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WASHINGTONCalling for a major investigation into her husbands son and daughter from a previous marriage, President Donald Trump leveled allegations Tuesday in which he accused Kamala Harris of paying for her stepchildrens endorsement in the 2024 presidential election. How much money did Kamala give the Emhoff kids to support her during her campaign for president? Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, claiming the former vice president had operated under the guise of stepmotherhood to cover up illegal and unpatriotic public appearances by Ella and Cole Emhoff. There is no reason these stepchildren would have ever come on stage with Kamala if she hadnt bribed them. Do you mean to tell me those $250 checks she wrote to each of them last year were just their usual birthday gifts? Not a chance! At press time, Trump asserted it was corrupt and unlawful for a person seeking public office to help raise children in exchange for their endorsement.The post Trump Accuses Kamala Harris Of Paying For Stepchildrens Endorsement appeared first on The Onion.

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LONDONNoting how the new headpiece was much better suited to his royal lifestyle, King Charles III announced Wednesday that he had switched out his 5-pound, solid-gold crown for a more comfortable silicone one. Unlike my old crown, this silicone one hugs my head perfectly without digging into my forehead or smushing down my hair, said the British monarch, who enthusiastically demonstrated how much stretch the pink, rubberlike polymer could withstand without losing its shape. You would think it would make my skin all sweaty, but its actually a porous material, so I find it quite breathable. Its so comfortable, in fact, that Ive actually fallen asleep in it several times. Plus, I dont have to worry about losing a precious centuries-old heirloom with more than 400 gemstones on itthis new one came in a convenient three-pack.Charles went on to say that he knew it was time to make the switch when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, got the crown stuck in heavy machinery and had her head ripped off.The post King Charles Switches To More Comfortable Silicone Crown appeared first on The Onion.

ORLANDO, FLEmphasizing that its just words, after all, a team of relationship experts issued a recommendation Thursday that stressed the importance of saying I love you even if you dont mean it.It can be stressful when a significant other prompts you to verbalize your affection, but if you immediately say I love you, you can avoid making things even more stressful, couples therapist Randall Woodard told reporters, explaining that sometimes you just have to fake it until you make it, and thats even more true when it comes to expressing love for your partner. We actually recommend saying I love you as soon as possible after meeting someone, regardless of your true feelings. Ultimately, adult relationships are something you have to deal with even if, deep inside, youre filled with nothing more than a general numbness and you arent sure youre capable of achieving a genuine emotional attachment to another person. The reality is that partners enjoy hearing I love you and never know whether youre saying it sincerely or not.Woodard went on to offer a reminder that I love you is most effective when spoken during a fight, as it essentially functions as a get-out-of-jail-free card.The post Relationship Experts Recommend Saying I Love You Even If You Dont Mean It appeared first on The Onion.

