Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022 hosted the World Cup and used it as an opportunity to clean up their image and show the world how welcoming they are
Donald Trump is quite literally doing the opposite, and FIFA are cowards for allowing this to happen
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
The Israeli army shot dead a 7-month-old Palestinian baby in the West Bank.
It was in broad daylight.
The father says:
"I stopped as I was instructed to, and then they simply shot at the car."
Israel routinely kills babies - and the West is silent.
It’s like an article from the Onion:
as “the Pentagon raises threat of Israel spying on US to highest level”, Congress is focused on…more deeply integrating Israel into core US national security functions, including intelligence.
We all knew these situations were going to happen, and so did FIFA. Yet they still allowed the World Cup to go ahead in the U.S. They are not receiving anywhere near the level of scrutiny they should.
Entering month 6 of the Mamdani mayorship of NYC and Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, and Murder is down an astounding 21%.
And he did so without "Adding 5000 new cops" to the streets. Instead, he's invested in public safety with free childcare, accessible infrastructure, and better funded schools and libraries. He's proven once again that if we want safer communities, we must invest in People—not Punishments.
I don’t understand how such a moronic degenerate piece of human filth has the power to decide the fate of an entire species of one of earth’s beautiful creations just so the pedophile class can have more money to kill children in the middle east
The US deserves its downfall
It will surprise no one that Rice, who hailed Israel’s 2006 war on Lebanon as “the birth pangs of a new Middle East,” continues to be wrong about the Middle East.
Why is a Palestinian infant being shot and killed not worthy of a breaking news alert?
Would these news outlets also deem it not newsworthy if the infant were Israeli or if, say, Iranian forces killed babies like Israel does practically every day?