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RT @lunwi75: Remember when Musk challenged the World Food Program to explain how he could solve world hunger with just $6 billion, they did…
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Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
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Glad to see Vanity Fair backing its reporter with this one and shame on Unwell Network for trying to belittle a young reporter into dropping a story. This alone is pretty telling.
Jun 12
Vanity Fair has spoken to more than 40 sources, at least 30 of whom are current or former Unwell employees—most of them women in their 20s—about their experiences with Alex Cooper and her husband, Matt Kaplan, the company’s cofounder and co-CEO.
Where's the line between feminism for uplifting the next generation of women and feminism weaponized to insulate oneself at the top? And what does it mean when ultimately a man appears to be in charge of it all? vanityfair.visitlink.me/anvB…
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And that's not even After School's best song 😌
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Highest rated kpop songs of all time, according to RateYourMusic:
1. Afterschool - Shh
2. Red Velvet - Russian Roulette
3. SHINee - Sherlock
4. Fromis_9 - Love Bomb
5. WJSN - Pantomime
6. Loona Odd Eye Circle - Girl Front
7. Kwon Eunbi - Glitch
8. Loona - Hi High
9. f(x) - 4 Walls
10. Girls Generation - Gee
11. SHINee - View
12. Loona Odd Eye Circle - Loonatic
13. Kim Lip (Loona) - Eclipse
14. TWICE - Fancy
15. Girls Genreration - Genie
16. f(x) - Shadow
17. NewJeans - Ditto
18. Sulli - Dorothy
19. GFRIEND - Mago
20. BTS - Outro: House of Cards
21. Red Velvet - Bad Boy
22. Red Velvet - Automatic
23. Luna - Free Somebody
24. Ladies Code - Galaxy
25. f(x) - Red Light
26. Red Velvet - Kingdom Come
27. Loona 1/3 - Sonatine
28. Orange Caramel - Catallena
29. LOONA yyxy - Love4eva
30. HyeJu (Loona) - Egoist
31. Chuu (Loona) - Heart Attack
32. Loona - Hula Hoop
33. EVERGLOW - La Di Da
34. EXO - Call Me Baby
35. EXO - Tempo
36. Choerry (Loona) - Love Cherry Motion
37. TWICE - Feel Special
38. STAYC - So Bad
39. Wonder Girls - Rewind
40. Afterschool - Heaven
41. Loona Odd Eye Circle - Sweet Crazy Love
42. Yukika - Soul Lady
43. Loona - Butterfly
44. Sulli - On The Moon
45. f(x) - Rum Pum Pum Pum
46. BTS - Run
47. Red Velvet - Bamboleo
48. NMIXX - High Horse
49. TWICE - TT
50. Ladies Code - The Rain
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This is actually huge
Jun 12
A court has ordered Justin Baldoni to pay Blake Lively's legal fees.
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Jun 12
The tactics you need to employ in order to get an elephant to behave in this fashion are so horrific I can’t post them.
If this were 30 years ago, I still wouldn’t accept it, but I would understand that perhaps people didn’t know what goes into this sort of training.
Now, there is no excuse.
@GregAbbott_TX
Jun 12
The Texas GOP having an elephant at its convention means the Texas GOP enables animal abuse.
And Governor @GregAbbott_TX’s name is on the banner, which also means he condones and enables the abuse of an elephant.
It is scientifically and biologically impossible to have an elephant become controllable in this fashion without subjecting it to abuse.
Elephants are not domesticated.
In order to accomplish this sort of obedience, you have to break the elephant down.
Absolutely horrific.
And it is worth noting that Texas still doesn’t have a statewide ban on the use of bullhooks against elephants. x.com/serrano_alej/status/20…
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The billionaires behind the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger want you to think it's a done deal. But it's not.
"Like all good billionaires, they want what they do to seem inevitable [...] The reality is this thing will be challenged," says @BedoyaUSA
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Jun 12
In @BTS_twt's newly unveiled song "Come Over," Jung Kook is credited for the chorus and background vocals sharing his additional efforts put into the recording
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This pretty photo of @ITZYofficial just popped up on my phone and I had to share it 😍 hi, Chaeryeong!!
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In addition to producing, composing and co-writing @BTS_twt's newly released song "Come Over," Suga handled the guitar on the track, while also working on its drums, synthesizers and bass
He's also credited as one of the track's programmers alongside producers Cirkut and Ammo
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Jun 11
No, they aren’t. Woodward and Bernstein didn’t wait to write a book before revealing to truth.
Jun 11
New York Times investigative journalists Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman are this generation's Woodward and Bernstein.
This story is Trump's Watergate and it's about to EXPLODE:
Vice President JD Vance, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, former Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, White House Counsel David Warrington, FBI Director Kash Patel, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, and former Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich converted the hallowed Situation Room — America's nerve center for real threats and decisive action — into a pedophile protection racket, where top officials huddled to cover-up the Epstein files scandal and protect a president who used to rape children for fun.
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Jun 11
Mehdi Hasan: “Some people say Bari Weiss will be fired because the ratings are going down and the chaos. That misunderstands what’s going on here. She’s not there to make CBS win in the ratings. She’s there to make CBS a safe place for Trump and MAGA”
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*He* toured the world?! No no, Akon. @ladygaga took literally every and any gig, brought excellence and media savviness, and even when the results weren't huge, she continued on like she was the biggest star in the world until she was
Jun 11
Akon recalls signing Lady Gaga and working for a full year to break “Just Dance” after it failed to take off at first:
“I literally had to tour the world to push it”
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Oh this is an interview with one of those weird trumpy podcasters, should have known
Not discounting Akon's work or investment on the label side but don't act like she was stuck at home while you apparently "toured" the song. There was probably a reason she left Konvict quickly
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Jun 11
JIHYO will feature on RedOne's World Cup Song 'Follow Me' alongside French Montana, LUDMILLA, and Adriana C. Out June 12.
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The latest in this year's #Kpop calendar
JUN.K (2PM)
Sandara Park (2NE1)
BTS
JAY B (GOT7)
JACOB (THE BOYZ)
i-dle
YEONJUN (TXT)
AleXa
aespa
HAN (Stray Kids)
EVAN (formerly Heeseung)
Rothy
CLASS:y
Hearts2Hearts
a hint about something else coming soon 👀
forbes.com/sites/jeffbenjami…
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