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[Letstalkksports @letstalkksports]

The world wouldn’t know 90% of the WNBA players if Caitlin Clark never went to that League🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️

Agree or Disagree 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

[༺𝐻𝑅𝐻 𝐿𝒶𝒹𝓎 𝒥༻ 👑 @HRHLadyJ]

After seeing a scone recipe posted for Memorial Day, I’ve got a few things to say. And frankly, they won’t be particularly polite.

I’m immensely proud to call both the United Kingdom and the United States home. I grew up with traditions from both countries, still split my time between them to this day, and my own children are being raised with that same dual identity. I understand the humour, customs, etiquette, history and cultural differences on both sides of the Atlantic probably better than most people. Which is exactly why this sort of performative nonsense winds up me so much.

Because one thing that absolutely doesn’t translate is turning Memorial Day into some twee Instagram aesthetic involving scones, jam and curated “holiday weekend” content.

To my fellow Britons, and to others outside the United States who may not fully understand the distinction, Memorial Day isn’t the American equivalent of a bank holiday garden party. Nor is it interchangeable with Veterans Day.

Veterans Day in November honours all who have served in the United States military. Memorial Day is entirely different. Memorial Day is for the dead. It exists to honour the men and women who never came home. Just like Rememberance Day.

It’s a day rooted in grief, remembrance and sacrifice.

That distinction matters.

Because of that, my company does not operate on Memorial Day or on Remembrance Day in Britain. That’s always been a hard rule for me and it always will be.

The day before, we make one simple memorial post expressing gratitude, remembrance and respect for those who gave their lives. We also explain that we’ll be turning off sales on our website and stepping away from social media entirely for 24 hours. No promotional posts. No sales pitches. No “holiday weekend specials”.

The socials go silent because some things deserve dignity rather than being turned into marketing opportunities.

Freedom is not free. And reducing remembrance to a sales opportunity has always struck me as profoundly tacky.

Which brings me to the scones.

Seeing an American woman posting a scone recipe for Memorial Day genuinely made my skin crawl a bit. Not because scones themselves are offensive, obviously, but because the whole thing felt painfully artificial and culturally manufactured.

Scones are not associated with Memorial Day in the United States. At all.

The average American family gathering for Memorial Day is far more likely to involve a barbecue, burgers, hot dogs or a cookout than cream tea. The eternal British debate over whether the jam or cream goes first isn’t exactly dominating conversation in American cities.

And let’s be honest here. Scones aren’t inherently American in the first place.

They’re deeply associated with British culture. Tea culture. Country houses. Cream teas. The sort of thing people in Cornwall and Devon still somehow manage to argue about with complete sincerity. Like pineapple on pizza.

So when a certain someone, who spent less than two years in the United Kingdom before fleeing back to California at warp speed, suddenly starts presenting herself as the patron saint of jam and scones for an American Memorial Day audience, it comes across as painfully contrived.

And somehow even more absurd when the recipe itself was shared in grams and Celsius. I use both systems myself because I live between both countries, so I understood it perfectly well. But the overwhelming majority of Americans bake in teaspoons, tablespoons, cups and Fahrenheit.

Marketing a very British-coded scone recipe in European measurements for an exclusively American audience on an American military holiday is such a bizarrely specific level of inauthentic branding that it almost feels like parody.

What made it even stranger was the timing of the whole thing.

The day before, the Prince of Wales was on a national radio programme being asked, as Duke of Cornwall, how he takes his scones. He said he takes them the same way Queen Elizabeth II did.

Then the very next day, up pops an entire promotional post centred around scones, complete with a recipe for Memorial Day.

What a coincidence.

You could almost admire the opportunism if it weren’t so embarrassingly obvious.

Because that’s what this increasingly feels like. Not authenticity. Not cultural appreciation. Branding. Very calculated branding.

And very confused branding at that.

This is a woman who publicly distanced herself from Britain, criticised the Royal Family, the institution, the press, the culture and the people.

She then almost immediately pivoted into selling tea, spreads, biscuits and aggressively British coded lifestyle products.

All of it is framed under a title she and her children only possess because of the very institution she claims damaged her.

