Drew Elder

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

Dan Crenshaw who lost his primary bid, defended his ability to buy defense stocks as a Congressman, and never had a private sector job has advice for families struggling with grocery bills

[El Señor De Los Memes @UltimoLegend]

It’s true

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Billionaires used to build libraries and hospital wings, now they just buy politicians. This is why we cant have nice things.

[Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr]

Remember when they said Trump would get us into a full-blown war with Iran?

Times like these should make us all realize how lucky we were to have Trump, his strength and his resolve.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

50 Republican senators voted to advance the NDAA with Sec. 1217 (U.S.-Israeli military integrations) included. The final vote was 50-46, falling short of the 60 votes needed for the motion to proceed.

This is the Senate version of Section 219 (previously Sec. 224) in the House.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Drew Elder @DElder93]

That’s game.

[Drew Elder @DElder93]

Dear god why is Pulisic taking the corners?

[Drew Elder @DElder93]

FREE KICK GOAT

[Drew Elder @DElder93]

I love Vinland Saga

[B/R Football @brfootball]

Norway vs. England. Haaland vs. Kane. The next World Cup quarterfinal is set 🇳🇴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[. @tosinmm_]

USMNT fans seeing that Folarin Balogun can play against Belgium

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

BREAKING @TheAthleticFC

Folarin Balogun will be available to play the USMNT’s round of 16 match against Belgium with his one-game red-card ban suspended. Extraordinary development.

Story with @Dan_Sheldon_

https://t.co/oQ61J9btzT

[Drew Elder @DElder93]

WHAT A FUCKING SHOT

[Drew Elder @DElder93]

Holy shit. Casually dropped the heaviest song they’ve put out in 15+ years.

[Bring Me The Horizon @bmthofficial]

dehumanized video out now.
https://t.co/vZM7udHQ86

[mark normand @marknorm]

This looks like a Disney movie where a 12 year old becomes president

[Drew Elder @DElder93]

I’ve never seen the US play this well. That was insane.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

DO NOT TURN A BLIND EYE TO THIS. HOLY SHIT.

[Underdog NFL @UnderdogNFL]

Reid: Rashee Rice (knee, jail) expected to be ready for training camp.

[Chris Ray Gun @ChrisRGun]

These guys got so brain broken by Anita Sarkeesian, man. They literally just became the same perpetually triggered overanalyzers that they pretended to hate over the last ten years.

Barely sentient.

It’s genuinely fascinating to watch.

[Hush @shushwave]

Adolf Hitler shot himself the moment he knew he couldn't win his war. The Boys has several issues writing wise but they portrayed what happens when a narcissist loses all power pretty well.