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[Praise @tufpraise]

“Testing positive for pregnancy” is an in interesting way to say “being raped and impregnated by ICE agents”

[M☠️ @thehouseoffootb]

🚨🗣️ Thierry Henry on Cristiano Ronaldo vs DR Congo:

“Let me be very clear about something.”

🗣️ “Every time Cristiano Ronaldo steps onto a pitch, people expect miracles.”

🗣️ “And every time, he delivers something that keeps him in the conversation of the greatest ever.”

🗣️ “Tonight against DR Congo, it was another example of what he still brings to football.”

🗣️ “His movement inside the box, his positioning, his mentality… these are things you cannot teach.”

🗣️ “Even when the game is difficult, even when Portugal are under pressure, he is always there waiting for one moment.”

🗣️ “That's why he has scored goals for so many years at the highest level.”

🗣️ “People keep asking if Cristiano is finished.”

🗣️ “Finished players don't create chances every game.”

🗣️ “Finished players don't scare defenders the moment they enter the box.”

🗣️ “Finished players don't still decide matches in World Cups.”

🗣️ “Now, let's address the comparison with Messi.”

🗣️ “This is where people make football too simple.”

🗣️ “Messi and Ronaldo are not the same type of players.”

🗣️ “Cristiano is about efficiency, power, mentality, and finishing.”

🗣️ “Messi is about control, creativity, vision, and making the game look like art.”

🗣️ “You cannot judge them with the same formula.”

🗣️ “They changed football in different ways.”

🗣️ “Cristiano turned himself into a machine built for goals.”

🗣️ “Messi was born with football in his feet.”

🗣️ “And that's why this debate will never die.”

🗣️ “But what people forget is this: greatness is not only about style… it's about impact.”

🗣️ “And Ronaldo's impact is still massive.”

🗣️ “Even against teams like DR Congo, he demands attention from every defender.”

🗣️ “He opens space for others.”

🗣️ “He changes defensive structures just by being on the pitch.”

🗣️ “That is respect at the highest level.”

🗣️ “So when people say he is finished, I don't agree.”

🗣️ “I see a player who is still dangerous.”

🗣️ “Still competitive.”

🗣️ “Still hungry.”

🗣️ “And still capable of deciding games.”

🗣️ “As for the Messi comparison…”

🗣️ “I will say this.”

🗣️ “We are lucky.”

🗣️ “We are lucky to have lived in a generation where both exist at the same time.”

🗣️ “Because once they are gone, people will realize how special this era really was.”

🔥🐐🇵🇹🇦🇷

🗣️ “Ronaldo is not finished.”

🗣️ “Messi is not replaceable.”

🗣️ “And football will never be the same again.”

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

“My mum could not be here either for a visa issue, and the money we had to pay for it.”

This is genuinely sad. What FIFA and the U.S. have done in this WC should not be brushed off as just another tournament controversy. A historic disgrace.

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

America bombed their homeland and then forced them to camp at Tijuana and travel 5 hours just to get to their match.

This is discrimination. THIS IS DISCRIMINATION!!!!!!!!!

[Joseph 🕊️ @CaudilloXIV]

Japan is the only first world country

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[Congressman Christian D. Menefee @RepCDMenefee]

They really let a UFC fighter call our only Black First Lady a man on the White House lawn at an official White House event … while thousands cheered and the biggest podcaster in the world smiled.

There is no economic policy fix for this. Many of these people are just racist.

[Aspen goes birding⛸️ @birdmoder]

This Mamdani quote is absolutely going down in history

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Vinicius Junior refusing the mandatory halftime interview with FIFA at the World Cup:

“People are shocked that Vinícius walked away from a halftime interview. I am shocked that anyone thinks he should have stopped in the first place.

Halftime is not a television studio. Halftime is not a podcast. Halftime is not a red carpet. Halftime is the heartbeat of a football match.

For 45 minutes, players are warriors in a storm. They run, they fight, they suffer, they bleed. Then they get 15 precious minutes to recover, to breathe, to listen, to think. And FIFA wants to spend part of that time chasing soundbites? That is like pulling a Formula 1 driver out of his car during a pit stop and asking him how the race is going.

And FIFA’s idea is to shove a microphone in the player’s face and ask, ‘How do you feel?’

How do you think he feels? He’s exhausted.

This is modern football’s biggest disease. Everything is content. Everything is sponsorship. Everything is television. The match hasn’t even finished and they’re already trying to manufacture headlines.

They tell us they care about player welfare. Really? Then why are players playing more games than ever? Why are tournaments expanding? Why are injuries increasing? And now they want halftime interviews too? The hypocrisy is unbelievable.

Halftime is sacred. It belongs to the players and the coaches. That’s where games are won. That’s where tactics change. That’s where injuries get treated. That’s where leaders speak. It is not a media circus.

And don’t tell me this is for the fans. Fans want better football, not a tired player giving a robotic 20-second answer because somebody sold another broadcast package.

Vinícius understood that. He chose football over public relations.

The funniest part? They threaten him with a fine. A fine. As if that changes the principle. If I were there, I’d pay it too. Because some things are worth more than money.

If FIFA really had their way, they’d put microphones in the dressing room and call it innovation.

Football should come first. Not content. Not commercials. Not corporate greed.

For once, a player pushed back. And that’s exactly why so many people are angry.”

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

This is enough money to cover universal free college for every US student for nearly a decade btw

[Fahad Ansari 🇵🇸 (Stop the Gaza genocide) @fahadansari]

I am telling you, every single team should pack up and leave. Stop sportswashing fascism.

[ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇ @justprince]

the sooner you recognize that ICE is just a glorified human trafficking operation the better

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

This is what we imagined the future of tech would look like, instead it’s just using up all our water supplies to generate a picture of spongebob with grills and a nike tech

[We R Mexicans @wermexicans]

Never tried caviar but I known it ain't got nothin on this

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Well then, fuck you and your wife.

[🔴 KNEON 🔴 @Kneon]

And she was right.

[Toniemcee @toniemcee]

Qué bonito sería que ISCO acabase yendo con la selección al Mundial. Me haría muy feliz.

[Tandy @LFC_Tandy]

That Diogo Jota written like that at the end just breaks my heart

[Tulika Bose @TulikaBose_]

Another reminder of why we need photojournalists

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

We live in a dystopian hellscape.