For a country with a much smaller population than India and China, at 11 crore (110 million), the Filipino population in the US is quite huge.

Almost 4% of the Philippines population lives in the US !

As they are fond of telling immigrants to 'go back to their origin country and fix the problems there', maybe he should do the same and go back to Cuba.

🤡 Orban

Trust is essential for large complex societies to thrive. We need to be able to trust our teachers, doctors, media, various institutions etc.. and also economic actors.. from the milk supplier to the vast online market places.

Being trustworthy lowers the cost of business and makes it efficient.

Even the original architect quit due to demands to increase the scope..

At that time (5 Dec 2025), the projected cost was 300 million

Well, Russia and the US promised in writing, in the Budapest Memorandum 1994, to guarantee the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine... in return for Ukraine giving up a stockpile of nukes and signing NPT.

That's the real promise to ne honoured.

Interesting ! Despite partly walking back, blaming reporting 'out of context', it looks like she may be wanting to quit..

Sadly he himself fell victim to a gun. But his supporters haven't changed their minds about gun control . Conservatives still vehemently oppose having reasonable gun control measures.

It is frustrating.

It is incomprehensible for everyone, except in the US.

Charlie Kirk, the highly influential youth activist, once said:

"I think it’s worth it to have a cost; unfortunately, of some gun deaths every single year. So that we can have our Second Amendment to protect our other God given rights."
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Journalists should ask the press secretary every day, to give a break up of the 18 trillion dollars investment, in the form of a detailed report.

There will always be inequality. The problem is that inequality is rising very fast.

Also, if buying a house costed 10 times the annual salary 50 years before, it is 20 times now.

IMO, making housing, healthcare, education etc.. affordable is the answer, not communism, which doesn't work.

Poetic use of malapropisms !

It works for the right though.. like trump always says "if you vote dems, we will not have a country anymore". That is because of Fox news, televangelists etc constantly drumming up this message.

But i agree, just demonising the right will not work. Need a positive message, like Mamdani had.

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life……. “

The harmony is just wonderful and heart warming. A short reel..

Carol of the bells:

Shchedryk with English lyrics:

The song tells of a swallow flying into a home to announce a prosperous, wealthy year ahead with healthy livestock and good fortune, symbolizing joy, fertility, and the promise of renewal for the New Year.

Original Ukrainian version of Shchedryk (bountiful or generous in Ukrainian)

The Ukrainian song was popularized in the west by the Ukrainian National Chorus in a 1919 tour

I think this tariff on rice and the additional visa restrictions are just part of petty revenge against the recent Modi-Putin meeting.

Notwithstanding the horrible thing she has done in the past, her courageous stand was key to congress voting to release the Epstein files. She also apologised for her toxic behaviour once.
In my opinion, she is better than the congressmen who still support the Trump regime.