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I thought I was too broken for sex. Here’s how I found pleasure again

I thought I was too broken for sex. Here’s how I found pleasure again

I was forced to examine the idea of sexual pleasure after a tumor was removed from my spinal cordTen years ago, my right elbow started to hurt. The internet suggested I had tennis elbow, so I stopped playing tennis. Once the outer elbow pain moved inward, I changed my self-diagnosis to golfer’s elbow. I stopped , competitive dragon-boating and bouldering.For good measure, I consulted an occupational therapist about my nightly bullet-vibrator routine after reading that golfer’s elbow is common among construction workers who operate heavy-duty vibrating machinery. He listened closely and said he’d note VRI on my patient chart. I asked what VRI meant, eager to end my diagnostic journey. “Vibrator-related injury,” he responded. We busted out laughing.

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The GuardianHumanityUSA
Trump admin spends billions to deport Black and brown people while doubling dollars for white ‘refugees’ | Heba Gowayed

Trump admin spends billions to deport Black and brown people while doubling dollars for white ‘refugees’ | Heba Gowayed

‘Where the wealthiest country in the world allocates money has always been a question of political will over political way’The United States once led most other nations on resettling refugees from all over the world. But in the fiscal year 2025- 2026, except for three people from , all of the admitted through resettlement were white South Africans.But admitting en masse the beneficiaries of South African apartheid, while simultaneously cancelling temporary protected status (TPS) for 350,000 Haitians, and making a spectacle of detaining and shackling them, is just the tip of the racist iceberg: the Trump administration is reportedly using this moment to the initial resettlement support that refugees receive to $4,500 per person.

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The GuardianScandalHong Kong
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty in second national security case

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty in second national security case

Wong, 29, is accused of urging foreign powers to impose sanctions, blockades and other hostile measures against China , one of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy activists, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to seek foreign sanctions against Hong Kong and China, a national security charge that carries a maximum life sentence.Prosecutors have accused Wong, 29, of working with the exiled Hong Kong activist to urge foreign powers to impose sanctions, blockades or other hostile measures against China.

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BBCHumanity
Jailed HK activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty to foreign collusion

Jailed HK activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty to foreign collusion

Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner Joshua Wong has pleaded guilty to collusion with foreign entities, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of life in prison under Beijing's sweeping National Security Law (NSL). The 29-year-old, who has become the poster child for political activism in Hong Kong, is already serving a sentence of four years and eight months after being convicted of subversion – another NSL violation – in late 2024.

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The GuardianDiplomacyVenezuela
Trump ally defends Venezuela oil deal amid ‘gunpoint diplomacy’ criticism

Trump ally defends Venezuela oil deal amid ‘gunpoint diplomacy’ criticism

Energy secretary Chris Wright denies US seeking to ‘take’ country’s oil, saying deal is ‘transformation’ of relationsThe US energy secretary, Chris Wright, has denied Washington is seeking to commandeer huge quantities of Venezuelan oil, amid growing criticism of Donald Trump’s with the country’s interim leaders.“Absolutely not,” Wright replied when asked by a CNBC journalist if the US was engaged in a “heavy-handed” attempt to “take” Venezuelan oil in violation of the South American country’s constitution.

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The GuardianClimateIndia
‘The mountains are changing’: What the floods tell us about the future of India’s Himalayas

‘The mountains are changing’: What the floods tell us about the future of India’s Himalayas

As families await news of missing loved ones, the disaster is a stark reminder of how the climate crisis is creating a fast-growing threat. Plus, the town considered India’s ‘Jurassic Park’It has been hard not to despair while watching the ruinous floods , and harder, still knowing that the agony compounds each passing day for dozens of Indian families whose members remain unaccounted for.Social media is awash with desperate pleas, photos and details of the young and old, men and women, from Mumbai to Kolkata, posted by families searching for traces of life. The when a melting glacier slammed into the valley below, unleashing a deadly cascade of rock and ice down the Bhote Kashi River, which flows from Tibet into Nepal.

