@tryingmehardest I think many of us seriously don't want Americans to get into football. They'd turn it to shit and suck the soul out of the game more than it already has been.
“Instead of addressing the known causes of strife among young people, politicians around the world seem intent on leveraging their suffering to push laws that will strip both young and old alike of our rights.”
One of the greatest threats to internet freedom and privacy are these manipulative laws, now spreading, that force people to prove they're of a certain age to use social media platforms and other sites. The UK Government, naturally, is now seeking this.
The defense of these laws is emotionally powerful by appealing to child protection, but the real goal is online surveillance, an end to anonymity, and control over political content that young people can access. Few have done a better job reporting on these tyrannical threats than @TaylorLorenz. Read this:
Bloodsport with AI generated patriotism slop in between ads for insider trading platforms, beer, gambling, and drug money laundering crypto really was the appropriate celebration for the state of America at 250
El gobierno de EEUU prohibió toda venta de boletería del Mundial a iraníes, no importa si llevan 30 años viviendo en otra parte, no importa nada: los iraníes no entran y punto. Cuando Indonesia quiso hacer esto con Israel en el Mundial Sub20 2023, la FIFA le quitó la sede
I love the angle taken by @kenearlys on the Champions League final.
He’s absolutely right to dedicate so much time to how Arsenal waste time 🗑️
The drinking water and human life lines 🤣
"If Arsenal are unpopular with neutrals, it’s because they waste everyone’s time. Not just their opponents’ time, but our time too. Football fans everywhere are suffering Arsenal’s consequences. They are like a company that spews pollution into the environment in their production process, privatising the profits and socialising the costs. To them, dumping toxic sludge into the river is just free waste disposal. It’s the rest of us who get a headache when we drink the tap water" https://t.co/PHpC1FRgv7
A Jewish settler entered a cave dwelling used by Palestinians in Khirbet al-Rakeez in the southern Hebron Hills and shoved a woman to the ground while she was holding her baby.
In another incident captured on video, the same settler repeatedly struck the family’s guard dog with a stick.
Settlers have repeatedly entered Palestinians cave dwellings in the area in recent months, Times of Israel reported along with links to footage of the video, as part of a broader pattern of escalating settler harassment and intimidation across the southern Hebron Hills.
"It's great to be virtuous, deputy, but for the workers’ representative, you lack all virtuosity when it comes to protecting Irish workers.
We have to take everything on board and be sensible about it at the same time."
@MichealMartinTD debates the opposition in the Dáil today.
If there’s been a degradation of the word genocide it’s come from the likes of our ruling parties who’ll, yeah, use the right word for what Israel is doing in Palestine – but cry about jobs in Intel when it comes to addressing it
This is genocide: but jobs in Kildare
Minister of state Ossian Smyth confirms US interference with Occupied Territories Bill: ‘The Occupied Territories Bill was blocked by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil because the Democratic Party in America asked them to block it.’
2024: US ambassador warns taoiseach of ‘consequences’ if OTB passes, offers to 'connect' attorney general with DC for 'best outcome'
90 minutes later: Micheál Martin announces ‘review’ of bill
2026: scraps ban on services because of 'potential impacts on US multinationals'
The dam was Hezbollah. The hospitals are Hezbollah. The farms are Hezbollah. The apartment buildings are Hezbollah. The churches are Hezbollah. The mosques are Hezbollah. The bridges are Hezbollah. The water treatment plants are Hezbollah. The journalists are Hezbollah. The paramedics are Hezbollah. The clinics are Hezbollah. The civilians are Hezbollah. The