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No one expected what scientists just found inside an 'impossible' crystal formed in the heart of a nuclear blast. thedebrief.org/scientists-loo…

@VillArchie7_2 @slackson1 @Biggies_MaIIs For exactly the same thing he got the 1st yellow for. Look - Liverpool were rubbish, again. Deserved defeat etc etc but -come on.

@slackson1 @Biggies_MaIIs For what exactly Lee?

Martinez nearly ripped Van Dijk’s shirt off there and they just cleared it and moved on in seconds 🤣

@Nick_Dampier1 @RedgemTree @SkyNews @BethRigby Or maybe it was £5million?

@RedgemTree @SkyNews @BethRigby Maybe the thousands of people begging him to stand in Clacton when he visited the area months before...

"We had a very terse exchange on this issue" Having spoken to Nigel Farage last week on the £5 Million donation from Billionaire Christopher Harborne, Sky's @BethRigby says it is now politically 'very difficult' for Farage and there could be 'big consequences'

@jambags @PhilBlundell Like MacAllister’s handball goal at Forest

@PhilBlundell I love where they say “it looks like handball on one clip but inconclusive on another”, yep, that’s what different angles will do, usually you go with finding the conclusive one n goin with that, not needing more!

Despite the Portuguese's insistence that he is not personally speaking to the Spanish giants while Benfica’s season is still alive, work is going on behind the scenes on his behalf with the intention to make a move happen, Sky Sports News understands.

@SkySportsNews Today he realised what a tough job it is when the decision went for his team. When it went against him it was a disgrace.

"Today I have realised how big and difficult a referee's job is" Mikel Arteta on the importance of the refereeing decision in Arsenal's win over West Ham United 🔴

@MiguelDelaney Dermot Gallagher say the officials were right. Rinse and repeat. Every week.

Dublin’s Dermot Gallagher saying Rice would have been a foul but the foul on Raya was first.

@bbctms Sounds like Vaughan hasn’t got the job then

Former captain Michael Vaughan says it is "ridiculous" England are yet to appoint their new national selector, after Luke Wright announced he was stepping down earlier in the year 🗣️

@SkySportsNews Is it Trump’s ?

"It is a joke, no one is going to pay that" There is one ticket for sale on the official World Cup resale platform for the final at $11.5m (£8.5m) 💰

@OptaJoe @ChampionsLeague Man Utd - 1968-1999 ?

20 - Arsenal have reached the @ChampionsLeague final for the first time since 2006 – the longest period between European Cup/CL finals by a team in the competition since Atlético Madrid in 2014 (40 years), and longest by an English side since Liverpool in 2005 (also 20). Slate.

@SkyFootball It’s like the footballing version of the Golden Girls

Inter Miami have become 'strong contenders' to sign Manchester United's Casemiro on a free this summer ☀️

@SkySportsNews Not Dermot backing up a wrong decision by VAR 😱 whoever would have thunk it ?

@RoryFitz9 @ColumFromCork @headedforhades @SuperBowl3n @Debo4606 @rahunt9296 @ndblair @tmalva03 @niall_o_oconnor @kajco33 @sgoldy99 Yeah - the initial post reminded me of a pic of my dog.

@Cobsy @ColumFromCork @headedforhades @SuperBowl3n @Debo4606 @rahunt9296 @ndblair @tmalva03 @niall_o_oconnor @kajco33 @sgoldy99 A timely shot Cobs

Dog thread!

@TheBelfastRed @henrywinter Shhhh

@henrywinter They are playing with zero pressure on them and once every week, completely different next season.

Michael Carrick has restored Manchester United to the Champions League. He has restored hope and pride. He has just won a huge game against ancient rivals. Carrick now has 10 wins, two draws and only two defeats in 14 games in charge. A team that bordered on a distressed asset … looking a force again. An academy that could have worried about the pathway for prospects being blocked…have hope again. A fanbase frustrated by a team drifting … energised again. A club together again, Manchester United. As job auditions go, Michael Carrick could hardly have done much more. Deserves the job. United have tried bigger names and not fared as well. Carrick wants the job. He cares about the club. He has good coaches like Steve Holland supporting him. It’s Carrick, you know how hard he’ll work to make it work. #MUNLIV

@StevenD55688422 @punjiam @xGPhilosophy That’s exactly what it means - as per the laws of the game

@punjiam @xGPhilosophy It does graze his hand doesn’t mean it should be ruled out tho

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@MileHighScot21 @alvinfoo Utter bollocks

@Cobsy @alvinfoo Bollocks

This speech will go down as one of the best written and spoken by Jeff Daniel. These words are as important and as relevant today as when he said them.

@MileHighScot21 @alvinfoo

@alvinfoo Canada, the UK and so many other countries are not even close to free. There is no free speech and you get jailed for making Facebook posts. Just stop the bullshit lies.

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue. On April 21st, the left screen moved first. I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug. At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy. On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me. At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire. Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83. I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags. My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports. The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026: Reviewed. That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. Let me show you my flags. March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it. March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it. April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it. April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it. April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it. That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one. The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March. Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012. Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence. Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets. The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade. I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email. The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action. One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared. One account is a coincidence. But there were six. Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000. My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger. March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes. The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event. The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting." Then the White House sent the email again. I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread. I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated. But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed. Zero prosecutions. As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations. The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still. In my field, we call this price discovery.

😡 "That was disgusting." 😳 "I'm embarrassed by that performance." 🤬 "I'm ashamed of that. Gutless." Jason Cundy was furious after Chelsea's loss to Brighton 🍿 🔥