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[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT: CNN confirms Donald Trump's disastrous failures are completely destroying his cabinet's future. Vice President JD Vance is a staggering 48 points underwater.

The Trump administration's massive unpopularity is dragging them down!

[Roger @RogerBurston]

@GilliganJo1622 @meralhece @bbclaurak You completely miss the point. The whole country is angered by the action of the policeman. We don’t need Yusuf, Farage or anyone else in Reform using this to intentionally stir up division in the country, particularly when the poor boy’s father asked for this not to happen.

[Meral Hussein-Ece @meralhece]

The BBC need to explain why they constantly platform this ridiculous person when there are hundreds of far more qualified & elected MPs & Parliamentarians that are never invited onto their ‘political programmes’. We don’t pay our license fee for this toxicity. @bbclaurak @BBCNewsnight @bbcquestiontime

[Lev Parnas @levparnas]

Enough is enough.

At what point do we stop pretending this is normal?

At what point do we stop allowing @realDonaldTrump to insult women, berate women, threaten women, degrade women, and then hide behind power like he is untouchable?

He has been doing this his entire life.

In business.

In politics.

In the courts.

In the Epstein circle.

And now, as president of the United States, he uses the most powerful platform in the world to attack women who speak out, women who stand up, women who dare to tell the truth.

Look at what he is doing to E. Jean Carroll. A jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her — and instead of accountability, he keeps attacking. He keeps trying to intimidate. He keeps using power as a weapon.

And that is exactly the point.

This is not just about insults. This is about control.

He takes away women’s rights.

He attacks women’s credibility.

He covers up the Epstein files.

He protects the powerful men while attacking the women who survived them.

He wants women silent. He wants survivors scared. He wants the country numb.

I’m asking a simple question:

When is enough finally enough?

When do we stand together and say no more?

No more letting the media normalize it.

No more letting politicians excuse it.

No more letting powerful men abuse women and then call themselves victims.

No more silence.

I am calling on this community — women, men, survivors, parents, citizens, everyone with a conscience — to stand together as one voice.

Protect women.

Believe survivors.

Demand the Epstein files.

Hold Trump accountable.

And stop supporting any media outlet, politician, or platform that continues to sanitize, excuse, or cover for this madness.

Because this is not politics anymore.

This is about basic decency.

This is about right and wrong.

This is about whether we are still willing to stand up for the women of this country against a man who has spent his life degrading them.

Enough is enough.

It is time to stand up.
It is time to speak out.
It is time to fight back together.

[The i Paper @theipaper]

Farage paid £83k from events linked to US anti-abortion supporters https://t.co/ecjoWUyEAZ

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

holy crap this is easily the best Tony Award speech of the entire night. hell yes to all of this

"This is dedicated to the beautiful tapestry of immigrant families who make this country really special. May you one day not have to audition for the empathy that should be freely given by this country that benefits from your beauty. To the queer and trans communities that always will exist, no matter what people in power try to take away from them. To the people of Palestine who deserve to live a free life – a full life – without occupation. ... If there's one thing we can learn from vampires, it's that life is short, but that's its gift. Find beauty in the ephemeral and gratitude in what is not promised."

—Ali Louis Bourzgui, winning Featured Actor in a Musical for The Lost Boys

[Roger @RogerBurston]

@RhonddaBryant The stupid & lazy trope that “MPs are all the same” obviously isn’t the case. Chris is part of our government under Kier Starmer. Let them continue to put the country back on course, without the opportunists within the party causing chaos and disruption.

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

No other president in US History has ever been this rude, insulting or ignorant!

Repost if you agree

[Roger @RogerBurston]

@LBC @annemflfc @TomSwarbrick1 Martin has done a better job than Tom and most LBC broadcasters too!

Isn’t it the job of the media to also tell the truth about Labour’s achievements rather than gaslighting Reform which has only one policy? A policy that Labour already has had major success with.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Donald had a temper tantrum on national television and walked out of an interview simply because Kristen Welker presented him with a basic fact.

Note to other journalists: now is the time to pile on. He won't be able to handle it.

[Roger @RogerBurston]

@OxfordBuckeye @lil_doza @SueSuezep We have but they’ve been nowhere near gaining power. As far as I know true-to-form Daily Mail platformed Mosley, now we have Farage appearing regularly on all media outlets including the national broadcaster.

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

"I really hope the British public learns the lesson of Donald Trump, when it comes to Nigel Farage."

