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Patrick Stewart ha muerto a los 86 años. Durante casi toda su vida cargó con una pregunta sobre su padre.
De niño, en un pueblo de Yorkshire, veía cómo su padre pegaba a su madre los fines de semana.
Con su hermano aprendió a ponerse en medio.
Muchos años después descubrió algo que nadie en su familia le había contado.
Murió el miércoles 28 de octubre en su casa de Los Ángeles, cuidado por su mujer, Sunny Ozell, tras un tiempo con alzhéimer y demencia de cuerpos de Lewy. Fue el capitán Picard en «Star Trek» y el profesor Xavier en «X-Men». Pero antes fue un chico de Mirfield que crecía con miedo.
Su padre, Alfred, había sido sargento mayor de regimiento en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Entre semana trabajaba y no bebía. Los viernes se arreglaba, se iba al pub y volvía de noche, y por las canciones que cantaba al llegar los niños sabían de qué humor venía. Stewart contó que él y su hermano se interponían entre sus padres, porque así su padre se apartaba.
Ya de mayor, en un programa de la BBC sobre genealogía, supo que su padre había vuelto de la guerra con una neurosis de guerra grave, lo que hoy llamamos estrés postraumático, y que nunca lo trataron. Él mismo dijo que eso explicaba muchas cosas, pero no justificaba ninguna.
Lo que más me impresiona es que supo sostener las dos verdades a la vez. Se volcó con Refuge, una organización británica que ayuda a mujeres y niños que sufren violencia en casa, y también con Combat Stress, que atiende a veteranos de guerra con estrés postraumático.
Hablando de su trabajo con Refuge, lo resumió así: «Hago este activismo por mi madre, porque entonces no pude hacerlo por ella». No hace falta añadir nada.
Gary Slaymaker retweeted
🚨 WOW: Rep. Jim Himes reveals to Ben Meiselas that lawmakers have WAR-GAMED potential Election Day chaos involving Elon Musk.
Himes warns Musk has the power to manipulate social media algorithms and spread false voting claims that could provoke armed groups to show up at polling places.
“I'm looking at you here, Elon Musk...We're watching very closely.”
Gary Slaymaker retweeted
A child can recognize the evil that grown-ass adults keep making excuses for.
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🚨HUMILIATING: After Trump canceled his remaining rallies, Kasie Hunt says a top Republican told CNN, “Thank God. He hasn’t moved the needle anywhere.” Yikes.
Trump was reportedly so furious about the coverage that he brought the rallies back. He’s not going to like this.
Gary Slaymaker retweeted
💰NEW: Manchester United director Edward Glazer has donated $200,000 to Trump’s Republican Party ahead of the midterms, @CityAM can reveal.
Owners at Palace, Villa, Bournemouth and Ipswich (as well as Boehly) have given cash ahead of Tuesday’s vote, too.
cityam.com/manchester-united…
Gary Slaymaker retweeted
cc: @jaredkushner you soulless fucking ghoul.
This is on you, motherfucker, and that goon monkey Witkoff, and your soon-to-be-wormmeat FIL.
I hope some Ukrainian dad finds you one day, you Putin whore.
A father screams in anguish beside the body of his dead daughter. Two 15-year-old girls were killed in a russian attack on the center of Chernihiv, Ukraine.
Dozens are injured, including four children aged 10, 16, and 17, and a 10-month-old baby girl.
Meanwhile, Trump has ordered Ukriane not to hit russian oil refineries, so that russia could make billions and build more rockets and drones to kill more Ukrainians.
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Economist (and Nobel laureate) Paul Krugman: “Control of Starlink must, one way or another, be taken away from Elon Musk. It’s a matter of national security: we cannot let private individuals make foreign and defense policy, and it would be totally irresponsible to leave a crucial military asset in the hands of a racist, authoritarian conspiracy theorist.”
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/i…
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A 14-year-old boy followed a girl into a shop and repeatedly st*bbed her because she refused to date him.
When he appeared before a judge, the court heard about his potential, his intelligence, and the importance of protecting his future.
The judge called him a “bright lad.”
But there was another 14-year-old in this case. A girl whose future had already been profoundly changed by what he did to her.
In March 2026, the girl was attacked in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, after rejecting the advances of a boy from her school.
He had become obsessed with her. After she turned him down, he created fake social media accounts to continue contacting her.
On the morning of the attack, he approached her again and asked her out. She refused.
He followed her into a shop carrying a six-inch kitchen knife.
What happened next was captured on CCTV. He chased her through the shop and stabbed her repeatedly, inflicting wounds to her neck, hands and face. A shopkeeper who tried to intervene was also injured.
