Brazil just denied visas to two State Department officials over concerns they were coming to interfere in the October election. The stated purpose of their trip was 'election integrity.' We are now the country other democracies keep out to protect their votes. themindshield.com/brazil-denie...
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Eddie Pasa
Профиль Vively49/he, him/Northern VA. (That one's for you from the AOL a/s/l days.) VA/DC/MD musician (https://facebook.com/eddiepasamusic/). Movie reviewer (https://dcfilmdom.com). At home wherever my family is. Or on a cruise. More: https://linktr.ee/eddiepasa
Musk was humiliated in his interview with The Economist editor Zanny Minton Beddoes. She called him out on his bullshit, pointed out his lies and ignorance and extreme prejudice. We need more interviews like that. This is the response of the world’s thinnest-skinned man.
I wrote a tribute to Kaylee Hottle, the deaf actress whose performance as Jia was the heart of two of the Legendary Pictures Kaiju films, Godzilla vs Kong and Godzilla x Kong. Killed at 18 in a car wreck. A staggering loss. www.rogerebert.com/tributes/wha...
New details are emerging around Trump’s role in the diarrhea parasite outbreak. 2025: Taylor Farms donates $1M to Trump’s Super PAC — 1 week later, Trump delays the “Food Traceability Rule" 2026: Diarrhea parasite breaks out across the US, Taylor Farms lettuce tests positive And there’s more.
So Weird Al turned down an AI ad and also the Riyadh comedy festival and the lesson is Weird Al has more integrity than the vast majority of entertainers triblive.com/aande/music/...
The Pentagon quietly dropped four dead soldiers from the public casualty count because they died after Trump's fake ceasefire. Trump then cited the higher number himself. They're hiding American war dead to protect a lie, and the soldiers' families know the math. www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...
When 13 soldiers died on Joe Biden’s watch because Biden was *ending a war* that had killed Americans for two decades, these people acted like Biden shot the soldiers himself
Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBCNot a single network aired this on their nightly news broadcasts yesterday. They described Trump overseeing a "somber ceremony" and called it a "moving moment." The only way to know what trump actually said about the soldiers he killed is to follow aaron rupar which no offense to aaron is insane
I coach kids football. My team hasn't won a game all season. That's because I have an inclusive team and take all kids who want to play. I'm oversubscribed. I look down on coaches whose teams win because they kicked out all the weaker children.
AP News: "The Israeli military is building a giant barrier separating over 50% of the Gaza Strip it controls from the rest of the territory." Life is hell for the displaced Gazans. Please give to my friend Tasneem so she can take care of her family. And to others. 🙏💕 chuffed.org/project/1587...
Repost @mickydolenz: This month in 1967, @themonkees released “Pleasant Valley Sunday.” Written by the extraordinary Gerry Goffin and Carole King, the song reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 11 in the U.K. And somehow, it still feels just as much fun to sing all these years later.
The satellite that watches the eastern United States for storms went blind for 20 hours in July. NOAA cannot yet say why. Its backup sits weeks away from taking over. This is what a warning system looks like after the people who ran it were cut and its research arm marked for the axe.
Reminder: Hegseth was pushed out of TWO veterans nonprofits amid financial mismanagement allegations, running groups into debt, overspending on parties/events, and treating funds like personal accounts. Now, he's bankrupted the Pentagon despite a record budget and is demanding another $1.5 trillion
the cool thing about this country in its current situation is that someone can get elected to Congress to represent their district and go on TV and say the dumbest lies imaginable and we all have to shrug our shoulders
Aaron RuparScalise: "For God's sake -- you can't get pasta at Olive Garden without a picture ID! Why not be able to show a picture ID to vote?"
Pre internet I once drove half an hour home to get a dictionary to prove to my work colleague that the word gullible was in the dictionary. I was literally 2 mins away, on the way back, when it dawned on me.
When my kids were small I regularly read them the Mog books by Judith Kerr. As a special treat I took them to an exhibition about the author, where all the Mog series was available. I discovered the final one is called "Goodbye Mog", where she dies. Had to be helped out in tears
Sometimes I blurt out "I *love* you" to my fiancée at random moments. Little does she know that's not just the wine talking; it means I've just had a cringey memory of something from my past and the bad energy has to go somewhere.