Sam Shantz

Aspiring Historian, Sarcastic Cynic. I like a women who keeps up on current events ... a thousand years ago. #HistoryFunFact

[Alina Cameron 🇨🇦 💉 🔬 @Alina_Cameron]

I live in Northwestern Ontario. Right now, the Boreal forest is burning.

I'm writing this beneath the dark orange plume from the Quetico wildfires.

These are some of the reports coming out as communities fight to survive:

"No fire crews left for new fires."
"We had no warning."
Families are self-evacuating by private boat across lakes because they didn't receive evacuation information. They're fleeing towering flames with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

This is unacceptable in a province as wealthy as Ontario.

I'm calling out Doug Ford. His government has underfunded Ontario's wildfire management capacity by tens of millions of dollars.

@fordnation you want our Ring of Fire, our water, our forests. You want to store nuclear waste in our bedrock and run an oil pipeline through our watersheds.

But you won't work with northern communities. You make decisions for us without us, and then fail to provide the basic public services we PAY FOR and rely on: wildfire protection, health care, education, safe highways and social services.

Northern Ontario deserves better than this feckless leadership.

#onpoli #onted #70KIsNotOK #cdnpolitics #DontLookAwayOntario #ABC

[𐌕 🍂 @fwtimini]

Remember when you opened Instagram and it was just photos of your friends instead of influencers, Reels, and ads? Yeah... the good old days.

[Sam Shantz @samueldtshantz]

Where do I find a house like this? It’s perfect!

[ida @saintgumi]

the house of an elderly couple i met in shimoda

[O. Pérez Sammartino @OSammartino]

Inglaterra resistió el asedio nórdico, pero queda debilitada ante un eventual ataque francés. Estamos en 1066.

[Tactical Manager @ManagerTactical]

So the chip in the ball detected the Croatian player’s hair vs Portugal but it didn’t work when the ball hit the freaken cable of the camera to favor England?

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

It’s wild to think we probably could’ve tackled climate change decades ago without sacrificing economic growth. The only real difference is that a handful of oil executives wouldn’t have become quite as insanely rich.

[Sam Shantz @samueldtshantz]

No one should be forced to join in on something they don’t want to be a part of, but missing out on the fun of celebrating with other fans just because ‘Vikings don’t row’ is only hurting you…

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

A Norway fan has gone viral for refusing to join his country's Viking Row celebration and says he still won't do it even if they win the World Cup

"It's factually wrong. They didn't row. They sailed over the Atlantic"

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Save your brain. Read a book. Refuse to doomscroll. Read a book. Reject AI slop. Read a book. Fuck the machine. Read a book. Be the counterculture. Read a book.

[Sam Shantz @samueldtshantz]

More proof that Alexi Lalas is terrible and has no idea what he’s talking about. Zlatan needs to drive him off the air for good.

[GOLZ @golz_tv]

“You had one job, and you blew it.”

USMNT legend Alexi Lalas believes Mauricio Pochettino should not get a contract extension after crashing out of the 2026 World Cup.

He was speaking on talkSPORT, when he was asked if Pochettino should stay or go.

“Go,” Lalas answered.

“I mean, it's not that I want him to leave. I just think that this cycle has run its course.

“When it comes to Mauricio Pochettino, you had one job. And it was the game against Belgium.

“You win that game, then you're in some rarefied air. And it's not gravy but let's be honest, you're playing against Spain. And you take your chances, you're back in an underdog type of role.

“So I think that they [U.S. Soccer] move on. I believe he's had a good time, but you had one job, and you blew it.

“And, you know, you live and die by that. Every coach understands that, every manager understands that, and certainly Mauricio Pochettino does.”

Pochettino’s $6 million a year contract with U.S Soccer expires this summer.

Should he stay or should he go, like Lalas said?

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Napoleon, by Emanuel Bachrach-Barée, early 20th century

[Prep Propaganda 👔 @prep_propaganda]

You’re not depressed, you’re just surrounded by laminate flooring, plastic and bright lighting all day

[Zito @_Zeets]

Belgium sleep-walked through the tournament except when they turned it on to embarrass the United States. The power of hate.

[Hellenic History @HellenicHist0ry]

Western filmmakers have lost interest in depicting the ancient world as colourful, beautiful and vivid.

[Rayan @LamineYamalll10]

waiting for Portugal to be eliminated so I can use this video

[Стефан 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @faseruk]

I’m muting “Alphonso Davies” because the “discourse” is just pure emotionally driven garbage from people who just started watching #CanMNT a month ago. Here’s the man you’re criticizing with your nonsensical opinions saying he’s self-centered and doesn’t care about 🇨🇦 ⚽️.

[Sam Shantz @samueldtshantz]

“If I never see this complete non-entity talk about soccer ever again, it will be too soon…”
- The rest of Canada

[RGF @rgfray1]

“If I never see Alphonso Davies play for this national team again, it will be too soon…”
- Sid Seixeiro
@sidseixeiroshow
#canmnt

[rabmcmlxxxvii @rabmcmlxxxvii]

Does anyone else feel like we were robbed since France didn't wear the Liberté kit for the 4th of July Match?

@FWC26Philly

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

I’ll do you one better, they shouldn’t be able to record.

[Twilight @the_marcoli_boy]

It makes sense now

[Sam Shantz @samueldtshantz]

I’m not an [American] football fan, but measuring 10 yards does not need to be overcomplicated. Could technology do it better? Probably, but this is comparing apples to oranges imo.

[Robert Behrens @rcb05]

Remember that these technologies exist whenever we’re trotting out two sticks connected by a chain this fall to see if someone got a first down.