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I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management. Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ... The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too. That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site. Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices. Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.

This is a spent Chinese Long March 3B rocket body, imaged by a Vantor WorldView Legion satellite from 88 km away. The image quality is not simply about range. It reflects the strength of Vantor’s advanced WorldView constellation and high-performance imaging hardware, which enable detailed observation of objects in orbit. It’s a powerful example of Vantor’s NEI tasking through our WorldView Space product line: using high-resolution satellites to look out into space and capture detailed imagery of objects in orbit. Why does that matter? Most tracking systems can show where an object is. WorldView Space NEI helps show what it is, its structure, orientation, condition, and potential risk. It can also support Movement Analysis, helping operators understand whether an object is intact, tumbling, spinning, or otherwise changing behavior over time. That level of detail is especially important for large rocket bodies like this one. They are big, long-lived debris objects that share orbits with critical infrastructure, including communications, Earth observation, weather, science, and national security satellites. A single collision involving an intact rocket stage can create thousands of new fragments, increasing risk across already crowded orbital regions. As launch activity accelerates, we need to understand not just where objects are in space, but what they are, how they are moving, and how they may behave over time.

This is GLORIOUS David Letterman & Stephen Colbert on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theatre bringing back the classic @Letterman routine one last time This is how you go out, @StephenAtHome! 😂 And may @CBS implode literally the same way without you

Musk blames the regulators for the delay in deploying Tesla Robotaxis in California but the real robotaxi companies don't seem to have a problem getting the permits that Tesla hasn't even applied for yet.

District Judge Darrin P. Gayles, in a 17-page decision today, entirely dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by U.S. President Donald J. Trump against the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch, CEO Robert Thomson and reporters Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo, for their reporting on a creepy letter he purportedly wrote to commemorate the 50th birthday of convicted sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.

Help save the wayback machine. wired.com/story/the-internet…

David Zaslav will receive $887M as compensation for the Paramount/Warner Bros merger. Meanwhile, thousands of people are expected to lose their jobs in layoffs after the merger closes. (Source: Deadline)

It’s assuming the worst of your viewer, and so much of good TV sort of assumes the best of its viewer": David Sims discusses how Netflix helped usher in a new era of streaming shows made to be watched while doomscrolling. theatln.tc/aAtcvaOA

SCOOP: New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had a years-long business tie w/ the sex offender. This challenges his claim he had minimal contact with Epstein. The two were involved in a deal for six years, and an email shows they discussed it. motherjones.com/politics/202…

Miami-Ohio was bananalands for Jack Hughes’ Gold Medal OT winner @BrickStOxford

Brick Street in Oxford, OH reaction Jack Hughes’ USA Gold Medal OT winner 🎥 @BrickStOxford

a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope" (John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)

Republicans says they believe in voter ID, but when one of their own got caught in the snare, what happened? Donald Trump endorsed him. I give you the curious case of John Wahl.

Hey @AGPamBondi....This you hangin' out with Keith Frankel? The same Keith Frankel who's referenced in the Epstein files talking with Jeffrey Epstein about "body boxes" on 2/10/2010? The same Keith Frankel who's family runs a "children's home" that "rescues" children from Ukraine? The same Ukraine referenced in the files as being a hot bed for child sex trafficking? Do the Epstein victims you claim to represent know that you're buddies with one of their abusers? I do.

Fun fact if you ever want to beat the automated help lines for FedEx or UPS— tell the AI that a driver ran over your dog and it immediately forwards you to a person

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RT @wjcarter: The rise of Fox and its even more bent competitors underscores this point which I think can be summed up: conservatives are n…

As Trump raged about Jay Powell at the end of 2018, Epstein emails Bannon: "getting rid of powell much more important than syria/mattis" (Mattis had resigned two days earlier) Bannon responds: "Can u get rid of Powell or really get rid of mnuchin" File: justice.gov/epstein/files/Da…

A reminder that the largest cuts in Medicaid's history were made by this Congress in part to fund a tripling of ICE/DHS budget.