major ting matt ⛈

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[Zito @_Zeets]

Nothing can ever just live as its own fun thing

[Zak @zakfilm]

Studios should not be allowed to buy a movie review app. It’s a huge conflict of interest that will prey on the general public’s desires for superficial recognition as studios tend to reward positive pr seen with influencers.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million.

This year, it’s raising the price of an Xbox by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs.

Please don’t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down.

[Joshwelt @weltszzn]

I think Apple lying about this storage shit

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Bow Wow performs “Let Me Hold You” for his NPR Tiny Desk concert https://t.co/qHRaRIZC2b

[K-Ci’s (ooh yeah) @frodeci]

Lauryn Hill & that “one album” clears a lotta decade long discographies. It is what it is

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Lauryn Hill performs “Ex-Factor” during the Lauryn Hill tribute at the #BETAwards:

[B/R Football @brfootball]

9/10 African nations at the 2026 World Cup have advanced to the knockouts.

Incredible 👏🇨🇻🇸🇳🇨🇮🇬🇭🇲🇦🇩🇿🇪🇬🇨🇩🇿🇦

[ima ✦ @chrysanthemore]

"larp this larp that" lets really talk about how everyone is larping as a black person nowadays

"saxophones getting louder" you dont even know what that means or what movie thats from omg

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Mamdani delivers on campaign promise to freeze rents in NYC

Majority of landlords in NYC are the billionaire class:
- Top 5% own 87% apartments
- Top 0.3% (mega-landlords) own 44%

[ESPN @espn]

Iran left a handwritten note in their dressing room at Los Angeles Stadium after their 0-0 draw with Belgium on Sunday, thanking the people of Los Angeles for their hospitality. https://t.co/uGwstNrQCb

[💎🍾 @TheRocSupremacy]

When Blue Ivy was 5, she told her parents she wasn’t feeling the most confident when wearing her natural hair, so Jay grew his hair out with her ❤️❤️❤️

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Senegalese fans are upset they weren’t given the same treatment as French fans.

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

Instead of celebrating the Cavaliers’ 2016 championship reunion in Europe, Kyrie Irving chose to spend his time mentoring young players at the NBPA Top 100 Camp before returning to New Jersey to connect with and inspire up-and-coming student-athletes in his local community 🙏

(h/t @ScoopB )

[Polymarket FC @PolymarketFC]

🇨🇮 Yan Diomandé’s letter to his sister through @PlayersTribune:

“Dear Roxane,

Remember when someone bought me a fake United shirt, and I wrote “Ronaldo 7” on the back with a black Sharpie? We didn’t know what rich or poor was. We only knew happiness.

Remember the 25 people sleeping in just one house back in Abidjan? Mom wanted to watch her soap operas. Everyone wanted to watch movies. Remember how I’d always pretend I was asleep and then sneak to the TV room after midnight? I’d turn the TV way down low. Like, just two volume bars. I’d watch soccer in the dark and dream.

Remember when the grown-ups saw me playing soccer on the dirt and gave me the nickname “Roberto Carlos” because of how hard I kicked? And remember how I secretly got so mad about it, because CR7 was my idol?

Remember when I went to play so far from home? I was 9 years old. Inter Foot Sud Comoé, way out near the border with Ghana. Just a little boy all alone. I don’t know if I ever told you this story, but me and the other kids used to go to the village and steal potatoes because we were so hungry. We called it a “bank heist.” Two kids would distract the shop owner, and the other 18 would run off with two potatoes. They weren’t even good. But they tasted amazing. Hahahah. Even today, it’s my favorite thing to eat. Boiled potatoes with a little oil. It takes me back to those times.

Remember when I got my first real pair of cleats, and I slept with them? Growing up, I always played in those white plastic sandals. Even when I go back home now, I still play in them. It’s our tradition.

Remember when I’d come back home, and you’d tell my neighborhood friends: “Why’d you stop training? Yan’s not gonna buy you cars. You gotta keep working.” You were 10 years old, and you were already my agent.

Remember how we’d sit and dream about moving to France? How we’d go shopping, have our own apartment, and I’d be a rich soccer player, with cars and a big house, and you wouldn’t have to worry about anything. You were the one who always believed I could be the next Cristiano, when everyone else was laughing.

Remember when I moved to the United States for high school, at 15 years old, and I missed home so much? For months, I couldn’t understand what anyone was saying. They sat me next to a French boy, and he’d try to translate everything the teacher said. Remember when I called you and said: “You won’t believe it, the kids here argue with the teachers.” Back home, you know, we wouldn’t even dare blink at our elders.

Remember when I couldn’t believe the boys smoked after school? You used to say it felt like I was in an American TV show.

Remember when they took me for trials at Bournemouth? At Chelsea, Rangers, Olympiacos, Crystal Palace? Eze and Olise came up to me after a training session and said: “Hey, kid, you’re really good.”… but even then, they didn’t sign me.

Even the MLS B teams didn’t want me. I didn’t even know why. They never gave me a reason. The adults handled everything. They just kept taking me all over Europe, and everyone kept saying no.

My visa expired. My dream was over. They sent me back to Africa, and we cried together. You were the only one who never stopped believing. A few weeks later, I signed with Leganés, and we cried different tears.

That was back when I still had emotions. Now, I don’t feel anything. It’s like I’m not even human. Since you died, I’m just empty.”

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Zohran Mamdani spoke at a Rikers Island graduation ceremony honoring 57 incarcerated people who earned their high school diplomas.

One graduate, Elijah Smith, said he didn’t expect the mayor to show up, but his presence meant something: “It helped. Someone cares about the incarcerated individuals in this jail.”

Sometimes dignity starts with simply showing up.

[Mia K. @miakhalifa]

As beautiful and deserving as this is, it’s also a blatant example of how easily the state department can intervene with these manufactured visa issues most of the global south teams have had to endure as intimidation tactics by this tiny dick administration

[dracojeremy @jeremyb___]

west africa done so much for the world

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

America bombed their homeland and then forced them to camp at Tijuana and travel 5 hours just to get to their match.

This is discrimination. THIS IS DISCRIMINATION!!!!!!!!!

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

The World Cup is exposing an uncomfortable truth about international relations: citizens of countries in the Global South face systemic discrimination in visa and immigration procedures.