Pink News arrives at peak misogyny.
Tory peer wants to scrap gender-neutral toilets so women can ‘wash their bloody underwear’ in publichttps://t.co/nwyRcamtlU
— PinkNews (@PinkNews) February 25, 2020
Pink News arrives at peak misogyny.
Tory peer wants to scrap gender-neutral toilets so women can ‘wash their bloody underwear’ in publichttps://t.co/nwyRcamtlU
— PinkNews (@PinkNews) February 25, 2020
The BBC is live-updating news on the virus.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US’s top public health agency, has warned Americans to brace themselves for a spread of coronavirus within the country.
“It’s not so much a question of if this will happen in this country any more but a question of when this will happen,” Dr Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunisation and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), said.
And it will be bad.
In Iran however they’re saying don’t worry, it’s all good.
… Read the restAmid fears around Iran’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, President Hassan Rouhani has appealed for calm, saying he expects the situation to be “normal” by this Saturday.
He
The CDC says look out, it will be bad. Trump says he’s got everything totally under control.
New outbreaks in Asia, Europe and the Middle East are renewing fears of a coming global pandemic, even as the spread in China appears to be slowing.
RIGHT NOW “We are asking the American public to prepare for the expectation that this might be bad,” a C.D.C. official said.
Trump:
The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2020
He … Read the rest
Now Trump is pretending to think the sane Supreme Court justices should recuse themselves.
President Trump criticized remarks by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg as “inappropriate” and said the Supreme Court justices should recuse themselves from cases involving the president.
“I just don’t know how they cannot recuse themselves for anything Trump or Trump related,” Trump said Tuesday in a wide-ranging news conference in New Delhi.
It seems very rude to prattle about something so parochial when he’s in India. But…theory of mind again. He’s not capable of stopping to think that people in New Delhi have other concerns.
He then had the gall to say Sotomayor said something “highly inappropriate.” Dude.
… Read the restThe remarks are an apparent reference
Trump is giving advice on how to win the primaries.
… Read the rest“Mini Mike—how’d he do in the debate the other day?” President Donald Trump asked, at a rally in Las Vegas on Friday. He was talking about Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York, for whom he had some advice. But first he wanted to remind the crowd of Bloomberg’s height. “Here’s a box, Mike!” Trump said. (Bloomberg did not, in fact, stand on a box for the Democratic debate in Nevada.) The crowd cheered on his derision. “He was a beauty—what happened?” Trump clutched his throat and lolled his tongue in a somewhat graphic mime of choking. Then he arrived at what he saw as Bloomberg’s
Meanwhile in another (yet related) part of the forest, Mhairi Black MP is defending her decision to take a drag queen to one of those children’s story time gigs we hear so much about. The thing is, the drag queen is on Twitter, with photos, and…well I’ll let a reporter tell the story:
Renfrewshire MP Mhairi Black has defended a decision to invite a drag queen into a primary school to read to pupils, despite an outcry from parents over sexually-explicit social media posts.
Drag queen FlowJob was invited into Glencoats Primary, in Paisley, last week to speak to pupils about the notorious Section 28 Act, which was later repealed.
Flowjob. Erm…is that really a necessary part of the … Read the rest
Ed Pilkington on Weinstein’s aggressive lawyer from earlier this month:
… Read the restLast week, Rotunno reduced one of the two main accusers in the trial, who alleges she was raped by Weinstein in a New York hotel in 2013, to uncontrollable sobbing during a total of nine hours of relentless grilling over two days. On the first of those days, the presiding judge had to halt proceedings after the witness suffered a panic attack.
Rotunno had been firing questions at her like bullets, ending each query with a shotgun “Correct?” “You were manipulating Mr Weinstein so you’d get invited to fancy parties, correct?” “You wanted to benefit from the power, correct?” “You wanted to use his power, correct?”
The lawyer self-identifies as
More on Harvey Weinstein from the Guardian Live:
His lawyer decided it was a good time to troll everyone:
Donna Rotunno, Weinstein’s lead lawyer, has also been talking to reporters outside court, promising an appeal and saying of her client, in a remark which may prove controversial: “He took it like a man.”
Oh yes? Meaning what? He jumped on the prosecutors and raped them? He used his superior strength to overpower women and then terrorized them into staying silent? He tried to threaten reporters and publishers into staying silent?
… Read the restSaying “the fight is not over”, the Chicago-based lawyer said: “It is absolutely horrible for me to watch my client be taken into custody. We don’t feel good
Harvey Weinstein found guilty.
… Read the restThe jury of seven men and five women at the New York supreme court took five days to reach their verdict. They found the defendant guilty of a criminal sex act in the first degree for forcing oral sex on the former Project Runway production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006.
The count carries a minimum prison sentence of five years and a maximum of up to 25 years.
The jury also convicted Weinstein of rape in the third degree. This relates to him raping a woman the Guardian is not naming, as her wishes for identification are not clear, in a New York hotel in 2013.
Weinstein was acquitted of three further charges, including the
This is a sinister plot cooked up by people who understand how things work better than Trump but are no less deranged in their paranoia and anti-democracy leanings. Unlike Trump, they get that personnel IS policy. Like Trump, they are paranoid weirdos. /1 https://t.co/j76jSfdoHT
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) February 24, 2020
This group's "deep state" fear is fever swamp nonsense. There's no "deep state" out to get Trump. There are, however, millions of career Feds who have sworn an oath to uphold the rule of law and defend the Constitution. And that, my friends, is a threat to a would-be dictator. /3
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) February 24, 2020
… Read the restThe Russians are interfering in our democracy again and the president
More on Trump’s campaign to purge all the “bad people” by which he means people who don’t kiss his ass four times a day:
… Read the restIn reporting this story, I have been briefed on, or reviewed, memos and lists the president received since 2018 suggesting whom he should hire and fire. Most of these details have never been published.