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Aerial view of the nearly dry Ein el-Fijeh spring in the Barada Valley, Syria, Thursday, May 8, 2025. As the main water source for Damascus, its depletion has forced many residents in the capital and surrounding suburbs to rely on water from tanker trucks that draw from local wells.(AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)2025-05-20T05:00:11Z BARADA VALLEY, Syria (AP) Inside a mountain above the Syrian capital, Hassan Bashi walked through tunnels that used to be filled with water from a spring famous for its pure waters.The spring rises inside the ruins of a Roman temple in the Barada Valley and flows toward Damascus, supplying the city with drinking water for thousands of years. Normally, during the winter flood season, water fills all the tunnels and washes over much of the temple. Now, there is only a trickle of water following the driest winter in decades. Bashi, who is a guard but also knows how to operate the pumping and water filtration machines in the absence of the engineer in charge, displayed an old video on his cell phone of high waters inside the ruins. I have been working at the Ein al-Fijeh spring for 33 years and this is the first year it is that dry, Bashi said. The spring and the Barada River that it feeds are the main source of water for 5 million people, supplying Damascus and its suburbs with 70% of their water. As the city suffers its worst water shortages in years, many people now rely on buying water from private tanker trucks that fill from wells. Officials are warning that the situation could get worse in the summer and urge residents to use water sparingly while showering, cleaning or washing dishes. The Ein al-Fijeh spring is working now at its lowest level, said Ahmad Darwish, head of the Damascus City Water Supply Authority, adding that the current year witnessed the lowest rainfall since 1956. The channels that have been there since the day of the Romans two millennia ago were improved in 1920 and then again in 1980, he said.Darwish said the spring water comes mainly from rainfall and melted snow off the mountains along the border with Lebanon, but because of this years below-average rainfall, it has given us amounts that are much less than normal. There are 1.1 million homes that get water from the spring, and in order to get through the year, people will have to cut down their consumption, he said.The spring also feeds the Barada River, which cuts through Damascus and which is also mostly dry this year. In the citys eastern area of Abbasids, Bassam Jbara is feeling the shortage. His neighborhood only gets water for about 90 minutes a day, compared with previous years when water was always running when they turned on the taps.Persistent electricity cuts are making the problem worse, he said, as they sometimes have water but no power to pump it to the tankers on the roof of the building. Jbara once had to buy five barrels of undrinkable water from a tanker truck that cost him and his neighbors $15, a large amount of money in a country where many people make less than $100 a month.From what we are seeing, we are heading toward difficult conditions regarding water, he said, fearing that supplies will drop to once or twice a week over the summer. He is already economizing. The people of Damascus are used to having water every day and to drinking tap water coming from the Ein al-Fijeh spring, but unfortunately the spring is now weak, Jbara said. During Syrias nearly 14-year civil war, Ein al-Fijeh was subjected to multiple shellings, changing between forces of then- President Bashar Assad and insurgents over the years.In early 2017, government forces captured the area from insurgents and held it until December, when the five-decade Assad dynasty collapsed in a stunning offensive by fighters led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, or HTS, of current President Ahmad al-Sharaa.Tarek Abdul-Wahed returned to his home near the spring in December, nearly eight years after he was forced to leave with his family. He is now working on rebuilding the restaurant he had once owned it was blown up by Assads forces after Abdul-Wahed left.He looked at the parched region that used to be filled with tourists and Syrians who would come in the summer to enjoy the cool weather.The Ein al-Fijeh spring is the only artery to Damascus, Abdul-Wahed said as reconstruction work was ongoing in the restaurant, which had helped 15 families in the area make a living in addition to the employees who came from other parts of Syria. Now it looks like a desert. There is no one, he said. We hope that the good old days return with people coming here. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Civitai, an AI model sharing site backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is allowing users to AI generate nonconsensual porn of real people, despite the sites policies against this type of content, increased moderation efforts, and threats from payment processors to deny Civitai service.After I reached out for comment about this issue, Civitai told me it fixed the sites moderation configuration issue that allowed users to do this. After Civitai said it fixed this issue, its AI video generator no longer created noncosnensual videos of celebrities, but at the time of writing it is still allowing people to generate nonconsensual videos of non-celebrities.404 Media saw people actively using Civitai AI video generation to create nonconsensual content, highlighting an inherent difficulty with Civitai and any generative AI tool that allows creating adult content: It is difficult if not impossible to prevent people from abusing those tools.In addition to allowing users to share AI image and video generation models that have been customized to render the likeness of real people or highly specific sex acts, Civitai also has an on-site AI image and video generator. Like many other generative AI tools, it allows users to type text prompts in order to produce images or videos. Civitais on-site generator can also use the many custom models the site hosts in order to generate media.Earlier in May, I reported about a Telegram bot that allowed users to generate nonconsensual short porn videos of anyone for a small price. Shortly after I published the story, Telegram banned the bot. After the bot was banned, one Telegram community dedicated to sharing nonconsensual AI generated porn started sharing other methods for generating the same type of videos without the bot. One user shared instructions for how to generate those types of videos, and other nonconsensual porn videos, on Civitai.With 20 bucks i was able to make 30 5 second videos, that user said on Telegram.I followed the simple instructions that user provided and was able to easily generate porn videos of anyone I had an image of. After providing an image, Civitai allows users to add Additional Resources, meaning custom AI models hosted on the site. When a user clicks this option, Civitai brings up a menu of AI models to choose from. The majority of the top models the user sees first are explicitly designed for creating porn. Some of these top models have titles like Wan Cumshot, Wan POV Missionary, Wan Cowgirl, and Wan POV Blowjob. Wan refers to the open-weights Alibaba developed AI model its based on. If the Civitai user changed their settings to allow NSFW content, these models show up first.To generate videos, Civitai users have to spend Buzz, the site's on-site currency that they can buy or earn by performing certain actions, like completing Bounties. Users can buy Buzz in bundles ranging from 5,000 Buzz for $5 to 40,000 Buzz for $40. The price of generations varies based on how long a video is and what Additional Resources its using, but all the generations I paid for cost between 400 to 600 Buzz.In April, Civitai introduced new rules and moderation efforts against nonconsensual content as well as a few other types of adult content after payment processors threatened to stop processing payments for Civitai unless it makes these changes. At the time, Civitai announced that its partnering with Clavata, whose image ingestion and analysis system represents the most advanced and accurate solution we have encountered to-date. This new system will work in tandem with our in-house scanning tools to significantly improve the reliability of image tagging and rating.Every video request now passes through two layers of review, Civitais CEO Justin Maier told me in an email on Monday. 1. Pre-generation gate If the seed image does not contain verifiable AI-generation metadata, the request is limited to a content level that prohibits sexual content and other mature themes. 2. Post-generation scan Each video is then frame-scanned by Clavata under a custom policy that applies a content level (PGXXX) and blocks anything that violates our Terms of Service, including CSAM, incest, or non-consensual likeness.Maier said that The post-generation video scan was not firing as expected for a subset of requests. We identified and fixed the configuration issue within hours of your note.Maier did not immediately respond to a follow up question about why the site is still allowing users to generate nonconsensual content of random people and how the company plans to prevent this in the future.In 2023, I reported that Civitai was generating images that could be categorized as child pornography, according to OctoML, the company that was helping it generate images on the backend. After 404 Media published that story, OctoML dropped Civitai as a client, and Civitai introduced new guardrails to prevent people from generating nonconsensual content on-site. One basic measure Civitai introduced made it so its on-site AI image generator would refuse to generate prompts that described celebrities in sexual scenarios. After this change, for example, the image generator refused to generate an image of Taylor Swift nude.Our previous reporting showed that image-to-video tools are currently harder to moderate. Its much easier to filter out text like Taylor Swift and refuse to generate images that include that phrase in a written prompt than it is to detect whether the likeness of a celebrity is included in an image a user is trying to animate. Additionally, theres no practical way Im aware of to filter out the likeness of non-celebrities. The only surefire way of preventing people from generating nonconsensual sexual videos on a platform like Civitai is preventing them from generating any type of adult content, period.In 2023, 404 Media first reported that Civitai had raised $5.1 million in a seed funding round led by a16z. The investment is notable not only because Civitai took money from one of the most influential venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, but because according to a 2024 transparency report, Maier said that while revenue is growing, the company is still operating at a loss.According to that report, with the exception of salaries, most of the sites expenses are in GPUs: Providing generation, training, and content labeling services. In other words, the company spent $1.2 million, or 22.40 percent of its total spend, mostly on generating media. Most of the revenue came from generation as well. $1.7 million or 80.31 percent of its revenue came from onsite image and video inference using Yellow Buzz.We haven't had any more rounds of investment since our Seed round with a16z, Maier told me. Civitai is currently self-sustaining on product revenue.

