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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Elon Musk has gained 17 million Twitter followers since April, when he first announced plans to buy the social media company. But there is one billionaire who still has even more followers than he does. Oh, the power of an enormous Twitter following paired with an enormous fortune. Elon Musk—the world’s richest person—has 99.5 million Twitter followers who are exposed regularly to his rants and musings. He uses Twitter as a publicity tool (journalists regularly rush to cover whatever he says) and as a bully pulpit, complaining about regulators (including the Securities and Exchange Commission ), people he doesn’t like (that “pedo guy,” a term Musk used in 2019 to describe Vernon Unsworth, a British cave diver who helped rescue a trapped junior football team in Thailand. Unsworth sued for defamation and lost ) and politicians. President Joe Biden , Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders , to whom he … [Read more...] about Here Are The Billionaires With The Largest Twitter Following

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The pandemic has turned vacation shaming into a blood sport that has only intensified along with Covid-19’s third surge in the United States . Add in a blissfully clueless celebrity, and you’ve got the making of an instant viral meme. “After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine,” tweeted Kim Kardashian West on Tuesday, “I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.” MORE FROM FORBES Travel Alert: America's Current Covid-19 Surge Won't End Until 2021 By Suzanne Rowan Kelleher No sooner had the reality TV personality shared images of her 40th birthday celebration in Tahiti — face masks and social distancing be damned — than the vacation shaming began. While West acknowledged her “privileged” life, the backlash was swift, as many called out her post as being out … [Read more...] about How Vacation Shaming Kim Kardashian West Became Twitter’s Favorite New Meme

Ukrainian service members walk in the industrial area of the city of Sievierodonetsk, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, Ukraine June 20, 2022. (REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak/File Photo) KYIV/POKROVSK, Ukraine — Russian forces have fully occupied Sievierodonetsk, the mayor of the eastern Ukrainian city said on Saturday, confirming Kyiv’s biggest battlefield setback for more than a month, after weeks of some of the war’s bloodiest fighting. Ukraine called its retreat from the city a “tactical withdrawal” to fight from higher ground in Lysychansk on the opposite bank of the Siverskyi Donets river. Pro-Russian separatists said Moscow’s forces were now attacking Lysychansk. The fall of Sievierodonetsk — once home to more than 100,000 people, now a wasteland — was Russia’s biggest victory since capturing the port of Mariupol last month. It transforms the battlefield in the east after weeks in which Moscow’s huge advantage in firepower had yielded only slow gains. Russia will … [Read more...] about Ukrainian city falls to Russia in one of war’s bloodiest fights

PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Saturday she is backing a parliamentary bill to add abortion rights to the country's constitution. The move comes after the United States Supreme Court's decision on Friday to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling which recognized a woman's constitutional right to an abortion and legalized it nationwide. "For all women, for human rights, we must engrave this acquired right in stone," Borne wrote on Twitter. "The Parliament must be able to rally very strongly around this bill." Her comment came a day after French President Emmanuel Macron said abortion was a "fundamental right for all women." The issue is being thrust onto the French political stage at a time when the country is grappling with the challenge of a highly fragmented parliament. Aurore Berge, leader of the Renaissance party in the National Assembly, said the party would draft a law proposal to add abortion rights to the French constitution. … [Read more...] about French PM Borne backs enshrining abortion rights in constitution

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said the government would support the pro-abortion bill 'wholeheartedly' PARIS - Politicians representing a parliamentary majority on Saturday voiced support for a bill enshrining abortion rights in France's constitution, after the US Supreme Court revoked the nationwide legal protection for American women to terminate pregnancies. The landmark ruling by the conservative-majority court on Friday overturned almost five decades of constitutional protections for abortion in the United States, allowing individual states to regulate the procedure. The American religious right had never accepted the previous 1973 "Roe v. Wade" ruling that guaranteed US abortion rights and several conservative states immediately announced they would ban abortion. France was one of several US allies to condemn the decision, with President Emmanuel Macron denouncing a threat to women's freedom. The leader of Macron's party in parliament on Saturday said she had tabled a … [Read more...] about French government supports enshrining abortion in constitution

