Nice shot of InterMiami's new stadium. Um ... just double checking ... are you allowed to fly a drone that close to Miami International Airport?

Trump’s turning Florida into Cuba. “For the 1st time since the war against Iran began, some South Florida gas station managers are reporting temporary shortages of gasoline. CBS News Miami found several stations with no gasoline Thursday morning, while one station had only premium fuel for sale.“

When World Cup tickets went on sale months ago, the pricing structure was described as outrageous, and was met with a furious response. It has only gotten more expensive since. @henrybushnell.bsky.social describes how dynamic pricing has driven huge increases in ticket costs ⤵️

So this story is just going to pretend that the United States isn't doing this to Cuba right now huh

Trump is uniting the world against us

“cooling break” in an INDOOR STADIUM

If you're wondering about a 23rd-minute hydration break in a climate-controlled venue, well... everyone's doing it to get ready for their use at the World Cup, where FIFA will surely not use these built-in pauses in every single match to dial up their advertising activations

"The Triple Dipper you have to get but then I think it's the endless chips and salsa, but then also there's sports on TV and also the chocolate molten lava cake and it's just like you're sitting there and you're looking at the ground, the tile. You're like, this is beautiful. This is really America”

How are no countries boycotting this yet.

in 2024 cricket held its World Cup in the USA and i thought "oh cool they're trying to grow cricket in the USA" and when I covered it I realized they weren't really trying to do that, the main point was to milk as much cash as possible from wealthy Indian-Americans who already loved cricket anyway

Enjoy the World Cup, visitors from around the world. I hope you don’t end up in El Salvador.

Helter Skelter. My dad caught me reading it *twice.* He was very angry

My favorite Full Kit Wanker strikes again

Here’s the thing: Cuba has been making concessions. Opening parts of the economy, talking to US businesses, and even shifting policies that had been untouchable for decades. Did it matter? Nope. Washington basically said, “Not enough.” That tells you the goal isn’t reform. It’s full control.

somewhere in Miami Kash Patel is big sad

Lo antiguo está de moda (Corrupt Americans overthrowing the government in Cuba to serve their interests)

They should put a baseball team in Miami and see what happens.

This rhetoric of "taking" Cuba could stand to absolve Fidel Castro in the eyes of many Cubans who are not even communists. The promise of Fidel - a failed promise - was of full sovereignty. But it was a promise that many Cubans have taken seriously since independence and that first US occupation.

Not only does Cuba routinely get struck by hurricanes but they are leagues better at preparing for hurricanes than anyone else in the region, a tendency that would undoubtedly become worse with the US, and especially Trump's FEMA, in charge

Not in a hurricane zone?

Volo Bog

I quite like it

U.S. hoteliers were promised a World Cup boost, but lagging bookings less than three months ahead of the tournament are giving the industry the yips.

United Fruit had the class not to talk to the press with a photo spread about Árbenz in 1954.

FIFA's first ever Peace Prize winner has become the first person to bomb a country out of participating in the FIFA World Cup.

It’s so funny that FIFA gave Trump a Peace Prize and a few months later he threatened to kill a national team that qualified for the World Cup.

🇯🇲 10 players for Mount Pleasant have been denied entry into the United States for their Concacaf Champions Cup debut against the LA Galaxy due to visa issues. 7 are from Haiti. They've had to call up several academy players to fill out the squad. The US hosts the 2026 World Cup in 93 days.

[Chuckles nervously in Miamian]

It is extraordinarily significant that Trump is talking about invading Cuba while standing next to Jorge Mas, son of the late Jorge Mas Canosa, who was functionally the far right leader of Miami's Cuban Government in Exile

Miami could be forced to cancel its official FIFA World Cup Fan Fest this summer if federal funding doesn’t arrive within the next 30 days 😳 Host cities are still waiting on $625 million in approved security funds, with Miami requesting around $70 million to help stage a 23-day Fan Fest💰

Miami Hurricanes win the Olympic Men's Ice Hockey gold medal

Knockout-round Olympic ice hockey is up there with the World Cup. Maybe better

My idea for World Cup content somebody should do is drop an English reporter in the center of every World Cup hosting city and having them film themselves trying to get to the stadium.

Always a thrill to spot a full kit wanker in the wild

An appropriate color for the United States at this time

Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.

I *love* this film

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

World Cup is gonna go great.

I don't think I've ever said this in public, because it's not our place, and it's thrown around too much anyway. So I hope it carries more weight. That is: he's lost his goddamn mind.

in the best case scenario (we somehow survive all of this), we will still have had so many years of our lives disrupted by stress and anger and calamity

People will do literally anything to avoid saying the American left was right

Looking for Hoosiers to harrass

Things are going so well in the United States right now that a friend in Ciudad Juárez - once the most violent city in the world - texted me today with the word "Geez"

“immigration enforcement”

The full list of World Cup qualifying nations swept up in the US visa ban - Iran, Uzbekistan, Jordan, Algeria, Cape Verde, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Tunisia, Haiti, Brazil, Colombia & Uruguay. 15 out of 42. + Bosnia, Albania & Kosovo, who are still in the UEFA play-offs.

Brazil’s first World Cup game is less than five months from today

Looks like we're going to have to break into the air conditioning ducts again

could you guys imagine if somebody called a PI on Miami with a national title on the line? that'd be impossible, right?