Jasmin A

Daydreamer. Fluent in Sarcasm, Randomness & Eye Rolling. Can't live without cheese, music, fashion, films & travel.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Lamine Yamal's grandmother snuck onto a bus from Morocco and worked three shifts so her son could join her in Spain. That son became a father as a teenager. That baby is now in the World Cup final.

His parents split when he was 3. He grew up shuttling between two towns: Mataró with his dad, in the Rocafonda neighborhood where half the residents live below the poverty line, and Granollers with his mom, who worked such long hours as a waitress that he has spoken about how little of his childhood they actually spent together. The apartment he describes here, kitchen and bedroom in one room, is what two very young parents working every shift they could find were able to give him.

Then football took the rest of his childhood. Barcelona scouted him at 6. La Masia at 7. First team at 15, the youngest debutant the club had fielded since 1922. While other kids were in school hallways, he was carrying the hopes of a 125-year-old institution.

The family has paid for the fame too. In August 2024, weeks after he won the Euros at 17, his father was stabbed multiple times in a Mataró parking lot. He later said he saw himself between life and death.

So when Yamal talks about happiness, he skips the €16.6M salary, the €1 billion release clause, the number 10 shirt. He talks about his mom smiling in the stands and his 3-year-old brother Keyne, the kid the cameras keep finding at this World Cup doing the siu after matches.

Three generations traded away their childhoods to get here. He's using all of it to make sure the fourth one doesn't have to.

[Nisrin Elamin @minlayla77]

There are French and German companies implicated in this war through their processing of Sudanese gum arabic exported from neighboring countries and often via the UAE.

[introvert @livewithnoregrt]

I gave ppl too many chances… never again.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I’ve been asked to stay silent on Lindsey Graham's death and keep diplomatic narratives!

We were raised to respect the dead, regardless of who they were or what they did during their lives; for God alone will hold them to account.

I met—or rather, saw—Lindsey Graham; and while all were shaking his hand, I stood at a distance, gazing at him as if I were looking at a demon on earth.

He was the Zionist mastermind in Washington, D.C. He once stated:

“Do whatever the hell you have to do in Gaza…”

“Level the place.”

“Just flatten it. Just like We flattened Berlin and we flattened Tokyo.”

“We weren’t wrong to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. Do in Gaza what we did in Tokyo and Berlin.”

Lindsey Graham advocated for dropping nuclear bombs on Gaza.

Lindsey Graham advocated Donald Trump for dropping nuclear bombs on Iran.

He stated: "It is a war against Islam and Muslims."

This man has just died, but his evil legacy will haunt his soul forever. He will be remembered as one of the worst humans in history.

As I said, we respect the dead, but we must share this with the politicians who are following in his footsteps.

When you die, this will be your legacy: people all over the world will say "Rot in hell" instead of "Rest in peace."

No! I do not want to cling to diplomatic narratives; people need to know who he was and the principles he stood for.

Lindsey Graham war crimes against humanity trial is going to be historic—in hell.

[lina | لينه @labushouk]

in a world built on consumerism it is unsurprising that the violated & oppressed make claims around resources & services. care about Sudan b/c gold & arabica gum; care about Venezuela b/c oil; care about Congo b/c coltan, copper, diamonds & gold; care about Iran b/c Hormuz...

[lina | لينه @labushouk]

it's wild to think that these people are using mediation to "enhance focus" & become better killing machines...what a bastardization of spirituality...

[Mat Nashed @matnashed]

5/ Even worse, Lebanon's government has given up its sovereign right to hold Israel accountable in international courts and forums. This, too, bears semblance to the Oslo Process. (See next tweet).

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

An extraordinary, honorable, dignified people. May they triumph against the evil piling on them.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

I’m still waiting for journalists to question American players about Trump’s actions and foreign policy. You know, bombing schools and stuff like that.

Seems like political questions are only reserved for Asian, African and Arab players.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Three years of war in Sudan have left more children orphaned and living on the streets of Omdurman, where they sell water and work on buses to survive amid rising hunger, abuse and exploitation.

Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan reports.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

People in Lebanon have been mourning the loss of turtle conservationist Mona Khalil. The 77-year-old marine ecologist was severely injured by an Israeli air strike on her home on June 4, and has since died from her wounds.

[Variety @Variety]

Javier Bardem on Susan Sarandon getting fired by her agent after speaking out about Israel’s actions in Gaza:

"That tells you how wrong this whole system is. She was one of the first ones to go there. And then she got that professional punishment." Bardem says he’s “heard things” about facing similar consequences for speaking out:

"'They were going to call you about that project, but that’s gone. Or This brand was going to ask you to do the campaign, but they cannot.' It’s fine. I live in Spain. American studios are not the only place."

https://t.co/56SaGMo22V

[Forbes @Forbes]

Nearly 80% of U.S. hoteliers in 11 World Cup host cities say bookings are tracking below original forecasts, with some describing the tournament as a “non-event,” according to an American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) survey of members released Monday.

Read more: https://t.co/aLGJAHn9rW (Photo: Dustin Satloff via Getty Images)

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

I regret to inform you that Ask Jeeves is dead. The site closed yesterday. Web 1.0 lost another founder.

Ask Jeeves: 3 June 1996 - 1 May 2026. Send no memes.

[Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9]

Pyramids of Sudan

[Jasmin A @JazzyA]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 TRUMP:

“Iran proposed making me Supreme Leader.”

“I said no… they were insisting.”

“They want a deal so badly—but they’re afraid to say it.”

“Afraid of their own people. Afraid of the United States.”

“We are winning so big.”

You really can’t make this up.

[Yousra Elbagir @YousraElbagir]

Again and again, it is clear that the war in Sudan is a relentless assault on civilians.

At least 500 people have been killed in drone strikes by SAF & the RSF since the start of 2026.

The latest SAF hit on a hospital in E. Darfur reportedly killed 64 people - 13 children.

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

The UAE are seeking to develop new logistical routes from Sudan's neighboring countries, such as Ethiopia and the Central African Republic, to support Sudan's genocidal RSF
https://t.co/wZAcwpolEb

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

There’s something supremely saddening and enraging about seeing a hospital running on bare minimum power. Thinking about dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others tonight in Cuba. This is a blockade of death.