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[Kay @Xay_Dot]

A Very Mindful Summer 2024 ☀️

[𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚 @beyoncegarden]

OH HE ACTUALLY ATE THAT SO BAD OMFG😭🥹

[21 @21metgala]

Aniya Harvey at Variety Power of Young Hollywood 2026.

[Dispropaganda @Dispropoganda]

I fixed the Odyssey.

[Jerri McCollum @okieforlife46]

@BlackIshgvm The husband 🤣🤣

[Luis Gonzales @Lagbar28]

@FearedBuck Mamdani on the 8th day of his administration delivered universal childcare.

Kuzma in the 8th year of pro basketball experience played the most minutes of a starter in NBA playoff history without contributing a single counting stat to his team.

The pose is the product.

[Charles J. Moore @charles270]

I was waiting to see why y’all are mad…and then I yelled out a slur.

[Kay @Xay_Dot]

@GollumEnGros @ActuFoot_ @footmercato 😂😂😂

[JUAN⭐️ @TEJUANx]

This photo shoot ?

[KYLE 🖕🏽 @thekillakay_]

Nigga hate the begging hoes 💀💀

[B @utdbrxy]

spanish version of “we dont have the capacity”

[365⚽️ @Analyst_365]

😭

[Rebecca @abcdrih]

They really said ALL Africans.... out! This is a whites only WC! 😭😭😭

[olayiwola 🇳🇬🇵🇹 @0LUWATIMILEY1N]

bro. KC had melanie’s back in one of the most important moments in her and sincere tumultuous relationship… and she still treated KC like that bc of aniya? the same aniya who’s been playing double agent bc she’s friends with sincere? #WOMEN

[EL Tebza🇲🇽 @CertfiedBroken]

The hotel where Morocco slept at realising their towels are missing 😭

[⚡️🇧🇼 @Priceless_MCI]

Haaland has no idea what he has done for football twitter

[KFC France @KFCFrance]

pour des raisons évidentes, aucune serviette ne sera disponible dans nos restaurants aujourd’hui.

[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.

[Attah Akor @attah_akor]

Nobody:

Rhaenyra in episode 3: