🇮🇷 “There definitely has been regime change.” Johns Hopkins prof. Vali Nasr tells Democracy Now! that the US & Israel have killed more than 130 Iranian leaders in the 2025 & 2026 wars, effectively replacing an entire generation of the country’s leadership. Nasr writes that the new generation was...

This is just hysteria and Rutte perniciousness and Nato propaganda. Show evidence. #NATO #Rutte #propaganda #Russia ukdefencejournal.org.uk/russia-pouri...

After Japan battled the Netherlands to a 2-2 draw, the Japanese fans stayed behind and cleaned up every single piece of trash from their section at Dallas Stadium after the game. You LOVE to see it 🇯🇵 #WorldCup #Football #Soccer #RG3 #Love #sports #RGIII #RobertGriffinIII #Japan #Discipline

We've had nearly sixty years of US dominance of Internet infrastructure, and 20 years of a near-total US monopoly of social media and we did very little about either. So US dominance of AI hardly came out of nowhere, and yet here we are getting blindsided by it.

“The money that Trump wants to burn on war should instead be spent on the needs of the American people, including restoring funding for healthcare, food, housing, and climate action,” said one critic.

Props to CNN’s chyron writer:

For Saikou and his friends, the 2022 World Cup is not over. The Fifa circus has noved elsewhere, but the struggle and the suffering go on for them. Forgetting them is betraying them.

Don’t usually wear sports clothing in public …. WILL try to get my hands on #haiti jersey, AND wear it in public. #fuckfifa as for Donald J Infantino #SKUNT!!

New for @josimarfootball.bsky.social: Fifa's favourite megastar Shakira will perform her new WC "anthem" "Dai Dai" at the opening ceremony tomorrow. All proceeds to go to charity? No, despite the pledges: she and her co-writers, including Ed Sheeran, stand to make a small fortune from the song.

Since South Korea’s democratisation in the late 1980s, more than half of presidents have been impeached, jailed or both. Lee Jae Myung’s legacy will thus in part depend on whether he can break the curse of the Blue House

Shame on FIFA, shame on Infantino, shame on Trump, Rubio and others. So much for the uniting power of sport….

Moet denken aan die krankzinnige Vredesprijs die ene Infantino aan Trump gaf

Might as well have #trump addressing media at #worldcup #infantino is disgraceful.

Good god, #infantino talks like #trump. Lots of nothing. Presents himself as benevolent and innocent. Awful human being. #fifa

My Keynote speech for the British Palestine Project PALESTINE'S PLACE IN HISTORY youtu.be/62sN7LTuONA?...

www.instagram.com/reel/DZXstjR... so good, this, by @migueldelaney.bsky.social

'Israeli newspaper Maariv reported... Minister Itamar Ben Gvir called for the arrest of Lebanese women & children, saying: “We must think outside the box. Occupying land and killing large numbers is important, but arresting their women & children and taking them to prison is what hurts them most.”'

Trickle down economics has failed. Instead, many of our problems come downstream from the greed of those in power at the top. It's time to end Rip Off Britain. This week's Bold Politics with economist Gabriel Zucman: youtu.be/1cG4ULI1yCo?...

Steven Miller on VAR says the decision stands as called on the field

'Donald Dump' - 2026

Iraqi striker Aymen Hussein was subjected to a grueling seven-hour detention at Chicago’s O’Hare airport upon arrival for the World Cup. A chilling example of the heavy-handed U.S. immigration policies currently casting a shadow over the tournament, the team’s official photographer was denied entry.

The downward spiral of bigotry meme via Stop Brexit & Restore Hope

The Arsenal parade was an incredible occasion, but it was also reminder of how much we take cleaners' work for granted. So let’s use this as an opportunity to win fair pay and conditions for cleaners! My piece for @islingtontrib.bsky.social. www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/clea...

"The US State Department’s intervention on Henry Nowak is fact-free, short-sighted, diplomatically idiotic and potentially inflammatory – and therefore entirely in character for Trump’s second term."

