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#Veteran #GeorgiaLiving #TroyUGrad #SportsEnthusiast

[Kevork Almassian @KevorkAlmassian]

U.S. soldiers were sent to die in the Middle East for Israel’s wars.

Meanwhile, the families of the people who pushed those wars are enjoying the World Cup from luxury seats.

The ruling class gets the view.
Ordinary families get the coffins.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The following diseases have surged as RFK Jr and Trump have cut public health and pushed vaccine disinformation:

—Measles
—Flu
—Rotavirus
—Whooping cough
—Ebola
—Hantavirus
—Cyclosporiasis
—E. coli
—Campylobacteriosis
—Listeria
—Cryptosporidiosis
—Infant botulism

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

In Thomasville, GA, in a historic Black area, theres a creek Black churches once used for baptism

Now theres fecal bacteria in it bc of an old wastewater system

The town got a grant to improve public health. Funding was axed due to Trump’s DEI crackdown
https://t.co/Ts9CpH8V3i

[Waleed Shahid 🪬 @_waleedshahid]

Lamine Yamal grew up the son of a Moroccan house painter and an Equatorial Guinean waitress, in a neighborhood where he was taunted as a kid and where his own father was later stabbed. Nico Williams is the son of two Ghanaians who crossed the Sahara on foot, his mother pregnant, and entered Spain as asylum seekers. Today they won the World Cup in the same arena attended by men who've built careers keeping people like their parents out.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 REPORT: Congress finds that right-wing extremism is responsible for 80% of the domestic terrorism deaths since 2001.

[Complex @Complex]

The 2026 World Cup prize money is officially in 💰

• Spain, 1st place: $51 million
• Argentina, 2nd place: $34 million
• England, 3rd place: $30 million
• France, 4th place: $28 million
• Quarterfinalists: $20 million each
• Round of 16 teams: $16 million each
• Round of 32 teams: $12 million each
• Group-stage teams: $10 million each

(via @FortuneMagazine )

[Red Sox @RedSox]

THAT'S 14.

FINAL: #RedSox 6, Orioles 5
#DirtyWater

[Pittsburgh Steelers @steelers]

14 years ago today, the Gotham Rogues made their debut in The Dark Knight Rises 🎬

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Honda cooked with this ad

[Covie @covie_93]

She was 19, one year younger than trump's grifting son who spent Sunday afternoon relaxing at the World Cup.

[The Palestinian @InsiderWorld_1]

Yamal did it for his grandma!

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

Lamine Yamal becomes the first player under the age of 20 to win both the UEFA European Championship and the FIFA World Cup.

📸 @fifaworldcup

[Rhevolver @Rhevolver]

El pollero español que ayudó a los papás de Lamine Yamal a cruzar hace 20 años viendo el fruto de su trabajo

[Buzzing Pop @BuzzingPop]

Lamine Yamal wins his first World Cup today, July 19, at 19, wearing jersey #19.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Cleopatra didn’t look like this. But nobody complained.

[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.

[FCB World @forcabarca_ar]

SHE MUST BE PROUD!❤️

[US Open Tennis @usopen]

The US Open begins next month.

[Boston Strong @BostonStrong_34]

Sonny Gray winning the American League Cy Young at 36 years old would be the biggest story in baseball.