Senor Ginge

[Vince Rugari @VinceRugari]

Areas don't get much more good than this

[Joey Lynch @joeylynchy]

A long read feature in @ESPNAusNZ

A story about Mohamed Toure and Nestory Irankunda

A story about the changing face of the Socceroos

But as I began to realise when I sat down to write this piece, a story about mates, together, on the world stage

🔗: https://t.co/dkmRMD86y4 .

[Football360.com.au @football360au]

How INSPIRING is this from Mo Toure 🇦🇺🙏

Mohamed Toure is at the World Cup, but he's always thinking of his boys back home.

They speak about the off-season all year long. About cage football, 5 v 5s and taking to the pitch together.

His European friends think he's crazy. This is life for South Australia's next generation of footballers. A special group of players and people.

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

Gianni Infantino knocked down all the reporting over visa concerns for this World Cup in August 2025: “I think it’s important to clarify this. There is a lot of misconception out there. Everyone will be welcome in Canada, Mexico and the United States for the FIFA World Cup next year.

“There is a process to go through to get visas and so on. This process will be smooth…

“We want to unite the world and we will unite the world next year. The world needs occasions of unity, of bringing teams together, of bringing people together, of bringing fans together... So again everyone will be welcome, be positive and you will see it will be a great, great celebration of the greatest FIFA World Cup ever.”

No, again we are just meant to look the other way and allow this thing we love so much, that we want to enjoy, that we can map our whole lives around, to be used and abused.

Again we are told about unity and inclusion when division, disparity and denial is the reality.

It is a great, great celebration of getting more money whatever it takes, no matter who has to pay the price. The greatest showpiece of allowing - unopposed! - the man who is meant to protect and grow the people’s game into playing celebrity, massaging his own ego and that of heads of state.

The biggest, most expensive, least accessible World Cup ever. The thing we love and all the beautiful pieces of it we’ve lost.

[Adam Peacock @adampeacock3]

Volpato added to Socceroos train on squad.
We now cross live to those who have been demanding he denounces Italy for Australia.

[Mackenzie Boe @BoeMackenzie]

The Tim Payne story is everything we should love about football and social media

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Madonna of Milk Enthroned with Child, by Jean Fouquet, 1452-55 (flipped)

[josh Garlepp @JoshGarlepp]

Was looking at afl tables today and saw Pendles will play his 433rd today. Insane effort. That’s more than Bont, KB and Harvey. They should celebrate it somehow.

[Cricketopia @CricketopiaCom]

60-year-old Aravinda de Silva playing his favourite shot and smashing a six to bring up his half-century.

[NBA on ESPN @ESPNNBA]

“His American name is Tim Robinson. He played like Tim Duncan and David Robinson.” 😂

@SHAQ reacts to Victor Wembanyama’s dominant Game 1 performance 💪

[Gio Rivera @GioJRivera]

Jaylen Brown on Twitch, responds to NBA Social Justice Champion nomination:

"I'm not sure why the NBA decided they needed to create this award. They've actually asked for my participation over the course of the last five or seven years, and I turn them down every time. I don't really feel like you need to be rewarded for your responsibility. I honestly feel like it's a responsibility to my community. I know some people don't feel like that."

"Doing something nice for somebody don't always have to have a return."

[Vince Rugari @VinceRugari]

This country man.

[ICE T @FINALLEVEL]

THAT RARE 2PAC & ICE-T MOMENT ON STAGE TOGETHER

30 years ago today @2pac performed Only God Can Judge Me live and shared a surprisingly tender (and funny) duet cover with @icet of Barbra Streisand’s "You Don’t Bring Me Flowers" during Fox TV’s Saturday Night Special hosted by Roseanne Barr.

Pac trying not to laugh makes it even better😂. Pure iconic, lighthearted energy ⚡️

They also did a parody segment with @jennifercoolidge as Lauren Hutton, interviewing the two. 🤣 This will never not be funny!!

[The Nest @TheNestWCE]

Losing with the youngest list in the league is one thing. We should not be losing to St.Kilda like this.

It’s fair to ask questions about the coaching staff’s ability to inspire as it stands. Failure to beat Rich next week and those questions should grow louder #AFLSaintsEagles

[Mark Farina @djmarkfarina]

@FT I played organized soccer/football from the age of 4 to 21. I was so exited for the World Cup in 1994, went to 2 matches and watched every match I could. This World Cup is total disgrace and hope the world boycotts this shitshow.

[Cricketopia @CricketopiaCom]

Missing Test cricket?

