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From the Broadcast News Gossip department:

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani pulled out of an appearance on the now Donald Trump–friendly CBS News because of the actions of the network’s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss.

The progressive Democrat Mamdani, to whom the president has taken an unlikely shine, had been in talks to do a sit-down interview with Robert Costa for CBS News Sunday Morning.

However, Mamdani has now backed out because Weiss has stirred CBS News to launch wave after wave of negative press coverage of the mayor, Vanity Fair’s Aidan McLaughlin first reported in his Party Animals newsletter.

Hostile press coverage, they mean. The euphemistic word “negative” is so useless there; I wish journalists or their … Read the rest

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An unlikely shine
By Ophelia Benson, March 14, 2026

From the Broadcast News Gossip department:

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani pulled out of an appearance on the now Donald Trump–friendly CBS News because of the actions of the network’s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss.

The progressive Democrat Mamdani, to whom the president has taken an unlikely shine, had been in talks to do a sit-down interview with Robert Costa for CBS News Sunday Morning.

However, Mamdani has now backed out because Weiss has stirred CBS News to launch wave after wave of negative press coverage of the mayor, Vanity Fair’s Aidan McLaughlin first reported in his Party Animals newsletter.

Hostile press coverage, they mean. The euphemistic word “negative” is so useless there; I wish journalists or their … Read the rest

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An unlikely shine 

From the Broadcast News Gossip department:

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani pulled out of an appearance on the now Donald Trump–friendly CBS News because of the actions of the network’s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss.

The progressive Democrat Mamdani, to whom the president has taken an unlikely shine, had been in talks to do a sit-down interview with Robert Costa for CBS News Sunday Morning.

However, Mamdani has now backed out because Weiss has stirred CBS News to launch wave after wave of negative press coverage of the mayor, Vanity Fair’s Aidan McLaughlin first reported in his Party Animals newsletter.

Hostile press coverage, they mean. The euphemistic word “negative” is so useless there; I wish journalists or their … Read the rest

Bribe the cap guy, get security briefings 

Peak trolling. The world points out how disgusting it is for Trump to exploit one of the soldiers he got killed by wearing one of his own vulgar baseball caps while saluting the coffin, so Trump exploits the disgust at his disgusting behavior.

Not content with wearing his own merchandise at a dignified transfer, President Donald Trump is now doubling down on the “shameful” insult by attempting to cash in on the controversial photo op.

In a twisted turn of events, the 79-year-old has used an image of himself saluting the coffin of a soldier killed in his war on Iran to drum up cash for his own campaigning.

Last week, Trump became the first president in history

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Without exception 

Reduxx has news from Brazil:

A trans-identified male politician who previously attempted to have a woman imprisoned for “misgendering” him was elected as president of the Women’s Rights Committee. Felipe Santos Silva, who has adopted the name Erika Hilton, told the Chamber of Deputies that the Committee should focus on women “without exception in their dignity and plurality,” and included transvestites in his definition.

Plurality is one thing and calling men “women” is another.

“We will discuss projects here, we will discuss the lives of women here, we will remember that, whether they like it or not, cis women, trans woman and travestis [transvestites] will not be abandoned in this discussion, and I don’t care about anyone’s wishes,” Hilton,

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An unusually crass opinion 

And so they fall into the trap.

A Donald Trump-appointed federal appellate judge invoked the term “swinging dicks” three times in an unusually crass opinion involving a nude, female-only Korean spa, drawing sharp rebukes from 29 of his colleagues.

“This is a case about swinging dicks,” began a Thursday dissenting opinion from Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the US Court of Appeals. He said he would have ruled in favor of Washington state’s Olympus Spa, which had sought to bar transgender women from its spa facilities on free speech grounds.

“You may think that swinging dicks shouldn’t appear in a judicial opinion. You’re not wrong,” he wrote. “But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely

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Up 

Just don’t do it again, ok?

A serial upskirter whose phone contained more than 100 videos of young women secretly filmed in public toilets has heard of his lecherous behaviour’s “profound impact” on one of his victims.

Bao Phuc Cao, 23, a Vietnamese biomedicine student at The University of Melbourne, appeared for sentencing in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court after he was caught filming a woman in a public toilet at a Docklands shopping centre in February 2025.

Cao pleaded guilty on Thursday, March 5, but his hearing was adjourned as the court awaited a victim impact statement…The statement was not read before the court, but magistrate Michelle Mykytowycz said Cao’s victim had been deeply affected by the incident.

“This has had

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Be less pleased 

This is astounding.

And who’s that up near the top of the table on the left? None other than Mridul Wadhwa, the man who ran the Edinburgh rape crisis centre for way too long. Why did Olivia Bailey MP go out of her way to insult women and why does she look so happy about it?

Reactions are intensely hostile.

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boop boop boop 

New low achieved.

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If only there had been signs 

Well, be sure to respeck the idenninee.

A transgender woman and former volunteer Metropolitan Police officer from Chesham, who was found guilty of raping a child, is due to be sentenced.

James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, groomed one of his two victims online before sexually assaulting her when she was just 12 years old. The 27-year-old defendant was also found guilty of raping a woman he met online while posing as a 16-year-old girl.

