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I’m kinda cool I guess. 12:17

[whoisEd @whooised]

Why don’t we all just charge the stadiums during a World Cup match to the point where they have to cancel the game and maybe even stop the tournament. That’ll show FIFA not to fuck with the fans

[whoisEd @whooised]

@realDonaldTrump F@g

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🎙️ Thierry Henry on FIFA turning the World Cup Final into a Super Bowl circus:

“Football is losing its soul little by little. A World Cup Final is supposed to be the purest form of football, pressure, intensity, emotion, tactics, suffering, history. Not a halftime concert made for social media clips and celebrities in vip seats.

When you play at the highest level, your body is programmed around rhythm. Fifteen minutes. That’s what every footballer in the world has known since childhood. Your muscles stay warm, your concentration stays locked in, your emotions stay alive. Now imagine players sitting there for 25 minutes during the biggest game of their lives because FIFA wants a bigger TV spectacle.

People think footballers are robots. They are not. Momentum is real. If one team is dominating before halftime, that long break can completely kill the intensity of the game. It changes everything tactically and mentally. You cool down physically, you lose adrenaline, and then people expect players to immediately return playing at 100 miles per hour.

And let’s be honest here, this is not about football, it’s about money and entertainment. They want football to become the Super Bowl. More commercials, more performances, more headlines, more celebrities. But football became the biggest sport in the world without all of that. The game itself was enough.

The dangerous part is that if the final quality drops or players get injured because of these changes, fans will attack the players first. They will say certain stars disappeared in the second half or failed under pressure, without understanding the conditions were completely changed for a television show.

For me, the World Cup Final should feel sacred. Ninety minutes of war between the best players on earth. Not a pause long enough for the world to forget the match is even happening.”

[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

Akademiks dares Sneako to say “f*ck Allah” after Sneako claimed words have no meaning and that Black people shouldn’t be offended when called the hard R

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: Drugs coming by sea meaning coming by water. A lot of people don’t know what I mean by sea. They think I mean vision. I’m talking about sea like the sea.

[Shekilledyouu : ) 🦇 @LisaaNamikaze]

I’m gonna quit my job and and go seek power with Orochimaru

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Ted Turner inherited a billboard company at 24 after his dad killed himself. By the time he died Wednesday at 87, he had founded CNN, built the world's largest bison herd, and handed the United Nations a billion dollars after thinking about it for 48 hours.

In September 1997, at a UN dinner in New York, Turner walked to the podium and pledged the billion with no warning. It was one of the biggest charity gifts ever made. The US had fallen behind on its UN dues. The agency was running on fumes. The Foundation he created has since turned that gift into more than $2 billion for global programs.

CNN almost died in the crib. It launched June 1, 1980 with 1.7 million subscribers, far short of what it needed to break even. Within months, costs doubled and revenues halved. Turner took new loans at 18% interest. The three big networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) called it the "Chicken Noodle Network" and waited for it to fail.

Then the 1991 Gulf War broke out. Bombs started falling on Baghdad on January 17, but other networks lost their feeds within hours. CNN's three had a phone line that held up. They kept broadcasting from a hotel as bombs fell. Turner's instruction to his news chief on the war budget had been four words: "spend whatever it takes." For weeks, CNN was the only network showing the war live. State TV around the world dropped its coverage and rebroadcast CNN's feed. Over a billion people watched. Even the Pentagon got its updates from CNN.

CNN was just the start. Turner bought the Atlanta Braves in 1976, put them on his superstation, and beamed baseball into nearly every home in North America years before they became good. The Braves won the World Series in 1995. He won the America's Cup, sailing's biggest trophy, in 1977. He bought MGM in 1986 for $1.5 billion, mostly for the film library that became Turner Classic Movies. He launched TNT and Cartoon Network. He commissioned Captain Planet, a cartoon about superhero environmentalists, to teach kids about pollution.

Turner started buying ranches in 1987 and never stopped. He ended up with about 2 million acres, more than three times the size of Rhode Island. The bison herd grew to 51,000 head, the largest privately owned anywhere in the world. He started Ted's Montana Grill, a chain serving bison burgers, so the herds could pay for themselves.

He sold his media empire to Time Warner in 1996 for $7.5 billion. The 2001 Time Warner-AOL merger then wiped out about $8 billion of his fortune in 30 months. By his own math, that's a $10 million loss every day for two and a half years.

