Wally Brockhoff

[ᜰ @markklfc]

Lamine Yamal on Lionel Messi after Spain’s FIFA World Cup triumph over Argentina.

🗣️ Lamine Yamal: “Tonight I lifted the World Cup for Spain, but I also experienced something I’ll tell my children one day. The man who once held me as a baby was standing on the other side of the pitch, fighting for the same dream. Football has a beautiful way of bringing stories full circle.”

“When I looked at Messi after the final whistle, I didn’t just see an opponent. I saw the player who made millions of kids, including me, believe football could be art. I saw the man whose videos I watched over and over, trying to copy things that nobody else could do.”

“I know this defeat will hurt him. You don’t play with that much passion, carry your country again and again, and lose a World Cup final without feeling pain. Even in defeat, he kept demanding the ball, creating chances and refusing to stop believing. That’s what champions do.”

“People will talk about Spain winning this World Cup, and they should. But they’ll also remember that, at an age when most legends have already retired, Messi was still making the world’s best defenders panic every time he touched the ball. That’s extraordinary.”

“The photo of Messi bathing me became one of football’s most iconic images. Today we took another picture together, but this time I could thank him face to face. Without players like him, kids like me wouldn’t dare dream this big.”

“One day another generation will replace mine too. That’s football. But there will never be another Lionel Messi. Records can be broken and trophies can be won, but inspiring an entire generation to fall in love with the game is something only a few people in history will ever achieve.”

“Tonight belongs to Spain. Tomorrow, the debates will continue. But my respect for Lionel Messi will never change. He didn’t need to win this final to prove who he is. For me, he’ll always be one of the greatest players football has ever seen, and sharing the pitch with him was a privilege I’ll carry for the rest of my life.”

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Two of the young men in this photo have been executed‌ today in Iran.

The other ten have been transferred to solitary confinement, they are next in line to be hanged.

These are the same prisoners president Trump publicly announced that, the Islamic Republic had promised not to execute.

That promise was a lie. You all watching war headlines but no one talks about the war being imposed on us Iranians by our own regime that hanging its own people in silence.

They are people who said: we want freedom.

If no one speaks, the regime will kill more protesters.
Please join me and help us to #StopExecutionsInIran.

[Cookie Monster @MeCookieMonster]

Me feeling really hungry right now...

[vbspurs @vbspurs]

I leave you with this image. In honour of the World Cup Final, I give you the King and Queen of Spain on a date night at the movies.

She’s ordering the popcorn and he’s trying to look like a normal impatient dude in jeans.

I love this photo.

[Fran Fraschilla @franfraschilla]

Congratulations, America, you pulled off an incredible @FIFAWorldCup. I’ve been around the world because of basketball and I knew that all of our international friends would love you. The best advertisement for America has always been America itself. And what a great host you were. Congrats to our law enforcement folks for keeping everyone safe. Thank you to @FIFAcom for your confidence in us. You’ll be back soon. Maybe I will learn what offsides is by then. 🇺🇸 ⚽️

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

One of the greatest achievements in human history:
In 1990, 44% of the world lived in extreme poverty.
Today, it’s down to 10%.
The world is far from perfect, but this is what extraordinary progress looks like.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

A college economics professor stated that he had once failed an entire class. That class insisted that socialism is functional and that no one should be poor and no one rich, that everyone is equal...

The teacher told them, "OK, we will do an experiment on socialism in this group.

All grades will be averaged, and everyone will get the same grade, so no one will fail and no one will get a 10."

After the first test, the grades were added up and divided by the number of students, and everyone got an 8.

The students who studied intensively were upset, but those who studied less were overjoyed.

As the second test approached, the students who had studied a little learned even less, and those who had studied more intensively told themselves that they also wanted a "handout", so they also studied less.

The average of the second test was 6.

When the third test was given, the average score was 4. To the great surprise of all the students, they all failed.

The teacher told them that socialism will eventually fail because when half the population sees that they cannot work, because the other half will take care of them, and when the half that worked realizes that there is no point in working anymore, because others are the beneficiaries of their labor, then that is the end of any nation
The story may be a fable not a fact but the moral is real
Get it?

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you do, and you will presently come to love him.” - C.S. Lewis

[Nate Bukaty @nate_bukaty]

Ridiculous. Absolute joke

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

My generation grew up watching stuff like this yet we’re somehow less fucked up than the subsequent generations. I’m just noting it, don’t ask me to explain it.

[American Warrior for Christ @johnrackham82]

"God is good."

