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[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
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[Leap @eleapley]

Wow I see the #USMNT is just diving into the Arsenal method of falling on the ground and screaming for no reason and this horrible ref is actually falling for it. Meanwhile US is playing rugby out there and nothing getting called. Worst reffed game of the tournament so far….

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Can’t stop thinking about how Wall Street is celebrating Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire, while he single handedly eliminated humanitarian aid that will lead to the needless deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest children in the world in the next 4 years.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

COPS ARREST A MAN FOR ORGANIZING A PROTEST AGAINST A DATA CENTER:

Video shows Illinois police arresting Harley Delander for organizing a protest against a data center in his town.

He explains to police that he did nothing wrong and they’re violating his First Amendment rights.

The police don’t care and arrest him anyway. This is the current state of America.

Our government and both parties are completely owned by the tech billionaires who are rewiring our entire economy to usher in their AI techno-capitalist dystopia.

This is why you are seeing the government do whatever it can to silence any and all opposition to the dystopian nightmare their tech billionaire owners are pushing onto us.

From labeling anti-data center protesters “extremists” to now arresting people for planning protests, the US government is actively attacking and jailing its own people to protect the Tech oligarchs it serves.

[Dubois @CFC_Dubois]

Havertz goal should’ve been ruled out for handball by Trossard. PSG should’ve had a penalty because of Saka’s handball.

We are witnessing corruption in real time.

[Cap’n Cook 🏔️ @JazzePinkman]

Adam Silver’s resume:

-Made it harder for bad teams to rebuild🧠
-Encourages flopping 🎭
-Added ugly sponsor patches to jerseys 💰
-Put ads all over the court 💵
-Fully embraced sports gambling 🎰
-Longer games because of commercials and more commercials ⏰

Generational moron🔥

[Terrence Ross @TerrenceRoss]

The refs are cheating. Point blank period

[BrickCenter @BrickCenter_]

The refs need to be investigated:

🧱 Missed an OBVIOUS goaltend on OKC
🧱 Refused to let Mitch Johnson challenge a call
🧱 Tony Brothers then jokes with Lu Dort

[Vegas Golden Knights @GoldenKnights]

CHECKMATE 🧹

[lememe_james @LememeJames]

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[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🎙️Ian Wright on how Chelsea got robbed in the Fa Cup Final, multiple penalty appeals turned down by referee Darren England and breaks down the rules behind every controversial incident:

“I don’t care what badge is on the shirt, if that’s at the other end and it’s against Manchester City, people are screaming corruption for a week. Chelsea got robbed today. Absolutely robbed.

The first one on Joao Pedro before halftime? That is not a ‘coming together’. Khusanov doesn’t even attempt to play the ball, he just body-checks him straight through the back. Under the laws, if you impede or charge a player carelessly inside the box without playing the ball, it’s a penalty. Simple. VAR hiding behind ‘subjective contact’ is nonsense.

Then the second-half madness… two penalty appeals in about 10 seconds and somehow none reviewed properly? Doku clips Caicedo while he’s driving into the area, there’s contact, no touch on the ball, and Chelsea players are begging for consistency because we’ve seen softer ones given all season.

And the handball? Don’t even get me started. Enzo Fernández whips the ball in and it strikes O’Reilly’s arm/elbow. People keep saying ‘his arm was tucked in’ but the law also talks about making the body unnaturally bigger and blocking the trajectory of the ball. We’ve literally seen those given in the Premier League this season. So what’s the standard anymore? Every week fans are told something different.

And then AGAIN on Joao Pedro around the 66th minute, Khusanov makes contact from behind as Gusto’s cross comes in and Pedro goes down. Once more, no urgency from VAR. No referee sent to the monitor. Nothing.

That’s three huge moments in one cup final. Three. Chelsea players were looking around like they already knew nobody was helping them today.

If Arsenal or Liverpool got treated like that in a final, football wouldn’t hear the end of it for months. But because it’s City on the other side, everyone suddenly wants to act ‘calm’ and ‘neutral’.

Chelsea didn’t just lose a final… they got officiated out of one.”

[Underwood Dem 🇺🇸🚣🏻 @Undercrat]

Call his fucking office: [phone]

[Leap @eleapley]

Thanks Adam Silver. I’ve mostly tuned out this season after watching you rig games to steal a NBA title for the Thunder (Game 4 robbery), but the most obviously rigging of the draft to send the Pacers pick to the Clippers means I’m out for good on this @nba shit.

[Lemon @Lemonbriz]

🚨🎙️ Roy Keane on West Ham’s disallowed goal for a foul on Arsenal’s Goalkeeper David Raya

"I tell ya what, that VAR decision is a complete and utter disgrace – an absolute joke!

