CNN reports:

An active-duty member of the US Air Force who set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, on Sunday, has died, authorities said. Aaron Bushnell, 25, said in a video of the incident obtained by CNN that he would “no longer be complicit in genocide” and that his suffering was minimal compared to that of Palestinians as the humanitarian crisis persists in Gaza.

He then sets the recording device on the ground before pouring an unknown liquid over himself and igniting it while yelling “Free Palestine” repeatedly. He eventually collapses as police officers rush to douse the flames with fire extinguishers.

Then he died. Then…

Let us never forget the extraordinary courage and commitment

How dare a woman say things.

No woman, or man who respects women, should be reading a newspaper which tells women to keep their mouths shut. @MetroUK pic.twitter.com/vALGpsx0BL

— Jean Hatchet (@JeanHatchet) February 27, 2024

I wanted to show the tweet itself but they seem to have taken it down.

Telling us to shut up only makes us talk more.

Updating to add an incensed reaction or two.

Dear @MetroUK.

Why not offer one of these free to every reader? Obviously will go down well with your readership. pic.twitter.com/9J1ubGMb7n

— Andy (@lecanardnoir) February 27, 2024

.@deboraharthurs This is shameful and surely a breach of the Editors Code of Practice on grounds of harassment, let alone that it is

Ron Filipkowski at Meidas Touch Network reported a few days ago:

Donald Trump’s attorneys were required to submit a proposed order for Judge Engoron to sign that conformed to his verdict and judgment in the case. They complied, but in the process it seems that Trump is trying to pull a fast one somewhere along the way. The proposed judgment that was submitted had the addresses changed for 6 of Trump’s businesses from New York to Florida. It is unclear whether this was something done by Trump before his trial in a feeble attempt to put them out of the jurisdiction of the NY courts, or if it was done after the trial to try to avoid the judgment.

Good, I was hoping someone would grab the on-air BBC account of the Oxford murder (not available in the US) and someone did. It’s hair-raisingly bad.

Here's the moment @BBCNews journalists falsely portrayed the male murderer Scarlet Blake (also known as Fangze Wang and later Alice Wang) as a woman, to millions of UK viewers.

Remarkably, their previous story reached out to fact checkers BBC Verify..but were somehow not deemed… pic.twitter.com/6ONkudwpt9

— Bob Hamstead (@berk_hamstead) February 26, 2024

Notice the way the anchor all but shouts the word “woman” at the beginning.

At no point in the entire clip does he mention that the murderer is not a woman, is a man, is a “trans woman.” It’s just “woman she … Read the rest

Jean Hatchet draws up a list:

So how many news outlets will accurately report that “he” was sentenced to life with a minimum sentence of 24 years in the case of the male murderer Scarlet Blake?

You @guardian ? Any other news outlet going to show a deliberate journalistic intent to call male murderers women?

— Jean Hatchet (@JeanHatchet) February 26, 2024

And @SkyNews also happy to insult women by calling this murdering man “she” and a “woman”. #ScarletBlake pic.twitter.com/duIB3M8pES

— Jean Hatchet (@JeanHatchet) February 26, 2024

Adding to the roll call of shameful news outlets naming a male murderer as a woman is @thetimes #ScarletBlake pic.twitter.com/vDdUc1KGuO

— Jean Hatchet (@JeanHatchet) February 26, 2024

And @ShropshireStar also naming Blake a

The news outlets just can’t figure it out, can they.

On Wednesday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told reporters in Kingston, Ontario, that female sports “should be for females — not for biological males.” Poilievre was responding in part to a new policy in Alberta that bans transgender females from competing in women’s sports. 

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Polls consistently show that Canadians favour full legal equality for transgender individuals – as well as special protections from discrimination. But opinions change rapidly when it comes to edge issues such as sports.

No they don’t. Equality is not the same thing as impersonation.

Guess what: I too “favour full legal equality” for trans people. It does not follow that I think that includes … Read the rest

They’re still doing it.

BREAKING: A woman who filmed herself killing a cat before putting the animal in a blender has been jailed for life for murdering a man four months later

Read more: https://t.co/6TfXeArkQW

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/oU5GM0a0RZ

— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 26, 2024

MAN. A MAN who filmed himself killing a cat has been jailed for murdering a man. He’s a MAN.… Read the rest

Ah so that’s why he stole them – he was hoping to sell them to the owners.

Hannity: “I can’t imagine you ever saying, ‘Bring me some boxes we brought back from the White House. I’d like to look at them.’”

Trump: “I would do that..I have the right to take stuff! You know they ended up paying Nixon $18 million for what he had.”
pic.twitter.com/tyY7YFnUym

— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) February 26, 2024

… Read the rest

Hilarious. “India” Willoughby, who spends all his time shouting at people for not agreeing that he’s a hot sexy hot woman and sharing photos of himself pretending to be a hot sexy young woman sunbathing. How much time does Willz spend smiling at uplifting films about love? Any?

I mean even apart from his warped beliefs about which people are women, he’s not a joy-finding kind of guy. He’s a rage-finding kind of guy.

I find joy in listening to the birds, walking my dog, the sun, the flowers, the wildlife

But most of all, I find joy in upsetting troons 🫶 pic.twitter.com/u0x7gs7uI3

— Kate Scottow (@BustedWench) February 25, 2024

… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on It’s a holy confusion.

Their dream is to achieve “immortality” by storing their consciousnesses in digital form, existing eternally as ghosts in the machine.

And if someone was an asshole in life, then they’ll be an asshole forever. Or at least until the machine in which they’re a ghost gets unplugged by some janitor.

