"It's 100% a red card for Lionel Messi. It should've been." Ale Moreno and Nedum Onuoha react to Messi's challenge against Algeria's Aïssa Mandi.

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41 years old. 973 goals. 37 trophies. The passion remains, an inspiration.

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RT @HFI_Research: One of the interesting dilemmas facing the oil market today is that even if the Strait of Hormuz opens fully tomorrow, th…

We are Real Madrid. Until the end.

CM? No problem. DM? No problem. AM? No problem. RB? No problem. RW? No problem. ST? No problem. Fede Valverde for you. @PolymarketSport

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If we don’t explain science to the public, others will fill the gap with nonsense.

The Rules Of Perception. "If they’re Black, then it’s a gang; if they’re Italian, then it’s a mob; but if they’re Jewish... it’s a coincidence, and you should neeeeeeeever speak about it." - Dave Chappelle, SNL #EpsteinFiles

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The way he looked back before leaving it all.. 🥺

For centuries, monarchs ruled Persia. Then in 1921, a military officer named Reza Khan seized power with British cash. By 1925, he crowned himself King: Reza Shah Pahlavi. The Pahlavis ruled the country. But the British ruled Iranian oil. By 1950, Iran was pumping 660,000 barrels a day (7% of global supply). Almost all the revenue went to London. Iran got pennies. Enter "Mossy." After the Shah abdicated during WW2 (UK and Soviets took over), a democratic window opened. In 1951, the Iranian parliament elected Mohammad ("Mossy") Mosaddegh. Mossy was a character. He ran the state from his bedroom, wearing pajamas. He was so fascinating that Time Magazine named him "Man of the Year" in 1951 (beating Churchill and Eisenhower). But then he committed an unforgivable sin: He nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) to take back control of Iranian oil revenue from the British. He became a Western pariah overnight. The CIA was on a post-WW2 roll installing new governments here and there. To help out the British, in 1953 the CIA launched Operation Ajax, led by Kermit Roosevelt (Teddy's grandson), to overthrow Mossy. Toppling the new Iranian democracy turned out to be surprisingly easy. The CIA reinstated the Shah. The oil company AIOC whose main revenue was Iranian oil was rebranded as British Petroleum (BP). For the next 25 years, a consortium (40% BP, 40% US oil majors - a little kicker for the CIA Shah reinstallation) once again drained Iranian oil revenues. The Shah was a puppet. He used his secret police (SAVAK) to keep the strings attached. Iranians wanted change. Unfortunately Mossy was long gone. So a 1979 revolution ousted the Shah, only for an even more extremist ayatollah to fill the Shah-shaped power vacuum. Today, in 2026, Iranians know that the ayatollah is just the Shah with a different hat. They know that this time Iran doesn't need another Shah. It needs another Mossy.

I hate the Iranian regime too, but it's up to Iranian people to decide how they want to deal with it. It's not up to Israel or the US to decide. Anna, as always, tells the facts, bang on.

Israel doesn't want a democratic Iran. Its interests are served by chaos. Brilliant from @tparsi

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Déjà vu.

It's really cool seeing a real Portuguese from Portugal speak about Ronaldo, and not some Argentinian Portuguese or English Portuguese. Ronaldo is Portugal, and Portugal is Ronaldo.

India with 7,500 km of coastline still spends 75% of its vacation budget in the hills Hill states like Uttarakhand and Himachal attract over 7.5 Crore domestic visitors annually, while Goa and Kerala together draw under 3 Crore This bias was engineered two centuries ago. When the British came to India, they came from London’s 18 °C summers to a country where the Gangetic plains routinely hit 40–45°C by April and stayed that way till the monsoon Humidity in Calcutta averaged 80–85%, and in Delhi, hot winds called loo made the outdoors uninhabitable There were no air conditioners, no electric fans, and no deep plumbing for running water. As a result, the British were dying from heat and disease. The mortality rates among Europeans in the Bengal Presidency in the 1820s–40s were 20–30% annually, with cholera, malaria, and heatstroke rampant To survive, they went uphill to create "hill sanatoria” By the mid-1800s, the Empire had built towns from scratch in the clouds. Shimla, Ooty, Darjeeling, Mount Abu, all were between 6,000 and 8,000 ft and all averaging 20–25 °C when the plains touched 45 °C. Then came the infrastructure They engineered entire routes to it, like the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (1881), the Kalka–Shimla line (1903), the Nilgiri Mountain Railway (1908), with their tunnels and bridges All to take the administration far from the heat For half the year, the Viceroy, the Commander-in-Chief, secretariats, clerks, postal systems, and even schools operated from Shimla. It's no wonder it was the Summer Capital of British India This seasonal migration created a pattern that outlived the empire In 1947, the British left. 80 years later, the operating calendar still exists where schools still shut down in May–June. Hill stations still keep the rest houses, clubs, and colonial-era lodging that made them “organised” holiday towns The railway lines built for administrators became passenger lines for the new middle class, and the idea that comfort is in the hills became a cultural default. Even today, with widespread flight connectivity, India still travels along the routes it inherited. Pretty crazy that a thinking that is inapplicable to us is still deeply rooted in large-scale decision-making We are simply following infrastructure set 150 years before we had the freedom to choose