Marilyn Monroe has fascinated me since I was a child. I was probably ten years old when I asked my dad “why is Marilyn Monroe so famous?” He answered something like “well, she was a symbol of American beauty and hope. She burned bright but tragically died young.” I was intrigued and watched Marilyn’s movies whenever they showed on cable. Seeing her on screen, I was mesmerized by her allure, her humor, and her vulnerability. I might not have been able to articulate it as a young person, but Marilyn had range and nuance that were magnetic and I leaned in. Later in high school I became interested in pop art and one of the genre’s most famous series of images are Andy Warhol’s Marilyn portraits. Warhol’s Marilyns are superb in their use of color and effectively achieve his goal of reducing her to a high-contrast iconic, but impersonal representation. However, iconic glamour is only one dimension of Marilyn. When I was presented with the opportunity to make art of Marilyn based on photos by Milton H. Greene from 1956 when she was at the height of her powers, I was struck by the intimacy and vulnerability of the images. To me, these images called for a much more delicate approach compared to Warhol’s in order to convey more nuance and humanity. Even though Marilyn showed courage and conviction fighting for civil rights, equality, and against McCarthyism, her mental health struggles are widely recognized. I felt it was important to depict her precarious dance between wide-eyed aspiration and shying away from the glare of the spotlight. I hope these images, “Marilyn Sunrise” and “Marilyn Sunset” inspire an empathetic look at Marilyn’s complex humanity and remind us that we are all teetering between strength and fragility.

-Shepard

A portion of the proceeds from these prints will benefit The Marilyn Monroe Mental Health for the Arts Program

PRINT DETAILS: Marilyn Sunrise. 24″ H x 18″ W. Screen print on 80# cream Speckletone paper. Original illustration based on a photograph by Milton H. Greene. Signed by Shepard Fairey. Numbered edition of 500. Comes with a Digital Certificate of Authenticity provided by Verisart. $100. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to The Marilyn Monroe Mental Health for the Arts Program. Available on Thursday, May 14th @ 10 AM PDT at https://store.obeygiant.com/. A limited amount of matching numbered sets will be available for $200. Max order: 1 per customer/household. International customers are responsible for import fees due upon delivery (Except UK orders under $160).⁣ ALL SALES FINAL.

PRINT DETAILS: Marilyn Sunset. 24″ H x 18″ W. Screen print on 80# cream Speckletone paper. Original illustration based on a photograph by Milton H. Greene. Signed by Shepard Fairey. Numbered edition of 500. Comes with a Digital Certificate of Authenticity provided by Verisart. $100. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to The Marilyn Monroe Mental Health for the Arts Program. Available on Thursday, May 14th @ 10 AM PDT at https://store.obeygiant.com/. A limited amount of matching numbered sets will be available for $200. Max order: 1 per customer/household. International customers are responsible for import fees due upon delivery (Except UK orders under $160).⁣ ALL SALES FINAL.

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​De Britse premier Keir Starmer ligt steeds meer onder vuur. Zelfs binnen zijn eigen kabinet klinkt nu de roep om zijn vertrek. De Britten weten het zeker: als Starmer – de vierde premier in vier jaar tijd – opstapt, breekt er in het Verenigd Koninkrijk een periode van stabiliteit aan.

“Een periode van rust, reinheid en regelmaat ligt binnen handbereik”, zegt minister van Binnenlandse Zaken Shabana Mahmood. “Het enige wat daarvoor nodig is, is het vertrek van Starmer. Dan zal de Britse politiek weer saai zijn. Nooit meer politieke spelletjes door achterbakse politici die messen in elkaars rug steken, alleen maar om er zelf beter van te worden.”

Yvette Cooper, minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, stuurt ook aan op Starmers vertrek. “Met een nieuwe premier hoeven we ons nooit meer te verliezen in schandaaltjes, opiniepeilingen en tegenvallende verkiezingsuitslagen. Dan kunnen ook de tabloids weer doen waar ze goed in zijn: het analyseren van dieperliggende machtsstructuren.”

Ook de kiezers zijn duidelijk, blijkt uit een korte rondvraag op Bury Market in Manchester. “Ja, die moet gewoon weg”, zegt Kyle (42). “Ik zeg: nieuwe verkiezingen, en dan Farage premier. En tuurlijk: dat klinkt meteen wel héél stabiel, saai bijna, maar dat is misschien wel wat dit land nu nodig heeft.”

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Appointment confirmed by plenary vote in Senedd after party ended 100 years of Labour rule in last week’s election

Rhun ap Iorwerth has been voted first minister of Wales after Plaid Cymru’s Senedd electoral victory ended 100 years of Labour hegemony and held off Reform UK.

Ap Iorwerth was confirmed after a plenary vote on Tuesday with the support of the 43 Senedd members of his party and two Greens.

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Survivors to return to ‘scene of the crime’ for shadow congressional hearing into abuses committed by Epstein

Survivors of r Jeffrey Epstein will return to the “scene of the crime” in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday for a shadow congressional hearing into abuses committed by the late sex offender.

Several members of the Democratic House oversight caucus are scheduled to join the victims and several expert witnesses at the hearing close to Epstein’s former waterfront mansion where he procured girls as young as 14 to perform sexual services for wealthy guests.