Whether this sort of extreme transhumanism motivates any significant portion of Genderism’s supporters notwithstanding, a fundamental mind-body disconnect is shared between them.

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Godalmighty. What do they think would be the point without a body? I can’t imagine anything more horrendous.

Yeah, what’s the point? The elevation and privileging of mental and intellectual pleasures, whenever and … Read the rest

A pin in the map of global climate disaster:

Mexico City, a sprawling metropolis of nearly 22 million people and one of the world’s biggest cities, is facing a severe water crisis as a tangle of problems — including geography, chaotic urban development and leaky infrastructure — are compounded by the impacts of climate change.

Years of abnormally low rainfall, longer dry periods and high temperatures have added stress to a water system already straining to cope with increased demand. Authorities have been forced to introduce significant restrictions on the water pumped from reservoirs.

“Several neighborhoods have suffered from a lack of water for weeks, and there are still four months left for the rains to start,” said Christian

American Taliban.

My daughters will go from being under my roof to under their husbands roof with nowhere else in-between.

And that is after these men are approved of.

This shouldn’t be considered controversial.

— Mike Pantile (@mikepantile) February 25, 2024

Yes it definitely shouldn’t be controversial to say that half of humanity = mere objects to be exchanged and used by the other half.… Read the rest

Fred spots an own goal.

With literally no sense of irony, @PinkNews posted these two stories on the same day. PinkNews editors and its honchos @benjamincohen & @DrAnthonyJames have all the self-awareness of dogs sniffing each other's arses in public.

BTW boys, luv that Views to Likes ratio you got… pic.twitter.com/c4omNvtT7k

— Fred Sargeant (@FredSargeant) February 24, 2024

Lesbians MAY NOT exclude men who claim to be trans.

People who claim to be trans or non-binary MAY exclude all non-trans and non-non-binary people.

Thass eeequaliteee.… Read the rest

Oh look, he found a new low.

Former President Donald J. Trump, in a speech to a Black conservative group on Friday night, said he believed that the four criminal cases he is facing have earned him support from Black voters because they saw the historic unfairness of the justice system reflected in his legal woes.

Which historic unfairness of the justice system? The one that replaced slavery with bogus laws that enabled cops and prison officials to consign Black people to forced labor picking cotton or working in turpentine camps? How exactly is that similar to anything Donald Trump has come within a thousand miles of experiencing?

“I think that’s why the Black people are so much

Aw yeah, textbook adding insult to injury.

Hahahahawhawhawheeheehee geddit? To celebrate This Girl Can we’re gonna share a man demonstrating that these girls can’t because he is pushing them aside and taking their place. Solidarity bitchezzzzz hahahahahahahahahaha… Read the rest

Is it racist?

Former Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson has been suspended from the party after “refusing to apologise” for comments aimed at Sadiq Khan. The Conservative Ashfield MP told GB News on Friday “Islamists” had “got control” of the mayor of London. Responding on Saturday, Mr Khan described the remarks as “pouring fuel on the fire of anti-Muslim hatred”.

What should be said then?

Islamism and Islamists are real, and the words are not simply pejoratives or epithets. In a way they’re otiose, because Islam itself teaches that Islam should be in charge of everything including government, but in reality there are liberal Muslims who don’t think Islam should be in charge of everything including government. Some do, some … Read the rest

Trump is still struggling to avoid paying those overdue library book fines.

Donald Trump’s penalties in the New York civil fraud case for manipulating the value of his properties to obtain advantageous loan and insurance rates were formally set at more than $454m on Friday.

The judgment, which includes $354m in penalties plus $100m in pre-judgement interest following the three-month, non-jury trial that concluded on 16 February, will continue to accrue interest if the former president fails to pay.

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In his ruling a week ago, Engoron has said the defendants had shown a “complete lack of contrition and remorse [which] borders on pathological” when he imposed the fine and banned Trump for three years, and his adult sons for

Erm…what?

We mark the launch of the Rainbow Badge initiative in the Paediatrics department at UHL.🌈
This badge is all about showing inclusivity to our young patients and encouraging open conversations about sexuality with our staff members. #TeamULHG pic.twitter.com/thI4IYBX8j

— UL Hospitals (@ULHospitals) February 20, 2024

A hospital is encouraging open conversations about sexuality with its staff members in the Paediatrics department? A hospital is encouraging staff members to start cozy chats about sex with child patients?

Is this hospital staffed entirely by priests by any chance?… Read the rest

Compare.

The BBC today:

US man guilty of killing transgender woman in gender identity hate crime first

A man has been found guilty of killing a transgender woman in the US’s first federal trial over an alleged hate crime based on gender identity.

BBC yesterday:

Cat killer Scarlet Blake found guilty of murdering Jorge Martin Carreno

A woman obsessed with death who once livestreamed the killing of a cat has been found guilty of murdering a man.

When a trans woman is the victim his transitude is in the headline and the lede. When a trans woman is the perp his transitude is not in the headline or the lede.

This manipulative lying is shockingly bad journalism.… Read the rest

This.

There is something grim about pretending that a gratuitously violent, sexually-motivated male murderer is a woman, when women have to bear so much of the brunt of male violence in society. That this is a male crime could not be more relevant here.https://t.co/oMzN46VM0l

— Sonia Sodha (@soniasodha) February 23, 2024

Indeed there is.

The Beeb, unlike the Guardian, does eventually admit that the guy is trans, but only very late in the piece (and everyone knows that most of us don’t read all the way to the end). Admitting the murderer is a man after many paragraphs of “she offered him a bottle of vodka before she led him towards the river” and the like is as minimal … Read the rest