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Henry Amaral retweeted
Elon Musk is hiding this video of Bill Burr ripping him apart.
So don't RT it.
Or do if you don't like Elon Musk.
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🚨 Dimitri Payet on his admiration for Cristiano Ronaldo:
“For a long time, if that final came on television, I didn’t stay for the trophy.
“I knew the ending. I didn’t need to watch us lose again.
“Then one day my son was watching some of it and asked me about Cristiano.
“‘Did you know he wouldn’t be able to carry on?’
“I said, ‘No. He tried more than once.’
“‘Why?’
“‘Because it was the final.’
“He looked at me as though that wasn’t enough of an answer. So I tried again.
“‘Imagine waiting years for one match. You’re finally playing it, and your body tells you that you have to stop. You’d ask it again as well.’
“I understood that part very well.
“The challenge was a football challenge. I never wanted him injured. When you see another player trying to run and then having to sit down again, there’s no satisfaction in that. You know what he’s being asked to leave behind.
“But I was still a French player trying to win a final in France. When he went off, I had to think about the match. Their team changed, our decisions changed. You don’t have the distance to appreciate somebody else’s story while you’re trying to finish your own.
“We wanted that trophy so badly.
“Later, when I saw the pictures of him on the touchline, I understood something I hadn’t been able to think about properly that night. He’d lost the chance to do the thing he trusted himself to do most.
“He couldn’t make the next run. He couldn’t get on the end of the next cross. If Portugal needed a goal, somebody else would have to score it.
“For a player like him, that must have been terribly difficult.
“My son said, ‘He’s still telling them where to go.’
“I said, ‘Yes. I think they could hear him.’
“‘Even the coach?’
“‘Especially the coach.’
“You can laugh at those pictures now. There’s a man with an injured knee behaving as though standing still might cost his team the match. But watch his face when the ball goes towards Portugal’s goal. He’s having to wait for somebody else to deal with it, just like every supporter in the stadium.
“Only he knows all the men out there.
“He knows who’s exhausted. He knows who will want the ball again. He’s shared meals with them, trained with them, gone through the tournament with them. Every time one of them gets up after a tackle, that’s somebody he knows getting up.
“Then Eder scores.
“I still don’t enjoy that part. I’m sorry, but you cannot ask everything of me.
“But I can understand Cristiano’s reaction. All those minutes of wanting to help, of being unable to get onto the pitch, and one of his teammates gives him the goal he can no longer try to score himself.
“My son asked, ‘Was he happier than if he’d scored it?’
“I said, ‘You’d have to ask him.’
“Then we watched a little longer.
“What stayed with me was seeing him among his teammates afterwards. They could celebrate together. He didn’t have to remember that final only as the night he was carried off, and they didn’t have to remember leaving him there in tears.
“They’d given each other a different ending.
“As a father, I was pleased my son wanted to understand that. Children see so many clips of the shot, the celebration, the trophy held above somebody’s head. This time he’d noticed what happened when a brilliant footballer couldn’t play anymore.
“He was still interested in the man on the side.
“I told him, ‘You can learn something from that. Some days your teammate will have to do the thing you wanted to do. You still have to be there for him.’
“He said, ‘Even if you’re upset?’
“I said, ‘Especially then.’
“We left the television on for the trophy that day.
“I still wished it was ours.
“But I was glad my son got to see him lift it.”
🚨 Mourinho Hits Out at Jesus Ronaldo Deserves Better Than This Cold Statement:
🗣️"I saw Jorge Jesus’s comments. He says he wouldn’t change anything, that it was simply a coach’s decision. Fine. But let’s be clear about something.
"I know Cristiano wanted to retire after the World Cup. He told me that himself. He has always spoken to me like a son speaks to a father, and I know exactly what was in his heart at that time. So when I hear Jesus come out now and speak as if none of this matters, as if the man and the situation mean nothing, it is difficult to accept.
"What bothers me is the way it was handled. You make certain things clear, you create a situation, and then, suddenly, the job is yours. And now you stand there saying you wouldn’t change a thing. That is not leadership. That is not respect. That is simply convenient.
"Cristiano deserves better than that kind of cold statement after everything that happened. A coach can make decisions, of course. But he should also have the courage and the class to own the full truth of how those decisions were made. This, to me, is not acceptable."
Henry Amaral retweeted
INCRÍVEL: O ponta de lança português Gustavo Varela, atual melhor marcador da primeira divisão italiana, soube que ia ser convocado pela primeira vez para a Seleção Principal Portuguesa, num momento em que estava a dar uma entrevista onde demonstrava o sonho de ser convocado por Jorge Jesus 🇵🇹👏
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In 1942, a drunk German officer sat at dinner and bragged about the Jewish woman he had selected from the brothel the Nazis had forced open in town. He said her name out loud. The Tunisian Arab sitting across from him stayed calm, smiled, poured more wine, and finished the meal. Then he drove the officer home, sped through the dark streets, and knocked on a door close to midnight. That night, he hid 25 people for four months. He never spoke about it again.
