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[Andy Specht @AndySpecht]

What a disingenuous headline.

This story is about viewership in *Canada.*

Ratings for SCF games have been hitting 10 and 20-year highs in the U.S.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[Jacob @Jacobtheclipper]

The NBA needs to adopt this.

The Paraguay player flopped and the ref reviewed it and gave him a yellow card.

Soccer has it figured out 🤝

[Mikale Olson @realmikolson]

A wise man once said, if you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive across it.

These European World Cup tourists are experiencing the REAL America for the first time: not New York City or LA, but middle America and all its hospitality. 🇺🇸

[Sean Feucht @seanfeucht]

Internet melt-down over USA soccer star Folarin Balogun:

🇺🇸Born in Brooklyn, NY.

🇺🇸He was eligible to play INTERNATIONALLY for the US, England and Nigeria and but CHOSE the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

🇺🇸He scores 2 goals in opening game and he is a proud American.⚽️

You love to see it 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Jake Catanese @JCatanese43]

Allowing #Scotland, a country famous for its war of independence from Britain, to play not one but two games in greater Boston, a region famous for starting a war of independence from Britain...was a fantastic idea by all involved

[Brian Onorio @brianonorio]

“the South is welcoming a German tourist in a way we would never have anticipated.”

Lived my entire life in the South. I wholly anticipated this.

Breaking news for people in the northeast: this is actually normal life in the rest of America.

[Mati Smith🇦🇷 @Trumperizar]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 En Inglaterra, una periodista fue a un barrio de musulmanes a decir que ellos son PACIFICOS

y al rato apareció una banda de musulmanes a decirles que se vayan porque los iban a matar☠️

País destruido por la agenda 2030.

[Carol @itsaho2jarvybby]

The guys also claimed "the easiest part" about following Jarvis’ career has been putting on their @Canes jerseys and calling themselves Hurricanes fans. 😌

"I don’t think I’ve ever heard a crowd louder than this. ... Everyone’s so genuine and passionate.”

[Hokie Mark @mark_hokie]

People don't realize how many bowl wins like this Wake Forest has won. They've been an SEC killer!

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

Team USA captain Christian Pulisic led America to win 4-1 in the World Cup opener.

He is a devout Christian, holds Bible studies with teammates, and openly credits God for carrying him through difficult times

Christianity produces excellence. ✝️

[Florida Grand @florida_grand]

Awesome to see the entire USA team standing with their hand on their heart and singing the National Anthem before their first match of the World Cup. Let’s go @USMNT 💯🇺🇸💯🇺🇸

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

Hey Pocahontas, it’s been over a YEAR since I asked you this, and you STILL haven’t told us:

How did you amass a $12 MILLION net worth on a $176,000 salary??!

The math ain’t mathin’!

[Margo @MargoinWNC]

Last night, the Republican majority North Carolina Legislature dropped a massive 36-page omnibus bill which has several critical changes to North Carolina elections.

Changes to North Carolina Election Laws include:

👏🏼State and county board members are prohibited from any public statement "encouraging or promoting voter turnout in any election"

👏🏼Provides the North Carolina State Auditor discretion to audit all machines, county offices and personnel involved in any election

👏🏼Total ban on any ranked-choice voting in any primary or general election statewide

👏🏼Removes some overseas residents that have no residency ties to North Carolina of their eligibility to vote in any state elections

👏🏼Changes up to 25 professional staff at the State Board of Elections from career civil staff to political appointees

👏🏼Completely bans paid petition and voter registration gathering

[WhitePeopleHumor @whitememejesus]

Me: “Soccer is gay and stupid”

Also me tonight when America plays:

[Brown side is up @Brownsideisup]

Not gonna lie...seeing Euros say, "America isn't anything like we were told," has me gettin' a little misty.

To my fellow Americans, especially y'all down here in the South, thanks for proving that our greatest export has never been what's on TV.

It's always been our people.

[Brobson @BrobsonTweets]

Fuck outta here with that 'it's just Paraguay, bro' shit.

They just scored the most goals they've ever scored in a World Cup game against a team that beat Argentina and Brazil in qualifiers.

[Sara Higdon @SaraHigdon]

And then a new review system allowed for the flop to be reviewed and the yellow given to the flopper instead. This is a big change that will make soccer watchable again.

[Andrew Schnittker @aschnitt53]

Jordan Staal has been through some stuff here. Came here to play with Eric and win together. That never worked out. Eric was gone after 3.5 years. Canes missed the playoffs Jordan's first six seasons here. He's been instrumental in what they've built in the last eight years. So

[Ale Bertini @abertini1]

La regla de la “Identidad equivocada” se aplicó por primera vez en la historia del fútbol. El VAR intervino para trasladar una tarjeta amarilla del defensor Ream de Estados Unidos al atacante Almirón de Paraguay, quien había simulado una falta. Opiniones?