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Facts you won't find in a Reform UK election leaflet ... meme via Robert Thomson

Why aren’t we doing this??

We are all to be the slaves within a Corporate future… well those of any value will anyway… open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj...

Part of my role and the roles of many NHS backroom staff is to work with healthcare providers on these issues. Labour has just cut funding by 50% (on top of the 30% Tory cuts). More patients will die and thousands of NHS staff who could have prevented it are looking for work (including me) .

Sophy Ridge: "If your baby's black, your baby is twice as likely to die. If you live in a poor area, your baby is twice as likely to die"

Big day today when Le Pen’s future is decided after she used EU funds to pay for her domestic campaigns. Funny how Farage did exactly this but no UK authorities have done anything about it.

Student loan promotion in England & Wales amounted to mis-selling, MPs say. Students not told clearly that loan terms could change retrospectively. Govt froze repayment threshold, forcing graduates to pay more and sooner. Must abolish Uni tuition fees, as in Scotland.

Not sure daddy’s going to be able to do anything about this hammering…

Americans are now so used to their president cheating and breaking rules that many of them seem genuinely not to understand why the world was rooting for Belgium.

The de-banking of the Canary is a warning. If they can silence us, they can silence anyone. This attack on Canary is not isolated. It is part of a wider pattern of suppressing anti-establishment voices through financial pressure, says @rachaelswindon.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026...

People in Cuba already faced an ongoing economic and humanitarian crisis, largely due to a US blockade.

Dr Derek Summerfield: "1,700 health professionals have been killed in Gaza.. a number are in prison.. they wanted to make an example of [Dr Hussam Abu Safiya].. he has clearly been under torture & starvation.. Israel has impunity, impunity is the key to understand these things"

Well, we may have lost but at least we look like we cheated

Manneken Pis (the famous "pissing boy" statue) in Brussels has been given a makeover #belgium #worldcup

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya's son: "When he told the lawyer.. they brought me here to kill me, it felt as though those words weren't meant only for the lawyer, but for.. the whole world" Israel holds thousands of Palestinian hostages & it starves them, tortures them & murders them.

Zeina Khodr reports that Israel is occupying 6% of Lebanon, has demolished entire villages and is preventing hundreds of thousands of people from returning to their homes.

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium

Belgium’s team celebrated their victory over the US by mocking Trump’s signature double jerk off dance move.

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By the numbers, Clarence Thomas has been treated to: • At least 38 destination vacations; • 26 private jet flights; • 12 VIP passes to pro & college sporting events; • 2 stays at luxury resorts; • 1 standing invite to an uber-exclusive golf club (Published 2023)

Iran War disaster. Knicks game loss. Hail at Mt. Rushmore on July 3. Sandstorm in DC on July 4. 4-1 World Cup loss. Trump is like a traveling pestilence.

You knew this was coming.

If you are part of a sports team that is in contention for a major title, you probably don’t want to have Trump get involved in any way.

ngl was not expecting the insightful, sober USMNT commentary thread to come from my councilmember

Window into the mocking with which foreign media is treating the situation. The latest on the live of Le Monde, France’s paper of record: “We’re being told Trump wants to file an appeal with Infantino alleging that the Belgian team played soccer.”

All three hosts eliminated, like one of those parties where the only people who live there are already asleep somewhere unseen. The world will now raid the grandpa's liquor cabinet of America

LO, right after Trump corruptly intervened to get a player unsuspended, the US soccer team got fucking destroyed. Everything he touches turns to shit.

There’s never been anyone whose involvement more completely and immediately poisons vibes and destroys joy. No good thing survives contact.

Until we address the fact most talented soccer players in the US can’t afford to compete because club and travel teams have snuffed rec/school ball out, this is probably going to keep happening.

So now millions of football fans around the world view the US as cheaters who used political corruption to influence FIFA and we lose anyway. So much winning. When’s the next war?

Well,

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

Infantino looking up bylaws that allow FIFA to reverse R16 results

Belgium beating the shit outta USA Schadenfreude 🥳

THE TRUMP EFFECT: The USA just lost to Belgium in the World Cup Round of 16 by a score of 4-1, right after Trump personally called FIFA to clear star striker Balogun to play. Sports fans are calling it the Trump curse. 1/

"is trump the #1 sports cooler?/does trump have more ted cruz energy than ted cruz?" the greatest thread in forums history, locked at 666 pages

You gotta love it. Belgium restoring order to the universe.

So pretty much the worse thing that can befall any team is Trump taking a rooting interest.

Anyway, if the USMNT ever want to be world class we need MLS academies to be much bigger and have way more openings for lower- and middle-class children. It's true but makes you a bore at parties so it's the perfect fact for Bluesky.

People are claiming that Mitch McConnell being braindead disqualifies him from being a member of Congress. Honesty, after watching Congress for decades, I assumed that was a *qualification* for being in Congress.

The Houston Chronicle, largest newspaper in Houston endorse James Talarico! 👏 Writing, “Texans deserve better than Ken Paxton’s moral rot’… Paxton’s documented deeds prove he’s a man of low character, lacking integrity. An extremely very poor candidate for an even more powerful political office.

That the U.S. appears to have completely visibly given up after a catastrophic own goal fuck up is a little on the nose.

if i were participating in a world soccer tournament i would simply not have accepted a tainted gift from the trickster king of the fae realm

haven’t seen America this thoroughly embarrassed on the world stage since we lost that war we started with Iran like 3 weeks ago

Trump gets involved with the world cup and corruptly gets a suspended player reinstated. Now, the US team is being humiliated by Belgium. Everything Trump touches turns to shit.

1. Trump tries to make everything about Trump 2. Every time he succeeds, the thing dies immediately from his rancid vibes