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Legal protection from WHAT?

Feb 23rd, 2024 9:34 am | By

Oh good lord. Do play the clip to see reeking oozing entitlement in action. Large pallid man whose accent rivals that of Choss Windsor in poshitude bleats about being “misgendered” in court because listen here he’s not a “he” he’s nonbinareeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Bonus: the “microaggression” ploy.

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Behold: an umbrella term

Feb 23rd, 2024 3:29 am | By

Oh good, even more nonsense to keep track of.

But what does gender expansive mean? According to national LGBTQ+ advocacy group PFLAG, it’s an umbrella term for individuals who don’t align with traditional gender categories, or who expand ideas of gender expression or identity.

“It might be used because someone has identities outside of what’s socially accepted,” said Mackenzie Harte, PFLAG’s manager of learning and inclusion, adding that the term is one they’ve increasingly heard used by parents and educators regarding to youth. “It’s where someone is not conforming to social ideas of what gender should be.”

Geddit? It means they’re special and rebelly and fascinating and original and above all better than you.

Gender expansive is not

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It was a secret

Feb 23rd, 2024 3:07 am | By

Britain’s only trans judge quits over fears of ‘politicising’ judiciary

A trans judge is someone who knows nothing about the law but identifies as a judge?

No, they mean a man who claims to be a woman.

Master Victoria McCloud, who transitioned from a man to a woman in the 1990s, warned the situation meant she is “now political every time I choose where to pee”.

Whereas before “the situation” he was free to violate women’s rights with impunity.

McCloud’s gender identity was kept private but became public knowledge after being published by a national newspaper.

Why was it kept private? How is that fair?

Referring to the rise of gender-critical campaigners, McCloud added “it has been open season on

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Very bad man

Feb 22nd, 2024 3:58 pm | By

Fairness? What’s that?

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Striking

Feb 22nd, 2024 3:03 pm | By
Striking

Why is Jonathan “India” Willoughby unaffectionately called Botox Chuckie?

Oh right.

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Non-binary and WEARING A FUCKING WIG

Feb 22nd, 2024 11:03 am | By

Sing it!

Alllllllll the attention.

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Guest post: What children of powerful people do

Feb 22nd, 2024 9:49 am | By

Originally a comment by Eava on All rotten.

Hunter Biden gets his share of blame for this, parlaying Daddy’s job into a fat salary for him.

This is what children of famous people do, opportunities find them.

George W. Bush had Saudi investors bail out failing businesses. He was majority owner of the Texas rangers and almost became the commissione of baseball. Jenna Bush is a talk show host with multiple book deals. Chelsea Clinton gets book deals. Andrew Cuomo got positions in the Clinton Administration. At the same time, these are people who are highly educated and steeped in the business/political world. Hunter wasn’t a strung out junkie when he was on the Burisma board.

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Guest post: Religious beliefs are open to hermeneutical variety

Feb 22nd, 2024 9:36 am | By

Originally a comment by Eric MacDonald on No exception for extrauterine children.

On what basis can anyone say that “Even before birth, all human beings have the image of God.” Of course, we should simply dismiss the idea since there is no God. But if we take it in terms of the beliefs expressed in Genesis, we have to ask what does speaking about the image of God even mean? We have no idea. But it is implausible to think that reference is being made to fertilised eggs, since no one knew of them at the time, so it couldn’t have been part of the meaning of ‘image of God’. The implication is that it refers either to physiognomy … Read the rest



And then all of a sudden

Feb 22nd, 2024 6:39 am | By

Trump helps the prosecution again:

Special counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump in June for hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. During a Fox News town hall on Tuesday night, host Laura Ingraham asked Trump why he hadn’t simply returned the material when the government asked him to do so.

“First of all, I didn’t have to hand them over,” Trump said bluntly. “But second of all, I would have done that. We were talking, and then all of a sudden they raided Mar-a-Lago.”

Of course, he did “have to.” He’s just brazenly lying in his usual way when he says he didn’t. He may in some sense “believe” he had the right to take them, but he has no right … Read the rest



All rotten

Feb 21st, 2024 5:37 pm | By

Hm. It seems Russia has been faking stories about Hunter Biden and the Republicans have been lapping them up and now they can’t any more. What a normal and healthy situation.

Representative Jim Jordan seems to be struggling with the realization that Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden appears to be founded on a bed of lies peddled by the Russian government.

On Wednesday, the Ohio Republican got caught up in his own words, insisting that the inquiry still had merit, despite the Justice Department indictment against its primary witness, Alexander Smirnov…

On Tuesday, the Justice Department revealed that Smirnov admitted to prosecutors that “officials associated with Russian intelligence were involved” in developing the Hunter Biden narrative.

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No exception for “extrauterine children”

Feb 21st, 2024 11:22 am | By

Frozen objects in test tubes are children, according to the Alabama Supreme Court. Not potential children, future children, the makings of children, but children.

Referencing antiabortion language in the state constitution, the judges’ majority opinion said that an 1872 statute allowing parents to sue over the wrongful death of a minor child applies to “unborn children,” with no exception for “extrauterine children.”

“Even before birth, all human beings have the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory,” Chief Justice Tom Parker wrote in a concurring opinion.

But. But. But “God” isn’t real, “God” is an idea invented by humans. We don’t even know what “the image of God” would look like, because there … Read the rest



Text us when you make the border

Feb 21st, 2024 7:52 am | By

Gannett refuses to publish Doonesbury.

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A ceremony that almost didn’t happen

Feb 21st, 2024 7:39 am | By

NPR chatted with Masha Gessen about comparing Gaza to Nazi ghettoes back in December.

Prominent Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen received a prestigious award for political thought over the weekend, in a ceremony that almost didn’t happen due to backlash over their recent writings on Israel-Gaza.

Israel’s air-and-ground assault on Gaza has killed more than 20,000 people in the 10 weeks since the Hamas-led attack on Israel killed some 1,200 people and took more than 240 others hostage.

Why did Israel commit this air-and-ground assault on Gaza? Because that’s where Hamas is. It didn’t do it as part of a broader campaign to kill all Muslims or all Arabs. It can still be a war crime, but comparable to Hitler’s … Read the rest



Let’s move the ceremony to a broom closet

Feb 21st, 2024 6:44 am | By

The Times of Israel in December:

The Russian-American writer Masha Gessen received a German literary prize Saturday in a ceremony that was delayed and scaled down in reaction to an article she penned comparing Gaza to Nazi German ghettos. The comparison in a recent New Yorker article was viewed as controversial in Germany, where government authorities strongly support Israel, in part as a form of compensation for the Holocaust and the murder of 6 million Jews.

Gessen, who was born Jewish in the Soviet Union, is critical of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.

One can be critical of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians without claiming it’s comparable to the Holocaust.

In Gessen’s article, titled “In the Shadow of the Holocaust,” the

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Life coaches off to prison

Feb 21st, 2024 4:21 am | By

Parental advice-giver found guilty of horrific child abuse. Of course.

Ruby Franke, a mother of six who gave online parenting advice via a popular YouTube channel, was sentenced to four prison terms of between one and 15 years each, on aggravated child abuse charges on Tuesday.

Franke, 42, who had 2.3 million followers on her now-deleted 8 Passengers video channel, was arrested in the southern Utah city of Ivins last August after her malnourished 12-year-old son, with open wounds and bound with duct tape, climbed out of a window at the home of Jodi Hildebrandt, owner of a self-improvement counseling business, to ask for food and water from a neighbor.

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Reported to the regulator

Feb 21st, 2024 3:44 am | By

In Solicitors Behaving Badly news

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) yesterday upheld allegations that a solicitor published antisemitic and offensive posts on social media and also abused Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) staff.

The conduct of Farrukh Najeeb Husain was reported to the regulator by leading law firm Bevan Brittan, where he was working as a self-employed consultant to deliver on a particular client mandate in spring 2021. Some of the key tweets were directed at Simon Myerson KC, a Jewish barrister, and Hugo Rifkind, a Jewish journalist at The Times.

And they are eye-watering.

In its rule 12 statement – setting out its case to the tribunal – the SRA alleged that, as well as being “plainly inappropriate,

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Gee that reminds me

Feb 20th, 2024 5:50 pm | By

Trump finally mentions Navalny, but…..

Well, you know. Not the normal way.

Seventy-two hours following the death of Alexei Navalny, Donald Trump made his first comments on the death of the Russian opposition leader Monday but stopped short of condemning anyone or offering sympathy.

Instead, the former president related his own legal woes to the death of Navalny, who died in prison on Friday at the age of 47. Trump on Friday was ordered to pay a $354.8 million penalty payment as part of civil fraud trial decision.

Apart from the callous self-serving, there’s the fact that Trump isn’t 47, Trump really is a criminal and a bad person, Trump isn’t dead.

“The sudden death of Alexei

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At the centre of a polarising issue

Feb 20th, 2024 5:17 pm | By

Steve Scott’s interview with “Emily” Bridges wasn’t his first rodeo. He was pouring on the sympathy and flattery all the way back in June 2022.

Online abuse has become a way of life for Emily Bridges: “It is very difficult to read everything people are saying about you, and it hurts, it hurts.”

Maybe – and this is just a suggestion – if you weren’t cheating women in their own sport people wouldn’t be saying things about you that you find “difficult.” Maybe the people wouldn’t be hurty if you weren’t so cheaty.

Bridges has become one of the most talked about athletes in Britain and the discussions about her are seldom nuanced. She sits at the centre of

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Stuck in an eternal playground

Feb 20th, 2024 11:43 am | By

Man disagrees with woman by saying he doesn’t consider her sexually appetizing. How very original.

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Look at the hands

Feb 20th, 2024 11:29 am | By

There’s also video.

Bridges at 0.30 says “if it was safe for me to compete” but doesn’t go on to explain how it’s not safe for him to compete. Of course it’s safe for him to compete against other men, apart from the risks all competitive cyclists take on. The claim that it’s unsafe for him in particular is just more of the maddening reversal all male trans “activists” go in for – pretending they’re vulnerable, they’re at risk, they’re unsafe, they might face physical violence.

Then he says “I can’t compete” and Scott says, rather unsympathetically, “But you can compete in an open category.” This flummoxes the lad a bit. He pauses, then asks with a girlish tilt … Read the rest