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Scotland's first men's World Cup goal since 1998 earns them their first men's World Cup victory since 1990. John McGinn's first-half effort was enough to secure victory over Haiti, who turned the screw but failed to find an equaliser in the second half. Scotland are top of Group C. They face Morocco next — the round of 32 is already in sight...

Happy for Jalen Brunson and the Villanova Knicks. Performance for the ages. Or at least 53 years. Lots of toughness! But man...the Spurs are, um, well. Yeah. #nbafinals

Behave, New York. 🙏

Boston Stadium food prices — $7 for water with fans not allowed to bring their own

Europeans discovering Buc-ee’s is my new jam. I love this stuff! Democrats bitch about America, Europeans love it! 🤣❤️🇺🇸

Match ready!

WOW WOW WOW🤯🤯🤯 Craig Ferguson from Scotland has just completed a walk from LA to Boston, over 3200 miles, raising over £1 million for Mental Health🚶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 He aimed to make it in time for Scotland’s opener vs Haiti and he’s done just that🎉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇭🇹 An incredible achievement👏👏👏

Post 9/11, we got used to hearing how much worse American culture was to Europe. But watching Europeans fall in love with the simple joys of American culture during the World Cup is a reminder: What we have is special and worth being proud of. Just watch these clips 🇺🇸

“Loch Lomond” in Foxborough. Quite a sight. #WorldCup

I’ve discovered American Cream Soda and I think all other sodas are ruined for me now. Which one should I try next?

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did. And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves. One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults. Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life. If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever. Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen. Alternatively There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all. To start - If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers. It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail) Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability. Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up But They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

If you call yourself a Celtics diehard but I see you celebrating with Knicks fans in the Finals, you’re not a diehard… you’re a fraud. Embarrassing

I'm seeing my feed flooded with posts about Europeans realizing that they were lied to about America. The consensus of their posts is that America is safer, more prosperous, and more welcoming than they were told. This might be the most powerful effect of the World Cup.

Who do we need to petition to rename New England to New Scotland? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Friend is over in Boston for the World Cup with her Scottish husband, and the Tartan Army 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 are drinking the city dry for it seems: "Pub owner talking to his staff: We don’t have enough beer, we’re running out. I need to order more.”

The prices for eats tonight at USA vs. Paraguay include: • Meatball sub: $24 • Pepperoni pizza square: $19.75 • Caesar salad: $14 • Everything cookie: $10

Same here. #grandpoobah

Saying it, and doing it...are two different things. #DOitNOW

A wise man once said, if you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive across it. These European World Cup tourists are experiencing the REAL America for the first time: not New York City or LA, but middle America and all its hospitality. 🇺🇸