An IndiGo staffer called a distressed teen with disability a threat to other passengers. (Screengrab from video posted on Facebook by Manisha Gupta). It will not be long before the outrage dies down around the recent incident of private airlines IndiGo barring a specially-abled child from boarding a flight at the Ranchi airport, when things will go back to the usual, where most of us will continue to ignore and fail to acknowledge that everyday there are scores of people with disabilities who will continue to face indignity, humiliation and discrimination. The Ranchi incident, while shocking, is perhaps not far from the everyday reality that persons with disabilities (PwD) face every day in India. We must admit that we are not a country that supports the 26 million people living with either physical or learning disabilities. We have almost zero infrastructure that aids people with disabilities to help them face the stigma, discrimination and harassment that they tend to face on a … [Read more...] about Indigo case: Airlines should sensitise staff to assist special needs flyers better

Eknath Shinde Shiv Sena rebel Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde has called a meeting in the afternoon to discuss further strategy that may decide the fate of Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maharashtra, according to sources, news agency ANI reported on June 25. The rebels, led by Shinde, are camping at Radisson Blu Hotel on the outskirts of Assam's capital, Guwahati. The meeting comes on a day when Thackeray has also called a national executive meeting of Shiv Sena, a party reduced to minority after the rebellion by Shinde and the group of lawmakers accompanying him. #MaharashtraPoliticalCrisis | Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde calls a meeting at Radisson Blu Hotel in Guwahati this afternoon to discuss further strategy: Sources pic.twitter.com/NMlX685G4I — ANI (@ANI) June 25, 2022 Also, as many as sixteen MLAs who have joined rebel leader Eknath Shinde are likely to be served notices by the Deputy Speaker today. The names of … [Read more...] about Maharashtra Political Crisis | Eknath Shinde calls meeting to discuss future strategy: Report

Representative Image (Image credit: ANI/Twitter) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold meetings with over 12 world leaders during his visit to Germany and the United Arab Emirates and will have over 15 hectic engagements, official sources said on Saturday. Modi will also speak at an Indian community event in Munich, which is expected to be the largest such programme post-COVID-19. He is travelling to Germany to attend the G7 summit, to be held on June 26 and 27, and will travel to the UAE on June 28 to pay his condolences on the passing away of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the former president of the Gulf nation. Official sources said the prime minister will have multiple bilateral meetings in addition to attending the G7, a grouping of the world's seven richest nations, during his around 60-hour stay in Germany and the UAE. Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra said on Friday that Modi will hold bilateral meetings and discussions with the leaders of the G7 and also … [Read more...] about PM Modi to hold meetings with over 12 world leaders during Germany, UAE visit

Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma At a time when companies across the world are ordering employees to return to office, Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma is expounding the benefits of working from home. On Thursday, the Paytm chief announced that his digital payments platform will allow employees in tech, business and product roles to work from home or any location of their choice. This is a continuation of the remote working movement that began during the coronavirus pandemic. “We at Paytm allow you to work from home/anywhere for product, tech and business roles,” Vijay Shekhar Sharma wrote on Twitter alongside an animated video which contrasts the hectic routine of an office-going employee with the leisurely pace that is the luxury of those working from home. The Paytm founder and CEO encouraged job-seekers to visit the careers section of the Paytm website to look for current openings and “join the team that has revolutionised India’s payments for good.” We @Paytm … [Read more...] about Paytm to allow ‘work from home’ for these roles. See CEO Vijay Sharma’s tweet

Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin used to have an epic goatee. Saturday Down South tweeted out a bunch of photos of SEC football coaches from their playing days, and Kiffin looks like he was absolute trouble at Fresno State. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football) Take a look at Kiffin in the photo lineup below. He is the second guy on the lower level. SEC Coaches as Players. #tbt ???????? pic.twitter.com/3jMPjy9Y6s — Saturday Down South (@SDS) July 23, 2020 I have a feeling Kiffin was a hit with the ladies while slinging passes for Fresno State. Call me crazy, but I just have a solid feeling. Anyone who has the confidence to rock a goatee tends to be a problem with the gentler sex. I would love to drink beer with Lane Kiffin right now when he’s the head coach of Ole Miss. I’d be even more pumped to drink beer with the 21-year-old college version of Lane Kiffin. That’s the kind of guy I … [Read more...] about Lane Kiffin Rocks A Goatee In Incredible Throwback Photo