You cannot spend years positioning yourself as oppressed by Britain while simultaneously using British aristocratic styling via a royal peerage to market candles and preserves to Americans on Instagram.

At some point the contradiction just becomes ridiculous.

Even stranger is the fact this pantry line is only available in the United States while borrowing almost entirely from British imagery and British culinary aesthetics. Tea. Biscuits. Jam. Scones.

And now Memorial Day apparently.

Which again makes absolutely no cultural sense whatsoever.

Memorial Day isn’t a whimsical lifestyle mood board of hers. It’s not a backdrop for curated brunch content.

It’s not an excuse to cosplay English tea culture because your brand identity remains fundamentally incoherent.

And yes, I feel exactly the same way about all companies running “Celebrate Memorial Day with 20% off!” mattress sales, car dealership blowouts or whatever. The language itself is grotesque.

I will not “celebrate” the deaths of American servicemen and women. I’ll honour them. I’ll remember them. There’s a difference and it matters.

As President Ronald Regan once said “The American flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.”

The names of those who died serving their country should not be reduced to discount codes, influencer engagement bait or twee social media recipes designed to sell fruit spread.

But perhaps that’s the real issue underneath all of this.

Nothing ever feels sincere.

Every cultural reference, aesthetic choice, every carefully staged lifestyle moment feels reverse engineered for branding purposes rather than rooted in any genuine identity.

Which is why the whole thing lands with such a thud.

As someone who genuinely loves both Britain and America, I find it exhausting watching someone who barely spent five minutes in the UK attempt to monetise a fantasy version of Britishness whenever it becomes commercially useful.

Particularly when it’s attached to a day that is supposed to be about remembering the fallen.

It’s tasteless.
It’s opportunistic.

And it’s entirely on brand for her and her business.

[Old School Eddie @Old_SchoolEddie]

Today is Holy Saturday, the quiet day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

On this day, Jesus’ body lay in the tomb.

His friends were heartbroken.

The women who followed Him had seen His suffering and death.

The disciples were afraid and hiding.

Everything seemed dark and hopeless.

But even in the silence of the tomb, God was still at work.

The Bible tells us that while Jesus’ body rested, His spirit was victorious.

He had finished the work of paying for our sins on the cross.

Now He was preparing to rise again, just as He promised.

Holy Saturday reminds us that there are times in our own lives when we feel like we are waiting in the dark.

We may feel sad, confused, or unsure what God is doing.

Yet we can trust that God never stops working for our good.

The same power that raised Jesus from the dead is at work in our lives, too.

So on this Holy Saturday, let us rest in hope.

Let us remember that Sunday is coming!

The tomb is not the end of the story!

Jesus is alive, and because He lives, we have hope that lasts forever!

“Be still, and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10)

May the peace of Christ fill your heart as we wait for the joy of Easter morning. 🙌

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

This never gets old … John MacArthur explains the greatest gospel verse in the Bible:

2 Corinthians 5:21 - “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

For 27 years, A daughter would photograph her parents waving goodbye 😭😭

For nearly three decades, photographer Deanna Dikeman documented a tender family ritual - her parents standing in the driveway, waving goodbye as she left.

What began in 1991 as a way to ease the ache of parting evolved into an intimate visual diary of love, time, and loss.

After her father passed in 2009, her mother continued the custom, her waves growing even more poignant with each visit.

When her mother later moved to assisted living, the goodbyes shifted to a doorway instead of the driveway.

In 2017, following her mother’s death, Dikeman captured the final image in the series: an empty driveway, a silent farewell to both her parents and the years they had shared in that space

[Elyn @ElynOsborn]

@OldiesWithRudy @Jamiepead @HuttonPascale Also, the same song Nathan & Elizabeth sang together, S12E7 “Dance the Night Away”! 🤔

[Elyn @ElynOsborn]

@theamelia__ Thank you 🤨

[Brian Bird @brbird]

The lights are on... but this time... somebody's home!
#Hearties #WhenCallsTheHeart @hallmarkchannel @SCHeartHome

[Johannah Newmarch @JoNewmarch]

