FreeStandingForEver

Constitutional Lawyer! Dad! Rule of Law! Democracy! Equality! Human Rights! Anti-Fascists! Anti - Racists! Emotionally unavailable wokerati! 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

✅🔴🔵 #PSG

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Spain’s players refused to celebrate with Trump after the U.S. president attempted to insert himself into the middle of their victory photo. He was politely pushed aside.

[jude bellingham updates @JudeUniverse5]

Jude Bellingham looking for his family in the crowd 👀

and then finding them 😊👋🏽😘👋🏽😘

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A reporter asked Lamine Yamal how he handles the pressure of carrying Spain at 18. His answer: my mother had me when she was 16, that's real pressure. My father picked things off the street to bring food home, that's pressure. All I have to do is play football.

That's the whole story of who he is, and most fans only know the surface of it.

Before he was born, his teenage parents fell behind on rent. Two neighbors named Lamine and Yamal covered them, and his father vowed his son would carry both names forever. His legal name is a permanent record of a debt his family couldn't repay in money. In Arabic, the names mean "the trustworthy" and "beauty."

His parents split when he was around 5. His mother raised him in Granollers on a fast food wage. And here's the detail almost nobody knows: that job is the reason he became a footballer. Through work she met the daughter of the youth coordinator at CF La Torreta, his first club. When she worried she couldn't cover the fees, he told her that if the boy wants to play, money will never be the reason he can't.

As a kid, Lamine told his parents: if you're counting on me getting a normal job, we're in trouble. But if I become a footballer, you'll never have to worry again.

He signed with Barcelona at 7. He was right by 15.

Every goal, he flashes 304 with his fingers. The end of 08304, the postal code of Rocafonda, the neighborhood where strangers paid his family's rent before he existed. It gets credited on every goal since.

Today, at 19, he plays for the World Cup. And if he scores tonight, somewhere in the biggest broadcast on Earth, two neighbors will hear their names, and a postal code will flash on 2 billion screens.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨WOW: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani just REJECTED his own pay raise to $305,800 approved by lawmakers.

MAMDANI: “I haven’t knocked on anyone’s door in NYC that said their concern is that the Mayor makes too little. It should go to the pockets of those struggling in this city.”

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today, we express our special gratitude to Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with whom we've done a lot of serious work during the full-scale war. The United Kingdom has always stood with Ukraine and continues to do so. And we value that immensely. Thank you, @Keir_Starmer. Thank you to your team and to all the people of the United Kingdom. I awarded Keir the Order of Freedom in recognition of his personal leadership and support for our people.

Prime Minister Starmer and I have had dozens of meetings, conversations, and decisions together. Today marks Keir's fourth visit to Ukraine as Prime Minister. Altogether, we've had 46 official meetings and calls alone – at least two every month. I am grateful for all the support provided to Ukraine during this time.

Today, Keir and I discussed the key issues regarding the front line, our long-range operations, and our mid-range strikes. Ukraine has achieved significant success in these areas, and we will continue applying every form of such pressure on Russia to bring this war to an end and achieve a dignified peace. We will, of course, continue coordinating closely with our British friends.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hunter Biden on Trump: “I would tell him to go fuck his fucking self. And please leave. This man has tried to torture me for fucking ten years. The shit that he says about my dad. His obsession with tormenting my dad. Hanging a picture of an autopen on the colonnade. Demeaning him and all the things he said about him. What the fuck kind of man would I be if I didn’t tell him to go fuck himself?”

[Leandro Trossard @LTrossard]

To all the Arsenal fans, thank you for everything, from the bottom of my heart.

Once a Gunner, always a Gunner.

Leo

[FreeStandingForEver @FTZimula]

'England supporters will be singing a song praising Spence's tackle'. The same supporters that were waxing lyrical when his name was added to the official England #WC2026 team! No surprises there

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

I’m in Paris for my final meeting of the Coalition of the Willing.

I’m proud to have worked with @EmmanuelMacron to bring 25 nations together, united in support of Ukraine and European security.

Today, we stand stronger than ever.

Our message remains clear: Ukraine's security is our security.

[FreeStandingForEver @FTZimula]

@d5_rss @Keir_Starmer You may not have liked what he did, but he was right doing what he did. And for you information, it was not Starmer locking your lot up, that was the law and justice in action

[FreeStandingForEver @FTZimula]

This #PMQs has been the most emotional and pleasant I've ever listened to. Why don't politicians be good to each other both in public and private? Their public show of animosity divides us even the more

[FreeStandingForEver @FTZimula]

So we the plebs take fights here on social media as the two protagonists in Kemi and Keir exchange niceties behind the scenes! This #PMQs has been so revelatory. I probably now have a slightly kinder view of Kemi to what I did at the start of this PMQs

[FreeStandingForEver @FTZimula]

Does anyone disagree that we are saying good bye to the most compassionate, sober-minded, and unpretentious PM we probably ever had? #PMQs

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

​Chilean President Gabriel Boric:

"I do not want Netanyahu to be destroyed by a missile along with his family."

"I want Netanyahu and those responsible for the genocide against the Palestinian people to be tried in an international court of justice."

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

French President Macron praises outgoing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer after the Bastille Day Parade saying how much the coalition, Europe and Ukraine owes him:

"And I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate how proud we were to work with him, and how much this coalition of volunteers owes him, and how much the commitment of Europeans to stand alongside Ukraine owes him"

"Thank you Prime Minister"

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

What country has better healthcare again?

Life expectancy
🇨🇦: 83.42
🇬🇧: 82.21
🇺🇸: 79.54

Infant deaths per 1,000 live births
🇬🇧: 3.08
🇨🇦: 3.64
🇺🇸: 5.07

Yearly deaths due to lack of insurance
🇨🇦: 0
🇬🇧: 0
🇺🇸: 68,000

Bankruptcies from medical debt
🇨🇦: 0
🇬🇧: 0
🇺🇸: 530,000 a year

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.

ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

😁🟡 Jude Bellingham: “My mother was telling me all the week to watch my language, my tackles, my face and my emotions so I don’t get a yellow card.”

[Arsenal Chizzy @ArsenalChizzy_]

🚨 🎙 Thierry Henry blasts Luis de la Fuente for leaving David Raya on the bench throughout the World Cup.

🗣️ "Listen, I just don't understand it. You cannot have a goalkeeper of David Raya's quality and not give him a single minute throughout the tournament.
We're talking about a Premier League-winning goalkeeper who has consistently performed at the highest level. Week after week, he proved why he's one of the best in Europe, only to arrive at the World Cup and spend the entire competition on the bench. It makes no sense to me.

This isn't about disrespecting Unai Simón. He's a good goalkeeper. But David Raya has earned the right to compete for that starting spot. You don't leave a player of that calibre without even giving him an opportunity.

*To me, that's incredibly harsh. Players work their whole careers to represent their country at a World Cup, and not giving someone of Raya's quality a single minute is difficult to justify. If you ask me, Spain could and should have managed that situation much better."