Police said the girl was extremely fortunate to survive. A slightly different wound could have killed her.
The boy admitted serious offences, including wounding with intent and carrying a knife.
He spent approximately three months in a secure youth facility before being released on bail.
At sentencing in September, Judge Ian Lawrie said custody was the last place he should be. He wanted to construct a sentence that would provide support and rehabilitation.
The boy received a 12-month referral order and a three-year restraining order.
Then came the girl’s victim statement.
She described flinching whenever someone raised a hand near her. She spoke of nightmares, fear, and the loss of the independence she once enjoyed.
She was now being driven to work because she was frightened to go outside alone.
She was also 14.
Youth justice should recognize that children can change. Rehabilitation is important, and a child’s age must matter.
But the girl is a child too.
Her mother said the family felt failed by the justice system. Parents whose daughters had been killed by former partners also condemned the sentence.
A judge saw a boy with a future worth protecting.
The girl he attacked is still trying to recover the ordinary freedoms she had before he picked up that knife.
Gary Slaymaker retweeted
I hope this letter goes viral, because this sort of non-violent guerrilla justice against low-level antisocial behaviour should absolutely become the norm. That's how this stuff is really stamped out, in the long term: not laws, but social sanctions that become all but universal.
Gary Slaymaker retweeted
This was on TV all the time when I was a kid. Always late at night: 1972's Emmy Award-winning La Cabina (The Telephone Box), from Spanish director Antonio Mercero. Even edited, once seen, it stays with you forever. 🎃📞😱
Gary Slaymaker retweeted
Avião que levou o Bolsonaro fugitivo da Argentina para os USA foi contratado por funcionário da Casa Branca - com autorização de Trump.
Deu no NY Times.
As coisas vão sendo reveladas e só piora.
Gary Slaymaker retweeted
The Republican Party’s entire approach to politics and governing summed up in a single episode
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BREAKING: MIC DROP! Senator Mark Kelly delivers the best takedown of Trump's failed Iran War that we've ever heard — just in time for the midterm elections!
This is an absolute slam dunk...
"We had a President take this country to war without a strategic goal, without a plan, without a timeline, and without an exit strategy. And now he's stuck. He doesn't know what to do," Kelly said, while campaigning for Senate candidate Troy Jackson in Maine.
"I sit on the Armed Services and the Intelligence Committees, both of them. And I will say, from what I know about this, the Iranians weren't any closer to developing a nuclear weapon this year than they were when I first got to the United States Senate in 2020," said Kelly. "And it's this President who, by the way, tore up the deal in 2018 that started them to enrich the uranium at a higher level."
"So if you think there was a problem, this President created the problem!" he continued. "But he didn't need to go to war and put Americans in harm's way. We have now 20 deceased service members. Over 800 injured."
By now, most discerning people have come to realize that this war was never about nuclear weapons. Trump launched this war because Israel convinced him that he could win a quick, splashy victory and Israel wanted this war because they want to destroy a regional adversary. American interests were never at stake.
"And what did the American people get out of this?" asked Kelly. "They got nothing. They got higher gas prices. They got higher food prices."
"We've got service members deployed for record numbers of days on the USS Abraham Lincoln. And I understand going on cruise can be hard. It's challenging," he went on. "But really, they had eight service members who tried to commit suicide because of the conditions aboard the ship. And I've got to tell you, the worst thing about that, by far, for me, was to see the Secretary of Defense go straight to camera and say, there's no problem, and we give commanders everything they need. That is not leadership."
"Leadership has taken some responsibility for whatever the situation is," added Kelly. "And by the way, how hard would it have been for him to say, hey, I recognize there's a problem. We're going to look into the problem, and we're going to make things better for these service members because they deserve that. It's not hard to do. This Secretary of Defense was incapable of doing that."
Kelly is right to lay the blame for this disastrous war as much at Hegseth's feet as Trump's. Our booze-breathed, Fox News-fried "Secretary of War" is more interested in posturing as a tough alpha male than he is in actually leading our troops.
These midterm elections are, among other things, a referendum on this war. If you're sick of wasting blood and treasure on endless wars, vote blue!
Please ❤️ and share if you think that Mark Kelly nailed it!
Gary Slaymaker retweeted
This is a master class given by journalist Mehdi Hassan on how to interview anyone in the Republican Party, in this case American Political Strategist Steve Cortes. Watch:
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Just Alex Armstrong from GB News doing what any good journalist would do - making up lies to stir up hatred and being called out for it by the police.
