JP Quinn
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@AttackingCB
Football analytics stuff. Mathematician.
NEW: MBTA confirm $80 return ticket Boston to Gillette Stadium during World Cup, after @TheAthleticFC first reported it would be over $75. Quadruple the usual price for NFL games. No concessions for kids, over-60s or passengers with accessibility needs nytimes.com/athletic/71501…
We are witnessing society collapse in front of our eyes. They know the police won't do anything to stop them. I'm not even shocked anymore. I'm angry.
The other day we were on a cruise and our grandson rang asking for a bit of money. He's just started at the NHS full time, earns £28,000 a year. That's what we paid for our house. I said love, if you're earning a whole house a year and still struggling, that's not a money problem, that's a discipline problem. I'd help but I'm afraid of spoiling the boy. Our neighbour David was a doctor for 35 years, never complained once. Five rental properties now. Lovely man. I just hope the boy sorts his finances out. If we keep bailing them out they'll never learn
JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
@peet2 Just screen recorded my experience so feel free to scrub around. I find it very hard to believe A) Mass amounts of people are paying $1.5-3k for Nosebleeds in 60k+ Seat Stadiums B) A game like Ecuador v Curaçao (6:32 in) has sold out and that hard to get into.
In a week where an #SAFC player was racially abused, the news of a political leader who has embraced demonisation and hugely divisive language being invited to the club is an awful look. Even if it happened a while ago. Part-owner has put #SAFC in a very uncomfortable position.
Nigel Farage is challenged by Senior Political Correspondent Paul McNamara over Reform UK's promises to voters, as his party launched its campaign for May's local elections.
Women Rights Activists, Human Rights Activists, Journalists and anyone who speaks against the draconian laws of Saudi Arabia, are taken locked up, tortured and in many cases put to death. There is no free speech, no freedom of movement and all the laws are vague on purpose. Our voices will rise above and change is coming, we must continue to speak when and where we can!! #womenlifefreedom #أنا_ولية_أمري #المملكة_العربية_السعودية #SaudiArabia #EndMaleGuardianship #HumanRightsForAll #womensrights #progressforksa #triumph #middleeastunrest #Saudi_Arabia
