Kevin Cooney

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

I’m shocked that Russia can crash a building onto sleeping families in a European capital, murdering 30 people, without any meaningful reaction from the world whatsoever.

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

What Is the Definitive Movie About America? Impossible, but in some crucial ways, Heaven's Gate

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

This is a rather remarkable act of solidarity towards a country still governed by the same regime that supported Assad as he bombed their hospitals, ambulances and paramedics, at a time when they already have so few resources to spare.

Humanity's finest.
https://t.co/39EMjHciTj

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

This Friday, people across Gaza will take to the streets in what is expected to be one of the largest anti-Hamas protests ever.

In response, Hamas militias have begun targeting activists — including women — threatening them and their families. They have also launched smear campaigns labeling activists as "traitors," creating fears that these accusations could later be used as a pretext to persecute, imprison, or even execute them.

This is a plea to pro-Palestine voices, human rights organizations, journalists, and everyone who genuinely cares about the Palestinian people:

Stand with the brave people of Gaza. Support their right to express their views, speak freely, and protest without fear of violence or retaliation.

We also call on human rights organizations, international observers, and the media to closely monitor these events, as concerns continue to grow over threats against protesters and Hamas militias' promises to crush those who participate in the demonstrations.

The people of Gaza deserve to have their voices heard.

[Diana Darke @dianadarke]

One of the many reasons I love Syria - its humour and creativity...

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

The craziest thing the media is not reporting right now.

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

The Rapid Support Forces of Sudan have been able to wage a genocide Ratko Mladic and his Bosnian Serb forces could have only dreamed of.

But because the RSF's victims are exclusively Sudanese Africans they never had to fear any international response to their crimes.

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

This whole thread is brilliant. But this is the single most extraordinary stat: if women committed serious offences at the same rate as men who ID as women do (using Scottish figs), more than 10,000 women would be in jail for such crimes. In reality there are just 77.

[Throwback Iran @Tarikh_Eran]

An Iranian fan holds a sign asking: “Where is Rashid Mazaheri?”

Rashid was Iran’s former goalkeeper who was abducted by the IRGC back in January after he spoke out against the regime’s senseless killing of protesters

We wont let the world forget 🇮🇷

[Mark Coughlan @mjc0ughl4n]

The Iranian regime on the other hand...

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

I asked American students why they don’t protest when women are whipped and shot in Iran and Afghanistan.

The answers expose a contradiction nobody wants to talk about.

We must change the narrative so the younger generation stops lending cover to Hamas, Hezbollah, Taliban and the Islamic Republic. That's why I choose to travel and speak to students face-to-face. I listen first, without judgment. Then I share what it means to live under Sharia law not as an abstraction, but as a lived reality.

Truth is not a phobia. Calling out the whipping of women is not hate. Staying silent about it is.

[Tomer Persico @TomerPersico]

The place Israel occupies in these people's imagination is ridiculous. Israel as the linchpin of colonialism, capitalism, white supremacy, ecological devastation - whatever bugs you most, Israel does it worst. Get rid of Israel, save the entire world.

It is much bigger than Rooney. Over the last few years, artists, activists, and academics have repeatedly advanced versions of the same claim: Israel as humanity’s arch-nemesis, the disappearance would somehow solve everything.

Example: Jason Hickel, visiting professor at the London School of Economics, claimed that “A liberated Palestine means a liberated Middle East. A liberated Middle East means capitalism in the core really faces a crisis.” Because why not.

Israel has become a western totem, personifying the cumulative sins of the West’s entire history. In an incredible historical irony, the Jews are now not an oriental, semitic pariah nation nor a degenerate sub-human race, but the purest representatives of the West and the most atrocious white supremacists.

As the West’s original essence Israel naturally carries the West’s original sins: colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, etc. Because the Jews are now considered the very essence of the West, Israel's sins are understood as the carrying the collective blame of all westerners. Making Israel pay is thus not only a step on the long arch towards justice, but serves as a purgative practice for all westerners.

As the effigy of the West, burning Israel will cleanse the West from its past transgressions. The wish to eradicate Israel is therapeutic, salvific: the sins of all western forefathers, those imperialist, colonialist, slave-holding Europeans, will finally be atoned. Capitalism will fall, the environment will be saved. Redemption is nigh, we just have to eradicate that wart of a nation.

