, lmfaaaao

This is so badass - I *just* found out that Stan Herd, the Lawrence artist who did that giant Algeria flag on KU's campus, also did an earthworks portrait of ... JOHN BROWN. What a perfect choice of artist to honor the Kansas-Algeria shared spirit and World Cup love fest. ⚽ ❤️ 🇩🇿 🌻 💚

This is so badass - I *just* found out that Stan Herd, the Lawrence artist who did that giant Algeria flag on KU's campus, also did an earthworks portrait of ... JOHN BROWN. What a perfect choice of artist to honor the Kansas-Algeria shared spirit and World Cup love fest. ⚽ ❤️ 🇩🇿 🌻 💚

The Battle of Algaers

FOR THE WIN

Hello, I am here with a new contribution to the Reflecting Pool Discourse (TM): The algae showed up to support #LesVerts in the World Cup, and that’s why Trump is fencing it off. Obvious Anti-Algeria conspiracy is OBVIOUS. #WorldCup #Algérie #DC #reflectingpool

Lawrence, Kansas celebrations for home team Algeria are too big for watch party venues - taking over downtown! ROCK CHALK DESERT FOX ❤️ 1, 2, 3 VIVA ALGÉRIE 💚 Y’all have zero idea how close my heart is to bursting watching these scenes

The Kansas-Algeria bonding is probably my favorite part of this world cup

Friend in Lawrence just FaceTimed me from an Algeria watch party at the Granada; the crowd is nuts, people are setting off flares, and there’s a new KU-Fennecs chant: ROCK CHALK DESERT FOX!

ZAGHROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUTAAAAAAAA BITCHESSSS VIVA ALGÉRIE TA7YA DJAZAIR DIMA DIMA ALGERIA-KANSAS

Good thing it's France playing Iraq, and not the USA. Otherwise this Desert Storm weather delay could last decades, tank the global economy even harder, and fuck up the prospect of international peace for centuries yet to come. [I feel bad for this joke, just not *that* much]

They should do the pop tart sacrifice at the end of the World Cup final but it’s just alexi lalas being lowered into an active volcano

The real winner of World Cup 2026: All of us. 🥰

World Cup 2026 is such a beautiful reminder to celebrate the things that unify us all, even amidst today's constant global war, chaos, and misery. Thank you, Alexi Lalas, for bringing us all together. <3 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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I’ve been sick and trying to write this entire weekend, and have SHOCKINGLY neither finished my article draft, or recovered yet. Back to bed with me, so I can (inshallah) sleep myself back into full maniac health for Algeria vs. Jordan tomorrow. Yalla BYE.

Ty for this. I just learned 3days ago about the history of the U.S. military naming operations for "Indian" terms by watching this documentary that is a must watch. www.imdb.com/title/tt1187... please share.

oh I’ve giving it my all at it for a decade I was beginning to lose hope I’d ever see such a beautiful day of glory bsky.app/profile/msen...

to recap The man in this “FBI: Fascist Bureau of Intimidation” t-shirt — America’s Senior Director for Counter Terrorism — preemptively blocks people he’s never interacted with, like a little bitch. Mr. Deputy Advisor to President Trump, consider me I N T I M I D A T E D

Was it something I said?

🧵!!!!!!

It feels even more loathsome than that to me — it’s like the Trump admin invited the world to a party, and declared war on them with every single possible aspect of symbolism (and visa policy).

Thread, in sum — Trump’s militarized sporting fetish circus is demonstrably and INTENTIONALLY much more disgusting than that of any previous administration. And anyone with half a soul should be livid.

Strap in for a long thread about the relationship of American military spectacles, sporting events, and what makes the Trump administration’s World Cup displays — such as DHS messaging and Apache / Blackhawk stadium flyovers — so much more disgusting than ever before. This actually matters. 1/14

PRECISELY

I’m going to organize those rants into one, easy to read, legible thread because HELL NAH

It’s not an average “oh cool jet flyover” here - these are completely different aircraft: Apache and Blackhawk helicopters that a lot of the international teams (and supporters) recognize — FROM BEING ATTACKED BY THE HOST COUNTRY.

Gonna agree to disagree to disagree because it’s not about “I hate Trump” or an ignorance on my part about militaristic spectacles (I’ve published on that exact topic, from W. Bush to Obama and beyond). It’s about substance, the championship’s ethos, hypocrisy, and timing. bsky.app/profile/msen...