sydney ❤️‍🔥

she/her~barely hanging on

[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

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.

[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.

Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.

To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.

In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.

The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.

Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.

So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.

Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.

Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.

Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

[sammm ☆ @onlysammms]

how do i add this to my letterboxd 😭😭😭 i need to rate this match 5 stars and log the emotional damage somewhere

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

From underdogs to history-makers. Thank you, Cape Verde.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

The sports world couldn't believe Flo Balogun was sent off with a red card.

Balogun will be suspended for the USMNT's R16 game vs. Belgium.

[Jason Kelce @JasonKelce]

Man, somebody help me. That foul looked incidental from Balogun, shouldn’t a Red Card be given if there is either intention to foul, or an action that is aggressive and unsafe in nature? Didn’t feel like Balogun was out of control or anything, just looked like it kind of happened.

[Governor Bob Ferguson @GovBobFerguson]

Forty-one cities applied to host World Cup games. Thirty-two advanced to the next selection round, 23 made a short list, and 16 cities across three countries were ultimately selected. And, no surprise to anyone who knows our city, Seattle was ranked the Number 1 stadium experience by The Athletic’s reporters covering the games. (It’s soccer, so we’ll live with a tie with our friends in Atlanta — though we beat them on transit and location.) Full list: https://t.co/v1yTWqPxE2

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Bridgit Mendler has surprise released an EP titled ‘Once Again…’

It features 6 songs.

[🌙 @ninifems]

the humiliation ritual of having to be nice to a creepy man because you don’t want him to kill you

[Duolingo @duolingo]

i’m so glad a green bird won the Spanish concert

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

Mucho más que un artista.
Una voz que representa a millones.
Gracias Benito.

[sydney ❤️‍🔥 @SydneyScott15]

Theodore is obsessed with the #puppybowl

[Ana Escobar @AnaEscobarShow]

Fuck ICE. Free Palestine. Go Hawks.

[Covie @covie_93]

Can't believe that in 2025 we have to be telling people that vaccines are safe, slavery was bad and the swastika is a hate symbol.

[Beige Princess @aly_rose89]

Moving the Department of Education to the Department of Labor should alarm EVERYONE ‼️

[Gramps @GrandpaHarris65]

I wonder if the fall of Rome was this stupid.

[Carly Incontro @carlyincontro]

politics down so bad im excited about a mayoral election 2,000 miles away

[Sophia @its_Sophia_24]

A lot of you guys are miserable because you don't do arts and crafts. You should be having arts and crafts time at least once a week

[sydney ❤️‍🔥 @SydneyScott15]

@OneLuckyGirl_28 To rule over the tri-state area