Manchester City, still awaiting a verdict on charges they broke Premier League rules for a decade, have equalled the British transfer record by signing Enzo Fernandez for 125m pounds. They've now spent more than 300m pounds on three new midfielders this window. Man City deny wrongdoing.

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

We just dropped our newest ad — and this one’s special. It features my PawPaw — a Baptist preacher who taught me to follow the two great commandments: love God & love neighbor. Those teachings led me to public service and they’re why I’m running for the U.S. Senate.

This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 3w ago

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

God already built a wall through Big Bend — it's called the Chisos Mountains. We don't need to give billions of our tax dollars to out of state vendors. We don't need to desecrate this sacred land. We don't need this useless, disgraceful, corrupt Big Bend border wall.

James Talarico’s rally in Pasadena, TX hit capacity and needed overflow seating 👀

Look here, another place to chat all things Austin FC!

Joyce saying it's Barcola or Mbaye, Theo Squires saying they're considered independent, hmm #LFC

I mean I hate shirt pulling any time but to do it in a pre season friendly? Pathetic

Good.

Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · last mo.

"No UEFA national teams will participate in any FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain alive, unless this proposal has been abandoned in its entirety and binding assurances have been given that FIFA will never again open its governance or competitions to private ownership".

Bennie Moreno is making a scene so the SEOs pick this up instead of the fact he did absolutely nothing against his former son in law that burned his daughter with scalding hot water and likely broke his two year old granddaughters collarbone

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

Exclusive @TheAthleticFC Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin writes to FIFA’s Infantino to request he appear before the House Judiciary Committee & provide all of his and FIFA’s records of contacts with Trump, his administration and Trump family business by Aug 9. www.nytimes.com/athletic/747...

Infantino requested to appear before House committee over Trump relationship

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1989: Margaret Thatcher, "Water privatisation I believe will go very successfully indeed. It will go very successfully indeed" 2026: BBC News, "Both terminals at the UK's second busiest airport, Gatwick, are without running water.. Toilets can't be flushed"

Lil Nashville trip to watch the Reds with the fam and celebrate turning 50.

The ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo looks more and more like a cold-blooded murder.

🚨DON HUFFINES & GREG ABBOT PLAN TO PURGE “NON-CHRISTIAN” TEXAS STATE EMPLOYEES. Yet another reason why I’ll never buy a car from any dealership owned by billionaire @DonHuffines or his family. #TxLege SOURCE: quorumreport.com//

How are we gonna erase this World Cup from our memories?

Men in Blazers Media Network@meninblazers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Spain or Argentina will receive championship rings as World Cup winners, the first time FIFA has handed out such jewelry. The rings are a nod to American sports tradition, according to the organization.

Hehehe

Phil lost the game in the headline 2-0 and was fired the next week

The VAR shows clearly that he jumped in the air without any contact at all… textbook embellishment aka a ridiculous dive. They showed it a bunch of times. Good for the ref. You may not like Argentina, but the VAR revealed a clear dive. #WorldCup

Lol England win because the refs missed a call that every indoor ref calls every evening

Norway's goal kick hit the spider cam wire which knocked it down and led to England's goal

Just like 1966 technology failed to notice the English cheating

As expected England getting pretty much all the calls like Argentina the other day. FIFA gotta get their stars to the final rounds

Flopland.

Bellingham, Kane, Gordon all flopping.

“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

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NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.

The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...

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We have now been told altitude is all in your mind

Happy 10th anniversary of this essay about the dangers of Donald Trump, written by... JD Vance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Opioid of the Masses (From 2016)

To many, Donald Trump feels good, but he can’t fix America’s growing social and cultural crisis, and the eventual comedown will be harsh.

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