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JD Vance says Henry Nowak would still be alive if “the last few generations of Europeans had stood their ground against the mass invasion of migrants” If the Native Americans had kept out the invader scum like Vance, we wouldn't have to listen to this shit.

In 1975 companies in the UK paid out an average of 72% of their money in wages. Now it is just 59%. But wages are 'too high'. So they say.

My boss's 22-year-old son was brought in as our "Director of Efficiency." His first initiative was cutting the company health insurance match. His second was buying a $90,000 company car. He forgot I run payroll. When the founder's son, "Chad," graduated from college, he was immediately handed the keys to our operations. He arrived in a tailored suit, oozing corporate jargon about "trimming the fat" and "synergistic restructuring." On week two, Chad called the accounting team into a glass conference room. With a straight face, he told us that to ensure long-term stability, the company was reducing its 401(k) match and switching to a high-deductible health plan. "We all have to tighten our belts," he said. Two days later, an invoice hit my desk: a corporate lease agreement for a brand-new, top-trim Porsche Cayenne. The justification attached by Chad? "Necessary corporate asset for client impressions." I felt the blood rush to my face. The money saved from stripping the engineering team's healthcare was literally paying for his luxury SUV lease.......

Blows my mind that the US is about to host its second World Cup and a real hotbed of football, the UK, hasn’t been trusted with one since 1966 Joke really, and a corrupt one at that

Is Matthew right ??

All-Ireland Minor Football Championship QF - Full Time Tír Eoghain 3-17 (26) Gaillimh 0-19 (19) We've secured our place in the All-Ireland Championship semi-finals 💪🏻

Ronnie Moran wasn’t the face of Liverpool. He was the heartbeat. Player. Coach. Mentor. Guardian of the Boot Room. “The day you sign for Liverpool is the day you become a better player.” For generations of Reds, he made sure that was true. 🔴

The richest 3 people have more money than the poorest 4 billion. But the problem (according to those richest people) is the poor people.

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room. She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill. Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final. Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat. Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped. She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won. By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million. One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

In the 1960s a council bin man earnt £25 a week. Today's equivalent of £35,000 pa. He could get a mortgage at 3.5 times his salary. He had job security and a council pension. And crisps and chocolate were full sized. Modern Life Is Fucking Robbery.

If ever a picture summed up the GAA, love of club and volunteering, then this is it. 2 of the greatest @TrillickGAC all time greats selling lotto tickets before the match. Patsy Mc Caughey, 93 years serving his club and community and Brendan Donnelly one of the greatest players for Trillick and @TyroneGAALive. This is pure GAA but around Donnelly Park it’s the norm.

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal. Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan. All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

On the night of June 5, 1944, Eisenhower stood on a tarmac in England and watched 13,000 paratroopers board their planes. He already knew what Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory had told him in private: up to half of them might not survive the night. 6,500 men. Dead before a single soldier touched the beach. Eisenhower had approved the mission anyway, called the decision "soul-wracking," and said nothing to the men. Instead he drove out and visited them. He chatted. Laughed. Asked where they were from. Shook hands. Cracked jokes. Not one of them knew their general had just signed what might be their death warrant. When the last plane disappeared into the dark sky, his driver Kay Summersby looked over at him. There were tears running down his face. He drove back to Telegraph Cottage in silence. Then he sat down, picked up a pencil, and wrote a note he prayed no one would ever read. "Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone." Look at what he edited. He had first written "This particular operation." He crossed it out and replaced it with "My decision to attack." Then he pressed the pencil down hard and drew a long, firm line under the words "mine alone." He misdated it July 5 instead of June 5. He was so consumed with dread he had forgotten what month it was. He folded the note and put it in his wallet. He carried it there as 156,000 men stormed the beaches of Normandy. When word came back that the beachhead had held, he took it out, crumpled it, and threw it in the trash. An aide quietly pulled it out and saved it. That note is now behind glass at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas. You can still see where the pencil pressed hardest. Right under the words "mine alone." 82 years ago tonight.

Tax the oligarchy like the working class