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Tim Miller’s teen daughter disappeared in 1984, tied to a series of deaths in the Texas ‘killing fields’. After decades, he received a tip that unlocked everything

Tim Miller is good at finding missing people – or rather, their bodies. Four years ago, a stranger called him and left a rambling message claiming that he had important information about an unsolved murder case.

Miller, who lives in Texas and runs a non-profit search-and-recovery organization called EquuSearch, did not treat the message as a high priority. The caller sounded as if he might have been drunk or on drugs. Although tips are vital to EquuSearch’s work, the tip line brings a certain number of hoaxes, cranks and innuendo. Some of the people who leave messages, Miller told me, “probably ought to get their medication checked”.

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Bij een verkeersongeval in Molenaarsgraaf is dinsdagmiddag een kind om het leven gekomen. Het ongeluk gebeurde rond 13:30 uur op de Graafdijk-West. Daar kwam het slachtoffer met de fiets onder een vrachtwagen terecht.

Het filmpje dat graag vergeten wordt: Israëlische vrouw verbrand en naakt

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Het rapport van 300 pagina's (PDF) door een Israëlische burgercommissie baseert zich op 430 interviews, meer dan 10.000 foto's en videofragmenten en meer dan 1.800 uur aan videomateriaal. Op basis daarvan concludeert het dat Hamas op extreme schaal extreem seksueel geweld heeft gepleegd, teneinde de Israëlische samenleving als geheel de ontbinding in te terroriseren. Meer dan eens filmde Hamas het seksuele geweld namelijk, of livestreamde ze het zelfs via de kanalen van de slachtoffers.

De commissie schrijft dat er sprake was van 13 vormen van seksueel geweld, die ook plaatsvonden tegen mannen en jongens, te weten: verkrachting, groepsverkrachting, seksuele marteling, seksuele verminking, gedwongen naaktheid, executies na seksueel geweld, seksueel geweld in bijzijn van familieleden, gedwongen seksuele handelingen tussen familieleden (!) en postmortaal seksueel geweld. 

Over die gedwongen seksuele handelingen tussen familieleden schrijft de commissie enkel: "in one of the documented cases family members were coerced into participating in acts of abuse against one another. These acts reflect what the Commission characterizes as kinocidal sexual violence—violence deliberately designed to destroy the family as a social and emotional unit by weaponizing the bonds between family members."

Over dat postmortale geweld schrijft de commissie:

"Across attack locations, the Commission found a discernible pattern of sexual violence inflicted upon victims after their death. The available documentation indicates that these acts, including leaving murdered victims with their genitals and other intimate areas exposed, mutilating and burning intimate body parts post-mortem, undressing and abusing bodies, and other forms of desecration, were carried out consistently across different locations. (...)

In one of these cases, an eyewitness described seeing perpetrators rape and murder a woman and then continue to rape her after her death. Another witness described seeing an armed attacker raping, mutilating, and shooting a woman “while [he was] still inside her." In other cases, first responders reported seeing bodies of women that had been mutilated, dismembered, or displayed in sexually humiliating ways, including left in public with their vaginas or breasts exposed.593 There were also reports of male bodies being found with their genitalia mutilated or with other indications of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence.

Witnesses reported seeing perpetrators beheading women or seeing bodies that were missing heads, 595 perpetrators carrying the severed heads of women and playing with a severed breast,596 bodies cut in half or dismembered, and bodies found with sexual organs cut off or objects inserted in their genital area.597 In one case, a witness described finding the body of a man with his genitals cut off, and next to him, the body of a woman, holding his cut-off genitals, in what appeared to be a staged display to humiliate the victims."

Waar het een beetje op neerkomt: krijg het maar bedacht en het is waarschijnlijk gebeurd. Maar wij trekken de Rode Lijn zodra de Israëlische Songfestivalartiest in het Engels of Frans begint te zingen, handen af van onze taal! Meer beeld na de breek.

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Het filmpje van de Israëlische 'Civil Commission'

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Een aantal fragmenten komen uit Sheryl Sandberg docu 'Screams before Silence'

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One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

An Israeli soldier filmed this clip using a drone camera while proudly boasting about the destruction of all homes in Gaza.

A moment the world must never forget. pic.twitter.com/rQzKP1Pdq2

— Tamer Nahed (@Tamer_Alnoaizy) May 5, 2026

Is echt een genocide!

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Ontwikkelaars hebben tot nu toe ruim € 35 miljoen aangevraagd via het Nationaal Fonds Betaalbare Koopwoningen (NFBK), goed voor 822 nieuwe woningen. Komende zomer start een volgende tranche van het NFBK. Met deze tranche is in totaal € 100 miljoen beschikbaar gesteld voor betaalbare starterswoningen. Het fonds helpt starters een betaalbare koopwoning te kopen en is daarmee onderdeel van het aanpakken van de woningnood. Minister Elanor Boekholt-O’Sullivan van Volkshuisvesting en Ruimtelijke Ordening meldt dit vandaag in een brief aan de Tweede Kamer.

We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots. “For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints…”

Mark Ruffalo keert zich fel tegen de op handen zijnde fusie van Paramount met Warner Bros. Een online petitie is inmiddels vijfduizend keer ondertekend, rechtszaken worden voorbereid. Opvallend is zijn hoopvolle toon.