🚨 Landon Donovan didn’t hold back on the state of U.S. soccer:
“2002 World Cup is the furthest the men have ever been… we have only won one knockout game in our history. That’s pretty alarming. We’re not developing players like the rest of the world.”
“The bigger problem is our youth soccer in this country is a disaster… It’s all about winning. The kids get left behind because the clubs want to make money, the coaches want to make money… and the kids don’t develop.”
On the post-16/17 pathway:
“If you’re 16, 17 and you haven’t made it, you kind of fall into this abyss.”
His bottom line:
“I want to give the game back to kids.”
@SRUSA_Official
If you had missed the news, Ken Paxton recently cut a deal that reduced the lifetime sentence of a man who raped a 6-9 year old boy over the course of 3 years to only 29 days in prison. He was released yesterday without so much as even having to register as a sex offender.
Interesting how “James Talarico is vegan” generates more outrage from Ken Paxton supporters than Ken Paxton’s office letting a child molester walk free.
Context: TX Lt. Gov @DanPatrick was the Judge at the trial. Patrick took $3M from Paxton backers before the trial. Patrick is a Paxton donor himself. He ruled to limit testimony & blocked motions to compel Paxton & others to testify. @KenPaxtonTX wasn't "cleared", the fix was in.
.@JamesTalarico: Ken Paxton has a criminal record. I have a legislative record.
For over 4 terms in the Texas House of Representatives, I have brought Democrats and Republicans together to pass more than 60 bipartisan bills to cut property taxes, to raise teacher pay, to lower the cost of housing, prescription drugs, and childcare across Texas — and I’m gonna put that record up against Ken Paxton’s criminal record any day of the week, twice on Sunday.
I’ve called out the extremes in both parties. I’ve called out Ken Paxton for his blatant illegal corruption, but I also called out President Biden when he failed to secure our southern border.
I’m not interested in going to Washington DC to serve one political party. I’m going to Washington DC to serve the people of Texas.
That’s the exact opposite of what Ken Paxton does — he serves himself and his billionaire megadonors at the expense of the people of the state.
I want to thank Senator John Cornyn for his years representing our state.
We don’t agree on everything, but we both still believe in public service.
To Senator Cornyn’s supporters: you have a place in our campaign.
This is Ken Paxton's mugshot.
He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud.
He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery.
He was impeached by his own party for corruption.
Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas.
Together we will stop him.
Talarico: I’m an eighth-generation Texan. I’ve been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment. And if all they have on me is lying about me being a vegan, I feel pretty good about our chances this November.
It's no mystery that (highly paid) political staffers are among the most slavish users of AI and distributors of AI slop.
They don't care if they get things wrong. Correctness is irrelevant to their jobs.
Reminder: Once separatism fever took hold in Quebec almost 400 companies fled the province and shuttered corporate offices over the next 5 years.
Separatism is an economy killer.
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L'Unione europea non deve commettere con la #Turchia di #Erdoğan lo stesso errore che ha commesso con la #Russia di #Putin. Dovrebbe mostrare al presidente turco una reazione pesante, dura. #Bruxelles deve trattare Erdoğan per quello che è realmente: un leader politico che sta macellando la democrazia in Turchia. Finora le reazioni di Bruxelles sono state molto tiepide.
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Adam Hoffman raped his son’s best friend for 3 years
First-degree felony. Life without parole.
Ken Paxton’s office gutted it to 60 days. He walked free after 30.
No sex offender registration. His record scrubbed clean.
Texas protects predators with power!
No one rapes a Texas child and gets this kind of royal treatment. If my House Judiciary Committee has to subpoena Ken Paxton himself to explain this — be assured that we will do so.
We deserve answers. And this is not going away.
I’m starting to believe the Bell Centre opening ceremony is jinxing the @CanadiensMTL. Tonight, instead of having a living Stanley Cup champion lift the torch, they should do a hologram of Elvis Gratton holding up a case of Budweiser and a carton of Lucky Strikes. #GoHabsGo