Congressman Brendan Boyle says the Reform leader is a "fraud", but is it too late for the UK?

https://t.co/GlJMCNEt72

[Roger @RogerBurston]

@DalrympleWill @JPLT59 We’ve been asking this for years. Under Conservatives. The appointment of Gibb & McAndrew & the strong bias became apparent. This government has left as is despite the heavy promoting of Reform/Farage & that unelected man who thinks he’s a Shadow something

Why @lisanandy?

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

How is this man at the heart of the Netanyahu scandal still in place censoring BBC Middle East coverage?

BBC faces questions over board member's links to scandal. Robbie Gibb, who sits on BBC editorial standards committee, published fabricated articles

https://t.co/p6SLKOOq2d

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I don't know why any of you haters are surprised I'm the one actually engaging here.

You're the ones who've obsessively pored over the 10,000 photos, the 30,000 text messages, and the 128,000 emails from my hacked iCloud and stolen devices.

If I am anything, I am prolific.

You know what you won't find? Any of the most heinous, hateful things you keep posting about me.

What you'll find from me here is the same thing you found there.

Total transparency. Finally on my terms. Not yours.

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

"All you have to do is go back to that poor boy's father, who must have anticipated this, and said he didn't want any more hatred."

"It took the far-right less than 24 hours to turn this into an absolute shit show"

@maitlis | @jonsopel

https://t.co/x5MD2HHRPT

[Philippe T @brain_stimulus]

😱 CETTE TURBINE À TOURBILLON POURRAIT CHANGER LA DONNE ÉNERGÉTIQUE.

🚨Une entreprise belge (Turbulent) a créé une turbine hydraulique qui utilise le vortex naturel de l’eau pour produire de l’électricité 24h/24.

💥Elle s’installe dans les rivières, les canaux ou les cours d’eau existants.

Avantages :
• Très faible impact environnemental
• Une seule pièce mobile → presque pas d’entretien
• Installation en environ une semaine
• Fonctionne tant qu’il y a de l’eau qui coule
• Peut alimenter des maisons ou de petites communautés

C’est simple, propre, et ça fonctionne vraiment.

Alors pourquoi ce genre de solution n’est-elle pas déployée massivement partout où il y a de l’eau qui coule ?

#Energie #Hydro #Turbine #QuestionTout

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Look at this photograph.

It’s 1968.

The man carrying this little boy on his shoulders is not his father.

His father has just left.

Left his mother.
Left their home.
Left for another life.

And the man who showed up — who drove 45 minutes across London just to check on a 5-year-old boy whose world had suddenly fallen apart — is holding him steady with both hands while the child laughs at the top of his lungs.

That drive would inspire the best-selling Beatles single of all time.

The boy’s name was Julian Lennon.

And he has never quite known how to feel about it.

Julian Charles John Lennon was born on April 8, 1963.

Four days earlier, The Beatles had released their first album.

His father, John Lennon, was becoming one of the most famous people on Earth.

From the beginning, music came first.

The touring.
The recording.
The chaos.
The fame.

Julian came after all of it.

Paul McCartney, however, had known Julian since he was a baby. He watched him grow up while the world around the Beatles became louder and stranger and harder to survive.

Then, in May 1968, John told Cynthia Lennon their marriage was over.

He had fallen in love with Yoko Ono.

Cynthia later said she came home from vacation and found Yoko already there.

Just like that, the family was broken apart.

Julian was five years old.

Paul McCartney decided to drive out to see Cynthia and Julian.

No cameras.
No publicity.
No grand gesture.

Just a friend showing up because a little boy was hurting.

And during that drive, Paul started humming.

“Hey Jules… don’t make it bad…”

Later, he changed “Jules” to “Jude.”

The song became “Hey Jude.”

Released in August 1968, it spent nine weeks at No. 1 in America, sold millions of copies, and became the biggest-selling Beatles single in history.

But for Julian Lennon, the song carried two truths at once.

To the world, it became comfort.
To him, it became memory.

A reminder that his father had walked away.

And that another man had stepped in long enough to help carry the weight.

Years later, Julian admitted he has a “love-hate relationship” with the song.

Because every stadium singalong…
Every radio replay…
Every well-meaning person saying “Your song!”…

Also brings him back to that moment when his childhood changed forever.

Yet even through all the complicated feelings, one thing never changed:

He never forgot that Paul showed up.

Not because he had to.
Not because it benefited him.

But because a child needed kindness.

Look at the photograph one more time.

A little boy laughing with his whole body.
A man holding him securely on his shoulders.
Two hands making sure he doesn’t fall.

Julian doesn’t know yet about the divorce.
About the fame.
About the legal battles.
About inheritance disputes.
About the strange burden of having your pain turned into one of the most famous songs ever written.

Right now, he only knows one thing:

Someone came.

And sometimes, for a child, that is everything.