As the eternal alter-ego of the West, Jews will always function as its scapegoats. When the West loved itself, we were the alien element supposedly defiling it. Now that the West despises itself, we have become its distilled essence: the figure through whose destruction it fantasizes about purification.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

This is the year when the game of two halves became the game of four quarters. And the greatest sport and event was damaged for fistfuls of dollars. Hydration breaks ruin the game’s flow and frustrates fans and viewers. If hydration breaks were solely about player welfare then they would be linked to the temperature in the stadia. It’s a nonsense having a three-minute break in an air-conditioned arena.

Fifa should long ago have established a working party of coaches, sports scientists, national team doctors and Fifpro to agree a set temperature at kickoff, say 25C, which triggers the breaks. That would prove the breaks were for player welfare. At the moment, and to nobody’s surprise, it is widely accepted that these breaks are for US TV to accommodate commercials. Big bucks for the small screen.

Fifa should have thought more about the effect on games and to fan (and viewer) experience when negotiating. Coaches’ desire for a mid-half tactical time-out masquerading as a drinks stop should be resisted anyway. Games have been played for 150 years without needing such intervention. Coaches can shout instructions. And who says that 22 mins and 67 mins is when a coach needs to intervene anyway. It’s nonsense. It’s about money.

Respected and sane footballing voices from Virgil van Dijk to Mauricio Pochettino have spoken out against the breaks. Fifa should listen to them not appear only to listen to the rustle of dollar bills. It’s important that there is resistance to this from all over. Because if we tolerate this, our TV games could be next. BBC can’t do ads, ITV says it won’t follow its US counterparts. But it has been discussed by TV people. It’ll come one day. #FIFAWorldCup.

[Alex @ajak1033]

I’m speechless. I have no speech. The man himself had acknowledged me.

Thank you to everyone who’s liked, commented, reposted and reached out to me these past 36 hours. Never in a million years did I expect this to happen.

[Tim Vine @RealTimVine]

I remember before the USA World Cup in 1994 there was talk that they wanted to split the game into quarters for Ad breaks. It was laughed off by the footballing world. Well they’ve done it in 2026 covertly with the introduction of the water break in each half. Tricked us all.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Merz: "Ukraine has been defending its freedom for more than 4 years."

(AfD members laughing)

Merz: "That’s telling sign, ladies and gentlemen. They laugh about it, they laugh about fate of millions of people in Ukraine and they travel to Moscow for their champagne receptions."

[Laurie @writtenbylaurie]

Tomorrow would have been her 25th birthday. She loved Ireland, and as bittersweet as it is to think about, I'm glad she got the chance to visit here before she died. She spent a few weeks here before those monsters took her life 💔

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Hamas is in full panic mode over the June 26 calls for mass protests against its violent, authoritarian, fascistic rule in Gaza. It has unleashed its agents, operatives, loyalists posing as “journalists,” West Bank activists, online propagandists, and terror networks to incite violence, demand a crackdown, and even organize counter‑demonstrations.

Hamas is circulating flyers calling for protests demanding the resignation of Nikolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace executive committee chair overseeing the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), after he criticized Hamas’s stalling and obstruction. Even worse, Hamas supporters in the West Bank, including the vile “journalist” Souad al‑Khawaja, are openly calling for the killing of anyone who protests against the terror group and its “resistance.” Expect the same from Western “pro‑Palestine” circles in Europe and the US: they will smear anti‑Hamas protesters as “collaborators,” “traitors,” “Israeli agents,” or “suspicious individuals.” We saw this during the war, when thousands of Gazans demanded the release of hostages and an end to the conflict Hamas ignited.

Watch closely how the most anti‑Palestinian elements of the “pro‑Palestine” cult will once again find any excuse to side with Hamas over the actual people of Gaza.

[SK Tedeschi @skedeschi]

This is the plight of an actual journalist in gaza, but people will not care.

[Eurosport.es @Eurosport_ES]

John McEnroe alucina con que Maja Chwalinska, flamante subcampeona de #RolandGarros, le conozca

"Cuando era joven veía mucho tenis vintage" 🤣

"Tú sacabaas mucho mejor que yo, pero yo era más serena" 🤣