Esther Ciammachilli

Rather than part of what seems to be the birth of another superhero squad franchise? Yes.

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Saw the new Superman movie last night. Best Superman film in decades. (I’d say ever but I don’t want to disrespect the legacy of the late, great Christopher Reeve — a real-world super man)

We Can Save Public Radio and Television Viewers and listeners like us.

"No matter where I lived, I knew this was guaranteed because after moving into a new place, we’d plug in our old box television, adjust the shitty little antenna just so, and voila, like magic, there was PBS. It was free."

The cashier at the grocery store told me my total for groceries was $173.34. I demanded they be fired and replaced with a cashier who will tell me I only owe $40.

This is what we’re doing now, right?

Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal money to public media stations, says it's winding down operations after President Trump signed a law rescinding all funding.

Another sad day for public broadcasting. It cannot be overstated that the people worst affected by the rescission of funding for public media are the millions of Americans that rely on local NPR/PBS stations for connection to the world.
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And that's all she wrote. RFK bill passes on its first vote 9-3. (It still needs to pass at the leg meeting coming up immediately afterward, but that's a formality.)

The Council now gets a break until Sept. 17 (and so do us reporters!) Second and final vote is set for then.

That’s assuming a lot of compassion for federal employees from the administration that has taken a machete to the federal workforce.

And don’t make me play the $1.1 billion in rescinded funding for public broadcasting card. That $200 million is nearly the entire annual allocation for CPB.

Eventually these 154,000 people won’t be paid anymore because they are being laid off. $200 million for a ballroom at the White House, when the government claims it’s trying to slash spending, is staggering.

Wasn’t it Elon who said he would give $6.6 billion to the U.N. to solve world hunger if the U.N. came up with a plan for how to do it (which it did) and then he reneged?

It’s not AI. It’s not robots. It’s resources and empathy that will solve hunger, poverty, and disease.

The Trump administration is spending $200 million to build a ballroom at the White House.

The administration is also slashing hundreds of thousands of federal jobs, millions in Medicaid funding, and adding trillions to the national debt.

Efficiency at its finest. 🙃

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Me, when the water on a touchless faucet stops running while I’m washing my hands…

So sorry to hear that. Again is great, they said. The golden years, they call it. I feel like I have gold bricks in my knee joints.

I may be in my mid-40s but my knees are pushing 100.

Watch the seismic waves from the magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia sweep beneath seismic stations in North America.

By the time the waves reached North America, they are far too small to be felt by people, but can still be detected by seismic instruments. 🧪

People are shocked that weather apps are inaccurate. Meteorology is not a perfect science. It’s called a “forecast.” You want to know the weather, look out a window.

I love how falling asleep on the couch feels like a warm hug and 3 hours later I wake up with whiplash and a limp.

Thank you, Jen. 🥹

That’s exactly what I said out loud to myself while watching.

Do Tour de France spectators know that the cyclists can see them without said spectators dodging riders like they’re charging bulls and waving flags in their faces? I don’t think they do.

😂 I’m feeling moved by the lord’s work when you put it that way.

Until the Civil Rights movement, the majority of conservatives were okay with social welfare policy. Meaning, they were fine with food and income support, housing assistance, tuition assistance, etc, when it benefited whites almost exclusively.

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Maybe it’s just me but I feel like faith leaders should write sermons without AI. Teachers wouldn’t accept written work from students who used AI for an assignment. It’s strange to me that a congregation would accept an AI written sermon as an official word from god.

“Fool me once … shame on … shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”

Ozzy Osbourne was the epitome of, “Too rare to die, too wild to live.” Rest in rock, Prince of Darkness.

Ozzy Osbourne was the epitome of, “Too rare to die, too wild to live.” Rest in rock, Prince of Darkness.

Next they’re going to tell everyone who killed JFK and where Jimmy Hoffa is. Everything except what’s in those Epstein files.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.