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Why Switzerland joined Trump-friendly FIFA to fund mini pitches in Palestine Switzerland and FIFA are building mini pitches for children in Palestine, despite continued violence and humanitarians struggling to meet people's basic needs.

George Orwell said "if you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever."
On the plus side, FIFA will be only too happy to stick some football pitches in the background.

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I spoke with CNNi's Linda Kinkade about how the FIFA greed machine is revving up ahead of the 2026 World Cup

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Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

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Standard website transfers to Independent with more than 30 staff leaving The Independent has completed a "long-term" deal to run the digital operations and print advertising of The Standard.

The Evening Standard employed 364 journalists and staff when Lebedev bought it for £1 in 2009.

It now has 16

pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/r...

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Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

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LIV Golf insists season will go ahead ‘at full throttle’ amid doubts over future LIV Golf has insisted the tour intends to continue ‘uninterrupted and at full throttle’ this season amid claims its Saudi Arabian backers will imminently withdraw

#cans ?

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

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Det er ingen grenser for FIFA-presidenten.

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Loans from a UAE bank were funnelled into the Libyan war effort "likely including payments to Russia’s Wagner Group". More brilliant investigative work from @thesentryorg.bsky.social

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Dimitrios Psarrakis was the business partner, co-author and, for eight years, parliamentary researcher of Eva Kaili, the Greek MEP arrested in 2022 in a huge corruption investigation involving MEPs being paid to praise Qatar's human rights record ahead of the 2022 World Cup.

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Meet the new boss - josimarfootball.com Twenty-four hours after Josimar revealed that Fifa’s new “prediction market” partner ADI was run by a man accused of insider trading, the Abu Dhabi firm appointed a CEO linked to ‘Qatargate’, one of the biggest lobbying scandals in the history of the EU Parliament.

On Monday, we revealed that the overseer of Fifa's newest sponsor had paid a six-figure sum to settle insider trading allegations. Today, we reveal that the company's newly appointed CEO has close ties to the MEP at the heart of the Qatargate corruption scandal...
josimarfootball.com/2026/04/09/m...

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They’re still looking for potential survivors trapped under the rubble in Tallet El Khayat Beirut after the Israeli strike that levelled an entire building

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There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon.

You are being lied to

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Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

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White House wants FIFA to change transgender policy, with Women's World Cup guarantees on the line

NEW @theathleticfc.bsky.social

White House wants FIFA to follow lead of IOC by issuing policy to bar transgender women from professional women’s soccer — with Trump yet to sign off on required government guarantees for US-led bid to host Women’s World Cup in 2031.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/717...

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Inside Deal - josimarfootball.com Ahead of the World Cup, Fifa has signed a prediction market partner. But the company, ADI Predictstreet, which is backed by the Abu Dhabi royal family, has no working product yet, is unlicensed in alm...

FIFA's new "prediction market partner":
- backed by UAE royal family
- no working product
- unlicensed in most jurisdictions
- run by a man credibly accused of insider trading

👏 @uglygame.bsky.social @philippeauclair.bsky.social @samindrakunti.bsky.social
josimarfootball.com/2026/04/06/i...

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FIFA World Cup 2026: In Trump’s America, nothing can be ruled out While thousands of reporters prepare to cover the FIFA World Cup, concerns grow over the Trump administration’s crackdown on critics and foreigners. Nick Harris from Sporting Intelligence takes a clos...

By @sportingintel.bsky.social

With some input from both @ncgeehan.bsky.social and Kunti.

www.playthegame.org/news/fifa-wo...

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How Israel is destroying healthcare infrastructure in southern Lebanon Israel's attacks on hospitals, medical centres and healthcare workers are fuelling displacement and a health crisis.

How Israel is destroying healthcare infrastructure in southern Lebanon

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

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Dubai is like catnip to the British far-right

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‘Amazing’: how to grow a meadow in the sea Vibrant seagrass meadows once flourished around the UK but most have been destroyed. Now, communities and scientists are working to restore them

‘Amazing’: how to grow a meadow in the sea

- Vibrant #seagrass meadows once flourished around the UK but most have been destroyed. Now, communities and scientists are working to restore them

@projectseagrass.bsky.social
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Important to point out that Jesus was never legally classed as a sexual predator nor was he ever fined for tax fraud.