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The GuardianScandalMalta
Maltese tycoon found not guilty of involvement in Daphne Caruana Galizia murder

Maltese tycoon found not guilty of involvement in Daphne Caruana Galizia murder

Yorgen Fenech cleared on both charges he faced over 2017 killing of journalist that prompted global outrageOne of Malta’s richest men has been found not guilty of involvement in the murder of the anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.The verdict, which is expected to be appealed against by the prosecution, will come as a blow not only to the victim’s family, but to the politicians and campaigners who regard the case as a landmark action in the fight to protect press freedom in Europe.

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The GuardianAIUSA
Trump administration sides with OpenAI in lawsuit against New York Times

Trump administration sides with OpenAI in lawsuit against New York Times

The Times and many companies are accusing OpenAI of misusing their material to train AI systems without compensationThe Trump administration is supporting OpenAI in ⁠a lawsuit against the New York Times, arguing in favor of the use of copyrighted writing to train artificial intelligence.The Times accuses OpenAI and its largest financial backer, Microsoft, of using millions of newspaper articles without permission to train OpenAI’s popular chatbot. Other newspapers have joined in the suit, first filed in 2023.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
Police chief in Mississippi town where 1-year-old was killed has been fired

Police chief in Mississippi town where 1-year-old was killed has been fired

Harold Vanderford made national news earlier this year after he shot and killed Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old Black baby, while responding to a shoplifting call at WalmartLate Tuesday, the city of Senatobia, Mississippi fired its police chief, Harold Vanderford, after it was reported that Vanderford regularly used in his text messages. The town, which is about , made national news earlier this year after a white officer fatally shot and killed, a one-year-old Black baby, while responding to a shoplifting call at Walmart. Officers fired into a vehicle, shooting the driver and killing the toddler, who was being held in his mother’s arms.Though Vanderford submitted a resignation letter earlier on 1 September, the city’s board of aldermen unanimously voted to reject it and to terminate the officer instead. Vanderford’s firing came just under a week after the city that, despite the messages, he would “continue to serve the City with the confidence that was placed in him at the time that he was appointed as Chief”.

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The GuardianEducationEngland
‘Internal exclusion’ of England secondary school students almost triples in three years

‘Internal exclusion’ of England secondary school students almost triples in three years

Exclusive: new data shows poorer pupils and those with Send are disproportionately affected by the measureThe proportion of secondary school students in England removed from class and placed in “internal exclusion” as a disciplinary measure has almost trebled in three years, according to new data.The data shows the proportion of secondary pupils removed from normal lessons went up from 5% in the 2022/2023 academic year to 13% in 2025/26 – a 160% increase.

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The GuardianScandalUnited Kingdom
Autistic boy who took replica knife to school has exclusion quashed by high court

Autistic boy who took replica knife to school has exclusion quashed by high court

Boy’s mother says she hopes case will help others, as judge says exclusion should be ‘a tool of last resort’The mother of a 10-year-old autistic boy who had his permanent exclusion from a primary school quashed by the high court has said she hopes the ruling helps other children.The boy, who cannot be named, was permanently excluded from his primary school, part of the Lift academy chain, after coming to school in July 2025 with a replica butterfly knife, which he handed to a friend to use against another child during an altercation in the playground.

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The GuardianWellnessEngland
Number of young people with no close friends has soared since 2014 in England

Number of young people with no close friends has soared since 2014 in England

Data paints sobering picture of 11- to 24-year-olds growing up in ‘bleak world’ shaped by pandemic and social mediaThe number of young people with no close friends has risen fivefold since 2014 as a result of growing up in a “bleak world” dominated by austerity, the pandemic and social media.New research paints a sobering picture of how 11- to 24-year-olds in England are increasingly lonely, isolated and “disconnected” from themselves, peers and wider society.

