"A 25-page sales deck...makes the case for the creation of a new company to run Fifa’s commercial operations, 20% of which would be sold to Joshua Kushner, a US investor who is the brother of Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner." #woso www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Fifa’s sales pitch revealed: more tournaments, more debt … but no mention of women’s game

Fifa’s pitch to persuade members to approve sale of World Cup’s commercial rights includes more tournaments, higher ticket prices and debt financing

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The American Outlaws implore @ussoccer.com to reject the FIFA Forward proposal. Stand up to this gross overreach of greed. Protect our sport from those who think they can own it. #USMNT  #USWNT #FIFA #WorldCup #fansfirst

Mitch McConnell was moved to the maternity ward so he can be given blood transfusions from all of the newborns.

I just imagined John Wayne in one of the lead roles in Brokeback Mountain, maybe taking it from Heath Ledger like a champ, and then laughed out loud for a minute. His real name was Marion ffs

Heaps French flops not working in the NWSL

Randy Marsh: This Is America!

Alt: Randy Marsh: This Is America!

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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

The movie theater where Wepoma first ran into the mysterious no-eared girl. Yes her husband is an a-hole as well. She’s surrounded by a-holes in the beginning. #WIPSnips

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 2w ago

The #WIPSnips word for July 26th is "lobby" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The vast majority of our outlets are owned by right-wing billionaires and last night our most prominent political reporters spent an hour chuckling along with a clearly senile Republican president as he insulted them incoherently. Here's why our media has a liberal bias problem.

On this official day of remembrance in Illinois for Emmett Till, the site of his first childhood home, in Summit. His forebears migrated to the Chicago area from the South in the 1920s, attracted by a huge corn-processing plant that’s still alive and well. tillapp.emmett-till.org/items/show/24

Just a reminder that: Renee Good - murdered by ICE Alex Pretti - murdered by ICE White House - still protecting pedophiles That is all

My only #WIPsnips with the word double. TRIGGER WARNING for depiction of sexual harassment. Don’t worry, this scene is the turning point where she snaps anpours ice cold water on them and escapes this life.

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 2w ago

The #WIPSnips word for July 25th is "double" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

My wip. I feel like I suck at describing this subterranean lair.

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @ Megaplex C9@cometkins.bsky.social · 2w ago

Share a snippet from your book/wip featuring something blue! #WritingPrompt

Kind of sick of the Simpsons predicting the future

The Simpsons Play Soccer

Alt: The Simpsons boring soccer match

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Apparently Donald Trump just asked Infantino to punish the Spanish players for hurling insults at him but calmed down when it was explained to him "They're actually shouting "raPIDO", it's Spanish for "quick" Donald". 😊 #WORLDCUPFINAL #SPAARG

In my fantasies Justin Bieber is playing to a crowd of angry English soccer hooligans and is then never heard from again.

So does Messi play for the NWSL now? I did not turn on ABC right now to see his face another 500 times.

Eventually NWSL broadcasts will just be The View, with a little screen in the corner showing the actual pitch if you look hard enough.

In today’s episode of “Hitler was a pleasant dinner guest”

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse@whitehouse.senate.gov · 3w ago

I am stunned and saddened to hear the news this morning. Lindsey was a giant in the Senate. No one loved being a Senator more, or was more energetic. The Senate will be a lesser place without him. I’ve lost a dearly cherished friend.

SAS behind enemy lines in World War II Antifa is so violent #playmobil #toyphotography #figurephotography #sas #WWII #antifa #toysoldiers #diorama #fucknazis #punchnazis

If anyone was wondering how much drugs there were in the 70s, I present to you exhibit A

Canadian Tokusatsu Donald@rangerdonald.bsky.social · 4w ago

Far too late.

And so exits the only country that was actually having fun in this World Cup. Guess we’re back to the oligarchs sucking eachother off. Or maybe I’ll just stop watching. Idk Washington Spirit up by two so it’s actually a good night.

You will never unsee it

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The Republic and the Ballroom

Architecture, symbolism, and the personalization of power

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4fuxake@blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 4w ago

Exactly. Fuck the GOP for playing along!

Breaking: two GOP senators report talking with Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes today. They said they discussed how they don’t have knees or elbows, and how the people in Germany that made them have universal healthcare. #toyphotography #figurephotography #playmobil #seaturtle

Unconfirmed report that a #USDA office in California lost all its staff, so professional staff have to take turns cleaning the bathroom. American taxpayers you probably paid some gs-15 with at least a masters degree 60/hour to clean a toilet while screwworm is back.

I want less infantino soccer and more Mamdani soccer

Anumita Jain@ajsportstat.bsky.social · 4w ago

They did it again! #GothamFC and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced 4,000 $15 tickets to next week's historic Queens Classic game at Citi Field. #NWSL “The biggest events in our city should be affordable to the people who make this city run" - Mayor Mamdani www.allforxi.com/general/1595...

Everyone’s getting on the Norway bang wagon because past the fake peace prizes, the embarrassment of what president represents my country when we finally get to host, the vip boxes filled with the Epstein class… Norwegian players and fans are doing soccer right by just having fun. Also #abolishIce

hiebzky@hiebzky.bsky.social · 4w ago

"There is a version of their story that is just about football, about a team that beat the odds, and then there’s a better, quieter one. One where a small nation chose to let its children be children – to play, to wander between sports, to enjoy it." www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Great drawing of Siri Dokken of Norway, one of our absolute best.

“Travel and club programs have shifted the world’s most adaptable and economically accessible game into a sport of privilege in this country… several of the players — Gio Reyna, Sebastian Berhalter, Tim Weah and even Baltimore-born Alex Freeman to a degree — benefit from who their parents are.”

Kyle Goon@kylegoon.bsky.social · 4w ago

“The future is bright for U.S. Soccer.” It’s an empty line I’ve heard about the men’s national team for at least 24 years now. After an embarrassing loss to Belgium, it’s time to get real. The USMNT is stuck in place, and no one should feel proud of that: www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

My take is that this is where it inevitably leads when you let your team/company/school/org, even for a minute, be so committed to the 'nonpartisan' aura around you that you let the Guy Who Ruins Things make you an extension of his ego and corruption. The USWNT didn't have this problem in 2019.