@philippeauclair.bsky.social - a very random thought. If one entity owns two football clubs (PSG or Man City, or anyone) would they be able to transfer players between them as part of “permissible” or “normal” or “just-business” “intra-firm” stuff?

my book “How Black Music Took Over The World” drops in the U.K. in 2 days, on June 4th There’s an extended review of it in the latest edition of The Wire Magazine

The US is now spending more on construction for data centers than public transportation infrastructure. Data centers contribute to higher electricity costs and air pollution —all while enriching a handful of Big Tech CEOs. Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop them?

Some of the pitches in USA are going to be a problem for players who are used to playing on fully natural ground. Add this to Donald J Infantino charge sheet. #DonaldJInfantino #FifaWorldCup2026

"Indian food holds no clout in Paris, or indeed anywhere else that isn't Britain" my brother in Christ I'm within walking distance of at least two Indian restaurants here in suburban Bangkok

“It is telling that the only new winners of the Champions League over the best part of the past 30 years are clubs which have been reinvented by staggering investment — first Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea, and more recently City and PSG.“ - @amylawrence.bsky.social makes crucial point.

American workers just took home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 — even as corporate profits soar. Why? This chart has the answer.

I became an Arsenal fan in 1979, because of my beloved Liam Brady, and have been ever since. You don't have be born within 100 yards of Highbury Fields to be a true Gooner, just as you can be a true Liverpool or Man United fan and be born in Boston or Accra or Kuala Lumpur. This annoys some people.

“Today I’m not proud to be an Israeli,” confesses Jonathan. The former IDF soldier tells 1843 that he is “ashamed” of his platoon’s actions during the war in Gaza. Register to read his story in full

Insert Xavier Brunson for Colin Powel. #xavierbrunson #cruelty #war #masskillers #liars

Xavier Brunson is on the side of Trump, Obama & liars like Rice, Powell, GW Bush, Kissinger, Johnson and cruelest people who have waged war on African, Asian and Latin American countries for more than seven decades, and this -> www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Tu sais que tu as vécu longtemps quand l'auteur de ta nécro a pris sa retraite il y a 40 ans et est mort il y a 30.

@rhiannongiddens.bsky.social listening to BBC Radio 3. RESPECTFULLY. music is not innocent. To extent that “innocence” implies neutrality or without social or political intent… we crated music as part of liberation movements that was distinctly emancipatory. youtu.be/N7ll4W0h72o?...

In the Champions League era, only Ferguson (4), Guardiola (2) and now Arteta have managed to win the PL title and get to a Champions League final in the same season. In the last 20 years, no other manager has won the PL title and made it past the Round of 16 in the UCL in the same season.

“prosecutor said charges brought in a U.S.-led effort to battle corruption in international soccer “doesn’t fit within” the priorities of the Trump administration.” #trump #football apnews.com/article/socc...

Arteta accepting the Manager of the Season Award. 🙌🏾

All for making places more open and accessible to the public but this is grotesque … #whitehouse #donaldtrump www.instagram.com/p/DY3KpnMJ7Z...

Unimaginable

Sahat: The martyrs from an attack by IOF-armed militias in conjunction with an Israeli bombing on Maghazi camp #Gaza - Youssef Nabil Maghari - Abdul Karim Al-Bashiti - Fadi Marwan Al-Maghari - Hassan Jihad Al-Sayed - Saleh Al-Bashiti

Political is when a black quarterback silently kneels Not political is when a white quarterback introduces the president’s speech at a campaign rally

“No one will stop him. The only people who can stop Trump are Republicans. They’re not going to stop him. They’re going to let him keep crashing and killing and destroying.” —Stuart Stevens trib.al/lNQzd0x

This is utterly sickening. NYT gives the thumbs-up to massive war crimes. “There is no shortage of targets,” five oh-so-savvy white men report: “power plants, desalination stations, oil wells, roads, bridges and other infrastructure.” 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

RISIBLE. @lbc.co.uk interviews USA scientist, Avi Loeb, about UFO files. Loeb does not miss opportunity to refer to China spying on the USA. SURE, country's spy, but ... @tomswarbrick.bsky.social tries to focus on another region, but Loeb stays with the propaganda. Science may be neutral, tetapi...