Alex Eala ’s haters seem to expect her to win every tournament, but Filipino fans simply want her to go as far as she can in every competition. Whether she wins or loses, Filipinos will continue to support and cheer for her.
All this chaos.
Just to protect the Dutertes and their allies.
The country has sacrificed too much—our institutions, our democracy, and far too many lives—for the survival of people who believe they are above accountability.
it’s funny how history’s repeating itself and Somerset is becoming a youth-oriented district again for different reasons
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BREAKING: Lawyers Nicholas Kaufman and Dov Jacobs are withdrawing as defense counsels for former President Rodrigo Duterte in his crimes against humanity case in the International Criminal Court.
Olympian Eileen Gu’s #MetGala dress features 15,000 glass bubbles, took 2,550 hours to make, and blows actual bubbles. Designed by Iris van Herpen. Wow.
$100 on this corgi being a girl. I had a corgi named Moxie and she had the exact same disposition as this little girl. Female corgis generally have smaller ears and a more serious personality. They’re also more intelligent by a fairly wide margin.
Chappell Roan built the most aggressive fan-boundary framework in pop music. It is now the single biggest threat to her career.
In August 2024, a stalker showed up at her parents' house in Missouri and tracked her to a hotel room in New York. She posted TikToks setting boundaries. Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter, Lady Gaga, Lorde, and Elton John all reached out privately. The boundaries were justified.
Then the framework calcified into a system. Security doesn't distinguish between a stalker tracking her to a hotel room and an 11-year-old walking past her breakfast table in São Paulo. The guard called it "disrespect" and "harassment." Threatened to file a formal complaint with the hotel. The kid, Jorginho's stepdaughter (her biological father is Jude Law, for context on how absurd the power dynamic is here), sat there crying while her mom got lectured.
Two weeks ago in Paris, Roan confronted paparazzi outside a restaurant by filming them. Sabrina Carpenter said at the Grammys that Roan "started a movement." The framing was still working.
Today it broke. 25M+ views on this tweet. The same internet that defended her boundary TikToks in 2024 is turning on her over a child who smiled and walked away.
Jorginho has 4.9 million Instagram followers and plays for Flamengo in Brazil, where Roan is performing at Lollapalooza. He's spent his entire career being recognized by kids who want to confirm it's really him. His statement reads like a professional public figure explaining exactly how recognition encounters work and why this one was handled wrong.
The security apparatus Roan built to protect herself from genuine threats now treats every interaction as a potential violation. She has a perimeter. And perimeters make enemies out of the people who built everything inside them.
Spot on with the Singapore-Dubai parallel - but the stakes are even more explosive than most realize.
If the PRC launches its long-planned invasion of Taiwan, it will need to make sure the United States stays out of it.
That means it must first neutralize America’s nearest major forward-deployed force which is the US 7th Fleet based in Yokosuka, Japan.
We’re talking 60-70 warships, 150-180 aircraft, and over 27,000 personnel.
To keep that fleet out of the fight, Beijing would have no choice but to strike Japanese soil and bases preemptively - dragging sovereign Japan directly into the war. Japanese PM Takaichi enraged the Chinese for merely saying that this constitutes a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan and implying that Japan might be drawn into the conflict.
The 7th fleet relies on logistics and sustainment from Task Force 73 / Logistics Group Western Pacific which is headquartered in the Republic of Singapore.
Singapore’s role as the critical maintenance, resupply, and repair hub for US naval forces in the region makes it Target #2.
Just like Iran hit UAE facilities for hosting American support, the PLA would have to take out Singapore’s ports, airfields, and logistics nodes to choke off the flow of fuel, ammo, and spares.
In other words, there's a huge potential for a regional cataclysm: direct attacks on Japan and Singapore, the Malacca Strait turned into a war zone, global shipping paralyzed, and the entire US-led alliance structure under fire.
The idea that China is pursuing “peaceful development” is hard to believe when you consider its military buildup - hypersonic missiles, carrier-killers, anti-access/area-denial systems - that seem to prepare them to deal with exactly this problem of a regional fight for control and navigation of the seas.
Not many people are aware that there are 3,000 active Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) troops on rotational deployments throughout each year in Taiwan. While this is for military training (it's been ongoing since 1975), this could further complicate things for Singapore in a Taiwan conflict scenario. These troops might be trapped or become bargaining chips during a blockade or invasion.
Anyway, tl;dr: Singapore likely won't be able to stay out of it as the chokepoint it sits in will probably come into play
Do you guys realize how everyone owes JENNIE an apology? The people following her were paparazzi and resellers—not fans. Look, They even had helmet on; that explains JENNIE's reaction.
A group of cowardly men harassing her