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The TelegraphScandalUnited Kingdom
More than 2,500 prisoners to be freed before Christmas under early release

More than 2,500 prisoners to be freed before Christmas under early release

More than 2,500 prisoners, including violent offenders and domestic abusers, will be freed before Christmas under Labour’s early release scheme. An official timetable, published on Wednesday, revealed the Ministry of Justice was planning to fast-track the early releases, starting with 1,350 prisoners freed in two days in October as the Government seeks to prevent jails from running out of space.

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The TelegraphPublic PolicyUnited Kingdom
How should we protect you, Labour asks victims of early release criminals

How should we protect you, Labour asks victims of early release criminals

Victims will be asked how they want to be protected from criminals who are being released early from prison, the Justice Secretary has said. Alex Norris said victims would start receiving letters on Tuesday updating them on the early release scheme, before a victim liaison officer from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) contacts them to ask “what sort of controls” they would like to help “live their life fully”.

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The GuardianPublic PolicyUnited Kingdom
What is Burnham doing to the early prison release scheme and why?

What is Burnham doing to the early prison release scheme and why?

Offences including manslaughter have been excluded from changes to sentencing rules amid an overcrowding crisisGrooming gang perpetrators and killers including those will be blocked from early prison release under changes announced by Andy Burnham after a backlash over the scope of the scheme.Here is a primer on how the crisis unfolded and what the upshot of Burnham’s decision could be.

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The TelegraphFashionUSA
Anna Wintour was intent on rescuing Galliano – but the Met exhibition was an awful idea

Anna Wintour was intent on rescuing Galliano – but the Met exhibition was an awful idea

Ever since the announcement in August from New York’s Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute that it was mounting a John Galliano retrospective next May, many Jews and non-Jews have looked on in mute horror. Mute, because if they complained they’d be accused of being – at best – a bunch of neurotics who can’t get over the Holocaust, and at worst, a powerful lobby who move as one against their perceived enemies.

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The GuardianFashionUSA
Met Gala exhibition honoring John Galliano is cancelled after backlash

Met Gala exhibition honoring John Galliano is cancelled after backlash

Fashion designer was convicted of hate crime by French court in 2011 after series of racist and antisemitic remarksThe controversial fashion designer John Galliano announced on Monday that an exhibition honoring his work that New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art had scheduled to open for the upcoming spring’s Met Gala is not going to go forward.The museum’s decision to honor Galliano, who was of a hate crime by a French court in 2011 after a, had drawn controversy and backlash.

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The GuardianDiplomacyEurope
What’s really behind Trump’s deference to Putin?

What’s really behind Trump’s deference to Putin?

Whether or not US president fits the definition of a Russian asset, his actions align closely with the Kremlin’s interests•Could Donald Trump be a Russian asset? The headline in the Guardian of my new book Betrayal has provoked heated international debate. Written by the historian Lawrence Freedman, the piece generated from across Europe and beyond on social media. Many people responded with a single word: “Duh!”Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin is the biggest mystery in international politics. In 2017 I wrote a book called , which set out Moscow’s operation to support and cultivate Trump, going back decades. The US president, of course, denies links with Russia. But in his second term, his behaviour towards Putin has been as weird and perplexing as during his first.

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The GuardianHumanityUSA
MMA fight in Florida condemned after fighter’s antisemitic comments

MMA fight in Florida condemned after fighter’s antisemitic comments

Paul Miller, an openly racist fighter, derided Ben Azoulay, and a spectator was ejected for waving a swastika flagDemocrats in Florida have condemned a professional mixed martial arts event in Orlando at which an openly racist fighter derided his beaten opponent as “a short little fucking Jew prick”, and a spectator was ejected for .Anna Eskamani, a Democratic state representative running to become the city’s mayor, said Saturday’s event, and the assertion by city officials that they were compelled to host it, were unacceptable.

