Jamin

[Joe @electionsjoe]

KEN PAXTON COMMITTED VOTER FRAUD? LMAO

[FLA Henrique @flahenriquebr]

Fizeram um compilado de 4 minutos mostrando os lances em que a Argentina foi favorecida contra o Egito.

Simplesmente um escândalo mundial. Quanta sujeira envolvida. 🤢

[Cyrus Smith @CoolCyWrites]

Norway made youth sports free 40 years ago and just made the quarters for the first time ever. Probably not a coincidence.

[Sam Mahmood @TheSammahmood_]

The U.S. soccer federation is a poor return on invested capital.

I played soccer for 20+ years.

Grassroots.
Academy.
D1 college.
Pursued professionally after.

And I’ll say the quiet part out loud:

The US soccer infrastructure is broken.

In America, we treat playing D1 soccer like it is the peak achievement.

For most families, clubs, coaches, and players, the entire youth soccer machine is built around one goal:

Get recruited.
Get a scholarship.
Play college soccer.

But if the objective is to produce world-class players, D1 soccer is a terrible development path.

From 18-22, some of the most important technical development years of your career, you are preparing for a 3-4 month season built largely around athleticism, direct play, set pieces, fitness, and survival.

Now compare that to an 18-year-old in Spain, Argentina, Morocco, Italy, England, or France.

That player has likely been in a professional environment for years.

Training daily.
Playing meaningful matches year-round.
Competing against grown professionals.
Getting thousands more touches.
Learning how to solve the game under pressure.

The gap is massive.

And it shows.

American players are usually athletic.
They are usually fit.
They usually compete hard.

But at the highest levels, that is not enough.

The biggest difference is technical comfort.

We do not move the ball like Spain.
We do not combine like Argentina.
We do not play with the same fluidity, rhythm, and confidence you see from countries where the game is embedded into the culture from childhood.

That comes down to volume.

Volume of touches.
Volume of street soccer.
Volume of futsal.
Volume of unstructured play.
Volume of high-level training environments.
Volume of meaningful games.

In the US, youth soccer is expensive, overly organized, overly coached, tournament-driven, and too often built around winning games at 13 instead of developing players for 23.

Parents spend thousands.
Clubs charge thousands.
Travel teams fly all over the country.
Showcases become the product.
Recruiting becomes the scoreboard.

But the return on invested capital is poor.

We probably spend more money on youth soccer than almost any country in the world, yet the technical output does not match the investment.

That is a broken operating model.

And like any business, if the output is weak, you do not blame the customer.

You inspect the system.

The US has talent.
The US has athletes.
The US has money.
The US has facilities.

But the foundation is wrong.

We built a pay-to-play, college-recruiting machine and confused it for a world-class player development system.

Those are not the same thing.

Until we fix the grassroots layer, increase meaningful touches, make development less dependent on family income, and stop treating college soccer as the top of the mountain, the US will keep underperforming relative to its resources.

I’m not saying this to trash US Soccer.

I’m saying it because I lived it.

And if we actually want to become a powerhouse, we have to be honest about the infrastructure first.

[Danny Manus @DannyManus]

Mitch McConnell is actually the best Metaphor for, and representation of, America and our political system. He spent almost a century making the world a better place for only himself and his friends, married an immigrant while working tirelessly against other immigrants, manipulated the system to increase his power only to be usurped & made impotent by someone even more unethical, unscrupulous and power hungry. Then when the system is finally done with him, they keep his dead body on life support just to use him for one more power move until finally allowing him sweet sweet death while his wife flees the country and his children go into hiding. And when it's all said and done, he'll be best remembered for a meme that made him into a turtle. America.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Lmao even better….the Belgium team kept trolling Trump in their locker room after destroying and humiliating the USMNT in Seattle….absolutely delightful!

[Woodz 🇺🇸 @Nibiru1000]

Cardi B said what a lot of Africans, Caribbeans, and Latinos are afraid to admit. She’s not a fool, lol

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

Literary what Martha Stewart went to federal prison for and he just announces his kids are all guilty.

[Sawyer Hackett @SawyerHackett]

Literal Nazis marching the streets of DC for America’s 250th anniversary.

That’s Trump’s America.

[I Am… @HarmoniEquality]

“I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.”

- Huey P. Newton

[Roberto Rivera @RobertoPsyche]

El problema de Vozinha no fue de talento o falta de esfuerzo. Simplemente no tuvo las mismas oportunidades por el lugar donde nació.

Tuvieron que alinearse varias condiciones para poder ser visto.

Lo mismo pasa con la educación y el desarrollo profesional.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

“He bought the app to save freedom of speech”

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

Two relatively similar incidents...

Flo Balogun: red card.
Lionel Messi: unpunished.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

In case you were wondering what a holocaust looks like.

[Stefan Burns @StefanBurnsGeo]

The Venezuela earthquake disaster is/was one of the worse humanitarian disasters of the 21st century and it's barely being covered by mainstream media. 60,000+ missing. Very little aid/help given. Disgusting. It's even being reported that trafficking of orphans is occurring in the aftermath 💔

[HerShesChocolate @HerShesChoclate]

Quite honestly the answer depends on what you mean by “better lyricist”, that’s why Lupe had the audacity to say it’s 100 rappers better than Dot. I equate that to his personal regard for “punchlines & entendres” 🤦🏾‍♀️

As much as I hate that Lupe has become this bitter, resentful, hater (no matter how much he denies it, we all can clearly see it) if we strictly speaking about the craft of writing bars, I can admit Lupe is the superior lyricist. He dazzles with technical mastery. Mural is my favorite Lupe song because of all the layers, the callbacks, internal rhyme chains, the metaphor stacking, as someone who writes poetry I genuinely geek over shit like that, but lyricism isn’t only about difficult bars.

If we talking about the overall artistry of an MC, lyrics that connect emotionally, album concepts, heavily impacts culture, Kendrick has the strongest case in Hip-Hop history because his music feels like watching a movie. He’s mastered blending high level techniques with emotional resonance & storytelling that reaches a broader audience than Lupe ever has.

I will say that when it comes to technical lyricism, multilayered metaphors, internal rhymes, wordplay, I honestly don’t believe they’re far off though, but when it comes to storytelling, emotional writing, character writing, album construction, concepts, accessibility to the audience & cultural impact, Kendrick definitely takes it every time because he’s just as clever as Lupe & he makes you FEEL what he’s saying

[Covie @covie_93]

In Texas they can teach kids that a whale swallowed a man and spit him out three days later because God wanted to teach him a lesson but they can't teach kids that slavery was bad.

[AwakenWith-Chi @AwakenChirp]

Why is African mythology viewed as witchcraft but Greek mythology isn't?

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

TRUMP HATES GAMERS !!

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: Let's be very clear about what the president is saying to the American people. The president is saying that he will not sign a bill whose purpose is to make housing affordable unless his allies in congress pass a voter suppression bill to rig the election. He is saying, I won't even sign a bill that will give economic relief to Americans unless the rules of this election are changed so that he, Donald Trump, cannot be held accountable for all of his misdeeds because that's what he really fears most of all is that when there is a change in the balance of power, and when we restore checks and balances, he knows that there will be subpoenas flying that officials from his administration will be testifying under oath about the full range of misconduct and corruption that we already know has been happening since the moment he was sworn in.