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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 20d
Infantino is a symptom of the problem.
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FIFA is unfit to govern world football.
FIFA is unfit to govern world football.
FIFA is unfit to govern world football.
FIFA is unfit to govern world football.
FIFA is unfit to govern world football.
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Substitute: FIFA not fit to govern world football, external reform essential to prevent future harm
A major new report from FairSquare, published today, identifies serious structural flaws within FIFA, football’s global governing body, that have resulted in the organisation contributing to a wide ra...
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amnestyuk.bsky.social
The arrest of Greta Thunberg for peacefully opposing genocide and supporting those on hunger strike is wrongful and disturbing.

This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.
December 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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davidwearing.bsky.social
There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib
Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
December 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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uglygame.bsky.social
The Times is running a front-page story about the Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv away fan ban without noting Maccabi's long history of racist disorder, which includes a €20k fine *this week* for racist disorder for singing the "rape song" at the club's *first* away game with fans since the Villa ban.
Force's new inquiry over Maccabi fans ban Gabriel Pogrund Whitehall Editor The police watchdog has ordered the West Midlands force to explain its decision to ban fans of the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending a game against Aston Villa, warning it may have jeopardised public confidence in law enforcement. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) also threat- ened to launch a full investigation into the force in what would be a rare use of its powers. The watch- dog ordinarily only investigates when a force self-refers. Craig Guildford, the chief con- stable of West Midlands police, is facing calls to resign after a report containing false "intelligence" was used to justify the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans for the game at Villa Park in Birmingham last month. The dossier included inaccurate claims that Maccabi supporters visiting Amsterdam for an Ajax game last year threw people into a canal, that hundreds were "linked" to the Israel Defence Forces, and that 5,000 officers had been forced to respond. The report also referred to a fictitious Maccabi game against West Ham that some MPs looking into the Villa ban believe to be the result of an artificial intelligence of an "hallucination". Rachel Watson, director of the IOPC, said that "while the usual Continued on page 4+ Police told to explain Maccabi fans ban →Continued from page 1 route for [us] to deal with a complaint is via a referral from a ponice force, given the sensitivities in this matter, I am prepared to consider whether we ought to use ou of initiative" also accented concerns that policing had become "more heightened" since Guildford and his colleague, assistant chie constable Mike O'Hara, evidence in parliament this month. Appearing before the on. Appearing betore th the inaccurate claims that led to the ban. O'Hara falsely claimed that Birmingham Jewish representatives had backed the decision. apologising days later Watson said of the han "Given that decision an Given that decision and the Wider context within which it de, I am acutely aware of its potential impact on confidence in the She told Nick Timothy, the ative MP and Asto Villa fan, and Lord Ai tten to Guildford regarding this matter to a share any decisions ther shape her next steps. If it carries out a full inquiry, the IOPC could order West Midlands to instigate disciplinary proceedings against its own officers or pass any evidence of criminal offences such as misconduct in public office to the Crown Prosecution Service. The intervention is unusual for a body which usually investigates cases where someone has died or been severely injured at the hands of police, or when an officer is accused of a criminal offence. It also marks the latest attempt to hold the force to account. Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, has asked her officials to examine the matter, and instructed His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services to provide its own findings by Christmas. Debates have taken place in the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and the home affairs committee has summoned Guildford for a second appearance after concluding that his initial evidence was insufficient. Guildford has provided one limited admission of wrongdoing in relation to the fictitious West Ham game. He…
December 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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goodlawproject.org
A quite demented Leader column published today by The Times.

