I had a saree emergency and the women quickly rushed to my aid and fixed it. These were random women having a celebration in the temple. Can the Nepalese government adopt me cos I feel at home here. pic.twitter.com/RfTvtNAZFH
I may or may not have hopped on a plane to another city called Pokhara in Nepal. We shall not be talking about Nepalese aviation. Just pray and proceed. It was great visit. #VisitNepalpic.twitter.com/TxuTb9z6rU
John Fetterman’s TikTok Whisperer Fresh off a frantic election cycle, the former Fetterman campaign social media producer — and dedicated Swiftie — takes time to shake it off.
Jimmy Kimmel Jokes About Elon Musk’s Business Acumen Maybe Musk “finally read ‘The Art of the Deal,’” Kimmel said, after reports emerged that Twitter had stopped paying its bills. ........ Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest person, following a drop in Tesla shares. And one of his other companies, Twitter, has stopped paying rent on its offices and has stiffed some of its vendors ....... “Of all the problems I would have guessed the second-richest man in the world would have, paying rent wasn’t one of them,” Jimmy Kimmel said. “Maybe he should change the name from Twitter to ‘Squatter,’ you know?”
Behind Argentina’s World Cup Magic, an Army of Witches France might have its star Kylian Mbappé, but Argentina has hundreds of “brujas” casting spells to protect Lionel Messi and the rest of its national squad. ........ After that match, several witches started a WhatsApp group to instruct other witches on how to help the national team. They called it the Argentine Association of Witches, or La Brujineta, a play on “bruja” and “La Scaloneta,” Argentina’s nickname for its national team.
a year ago i didn’t really have a plan. i had just moved back to the east coast and had saved up some money so i could try to “take the plunge into politics”
William Shatner Explains Why His Trip to Space Was Horrible All he saw was an "immensity of death." ........ William Shatner is opening up more about his life-changing trip to the edge of space, why it freaked him out so badly, and how it turned him into an environmentalist. ........ what he felt was entirely different: the "deepest grief" he'd ever experienced in his life. ........ the actor said that when he looked at space, he could only see death. ........ "I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet." ....... it awakened him to how foolhardy it is to look outwards into space while we humans are in the process of utterly decimating our climate........ I had to get to space to understand that Earth is, and will remain, our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable." ....... "We need world leaders to give their diplomats a powerful mandate for these talks: agree on strong targets to change the way we produce food, to drastically cut pollution, and to conserve 50 percent of our planet’s land and ocean," he wrote,
"with the active leadership of Indigenous peoples and local communities, who have historically been pioneers on all these necessary actions."
.......... it instilled in him a deep, if not late-in-life, commitment to saving the planet from the worst effects of climate change.
He’s not a serious person. He does things for sport that have serious consequences for real people. This is an open, global service. US politics is not much of Twitter. (K-pop might be bigger.) Also, in other places lives are at stake.
Three scenarios for how war in Ukraine could play out The best one for Ukraine is also the most dangerous ..... that Ukraine would still be an independent state eight months later; that Ukraine’s army would have killed or wounded 80,000 Russians; that the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet would be at the bottom of that sea; and that Ukraine’s air force would still be flying. Ukraine has defied expectations. It is winning the war. .......... The third scenario is the most encouraging—and perhaps the most dangerous. Ukraine keeps the initiative and the momentum, inflicting heavy damage on Russian forces as they leave Kherson and then bringing its long-range himars rockets within range of Crimea for the first time. Russian lines in Luhansk collapse, with Ukraine recapturing Severodonetsk and then quickly moving farther east. As Russian casualties mount, new recruits refuse to fight. Western countries rush new air-defence systems to Ukraine, blunting the impact of Russia’s terror tactics, based on its rapidly dwindling arsenal of precision missiles. .......... In the spring Mr Zelensky orders his army to open a new front in Zaporizhia. Five brigades slice through Russian lines, cutting Mr Putin’s land bridge to Crimea and encircling Mariupol by the summer. Ukraine moves its himars rocket launchers into the south, targeting ports, bases and depots in Russian-occupied Crimea. Ukraine threatens to enter the peninsula. Mr Putin issues an ultimatum: stop, or face the use of nuclear weapons. Victory is within sight. But so, too, are the risks that it brings. .
A Pastor and Politician Who Sees Voting as a Form of Prayer Raphael Warnock, a son of Savannah public housing who rose to become Georgia’s first Black senator, secured a full six-year term and a spot among Democrats’ rising stars. ......... He likened voting to a “prayer for the world we desire,” and called democracy the “political enactment of a spiritual idea,” that everyone has a divine spark. ....... has long believed that “the church’s work doesn’t end at the church door. That’s where it starts.” ........ “He has the ability to do both the poetry and the prose of politics in a way that I think is rare.” ......... He won over young progressives on college campuses and, polling before the runoff showed, Black voters across the board. He performed strongly in Atlanta’s racially and ethnically diverse suburbs, and secured support from some Georgians who voted for Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, but split their tickets to back Mr. Warnock — reviving a crossover voting practice that some political observers had assumed was all but extinct. ........ a moral sincerity, an empathy, a hard-working life story from where he started from to where he is now, and a relatability and a sense of humor.” ......... Raphael Gamaliel Warnock was born on July 23, 1969, the 11th of 12 children, to a family of modest means. His father was a pastor who also “hauled junk, mostly abandoned cars,” offering the metal in exchange for cash, he wrote in his 2022 memoir “A Way Out of No Way,” while his mother took care of the family at home, later becoming a pastor. .......... “She grew up in the 1950s in Waycross, Ga., picking somebody else’s cotton and somebody else’s tobacco,” Mr. Warnock said in his victory speech. “But tonight she helped pick her youngest son to be a United States senator.” .......... His own brother was sentenced to life in prison, in a nonviolent drug-related offense involving an F.B.I. informant, a turn of events that shaped Mr. Warnock’s views of the criminal justice system. ......... In that contest, as in this year’s, Mr. Warnock leaned heavily into his identity as a pastor, making it harder for Republicans to cast him as a generic Democrat. ......... “He’s literally in Martin Luther King’s pulpit every weekend” ........ Warnock effectively defined himself in a way that allowed him to both keep the Democratic base energized and to engage the middle. ........ “He’s up there with, as far as sheer talent, up there with Clinton and Obama.” .
Brazil Trounces South Korea, With Flair Vinícius Júnior, Neymar, Richarlison and Lucas Paquetá all scored in the first half for Brazil, which advances to the quarterfinals. ........... That is how carefree a game it was for Brazil, how much joy it took in dismantling an outmatched South Korea squad in the round of 16 on a balmy Monday night in Doha. The Brazilians repeated the same pattern all night — coldblooded goal, happy dance — until the final whistle blew to end their fun. The lopsided score, 4-1, somehow did not fully capture the team’s dominance. ........ the outburst of collective skill, surely cemented its status as one of the favorites to lift the FIFA World Cup Trophy on Dec. 18. ....... Brazil advances to its eighth consecutive World Cup quarterfinal .
