A group of U.S. states, including California and New York, are preparing to file a lawsuit to block Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros.
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Albanians aren't just protesting. They burned down the house of their president who approved the sale of the national park to the Kushners.
This is the wayyyy
Cartoon Network drags homophobic people once again for Pride Month:
“If you don’t support the community you’re not a true Cartoon Network kid sorry 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻”
USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.
I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.
Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.
In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.
This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.
The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.
So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.
The owner asked if everything was okay.
"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."
He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"
I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.
I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.
So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.
And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.
Reborn.
A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.
@jemelhakeem@IsaacHayes3@DreAllDay Didn’t know that about Isaac Hayes. Interesting. Kinda convinced myself a while ago all non white Scientologists are just playing for power.
Sharon Stone says AI feels like a “cover band” to her: "It’s never going to be the Rolling Stones; it’s always going to be somebody singing the Rolling Stones."
"It’s never going to be me doing a performance; it’s going to be somebody faking me doing a performance. You’re never going to get my crazy idea of the day, which is always going to be better, because it’s going to be — guess what? — new. That’s what makes me interesting. I have new ideas. It’s great in many ways. The things that gather information and stack it up. It’s the tech encyclopedia. I’m all for that. But to imagine that it’s going to run ahead of us — We want to see ourselves. We don’t want to see a robot being us. It’s ew."
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Javier Bardem shares Hasan Piker's Oxford speech on the dangers of Antisemitism and conflating Zionism with Judaism from 2025 to his Instagram story
Hasan Piker has now been banned from the UK for not being "conducive to the public good" after pressure from pro-Israel groups
Yahya Abdul-Mateen says he’s actively “trying to understand where the money is coming from” in Hollywood in an effort to promote more Black stories:
“It is my goal and a part of my mission statement to push more Black and diverse stories with more Black and diverse leads at a quality level that matches what I’ve been able to do in my career thus far,” he declares. “Every time I’m on set, I’m looking at how things are being done. I’m trying to understand where the money is coming from.”
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