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IPCC: ‘Frustrating and disappointing’ meeting leaves AR7 timeline in deadlock - Carbon Brief Governments are still at loggerheads over the timeline for publishing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

Saudi Arabia, Russia and others yet again blocking progress on climate science ...

> IPCC: ‘Frustrating and disappointing’ meeting leaves AR7 timeline in deadlock

#climatecrisis
@carbonbrief.org
www.carbonbrief.org/ipcc-frustra...

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Am not an energy analyst but why does seem every interview with a U.K. minister this week included a pointed question about why not drilling more in North Sea and almost none about renewables/net zero as an energy security imperative?

It’s bizarre, frankly

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Global: FIFA and World Cup hosts must prevent tournament becoming a threat to fans and communities Millions of football fans attending the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the USA risk coming face to face with troubling attacks on human rights, not least those stemming from abusive a...

"The USA under President Trump ... is facing a human rights emergency marked by discriminatory immigration policies, mass detentions and arbitrary arrests by masked, armed agents"

Somebody needs to remind @amnesty.org that Football Unites the World.

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

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Academic publishing is a massive scam that impoverishes academics.

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Talked with a fellow barrister ther night abt other barristers using AI to do first draft of judicial review grounds. And we were like…. “Why?” It’s our job (privilege, pleasure) to analyse that problem, formulate that argument. Why would you want a machine to attempt that first?

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Last year, Entergy received approval to build three natural gas plants that will generate about 2.3 gigawatts of electricity for Meta’s data center in Louisiana. The utility also applied to connect even more gas generation to the power grid in Louisiana to meet increasing demand.
Hyperion will have about 5 gigawatts of computing power, with the remaining gigawatts used to power the broader campus, according to a Meta spokesperson. The seven new gas plants will need to be approved by state regulators.
The agreement between the companies includes a Meta commitment to help fund up to 2.5 gigawatts of new renewable resources as well as a memorandum of understanding to explore future development and use of nuclear power.
Read More: Entergy Aims to Build More Gas in Wake of Meta’s Big Data Center
— With assistance from Edwin Chan

Last year, Entergy received approval to build three natural gas plants that will generate about 2.3 gigawatts of electricity for Meta’s data center in Louisiana. The utility also applied to connect even more gas generation to the power grid in Louisiana to meet increasing demand. Hyperion will have about 5 gigawatts of computing power, with the remaining gigawatts used to power the broader campus, according to a Meta spokesperson. The seven new gas plants will need to be approved by state regulators. The agreement between the companies includes a Meta commitment to help fund up to 2.5 gigawatts of new renewable resources as well as a memorandum of understanding to explore future development and use of nuclear power. Read More: Entergy Aims to Build More Gas in Wake of Meta’s Big Data Center — With assistance from Edwin Chan

It's really difficult to properly express how nuts this is. Meta's 2.2 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel plant was already world-leading bad. Now they're adding 5.2 EXTRA gigawatts on top. So SEVEN NEW FOSSIL FUEL PLANTS for one data centre.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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U.S. 2031 Women’s World Cup bid waiting on Trump guarantees while host cities want better deal FIFA has not yet received crucial Trump government guarantees around the 2031 bid from the U.S., Costa Rica, Mexico and Jamaica

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Approval of U.S.-led bid to host Women’s World Cup in 2031 was postponed in significant part because… Trump’s White House has not provided required govt guarantees to FIFA & host cities want much better terms than 2026.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/715...

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Things I have seen in the rubble of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon over the past week, part two.
More up here: www.instagram.com/p/DWYXD0Rjak...
At least 1,116 people have been killed since March 2, incl 121 children, acc to min of health. At least 3,229 have been injured, incl 399 children.

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2 FIFA Rulings on Israel, 1 Familiar Deference to MAGA The world’s soccer governing body reminded fans what its theoretical commitment to “neutrality” means in practice: siding with the genocidaire.

My latest w/ @edgeofsports.bsky.social: FIFA just released a pair of highly anticipated decisions regarding Israel & Palestine. Taken together, they're an obscene abdication of FIFA’s own statutes & its publicly stated commitment to human rights. For @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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