FIFA’s World Cup hosting documents require governments to provide guarantees on visas, immigration and entry procedures for tournament stakeholders.
After the Somali referee Omar Artan was denied entry to the US, FIFA says it is "not involved" and that the host government ultimately decides who gets a visa.
So what exactly are those FIFA-required guarantees worth if accredited match officials can still be refused entry?
So far at the 2026 FIFA Epstein Cup before a ball kicked:
- Senegal & Uzbekistan squads treated like criminals upon arrival given full cavity searches;
- Africa’s best referee sent back to Somalia despite having a diplomatic passport;
- Iraq team photographer sent back despite valid visa;
- AIPS (international sport journalist association) calling on FIFA to sort out unacceptable visa issues of African & Iranian journalists;
- 90% of Moroccan fans with tickets denied entry
- 14 members of Iran backroom staff denied visas
Not a word from Gianni ”today I feel black/gay/disabled etc” Infantino.
🚨 do you understand what just happened with the SpaceX IPO..
Fidelity quietly dropped its minimum account requirement from $500,000 to $2,000 - a 99.6% cut that lets millions of small retail investors in days before the biggest stock debut in history.
The catch is who they need to sell to.
- SpaceX reserved up to 30% of the offering for retail, far above the usual single-digit share
- Selling within the first 15 days triggers Fidelity penalties up to a permanent IPO ban
- At a ~$1.675T pre-money valuation this IPO creates more exit value than every VC-backed IPO of the last decade combined
- The xAI side lost $6.4B from operations in 2025, dragging a Starlink-powered company billions into the red
They opened the gates right when the smart money needs someone to sell to. Read the prospectus before you become it.
Tim Dillon on Thomas Massie’s loss: “I don’t know how you run a country where people can just dump $32 million into a race.”
“This guy who’s like, release the Epstein files.”
“Prosecute pedophiles.”
“Get out of foreign wars.”
“He loses to a guy who’s like: let’s cover up the Epstein files.”
“Let’s not prosecute pedophiles.”
“Let’s go to war with your kids.”
“You would think just platform to platform, that’s a tough sell.”
“If you spend enough money, you can just create any reality you want.”
“No one knows who the hell the other guy is.”
“He was just handpicked, came out of nowhere … was like, ‘we gotta get kids back into the military, we gotta get them to Iran now.’”
“You would think that’s probably not a super popular idea.”
“Let’s get your son out of the house and into Iran.”
“You would think that as ideas go, that’s probably a relatively hard sell.”
@TimJDillon
@wrestlescripts I enjoy the peak behind the curtains cause now it leaves me more confused about what’s real and what’s not sometimes 😅 I’m like “oooo that shot seemed a little personal…do these guys actually not like eachother?”
Washington unanimously legalized scissor stairs, a building code reform that frees up to 56% more living space per floor.
Less wasted space means cheaper homes on smaller lots.
Most US states banned this since the 1970s for no good reason.