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The GuardianHumanityUSA
This data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. The Trump administration plans to delete it

This data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. The Trump administration plans to delete it

Enforcing civil rights without these reports will be difficult for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, pushing US agency closer to Trump’s agenda, experts warnThe US civil rights agency mandated to protect equal rights for workers is set to stop collecting data on the demographic makeup of companies – which for the past six decades has been used to enforce anti-discrimination laws.The move marks a fundamental shift for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Without this data, it will be much harder for the agency to identify widespread cases of discrimination in hiring and promotions, experts and former employees of the commission say. And, they warn, it will bring the one step closer to the commission from an independent watchdog into an arm of the executive branch narrowly focused on advancing the political grievances of ’s base.

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The GuardianRelationshipsAustralia
I was once ashamed to admit I’d been strangled nonconsensually during sex. Now I’m speaking up to save women’s lives | Hannah Ferguson

I was once ashamed to admit I’d been strangled nonconsensually during sex. Now I’m speaking up to save women’s lives | Hannah Ferguson

Young men are being taught that acts with the potential to kill are erotic. The Albanese government must urgently regulate big tech and criminalise pornography depicting strangulationLast week, a 16-year-old girl was found unresponsive in a home on Sydney’s northern beaches. She was airlifted to hospital and died two days later. New South Wales police as the result of a sexual strangulation act. the deceased may have experienced a seizure following asphyxiation, and that officers were told the sex was consensual.While that investigation has yet to run its course, speaking generally, strangulation during sex is not a new phenomenon or conversation. Just a few years ago it was relatively taboo to criticise this normalisation of violence in sex – it was often framed as “anti-kink” to raise concern about this dangerous act that is increasingly depicted in mainstream pornography.

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The GuardianPublic PolicyUnited Kingdom
We must do more to save care leavers’ lives | Letters

We must do more to save care leavers’ lives | Letters

Readers respond to a report on the tragic consequences of the ‘care cliff’, when vital support is taken away at age 18Your article draws attention to a landmark review that describes the “care cliff” for young people leaving care at 18 leading to tragic outcomes (). The good news is that there are ways to fix this problem, but they are neither quick nor straightforward.My own found that first and foremost the responsible local authority requires sufficient funding, staffing and planning to assess and implement care options when a child is taken into care.

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The GuardianHealthcareLondon
Gaps in NHS end-of-life care ‘denying ill children chance to die at home’

Gaps in NHS end-of-life care ‘denying ill children chance to die at home’

Campaigners say some care boards in England flouting their legal duty, resulting in ‘cruel’ postcode lotterySeriously ill children are being denied the chance to die at home because the NHS in many parts of England is flouting its legal duty to provide the care needed to make that happen, critics say.The widespread failure to provide at-home end-of-life care is forcing children who want to die at home to instead do so in hospital. Campaigners have described it as “cruel”.

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NatureScience
Current therapeutic landscape and future treatment perspectives of MASH

Current therapeutic landscape and future treatment perspectives of MASH

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), the progressive form of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), is a heterogeneous and systemic disease that confers risk not only for cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) but also for extrahepatic complications including cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease. Over the past decade, numerous late-stage clinical trials have advanced the therapeutic landscape of MASH, culminating in a pivotal inflection point with accelerated approval of the thyroid hormone receptor-β (THRβ) agonist resmetirom and the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonist semaglutide, establishing pharmacological options for patients with non-cirrhotic MASH and fibrosis.

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The GuardianScandalLondon
UK must end all trade with Israel, says co-founder of BDS movement

UK must end all trade with Israel, says co-founder of BDS movement

Exclusive: sanctions against ministers and settler groups are ‘smoke and mirrors cop-out’ says Omar BarghoutiBritain’s legal and ethical obligation to stop a genocide in Gaza requires it to take bigger steps than halting trade with illegal Israeli settlements or imposing further sanctions, Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement has said.He described sanctions against individual settler groups or extremist ministers as a “smoke and mirrors cop-out and distraction” from the UK’s legal obligation under international law to end all support for Israel, including arms exports, trade deals and academic relations that “may directly or indirectly enable Israel’s illegal occupation” of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
Lindsay Clancy jurors sent home for the day after twice failing to reach verdict

Lindsay Clancy jurors sent home for the day after twice failing to reach verdict

Jury to return for more deliberations on Thursday in case of mother accused of murdering her three childrenThe jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial were dismissed for the evening on Wednesday without reaching a verdict, after nearly 30 hours of deliberations over five days.Addressing the 12-member jury – made up of nine women and three men – Judge William Sullivan said: “I know it’s been a long day.”

