AKA Ruzante

Academy Award-nominated writer, football superstar manqué, Italian, American (but not Italian-American).

[AKA Ruzante @Alessandrocamon]

Read them, play them, watch them! https://t.co/j61bhBqLgI

[AKA Ruzante @Alessandrocamon]

Last men standing

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🤯 20 years ago, 736 players who were called up to the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

In 2026, just 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗥 remain.

▪️ Guillermo Ochoa
🇲🇽 Mexico

▪️ Lionel Messi
🇦🇷 Argentina

▪️ Cristiano Ronaldo
🇵🇹 Portugal

▪️ Luka Modrić
🇭🇷 Croatia

[AKA Ruzante @Alessandrocamon]

@Footballtweet Hahahaha! Yes, it might just be

[AKA Ruzante @Alessandrocamon]

Hard to watch. How could the US allow this to keep happening without any consequence?

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

New footage obtained by B’Tselem uncovers the moments when the Abu Haikal family was shot. Seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal was killed in the shooting, and both his parents were injured. The footage clearly shows that the Israeli soldier fired at the car as it was slowing to a stop. The car was far from the soldiers and posed no danger to them whatsoever.

Moments later, in another video obtained by B’Tselem, seven-month-old Sam’s father, Fahed, is seen just after his son was shot. Fahed is holding baby Sam in his arms, trying to stop the bleeding from his head with his hands, while Sam’s mother, Daniyah, who was also injured by the gunfire while holding her son, is seen sitting on the ground, next to the car.

Last Friday, 5 June, an Israeli soldier fired at a Palestinian family driving home from a family visit, as they sat in their car in the Tel Rumeidah neighborhood in Hebron. The family was shot as the car was slowing to a stop at the soldier’s command. Sam, a seven‑month‑old baby who was in his mother’s arms in the back seat, was struck in the head and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Sam’s parents were also injured by the gunfire; his mother is still in the hospital. After the shooting, the soldier who fired and another soldier who was with him left the scene without checking the car or offering any assistance to the critically wounded baby or to his mother.

In the past two and a half years, Israel has killed tens of thousands of children in Gaza and the West Bank. The immunity it gets from the international community has led to a reality where, under Israeli rule, Palestinian lives are entirely disposable – even a seven‑month‑old baby.

[AKA Ruzante @Alessandrocamon]

@FCB_ACEE Maradona is the best - but the disrespect for Higuian is just silly.

[AKA Ruzante @Alessandrocamon]

@IliadItalia dopo 10 giorni non ha ancora attivato il servizio per “motivi tecnici” non meglio specificati. Zero spiegazioni. Non c’e data precisa (e nemmeno approssimativa) per una soluzione. Non c’e’ numero da chiamare. Dalla chat solo riposte inutili. Servizio terrificante.

[AKA Ruzante @Alessandrocamon]

@IliadItalia Aspetto la connessione da 10 giorni. Nessun appuntamento, nessun contatto, nessun recapito dove si possa parlare con un rappresentante. Un livello di rispetto per il cliente assolutamente abissale.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Each circle has a different story

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

This is a devastating interview.

Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.

Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

[matrixbot @thematrixb0t]

Stop calling them "data centers."

Call them what they actually are:

MASS SURVEILLANCE CENTERS.

[AKA Ruzante @Alessandrocamon]

@martindelp What a bloated, childish, inane monstrosity with no feel whatsoever for the actual game.

[Richard @ricwe123]

What most people already understand, even without the economic terminology, is that firms like BlackRock operate less like investors and more like modern feudal landlords.

They buy essential infrastructure,water networks, ports, energy grids, data centres, and other public necessities, often using vast amounts of borrowed money and paying prices that ordinary market participants cannot match.
Once the acquisition is complete, the debt is pushed onto the acquired company itself.

The result is simple: the public pays.

Consumers repay that debt through higher water bills, rising energy prices, increased fees, and declining service quality.
The infrastructure becomes a cash-extraction machine.
Profits flow upward to shareholders and executives, while the financial burden flows downward to households.

When the model inevitably breaks down, the consequences are socialised. Communities are left with crumbling infrastructure, polluted rivers, and failing services.
Thames Water's £14 billion debt mountain and repeated sewage scandals are a stark example of what happens when financial engineering takes precedence over public stewardship.

The executives who loaded the company with debt have already collected their bonuses.
The investors have already taken their returns.
And when the system finally reaches breaking point, taxpayers are expected to pick up the bill.

Privatise the gains.
Socialise the losses.
That is the business model.

[AKA Ruzante @Alessandrocamon]

@LeighWolf How many souls did we sacrifice to MAINTAIN slavery? How many people did we help fascists kill in South America? And how many people did we kill in Vietnam and all other insane wars we waged? The numbers do NOT make us proud.

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

We’re both proud Jewish New Yorkers. But there are sharp & clear differences between us on Israel/Palestine.

For example, Dan Goldman marched alongside war criminal Bezalel Smotrich yesterday, who called it “just & moral” to starve Gaza. I did not.

[CogitoErgoSum @IPAZIA2025]

#RelataRefero

#Unesco condanna gli attacchi illegali di #Israele in #Libano contro beni culturali iscritti nella Lista di protezione rafforzata della Convenzione del 1954: l'antica città di #Tiro, la Cittadella di #Chama e il Castello di #Beaufort.

https://t.co/ME4Sky9Gv9

[Vigia Ciudadano @VigiaCiudadano7]

⚽💔 “Le robaron al mundo un gusto popular”

El director mexicano Alejandro González Iñárritu lanzó una fuerte crítica contra la organización del Mundial 2026:

«No siento ningún ambiente mundialero. Hay muy pocos partidos en el país, muy pocos partidos en México. Creo que el haber dispersado un Mundial en tres países me parece algo de avaricia de la mafia de la FIFA, cobró tres veces un Mundial.

El haber metido muchos más equipos ya hace una curaduría de calidad, el nivel va a bajar. El costo de los boletos me parece una grosería.

Mi padre, que no tenía dinero, recuerdo en el partido de Argentina famoso (2-1 en Cuartos de Final) contra Inglaterra en el gol de Maradona de "La Mano De Dios", yo fui a ese partido, y para que mi papá me haya invitado quiere decir que él podía pagar ese boleto.

O sea, antes había un acceso, pero ahorita el boleto más barato es de 10 mil pesos o 20 mil pesos, y si quieres llevar a tus hijos es una barbaridad. Le han quitado al mundo un gusto popular que se robaron, y ahora para verlo en la televisión tienes que pagar.

Antes era verdaderamente una celebración de un país orgulloso de ser el que invitaba al mundo, había alegría, un orgullo. Ahora, dividido en tres países, me parece una mala decisión de los que manejan el mundo de los corporativos».

[AKA Ruzante @Alessandrocamon]

@Acyn Amazing clip. A TV clown who blow-dries his hair like he is auditioning for Saturday Night Fever and a politician who once spray painted his dome to look like he was wearing a murkin, think they can get catty on an infinitely better man’s looks.

[AKA Ruzante @Alessandrocamon]

@patrickbetdavid 1) Trump pulls out of nuclear deal. 2) Iran enriches uranium. 3) Trump goes to war. 4) Iran closes the strait. 4) Trump relieves sanctions to get the uranium and open the strait. Back to square one. Americans pay. Billionaires laugh. VIctory? Please.

[AKA Ruzante @Alessandrocamon]

"MORE MATURE". https://t.co/uvMkL1xT36

[Rebecca Alter @ralter]

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