Colm

[Dermot Keyes @DermotKeyes]

Great snap!

[Daniel McDonnell @McDonnellDan]

“Pico’s from Crumlin. I’m from Dolphin’s Barn. We live in a little road in Kilnamanagh. To say that he’s in a World Cup..it's crazy"

Pico Lopes' wife Leah is here in Atlanta with family & friends, living a surreal dream

Spoke with them over the weekend.

https://t.co/hE2em8Lp0F

[Dodge @seidodge]

Lots of great stories on the Cape Verde team. The keeper, Vozinho, has had a great first half. He’s 40 and plays in the Portuguese 2nd tier. Has played league football in Angola, Moldova and Cyprus. Makes his World Cup debut 14 years after his international debut. 🇨🇻

[FourFourTwo @FourFourTwo]

🇨🇻🇮🇪 Roberto 'Pico' Lopes: the Irish Cape Verde international whose bizarre call-up led to World Cup glory

🔁 The 33-year-old defender, with a broad Irish accent, has been turning out for Cape Verde throughout their qualification cycle

☘ The Shamrock Rovers' skipper was born in the Dublin suburb of Crumlin to an Irish mother and Cape Verdean father, representing the Republic of Ireland as a youth international some 15 years ago

📝 Despite never having visited Cape Verde and spending the entirety of his club career in the League of Ireland, 'Pico' was named in the Cape Verdean squad for the first time in 2019

💻 The approach was not made via traditional means or a club-to-country communication channel, though. Instead, Lopes received a message on his personal LinkedIn profile

🇵🇹 Due to the approach being made initially in Portuguese, which Pico did not speak fluently, he disregarded the message as spam, leaving it in his inbox for nine months

🤝 When the Cape Verdean authorities followed up in English, Pico quickly committed his international future to the land of his father

🌎 The fairytale continued when he played a central role at the heart of Cape Verde's defence, which held tournament favourites Spain to a 0-0 draw. One of the biggest upsets in World Cup history

𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆👉 https://t.co/KFuSAZBKFu

[Dodge @seidodge]

Pico Lopes is the 10th Dubliner to play in the men’s World Cup. The ten:

🇮🇪 Kevin Moran
🇮🇪 Paul McGrath
🇮🇪 Niall Quinn
🇮🇪 Ronnie Whelan
🇮🇪 David O’Leary
🇮🇪 Mark Kinsella
🇮🇪 Damien Duff
🇮🇪 Robbie Keane
🇮🇪 Kenny Cunningham
🇨🇻 Roberto Lopes

[Marc Mulholland @katheder]

#bloomsday! One of the less happy consequences of 'Dubliners', 'Ulysses' etc -- though hardly Joyce's fault -- is that it has very largely side-lined the prominence of rural society as the defining characteristic of Union Ireland.

[League of Ireland @LeagueofIreland]

One of the all-time great performances 👏

Made in Crumlin, Shamrock Rovers, the LOI and Cape Verde 😍

[Luke 'Ming' Flanagan @lukeming]

Out of 949 County and City Council Seats Fine Gael and Fianna Fail hold 534. Listen to Simon. It's all their fault.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

My campaign is out here this beautiful Seattle morning with Embassy Suites workers unionized with UNITE HERE Local 8!

We're picketing next to Lumen Field, Seattle's venue for the FIFA games!

What do we want?
Contract.
When do we want it?
NOW!
If we don't get it, shut it down!

The workers have taken a strike authorization vote, with 94% voting yes!

UNITE HERE Local 8 members are fighting for a new union contract that includes year-round healthcare coverage, protections from ICE, fair raises, and a return to pre-pandemic staffing levels.

#fifa
@UniteHereLocal8

[League of Ireland @LeagueofIreland]

The first ever active League of Ireland player to play in the FIFA World Cup 👏

[David Sneyd @DavidSneyd]

Two greats of Irish football at the World Cup.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

There’s only one antiwar, pro-worker campaign in this race.

I am running for Congress as an independent antiwar socialist in WA state’s 9th district.

There are two Democrats running against me. One is 29-year pro-war incumbent Adam Smith, and another is a candidate named Melissa Chaudhry.

I recently attended a candidate interview.

Adam Smith refused to attend. Clearly he prefers not to face my campaign which has relentlessly exposed his genocidal, anti-worker record.

The other candidate, Chaudhry, would have working people believe that she is running a progressive antiwar campaign. But what are her actual positions?

Nowhere has Chaudhry called for an end to military aid for Israel. The words genocide, Palestine, Israel, Gaza, or occupation don’t even appear on her website.

I brought this up in the interview, and Chaudhry declined to respond.

Nowhere does Chaudhry say anything about the need for universal public healthcare.

Chaudhry also fails to say anything in support of trans and queer rights. When pressed, she admitted that she wanted to avoid offending a particular community. This is in the context of the horrific attacks against trans people by Trump and the right wing.

Chaudhry is also silent about shutting down ICE and the detention centers.

Her silence on all these crucial issues — the genocide, military aid to Israel, universal public healthcare, trans and queer rights, and ICE terror — is anything BUT progressive.

Chaudhry recently assured a Democratic Party audience that she is a “team player.” It's clear what she means. She is happy to toe the line of the genocidal, anti-worker, anti-trans Democratic Party leadership to try to make a career for herself.

The last thing working people need is another status quo careerist politician. Congress is full of them.

What we need is a fighter for working people. If elected, I will use my Congressional office to build mass movements, like I did for a decade with my socialist Seattle City Council office, winning the nation’s highest minimum wage, the Amazon Tax and landmark renters’ rights.

Join us to build for the strongest antiwar working-class vote in this primary election that ends August 4th!

#socialist #palestine #gaza

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

The problem w the world isnt lack of empathy. Its that the ruling class exploits the working class for consolidation of wealth & power

The lack-of-empathy idea hides our primary conflict & hides that class struggle is the answer.
Spielberg's aliens were capitalist propagandists.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The fact that your government has made it illegal for me to answer yes is a damning testament to your flagrant disregard for civil liberties.

This may be targeted at those taking action against the genocide, but it sets a very dangerous precedent that puts everyone at risk.

[Colm @Colm1917]

@macster2307 @GuzKhanOfficial It's an old clip of an incident on Dublin Bus. Sadly, it's pretty typical of the atmosphere on Dublin's public transport at night.

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

This guy provided cover for Netanyahu’s genocide.

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

This is a man who wants to cut everything else to further boost military spending. A total charlatan. A guns not butter guy.

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

It’s a catastrophic mistake to herd people behind Burnham against the far right when it’s increasingly clear that he represents more of the same old shite. A choice of triangulating centrist neoliberalism versus neofascism is a gift to the far right. We must offer radical change.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

There you have it. Anthropic's CEO said it: The murder of more than 100 schoolgirls in Minab targeted by Anthropic's CLAUDE "is a use case that doesn't even violate our red lines." Time to rise up against these technofeudal war criminals.