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[far @farrrian]

An important thread for all residents of CT:

[Ben Shaiken @benshaiken]

Hey CT! Legislative Session starts Wednesday and YOU can crack the code to have your voice heard about any and all legislation. I do this for a living. It's a little dense, but here's some tricks and shortcuts: (Thread)

[Henry Bushnell @HenryBushnell]

FIFA (supposedly) has rules for broadcasters during World Cup hydration breaks.

Fox broke them during the very first game, and even missed match action showing commercials...

https://t.co/HuB2nOuQBD

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

FIFA's president can invent a farcical peace prize to flatter the ego of the president of the United States and spend months pandering to his political project, but Haiti's national team can't acknowledge their national struggle for independence because it's too "political"

[Charles Correll III @_CharlesCorrell]

It’s like watching Tocqueville live tweet Democracy in America, and I think that’s beautiful

[far @farrrian]

the Arsenal kurta… I’m sick.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Eid Mubarak!

Today as we honor Prophet Ibrahim, Eid al-Adha reminds us that sacrifice is not a burden. It is an opportunity to see ourselves as part of something larger. To extend a hand to those who need it most.

I am honored to be New York City's first Muslim Mayor and I am determined to lead through solidarity. Together, we are working to ensure every New Yorker can afford the groceries, housing, and child care they need.

Our solidarity is our strength. Eid Saeed, New York.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Hey there. Join me and @EmilyBazelon in New Haven on Sunday, May 31 for a talk about my book, Crisis of the Common Good. It's a book that talks about the false idols we worship - profit, consumption, technology, credentialism - and how these cults laid the foundation for Trump.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Stopping greedy corporations from driving up costs, evading taxes, ruining small businesses, and rigging the economy solves a lot of things.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This is truly awful. We don’t have to accept this as normal.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Private equity is beginning to buy up sports teams and leagues in Connecticut. I was in the north end of Hartford today talking about my bill to keep profit vultures out of kids sports.

[Pablo Manríquez @PabloReports]

A RARE GOOD NEWS STORY FOR MIGRANTS ⬇️

[frogan @fr0gan]

this is so dystopian and insane

[John Bisognano @johnbisognano]

We did not cancel elections during the Civil War.

We did not cancel elections for World War II.

We did not cancel elections for COVID.

But the Louisiana Governor sees the opportunity to gerrymander Black members out of their seats and…
STATE OF EMERGENCY: ELECTION CANCELLED

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

A straight-A student who did everything right just spent 2 weeks in a detention center.

I'm grateful Rihan is coming home, but this should have never happened.

All that talk about a reformed ICE is BS. Not another dime to this agency until they stop this lawlessness.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

My “kitchen cabinet” isn’t a group of DC advisors. It’s a a group of Hartford middle schoolers that live in my neighborhood and I meet with regularly. We met today and talked about the federal budget. They were surprised we spend more on the military than their education!

[Peter Moore @PeterMooreUSA]

It got me thinking…who is this World Cup actually for?

In 1994, I was able to take my family to matches here in the United States. It wasn’t a luxury decision, it was something that felt within reach, and that mattered because that’s how the game grows and that’s how memories are made. I was living in Boston working for Reebok at the time, and so we were able to go to so many games at Foxborough as well as in New York City. In full disclosure, my work also allowed me to travel to games on the West Coast, including the final. While that was not the best shop window for The Beautiful Game it was stunning to see the Rose Bowl fulled to the brim with 94,000 fans.

Now fast forward to 2026.

Imagine a young family here in America today. Mum, dad, two kids who love the game. They sit down and look at the cost of attending just one match…tickets, travel, maybe a night or two in a hotel…and they pause. Not because they don’t love the game enough, it’s because they simply can’t justify it.
in my 45 years living here in the US and being involved in the game at so many different levels, I’ve never seen its popularity spike like it is today. Gen Z has fully embraced the game, Welcome to Wrexham has laid bare the passion and the joy it can ignite in a previously beleaguered community,
and we are spoiled for the choice of just about every major game in the world brought to us by streaming channels fighting for their place in broadcasting live sports.

Or think about a supporter from abroad. Someone who has followed their national team their entire life. For many, this isn’t just a trip, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage.

Between ticket pricing, travel costs, and uncertainty around access, that dream starts to slip out of reach.

That’s the part that sits uneasily with me.

The World Cup has always been more than a tournament. It’s been a gathering of people, cultures, stories. A place where the game feels like it belongs to everyone.

If too many of those people are left watching from afar, we lose something that can’t be measured in revenue. It becomes a made-for-tv spectacle like the Super Bowl, and then we lose the soul of it…

And once that starts to go, it’s very hard to get back.

[far @farrrian]

if you’re a @ChelseaFC fan who’s asking why supporting the team is so hard these days, watch this bc it’s literally the same

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: It's now more lucrative to have a losing sports team than a championship team.

We examined the Boston Red Sox to see how private equity and cost cutting invaded sports.

In this era, teams want to sell good players for profit more than they want to have a good season.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Not only is Mamdani actually getting rid of government waste and saving the city tons of money but he has mastered the art of trolling in ways we have never seen before

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Every day Democrats go the Senate floor to try to open TSA. Every day Republicans block our legislation. Why? Because Republicans are holding TSA hostage to get another blank check for ICE.

Release the hostage! Open TSA!

[far @farrrian]

Good shit @sardesairajdeep

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Laura Loomer went to India but deleted all of her anti Indian Tweets, thinking nobody would notice.

Well, this Indian uncle cooked her for being a raging bigot.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This is fantastic. Leavitt using ALL CAPS to make perfectly clear that Iran did not and does not pose any threat to America.

And yet we’re at war and gas prices are through the roof!

Hard to figure!!