The Kid

Aspiring Statesman, Board of Ed member (again), low-browed movie critic, Two-Step King, National Guardsmen #BlackHebrews I love #TallGirlTwitter

[The Kid @Wakanda1891]

I bet @QGR22 $10" I make the playoffs in his league this year and @JJFree2381 $100 Cowboys have a better record than the Eagles.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw someone say, “No spoilers for The Odyssey.” Brother, you’ve had 3,000 years to read the book.

[Justin🦩Boldaji @justinboldaji]

Ochocinco breaking down the athletic failures of a 65 year old man who was trucked by a bison. No other website like it

[West Wilson @Conrad_Wilson]

No fucking way

[The Kid @Wakanda1891]

@TharealGP @DakMuse4 Lets just make a trade for Maxx Crosby !

[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.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

A Dollar General employee with diabetes started feeling the symptoms of a hypoglycemic episode while working at the cash register.

She grabbed a $1.69 orange juice from the store and drank it to stabilize her blood sugar, then paid for it after the medical emergency passed.
She did pay for it.

But the company fired her anyway, calling it “grazing” because she consumed the item before purchase.

Later, a jury sided with her and awarded her $277,565 total, including $27,565 in back pay and $250,000 in compensatory damages.

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

T.I. and Young Dro just performed “Shoulder Lean” riding through Bankhead for Cadillac Chronicles 📹

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.

This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.

You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.

Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.

The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

After President Trump claimed to reporters twice today that he had recently spoken to a former president who praised his actions in Iran, saying: “I wish I did what you did.” Aides to all four living presidents, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, have issued statements to CNN, saying there is no record of any communications between them and President Trump.

[DiscussingRDC @DiscussingRDC]

Bam gotta watch his back now 😂🤣

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

So far we’ve heard that although we killed the whole Iranian regime, this was not a regime change war. And although we obliterated their nuclear program, we had to do this because of their nuclear program. And although Iran was not planning any attacks on the US, they also might have been, depending on who you ask. And although we are not fighting this war to free the Iranian people, they are now free, or might be, depending on who seizes power, and we have no idea who that will be. The messaging on this thing is, to put it mildly, confused.

[Charles J. Moore @charles270]

“These are my Twins, Speakerboxxx & The Love Below”

[DatPiff @DatPiff]

Travis Porter quietly had one of the most impressive mixtape runs of the era, and it rarely gets mentioned.

[NFL Rumors @nflrums]

🚨The Dallas Cowboys restructured contracts of Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb and Tyler Smith creating 66 MILLION in CAP SPACE

[Dan Rogers @DannyPhantom24]

Coming soon to AT&T Stadium...

[The Kid @Wakanda1891]

Bring this man to Dallas

[NFL Rumors @nflrums]

Las Vegas #Raiders Maxx Crosby reportely told the team he does not want to be back next season.

[NFL Rumors @nflrums]

#Bengals Legend WR Chad Johnson really watched his money when he came to the #NFL :

- Johnson stayed in the stadium for 2 years to avoid paying a house payment
-Wearing fake jewelry from Claires
- Leasing exotic cars instead of buying them
- Managing his own money to know where it goes
- Ochocinco saved 80 % of his NFL salary

[Patrick Lyons @p_lyons_]

once again thinking about the cinematography of the “throw some d’s” video

[RJ Ochoa @rjochoa]

DeMarcus Lawrence said when he joined the Seahawks that Dallas was his home, but that he would never win a Super Bowl there.

He is in the NFC Championship Game, a place the Cowboys haven't been since 1995, in his first season with Seattle. https://t.co/0ziD4jJt7n