Imagine being alone. Seriously wounded. Behind enemy lines. Deep in the mountains of Iran.
That was the reality for a U.S. Air Force Colonel this past Friday. His F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down over southwestern Iran. He ejected. And then the most terrifying kind of silence began.
He didn't panic. He climbed. He hiked up a 7,000-foot mountain ridgeline on wounded legs. He found a crevice in the rock and crawled inside. He had one weapon. A single handgun. That was it. Between him and capture.
Iranian forces were searching. Getting closer by the hour. The whole country was being told to look for him. To turn him in.
But he was never truly alone.
Back home, the CIA launched a secret deception campaign inside Iran. They spread false information that he had already been found. They bought precious time. Then they used every capability they had to find one American soul hidden in a mountain crevice in enemy territory.
They found him.
Dozens of aircraft. Hundreds of special operations forces. A massive firefight to hold the Iranians back. U.S. planes dropping bombs to clear the mountainside so commandos could reach him. The President watching from the Situation Room.
They brought him home.
Early Sunday morning, President Trump posted two words the whole country needed to see. "WE GOT HIM." The Colonel was seriously wounded. But he is safe. He was flown to Kuwait for treatment. He is going to be just fine.
This is what America does. We do not leave our warriors behind. Not in a mountain crevice in Iran. Not anywhere on this earth.
That man climbed a 7,000-foot mountain with a handgun and held on. And his country moved heaven and earth to come for him. That is the covenant. That is the promise. That has always been the promise.
Share this if you believe in leaving no one behind. This Colonel deserves every prayer and every bit of pride we can give him today.

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

Incredible investigation today from @CBSNews. Our reporters visited "ground zero" for hospice fraud: Los Angeles, California. One building had 89 registered hospices . . .

Read it here:

https://t.co/cHuzIo4Xec

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

🇺🇸 THE ULTIMATE AMERICAN REVENGE STORY 🇺🇸
​The script couldn't have written it better. In 1989, Arthur Liu fled China as a political refugee after the Tiananmen Square massacre. He came to America with nothing but a dream for a free life.
​Decades later, his daughter Alysa Liu became the face of Team USA.
​But the CCP didn’t forget. Before the 2022 Beijing Olympics, the FBI uncovered a "brazen" spying operation. The target? Alysa and her father. The Chinese government tried to:
​Stalk them on U.S. soil.
​Intimidate her into silence.
​Pressure her to turn her back on the country that gave her family refuge.
​The FBI had to give them 24/7 security just so she could compete. 🛡️
​She faced the intimidation. She refused to be a pawn. She walked away from the sport for two years to find her soul again—and then she came back with a vengeance.
​TODAY, THE STORY IS COMPLETE. In a flawless performance to Donna Summer’s “MacArthur Park,” Alysa Liu just did the impossible.
​🥇 OLYMPIC GOLD. 🥇 The first American woman to win individual gold in 24 years.
​She didn’t just skate for a medal. She skated for the freedom her father risked everything for. She didn’t just win for herself; she won for the flag that protected her family when the world felt small.
​This is what a Patriot looks like. 🇺🇸✨
​#AlysaLiu #TeamUSA #OlympicGold #MilanoCortina2026 #AmericanDream #FigureSkating #USA #Inspiration

[Joe Wallin @joewallin]

Let's take a look at how Seattle's DoorDash law actually turned out.

In 2024, Seattle implemented "PayUp" — a minimum wage law for food delivery drivers, setting the rate at $26.40/hour. The intent was to protect workers. Here's what actually happened:

DoorDash added a $5 fee to every order. Customers stopped ordering. Within two weeks, 30,000 fewer orders. UberEats volume dropped 30%. Drivers — the people the law was supposed to help — saw their available deliveries cut in half and earnings per hour fall 25%.

A new National Bureau of Economic Research study confirmed what the numbers already showed: higher per-delivery pay was completely offset by fewer deliveries and lower tips. Active drivers saw zero net gain in monthly earnings.

KUOW reported this week that two years in, the results are undeniable — Seattle is now the most expensive delivery market in the country. Denver, Portland, and San Francisco, cities without these laws, saw delivery revenue grow 20-40%. Seattle stagnated.

The parallel to what's happening with WA tax proposals is obvious. SB 6346 would impose a 9.9% income tax on high earners. The QSBS add-back bills would strip federal tax exclusions from founders. The argument is always "just a small tax on those who can afford it." But capital moves. Founders move. Companies incorporate elsewhere.

The DoorDash data gives us a controlled experiment: same company, same product, same time period, different policy environments. The city with the heaviest regulation saw the worst outcomes — including for the workers it tried to protect.

Incentives matter. Every time.

https://t.co/0rusleqBbk

#StartupLaw #WashingtonState #PolicyMatters #QSBS #Founders #waleg

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

The time for regime change has come. That is what Trump promised the Iranian women and men who, bare-handed and at the risk of their lives, defied this murderous regime when he announced that “help is on the way,” writes @BHL
https://t.co/OPe5WMknbt

[Tax Foundation @TaxFoundation]

Roses are red,
violets are blue,
Tariffs are taxes,
just hidden from view.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

This shows the net worth of politicians over the years compared to the average person.

[Wally Brockhoff @wbrockhoff]

Terrance will always be one of the 25. Condolences to his family.

[Rustin Dodd @rustindodd]

I loved chatting with Terrance Gore. Always friendly and upbeat, he seemed to know exactly who he was, was grateful for each opportunity, and confident in himself. He had a self awareness and positivity we should all strive for. Thinking of his family. https://t.co/DvlfBf1P9d

[Noah Rothman @NoahCRothman]

“We’re all staring at the sky, hoping Trump will bomb us, just to destroy Khamenei and his regime. We’re willing to die one by one, but we don’t want our children to suffer our pain and torture.”

[Jason Epstein @Southfive]

Whoa if true.