Pat Baxter (he/him)

Cis-heterosexual male. He/him. If you can laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you’re drunk.

[The Miz @mikethemiz]

We’ve got another Grand Slam Champion. Congrats and welcome to the club. Well deserved.

[Triple H @TripleH]

From underdog to undisputed.
Congrats to the NEW @WWE Undisputed Champion @SamiZayn!
Never say never.

[Sean Waltman @TheRealXPac]

This is so great to see. Congratulations to the new champ!

[WWE @WWE]

#ANDNEW 🏆

SAMI ZAYN IS UNDISPUTED WWE CHAMPION!!!!

A DREAM REALIZED!!!!

[Pat Baxter (he/him) @PDBax]

Sami Zayn, what???

#NightOfChampions #WWE

[Pat Baxter (he/him) @PDBax]

Hold on, are they looking at VAR?

#Iran #Egypt #EGYIRN #WorldCup

[Pat Baxter (he/him) @PDBax]

It is indeed a foul on #Uzbekistan.

#Portugal #PORUZB #UZBPOR #WorldCup

[Pat Baxter (he/him) @PDBax]

A younger #Ronaldo would not have missed that.

#PORvsUZB #Portugal #Uzbekistan #WorldCup

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.

Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.

On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.

And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.

But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.

History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.

https://t.co/sGfebPkDXR

[Pat Baxter (he/him) @PDBax]

Mo Salah. That is all.

#MoSalah #NZLEGY #EGYNZL #NZLvsEGY #Egypt #NewZealand #WorldCup

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“Balogun is an American by virtue of.. wait for it… birthright citizenship.”

I wrote about the USMNT & how, despite Trump & Miller’s racist ranting & the DHS/groyper tweet yesterday, at this World Cup, immigration is a blessing & diversity is strength. https://t.co/uzFOpFws5J

[Pat Baxter (he/him) @PDBax]

Heck of a comeback from #Germany, but also #Cotedivoire crumbled under the pressure.

#IvoryCoast #GERCIV #CIVGER #GERvsIVR #WorldCup

[Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @RepAOC]

Juneteenth reminds us that freedom is hard fought, but guaranteed when we organize and refuse to back down.

The work is not done. Today, we celebrate Black American resistance and resilience, and recommit to the transformation required to deliver real equity and justice for all.

[Pat Baxter (he/him) @PDBax]

I’m surprised how much the #USA is controlling the game against #Australia, and a 2-0 lead (currently). I thought the #Aussies had more skill and athleticism. But they’re playing a dirty/ugly game, trying to dumb down the game to their level and it ain’t working so far. #WorldCup

[Pittsburgh Penguins @penguins]

A champion returns.

After winning two Stanley Cups with the Penguins, Ron Francis is back with the organization as Special Advisor, Hockey Operations.

Details: https://t.co/7CJ096x5c1

[Pat Baxter (he/him) @PDBax]

Own goal. We will, of course, take it.

#USA #AUS #USAvsAUS #WorldCup

[Pat Baxter (he/him) @PDBax]

#Germany is playing way too casually at the moment.

#Curaçao #Curacao #WorldCup

[Pat Baxter (he/him) @PDBax]

@ShooterMcGavin LOL, accurate

[Pat Baxter (he/him) @PDBax]

#Morocco is simply playing more aggressively than #Brazil, and generally better organized at the moment.

#BRAMOR #BRAvsMOR #WorldCup

[Pittsburgh Penguins @penguins]

Nine years ago today, the Penguins made history.

Relive the 2017 back-to-back Stanley Cup victory through photos you can hear 🔊