All season long Arsenal have been crowding the goalkeeper on set-pieces, pushing, shoving, blocking – it’s been their main tactic from day one. We saw it clear as day against us at Old Trafford when Saliba backed straight into Bayindir, stopped him from making a proper save, and they nicked a goal through Calafiori. Nothing given. Not a murmur. But now, in a massive title-deciding match against West Ham, when it doesn’t suit them... suddenly it’s a foul on Raya? Are you kidding me?

What the hell are we even watching in this league anymore? It’s shameless, it’s embarrassing. At this rate just hand the title and the trophy over to Arsenal now, because it’s glaringly obvious what they’re trying to pull. Total, utter disgrace."

[BAY @bayour20]

Let me explain how frustrating BlueCo’s decision-making has been.

They refused to pay Olise £220k a week with a £50m transfer fee, yet they went ahead and signed Neto for £60m on £160k wages.

They also ignored Kvaratskhelia, who would’ve cost around £70m with wages of about £240k a week, but instead chose to spend a combined £100m on Gittens and Garnacho, whose wages together come to roughly £218k per week.

Now here’s the funniest part: Rio could easily have been promised a pathway into the squad as Kvara’s backup, and he probably would’ve accepted that role gladly. Instead, they spent another £6m on Guiu with £50k-a-week wages. That extra £50k could simply have been added to Neto’s salary package, with an even lower transfer fee, and we could’ve had Olise as our RW.

Just imagine a frontline of Olise, Palmer, and Kvara, with Rio, Estevao, and Quenda as backups, all while spending less on transfer fees overall.

And now they replaced Jackson with Delap, That’s another £30m wasted for absolutely no reason, when we could’ve kept him and have JP/Jackson as our CF options.

This is extremely disgraceful…..Like, totally abysmal… A whole football institution as big as Chelsea did this.

[PrizePicks @PrizePicks]

THE REFS HAVE WENT UP 2-0 ON THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS

[Jaylen Brown @FCHWPO]

I’ll “be quiet” / stop streaming if you “be quiet” and retire let’s give the people what they want

[Darren @MUFCDarren_]

🚨 José Mourinho on Bayern vs PSG:

“The UEFA Champions League officials need to sit up. Yesterday it was Atlético Madrid; today it’s FC Bayern Munich. There was a clear handball from João Neves that was ignored. Nuno Mendes’ clear handball was overlooked as well. The UCL used to be one of the biggest football competitions, but today it’s a joke. There are too many mistakes. It feels like there are favourites.”

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️ Jamie Carragher on how Atlético Madrid were “robbed,” pointing to the two penalties that weren’t awarded and explaining how the IFAB rules support those decisions:

“Listen, I’ve been in this game a long time, played in some of the biggest nights in Europe but what we’ve just witnessed at the Emirates is an absolute DISGRACE. Atlético Madrid have been ROBBED blind in this Champions League semi-final, and if you’re an Arsenal fan celebrating right now, you should be embarrassed.

The laws of the game are crystal clear, and they’ve been twisted into knots to protect the home side. This isn’t refereeing, this is scripting!

First off, Gabriel’s blatant shirt-pull and yank on Giuliano Simeone, that’s a STONEWALL penalty under IFAB Law 12, plain and simple. Holding an opponent, impeding their progress, especially when the lad’s clean through on an empty net? It’s a direct free-kick in the box, it’s DOGSO, and in half these cases it’s a red card too.

VAR had every angle, Daniel Siebert and his German crew looked at it… and waved it away? Come on! If that was Saka or anyone in an Arsenal shirt, it’s given in a heartbeat. That’s not ‘not clear and obvious’, that’s officials hiding behind the screen to keep Arsenal in the tie. Robbery. Pure and simple.

Then Griezmann gets clattered in the box by Calafiori, reckless challenge, Law 12 again, careless or excessive force, penalty all day long. They invent some phantom ‘prior foul’ nonsense to bail them out?

VAR protocol doesn’t work like that! You’re meant to check the specific incident, not rewrite the build-up to favour the big Premier League club. Atlético are creating chance after chance, fighting with more heart than I’ve seen from some of these Arsenal players, and they get NOTHING. Soft calls one way, ignored shouts the other, time-wasting ignored, it’s one-way traffic from the whistle.

it’s not fair, it’s not right, and it’s a stain on the competition. Diego Simeone’s men deserve better than this. ¡ROBO! The football world is watching, and we all see it. What a joke.”

[Leap @eleapley]

Chelsea sucks, that’s a given, but calling that Pedro goal back for offsides but allowing the Forrest goal when the guy was 5 ft in front of the defender is just crazy. The @premierleague doesn’t even try to hide that the goal each game is to screw Chelsea over no matter what