Michael Martini

Back home and loving the city and family. Living life to the fullest.

[Michael Martini @wxmath]

@Thelscwxman Where I disagree:
Argentina-Austria: DRAW
Norway–Senegal: Senegal WIN
Jordan–Algeria: DRAW

[Michael Martini @wxmath]

@Thelscwxman Spain–Saudi Arabia: Spain win
Belgium–Iran: Belgium draw (Iran hold them)
Uruguay–Cabo Verde: Uruguay loss (Cabo Verde shock)
New Zealand–Egypt: Egypt loss (Kiwis win)

[Michael Martini @wxmath]

@Thelscwxman Agree except for 1:
Netherlands draw vs Sweden

[Michael Martini @wxmath]

@Thelscwxman Mostly agree. My forecast: USA win, Morocco win, Brazil win, Turkey win, but Turkey is the one I would keep smallest.

[Michael Martini @wxmath]

@Thelscwxman A little luck involved, just like our days playing Fantasy Football!

[Michael Martini @wxmath]

@Thelscwxman Ecuador and Coite D'Ivoire a coin flip. Sweden will defeat Tunisia.

[Michael Martini @wxmath]

@Thelscwxman @TheJunkWaxEra Pure trolling by Fleer. Pudge in a White Sox uniform at Fenway is a brutal reminder of Boston letting a legend walk.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

“Where have they been for the last four years when we’ve been trying to pass a congressional stock trading bill?”

After a Financial Times analysis examining President Trump’s stock portfolio revealed more than 3,700 trades in the first quarter of 2026 amounting to a cumulative value between $220 million and $750 million, Drop Site’s @JulianAndreone asked senators on Capitol Hill to weigh in on the president’s blatant lawlessness and brazen corruption.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

3/3. No matter what else is going on, the one predictable thing about any Trump policy is that he will find a way to prop up Putin and his fascist regime.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

2/2. Trump used the Iran War as a pretext to lift energy sanctions on Russia, and even personal sanctions on individual Russians. Does anyone expect those to be reimposed? Of course not.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

1/2. Notice that after losing the war Trump threatens his allies rather than Russia — even though Russia quite literally helped Iran defeat the US and he knows it.

[Megyn Kelly @megynkelly]

Sun, Rubio: “the Strait of Hormuz will reopen one way or another” (Al Jaz’ra)

Mon, Trump: “if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately 'Open for Business,' we will …blow up…all of [Iran’s] Electric Plants, Oil Wells & Kharg Island” (Tr. Soc)

Mon: “Trump tells aides he’s willing to end war without opening Hormuz” (wsj)

[Michael Martini @wxmath]

https://t.co/MGESXaFy5t

[Michael Martini @wxmath]

@GuntherEagleman @SenMarkKelly Not true. He never said lawful orders.

[Michael Martini @wxmath]

@SenAngusKing You caved, no spine. U really think the party of Trump will vote to extend Obamacare subsidies?

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Centrist Democrats in the Senate folded on the shutdown, throwing away their leverage in exchange for worthless GOP promises.

When will they learn that there is no center between a government of oligarchs and a government of the people?

[Nick Turse @nickturse]

President Donald Trump keeps saying he doesn’t know what his own administration is up to.

Three times in the last week, Trump responded to questions about his signature policies by expressing ignorance.
https://t.co/Ru6Y4R88iq

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Nearly 290,000 Palestinian children in Gaza on ‘the brink of death’ amid total Israeli blockade.

— in pictures https://t.co/dHuxm24L75