Nature, Published online: 20 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01558-2Noises in nearby greenery heard before a thunderbolt, and the physics of a peculiar echo made by fences in our weekly dip into Natures archive.

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This undated photo provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows cucumbers recalled for salmonella. (U.S. Food and Drug Administration via AP)2025-05-20T14:46:11Z U.S. health officials are investigating a new outbreak of salmonella illnesses tied to a Florida grower whose tainted cucumbers were linked to more than 550 illnesses last year.Cucumbers grown by Florida-based Bedner Growers and distributed by Fresh Start Produce Sales have been linked to illnesses in at least 26 people in 15 states, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported late Monday. At least nine people have been hospitalized; no deaths have been reported. The cucumbers were sold to restaurants, stores and food service distributors between April 29 and May 19 and may still be within their shelf life this week. Illnesses were reported between April 2 and April 28, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The outbreak was detected as part of a follow-up inspection in April to a 2024 outbreak that sickened 551 people and led to 155 hospitalizations in 34 states and Washington, D.C. In that outbreak, investigators found salmonella bacteria linked to many of the illnesses in untreated canal water used at farms operated by Bedner Growers and Thomas Produce Company. In the current outbreak, officials found salmonella bacteria from samples on the farm that matched samples from people who got sick. Health officials are investigating where the potentially contaminated cucumbers were distributed. Several people who fell ill ate cucumbers on cruise ships leaving ports in Florida, according to the CDC. Organic cucumbers are not affected, officials said. Retailers should notify consumers who may have bought the tainted produce. If consumers dont know the source of cucumbers, they should throw them away, officials said. Symptoms of salmonella poisoning include diarrhea, fever, severe vomiting, dehydration and stomach cramps. Most people who get sick recover within a week. Infections can be severe in young children, older adults and people with weakened immune systems, who may require hospitalization. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. JONEL ALECCIA Aleccia covers food and nutrition at The Associated Press. She is based in Southern California. twitter mailto

