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The first official World Cup Song of 2026 (featuring Jelly Roll and Carín León) is out! Its lyrics sure do scream “celebration of the power of sport and the global beauty of soccer”
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Kyle Turk
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Former sports editor @ghtribsports. Wrong today, tomorrow it’s someone else’s turn.
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The usual thing here would be for for FIFA and the host nation to reassure the participants that they will be safe. Instead, the Iran *football team* is told their life would be at threat if they come.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "The Iran National Soccer Team is welcome to The World Cup, but I really don’t believe it is appropriate that they be there, for their own life and safety. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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The point of calling a bombing campaign “not politically correct” is to make empathy itself illegitimate. Once mourning dead children is reframed as softness, there’s no floor. Anything can be justified as long as objecting to it can be painted as weakness.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Stephen Miller: "What you're seeing right now is a military under President Trump's leadership that's not fighting politically correct"
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Last week, the great @paulsen_smw made a very astute observation:
None of the photo wire services were at #1 UM vs. #3 Duke. How could that be?
What I uncovered was that they have been boycotting many high-profile neutral-site games all season.
awfulannouncing.com/college-basket…
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The US spent 70 years building a country optimized for cars instead of people. This is what that looks like at full resolution.
MetLife Stadium sits on 2.1 million square feet of parking. 28,000 spaces. The parking lots are larger than the stadium itself. The entire Meadowlands complex was purpose-built so that the only way a human being can reach it is inside a 4,000-pound metal box. The New Jersey State Police printed that sign because pedestrians were never part of the design.
And here’s where it gets interesting: the 2026 World Cup Final is being played at this stadium in five months. FIFA’s biggest event on Earth, hosted at a venue where walking is literally illegal. International fans from countries where you stroll to the stadium from a pub three blocks away are about to encounter a place where the nearest hotel requires a car to travel a distance you can see with your eyes.
The US has 700 million to 2 billion parking spaces. Eight parking spots for every car in the country. Parking lots cover more than 5% of all developed land, an area larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined. Minimum parking requirements forced every building, every stadium, every shopping center to dedicate more square footage to storing empty vehicles than to serving the humans inside. American cities didn’t accidentally become unwalkable. They were zoned that way.
During the recent Club World Cup at MetLife, only 12.5% of fans used public transit to reach the stadium. The other 87.5% drove. Now imagine that ratio flipping for the World Cup, when the majority of attendees will be international visitors without cars. NJ Transit is spending $100 million to try to move 20,000 people per hour through a single transfer point at Secaucus Junction, a system that already had door malfunctions and 13-minute delays during games with 29,000 fans. Scale that to 82,500.
The sign in this hotel lobby is American car culture in a single frame: we built the richest country on Earth, then made it illegal to walk across it.
Melian Refugee@escapefrommelos
genuinely horrific and dystopian
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Zohran Mamdani proved that Gen-Z wants to be talked to like actual adults and not just won over with shitty memes, the dnc’s response to that is an account with 67 in the @
Headquarters@HQNewsNow
Welcome to Headquarters, the new Gen-Z led progressive content hub.
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#poll Do you only do good things so that people will acknowledge the good things that you’re doing?
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The owner of The Washington Post has a superyacht worth an estimated $500+ million.
Max Tani@maxwelltani
According to an internal email to Washington Post sports staff, the paper isn't sending any reporters to cover the winter Olympics next month. The decision comes as major layoffs are expected in the coming weeks.
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Stellan Skarsgard uses his Golden Globes speech to advocate for movie theaters:
“In a cinema, where the lights go down and eventually you share the pulse with other people, that is magic. Cinema should be seen in cinemas”
See the full winners list: bit.ly/GlobeWins26
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They kept the paywall up for a story about shutting down the newspaper.
post-gazette.com/local/city/202…
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Wow it’s almost like they sacrificed some of their best tennis analysts to chase sparkly objects and eyeballs!
ESPN PR@ESPNPR
ESPN announces commentator lineup for the 2026 #AusOpen - with @malika_andrews joining the team Details: bit.ly/49iReqZ
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These morons in the White House are doing the bidding of Putin by alienating America from our strongest Allies and alliances, thereby weakening the coalition that has stood in Russia's way.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
TAPPER: Can you rule out that the US is going to take Greenland by force? STEPHEN MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO. TAPPER: So you can't take military force off the table? MILLER: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over the future of Greenland.
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Trump sets his military operation in Venezuela to the soundtrack of "Fortunate Son," a song about how the people who start wars are not the ones who pay its costs, it's ordinary working-class Americans who fight and die and pay the price
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
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I love how people are conditioned to believe that the owners of a $9 billion football team need 10 digits of taxpayer money for a shiny new toy, and not handing it over wrapped in a bow is somehow negligence by the government.
ArtDopeDealer 🎨@SeeMid_Tweet
Tell @JBPritzker and the state to get they shit together. It’s not Kevin nor the Bears fault with this crap.
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I remember going to Italy-Mexico with my dad at RFK Stadium in 1994.
Going to World Cup games is going to be a defining experience...for the people who can afford it. No chance we were getting in at these prices.
The Athletic | Football@TheAthleticFC
The resale price of tickets to 2026 World Cup games involving Portugal and Argentina jumped by an average of nearly 300 per cent in the hours after Friday’s World Cup draw and Saturday’s schedule release. Before Friday, with matchups not yet known, the “get-in price” — the cost of the cheapest ticket — for the June 27 match at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, was less than $400. On Saturday afternoon, less than an hour after FIFA announced that the game would be Portugal vs Colombia, the get-in price spiked above $2,000. Hours later, it nearly hit $3,000, then settled in around $2,200. It is now the fourth-most expensive ticket of the tournament, behind only the World Cup final and semifinals, on the secondary market. More from @HenryBushnell ⬇️ 🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/68708…
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Talk to ‘em Marquette!
The New York Times@nytimes
From @TheAthletic: Marquette King, only the fifth Black punter in NFL history, carved out a distinct persona at a position known for anonymity. That may be why he was gone from the league just six years later. “I’m definitely blackballed.” nyti.ms/4oahbgn
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@KyleWood54 I’ve heard McGonigle might not have the defense for short at big league level. Sounds like he could be more like Keith, 2B/3B type.
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