After his initial sentencing was postponed last year, a new date has been confirmed for Friday, March 13, at 10.30 am at Aylesbury Crown Court.

I bet he was a really great cop.

James Bubb, who now identifies as

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Efficiency 

It’s so creepy. He looks about 12, and as self-confident and smug as Musk himself. This punk was in charge of demolishing great swathes of research on the basis that they were “DEI” and thus evil garbage.

“Do you think maybe there was a reason the government doesn’t use Signal?”… Read the rest

Bureau of punks 

Now there’s a title.

DOGE Staffers Used ChatGPT to Cut Holocaust History Grants During Counter-DEI Purges: Lawsuit

The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) relied on the ChatGPT large language model program when deciding to cut grants for Jewish-related history programs, including one focused on violence against women during the Holocaust, according to a new class-action lawsuit.

Yes how dare anyone waste government money on Holocaust research.

DOGE staffer Justin Fox is named as one of the defendants in the suit filed in US federal court on Friday by the Authors Guild, which alleges that he was the one who developed the method of using ChatGPT prompts to determine which grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) —

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in the in the in the earth 

From The Terf Island Playbook by Helen Joyce:

This new belief system means abandoning the healthy individualism of classical liberalism, which involves respect for differences of opinion and emphasis on “freedom rights”. Within it, notions of a shared human nature and the common good are no longer regarded as normative or aspirational but instead as coercive. It prioritises freedom to do as thou wilt. It’s freedom for the strong, not the weak; freedom to impose, not freedom from being imposed upon. It’s all about the swinging fist, with no concern for where the nose begins.

And that’s why it’s women who suffer when you say that “man” and “woman” are opt-in categories. It’s just fact – unwelcome fact, but fact

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Celebrity pundits 

I’ve always found Malcolm Gladwell glib and annoying, but it turns out he’s all that and worse.

Gladwell does actually say that, with energetic conviction. “If you’re someone who thinks that trans women should not participate in the female category, you have to go out of your way to be an advocate for all other aspects of the trans agenda.”

It’s quite startling to … Read the rest

Do you believe in magic? Do you believe in magic? 

Zack Polanski hasn’t always been a rising-star woman-hating political hopeful. Not all that long ago he was a hypnotherapist, who…

I’ll let the Beeb tell you.

Zack Polanski’s claim to have immediately apologised for saying that hypnosis could increase a woman’s breast size has been thrown into doubt by a newly unearthed interview.

Before entering politics the Green Party leader worked as a hypnotherapist and offered a session in 2013 to enlarge a newspaper reporter’s bust. Polanski has since said he was misrepresented and never believed it was possible, claiming he spoke to the BBC the day after the article to apologise.

BBC News cannot find evidence of such an interview, but six days later he spoke to Radio

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The glorious cause 

It’s been some time, so let’s refresh our memories of that clip of Euan Weddell calling JKR “you heinous creepy old BITCH.” It’s just 17 seconds in so no need for masochistically watching the whole thing.… Read the rest

Something something DEI something 

Look. at. this. guy.

One of Musk’s ignorant punks who set fire to great swathes of the government last year so that Trump would have plenty of extra $$$ to drop bombs on Tehran. He can’t say what “DEI” is but by god he can snuff out an organization labeled as it. It’s a very good idea to give huge destructive power to guys like this.

It’s in the EO. I don’t know what the EO said, but it’s in there. I acted on the EO. That’s … Read the rest

Wimmin n enbies 

Battle 497 in the campaign to make women shut up already.

A leading trade union is being sued by two of its members over claims they were threatened with disciplinary action for criticising its “unlawful” gender policy.

The Community trade union, which counts several UK cabinet politicians as members, is facing a judicial review brought by two women, Norma Austin Hart and Alison Ann-Dowling, who are seeking to have its gender equality strategy quashed.

They claim the policy, adopted by Community’s national executive council in February last year, is unlawful as it treats women and those who claim to identify as non-binary as a single category, contrary to a Supreme Court ruling that determined sex is defined by biology.

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Joke on repeat 

Hur hur. And Trump is the future parking cop of Toronto.

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This erasure 

Katha Pollitt said a thing.

Women, do you describe yourself as a birthing parent? A chestfeeder? A person with a vagina or uterus? A menstruator? This erasure of woman language has gone pretty far in the worlds of medicine, science, research, and academic feminism. It’s weird and insulting and dehumanizing, reducing women to body parts and functions. Why are feminists promoting this? PS Is the male partner of the birthing parent called the inseminator? No.

There are plenty of sane comments but also plenty of the other kind. The stupid continues, year upon year…… Read the rest

Easy for him 

I still can’t get used to seeing grown-ass adult political people happily throwing away women’s rights on behalf of men who like to dress up as Priddee Laydeez. Like this piece of crap.

I watched 14 seconds of it. Way more than enough.… Read the rest

Teehee 

Aw isn’t that cute – man nominated for women’s prize.

Remember him? I didn’t. He’s the one who played a piano with his penis for the entertainment of tv watchers.

One more award for a woman goes to a man.… Read the rest