My record collector friend made a playlist of 47 tracks, on for each country in the World Cup. He's a doc filmmaker who has been all over the world. These track are not "Greatest Hits" songs from the countries, but interesting choices. it's full of bangers. Enjoy music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

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“In his Instagram post, Encina thanked Gomez, the Getty photographer, whose presence on the train he said was ‘quietly reassuring.’ In the interview, he said seeing a photographer there gave him some comfort because someone was documenting what was happening.”

Aguirre did a really good job in this World Cup, but he’s got to take a lot of the blame for the way Mexico played at the end today. Complete malpractice.

Proud to release "The Truths We Hold," the latest issue in our political hope zine series We asked creators and advocates to address the US's 250th with the question: How are you creating hope now? Please read, share, and join us in imagining the next www.transformationalchange.co/news-stories...

4,644,549 people attended World Cup group stage matches. inside.fifa.com/organisation...

Anyway there is no "middle." There are just actual policy positions and POWER.

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Let me fire up the crowd for ya, Tom... When democracy is under attack, what do we do? CHILL OUT, HOLD BACK! Cut the crap! End corporate greed! Give INCUBMBANTS what they need! Money for homes and education, AND billionaires and corporations! No hate. No fear. SOME refugees are welcome here!

Assimilation does not protect from supremacist violence. The Irish started speaking English and were rewarded with famine. The Haskalah didn't prevent the Holocaust. African liberation leaders led democratic political parties and were assassinated. assimilation is a weasel word for white supremacy

So people who recently came here are capable of loving the country MORE than the people you represent who claim you need generations of residence to truly love this country? Is that what you're saying, Mike? Now go apologize to all Somali-Americans and never speak again.

Eliza, 21, planned to study computer science. But after her parents were abducted by ICE, she dropped out of college in order to take over the family’s landscaping business. “She used to be a lot more talkative,” she says about her youngest sister. “I feel like we’re all quiet now.”

He's 8 months early on this. The wave of little Zohrans, Jalens, OGs and Karl-Anthonys should begin to arrive round about presidents day.

My next congresswoman!

This is a gown made from a USAID tarp by Samir, a designer in Kakuma Refugee Camp, worn by my friend MLay Aza in a new music video collaboration between Kakuma artists and Yo-Yo Ma. Imperialism in aid is complicated, MLay's desire for her three kids to eat is not. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhCe...

USAID program reports and audited financial reports have far more verifiable evidence than any of the claims he made in SpaceX's IPO prospectus. But yeah, unless Musk can call the baby who just got a vaccine, then it's safe to assume it's all fraud. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/us-de...

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ” ― Mark Twain

LIONEL MESSI TIES MARTA AS THE ALL-TIME LEADING GOALSCORER IN WORLD CUP HISTORY WITH 17 GOALS 🐐⚽ Two of the greatest to ever play the game.

the coolest country in the copa. What an amazing performance by Cabo Verde analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/space-...

World Refugee Day release. A collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and a group of talented young refugee musicians and filmmakers. Check it out!

Yo-Yo Ma just released a collaboration with a group of artists living in Kakuma refugee camp. The message: "We want the world to stop making victims and start making more music" It's a beautiful testament to solidarity and creative collaboration across difference www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhCe...

Coming out tomorrow. A special collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and Exile Key, a group of incredibly talented young artists living in Kakuma Refugee Camp. Teaser on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@sonymasterw...

3 yrs ago I was lucky to connect Yo-Yo Ma to a group of artists living in Kakuma Refugee Camp so they could collaborate on an original song & music video. Tomorrow the collaboration between Yo-Yo and the Exile Key artists comes out on Sony Masterworks. TEASER www.instagram.com/p/DZsj8wLsaZu/

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This is what the American World Cup should’ve been the whole time, a celebration of our diasporas, a chance for all these countries from around the world to feel at home here because there’s a bit of their home already here

"International humanitarian groups only seem interested in “localisation” when there’s no money. When there’s $2 billion on the table, the system returns to normal."

