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[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.

[goma @soigomaa]

Let me get this straight... OpenAl was founded as a nonprofit. Open source. For everyone. "To benefit humanity." Then he raised billions of dollars. Then he closed the source code. Then he converted to for-profit. Then he scraped the entire internet without asking anyone. Then he used YOUR writing YOUR art YOUR code to train his models. Now he's on stage saying you'll pay HIM to access intelligence. Just like a water meter. He stole all of your data. He built the product with your work. And now he's going to bill you to use it... Corporate greed has reached an all time high, and they're not even hiding it anymore...

[Kaushik Raj @kaushikrj6]

"Umar Khalid in Delhi is in prison for 6 years under the same kind of terror charges that were once levelled against Nelson Mandela."

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani says at an event of Nelson Mandela Foundation.

[Prakash Raj @prakashraaj]

World is witnessing a Coward government who don’t want to engage in a dialogue with the youth but want to behave like Dictators . Forcibly taking away ⁦@Wangchuk66⁩ and disrupting Students peaceful protest is a sign of Fear . What a SHAME #justasking

[Mou⁷ | ⊙⊝⊜ᴀʀɪʀᴀɴɢ @vhopes_euphoria]

Indian celebrities are so spineless.Diljit Dosanjh saying tht he's an artist so he stays away frm protests. Learn from our beloved Assamese star Zubeen Garg.When he was alive he used to take the govt by storm,stood with us during CAA protest,made songs criticizing politicians,etc

[Niv @chikanlegpiece]

Argentina fans in India are the most annoying cunts in the world

[Nico 🍉 @sssabandija]

Final España vs. Argentina. Prefiero ver la copa en manos de un joven musulmán hijo de marroquíes, odiado por la derecha, originario de Rocafonda y abiertamente pro Palestina, que en las de un sionista producto de la FIFA amigo de Trump.

[ᵍⁱˢˢᵉˡ •🍷• @goldivvy]

a ésta hermana la han arrestado más veces por defender la humanidad que a los pederastas que siguen en cargos políticos aprobando que bombardeén civiles, realmente vivimos en el infierno

[Juanca @Nanosecso]

Todos los robos que lleva argentina en este mundial. Es incluso peor que lo de Catar. Aún no doy crédito con lo que está sucediendo

🇩🇿: Messi llegó tarde y golpeó con los tacos la pantorrilla de Aïssa Mandi. No recibió tarjeta y el VAR no intervino en una clara tarjeta roja

🇦🇹: Antes de un gol de Messi, Mac Allister hizo falta a Xaver Schlager y recuperó el balón. Austria pidió falta, pero el VAR mantuvo el gol.

🇨🇻: antes del 2-1 argentino, Tagliafico disputó la posición con Sidny Lopes Cabral, que cayó al suelo. El árbitro dejó seguir y el VAR no revisó en el monitor.

🇪🇬: el VAR anuló un gol egipcio por una supuesta falta cometida al comienzo de la jugada, a más de 80 metros de la portería argentina.

🇪🇬 Antes del 3-2: Egipto recibe un claro agarrón sobre Hamdy Fathy y una entrada de Julián Álvarez sobre Salah dentro del área. No se pitó penal y, poco después, Argentina marcó el gol ganador.

🇨🇭 El árbitro va al VAR a revisar un piscinazo de Émbolo en el centro del campo para sacar la segunda tarjeta amarilla. Algo nunca visto jamás desde que existe el vídeo arbitraje

El resto de selecciones deberían de plantarse ante esto.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

WATCH — @Byoussef: “This is what Israel does every day.”

🇺🇸 media isn’t even talking about the fact that 🇮🇱 killed the guy that organized a World Cup watch party in Gaza (and 2 kids) 3 minutes after the Egypt-Argentina match started.

[ⴰⵀⴰⵣ 🇩🇿 @jesuistouareg]

Argentina literally hasn’t faced a single top 10 team since the cup started, and just barely beat Cape Verde & Egypt with the help of the referees. They can only win when the fixers are working hard to help

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Egypt did AMAZING. They should have won.

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

Long before becoming Egypt's manager, Hossam Hassan was known as the country's leading goal scorer ever.

He still holds that record.

But what he could never achieve was a mere victory at the FIFA World Cup.

Egypt qualified for the World Cup in 1990 after 56 years. Hassan scored the decisive goal in the 1989 qualifier against Algeria that secured qualification. It was a landmark moment in their footballing history.

