Lavender Gooms

yee yee

[Lavender Gooms @vincentvinsace]

My top 4 manga that I've read

[André Fran @andrefran]

Vimos mexicanos abraçando coreanos e ingleses, alemães aplaudindo paraguaios, japoneses desejando sorte a brasileiros, franceses brincando com noruegueses.... Sempre que tem violência, racismo e confusão é com argentino. 🇦🇷

[Santos da Opressão @SantosOpressivo]

Speed sabe quando é piada e sempre leva na zoeira, hoje ele viu que foi sério e ficou completamente abatido. Nunca vi ele assim.

Agora o mundo descobriu o quão racista os argentinos são. E se você é brasileiro e torce pra eles: me dê unfollow, eu não quero você aqui.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

because trump’s name appears more in the epstein files than Harry Potter’s name appears in the seven books about Harry Potter.

[Axiomatic Enemy of the State @DeTocqueville14]

The police bragged that you're just tax cattle in an open-air dystopian surveillance prison.

Oh, and btw, they still harassed the wrong person.

[Big Daddy Wet Wet @GUXSquallNoctis]

Y'all be grown as a bitch and still don't understand that politics quite literally affect every aspect of your life

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Happy Fourth of July from Willie and me!

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

MAGAs had to seek refuge in the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

There's a message there.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

One year ago today, Trump and Republicans passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, cutting healthcare by $1 trillion. Since then:

—The average cost of healthcare has doubled
—4.2 million Americans lost ACA coverage
—3.8 million Americans lost Medicaid coverage
—Nearly 500 hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes have closed

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

This image is from today. A Black woman sits on the DC metro as masked white nationalists prepare to march on our nation's capital.

This is America's 250th anniversary. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

[Raz Burgundy: Rising @BurgundyStriker]

that 4chan post about how low IQ people can't understand conditional hypotheticals or second-order thinking seemed silly but so many people are unironically saying "this doesn't effect me so why does it matter"

no capacity for second-order thinking. they're genuinely this dumb!

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

The Republican Party is weaponizing the full power of the federal government to try and imprison Gavin Newsom.

This is how scared of him they are.

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

WHAT THE FUCK

This is real

[This You? @Thiss_Youu]

Americans realizing Trump out-traded Pelosi in just 1 year compared to what she did in 25 years

[𝘼𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙥 𝘼𝙞𝙧 🛫 @AncapAir]

So... A bribe.

[Lee Roach @leevalueroach]

You can track Nancy Pelosi’s stock trades on X. But once you start tracking Donald Trump’s that’s a no no. What’s up with this @nikitabier.

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

She’s just another psychotic billionaire. On a holiday weekend. Amidst all this worldwide suffering, the ultra-wealthy still have no compunction. Unreal.

[Chris Manno @Mann_O_Steel17]

No joke, this is why Americans havent completely bought into soccer.

My Achilles would literally have to be stuck on the bottom of this dudes cleat for me to carry on like that.

This joker got the call, stood up, and played the rest of the match. And Balogun gets the rest of this match, and the next, a win or go home off the pitch.

Clown stuff

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

X has suddenly banned an account documenting Trump's corrupt stock trades seemingly without explanation.

[Brandon✨ @ray_ray200108]

“I don’t understand why people are mad”