Prior to Egypt's World Cup win today, the team had to deal with aggressive American cops on a power trip in Dallas. Here the video, where officers can be seen shoving one of the team coaches and a player
Nothing Egyptians haven't dealt with before, both at home & in the U.S
Belal Muhammad responded after Ariel Helwani called him a "bad person"
🗣️ Ariel: "Look at the things I say, and look at the things he says, about life, the Middle East. [Look at] what he calls for and what I call for."
🗣️ Belal: "The person celebrating kids dying is saying I’m not a good person? A Palestinian won UFC gold and you have to live with it. I know that angers you."
- Crunchyroll launched in 2006 as a pirate anime streaming site
- After a $4M investment in 2009, they went legal and abandoned the fansubbers who built them, no credit, no compensation
- Crunchyroll betrayed fansubbed
- Fansubs gave you karaoke OP/ED lyrics, translator notes, colored dialogue per character, and honorifics, none of which Crunchyroll has ever consistently offered
- Crunchyroll shut down its Games division in 2024, quietly killing it with little notice to users who had invested time in it
- Crunchyroll manga service was shut down in 2016, then relaunched recently, but folded into the subscription fee with a limited catalog
- Sony bought Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion in 2021
- Crunchyroll has raised subscription prices multiple times since the Sony acquisition, while delivering less
- Crunchyroll acquired Funimation in 2022 and shut it down in April 2024, eliminating the last major competitor
- Crunchyroll actively fights anime piracy
- Disabled comments section on all anime under episodes and news posts in July 2024
- Crunchyroll streams censored TV broadcast versions of anime, but piracy is an uncensored anime scene
- Crunchyroll denied switching to OOONA when asked by Anime News Network, refusing to confirm whether they'd used Aegisub, despite multiple staff leaks confirming the change
- Crunchyroll subtitles typesetting was gutted/downgraded
- Crunchyroll used AI translation a German subtitle (ChatGPT said: Wenn ich die Welt von hier an weiter genießen kann)
- Crunchyroll raised subscription tiers again by $2 in February 2026
- Crunchyroll stayed silent, made no public disclosure, as data was breached on March 12, 2026
Thousands of Israeli soldiers come to commit war crimes from other countries. Whenever they back home, they lose the legal protection Israeli government gives them. This is why it is important to identify and catalogue the war criminals.
This is why they wear masks.
This was a DELIBERATE TARGETED ATTACK on journalists there's no mistake about it. This was an Israeli precision strike FROM A FIGHTER JET — RT corr Steve Sweeney who was wounded earlier today
‘If they think that they're going to silence us, they're very, very much mistaken’
Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba
I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film
As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes
It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions.
But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken
So let me get this straight: Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz is ,unfair’ but blocking oil shipments to Cuba in order to collapse their whole country is what? Fair?
Wait a second, NYT: “But we are not on the ground in Iran.”
Huh? Why not? We had a reporter at this school within hours and we’re a small nonprofit that publishes on Substack. You’re a publicly traded company. What do you spend your budget on if not reporting on the ground?