Wim Ponnet
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The US world cup being a total failure as a result of Trump's unpopularity and FIFA's greed feels fucking fantastic actually.
Andrea Junker@Strandjunker
FIFA is panicking: World Cup hotel cancellations are surging as global fans ditch the U.S., citing soaring costs, visa bonds, and Trump’s dictatorial behavior. Turns out nobody wants to pay $1,000 a night just to experience an authoritarian simulation.
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I thank all reporters who are working under constant threat in order to tell the truth to the world. This helps us defend life. I thank German first television ARD and all German media who are present on the ground in Ukraine for their dedicated work and fact-based reporting.
Vassili Golod@VassiliGolod
Die Ukraine hat einen der massivsten russischen Luftangriffe durchlebt. Hunderte Drohnen, Dutzende Raketen, Tote, Verletzte, heftige Zerstörung. Druckwellen haben auch das ARD-Studio Kyjiw erreicht. Unser Team ist zum Glück unverletzt. Die Statik des Gebäudes muss geprüft werden.
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Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk after her first-round victory at Roland-Garros, defeating Russian-born Oksana Selekhmeteva, who now represents Spain, 6–2, 6–3.
“It was one of the most difficult matches of my career. This morning, 100 meters away from my parents' house, the missile destroyed the building and it was very difficult morning for me. I didn't know how this match is gonna turn around for me. I didn't know how I will handle it. I've been crying part of the morning, and I'm…You know, I don't wanna talk about myself today. I'm obviously very pleased to be in the second round, but all my thoughts and all my heart goes to people of Ukraine today. Thank you so much for coming out. Thank you. Slava Ukraini!” - Ukrainian tennis player on Sunday, May 24, 2026.
Russian-born Oksana Selekhmeteva was playing her first match under the Spanish flag after switching her sporting nationality earlier this week.
Marta Kostyuk did not shake hands with her opponent, in line with the long-standing practice among Ukrainian players of not shaking hands with Russian or Belarusian athletes.
The French Open is taking place at Stade Roland-Garros in Paris.
The clay-court Grand Slam runs from May 24 through June 7.
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This man robbed a bank for $1, sat down and waited for the police, just to get free healthcare in prison
In 2011 a man named Richard James Verone walked into a RBC Bank in Gastonia, North Carolina
Handed the teller a note demanding $1
One dollar
Then sat down in the lobby and waited calmly for police to arrive
He was 59. No job. No insurance. A growth on his chest. Two ruptured discs.
Calculated that a federal conviction would guarantee him full medical coverage inside prison
The judge sentenced him to 3 years
He got the surgery
He got the treatment
He told reporters on the way out he had no regrets
A 59 year old American man robbed a bank for $1 because it was cheaper than seeing a doctor
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Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

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GREAT nomination & well deserved too!
The 'draft dodger' currently in the Oval
Office probably won't be pleased with
Zelensky's @NobelPrize nomination? 🤷♀️
So, please do NOT share, got it? 😉
Wave a 🇺🇦 flag if you stand with Ukraine
and Zelensky! 🙏 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

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