Sarah Cottee

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

Iran's Football Teams Leaves a Beautiful and POwerful Message for Mexico as they Depart

Message:
To the noble people of Mexico and to the beautiful city of Tijuana, thank you!

You showed us that hosting a FIFA World Cup is about far more than stadiums and tickets. True hosting is about respect, humanity and dignity. We will never forget the kindness of the people of Tijuana. From this day forward, Mexico will always be more than host nation to us; it will be our second home and our second team. We leave this world cup with pride, but also with one fundamental question: "Did everything apply equally to all the teams in the tournament?"

What we experienced was a series of decisions, logistical arrangements, and circumstances that undermined the sense of fairness, an impression only reinforced by the events of the final matchday of our group.

Perhaps one day history will judge who genuinely welcomed Iran's presence at this world cup, and who would have preferred our journey to end much sooner.

For us, Fair Play is not a slogan printed on advertising boards; it is the very identity of football. Yet this tournament reminded us that there is still a significant distance between inspiring words and meaningful actions.

We leave Tijuana believing that football fans around the world witnessed not only the hardship endured by Iranian football, but also the resilience of a nation that refused to trade its dignity, honor, and values despite every challenge.

And we will never forget that those who celebrated Iran's elimination were the same people who had previously celebrated the suffering and loss of innocent Iranian lives. That alone reveals the difference in how humanity is understood.

World cups come to an end. Administrations change, but civilizations such as Iran, Egypt and Mexico, built upon truth, respect, and human dignity, endure through history.

Match results become part of football history. The honor of nations becomes part of human history.

With respect,
Iran National Team, IRI, Minab, 168, Hero

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Which of these rights don’t you want Bobby?

Or perhaps more appropriately, which of these rights do you not want us to have?

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

20 year old student Edith Berryman at the #RejoinEU rally in parliament square calling for the UK to rejoin the European Union @MarchForRejoin

"10 years since the Brexit referendum. I am 20 years old. I have grown up living with the consequences of that decision. I have a simple question. Did Brexit deliver what we were promised? My argument is simple."

"Brexit has had a real measurable economic cost. Not just in political arguments, but in productivity, investment and living standards, not just one opinion or one forecast."

"This is the conclusion we keep seeing across UK institutions and independent research. The question is not what people believed in 2016. The question is what can we learn from the evidence shown in 2026?"

"And the evidence is clear. Firstly, in productivity, this again doesn't come from one political campaign or one think tank. This comes from the UK government, government's own Office for Budget Responsibility. Their estimate is that Brexit reduces long term, UK productivity by around 4% compared to staying in the EU."

"And more recent academic work shows that figure even higher to around 6 to 8%. To put it simply, a smaller economy than we otherwise would have had. Secondly, investment. Because countries don't just grow by accident, they grow because business."

"This creates, invests and builds for the future. Business investment in the UK fell sharply after the referendum and has remained weaker than expected ever since. Independent studies estimate it is around 10 to 15% lower than it would have been without Brexit."

"And that matters because investment means jobs, it means wages, it means opportunities for the next generation, the younger generation, my generation, alph."

"They estimate this loss in productivity translates into around 470 pounds per worker per year in lower wages over time, not just for today, but for years ahead. Thirdly, living standards."

"Because this is where the debate stops being about statistics and it becomes real people's everyday lives. Research from institutions like the London School of Economics has found that Brexit related trade barriers increased costs in everyday goods, including food, contributing to higher household bills."

"And some estimates suggest it could amount to around 250 pounds a year for the average household. And the Resolution foundation has found over, the long term, real wages are lower than they otherwise would have been expected to be. So when you put all three together, products, investment, living standards, you do not get one political slogan, you do not get one isolated focus."

"You get a consistent picture from official institutions and independent research. And the question then becomes, how did we get here from what we were promised? Because this isn't just about numbers on a spreadsheet."

"Behind every percentage point is a real life. It's about whether young people can afford a home, whether your business can grow, whether families feel like their wages are, going further. I think the biggest issue here is Trust."

"In 2016, people were asked to make one of the biggest decisions in modern British history. They were promised that leaving would mean more control, more money and a stronger future. People were told, on the side of a bus, that leaving the EU would free up 350 million pounds a week for the NHS."

"But now, 10 years on, we have to be honest about the gap between what was promised and what actually happened. Because democracy, it doesn't depend on everyone getting every decision right. Democracy depends on us being willing to look at the evidence afterwards and ask, did this work?"