His name was Khaled Abdul-Wahab. He was 31 years old, a wealthy Muslim Tunisian who had studied art and architecture in New York and spoke fluent German. Nazi officers trusted him. They invited him to their dinners.
Tunisia was the only Arab country directly occupied by Nazi Germany during the war. Jewish families were pushed from their homes. More than 5,000 Jewish men were sent to forced labor camps. Yellow stars marked every chest.
That December night in the coastal town of Mahdia, Khaled listened as the officer boasted. The woman he named belonged to a family Khaled had known all his life.
He left immediately. He drove through the night. He knocked on their door at midnight.
Pack nothing. Come now.
He gathered 25 people — mothers, fathers, cousins, and children — and drove them nearly 20 miles to his family farm, hiding them inside the olive press, stables, and storage buildings.
This was not one brave act. It was four straight months of courage.
He fed them while supplies grew scarce. He kept babies quiet. He trusted his servants to stay silent. When German soldiers arrived to count Jewish families, the hidden people pinned yellow stars onto their clothes and stood motionless. When the soldiers left, the stars came off again.
One night, a drunken soldier wandered onto the farm and discovered them. An eleven-year-old girl hiding under a bed watched him laugh and threaten to kill everyone there. Then Khaled appeared. She remembered him her entire life as a guardian angel. He calmly walked the soldier outside, took away his weapon, and sent him off the property.
Nobody on that farm died.
In May 1943, British forces liberated Tunisia. All 25 people returned home alive.
Khaled went back to a quiet life. He married, raised daughters, painted, and worked in government service.
He never told anyone what he had done. Not his wife. Not his children. No one.
He died on September 4, 1997, at the age of 86. His story was buried with him.
Ten years later, his daughter Faiza was sitting in a café in Paris reading a Sunday newspaper when she came across an interview with an American historian describing a Tunisian Arab who had hidden 25 Jews in 1942.
The historian mentioned her father by name.
She was 45 years old and had never heard the story before.
She contacted the historian. One of the children saved on the farm had left behind 83 pages of testimony before her death. Every detail matched.
“I rediscovered my father,” Faiza later said.
Khaled was nominated for Israel’s highest honor given to non-Jews who saved Jewish lives. He would have been the first Arab to receive it.
The committee declined, saying he had not risked his own life enough.
Faiza answered with a line history should never forget:
“My father opened his home to Jews. They did not open theirs to us.”
Today, the 25 people Khaled saved have hundreds of descendants living across Israel, France, America, and Tunisia. The little girl hidden beneath the bed grew up, moved to Paris, and built a family of her own. None of them would exist if Khaled had stayed silent that night.
He had everything to lose. He acted anyway. Then he spent the rest of his life saying nothing about it.
The world nearly forgot him twice. Now you know his name.
Henry Amaral retweeted
I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
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🥹🚨🇵🇹🗣 This Portuguese woman has said it all. I wish more Portuguese people would acknowledge Cristiano Ronaldo in this way. Sadly, many seem ungrateful and do not deserve the great man they have:
"This great player we have is also a human being, a man of immense humanity. Most people have no idea how much he does for others. He helps so many people, including so many children.
Therefore, this is the time for us Portuguese to appreciate what we have rather than take it for granted. Otherwise, the Portuguese Football Federation loses, the players lose and Portugal loses.
Because Ronaldo will always, always, always remain in the hearts of the Portuguese people and those children who present little drawings of Cristiano Ronaldo and send him kisses.
That is something separate."
Henry Amaral retweeted
The Democrats may have taken control of the House and the Senate, they may have humiliated Donald Trump and the Republican Party, but the real fight is only beginning. It is not simply a battle to hold the corrupt Trump regime to account, something that can only be done if the Democrats are willing overcome their reluctance to carry out impeachment proceedings against the president. It is also a battle to sweep away the corporate-indentured hierarchy of the Democratic Party, including Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries.
The Democratic Party since the presidency of Bill Clinton, who gave us the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the greatest betrayal of the working class since the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, and gutted New Deal-era welfare programs such as the Aid to Families with Dependent Children, is a more polished version of corporate and oligarchic rule, abjectly subservient to the war machine, the Israel lobby and their funders in the billionaire class.
The country is broken. Corruption, in both parties, is endemic. Federal agencies have been hollowed out and destroyed. The courts, including the Supreme Court, have been handed over to right-wing ideologues. The working class is crippled with debt peonage and substandard wages. Constitutional norms and protections have been erased. Billionaires, including Trump, pay little to no income tax. The 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court ruling, which allows big business to fund their hand-picked candidates, sustains a system of legalized bribery.
