Arif 🇺🇸

[FOX Soccer @FOXSoccer]

Lamine Yamal & Walmart is a combo we never expected 😂

(via TT/poopyyyunderwear)

[Jay Lampert @MortChristenson]

Ok, who did this?

[Rafael Hernández @RafaelH117]

This is the BEST THING you are going to watch today.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

I love Americans. We were about to walk an hour to the stadium in the rain to save on an Uber, and the receptionist at the hotel we were parked in front of decided to drive us there.🙏

[khalil Erigavo @khalilErigavo]

Since Africa’s best ref Omar Artan is all over Twitter today, it’s worth remembering that Wavin’ Flag the 2010 World Cup song and one of the greatest football anthems ever was also by Somali artist @KNAAN 🇸🇴🇸🇴

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Iranian Football Federation announces the 8% ticket quota allocated to Iran has been revoked by the U.S., leaving the federation currently unable to distribute tickets to supporters.

A case study in political interference, discrimination and FIFA looking the other way.

[Ryan Cummings @Pol_Sec_Analyst]

How to sneak a chocolate bar into a FIFA World Cup match in the USA

[Eric Balchunas @EricBalchunas]

$QQQ actually saw record volume on Friday with $71b, which was also the most traded equity on planet, more than SPY, MU, TSLA, NVDA. Also amazing just how much more 70b is than QQQ's big days 10yrs ago. It is the crown jewel of the financial world. Unlike SPY it has no competition (yet) and it can charge more.

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

James Dolan invited his friend Donald Trump to watch Game 3. In order to do that, they have to ban the organic, historically joyous parties happening outside MSG for fans who can't afford to be inside. Modern sports in a nutshell

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

Heartbreaking farewell moments.. Fahd Abu Heikal carries the body of his infant son, Sam, who was killed yesterday evening in the city of Hebron, as relatives and family members bid him a sorrowful farewell.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

New York City just had its safest first 5 months of a year in recorded history.

Murders plunged 21%, and major crime overall is down 11%.

[Rafael Hernández @RafaelH117]

https://t.co/GsvhlaJ2i4

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Running uncorroborated claims on Platner from an ex-girlfriend who is a professional Republican operative is outrageous from the New York Times. It's consistent with their biased treatment of candidates skeptical of Israel.

[Vlad Bastion @VladBastion]

Goldman Sachs took 194 companies public. Those IPOs trailed the market by 22% three years later.

Average 3-year market-adjusted return on IPOs (2012-2024), by underwriter:

Goldman Sachs -21.8%
JP Morgan -21.2%
BofA-Merrill -15.3%

IPO Data - Jay R. Ritter

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

"The last time the Knicks made it to the Finals, there were 268 billionaires on the Forbes list. Today, there are 3,428, at least some of whom identify as Knicks fans and are now competing for a limited number of prime seats against a global fan base." https://t.co/sXFb9oZ7eg

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Conor Sen @conorsen]

I simply wasn’t prepared for how sophisticated FIFA was in its extortion. It’s like trying to trade against Jane Street.

[Jonah Allon @JonahAllon]

every DC-based political operative bio is like: “Strategist. Storyteller. Girldad. Fighter of good fights. Lives on a diet of coffee and red wine, but usually not in the same cup 🤫. Always down to yap about redistricting. Hook ‘em 🤘”

[Sohrab Ahmari @SohrabAhmari]

By the way, @ZohranKMamdani’s razor-sharp political instincts vindicated once more. Did, say, @RepDanGoldman wonder if the headlines would be dominated by the presence of Milosevic-style ethno-chauvinists?