First, this in which it says that the Supreme Court decision mandated that single sex spaces be divided on the basis of "biology" not gender.
For more than three months, Ms Phillipson has stalled in publishing draft guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Those 300 pages, efficiently produced after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in April, explain in detail how businesses and public bodies can ensure they comply with their legal duties under the Equality Act. The Supreme Court determined that UK equality law protected women on the basis of their sex, not their gender identity. Upholding women’s existing legal rights therefore requires that where services and spaces are provided to men and women separately, they must be administered on the basis of biology — meaning sex, not gender.
December 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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rutgerbregman.com
This video will probably get fewer likes than my posts on taxing billionaires. That difference says it all. Factory farming only survives if we don’t look. It’s time to hold these companies accountable. Every donation is matched, so $1 becomes $2 through Dec 31, 2025. Donate: MoralAmbition.org/food
December 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
This is deeply troubling.
The silence of so much of the mainstream.
That this should be happening when a former human rights lawyer is Prime Minister…
Peace is a greater threat to the powerful than war.
"Let the Ambulance In Or She Will Die!" • BREAKING Qesser Zuhrah, 20, on day 46 of a hunger strike at HMP Bronzefield, is being denied emergency medical care despite doctors' warnings. Palestine 9 DeepDivenir
December 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
ncgeehan.bsky.social
UEFA finally sanctions Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters for engaging in “racist and/or discriminatory behaviour” in Dec 2025. Begs the question, why did UEFA not act after the Ajax game in Nov 2024?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/689...
Maccabi Tel-Aviv fined for ‘racist and/or discriminatory behaviour’ in Stuttgart Europa League tie
UEFA has fined Maccabi €20,000 and given the club a suspended away fan ban
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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jacksaundrs.bsky.social
Lol, I think the Labour Party is the only political organisation in the entire world with enough self-loathing to listen to a guy tell them that the last 80 years of their party, including every majority government they ever had, was a mistake and then make them head of strategy.
tom-clark.bsky.social Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 8d
One interesting nugget in this piece could explain the (otherwise baffling) appearance of Ramsay MacDonald in a 2024 Labour Party Election Broadcast
December 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
ncgeehan.bsky.social
Photo reminds me of one of the highlights of 2025, when @kenearly.bsky.social said of Maresca that "he looks like a loyalist mural of Pep"
December 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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samindrakunti.bsky.social
More money to be dished out by FIFA. This time framed as "Post-conflict recovery fund".

Remember there is $2.8 billion from FIFA Forward, $1.5 billion from the FIFA Covid Fund, $1 billion from the Saudi-led development fund...
December 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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casmudde.bsky.social
WTF are we doing here, BBC?
December 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
ncgeehan.bsky.social
Gianni Infantino's grubby dealings with Trump are part of a pattern. Excellent post from @sportingintel.bsky.social detailing Infantino's very chequered record as FIFA President. sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/from-the-c...
From the company he keeps to his disregard for football, Infantino is worse than Blatter
Sepp Blatter oversaw some terrible misconduct and was far from perfect. But he asked world leaders: "What can you do for football?". Infantino asks what HE do for THEM.
sportingintelligence832.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
I'm on my way to a Chanukah event. It should be a celebration but instead our community is once again mourning.

I will be thinking of everyone in Australia and those around the world in the Jewish Community who know this fear and loss.

We stand with you.
December 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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johnnymains.co.uk
I'm privileged to call Robin a friend, and as such, have seen behind the curtains with what went on with Monkey Cage. When BBC bosses say they don't recognise his version of events, I was being told of them by Robin in real time. This stuff has been going on for YEARS.
I'm heartbroken for him.
December 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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andrewmeyerson.uk
Here’s my message to our health secretary: The era of politicians ignoring health experts is over. Put your big boy pants on and go meet with the BMA and RCN and end the staff haemorrhage crisis once and for all.

#DoctorsStrike #SOSNHS
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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theathleticfc.bsky.social
Ticket prices released by FIFA this week for the men’s World Cup in 2026 were, on average, 174 per cent higher than projected in the official bid book submitted by the joint United States, Canada and Mexico.

Full story from @adamcrafton.bsky.social ⬇️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/688...
December 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
ncgeehan.bsky.social
@fanseurope.org "call on FIFA to immediately halt PMA ticket sales, engage in a consultation with all impacted parties, and review ticket prices and category distribution" 👏 www.fanseurope.org/news/stateme...
STATEMENT: HISTORICALLY HIGH WORLD CUP TICKET PRICES – FSE CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE HALT TO TICKET SALES - Football Supporters Europe
Football Supporters Europe is astonished by the extortionate ticket prices imposed by FIFA on the most dedicated supporters for next year’s FIFA World Cup. In the price tables gradually and confidenti...
www.fanseurope.org
December 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
Robin Ince once more showing what an amazing person he is. It's tragic that we are in a world where opposing transphobia and hate means having to resign, while being transphobic and hateful means getting regularly featured by national media outlets.
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13d
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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jennycohn.bsky.social
Look who’s circling Venezuela... During his interview of Maria Corina Machado, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale tells her: “We have a lot of friends here who’ve had to flee VZ & who are huge fans of yours, & we’re very excited to come back & invest & BUILD w/ u when u get to be a free country.” 1/
December 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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esherukweku.bsky.social
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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playthegame-org.bsky.social
Unlicensed betting companies are using FIFA’s own streaming platform to offer in-play wagers on low-level matches worldwide. Many smaller federations are unaware their match data is exploited this way, write @stevemenary.bsky.social & @samindrakunti.bsky.social 👇

www.playthegame.org/news/fifa-li...
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM