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Nicki Minaj’s ungodly clash with Don Lemon

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“Independent” (fired) journalist Don Lemon is making himself the news after he did some activist reporting as part of a mob that stormed a Minnesota church, whose pastor is a local ICE official, on Sunday. But if you’re going to cross Christians in America these days, then you’re going to cross Nicki Minaj. “HOW DARE YOU?” Minaj emphatically posterized Lemon on X. “I WANT THAT THUG IN JAIL!!!!! HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT TO ANY OTHER RELIGION. LOCK HIM UP!!!!!” She accompanied this with a photo of a Chucky doll. In response, Lemon called her "homophobic," and said, “I’m not surprised Nicki Minaj does not understand journalism and is weighing in on matters that are above her capacity.” He went on TMZ, the program where he naturally belongs, and called the rapper "ignorant.

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Is Steve Bannon right about Jordan Bardella?

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Marine Le Pen returned to a court in Paris on Tuesday as her appeal began against her five-year ban from political life. The leader of the National Rally was disqualified in March last year after she was found guilty of misusing €4 million ($4.6 million) of funds from the European Union. She claims she is the victim of a political witch-hunt, a view supported by President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D Vance. The appeal will last a month and the verdict is expected in June. If Le Pen is successful she will be able to run in the presidential election in April 2027. If she fails, however, it will be her protege, 30-year-old Jordan Bardella, who will represent the National Rally.

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Remembering the creator of Dilbert, Scott Adams

Dilbert taught me how to read. Stacked perilously high – between Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side – in my childhood home’s bathroom, Scott Adams’s cartoon provided the perfect reading material for the porcelain throne. Even before I knew what most of the words meant, I’d belly laugh at page after page of banal workplace humour. This is bizarre: why, as a preschooler, was I so tickled by these jokes about human-resources departments and fax machines? His plain little cartoon contained insights that his country still hasn’t fully recognised Adams, who died on Monday, enjoyed more than a three-decade run as honcho of the funny pages, starting in 1989.