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill talks with the media in front of the Hale Boggs Federal Building in New Orleans, May 19, 2025, after meeting with federal officials about the recent Orleans Parish Prison jail break. (David Grunfeld/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File)2025-05-20T14:08:34Z NEW ORLEANS (AP) Authorities have arrested an Orleans Parish Sheriffs Office employee in connection with the escape of 10 inmates, the Louisiana Attorney Generals office confirmed Tuesday. Sheriff Susan Hutson has said she believes the jail break was an inside job and last week told reporters her agency had suspended three employees pending an investigation.Its almost impossible, not completely, but almost impossible for anybody to get out of this facility without help, she said of the Orleans Justice Center, a correctional facility where 1,400 people are being held.The inmates escaped through a hole in a wall behind a toilet in the early hours of Friday while the lone guard watching them went to get food. This guard was not the employee arrested, Lester Duhe, a spokesperson for the Attorney Generals Office, told the Associated Press in a text message. Duhe did not provide the name of the person arrested or detail possible charges.At least one of the steel bars protecting plumbing fixtures appeared to have been intentionally cut using a tool, the sheriffs office stated. The inmates quickly shed their uniforms and changed into regular clothes. The absence of the inmates, many charged with or convicted of violent offenses such as murder, was not reported for hours. Four have since been apprehended and six remain at large. Since the escape, Hutson has pointed to long-standing deficiencies such as faulty locks and staffing shortages. But a growing number of state and local officials have said blame for the escape rests squarely on her for failing her responsibility to keep inmates locked up.The New Orleans City Council is scheduled to discuss the jail break with the sheriffs office and other authorities at a Tuesday meeting. JACK BROOK Brook covers Louisiana government, infrastructure and environmental issues from New Orleans. He is a Report for America corps member. twitter mailto

Elon Musk gestures as he arrives for a state dinner hosted by Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in honor of President Donald Trump at Lusail Palace in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)2025-05-20T14:01:09Z DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Billionaire Elon Musk said Tuesday hes committed to being CEO of Tesla in five years time as the automaker faced intense consumer and stockprice pressure over his work with President Donald Trumps government.The question came as Musk made a video appearance at the Qatar Economic Forum hosted by Bloomberg after Musk recently traveled to Doha as part of Trumps Mideast trip last week.A moderator asked: Do you see yourself and are you committed to still being the chief executive of Tesla in five years time?Musk responded: Yes.The moderator pushed further: No doubt about that at all?Musk added, chuckling: I cant be still here if Im dead. Tesla has faced intense pressure as Musk worked with Trump as part of its self-described Department of Government Efficiency effort, particularly amid its campaign of cuts across the U.S. federal government.

Subscribe Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. Success Great! Check your inbox and click the link. Error Please enter a valid email address. The Chicago Sun-Times newspapers Best of Summer section published over the weekend contains a guide to summer reads that features real authors and fake books that they did not write was partially generated by artificial intelligence, the person who generated it told 404 Media.The article, called Summer Reading list for 2025, suggests reading Tidewater by Isabel Allende, a multigenerational saga set in a coastal town where magical realism meets environmental activism. Allendes first climate fiction novel explores how one family confronts rising sea levels while uncovering long-buried secrets. It also suggests reading The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir, another science-driven thriller by the author of The Martian. This time, the story follows a programmer who discovers that an AI system has developed consciousnessand has been secretly influencing global events for years. Neither of these books exist, and many of the books on the list either do not exist or were written by other authors than the ones they are attributed to.