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The IndependentWellnessUSA
Lindsay Clancy jury sent home without a verdict on day four of deliberations

Lindsay Clancy jury sent home without a verdict on day four of deliberations

Download our app Jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial have been sent home without a verdict on the fourth day of deliberations, hours after telling the judge they have been unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether to hold the Massachusetts mother criminally responsible for killing her three young children at her home in 2023. Deliberations will resume Wednesday after five weeks of testimony from more than 70 prosecution witnesses and 10 defense witnesses, which brought renewed national attention to maternal mental health after childbirth.

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The GuardianWar & ConflictUSA
Democrats warn of ‘hollowed out’ leadership after army chief resigns amid clashes with Hegseth

Democrats warn of ‘hollowed out’ leadership after army chief resigns amid clashes with Hegseth

Sudden departure of Daniel Driscoll comes after Pentagon chief removed senior officers and blocked promotions, prompting warnings of a leadership crisisA senior Senate Democrat accused Pentagon secretary Pete Hegseth of having “hollowed out” the army’s senior ranks after its top civilian leader resigned after months of internal clashes with Hegseth.No official reason was given for army secretary Daniel Driscoll’s departure after 18 months on the job, while thousands of US soldiers are deployed in the Middle East. In a statement on Monday night, White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said Driscoll had been “highly effective in advancing President Trump’s agenda”, citing his work on “readiness and lethality” and his role in Russia-Ukraine negotiations.

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The GuardianWar & ConflictIran
Trump says new Iran bombing won’t last ‘too long’ but US prepared to attack ‘any time we want’ – Middle East crisis live

Trump says new Iran bombing won’t last ‘too long’ but US prepared to attack ‘any time we want’ – Middle East crisis live

US president’s comments come as Iran accused foe of war crime after strike on weddingIranian state media has shared video from the site of the reported attack in Sirik, southern Iran, where officials say US strikes hit a wedding ceremony in a residential area, killing four people including two children aged four and 16.Footage reportedly filmed inside the building where the wedding took place shows a debris-strewn floor, with women’s and girls’ embellished sandals and garlands scattered among the wreckage. A separate video shows the heavily damaged building from the outside, with a large hole visible in the roof. Here is an image from the footage released by the Iranian Red Crescent:

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The GuardianEconomyUnited Kingdom
Burnham beware, the bond markets will demand proper answers in the budget | Nils Pratley

Burnham beware, the bond markets will demand proper answers in the budget | Nils Pratley

Fair to say the current sell-off is international, but the PM has said little yet to make investors rethink the UK’s statusIt’s too soon to say the bond markets have turned on Andy Burnham. Tuesday’s spike in gilt yields, taking the UK’s 30-year borrowing costs , was part of .The main contributors are well known. The Iran war, by increasing the cost of energy, has overturned the comforting start-of-the-year thesis of falling global inflation and interest rates. A plunging Japanese yen has kicked away another assumed source of financial stability. The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, hasn’t calmed nerves with his solo, and so far futile, . Meanwhile, the early stage of the AI revolution is an exercise in issuing squillions of debt before long-term returns on capital can possibly be assessed meaningfully.

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HaaretzHumanityIslamic World
Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West BankScroll downCredit: Avishay Mohar, B'TselemHagar ShezafShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppThese images appear again and again – from the ground, from the air, and on maps: dozens of Palestinian communities wiped off the landscape, while illegal Israeli settler outposts continue to spread across the West Bank.Since October 7, 2023, this phenomenon has intensified significantly. Unlike the war in Gaza, there is no discussion in Israel about ending this parallel campaign of dispossession.

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