Trina Jansen 🇺🇲🇺🇦

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[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

The “mass shooting” in Erie, PA was in fact a family annihilation event. A 45-year-old man with a registered firearm killed a 22-mo-old girl, a 5-year-old boy, 2 women, & 5 men.

He killed himself.

We still don’t know his name or the names of his victims. No one will ask ‘where was he radicalized?’ Media will move on. A reminder that every 5 days a man annihilates his family in the USA & men kill 2400+ women annually in gender based violence. Beyond horrific. My God.

[𝕍𝕗𝕪𝕟𝕟_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

Zlatan Ibrahimovic on to Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in the FIFA World Cup:

🗣️ “Listen to me carefully, because most of these people in suits have never understood the game and never will.

They create a subsidiary. Call it FIFA Forward Enterprise. Keep majority control on paper. Sell 20% to investors who have never smelled grass. Then wave $20 million in front of every federation and pretend it’s democracy.

That is not structure. That is a magic trick for lawyers. FIFA keeps the majority. FIFA keeps the board. FIFA keeps “exclusive authority” over governance, the calendar, the rules, everything that sounds important on paper. The investors get no operational role. They are only buying a slice of the cash machine. FIFA even says the investors are buying into the subsidiary, not into FIFA itself, so “nothing changes.”

I have seen this movie before. Nothing changes… until the numbers start talking. Once private money owns a permanent piece of the World Cup’s revenue, the pressure never stops. More tournaments. Bigger formats. Different calendar. Different priorities. Because investors do not care about the soul of the game. They care about return. And when the federations are already bought with the $20 million “gift” and the bigger Forward payments, who exactly is going to say no?

This is the same FIFA that spent decades selling the World Cup under the table. I remember the 2015 arrests. Swiss police walking into the hotel in Zurich and taking officials out in the early morning. Racketeering. Bribes. Money laundering. Hundreds of millions paid for television rights, for marketing rights, for World Cup votes. South Africa 2010. Qatar. The whole circus under Blatter. Jack Warner. Chuck Blazer singing to the Americans. Blatter and Platini banned for that $2 million “gentlemen’s agreement” that suddenly appeared when it was convenient. The Ethics Committee, the indictments, the years of “we are cleaning the house.”

And now the house is cleaner, they say. Now instead of brown envelopes and secret payments, we have subsidiaries, minority non-controlling stakes, permanent capital vehicles, JPMorgan valuations, and carefully selected long-term partners. Same hunger for money. Same system of buying loyalty from the 211 associations. Only the language got more expensive.

Infantino stands there and talks about democracy and opportunity. I am Zlatan. I do not need the $20 million and I do not need the speech. Most of these federations do need the money. That is exactly why this structure is dangerous. You are not offering development. You are offering a transaction: take the cash, vote yes by September, and stay quiet while pieces of the World Cup become private equity assets.

Football does not belong to FIFA. FIFA belongs to football. The moment you put shareholders inside the commercial heart of the World Cup and call it progress, you have already admitted the game is for sale. They just found a prettier way to write the contract this time.

I played at the highest level. I saw real power and real money. This is neither. This is bureaucracy protecting itself while selling the one thing that still belongs to the people who actually love the game.

Keep your structure. Keep your valuations. Keep your minority non-controlling stakes. The World Cup was never meant to have owners in suits. It was meant to be bigger than all of you.

[jm @jeaneri]

just a reminder ladies and gentlemen

[The Beatles @thebeatles]

One for the history books

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

Meet Bruce Taylor, of Taylor Farms. This man makes huge contributions to Trump so his lettuce is never inspected. So far, this man has given us E. coli, and cyclospora.

He does NOT allow his lettuce pickers to take bathroom breaks.

Kroger brand lettuce is actually Taylor’s.

[Augie Nash @AugieNash]

#OTD 1940 - Robert Wadlow of Alton, IL died at the age of 22 in Manistee, MI. from an infection caused by an ankle brace.

Wadlow stood eight feet, 11.1 inches tall (and was still growing) and weighed 490 pounds - the tallest man ever recorded.

He wore a size 37 shoe.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I think women should decide what to do with Mitch McConnell's body since he decided what to do with theirs.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

When I called out Trump years ago for being a danger to democracy, a free press, and truth itself, I was accused of making myself the story and showboating. How did things turn out? Trump is all of those things. Tonight, the free press is very much in danger in America. Wake up!

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Remember: it was like pulling teeth to get Republicans to fund the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.

But it took them no time at all to create a $1.8 billion Insurrection Slush Fund to pay off the legal fees of the January 6th rioters who beat cops.

These are sick, corrupt people.

[Trina Jansen 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @TrinaJansen]

@Wilson__Valdez Windex

[Trina Jansen 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @TrinaJansen]

@idlewildgirl Rewatch Mad Men, you'll catch so many layers that you didn't notice the first time.

[Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg]

If you were horrified last night watching our elected leaders run and scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed.

Now, becomes a part of the solution and only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“I observe daily, folks on-air and in print, acting like the Trump's dysfunction is some recent phenomena - and I can tell you, with first hand knowledge, it has been a part of his life for decades.

The drug abuse, racism and predatory behavior I spoke out about beginning in 2015 were no secret on the set of his reality show and beauty pageants. My colleagues allowed NDAs and apathy to keep them quiet, which was not an option for me. Not so much out of bravery but a realization that there was nothing on the other side of a Trump presidency: he is that destructive.

However, it still seems quite hard to find a mainstream discussion of the threats we face by his mental instability and addictions.

I told Hillary Clinton’s campaign everything I knew about Trump in October 2016. This was after the debate where he compulsively sniffed and menaced her throughout. The outreach was initiated by HRC campaign staff through mutual connections we shared from working on Obama’s two presidential inaugurations and my colleagues that worked on Clinton’s campaign, and they seemed to take me seriously.

I think they believed the former First Lady, Secretary of State and U.S. Senator was assured victory after the release of the ‘Access Hollywood’ tapes until the waning moments of her campaign when they were of course blindsided by then F.B.I. Director James Comey’s ill-timed shenanigans.

I also believe everyone involved wasn’t truly aware of the extent and efficacy of Russian interference into that election, which continues to power the MAGA machine to this day. Kushner played an outsized role in that interference and has yet to face any real scrutiny or repercussions.”https://t.co/9wzfHGf5ma

[davey @justdaveyjustin]

The fact that the majority of Americans preferred republicans on the economy for so long has got to be one of the most successful propaganda campaigns in modern history because every time a republican gets in office they ruin the economy and everybody is worse off.

[STL Aviation News @AviationStl]

British Air has the @flystl season starting March 28th next year. Obviously, very subject to change but nice to see it a bit earlier.

The few dates in March start at $325 one way or $562 round trip.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

"A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons." —Hillary

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

FBI agents have to retire at 57, air traffic controllers at 56, and pilots at 65. But somehow demented 70 and 80 year olds running the country is totally fine. Make it make sense.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

We only get around 75 years to live… if we’re lucky.

And Trump has taken 10 of those years from our peace.

That’s not small.

That’s a huge part of our life gone.

[Dave Matt @davematt88]

So let me get this straight. FIFA is threatening to penalize Iran for not coming to the world cup in the United States, which just bombed the hell out of them and this is the same FIFA that gave the president of the country that bombed them a peace prize.