The public may clamor for a raise in the minimum wage, Medicare for All, regulation of the big banks and private equity firms, an end to arms shipments to Israel and campaign finance reform, but no one in the leadership of the Democratic Party listens or cares. They serve their paymasters.
Will cutthroat capitalism, sold to us under the sanitized name of neoliberalism, be allowed to continue to impoverish the citizenry and funnel wealth upwards into the hands of the 1 percent? Will corporations be regulated and policed? Will corporate criminals be brought to trial? Will our democracy be restored? Or will the grotesque sight of a trillionaire, Elon Musk, gutting federal agencies and pouring hundreds of millions into elections to try and control the outcome be normalized?
The handful of politicians who attempt to confront the corruption and the devastation visited on the American working class through deindustrialization and deregulation, such as Bernie Sanders, see their campaigns sabotaged by the Democratic Party leadership, including Barack Obama.
We must demand that progressive candidates, including Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed and Maine’s Troy Jackson, build coalitions to oust the Democratic Party leadership, raise the minimum wage, enact universal health care, prosecute corporate crime and impeach Trump. It will be up to us.
The Democratic Party hierarchy will see the results not as a repudiation of Trump, but an endorsement of the flaccid and ineffectual position of a party that stands for little and fights for less. This would be yet another betrayal by the Democrats of voters. It would keep alive the very real prospect of another fascist, one better organized and more intelligent, taking the White House in two years.
Of course, this fight will mean not only jettisoning a corrupt Democratic Party leadership, but turning on the mega-donors, lobbyists and corporations that fund and control the Democratic Party.
The effort to wrest the party back from the hands of corporations and oligarchs will be vicious and difficult. It will require us to rely on the power of mass movements to sever these bonds. Nothing else will work.
If we fail, our anemic democracy will not be saved by these midterm elections, but doomed.
Henry Amaral retweeted
#r4today Tucker Carlson serves bbcfriendofisrael Victoria Derbyshire her entiltled arse on a plate. Brilliant stuff...well done that man!
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I have been holding my tongue about something that happened during the Ohio gubernatorial race. I refused to speak while the election was underway because I did not want my words mistaken for an attempt to influence anyone’s vote.
But now that the election is over, I have something to say.
For nearly twenty years, my ministry has taken me among the homeless, the abused, the exploited, and the forgotten. I have sat with victims of sexual violence and witnessed the lifelong wounds of childhood trauma.
What Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign did to Amy Acton was among the most morally repulsive things I have witnessed in American politics.
They took a woman whose stepfather was indicted for raping her when she was twelve years old and featured her mother, from whom she had been estranged for nearly fifty years, in a political advertisement attacking her credibility.
The advertisement challenged Acton’s account of her childhood without mentioning the sexual abuse allegations or the circumstances of that estrangement. When people expressed their horror, the campaign defended it.
Imagine examining another person’s childhood suffering and fractured family relationships, then deciding those wounds might help win an election.
Anyone who has worked with survivors of childhood sexual abuse understands the painful realities of denial, betrayal, shame, and estrangement. A child growing into a successful adult does not erase what happened. Nor does a parent’s denial make that suffering disappear.
I find it equally disturbing that an elderly mother, whom Acton herself described as unwell, was brought into this spectacle. Whatever her own struggles or responsibility for the past, exploiting that fractured relationship was grotesque.
To everyone who defended this, consider the message you sent to survivors. To the young woman whose family refuses to believe her. To the man who has carried the shame of childhood abuse for forty years. To the frightened child who has yet to tell anyone.
What did you teach them about the value of their suffering?
I am a priest. I believe in repentance, forgiveness, and redemption. But none of those things requires me to pretend that deliberate cruelty is anything less than a grave moral failure.
Your political allegiance does not absolve you of moral responsibility. You do not get to set aside your conscience during an election and retrieve it afterward.
If your loyalty requires you to defend the exploitation of a childhood sexual abuse survivor, your loyalty has become an idol. And if your conscience cannot recognize the wrong here, examine what political tribalism has done to it.
This is not about Republicans or Democrats. We have a choice as a people: continue excusing cruelty from our preferred political camp, or summon the courage to condemn it wherever it appears.
Amy Acton deserved better. Every survivor who watched this unfold deserved better.
And God help us if we have reached the point where winning an election matters more than protecting the dignity of a wounded human being.
Henry Amaral retweeted
My medical licence was suspended in November 2025. For 15 months. As a result of my advocacy for Palestine. At the behest of the UK pro-'israel' and zionist jewish lobby. Today, I had my second six-monthly review with the @gmcuk and @the_mpts.
For my submission, covering any updates since the last review in May 2026, I told the panel:
- 4,797 Palestinians have since been murdered by the jewish occupation in Gaza. 1,490 of them were children. That is 31%.
