We need more oil to get those prices down but don’t go producing more oil because climate.

Next up: fly us to the moon on gossamer wings.

The Post:

Battered politically by high gasoline prices and pressed to increase oil and gas production, Biden nonetheless attempted to convince countries to keep pursuing policies aimed at combating climate change.

“We cannot, we cannot afford to let the critical goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius to slip out of our reach,” the president said to leaders at the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate. “The science tells us the window for action is rapidly narrowing.”

And the news media and vox pop tell us we have to … Read the rest

It’s not just a few wannabe-Hitlers, it’s the Republican party.

[T]he immediate danger to American democracy stems from the fact that the Republican party is justifying all this, remains united behind the man responsible, and, worst of all, actually wants to put him back in power. This is about Trump, but not just about Trump. This is what the Republican party is: the very few voices siding against Trumpism are being shunned and ostracized, and most Republicans are united in their quest to install authoritarian rule by a reactionary minority.

And even if conservatives aren’t necessarily on board with all the specifics of Trump’s conspiracy claims, the right in general is united behind the idea that progressives are out

If they could at least manage to talk about it honestly that would be a start.

First sentence of Libby Brooks’s article on a survey of attitudes toward trans people:

The British public are not bitterly polarised over trans equality, according to new research, which found a majority agreed schools should talk to pupils about transgender issues and that one in four knows a trans person personally.

But “equality” has nothing to do with it. Nobody wants trans people to be “unequal” in some never-specified way. The well is poisoned in the title and the very first sentence, and of course goes on being poisoned throughout.

Thought to be the most in-depth UK study to date of public attitudes

Sometimes NOW remembers who women are and what the National Organization for Women is.

This is another supply chain problem where women are bearing the brunt of the cost. Because of these shortages, we are seeing a major hike in prices for tampons, a product that is already unaffordable for many. https://t.co/nhWIMkuIag

— National NOW (@NationalNOW) June 15, 2022

Just women. Not men, not trans women, just women. It’s women who need to soak up menstrual blood without getting it all over the furniture, not men.

Other times they struggle a bit.

Climate change-induced socioeconomic instability, structural power inequalities, health-care inaccessibility, resource scarcity, as well as breakdown in safety all leads to an increased rate of gender-based violence. https://t.co/9hAam7On4k

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I remember when the National Organization for Women was an organization for women. Seems like only yesterday.

When will this childish shit stop. Yes of course women are the only people who need access to abortion care. Men don’t need it because men don’t get pregnant. (There’s plenty to say about how abortion rights benefit men too, but that’s a different subject, and not what NOW means.) Women need access to abortion and women need a lot of other things too. The fight has not been won. It is not time to move on from feminism and give the men who want to pretend to be women a chance.… Read the rest

A Holyrood equalities committee is discussing reform of the Gender Recognition Act while refusing to talk to women. It’s talking about giving away women’s rights while barring women from their talk. How do they justify this to themselves?

A former Olympic athlete turned politician has slammed Holyrood’s equalities committee, describing its scrutiny of a bill to reform the Gender Recognition Act as a “sham” after it refused to hear from female atheletes concened about the impact of legislation on women’s sport.

Brian Whittle, a gold medallist in the 4x400m relay at the 1986 and 1994 European championships, and a competitor at the Seoul Olympics in 1988, said the committee was only inviting people “who give the answers they want

At last, the man says, finally, FINALLY, after all these years dragging ourselves through the sand, longing for water – finally a man steps in to bestow clarity on all this womany screeching.

At last, some hope of consensus rather than division on the issue of trans rights.
Navigating the detail still requires careful thought, but these findings are basis for common ground. https://t.co/r6IjAJ2e4H

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) June 16, 2022

Responses are somewhat acerbic.… Read the rest

Billy Bragg is happy about it though. Well he would be.

I am a discrimination lawyer. I think it is unlawful https://t.co/531FZiftYo

— Audrey Ludwig (@AudreySuffolk) June 16, 2022

Imagine working in local government (as I have, working for the Zoo and the Aquarium and the Parks Department) and having your union make declarations of belief in obvious lies. The union’s position is clear: men are women. Brilliant. … Read the rest

Grim. Unison, the UK union for public service workers, has declared war on gender critical feminism.

UNISON local government conference unanimously passed a motion in support of trans rights this afternoon, recognising the importance of the union being loud and visible in support of its trans members.

Speaking in support of the motion, UNISON LGBT+ delegate Anu Prashar commented on the hostile media treatment of trans women in particular saying “this is the same tactic used against gay men in the section 28 era, when they were portrayed as sexual predators and a danger to children. We have seen it all before.”

No, it isn’t. It isn’t the same at all. Why is it “trans women in particular”? Because … Read the rest

One more grovel added to the mountain.

Yesterday I tweeted a mean crack about breastfeeding vs chestfeeding. After speaking with some Trans friends and educating myself a bit more I want to apologize for the tweet. It was adding to misinformation and meanness. I’m sorry.

