Ted B

Lego Mum, Olympic tragic and Cruise Geek ⚓️

[Cookie Monster @MeCookieMonster]

Elmo teach me not to eat trophy. Me teach Elmo to pick a team. 💙🧡

[UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @Refugees]

From being born in a refugee camp to scoring at a World Cup. A message to millions. ⭐️

Nestory Irankunda’s journey from displacement to becoming Australia’s youngest #FIFAWorldCup goalscorer shows what’s possible when hope, talent and opportunity come together. 🌍⚽

[Craig F̶o̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ @Craig_Foster]

For most of us, we can’t even imagine what Nestory’s journey has been like.

As with all refugees.

Displaced, homeless, full of hope but in desperate need of safety. A chance. An opportunity at life.

With a dream and a ball, making a new life, in a country with a proud history of welcoming refugees, but facing its own forces of opposition today.

Nestory didn’t just shoot the ball into the Turkish net, he struck a lightning bolt to the conscience of millions of Australians.

How can we cheer one brilliant, skilled, explosive and confident young kid representing us, and we him, and simultaneously portray refugees or new arrivals as less worthy?

It also should raise the question of how refugees come to be? Everyone wants to live a safe life at home, with kin, generations of family, not having to ask for a chance..

But conflict, it’s funding, the breakdown in international law, the weapons industry needing to be fed, exploitation of resources, religious tribalism and extremism, all create the more than a hundred million people who have fled their home.

It is these drivers we must stop, and these causes we must never support nor participate in.

Football brings everyone together and shows us what we share.

Now, we share a love of a young Aussie kid who overcame every barrier put in his way, to reach the pinnacle of world sport.

And that is needed more than ever.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthletic: Jalen Brunson was selected in the second round of the 2018 NBA draft. Now, as the captain of the New York Knicks, Brunson has outperformed every expectation. https://t.co/WWpsiUq8yp

[ESPN @espn]

OmG.

[NBA @NBA]

It's even better in slow motion 😏

[Elmo @elmo]

Elmo hopes both teams have fun! 🏀🏀🏀🏀

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

.@NYCSanitation I'd like to report a sweep

[Vasyl Myroshnychenko @AmbVasyl]

Our Embassy in Canberra is expanding. We’ve welcomed a new batch of cockatoos to the team — highly vocal, well connected, and never shy to make a statement. Natural diplomats 🇺🇦🇦🇺

[Troy Cassar-Daley @troycassardaley]

I have no energy for this today, I don’t know this old fulla but I have support him and all veterans today.
Sending love Ray xx

[Alanis Morissette @Alanis]

paging dr. santos and dr. king…🩺

@StreamOnMax

[CommBank Matildas @TheMatildas]

History broken AGAIN in the #AFCWomensAsianCup 🙌

Tonight's attendance of 74,397 is the largest in the tournament's history!

#Matildas #HowWeWaltz #TilitsDone #WAC2026

[David Keen @KeenyDhk]

How impressive is Jim Chalmers?
A war causing a global oil shock, a interest rate rise by the RBA, and every day he has been fronting up to the media to settle the waters, allay the fears and provide a steady hand on the tiller.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

On behalf of the Christians of the #MiddleEast, and of all women and men of good will, I appeal to those responsible for this conflict: cease fire! May paths of dialogue be reopened! Violence can never lead to the justice, stability and peace for which the peoples are waiting.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Faced with the possibility of a tragedy of immense proportions, I make a heartfelt appeal to all the parties involved to assume the moral responsibility of halting the spiral of violence before it becomes an unbridgeable chasm. May diplomacy regain its proper role, and may the well-being of peoples, who yearn for peaceful existence founded on justice, be upheld. And let us continue to pray for peace.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

[All On The Board @allontheboard]

"The only thing more powerful than hate is love" - Bad Bunny

#badbunnysuperbowl #BadBunny

[Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer]

Heated Rivalry, Mark Carney, the Olympics, the World Cup — 2026 is pretty obviously the International Year of Canada.

[Feras basal @FerasBasal]

Can I play an immunity idol for him? 😢#survivorau