"What can we learn and what should we do next? Ten years ago, Britain chose a new direction. Today, we have the chance to choose what comes next. Not based on nostalgia, not based on slogans, not based on fear."

"Based on reality. And, the future isn't built on ignoring the evidence, is built by facing it. So the question for 2026 is, now that we know the cost, what should we do next? Thank you very much."

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Whatever you do today, please don’t forget who caused NHS waiting lists to increase massively.

The Conservatives have a long history of making people wait longer for the care they need.

And it will take a long time to correct the messes they made.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

They will NOT make a billionaire contribute to the basic needs of the community BUT they will make the whole community bear the electrical, water, and building costs of a data center owned by a billionaire.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Why did Boris Johnson accept a £1m gift from the same billionaire who gave Farage £5m?

What did Nigel Farage AND Boris Johnson do for the biggest lump sums of cash ever given to British politicians?

So glad to see this trending. #HarborneReceipts

And follow @thenerve_news

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Elon, I can give you many, many names of people who have died because of your aid cuts.:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because you stopped paying for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of your cuts in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after you interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when you cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to him.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge you: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.

[Donald C MacLeod MBE @DonaldCMacleod]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

"Ne ödemelerimi yapabileceğim kredi kartım çalışıyor ne havale yapabiliyorum; sağlık sigortam iptal edildi, otellere rezervasyon yapamıyorum. Kendimi Pablo Escobar gibi hissediyorum. Bunların hepsi, 'Gazze'de İsrail soykırım yapıyor' dediğim için."

— Francesca Albanese, BM Özel Raportörü

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel.

Now no one dares.

[Majid🎒 @Majid5963]

نوآ:
"چرا تیم‌های آفریقایی و خاورمیانه‌ای باید جواب کارهای دولت‌هاشون رو بدن، ولی تیم‌های اروپایی نه؟
دم تیم ایران گرم؛ اومدن فقط فوتبال بازی کنن. هر روز برای بازی پرواز می‌کردن، هر بار هم ساعت‌ها توی گمرک و بازرسی معطل می‌شدن، ولی با احترام رفتار کردن و کاملاً حرفه‌ای و منصفانه بازی کردن.
با این حال، بعد از هر بازی به‌جای اینکه درباره فوتبال ازشون سؤال کنن، مدام می‌خواستن بکشنشون وسط بحث‌های سیاسی؛ مثلاً می‌پرسیدن نظرت درباره اتفاقات تنگه هرمز چیه. خب طرف هم می‌گه: داداش، من فوتبالیستم، نه سیاستمدار."

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

The captain of Iran’s National Team, Mehdi Taremi, calls out FIFA and the U.S.:

“This is a disaster World Cup. We can’t stay in the country and have to travel every time we play without any recovery. Now we can’t stay in Seattle and have to return to Tijuana. This is not fair.”

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:

"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."

Source: @tomaskenn

[tern @1goodtern]

Another heatwave predicted here for about ten days time.
Maybe worse than the current one.

We should start naming them the way we name storms, and name them after climate deniers and fossil fuel companies.

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

Oh look ! The pesky EU refusing to buy UK food containing pesticides and fungicides which it has banned, but which the UK allows "under its Brexit freedoms"
"Freedom" to use dodgy chemicals, eh ?🤡

and of course that's the EU "punishing" the UK again. Of course it is ...

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

A teenager holding a white flag shot down from a quadcopter in his own home. A newborn baby shot in the head while breastfeeding inside a tent. These are some of the horrific accounts of Israel’s targeting of Palestinian children from the UN’s latest report. @mehdirhasan shares:

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Sir John Major, "Brexit has been very damaging"

"Most people think of the economic damage, but that's only part of the argument"

"It has as a country made us weaker, more isolated"

"Before Brexit we were the principle ally of the US, that's debatable now"

"We were also a leading member of the European Union that had 500 million people"

"Both of those have gone'

"We're now 70 million in a world of 9.5 billion"

"And we have considerably less clout, and friendship in times of difficulty, than we had before"

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Does anyone know why life saving air ambulances have to rely on funding from charities

But helicopters for the Royal Family are paid for by the tax payer?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

If you are worried about

Benefit Fraud £0.5bn but not Government Corruption £219bn.

Immigration £2bn but not Tax Havens £150bn.

Junior Doctors pay rises £1.3bn but not Bankers tax cuts £7.3bn.

You‘re buying their lies.