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[Mike Minay @MikeMinay]

Fascinating call on @bbc5live with Nicky Campbell a moment ago. A fan found out live on air that his ESTA was rejected because he went to Cuba on a cruise last year 🤯

[Olivia of Troye @OliviaTroye]

As someone who has worked on national security vetting, the Trump Admin barring Somali referee Omar Artan entry to the US for the World Cup leads to more questions than answers.
Omar was vetted, approved, and issued a visa.
Then he landed in the United States and was suddenly deemed a national security threat.
So which is it?
Either the system failed, or someone changed the rules after the fact.
That's not how serious national security decisions should be made.
The public deserves to know what changed.

[Burak Özdemir @burakozdemr]

ABD, İsviçreli Embolo'ya vize vermedi. İncelemeye alındı, günler sonra takıma katılabildi.

İran Milli Takımı günlerce Ankara'da konsolosluk önünde vize için beklemek zorunda kaldı. ABD sadece maç günleri ülkeye giriş yapma şartıyla verdi. Arka planda çalışan 15 kişiye vize verilmedi.

Irak Milli Takım oyuncusu, ABD'ye gitti, ancak 7 saate yakın sorguda tutuldu. Sonrasında ülkeye girişine izin verildi.

Afrika'da 2025 yılının en iyi hakemi seçilen ve turnuvada görev alacak olan Omar Artan'a vize verilmedi. Somali kendisine diplomatik pasaport verdi ve ABD'ye uçtu, ancak girişine izin verilmedi ve ülkesine gönderildi.

Güney Afrika Milli Takımı kafilenin yarısına vize verilmediği için planlanandan çok sonra ABD'ye gidebildi.

Birleşik Krallık vatadaşlarının ESTA sistemine kayıt olmaları halinde 90 gün vizesiz ABD'ye giriş hakları olmasına rağmen İskoç taraftarların vizeleri günler kala iptal edildi.

Biletlerini alan otellerde yerini ayırtan ABD vizeleri reddedildi. Paraları da yandı.

Dört yılda bir yapılan bir turnuvanın başlamadan içine ettiniz beyler! @FIFAWorldCup @FIFAcom

[John Wight @JohnWight1]

Even Hitler's Germany did not prevent athletes and officials from entering the country to take part in the 1936 Olympics.

This is pristine racism and @FIFAcom stands disgraced for allowing Trump to disfigure the beautiful game in this way.

[Footballogue @Footballogue]

🔴 Énorme DINGUERIE encore des États-Unis...

L'arbitre somalien Omar Artan 🇸🇴 s'est vu refuser son entrée aux États-Unis, alors qu'il est sensé officier pendant la Coupe du Monde ! 🙄

Malgré l'aide appuyée de l'ambassade somalienne de Nairobi, qui lui a fourni un PASSEPORT DIPLOMATIQUE, M. Artan a dû faire demi tour à son arrivée aux USA.

On parle d'une personne qui a été élue MEILLEUR ARBITRE AFRICAIN EN 2025 ! 🤦‍♂️

(@Romain_Molina)

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[West LA Résistance 🌊🇺🇸⚖️🗽 @45bestwords]

9 wks ago he said "We got him" re: a "supposed" daring rescue of a downed US Airman who'd been behind enemy lines for 48 hrs

+ since then Nada
No touting Trump's great rescue-victory
No parade or TV appearances

Like it never happened
+ Like Butler PA investigation: Non-existent

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

"There is no supply ship coming..."

I flew CH-53E helicopters in Desert Storm.

Before the push north, a pilot asked our CO when the resupply ship was coming. We needed .50 cal. We needed engines. The Saudi sand was so fine it bypassed our particle separators and ate the compressor blades. We were throwing compressor stalls on landing. One of our aircraft caught fire, lit the magnesium gearbox, and burned to the ground before the war started.

The CO's answer: there is no ship coming.

The American public thought we were an unstoppable machine. We were rationing pistol ammunition.

I learned at the Naval Postgraduate School, taking Maritime Strategy, that Congress had spent years diverting conventional ammunition and parts funding into new missile programs. Promises to backfill next year. They never did. By 1990 the backlog was unrecoverable.

Today we have burned through half our THAAD stockpile defending Israel. No new interceptors delivered since 2023. None coming until 2027.

Trump is now wavering on the Taiwan arms sale.

There is no supply ship coming.

[Hqdepot1 @Hqdepot1]

Mr. Hartmann writes:
"For decades, Democrats suspected what has now been CONFIRMED in plain English by a Trump insider. Ashley St. Clair, former TPUSA brand ambassador, who built a million-follower platform on X...has spent a few weeks blowing the lid 1/
https://t.co/I7qG3P6sfY

[Ken Burns @KenBurns]

We are announcing today that The American Revolution will stream for free in its entirety on all PBS platforms from May 25th through July 12. Hope you have a chance to watch, ideally with friends and family, as you think about our 250th anniversary this July 4th. https://t.co/c8fc6Sldj5

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Suspending a primary election days before early voting starts just so you can redraw the maps to disenfranchise Black and brown voters is a perfect example of the lengths Republican politicians will go to rig our democracy in their favor.

[Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter]

The author of this article refused to sign an NDA, giving up severance and healthcare benefits to tell this story.

Read it.

Because he refused, we may be able to stop the Kennedy Center from being sold for parts and turned into a gaudy MAGA fundraising warehouse.

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Sid Krofft, Co-Creator of Mind-Blowing Kids TV Shows, Dies at 96 https://t.co/xWFiUmrdPP

[Christian Nightmares @ChristnNitemare]

From the archives: Chuck Norris and his wife, Gena, warn of '1,000 years of darkness' if Obama wins in 2012...

[Ask a Manager @AskAManager]

We had 4 cats all throwing up for 24-48 hours 2 weeks ago after eating Fancy Feast wet food and apparently others are experiencing the same so signal boosting this

[🇨🇦 Nico Carney, Purr Minister of Canada @CarneyPurr67561]

I'd like to assure the Catnadian people and their staff that this government is working to help unfreeze @Number10cat's Twitter account.

Please continue to spread the word, especially the members of the press and Parliament who follow me.

#FreeLarryTheCat

[Chris 🕷🐦 @imageplotter]

I had wondered why the Larrmaster was so quiet, but thought he might just take a break from it all. Looks like the account was locked? Totally unacceptable. #FreeLarry #FreeLarryTheCat ! @Number10cat

[dev @devinfritter]

@BostonMassUSA And South Attleboro?

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

Never ask:

A woman her age

A man his salary

The White House why the president is getting a secret medical procedure that makes him unable to do public appearances for the first three days of every month since September.

[dev @devinfritter]

The Turkey Trot is the engine that drives Somerville.
Without it, thousands of hillbillies would not survive the winter.
#Somerville #funrun #Thanksgiving