A throwback to The Ashes 2001, when two of the most elegant batsmen of the modern era batted together to chase down a target of 158.

Mark Waugh (42*) & Damien Martyn (33*) shared an unbeaten 69-run partnership at Trent Bridge.

@juniorwaugh349 | @damienmartyn

[Cricketopia @CricketopiaCom]

How good was Mark Waugh as a fielder?

[Oche @dartsocheagain]

It’s crazy what a Leicester fan has experienced since 2008

- Relegation to League 1
- Winning League 1
- Winning the championship
- Pulling off their version of the great escape
- Winning the Premier League the year after
- Champions League QF
- Their owner dying in a helicopter crash
- Top 5 finishes
- Winning the FA Cup
- Conference League semi
- Relegation
- Winning the Championship
- Relegation
- Points Deduction
- Relegation to League 1

Mental #LCFC

[Evan @EvanWritesOnX]

Australia was not established as a nation-building project.

It was established as an extraction platform.

The British did not colonize Australia to build a civilization.

They colonized it to extract l; first convict labor, then wool, then gold, then minerals, then gas.

The political architecture was built around that extraction logic from day one, and it has never been restructured away from it.

You assume the state exists to serve the population, and therefore bad outcomes must mean the state is being run poorly.

Australia is not a sovereign state that happens to have a mining sector.

It is a private sector extraction platform that happens to have citizens.

Every Australian who “owns” a home is servicing a debt instrument that enriches the FIC.

The minerals get dug up by foreign-owned multinationals.

The profits get distributed to global shareholders.

The taxation office is structured; by design, through decades of lobbying, to ensure the extraction proceeds leave the country with minimal sovereign capture.

The politicians are doing exactly what the structure requires of them: absorbing public anger, rotating every few years to reset the pressure valve.

Australia is not mismanaged. Australia is managed perfectly,

just not for Australians.

[Evan @EvanWritesOnX]

I am surprised how my tweet below entered the political spheres of Australians.

It means that many Australians actually care about their country. But if you want to do something about it, the first thing to understand is that the answer is not the other party.

The two parties run the visible layer. The operators underneath is the same regardless of who is in office.

Same mining multinationals. Same four banks. Same supermarket duopoly. Same media owners. Same property speculation engine. Same gas exporters paying almost no resource rent. The faces rotate. The arrangement does not.

So voting harder for Labor when the Liberals disappoint you, or harder for the Liberals when Labor disappoints you,

is not resistance. It is the trap.

It is the pressure-release valve doing exactly what it was built to do.

The way to move the operators in Australia, is how you move any operator in any country.

Stop voting tribally.

Strengthen the cross bench. Vote for community independents and minor parties willing to put structural questions on the table that the majors have agreed never to discuss.

A senate full of crossbenchers extracting concessions is worth more than another majority for either side.

Learn who owns what.

Find out who owns your bank, your supermarket, your toll road, your energy retailer, your superannuation, your media.

Most Australians have no idea how much of the country routes back to a small handful of foreign asset managers and resource multinationals.

Once you see it, the arguments between the parties stop looking like a contest and start looking like theatre.

Build parallel structures. Move your money to a credit union or mutual bank. Buy from local cooperatives where you can. Read independent media. Put solar and battery on your own roof so you stop buying back your own gas at a markup from the people who exported it.

Demand specific reforms, not vague good intentions.

Ask every candidate, federal and state, whether they will support a real Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.

Whether they will support a Norway-style sovereign wealth fund built on actual resource royalties.

Whether they will support ending negative gearing and the capital gains discount.

Whether they will support breaking up the media monopolies.

Whether they will support foreign investment screening with teeth.

Whether they will support rebuilding domestic refining capacity and downstream processing of the minerals that's shipped out raw.

Vote on the answers. Politicians respond to specificity.

They absorb and neutralise vagueness.

Tell the truth in your daily conversations.

The deepest defense of the system is the conditioning that tells Australians their own sovereignty over their own resources, their own currency, their own land and their own future is the unrealistic option.

Norway did it. South Korea did it. Singapore did it. Australia chose, repeatedly, through both parties, not to. That is a choice.

Choices can be made differently. Saying so out loud, in private and in public, in conversations with family and friends and colleagues, slowly breaks the spell.

Australia is managed. That is the bad news and that is also the good news.

Anything that can be managed can be unmanaged.

But not by waiting for the next election to deliver a saviour from inside the same recruiting pipeline that produced the current arrangement.

The change starts when enough citizens stop voting for the marketing departments and start asking who actually owns the building.