However, in 1990, Egypt couldn't win a single match after qualifying. That would be the only world cup Hassan ever participated in.

After that, Egypt qualified directly in 2018 -- Hassan was long retired by then.

There's a lot of noise around the referee after last night's thrilling match between Egypt and Argentina. And you'd have to be heartless to not feel for Egypt.

But that in no way should diminish or overshadow what Hassan has achieved.

When Egypt beat New Zealand in the first match of this ongoing World Cup, it was the country's first ever win at the tournament, ending a 92-year wait since their 1934 debut.

But he didn't stop there. He took them to the round of 16 stage, and almost qualified for the quarter finals. He was minutes away from defeating the defending champions.

Hossam Hassan might not have ever won a world cup match as a player. But as a coach, he might have just ushered a new era of football in Egypt.

Icing on the cake: he's a compassionate man who is fiercely pro Palestine.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Former amateur football player and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Egypt ‘got robbed’ in its World Cup round-of-16 loss to Argentina while speaking at an event announcing faster bus service.

[✍️ السرطان والماسونية الصهيونية .. @go2islam]

🔴 العالم كله الآن كله تقريبا يرفض ما حدث للفريق المصري من غش و خداع من أجل أن تصعد الأرجنتين و ميسي المحتال الي نهائيات كأس العالم ، وحسام حسن يقول لن أشاهد أية مباريات باقية في هذا الكأس و تضامن معه المذيع و آخرين ..👏👏👏

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

People are upset about the World Cup because instead of bringing the world together it’s another reminder of how unjust the world is.

It’s not a conspiracy. A Somali referee was denied entry to the U.S., that’s a fact. The U.S. tried to swap Iran for Italy, and then mistreated the team, that’s a fact. The U.S. president made a call to reverse a red card for an American player, that’s a fact…

From discrimination and over-priced tickets, to commercial breaks and VAR issues, many people who have watched and enjoyed the World Cup since childhood are more than disappointed. The whole tournament was tainted from the beginning, starting with a fake peace prize to gratify the host country.

[let it go. @stayaway_002]

Yesterday, people in my office were discussing the Pune case. One of them is from Hanumangarh, near Sri Ganganagar.

So I asked him, "Have you heard about the case involving the 13-year-old girl who was r@ped by around 30 men?, it's near your hometown"

He had no idea.

He knew about a case from Pune, but not about one that happened near his own hometown.
R@pes of children have been so normalised that people don't even care about such News.
Or you can say, men don't wanna talk about child r@pists who are Men...
Bro code!!!

[Marwan @mxrwanlfc]

The FIFA Rape Cup

Makes you uncomfortable to read that, doesn't it?

It probably should. The same goes for the fact that there are at least seven (yes, seven) players, including three captains at the 2026 FIFA World Cup who have been accused of, are currently under investigation for, or have been formally charged with rape and/or sexual assault.

We, as football fans and human beings, owe it to the alleged victims to let the details of these cases be known, rather than simply saying player X is a sex offender, or Y number of players have been accused of those crimes. So here is each player with the publicly known details of each case and its status quo.

1. Cristiano Ronaldo - Portugal 🇵🇹
- Accused of raping American school teacher Kathryn Mayorga in Las Vegas in 2009.
- Case investigated by the Las Vegas Police Department in 2017
- Documents leaked by a Der Spiegel investigation revealed that in 2010, Ronaldo paid Mayorga $375k as part of a non-disclosure settlement. In the same documents Ronaldo is believed to have admitted to raping her.
- In 2019, prosecutors said the allegations cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
- In 2021, a judge recommended the lawsuit be dismissed, as Mayorga's lawyer was 'acting in bad faith' by using documents leaked by Football Leaks, which included privileged communications between Ronaldo and his lawyer.
- In 2022, Mayorga's civil lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice, as another judge ruled that her lawyers' continued use of privileged information obtained through cyber-hacking violated the proper litigation process
- It was long rumoured that between his 2010 settlement and 2025, Ronaldo did not step foot in the USA as he would be subject to questioning by police. His first publicly known visit to the USA was a visit to the White House & Donald Trump last year.
- Ronaldo publicly denied the allegations and his career has not been affected whatsoever.

