JUST A REMINDER. Paraguay beat Brazil and Argentina and had the best defensive record in South American World Cup qualifying. They just lost 4-1 to the USMNT in their opening match at the 2026 World Cup final.

Erling Haaland enjoying some hockey at the #StanleyCup Final 🤩

Los aficionados de Corea del Sur no podían entrar con el tequila rumbo al estadio, así que se la empezaron a tomar entre todos y después invitaron a los mexicanos a beber también JAJAJAJAJA. Es el mejor Mundial de la historia.

The vibes are insane. Driving through the great state of Louisiana on our way to New Orleans. It’s crazy how diverse this country is, every day the scenery looks different.

Just Lamine Yamal in a Georgia Walmart 🤯 The World Cup keeps throwing up wild and wonderful crossovers 🇺🇸

In the dead of night the Scots arrived at the Airbnb across the street. Decked out and playing the pipes at 6:30 am. So it begins…

A German visiting Auburn, Alabama, to watch Lionel Messi and Argentina play Iceland stopped at a Buc-ee's and ate brisket sandwiches on a stack of deer feeder corn. A sentence never before uttered in all of human history.

Codexで強化学習 生き物つくってもうた。。

The cafeteria lady at the SpaceX canteen realizing she became a millionaire after 10 years of selling coffee to Elon Musk

Didier Drogba playing some pickup street soccer in the streets of New York City. The World Cup is really here, man. 🇺🇸

I am actually surprised Apple $AAPL isn't down 5% more considering that, a full decade later, and now in the greatest AI wave of our lifetimes, they released a Siri powered by Google and still only answers "Looks like it'll be warm today" when you ask it for the weather

First time experiencing this flyover Americans do before big sporting events and I have to say it goes kinda hard

The French Air Force aerobatic team, Patrouille de France, conducted a major flyover in New York City (coming from near West Point) this morning, as part of their “Liberté 250” tour celebrating American independence. 🇫🇷 🇺🇸

This is how I approach every stock market sell-off

Victor Wembanyama drawing with his sister in a park in NYC 🎨 (🎥: hoopsnation on IG) #GoSpursGo #PorVida

RIP IT AND FLIP IT! A WORLDY FROM JEDI! #USMNT x @VW

I am so hype for this World Cup bc we’re going to hear sentences like this that have never been uttered before

(1999) Spurs playing StarCraft together in their hotel room: “Why don’t you build some more stuff, Tim? You’ve got plenty of money, build some more tanks and goliaths.” Simpler times. 🤣 (via @hymnduncan)

On June 6, 1944, the Germans knew one thing for certain: to invade France, the Allies needed a port. So they fortified every port on the French coast. Cherbourg. Calais. Boulogne. Turned them into fortresses. Poured millions of tons of concrete into the Atlantic Wall. The Allies simply decided to bring their own port with them. This is the story of the Mulberry Harbours, and it might be the single most audacious engineering feat in military history. The problem was simple and brutal. You cannot sustain an invasion army of millions of men on landing craft alone. You need docks. Cranes. Piers. The infrastructure to pour supplies ashore by the thousands of tons every single day. Without a working port, any beachhead would eventually starve and collapse. The Germans knew this. Their entire coastal defense strategy was built on it. What they never imagined was that the Allies would build two fully functioning deep-water harbors in Britain, dismantle them into pieces, tow them across the English Channel, and reassemble them off the beaches of Normandy. Starting in December 1943, 37,000 workers across Britain began secretly manufacturing the components. The project was so large it strained the entire British economy. 146 massive concrete caissons called Phoenixes, each one 60 metres long and 18 metres tall. Miles of floating steel roadways. Pontoon bridges. Breakwaters. Pier heads. Enough material to build a small city. They built dry docks in the Thames and Clyde rivers just to construct the caissons. 1.5 million yards of steel shuttering. 31,000 tons of steel. Workers had no idea what they were building or why. When D-Day came, tugboats began towing the pieces across the Channel at just 8 kilometres per hour. Hundreds of individual components, each one a logistical nightmare to move, crossing open water in the wake of the largest invasion fleet ever assembled. Within 12 days, two working harbours stood off the Normandy coast. Mulberry A at Omaha Beach for the Americans. Mulberry B at Arromanches for the British and Canadians. Then, on June 19, the worst storm to hit the Normandy coast in 40 years tore through the Channel. For three days the storm raged. When it cleared, Mulberry A at Omaha was gone. 21 of 28 caissons completely destroyed. The piers smashed. The roadways scattered. The Americans scrapped it entirely and cannibalized the wreckage to repair the British harbor. Mulberry B at Arromanches survived, barely, because of its slightly more sheltered position. That one surviving harbor then proceeded to supply the entire Allied liberation of Western Europe. 2.5 million men. 500,000 vehicles. 4 million tons of supplies. All landed through an artificial harbor that was designed, built, floated, towed across the Channel, and assembled in secret, in less than six months. After the war, Nazi armaments minister Albert Speer put it plainly. Germany had spent 13 million cubic tonnes of concrete and 1.5 million tons of steel building the Atlantic Wall to deny the Allies a port. "A fortnight after the landings," Speer said, "this costly effort was brought to nought by an idea of simple genius." They built their own port. And they brought it with them.

90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18. Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.