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JOE’S NOTE
Very few people had heard of Vozinha two weeks ago. He grew up in Cape Verde, a tiny island nation off the coast of West Africa, raised by his grandparents. His father was in the military. His mother had to work.
Last week in Atlanta, the 40-year-old goalkeeper held Spain — the second-ranked team in the world — scoreless for 90 minutes on 27 shots. When the final whistle blew, he stood on the field and wept.
For his mother, who couldn’t afford the Trump administration’s visa fees to enter the country.
And for his grandparents, who didn’t live to see the moment.
“They were everything, everything for me,” he said.
It took Hakeem Jeffries calling Marco Rubio personally to get Vozinha’s mother a visa. She arrived in Miami on Friday, her son’s name on the back of her shirt, and watched Cape Verde come from behind to draw Uruguay, a country that has won the World Cup twice.
A viral BBC clip shows a reporter in Cape Verde interviewing citizens of the tiny island the instant before the country scored its first ever World Cup goal.
Watching those joyful scenes play out on a tiny island off the West African coast, I thought at once of Marshall McLuhan’s Global Village.
No sporting event brings that village together every four years quite like the World Cup.
Thank God even the Trump administration hasn’t been able to screw that up — yet.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The president hasn’t just moved the goalposts, he’s changed the sport, the venue and the rules simply to declare a win.”
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The New York Post editorial board in “Trump’s own goal: a deal that gives Iran second life”
CHART OF THE DAY
ON THIS DATE
In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the GI Bill, awarding World War II veterans immediate financial compensation for their service. Few laws did more to build out America’s middle class than the GI Bill.
WHAT THEY SAID
David Ignatius on Iran
“What the hell is a deconfliction mechanism? We need to move to something real, something that actually will stabilize Lebanon and begin real de-escalation. I just don’t see the Trump team prepared to deal with the specific technical details that would get us there.”
Michael Weiss on Israel
“Strategic disaster is the phrase I keep hearing from Israeli national security analysts and hawks. Nobody is under any illusions. This war has not only not gone the way they wanted, it has put Israel in an impossible bind.”
Katty Kay on Keir Starmer
“Starmer did everything he could to flatter Trump. He arrived with that letter for a second state visit from King Charles. It wasn’t good enough. The loyalty didn’t seem to be a two-way street.”
EXTRA HOT TEA
$500
—The monthly average reduction in Social Security checks at the end of 2032, when the fund is projected to become insolvent
ONE MORE SHOT
Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan reviewing his papers ahead of testimony before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill, April 6, 2005. Greenspan died today at 100 years old.
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