- Bombing and massacres occur daily.
- Palestinians continue to be held hostage, kidnapped, and tortured.
- 'israel' continues with impunity, without justice for the Palestinians or the British citizens they massacred.
The GMC counsel described me as 'unrepentant' in my social media activity, giving this as one reason to continue my suspension. I affirmed that I am indeed unrepentant in speaking out against the genocide and the system of supremacy that the UK government continues to fund and arm. That is anchored in my belief in the sanctity of life and the belief that God created all humans equally.
The suspension continues, of course. The GMC will have to apply to the High Court in February if they want to extend it further.
I miss my job and career. I miss practising medicine, caring for patients and the British people. My words, spoken or shared, were against their crimes. Their barbarity. To be unrepentant in this is my duty as a human, a Muslim, and a doctor.
Free Palestine and Britain from zionism 🇵🇸🇬🇧
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🚨Bernardo Silva on the difference between playing in the Premier League and playing in LaLiga:
🗣️ Bernardo Silva: “People always ask me which league is more difficult. Honestly, I don’t think you can compare them directly. They challenge you in different ways.
“When I arrived at Manchester City, I remember Pep telling me something that stayed with me.
“He said, ‘Bernardo, you will always have time to play football, but you will not always have time to think. You have to know what you’re going to do before the ball reaches you.’
“At first, I didn’t fully understand what he meant. Then I started training and playing in the Premier League, and I understood very quickly. [laughs]
“In England, you receive the ball and somebody is already running towards you. You take one touch and another player is coming. You lose concentration for one second and the ball is gone.
“I remember some away games where you couldn’t even hear your teammates properly because the supporters were so close to the pitch. The intensity is unbelievable.
“Even against teams fighting near the bottom of the table, you know you’re going to have a difficult afternoon. Nobody gives you an easy game.
“But when I arrived at Real Madrid, José Mourinho told me something that made me look at football from another perspective.
“He said, ‘You can be faster than your opponent, you can be stronger than him, but if you don’t understand the space before he does, you will always be one step behind.’
“That was interesting because it was a different way of looking at the game.
“In Spain, you meet teams that are very comfortable keeping possession. They know how to move you around, how to close spaces and how to make you chase the ball.
“Sometimes you think you have time, but the space is already gone. You have to read the game before the situation develops.
“I experienced that against Spanish teams when I was still at City. You would press one player and suddenly the ball was somewhere else. You start asking yourself how they managed to escape.
“Now I’m experiencing that style of football regularly. You have to be intelligent with your positioning, because one wrong movement can open a space for the opposition.
“People think LaLiga is easier because the tempo can look slower, but that’s not true. You might not be running at the same intensity every second, but your concentration has to be there for the entire match.
“And in England, forget about taking a break. [laughs] You can be winning 3-0 and the opposition will still be running at you like it’s the last minute of a cup final.
“I’ve played against defenders in the Premier League who make every touch uncomfortable. I’ve also played against midfielders in Spain who make you feel like you’re chasing shadows.
“Both leagues demand a lot from you. The difference is how they test you.
“Manchester City taught me to play under pressure, to move quickly and to compete with intensity. Real Madrid is giving me another appreciation of positioning, patience and understanding the tactical side of the game.
“I wouldn’t say one league has better footballers than the other. I’ve seen incredible quality in both places.
“If a young player asks me which league he should move to, I would tell him not to choose based on reputation alone. You have to understand what kind of football you are going into.
“You can be technically gifted, but if you cannot adapt to the physical demands in England or the tactical demands in Spain, you will struggle.
“So, for me, the Premier League tests how quickly you can react, while LaLiga tests how well you understand the game.
“And the funny thing is, both Pep and Mourinho were telling me something similar in their own way: don’t wait for the ball to arrive before you start thinking. By then, it’s already too late.”
Henry Amaral retweeted
Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
Henry Amaral retweeted
A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR AND A NAKBA SURVIVOR SHARED THE SAME STAGE.
At the London finale of Macklemore’s tour, 86-year-old Stephen Kapos took the mic. He survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest as a child. Looking at Gaza, his warning was chilling:
"Eighty years later, when I look at the mass destruction in Gaza, I see it is worse than Budapest. Children are still playing among the ruins."
Right after him stood 85-year-old Antoine Raffoul.
"I was seven years old when I became a Nakba child. For eighty years I have been a Nakba survivor. And for the last three years I have been witnessing a genocide of my people."
He spoke about his 7-year-old granddaughter, and his dream to finally hold her hand on a return journey to his homeland.
"Silence is not an option anymore." 🧭
Henry Amaral retweeted
This is the reality of Israel that the world needs to see. Behind the carefully crafted PR lies a record of occupation, oppression and the systematic denial of Palestinian rights.