Mrs Thornton: “Less mustache more clarity.” 🤣🤣🤣 Quote of the night!!! @hallmarkchannel @HallmarkWCTH @SCHeartHome #wcth #hearties

[Elyn @ElynOsborn]

Yesssss, perfection! Love those two together! 🫶🏻
@SCHeartHome 🇨🇦
@hallmarkchannel 🇺🇸
#Hearties #SOReadyForS13
#WCTH @HallmarkWCTH

[Ben Rosenbaum @b3nros3]

“Less mustache, more clarity!” Best line of the season @BrookeShields although I COMPLETELY disagree @kevin_mcGarry #Hearties @hallmarkchannel @HallmarkWCTH @SCHeartHome

[Ruth Hill | Digital Media Strategist @ruthhill74]

It has been forever since I've live tweeted for this show but tonight i return to my roots #WhenCallsTheHeart #hearties @hallmarkchannel @SCHeartHome

[Elyn @ElynOsborn]

@SCHeartHome 🇨🇦
@hallmarkchannel 🇺🇸
#Hearties #SOReadyForS13 @HallmarkWCTH

[Pia_HLH Heartie @psprague83]

#Hearties!! #Season13HereWeCome ❤️❤️❤️

[Elyn @ElynOsborn]

@SCHeartHome 🇨🇦
@hallmarkchannel 🇺🇸
#Hearties #SOReadyForS13 @HallmarkWCTH

[wearehopevalley @wearehopevalley]

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
~ Milton Berle

💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

#Hearties #whencallstheheart #WCTH

[Elyn @ElynOsborn]

@SCHeartHome 🇨🇦
@hallmarkchannel 🇺🇸
#Hearties #SOReadyForS13 @HallmarkWCTH

[Jaiven Natt @JaivenNatt]

👍 #hearties it’s about to be that time @WCTH_TV @HallmarkWCTH hope you enjoy tonight’s episode

[Elyn @ElynOsborn]

@iheart_cambodia @SCHeartHome @hallmarkchannel @HallmarkWCTH Lol
@SCHeartHome 🇨🇦
@hallmarkchannel 🇺🇸
#Hearties #SOReadyForS13 @HallmarkWCTH

[Elyn @ElynOsborn]

Let’s gooooo!! #RealOrFake
@SCHeartHome 🇨🇦
@hallmarkchannel 🇺🇸
#Hearties #SOReadyForS13 @HallmarkWCTH

[Carmette @iheart_cambodia]

Let's play REAL or FAKE?

Can you tell when Nathan's mustache is REAL or FAKE? 🥸 Make your best guess as we watch Ep1!

#Hearties #McGarries #WCTH @kevin_mcGarry @SuspendersU @hallmarkchannel

[Carmette @iheart_cambodia]

@WCTH_CA @SCHeartHome @brbird @hallmarkchannel @HallmarkWCTH I've BEEN ready since the S12 finale! 😂 #Hearties #WCTH

[Shipland ❤️ @ChooseLoveHope]

Now we have 2 hashtags trending ❤️ #Hearties and #WhenCallsTheHeart 👏👏👏 @erinkrakow @kevin_mcGarry @hallmarkchannel @SCHeartHome @WCTH_CA @WCTH_TV @HallmarkWCTH @brbird @MichelleVicary #McGarries

[Elyn @ElynOsborn]

@SCHeartHome 🇨🇦
@hallmarkchannel 🇺🇸
#Hearties #SOReadyForS13 @HallmarkWCTH

[Carolyn💗WCTH @HeartiesCarolyn]

@WCTH_CA @brbird @hallmarkchannel @SCHeartHome @HallmarkWCTH 🥳🥳🥳 #Hearties

[Elyn @ElynOsborn]

TWENTY FIVE mins now!!!
❤️❤️
@SCHeartHome 🇨🇦
@hallmarkchannel 🇺🇸
#Hearties #SOReadyForS13 @HallmarkWCTH

[Caroline Richardson @MetacarolineR]

4 hours!! #hearties @hallmarkchannel @HallmarkWCTH @jaedalilymiller @jacobshoemay @brbird