World football should be embarrassed and outraged that the game of the world, that everyone plays in all corners of the planet, has been used to promote a human rights abuser, currently extrajudicially killing Venezuelans, who play our game.
Locking up immigrants and vilifying all manner of cultures and faiths, who play our game.
Funding and arming genocide in Palestine, who play our game.
This award further stains the reputation of Infantino, FIFA, and places football as an enabler of Trump’s attacks on international law, multilateral systems, on justice, and accountability.
Football once stopped wars, today, it promotes the worst crimes against humanity.
It’s a shameful day for the beautiful game.
Catalonia paid tribute to the Palestinian players killed in Gaza by playing “El Cant dels Ocells” before kick-off.
The traditional Catalan song is considered a symbol of freedom and resistance, often performed in moments of mourning and hope.
Escaped enslaved man, Gordon, also known as 'Whipped Peter,' shows the scars on his back in Louisiana, 1863. The Trump administration ordered the removal of this photo, along with other signs and exhibits related to slavery, from several national parks.
The Italian journalist who posed this obviously reasonable question to an EU official about Israel, Gabriele Nunziati, was just fired by the Nova news agency in Rome for the crime of asking it.
The most notable aspect of this event is that it's now utterly unsurprising:
This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them
This is a real headline.
The world is laughing at us.
The government is closed. Inflation is rising. Health care costs are increasing.
But Trump is making AI memes dropping feces on Americans.
Hegseth & Trump ordered 800 of our top military commanders from all over the world to fly to a Marine Corps base outside of DC and all gather in one room today to listen to unserious, performative shit like this. What a fucking waste of money & time. What a stupid security risk.
I can barely get through this interview, it’s gut-wrenching. Each time Dr. Mo speaks on Gaza, it’s like another part of my soul breaks.
Israel has permanently scarred what it means to be human.
Thanks @ryangrim