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[Jordan Schachtel @JordanSchachtel]

Imagine if this happened in one of America's major sports. The complaining team would be relentlessly ridiculed for its fear to square off against their opponent's best players. The coach wouldn't dare this appeal.

This European mentality is so foreign to the American spirit.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

They are calling this the worst Tweet ever

[Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 @Chris_arnade]

Funny thing about the whole red card hub bub is 99% of the world knows FIFA is corrupt — it might be the single thing people across the globe believe and tell you, regardless of if you ask — and then Trump blasts in, without any care, like the kool aid man, and does some small fry FIFA corruption, and everyone is like “Woah . The integrity of the game. It’s gone. It’s ruined forever”

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

We have truly arrived as a soccer country.

The Europeans are asking Belgium to refuse to play.

Refuse to play, the Americans are coming.

😂😂😂

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

The World Cup is exposing the truth:

1. The U.S. is awesome, just like we keep saying
2. Mexico is a terrifying, violent cartel-state
3. Canada and Australia suck
4. Japan is beloved
5. Europe is in decline

[Jonathan Greenberg @JGreenbergSez]

A huge cultural difference between international soccer and American sports cultures. Americans are used to our athletes saying they prefer to beat an opponent at full strength. International soccer culture - the same culture that produces players pretending to be injured - is fine whinging about a guy being suspended for something he didn’t even do to their team.

[Mark Hemingway @Heminator]

Patriot Front are losers, but they hold zero power and have to wear masks in public.

Actual communists and Islamists are winning Democrat primaries.

I would suggest you prioritize the real threat accordingly.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

@DarrigoMelanie Yes, she got a seat row to all herself in a bus that was standing room only full of white supremacists, apparently, was perfectly safe throughout her ride.

This picture is powerful, but not for the reason you think it is.

[Nitro @NitroFooty]

“Id rather be eliminated from the World Cup than headed to a quarterfinal.”

He’s the perfect coach for Canada. A fucking loser through and through. Couldn’t be a better fit.

[Axiomatic Enemy of the State @DeTocqueville14]

Since the corrupt Birmingham Police are asking that the video not be shared I am going to do the only responsible thing under the circumstances and share the video:

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

FIFA apologizing to Folarin Balogun after dropping his 1 game suspension

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: Folarin Balogun will be available to play in USA's Round of 16 match against Belgium on Monday, FIFA announced.

The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has suspended the red card issued to the USA striker during their Round of 32 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

Definitely don’t share this video of them forcing the man into the car backwards and then becoming aggressive when he (obviously) doesn’t fit.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The best evidence that @NYCMayor Mamdani has not held a job is the fact that he is sitting on the wrong side of the desk.

And listen to his words. On a day when we, and in particular, our leaders should be celebrating the 250 years of our nation’s history, he attacks us and what makes our country great.

Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists are grave threats to our present and our future.

[Jake “JBOY” Crain @JakeCrain_]

An open letter to everyone in Seattle:

#usmnt

[J. 🇵🇸 @Messilizer0]

“If the situation had been reversed, VAR would NEVER have intervened”

He knows