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Western media showed more outrage for Qatar not allowing alcohol during the World Cup than a place which is denying the entry of both players and fans from multiple nations and has the possibility of a mass shooting at any given time, right

Basically, FIFA guarantees that each country gets an 8% allocation of the tickets for the matches they participate in, so fans from that country can see it. That has just been revoked for Iran.

10/10. No notes.

michelle visage: “i just don’t see the family resemblance” #AllStars #DragRace

Such an iconic actor. And clearly good at his job, because I could love him in one thing and despise his character in another. RIP.

For the love of God, bring back fact-checkers. Bring back copy editors. Bring back public editors. Bring back standards. Everybody tighten TF up.

💭 🎬 L'artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, qui s'est fait mondialement connaître avec la bande dessinée et le film "Persepolis", est décédée à l'âge de 56 ans, a annoncé son entourage jeudi à l'AFP.

This Pride Month, I am not engaging in nonsense about bi/pan characters not being queer enough. They're queer even if the queer couple never actually gets together. Even if the whole story is a bi woman dating a straight man. It is 2026, man. We have real battles to fight.

The United States is abusing its role as a World Cup host. They issued heavily restricted visas to the Iranian team, which is scheduled to play on U.S. soil. They also failed to issue visas to @BafanaBafana in a timely manner. Either they are incapable of managing the process properly, or they are acting in bad faith.

Musk might literally pull off the biggest scam in history

Everyone's worried about honeybees, but the American bumblebee has declined by 89% in the last 20 years. Bombus pensylvanicus was once the most common bumblebee in the southern United States. It's now functionally extinct in eight states (Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Idaho, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Oregon) and down 99% in New York. The honeybee, the species most "save the bees" campaigns are organized around, is not native to North America. It was brought over by European colonists in the 1600s as livestock for honey production. It is managed, bred, transported across the country in trucks, and is doing fine. Beekeeping is an agricultural industry, not a conservation effort. The American bumblebee is what we actually have. It pollinates wild plants honeybees can't, including ones with deep flowers and ones that require buzz pollination (a technique honeybees don't perform). Tomatoes, blueberries, eggplants, cranberries, and countless wildflowers depend on it. The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned to list the species as endangered in 2021. The federal review is now in its fifth year. The species is still not protected. Three things help. 1. Plant native flowers, the kind bumblebees evolved with (asters, goldenrod, milkweed, native sunflowers, beebalm, mountain mint). 2. Leave standing dead plant stems through winter, that's where queens overwinter. 3. Stop spraying for mosquitoes, those sprays kill every pollinator they touch. The bees we built an industry to "save" are not the bees that need saving. The ones that do are quietly disappearing while we celebrate the ones that aren't.

New F1 meme is born with this marshall jumping through the wall after clearing debris off the track. #F1

I am completely exhausted and infuriated that even in 2026, I am still forced to worry about Covid every single time I walk into a medical setting because the vast majority of healthcare workers don't even bother to wear N95 respirators. It is incredibly disheartening to witness firsthand the people I am supposed to trust with my health acting like an airborne virus doesn't exist, remaining stuck in the droplet dogma of the past. I should not know more about transmission dynamics and how it spreads than these very same people, it is simply not acceptable and should not still be happening in 2026. If the consequences of ignoring basic safety only fell on the people making those choices, it would be one thing. Instead, from what I’ve personally experienced, it is the vulnerable patients who end up paying the price for a total lack of accountability from the very professionals who are supposed to protect us. End of this rant! 😡

Watching all of Sheinbaum’s rapid fire accomplishments in Mexico and Mamdani’s similar run in NYC makes me think that, despite all of his flaws, a Bernie Sanders presidency would have been deeply transformative for America.

just heard them announce at Union Station that @Amtrak trains from chicago to BOSTON and NEW YORK have been converted into BUSES????? they did that to us chicago to detroit and it was miserable. at that point imma cancel the whole thing

fun fact: if i’m not in an extra legroom seat on southwest, the tray table won’t even go all the way down. it just hits my stomach. it’s endlessly frusrating. #Southwest

a lot of #Survivor50 tweets make me wonder if people just (like Joe, oops) don't actually enjoy what makes Survivor Survivor. "oh, the jury was bitter." well, famously, part of this game is trying to make moves without making enemies. the politics is literally the game.

The saddest thing about youth unemployment is that many young people did exactly what society told them to do; study, qualify, work hard. Yet opportunities remain out of reach.

NEW: The tobacco company Reynolds American donated $5M to the Trump-backed super PAC MAGA Inc. on 4/30/2026. 8 days later, the Trump administration rolled out a new policy that could be lucrative for Reynolds by allowing it to begin selling flavored vapes nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/po…

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