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Spare a thought for right-royal victim Duchess Fergie – it’s been another truly hellacious week | Marina Hyde As more gushing emails emerge, Sarah Ferguson is once again rethinking her ‘supreme’ friendship with the super-rich sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Spare a thought for right-royal victim Duchess Fergie – it’s been another truly hellacious week | Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In russia, the song "putin is dead" was banned due to the threat of undermining the "constitutional order"

A court in moscow recognized the track by Ukrainian artist Seryoga Khorol as "extremist".

The prosecutor's office stated that the song contains "extremist statements and calls for hatred

Boycott the banquet, send a tweet. But ending the horror in Gaza still relies on the worst people in the world | Marina Hyde This humanitarian catastrophe is barely of passing interest to Donald Trump. The curse of our times is how little we can do about it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Boycott the banquet, send a tweet. But ending the horror in Gaza still relies on the worst people in the world | Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So acc to a very agitated Malcolm Rifkind on Today we are in a national crisis re Immigration and the only solution is to leave the EHCR. - This won’t solve anything. It’s just Brexit 2.0.
The absolute hysteria that has engulfed some politicians and the U.K. media is astonishing. To put it mildly.

This is a great read, I'd encourage Americans to read it even though you likely won't know the characters. It shows that you are should not be safe behind a screen and that there are and should be real limits to freedom of speech.

YouTube video by Jay in Kyiv Russia's Fuel Crisis Will Change the World

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‘Trump is a horror story, isn’t he?’ Stephen King on villains, dark secrets and dreams One of the world’s most successful authors answers readers’ questions on his sources of inspiration, the colour of fear, knowing when to quit – and why manual labour is invaluable for writers

‘Trump is a horror story, isn’t he?’ Stephen King on villains, dark secrets and dreams www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Hurry, hurry, hurry! It’s Trump’s great Ukraine giveaway. Bargains galore, if your name is Vladimir Putin | Marina Hyde The Art of the Deal, the Art of War: I doubt the US president has read or understood either. If Zelenskyy is a worried man, who can blame him?, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Hurry, hurry, hurry! It’s Trump’s great Ukraine giveaway. Bargains galore, if your name is Vladimir Putin | Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“It’s definitely a full reversal on what was all said beforehand,” observed Marjorie in a once-in-a-career alignment with fact, “and people are just not willing to accept it.” Marina Hyde 👏

Listen up, weaklings: there’s no Epstein client list. Why are you so obsessed? Yours, Donald J Trump | Marina Hyde It’s the bonfire of the Maga hats. The real mystery is where their wearers got the idea of a paedophile conspiracy from in the first place, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Listen up, weaklings: there’s no Epstein client list. Why are you so obsessed? Yours, Donald J Trump | Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dear heads of state: Donald Trump won’t love you back. He may be the worst boyfriend the world has ever seen | Marina Hyde The frantic attempts to decode his behaviour reminds me of self-help relationship babble in the 1990s. Then, as now – it’s not you, it’s him, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Dear heads of state: Donald Trump won’t love you back. He may be the worst boyfriend the world has ever seen | Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s The Donald Show … without Donald Trump. Welcome to the G-something summit | Marina Hyde The US president left the G7 early to solve the Middle East crisis. Are you less anxious now? No, me neither, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

It’s The Donald Show … without Donald Trump. Welcome to the G-something summit | Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🪩🕺💃An Azov veteran shares a powerful moment, dancing with his wife for the first time since his amputation.

🗣️ This brings me to tears—I danced here with my wife and had our wedding photos taken in this very place. It means so much to me. Wow.

📍House of Scientists in Lviv

❗️The 🇺🇦Southern Defense Forces hit a locomotive carrying a convoy of 🇷🇺Russian equipment.

The strike destroyed 13 Russian tanks and more than a hundred pieces of armored and automotive equipment, — Southern Defense Forces.

We should also desire to see correct spelling.

Kapitulation oder Vernichtung ist kein Verhandlungsangebot.

Eine bedingungslose Waffenruhe hat keine Vorbedingungen.

Es gibt keine „Ukraine-Krise“, keinen „Ukraine-Konflikt“ – sondern einen russischen Angriffskrieg.

Sprache ist Macht und Lügen Teil von Russlands Kriegsführung.

The Republicans’ Budget Makes No Sense Congress is trying to preserve the illusion of revenue while cutting taxes.

Republicans' "budget will skewer the poor and squeeze out crucial long-term investments in energy, scientific research, medical advances, and children," @annielowrey.bsky.social writes:

Poor Trump: you can’t even accept a luxury jet from Qatar without being called corrupt these days | Marina Hyde Even his Maga pals are questioning the lavish gift. Don’t they know not to look a wooden gift horse in the mouth, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Poor Trump: you can’t even accept a luxury jet from Qatar without being called corrupt these days | Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD immediately. Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting my lifelong love affair with science. But there's another reason: science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Carl Sagan agrees

YouTube video by Rederei FM Igor Levit über Margot Friedländer beim Deutschen Filmpreis 2025 -

Igor Levit - gestern

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Too many hours spent in the pub?

Holocaust-Überlebende Margot Friedländer gestorben Die Holocaust-Überlebende Margot Friedländer ist tot. Sie starb am Freitag im Alter von 103 Jahren, wie die Margot Friedländer Stiftung mitteilte.

Ruhe in Frieden! 🙌🏻

Die Holocaust-Überlebende Margot Friedländer ist tot. Sie starb am Freitag im Alter von 103 Jahren, wie die Margot Friedländer Stiftung mitteilte. www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/e...

Don’t you get it, Harry? You’re not a victim. You’re a rich man who can pay for his own sodding security | Marina Hyde One of the prince’s well-heeled friends should give our foremost podcaster a lesson on when to keep schtum, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Don’t you get it, Harry? You’re not a victim. You’re a rich man who can pay for his own sodding security | Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“President Zelenskyy took a moment to talk to the Ukrainian women who work as cleaners during his visit to the parliament. Not as a staged play for photographers, but simply because he is a decent and kind human being. This is what a leader looks like to me.”

- Petr Jan Vinš, Czech theologian

This is an annotated version of Trump's interview on ABC News. You won't have to listen to his voice or see his face. I break the 40-minute interview down to two minutes. As usual it was a festival of lies.

If Starmer is willing to help Trump host a lucrative golf tournament, will he caddy for him too? | Marina Hyde The prime minister is apparently pursuing ways to land the 2028 Open for the president. With friends like that, POTUS surely won’t be carrying his own clubs, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

If Starmer is willing to help Trump host a lucrative golf tournament, will he caddy for him too? | Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A bit of Fry and Laurie gives you an instant follow. They still kick ass

“There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise.“

~ Bosa Sebele ~

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“Women hold up half the sky.”

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YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg Steve's Reading Russia - Russian Press Review (24 April 2025)

Russia’s government paper: “It’s practically a foregone conclusion the US will pull out of Ukraine talks.” Another paper: “The unity of the West is gone. Geopolitically it’s no longer an alliance. Trumpism has destroyed the Atlantic consensus confidently & quickly.” #ReadingRussia

European capitals do have a choice. And it's not at all impossible.