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Then they donate over $130 million to Tennessee. Literally stealing from Ohio to give to another state
Field of Schemes@fieldofschemes.bsky.social · 2mo agoBrook Park offering Browns owner Jimmy Haslam added sales and property tax breaks (total value TBD, but at least $100m) before a stadium has even been built is a pretty extreme example of the Grift That Keeps on Giving.
Telemundo TV commentator: "We are one of the only networks in the world to not show ads during the World Cup cooling breaks. We prefer the old school way. We should be able to see what the players do. We show fans, people enjoying, not the corporate direction of football."
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If FIFA did, for some reason, regularly give out a Peace Prize, you’d think #1 on the list of criteria for potential winners would be “do not start a war with another nation in the World Cup, directly before the start of the World Cup”
Adam Bonin@adambonin.bsky.social · 6mo agoIran has two FIFA World Cup matches in LA and one in Seattle. The first is 107 days from now.
It should be bigger news that Leslie Wexner, the person most responsible for Jeffrey Epstein's wealth and entrée into circles of power, is currently ducking a subpoena in a case brought by victims of sexual assault by an Ohio State doctor which occurred while Wexner was on the OSU board of trustees.
76% of politically motivated shootings and extremist-related killings in the U.S. over the past decade were of a right-wing nature. Left-wing motivated shootings were roughly 3%. So, both sides do it.