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Congresswoman Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., exits the grounds at Delancey Hall ICE detention prison, Friday, May 9, 2025, in Newark, N.J, (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)2025-05-20T15:04:17Z Federal prosecutors alleged Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey pushed and grabbed officers while attempting to block the arrest of the Newark mayor outside an immigration detention facility, according to charges in court papers unsealed on Tuesday.In an eight-page complaint, interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habbas office said McIver was protesting the removal of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka from a congressional tour of the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark on May 9. The complaint says she attempted to stop the arrest of the mayor and pushed into agents for Homeland Security Investigations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She faces two counts of assaulting, resisting and impeding an officer. McIver has denied any wrongdoing and has accused federal agents of escalating the situation by arresting the mayor. She denounced the charge as purely political and said prosecutors are distorting her actions in an effort to deter legislative oversight. Habba had charged Baraka with trespassing after his arrest but dismissed the allegation on Monday when she said in a social media post she instead was charging the congresswoman. Prosecuting McIver is a rare federal criminal case against a sitting member of Congress for allegations other than fraud or corruption. The case instantly taps into a broader and more consequential struggle between a Trump administration engaged in overhauling immigration policy and a Democratic party scrambling to respond. Within minutes of Habbas announcement, McIvers Democratic colleagues cast the prosecution as an infringement on lawmakers official duties to serve their constituents and an effort to silence their opposition to an immigration policy that helped propel the president back into power but now has emerged as divisive fault line in American political discourse. Members of Congress are authorized by law to go into federal immigration facilities as part of their oversight powers, even without advance notice. Congress passed a 2019 appropriations bill that spelled out the authority. A nearly two-minute clip released by the Homeland Security Department shows McIver on the facility side of a chain-link fence just before the arrest of the mayor on the street side of the fence. She and uniformed officials go through the gate and she joins others shouting they should circle the mayor. The video shows McIver in a tightly packed group of people and officers. At one point her left elbow and then her right elbow push into an officer wearing a dark face covering and an olive green uniform emblazoned with the word Police on it.It isnt clear from bodycam video whether that contact was intentional, incidental or a result of jostling in the chaotic scene. The complaint says she slammed her forearm into an agent and then tried to restrain the agent by grabbing him. Tom Homan, President Donald Trumps top border adviser, said during an interview on Fox News Tuesday she broke the law and were going to hold her accountable You cant put hands on an ICE employee. were not going to tolerate it, he said. McIver, 38, first came to Congress in September in a special election after the death of Rep. Donald Payne Jr. left a vacancy in the 10th District. She was then elected to a full term in November. A Newark native, she served as the president of the Newark City Council from 2022 to 2024 and worked in the citys public schools before that.House Democratic leaders decried the criminal case against their colleague in a lengthy statement in which they called the charge extreme, morally bankrupt and lacking any basis in law or fact. MIKE CATALINI Catalini covers government, elections and news primarily in New Jersey for The Associated Press. He focuses on accountability and how policy affects people. twitter ERIC TUCKER Tucker covers national security in Washington for The Associated Press, with a focus on the FBI and Justice Department. twitter mailto

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md., is photographed on Oct. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)2025-05-20T15:00:56Z WASHINGTON (AP) Annual COVID-19 shots for healthy younger adults and children will no longer be routinely approved under a major new policy shift unveiled Tuesday by the Trump administration.Top officials for the Food and Drug Administration laid out new requirements for yearly updates to COVID shots, saying theyd continue to use a streamlined approach that would make vaccines available to adults 65 and older as well as children and younger adults with at least one health problem that puts them at higher risk.But the FDA framework urges companies conduct large, lengthy studies before tweaked vaccines can be approved for healthier people. In a framework published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, agency officials said the approach still could keep annual vaccinations available for between 100 million and 200 million adults. The upcoming changes raise questions about people who may still want a fall COVID-19 shot but dont clearly fall into one of the categories.Is the pharmacist going to determine if youre in a high-risk group? asked Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. The only thing that can come of this will make vaccines less insurable and less available. The framework, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, is the culmination of a series of recent steps scrutinizing the use of COVID shots and raising major questions about the broader availability of vaccines under President Donald Trump. For years, federal health officials have told most Americans to expect annual updates to COVID-19 vaccines, similar to the annual flu shot. Just like with flu vaccines, until now the FDA has approved updated COVID shots when manufacturers provide evidence that they spark just as much immune protection as the previous years version.But FDAs new guidance appears to be the end of that approach under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, who has filled the FDA and other health agencies with outspoken critics of the governments handling of COVID shots, particularly their recommendation for young, healthy adults and children. Tuesdays update, written by FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and FDA vaccine chief Vinay Prasad, criticized the U.S.s one-size-fits-all approach and states that the U.S. has been the most aggressive in recommending COVID boosters, when compared with European countries.We simply dont know whether a healthy 52-year-old woman with a normal BMI who has had Covid-19 three times and has received six previous doses of a Covid-19 vaccine will benefit from the seventh dose, they wrote.Outside experts say there are legitimate questions about how much everyone still benefits from yearly COVID vaccination or whether they should be recommended for people at increased risk. An influential panel of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is set to debate that question next month.The FDA framework announced Tuesday appears to usurp that advisory panels job, Offit said. He added that CDC studies have made clear that booster doses do offer protection against mild to moderate illness for four to six months after the shot even in healthy people.___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. MATTHEW PERRONE Perrone covers the intersection of medicine, business and health policy. He is based in Washington. twitter mailto LAURAN NEERGAARD Neergaard is an Associated Press medical writer who covers research on brain health, infectious diseases, organ transplantation and more. She is based in Washington, D.C. mailto

