Heidi Schoups ✏️

Writer, knitter, podcast listener. Usually found in the kitchen or behind a laptop. 🍋 I write sins, not tragedies 🍋
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[Joakim 🌹🇳🇴🇪🇺 @joakial_]

One of the Norwegian commentators on the halftime show: “I’d rather watch my dad wipe his ass than this.”

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Spain, France, England, Argentina.

Hard to choose who to root against most.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Goes to one Knicks game and they lose for the literal first time in 2 months. Calls the head of FIFA to make him overturn a red card and then the US loses in one of the worst matches of the tournament. No one does it like him, it’s actually amazing

[Belgian Red Devils @BelRedDevils]

Overturn this. 🧏‍♂️ #USABEL

[Heidi Schoups ✏️ @HeidiSchoups]

QED: ETTD ⚽️

[Heidi Schoups ✏️ @HeidiSchoups]

Als zelfs Blatter vindt dat het er een beetje ver over is...

[Joseph S Blatter @SeppBlatter]

Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA?

Football must never become a playground for political power. #FIFA #WorldCup #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Who everyone will be supporting in today’s England v Mexico match

[Heidi Schoups ✏️ @HeidiSchoups]

Let's just put the rulebook down the shredder. Last man standing wins.

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

BREAKING @TheAthleticFC

Folarin Balogun will be available to play the USMNT’s round of 16 match against Belgium with his one-game red-card ban suspended. Extraordinary development.

Story with @Dan_Sheldon_

https://t.co/oQ61J9btzT

[Heidi Schoups ✏️ @HeidiSchoups]

Ik zeg niet dat ik de afgelopen week veel tijd in dit stomme spelletje gestoken heb, maar... opgelucht dat ik eindelijk kan stoppen 😂

[Eric Tulsky @EricTulsky]

Story has a happy ending though: we crushed those fools.

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Its called Eurovision

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

No one believes me when I say this, but the decline in reading is already having dire consequences for art & culture. The media you loved in your youth—shows, albums, films—was made by artists who were widely read. You will not have that quality of art in a post-literate world.

[Heidi Schoups ✏️ @HeidiSchoups]

BANGARANGA 🥳
BANGARANGA 🥳
BANGARANGA 🥳

[Kerem @Krm_H67]

Live picture of me watching my food getting ready in the microwave

#Eurovision #Eurovision2026 #ESC2026

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This map shows the mood European TV detectives are in. An astute observation by @MisterABK.

[inna shevchenko @femeninna]

When They Let Russia Back In

(few thoughts post-action in Venice by Pussy Riot x FEMEN)

1. There is no such thing as “apolitical” culture. Every biennale, every festival, every museum, every stage is political territory, shaped by power, financed by institutions, protected by governments.

When those institutions welcome Russia back during its war against Ukraine, they are not defending art. They are making a political choice. They are choosing Russia.

2. And this is not some simplistic “punishing identity” debate, as people nervously try to frame it. This is about refusing to let an aggressor state continue its war against you through the side door - through culture, prestige, sport, glamour, visibility, normalization.

Empires have always understood culture better than liberals do. Culture is never decoration. It is atmosphere. Legitimacy. Seduction. The production of normality itself.

Russia understands this perfectly. That is why the Kremlin invests in culture so heavily during wartime.

3. Russian culture today does not exist separately from Russian violence. It travels with it. It advances with it.

Russian culture is built today on the attempted erasure of another culture.

While Russian pavilions reopen in Europe, Ukrainian libraries are burned. Ukrainian museums are looted. Ukrainian books are removed from occupied territories. People are interrogated, tortured, sometimes killed for speaking Ukrainian, teaching Ukrainian, existing as Ukrainian.

4. A Russian pavilion is not an innocent room full of art. It is the Russian state laundering itself through aesthetics while its army destroys Ukrainian cities.

5. And no, “free speech” is not the issue either.

Free speech protects individuals from censorship. It does not oblige democratic societies to provide prestige platforms to a fascist state waging a colonial war.

Speech is a right.
Legitimacy is a privilege.

As long as Russia wages war against Ukraine, there should be no Russian normality anywhere.

No red carpets.
No festivals.
No rehabilitation through culture or sport.
You do not get to destroy one culture while celebrating another.

This is how normalization works.

Not suddenly.
Gradually.
Elegantly.

With wine glasses in Venice while Ukrainian blood is still wet.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

The Vatican is two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.

[Flora Garamvolgyi @floragaramvolgy]

Hungary’s future health secretary dancing on stage last night.
🎥: Noémi Zalavári

[Kamperfella @KamperFella]

Europe when America's attempt to prop up a failing fascist fails: