Dan Brien

Retired media guy, flak, photog, and relapsed political aide. Grampa. Acadian. Habs fan. Somewhat obsessed with food, F1, architecture, jazz, and Oxford commas.

[Juez Central @Juezcentral]

No ha empezado el Mundial y Noruega ya tiene las 3 mejores fotos de equipo.

La primera antes de viajar, disfrazados de vikingos.

La segunda, su foto oficial, con la camiseta de Noruega, todos perfectamente alineados.

La tercera, ahora, todos los jugadores con las camisetas de su primer club.

Qué grandes los vikingos.

[Dan Brien @Newser613]

@AlbertaCanada60 I think for centuries, literally centuries, the census has been an important way to assess where government resources need to be applied. If you think it’s an invasion of privacy, then fine - don’t fill it out, just don’t complain when you get fuck all next year.

[Dan Brien @Newser613]

@futebol_info Why not assign him to games in Canada or Mexico? He’d be celebrated there!

[george @StokeyyG2]

This was the security protocol the Uzbekistan national team went through upon their arrival at the stadium for their friendly against the Netherlands tonight…

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

WOW! Imagine if Hunter Biden invested in a company and three months later the White House rushed a $620,000,000 Pentagon loan to it.

That’s exactly what Don Jr. did with Vulcan Elements. Stephanie Ruhle calls it corruption. Republicans call it “Tuesday.” The valuation jumps from $200 million to $2 billion.

Your tax dollars. Their bank account.

[Henry Bushnell @HenryBushnell]

Gianni Infantino, 2025: "It’s important to clarify this. There is a lot of misconception out there. Everyone will be welcome in Canada, Mexico and the United States for the FIFA World Cup next year."

FIFA today: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 👉 🇺🇸

https://t.co/ee9AL6ZANG

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

RAJU: But what evidence is there to prove the California election is rigged?

MIKE JOHNSON: Look, some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream it's impossible to prove. But I think everybody knows instinctively that something is wrong here.

[Dan Brien @Newser613]

@HITCSevens Before they started giving peace prizes

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Absolutely bang on the money from Ian Wright.

[World Cup 2026 Daily @TotalFootball]

The Senegalese 🇸🇳 delegation gets this treatment on arrival in the USA. Full tarmac searches, shoes off, bags turned inside out like criminals.

This is straight up humiliation and a disgrace. They’d never put white boys through the same.

[Dale Johnson @DaleJohnsonBBC]

Statement:

"FIFA can confirm that match official Omar Abdulkadir Artan will be unable to train and officiate at the FIFA World Cup 2026 after he was denied entry into the United States. 1/3

[Rahul SA 🇿🇦 @Rahul_AJ_1990]

As South Africa, we hosted the World Cup in 2010.

Upon the insistence of FIFA & in accordance with the Host Country & Host City Agreements, we had to waiver laws, by-laws, policies, regulations, processes & the like, to ensure that South Africa became the ultimate hosts of the world during the period.

We passed special legislation specifically to meet FIFA's hosting requirements for the 2010 World Cup. The most important were the '2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Special Measures Act, 2006 (Act 11 of 2006)' and the 'Second 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Special Measures Act, 2006 (Act 12 of 2006)'. These laws were enacted to give legal effect to the guarantees we had made to FIFA during the bidding process.

The special laws effected temporary special provisions & exceptions in certain areas, including: Special visa, work permit, & accreditation arrangements for players, officials, media & visitors.

These requirements were not exclusive to South Africa, as Korea & Japan (2002), Germany (2006), Brazil (2014), Russia (2018), Qatar (2022), had to enact the same.

[citykush @citykush1]

FIFA: “We’re not involved in visas”
Also FIFA’s bid guarantees: “Host will ensure entry for accredited persons”

The US signed guarantees to admit accredited WC personnel...
...then denied CAF’s Ref of the Year 2 days before the tournament for “vetting concerns” with no details, no appeal, no backup plan.

[Dan Brien @Newser613]

@StuCowan1 Someone please tell me why MSL shouldn’t be dead to me right now. This objectively and categorically cold, heartless move by management doubles down on the bad roster choices they made during the third round.

[Dan Brien @Newser613]

@GreeceIceHockey @StuCowan1 The habs will always be part of my DNA, but MSL, I’m afraid, is dead to me because of this.

[Dan Brien @Newser613]

@1000injuries @StuCowan1 I disagree. I think pride and hubris blinded MSL from the fact that he needed to shake things up, spark something, translate the dressing room heart to production on the ice. That’s Gally’s middle name. He gambled on players who ended up letting everyone down.

[Stu Cowan @StuCowan1]

@1000injuries When you consider that Kirby Dach, Joe Veleno and Alexandre Texier combined for zero shots and one hit in Game 5 you can make a pretty good argument Habs had a better chance to win with Gallagher in the lineup, maybe giving his teammates a spark.

[Suz 🇨🇦 🐝🌻🌎 @sr78]

@sarobertson_ A favourite tactic of Trump and Joseph Goebbels: "Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty"
Canadians aren't stupid @PierrePoilievre. We've been watching the Trump playbook for years now - only Maple MAGA's believe you.

[Dan Brien @Newser613]

@StuCowan1 Someone please tell me why MSL shouldn’t be dead to me right now. This objectively and categorically cold, heartless move by management doubles down on the bad roster choices they made during the third round.

[Dan Brien @Newser613]

@ScoutingTheRefs Bettman.