2. Achraf Hakimi - Morocco 🇲🇦
- Accused of raping a 24-year old woman in France in 2023
- Indicted that same year and placed under judicial supervision
- On 19th June 2026, an appeals court announced that he would face charges, and he is set to face a trial, although he is appealing the court's decision.
- Hakimi publicly denies these allegations, but says he trusts the justice system, though he believes there would be no case if he weren't famous.
- Hakimi's football career hasn't been affected; he's since won the UCL twice with Paris Saint-Germain and is Morocco's captain.

3. Thomas Partey - Ghana 🇬🇭
- Currently on trial in England for 7 counts of rape and one count of sexual assault against four different complainants, with the alleged offences being committed between 2020 and 2022, while he was an Arsenal player.
- Has been arrested 3 times and bailed each time, but needs to seek permission from prosecutors/police to travel internationally.
- One of his alleged victims has publicly posted (alleged) Snapchat messages between the two of them where he admits to sexually assaulting her. She also shows that the relevant Snapchat account appears to actually belong to him.
- The same victim claimed that several figures who work for Arsenal FC failed to support her after she reached out to them.
- Moved from England to Spain shortly after charges were announced, due to a transfer to Villarreal.
- Partey continued to play for Arsenal while under investigation and was supported publicly and privately by manager Mikel Arteta and figures at the club.
- Recently barred from entering Canada for a World Cup match. He failed to disclose that he had been criminally charged on his visa application.
- His trial has been delayed to around January 2027.

4. Nabil Emad 'Dunga' - Egypt 🇪🇬
- Accused by an Italian woman to have spiked her drink and raped her at his private residence in July 2025
- The woman claims to have taken legal action, and made the allegations public last month.
- She says she's experiencing “severe panic, ongoing trauma, and post-traumatic stress disorder.”
- Emad's lawyer strongly denies the allegations and claims there is a campaign at damaging the player's reputation, and financial blackmail.
- No legal ruling or decision has been made on this case as of yet.

5. Ryan Mendes - Cape Verde 🇨🇻
- Currently under investigation by New Zealand police over allegations he raped a woman in March 2026
- The woman, a Brazilian national, was hired to work with the Cape Verde national team as a translator during a FIFA Series friendly tournament. Her role was mandated and overseen by FIFA.
- Photos of the woman's alleged injuries have been posted in various publications as well as social media.
- Mendes is Cape Verde's captain and most capped player of all time.

6. Kaishu Sano - Japan 🇯🇵
- Arrested, with two co-suspects, of sexually assaulting a woman in July 2024.
- He was released from police custody 12 days later, and prosecutors decided not to indict him.
- Was excluded from the Japan NT for over a year as a result.
- In June 2025, he returned to the Japan NT.
- Later that month, Sano held an apology press conference where he said, "I am sorry that I caused a lot of trouble for many people by my actions. I would like to continue to bring out actions, words, and actions, and what I can do, and I would like to contribute to society in addition to playing."
- Explaining his decision to bring him back, Japan head coach Moriyasu said: ""I have been observing him all along, and after personally reaching out to him, I strongly felt that he is truly remorseful. When we consider each team member as part of a family, I asked myself—as a coach facing an individual player—whether we should simply cast someone out of society or the football world for making a mistake. I decided it would be better, as a family, to give him a path to try again."
- Sano plays for Mainz in Germany and scored for Japan against Brazil in the Round of 32.

7. Thiago Almada - Argentina 🇦🇷
- Accused of sexual abuse in Argentina after a party in December 2020.
- The alleged victim, 28, claimed she was sexually abused by Almada and two other individuals in a house.
- Her account, which was corroborated by a witness, is that she went up to a room to have consensual sex with Almada, but drank something that made her feel ill. Almada and the two other individuals then performed 'unconsensual sexual acts' on her
- Almada was suspended by his club at the time, Velez, for one week.
- In February 2021 he and a codefendant were charged with sexual abuse & group abuse.
- Almada was called up to the Argentina NT for the 2022 World Cup. Argentina won the tournament.
- Almada has since played for Atlanta United, Botafogo, Lyon, and Atletico Madrid (where he currently plays)
- He is still awaiting a verdict on his case.

[Seth @fiercepatricks]

Straight kids can talk about their crushes.
Gay kids learn to hide them.
Straight couples cuddle in public.
Gay couples fear their safety if they do.
Straight couples hold hands walking.
Gay couples carefully consider the risk.
Pride matters. Things are not equal