A well-connected network of conservative activists with close ties to Trump and top administration officials is quietly helping develop these “Never Trump”/pro-Trump lists, and some sent memos to Trump to shape his views, per sources with direct knowledge.
Members of this network include Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and Republican Senate staffer Barbara Ledeen.
The big picture:
This again. Again. Rewire News:
Across the country, the anti-abortion movement continues to shame, pressure, and punish people who understand that abortion is a human right.
No, it doesn’t. It continues to shame, pressure, and punish women. The anti-abortion movement is about as far from being gender-neutral as it’s possible to be.
For nearly two decades, nearly three million people have ended their pregnancy with medication abortion.
Nope. Not people. Women. It’s not people who end their pregnancies, it’s women.
… Read the restSelf-managing an abortion consists of two sets of pills to be taken at or under ten weeks after the first day of a person’s last period: The first, mifepristone, blocks the hormone essential to advancing pregnancy. In
I’ve never understood the point of Chris Matthews anyway: he seems to me to be just what you don’t want in a tv pundit – a loud unmodulated screamy voice saying stupid things without pausing for breath. Now people are saying he should go away because too ignorant for primetime.
… Read the restMSNBC’s Chris Matthews is facing calls to resign after he compared Bernie Sanders’ victory in the Nevada caucus to the Nazi invasion of France. Sanders won the Nevada Democratic caucuses with 47 percent of the vote, the Associated Press reported.
As the results came in and Sanders took an early lead on Saturday night, Hardball host Matthews claimed Republicans would release opposition research on Sanders that would “kill him”
Actual photo of service dogs watching Billy Elliot The Musical as part of their behaving in a theater training.
My heart can’t take it pic.twitter.com/d7Gi6g246V
— TODD SPENCE (@Todd_Spence) February 21, 2020
Oh it gave her pause. Well that’s all right then.
Lisa Nandy has said she was given “pause for thought” about signing a pledge card from the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights.
The one about expelling feminists who don’t lie down so that trans women can walk on them.
The pledge calls on candidates in the Labour leadership race to back the expulsion of party members who hold “bigoted, transphobic views”.
It also describes Woman’s Place UK, a group that backs biological sex to be acknowledged as part of maintaining women’s rights, as a “trans-exclusionist hate group”.
Nandy was on a tv chat show today, and that’s where she admitted to the pause.
… Read the rest“I have to say, that was
Sarah Chayes points out that Trump’s corruption is very public for a reason.
… Read the restIn Kabul, Western officials scratched their heads as to why Karzai would want to confess, in an interview with ABC’s Christiane Amanpour, to meddling in judicial affairs. The U.S. and other donor nations on which he depended for his very survival would certainly be displeased. So he must have a very good reason, I thought at the time. And then I realized that he was broadcasting a message to his network: Don’t worry. I stand by the deal.
Even a cursory look at the list of Trump’s February 19 beneficiaries suggests that his aim was not to right the wrong of prosecutorial overreach, but to send
The jokes write themselves.
Advice For Women: How To Land a Great Guy:
1/ Be in shape
2/ Grow your hair long
3/ Be sweet
4/ Learn to cook
5/ Don't be annoyingAngry feminists and simps will try to sabotage you in the comments.
Don't listen to them.
Listen to me.
— ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) February 21, 2020
Presumably “land a great guy” means “capture the affections of a man for purposes of marriage or commitment or a rewarding temporary relationship”…but isn’t the list kind of bare bones? Even putting feminism aside for a moment, is that really what Great Guys want? Someone sweet and not annoying? That’s it?
On the upside, I guess women in the market for a … Read the rest
A Labour Party aide explains that women over 39 are just stupid and clueless:
One senior campaign aide said that the issue was becoming increasingly difficult to navigate and could do long-term damage to the party in an area where it has traditionally been strong.
“I think we are all in a bit of a bind,” the aide said. “We want to be the party of equality but there is a risk that we are seen to be obsessed by this and are tearing ourselves apart. The tone on both sides has been blown out of all proportion.”
Be the party of equality by all means, but you have to be clear that “equality” doesn’t mean “everything I like.”
… Read the restThe
For several days this week the veteran Swedish journalist Malou von Sivers will cover the same topic in every episode of her nightly TV chat show: the extraordinary rise in diagnoses of gender dysphoria among teenage girls.
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The immediate trigger for Von Sivers’s themed week is a report from Sweden’s Board of Health and Welfare which confirmed a 1,500% rise between 2008 and 2018 in gender dysphoria diagnoses among 13- to 17-year-olds born as girls.
But it also reflects a rapid change in public opinion. Just a year ago, there seemed few official obstacles left in the way of young people who wanted gender reassignment treatment.
Which is to say, puberty blockers, aka an uncontrolled … Read the rest
Originally a comment by Papito on The child deals with life by wearing pink and flowers.
The kids with dysphoria or gender confusion almost always grew up to be homosexual adults, not transsexual adults. Transsexual adult males usually weren’t dysphoric when they were kids….
I think they were all gender dysphoric as kids in a retrospective sense. You know, like all of a sudden, as adults, they discovered that they were always gender dysphoric and that’s what their problem was. But you’re right. All of the guys I know who transitioned were nebbishes who weren’t the least bit feminine before transition. Meanwhile, I knew other guys who were seriously swishy as kids and they mostly turned out gay. The … Read the rest