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Unreal. Asked whether he would hold Russia accountable for literally anything, Trump DOES NOT MENTION GEORGIA, MH-17, CRIMEA, UKRAINE, OR ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Says the US and Russia have "both" been "foolish," we've "both made mistakes." Then discusses his election victory.

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 16, 2018

He believes a murderous dictator, an enemy who assassinates dissidents, over his own intelligence officers.

To any Republicans: I am imploring you to help us wrest our country back from Russia. And to Democrats: Get. Out. The. Vote. https://t.co/dFqIUqjlGP https://t.co/p9oGiCsZwI

— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) July 16, 2018

Trump, asked by press to denounce Russian election interference, asks where Clinton’s are. He says Putin told him it wasn’t Russia. If the 25th

Trump and Putin held a press conference. The Secret Service (or Finnish security, some people on Twitter say) dragged Sam Husseini of The Nation out of the room.

An Op-Ed reporter from the publication The Nation was forcibly removed from a press briefing between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday, before the two leaders were set to take questions from the press.

The man removed was Sam Husseini, said Vice President of Communications at The Nation Caitlin Graf. Husseini is the communications director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit that promotes progressive experts as alternative sources for media reporters.

Husseini was holding a sign that Russian authorities reportedly called a

Even more lies about “TERFs”:

Just to reiterate something I said in another tweet: TERFs absolutely attack and assault trans women. They confront trans women at meetings and protests and hit them until they hit back, at which point they mark the encounter down as “trans activist hits feminist” and leave. https://t.co/x62aGLOO0f

— Avery Edison (@aedison) July 14, 2018

Oh really. Many people replied asking for just one example, but answer came there none.… Read the rest

Scarlett Johansson has withdrawn from the role of a butch lesbian / trans man because of the outrage that the part wasn’t being played by a trans man.

Scarlett Johansson has opted to withdraw from a film in which she was set to play a transgender man after her casting drew criticism from the LGBTQ community.

No, not the “LGBTQ community”; from some people in that “community.”

Johansson had been set to play transgender man Dante “Tex” Gill, who owned a string of massage parlors in Pittsburgh that were fronts for prostitution in the 1970s and 1980s, in a film about his life.

Johansson’s casting, however, came at a moment when the LGBTQ community and allies are encouraging the casting

Also charming.

Personally? Violent imagery isn’t something I use. But I recognize the legitimate need for people who are under a constant barrage of insults to occasionally respond with a “punch TERFs” tweet. And I’ve very little time for a respectability politics that says to shut up.

— Avery Edison (@aedison) July 8, 2018

A young trans person saying “I wish I could punch a TERF” is clearly someone just blowing off steam, expressing frustration, and looking for solidarity. They’re not planning an actual assault.

— Avery Edison (@aedison) July 8, 2018

Except when they are. Some threats are just blowing off steam. Some threats are real and get carried out. They don’t come marked as one or the other.… Read the rest

The AP sidles cautiously up to the obvious:

President Donald Trump’s lament this week that immigration is “changing the culture” of Europe echoed rising anti-immigrant feelings on both sides of the Atlantic, where Europe and the United States are going through a demographic transformation that makes some of the white majority uncomfortable.

It doesn’t so much “echo” it as simply express it. Trump is a xenophobic and racist reactionary who detests immigration from anywhere south of Norway. He’s also a mean selfish shit.

Trump, in an interview with the British newspaper The Sun, blamed immigration for a changing culture in Europe: “I think allowing millions and millions of people to come into Europe is very, very sad. I think you

The Trump administration thinks Britain is being most unfair to that nice racist agitator Tommy Robinson.

Sam Brownback, the U.S. Ambassador for International Religious Freedom, complained to the British ambassador in Washington D.C. about the treatment of an English right-wing activist who is in jail for disrupting a trial, according to three sources familiar with the discussion.

Brownback raised the case of the activist known as Tommy Robinson in a June meeting with Sir Kim Darroch, Britain’s Ambassador to the United States, according to a British official and two sources close to the organizers of a pro-Robinson demonstration planned for London on Saturday.

Robinson founded the English Defense League, whose hobby is organizing violent demonstrations against Muslim immigrants in … Read the rest

This is how German TV is covering Donald Trump in London. #TrumpVisitUK #TrumpBabyBlimp #TrumpBaby #TrumpProtests pic.twitter.com/WzK2kop4y0

— Andrew Bloch (@AndrewBloch) July 13, 2018

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