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‘I was called an enemy of the people’: how the US Senate went to war with the biggest rock stars of the 1980s Forty years ago Prince, Madonna and Judas Priest were among stars dubbed the ‘Filthy Fifteen’ in a high-profile parents’ campaign against ‘objectionable’ music. Some of those artists, and supporters like Alice Cooper, recall a major moral panic

Prince’s Purple Rain album had been bought by 11 million Americans by May 1985. One of them was 11-year-old Karenna Gore. Back home, Karenna’s mother was shocked to hear Prince sing, on the album’s fifth track Darling Nikki: “I knew a girl named Nikki / I guess you could say she was a sex fiend / I met her in a hotel lobby/ masturbating with a magazine.”

“I couldn’t believe my ears,” said Karenna’s mother, Tipper Gore. “The vulgar lyrics embarrassed both of us. At first, I was stunned – then I got mad!”

Trans person begs for money to escape America because Trump is president pic.twitter.com/kS43ookWgm

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 5, 2025

A transgender woman from St. Catharines who filmed police demanding her “deadname” has filed a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO), seeking better training for police and compensation.

Sabrina Hill was filming a web video at the St. Catharines bus terminal on Dec. 17, 2023, when officers with Niagara regional police approached her, prompting a back-and-forth between Hill and one of the officers.

“What’s your deadname?” asks an officer later identified in the documents as Const. Ashley Del Duca.

My mother didn’t let me eat any of this. pic.twitter.com/LGOoulZEaI

— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) October 5, 2025

The mad gold rush of the digital art world has come to an abrupt end – and people are losing money fast

“Everyone during this time, everyone I knew, was saying, ‘You gotta make an NFT,’” says the painter Max Denison-Pender, recalling the tulip fever that spread through the art world at the beginning of the 2020s. Its peak was marked by one seismic event. In March 2021, the venerable auction house Christie’s sold its first wholly digital artwork, Everydays: the First 5000 Days, by the artist known as Beeple, for $69.3 million (about £50m) in cryptocurrency, making it one of the most expensive works ever sold by a living artist; by contrast, Jeff Koons’s stainless steel sculpture Rabbit (1986) sold for $91.07 million in 2019 at the same auction house.

Unbelievable? Hardly. NFT’s were pimped like all art is pimped.

️‍@fancypants_s https://t.co/tsNVrvmfrL

— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) October 5, 2025

h/t Auntie Polly

The US Department of Homeland Security appears to have mocked Britain for letting the Manchester synagogue attacker into the country.

In a post on X, the government department wrote, “want to help keep ‘Jihad’ out of America?” along with a link to its recruitment website.

The social media post was in response to a tweet revealing the name of the synagogue attacker as Jihad al-Shamie, who was born in Syria but moved to Britain when he was an infant.

HOMELAND SECURITY IN THE U.S ARE NOW USING THE UK AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHY YOU SHOULD SIGN UP TO WORK FOR THEM

They're right
Our country has imported millions of people who hate us
And the Americans should remind their country of how to stay safe

KEEP THEM OUT. pic.twitter.com/3yCySJsT35

— Basil the Great (@Basil_TGMD) October 3, 2025

NEW

A caller on Punjabi talk radio show in Canada

casually says that that a pizza shop owner he knows

sold 39 LMIAs (international workers permits) at $40k each, and paid student workers $4/hr.

Our country is being absolutely PILLAGED. pic.twitter.com/KimYUC1JVk

— Tablesalt (@Tablesalt13) October 5, 2025

h/t Mauser

I’m just going to come out and say it, Vancouver is infested with rats. I’m tired of going to restaurants and seeing rats and the guy being like “eh what can you do, it’s Vancouver.” pic.twitter.com/guOJ5D4ayn

— J.J. McCullough (@JJ_McCullough) October 4, 2025

So is Toronto.

@fancypants_s https://t.co/Hf9KAJdu3X

— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) October 5, 2025

h/t Patti Jo

A parent was arrested in a secondary school reception and detained by police for eight hours after he went to complain about a lesson where a teacher told pupils St George flags could be viewed as a ‘racist symbol’.

Broadoak School, in Partington, Greater Manchester, has launched an investigation into comments allegedly made to pupils on Friday morning following complaints by parents.