A reminder that Flo Balogun would not be on the US Men's National Team if Trump's birthright citizenship order was in place when he was born in NY. The first US man to score more than one goal in a World Cup match since the very first World Cup in 1930.
🚨 Turns out Meta Ray-Ban glasses ARE actually equipped with facial recognition tech even though Meta said they weren't. Not only do the glasses detect a face, it also automatically encodes the face into a unique biometric signature.
Surveillance creep IS the business model.
This is Omar Abdulkadir Artan. Once a little boy from Somalia who fell in love with the beautiful game. A boy who dared to dream of something so big that most people thought was impossible. But he kept going. Year after year. Match after match and sacrifice after sacrifice. That dream led him to become the FIRST Somali referee ever selected for a FIFA World Cup. Think about that. Out of millions of people. Out of entire countries.
He earned a place on the biggest stage this sport has to offer. Imagine finally getting there. Imagine calling your family. Imagine knowing that every sacrifice was worth it especially when you questioned it. Imagine not just the pride of your own country but countries celebrating you.
Then imagine being told you can’t be there. Football doesn't care where you're from, what language you speak or what flag is on your passport.�� It doesn’t care about politics. It cares about sacrifice. It cares about the years nobody saw. The early mornings, missed holidays, time away from your family and the moments you can never get back. It cares about what you’ve earned and a place at a World Cup should be decided by what you've given to the game and not where you were born.
The World Cup is supposed to bring the world together and not remind us of the lines that divide us because football is and always will be, for everyone.
Liza Minnelli has outlived Spencer Pratt’s political career. The reality TV star lost the Los Angeles mayoral election — and since he promised to leave if defeated, his moving truck should be arriving soon.
“A [Trump-appointed] Los Angeles-based Justice Department official late Friday debunked a baseless claim of a discrepancy in the vote count of the city’s mayoral race that has circulated on social media.” https://t.co/lYxajQsEpR
Dear @SchmittNYC: What you wrote is false. The LA Times published an article 5 days before the election of their poll showing Raman in 2nd place, ahead of Pratt. https://t.co/BB3jzza8nz
Democrats also massively outnumber Republicans by nearly 4 to 1 in LA. That’s why Pratt lost.
Spencer Pratt finishing with a lower % of the vote than Trump got in 2024 is a very good reminder of the echo chamber that Twitter has created around this election
Karen Bass rigged the election in Los Angeles so that she could face a more threatening challenger from the left in an overwhelmingly liberal city rather than a challenger from the right at a time when MAGA is the most toxic political brand. Very astute analysis here.
Truly insane what things scare my cats and what don’t. They freak out at the tiniest crinkle of plastic, but will remain totally calm and purring while I tell them about AI being put in charge of our nuclear arsenal
If the mail-in votes are doing what they seem to be doing, I’m sorry to have underestimated LA. And I’m so glad that in just a few days we can all stop thinking about Spencer Pratt.
Entering month 6 of the Mamdani mayorship of NYC and Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, and Murder is down an astounding 21%.
And he did so without "Adding 5000 new cops" to the streets. Instead, he's invested in public safety with free childcare, accessible infrastructure, and better funded schools and libraries. He's proven once again that if we want safer communities, we must invest in People—not Punishments.