TIME named him Man of the Year in 1991. He once said: "If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect."

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Pure awkwardness at the FIFA Congress in Vancouver.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino tried to get Palestinian FA President Jibril Rajoub to shake hands and stand together with the Israeli FA Vice-President.

Rajoub refused and went off on a little rant until he was politely interrupted by Infantino with a handshake and a hug.

Diplomacy attempt: 0/10.
Second-hand embarrassment: 100/10. 😂

[AP Soccer @AP_Soccer_]

A reminder that FIFA is still holding onto tickets and selling them on a rolling basis. This gives the appearance that games are close to sold out or are sold out which justifies them selling tickets at their prices.

[Pigeons & Planes @PigsAndPlans]

14 years ago today, Odd Future (@ofwgkta) dropped "Oldie"—one of their most iconic videos that almost didn't happen. It only did because @tylerthecreator refused to let anyone turn the camera off.⁠
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The members of the group told the story of that day in an oral history published by The Ringer in 2022. When Odd Future descended on Milk Studios in Chelsea, the session unraveled fast. The XXL staff "were understandably trying to contain a group of rowdy kids," Mike G recalled, "but we weren't having it."⁠
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Someone plugged in an iPhone, "Oldie" came through the speakers, and director Lance Bangs kept his camera rolling over objections from the room. The moment Tyler realized what was happening, he called the shots: "No, f*ck that, Lance, keep shooting this sh*t.” What followed was a single, unedited take of the entire 10-minute posse cut performed live.⁠
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For @earlxsweat, freshly back from Samoa and still finding his footing, the whole day had a surreal quality: "It just felt like a cartoon, in the sense that n****s just was doin' whatever they wanted to do." For Tyler, zooming out in real time, the stakes were clearer: “I’ve seen music documentaries, this might be the last time everyone's together so we need to document this."⁠
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He was right. "A f*ckin' balloon popped that night, and we all went in our own directions. That was the last time we was all together like that. Still,” Tyler explained. Frank, looking back, arrived at the same place: "The atmosphere reminds me of how it feels to be in a room full of musicians where everyone is improvising and for a brief period it's pure magic. It's the same rush."⁠
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Bangs edited the footage on a laptop during a red-eye to Portland. It now sits at over 56 million views. It cost nothing.⁠

[whoisEd @whooised]

Old reggeton is so fire

[Home of the Brave @OfTheBraveUSA]

Vance: " If you're worried about the world spinning out of control, if you're worried about a military draft, if you're worried about, God forbid, a world war, the best way to prevent it is to vote for Donald Trump."

[Acyn @Acyn]

Neguse: Where is this company headquartered?

Noem: I don’t know.

Neguse: I don’t know either. We can’t find it. We did find an address that’s registered to a political operative. This company that received 143 million dollars was incorporated 8 days before this contract went out.

You want the American people to believe that this is all above board, that $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquarters, doesn't have a website, has never done work for the federal government before and is registered apparently or attached to a residence from a political operative, and of course one of the subcontractors of that contract, as you know, is a political firm that's tied to, to you back when you were governor of South Dakota?

[Adam @AdameMedia]

BREAKING 🚨 MARINE: “NO ONE WANTS TO DIE FOR ISRAEL”

U.S. Marine Brian McGinnis got dragged out of a senate hearing for standing up and saying what everyone is thinking.

Reports that they BROKE his hand.

This is a patriot.

[• @WordsCocoon]

do yourself a favour and lock in. this is the youngest you will ever be. this is the most time you will ever have. this is the most energy you can offer to your dreams. lock in!!!

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: The conspiracies are true — a small group of elites set the agenda for the country.

They're billionaires, politicians, judges and more. And they meet at private camp Bohemian Grove.

The membership is secret, but @DRBoguslaw came to us with a full list of everyone involved.

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

🚨🚨THIS IS WILD🚨🚨

BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG SAID “MINDF*CK AMERICA” AND NBC BLEEPED IT OUT AT THE SUPER BOWL PREGAME SHOW.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 NEW: At a Super Bowl LX pre-game concert in San Francisco, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong used his set to call out politics and the Epstein files — including altering lyrics to say “the representative from Epstein Island has the floor.”

He also urged ICE agents to quit their jobs, directly criticizing Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Kristi Noem, and others.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Donald Trump recently shared a video to TruthSocial that includes an AI-generated depiction of Barack & Michelle Obama as monkeys.