The plan to send Americans to Kenya for Ebola quarantine and treatment has been vehemently opposed by Kenyans and Americans alike. "It’s against so many ethical underpinnings that we have relied on for all of the past responses,” Dan Jernigan told me. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Brilliant piece on migration "nations are openly engineering population flows to maximise economic returns & to control for preferred identities, treating skills as strategic resources & detention as a profit center. Technology is accelerating explicit valuation, categorisation, and exploitation."

Unless you're already "in the system" then you don't get the benefits of the system. That's the underlying logic of hyperscale AI and inherently undermines the universality of human rights.

🚨 Attention American Families United members & spouses of US citizens. USCIS recently announced a controversial policy that, on its face, aims to reduce the number of people who can use the adjustment of status (AOS) process inside the United States. Some key comments...🧵

Kenya struck a deal with the US to receive $1.6B in previously cut foreign aid (a 423M reduction over pre-DOGE levels). All they have to do is "be treated as a containment colony for a lethal pathogen that we did not generate” according to the union of doctors in Kenya. www.cnn.com/2026/05/28/w...

Help Keep ICE out of the World Cup - please sign: action.mijente.net/petitions/ke...

“So, what USAID provided, the U.S. government provided, is not just the funding,” he said. “It’s also the capability that it formed with credible alliances and credible partnerships that were formed with other governments.” thehill.com/policy/healt...

Staging this during the opening week of the World Cup is like trying to pad out the crowd numbers by bringing an escort to your grandma's funeral.

"One of the things that I’m most proud of in my own life, that I was able to heed my own counsel. Even now, people say, “Why do you practice? You know everything,” you know, this kind of stuff. But I’m seeking something higher." - Sonny Rollins RIP

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Last year he proposed shutting 6 embassies and 10 Consulates in Africa meaning there is no way for people to apply from their home country… or staying for months in a country with a US consulate. Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Administration Says www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

If you're in Minnesota and work with youth, let them know about this opportunity to engage directly in funding decisions that affect their community while building their knowledge, confidence and collaboration skills. *Application Due: May 30th* form.jotform.com/261318381260...

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300k losing their jobs made musk dance on stage with a chainsaw, so this glee is a feature of their ideology not a bug. "Nearly all of the agency’s 16,000 employees were laid off. An estimated 280,000... worldwide lost their jobs as well." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

This is cool. And it looks like they're going to do something around world cultures and the world cup. I'm in!

Interview with the ring leader of the Feeding Our Future pandemic fraud wants to be seen as a whistleblower and attempts put the blame on two Somalis who worked for her. @sahanjournal.bsky.social sahanjournal.com/public-safet...

Sinn Fein may have ended the armed struggle in '98 but they never gave up the Old Fenian Gull! www.youtube.com/watch?v=km1M...

Bezos' next suggestion: Make voting progressive too! in 1960 HL Hunt wrote speculative fiction book about "the concept of 'graduated suffrage,' by which votes are apportioned by income and age, with as many as seven “bonus” votes going to the richest citizens." www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

He speaks in gibberish becuase he's building a Tower of Babel. "Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” Genesis 11:7 bsky.app/profile/kare...

"most news media are hanging on to the wrong symbolic image to interpret & discuss Don Colossus [it] makes me even more alarmed about the utter failures of the liberal, secular world to combat the right-wing’s very explicit fusion of empire, technology, Christian dominionism, & White Nationalism."

Here's the thing. I have a feeling that men who get caught using AI will not face the same social/professional consequences as women/ minority writers who get caught doing the same. See: The plagiarism scandals from the past, and the men who still have journalism/commentary jobs despite it.

This is what cuts to US foreign aid look like to a refugee: In the dust, we share stories like bread, breaking them carefully, so no one starves alone. But even stories are growing lighter now, as if grief has taken more than food, as if it has started eating the memory itself. -MOHAMED MINANI

AFTER THE CATEGORIES They came with lists, not names... They did not hear how Kakuma Refugee Camp breathes at night, how mothers count their children like prayers whispered in the dark, afraid one might disappear between hunger and tomorrow. Full poem in images & ALT text IG: @mohamedminani

This certainly strikes a chord: Leiweke is snapping up "a number of minority stakes...at the behest of Canadian rapper Drake"