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Joseph S Furey

@tempus-fukit.bsky.social

Writer, freelance features journalist, arts critic and travel hack, devout Gooner. News UK, editorial and commercial. Non-fiction book in the works josephsfurey.substack.com – josephsfurey.com

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World Cup 2026: Entry Pending The tournament that claimed to unite the world now answers to a host that governs by blacklist – and to a governing body so compromised it can’t even pretend to object

World Cup 2026

Nothing in this piece has been addressed.

I'd be amazed if teams don't pull out

josephsfurey.substack.com/p/world-cup-...

05.12.2025 21:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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World Cup 2026: Entry Pending The tournament that claimed to unite the world now answers to a host that governs by blacklist – and to a governing body so compromised it can’t even pretend to object

Nothing has changed.

I'd be amazed if teams don't pull out

josephsfurey.substack.com/p/world-cup-...

05.12.2025 21:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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World Cup 2026: Entry Pending The tournament that claimed to unite the world now answers to a host that governs by blacklist – and to a governing body so compromised it can’t even pretend to object

Nothing has changed.

I'd be amazed if teams don't pull out

josephsfurey.substack.com/p/world-cup-...

05.12.2025 21:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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World Cup 2026: Entry Pending The tournament that claimed to unite the world now answers to a host that governs by blacklist – and to a governing body so compromised it can’t even pretend to object

Nothing has changed.

I'd be amazed if teams don't pull out

josephsfurey.substack.com/p/world-cup-...

05.12.2025 21:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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World Cup 2026: Entry Pending The tournament that claimed to unite the world now answers to a host that governs by blacklist – and to a governing body so compromised it can’t even pretend to object

Nothing has changed.

I'd be amazed if teams don't pull out

josephsfurey.substack.com/p/world-cup-...

05.12.2025 21:23 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Local law enforcement agencies in 40 states are current participants in ICE cooperation agreements. The expansion has been encouraged by incentives: for example, federal reimbursement for participating officers’ salaries, benefits and overtime (in some cases)

04.12.2025 04:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Local law enforcement agencies in 40 states are current participants in ICE cooperation agreements. The expansion has been encouraged by incentives: for example, federal reimbursement for participating officers’ salaries, benefits, and overtime (in some cases)

04.12.2025 04:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That isn’t the Quarter

04.12.2025 03:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Necessary Ghosts The American dream is a narcotic, but unevenly dispensed. Liberty was once rationed by race – and now the hard-won advances of the Sixties are being gleefully trashed

Mayors are being courted to reframe student protest and foreign-policy critique as “hate” while their own residents face: racialised policing; gang-database abuses;
and criminalisation of poverty and homelessness

josephsfurey/p/necessary-...

03.12.2025 23:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Dark Money Network is Recruiting U.S. Mayors to Criminalize Pro-Palestine Speech Right-wing mega-donors are flying mayors to an all-expenses-paid summit in New Orleans, where they’ll push a policy framework that codifies mainstream criticism of Israel as “antisemitic.”

New Orleans antisemitism summit

Mayors are being courted to reframe student protest and foreign-policy critique as “hate” while their own residents face: racialised policing; gang-database abuses;
criminalisation of poverty and homelessness

www.currentaffairs.org/news/a-dark-...

03.12.2025 23:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

So not how to combat racialised policing of their own streets?

03.12.2025 23:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Republican lawmakers carved up Nashville in 2022, redrawing the 7th District and two others to stop the city electing another Democrat. The result is a district stretched across 14 counties, with barely one in five of its voters living in Nashville.

Fuck Tennessee.

03.12.2025 03:22 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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So long, Tom Stoppard

I’ve seen more of his work than any other playwright's, except Shakespeare. He never talked down to an audience and made intelligence feel romantic, teaching us that an idea can break your heart as cleanly as a love affair.

30.11.2025 00:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Joseph S. Furey (@josephsfurey)

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29.11.2025 03:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Joseph S. Furey (@josephsfurey)

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29.11.2025 03:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Joseph S. Furey (@josephsfurey)

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29.11.2025 03:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’ll do nicely, Arsenal. AND you made me some money. We just took the second half away from them. They looked genuinely confused by the end of it

26.11.2025 22:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The signs are good. We have a lot of players returning and we’ll have even more in contention for the Chelsea game

26.11.2025 09:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Sofa Alliance is behind the “use cash” campaign.

Big Upholstery has been stealing your coins for years, one cushion crack at a time.

25.11.2025 12:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I guess you get out what you put in, eh?

23.11.2025 12:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rubio is such a heel. Not only is the Ukraine peace proposal a Russian document - it was translated into British English, not American English.

23.11.2025 05:39 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Exactly. First thing I noticed

23.11.2025 05:37 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Russian into British English not American English

23.11.2025 05:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Summers of love is finally over

20.11.2025 06:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Necessary Ghosts The American dream is a narcotic, but unevenly dispensed. Liberty was once rationed by race – and now the hard-won advances of the Sixties are being gleefully trashed

“Launched in 2018, the U.S. Civil Rights Trail stands as a breakwater against this tide of whitewash, propaganda and historical vandalism – because it can be seen, touched, walked. In these days of state-sanctioned amnesia, visibility is resistance.”

open.substack.com/pub/josephsf...

17.11.2025 04:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Necessary Ghosts The American dream is a narcotic, but unevenly dispensed. Liberty was once rationed by race – and now the hard-won advances of the Sixties are being gleefully trashed

Launched in 2018, the U.S. Civil Rights Trail stands as a breakwater against this tide of whitewash, propaganda and historical vandalism – because it can be seen, touched, walked. In these days of state-sanctioned amnesia, visibility is resistance.

open.substack.com/pub/josephsf...

17.11.2025 04:26 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

No wonder Border Control has gone after Charlotte, which is home to St Matthew, one of the largest Catholic parishes in the US. The Church is one of the last institutions in US life with a large, multi-ethnic congregational base and a social teaching on migration that fundamentally contradicts MAGA

16.11.2025 08:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No wonder Border Control has gone after Charlotte, home to St Matthew, one of the largest Catholic parishes in the US. The Church is one of the last institutions in American life with a large, multi-ethnic congregational base and a social teaching on migration that fundamentally contradicts MAGA

16.11.2025 08:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No wonder Border Control has gone after Charlotte, home to St Matthew, one of the largest Catholic parishes in the US. The Church is one of the last institutions in American life with a large, multi-ethnic congregational base and a social teaching on migration that fundamentally contradicts MAGA

16.11.2025 08:14 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

No wonder Border Control has gone after Charlotte, home to St Matthew, one of the largest Catholic parishes in the US. The Church is one of the last institutions in American life with a large, multi-ethnic congregational base and a social teaching on migration that fundamentally contradicts MAGA

16.11.2025 08:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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