What did we do to deserve Pedro Pascal? Our favorite daddy has once again sent the internet ablaze, and this time, all it took was showing off his arms.Over the weekend, Pascal made waves for his playful behavior at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, where he showed up to support and promote his upcoming film, Eddington.For what it's worth, the A24 film, directed by Ari Aster, received a five-minute standing ovation, which may or may not have had a direct correlation with his arms. I mean, look at the material:Whew.Pascal showed up on the red carpet in the above black muscle tank, which gloriously showed off those biceps we've all collectively decided we want to sleep in. If you ask me, I'd have the best night of sleep if I were held in those arms. A man can dream, can't he?Eddington is an American contemporary Western film that depicts the social and political turmoil during the COVID-19 pandemic in the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico. It centers around a standoff between the local sheriff, Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) and Pascal, who plays the town's mayor Ted Garcia and is running for reelection.The movie itself caused a bit of divide and wound up being one of the most divisive movies at the festival due to its depiction of everyone's worst fears during the pandemic, as well as the close proximity we still are to that time. It's also viewed as a social satire that both mocks and examines the panic from that year, with little pokes at both the liberal and conservative sides of the coin.At a press conference during the festival, Pascal addressed some of the controversy by saying, "It's very scary to participate in a movie that speaks to issues like this. Its far too intimidating a question for me to address. I'm not informed enough. I want people to be safe and protected. I want very much to be on the right side of history." (@) He added, "I feel like [Aster] wrote something that was all our worst fears as that lockdown experience was already a fracturing society. This was building toward an untethered sense of reality. There is a point of no going back. I was overwhelmed by that fear, and it's wonderful that it was confirmed by Ari."Outside of the seriousness of the film and the discussions during the press conference--which also included Pascal defending immigrants and telling us he came as a refugee from Chile to flee a dictatorship--his personality influenced the wildfire that sent fans in a frenzy that reminded us we really don't deserve him.Him spinning out of camera like this with a little kiss? It's just too damn cute for words. (@) His acting skills have made us h-word, been viewed as one of the hottest male celebs, and has wielded multiple types of swords throughout his 20-plus years in the industry.All of this plays a part in why the gays and the rest of the world totally love this man. He's made jokes about being into submission, defended Rachel Zegler over the Snow White controversy, and has shown what non-toxic masculinity looks like through his friendship with Oscar Isaac.His willingness to be a goofball at events like Cannes, where he stuck out his tongue, took selfies with adoring fans, and even kissed Alexander Skarsgrd, also has everyone hanging on his every move. It seems like every time he shows up to an event and every acting role he takes on just makes him a bigger celebrity that we simply cannot get enough of. (@) We collectively share a thirst for this man that is borderline unrivaled by any other we have ever seen. Pascal's established himself as a staunch and fierce ally for the LGBTQ+ community. He's passionately defended his trans sister, Lux, played bisexual characters like Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones, and has multiple bromances that send our fantasies out of this world.Plus, he has at least admitted that he wants to make out with actor Kieran Culkin, and we very much maintain that this needs to happen, and we'd love the "pics or it didn't exist" resolution after he talked about this during the SAG Awards earlier this year. In a world that's so chaotic, we need someone like Pascal to deliver us humor, drama, and equality. In our opinion, he deserves every good thing that happens to him and more, and we remain eternally grateful for everything he gives us.Especially those damn arms.Although the people of the Cannes Film Festival have been lucky enough to see Eddington, the rest of us are going to have to wait until July 18 for the film to see its U.S. release. In the meantime, you can watch Pascal on the current season of HBO's The Last of Us.

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