NEWS: Status is reporting Fox fired Maria Bartiromo after she leaked internal texts to the White House showing the network had told staff to stop amplifying Trump's latest election conspiracy theories. Trump has so thoroughly captured the right-wing media ecosystem that its biggest stars now see themselves as his informants first and journalists never.
Naomi Osaka on the upsides and downsides of the USTA inviting a lot of influencers to the U.S. Open:
“If you come to a sporting event, you have to respect the sport. I feel like it’s common courtesy to read up on the sport. Especially the etiquette. It could be a good thing for people to make the sport of tennis popular to their specific audience. But I think it has to be managed a lot better, especially in the situation like in my first round match. Overall there’s huge positives. You want people to continue to grow the sport. I just think it has to be in a way that everyone knows the rules & the etiquette.”
(via US Open Press)
@xDeji@Dxski_ Lmfaooo I actually just dae clock. Fado, Doski, Mosh, Moshood(the ones I know), etc. Even his official Biya email na mosh @ biya. How embarrassed can one be by their name?
Love the new Canadian $20 featuring our King & the iconic Vimy Ridge monument commemorating the sacrifice & great Canadian military victory in France in WWI. Interesting to note that an estimated 3000+ Americans fought in Canadian units at Vimy.
This is Real History. 🇨🇦1/2
The two letters after the Y are just telegraph/radio and railway codes, the Y is debated, some say it means "yes", others say it is just vibes but it was adopted when there was need for 3 letter airport code.
When Arsene Wenger slammed Mike Dean back in 2017:
"I did fight very hard for the referees to become professional, many years ago with David Dein and we did a good job to allow them to become professional and I see no improvement.
"At the end of the day, there are two countries in Europe where you have professional referees, in Italy and in England and not one English referee will go to the World Cup." 😡