— RainnWilson (@rainnwilson) June 16, 2022

What did he say?

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— MortyArty (@artymortyarty) June 16, 2022

You can call that “mean” all you want, but the reality is it’s true. Organizations for women obey this new rule that we must not mention women in connection with pregnancy or childbirth or nursing or mothers. The more people object the better. The more celebrities object the better. The fewer people and celebrities who apologize the next … Read the rest

Crap news out of Brazil:

Brazilian police say a suspect has confessed to burying the bodies of missing British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.

Detective Eduardo Fontes said the man, Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, took investigators to a site where human remains were dug up.

He said police would work with Interpol to confirm the bodies’ identities.

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Mr Phillips, 57, and Mr Pereira, 41, disappeared in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest that is rife with illegal poaching, mining and logging on 5 June.

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Univaja, the region’s indigenous association, was the first to alert authorities when the pair went missing.

The group expressed its “deep sadness” following the news conference.

It said

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Happy clappy castration time.

Susan Buchanan, the director of National Specialist Services Division Scotland, apologised for the documents being uploaded in error and said her organisation would now commence a full investigation into the incident.

It shouldn’t be hard to find out who tried to insert these ideas into the document. Whoever it was should be fired. Perhaps this was somebody’s trial balloon, reeled in and walked back as soon as there was pushback. Had there not been, it would have stayed in place and become normalized as policy. I’m guessing that much of the genderist agenda that’s been introduced into various institutions and organizations has followed a similar path. … Read the rest

Scottish NHS hypes the joys of being a eunuch.

Eunuch should be recognised as a formal gender identity, according to documents published by the Scottish NHS.

The National Gender Identity Clinical Network for Scotland (NGICNS) shared the claims from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) that “eunuch-identified people” were the “least visible” trans group and would benefit from “gender affirming medical care”. 

The paper was deleted on Wednesday night and the Scottish Government issued an apology, claiming it had been published by mistake. 

Gender-affirming medical care for eunuchs is castration, so that’s what they’re suggesting.

Eunuchs “generally desire to have their testicles surgically removed or rendered non-functional”, the document states. 

It adds that eunuchs should be

What I’ve always said about skirts – they’re designed to confine and hobble women and girls.

A North Carolina school violated the constitutional rights of its female pupils by requiring them to wear skirts, a US federal court has ruled.

The Charter Day School, in the city of Leland, had said its uniform promoted girls as “fragile vessels” deserving of courteous and gentle treatment.

But a group of parents who challenged the policy said it put their daughters at a disadvantage compared to males.

The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals agreed on Wednesday by a 10-6 vote.

How do skirts “promote girls [and women] as fragile vessels”? By inhibiting them. By hobbling them and reducing their freedom of movement. … Read the rest

It’s here chapter 872:

Recent climate twists have helped propel California into a third straight year of drought. Seven of the past 10 years have been dry. Some scientists say the state is in a megadrought not seen in 1,200 years.

People are starting to move away from California.

The 2020 and 2021 fire seasons were the biggest in modern California history. Last year, more than 2.5 million acres burned, an extraordinary run of flames that included destruction of the Gold Rush-era town of Greenville in the northern Sierra and the gutting of the community of Grizzly Flats west of Lake Tahoe.

And it’s not going to get better this year.… Read the rest

Don’t take a sociology course at the University of Auckland.

Take a gender critical view at @AucklandUni and you will be failed. No discussion. No debate.

This isn't education. It's indoctrination.

Questions below taken from a sociology examination paper. @chrishipkins @EricaStanfordMP @dbseymour @NZFreeSpeech #nzpol pic.twitter.com/PxuPEGwhtx

— RoseyNZ (@rosey_nz) June 14, 2022

No doubt Bible colleges operate like that (and thus probably render their degrees useless for most secular career purposes), but you wouldn’t expect a real university to.

Screenshot was taken from a recent exam paper by a 2nd year student studying Cse sociology at Auckland Uni. Not sure who the lecturer is, but Dr Ciara Cremin, who used to be a he/him crossdresser & is now a she/her, is

Bazelon on the new WPATH guidelines part 2:

When WPATH released the draft of the SOC8 for public comment, Leibowitz and his co-authors braced for the inevitable conservative attack. For teenagers who have parental consent, the draft adolescent chapter lowered to 14 (from 16 in the previous guidelines) the recommended minimum age for hormone treatments, which can permanently alter, in a matter of months, voice depth and facial and body hair growth and, later, other features like breast development. It set a minimum recommended age of 15, for breast removal or augmentation, also called top surgery. (The previous standards didn’t set a minimum age.)

It’s interesting that she admits the alterations from hormone “treatments” are permanent (while still calling them … Read the rest

The NY Times magazine has a long piece by Emily Bazilon on “gender therapy” and the controversies around it. The language is so shaped by the current ideology that clarity is all but impossible. Like the first sentence for instance:

Scott Leibowitz is a pioneer in the field of transgender health care.

But what is transgender health care? Is it ordinary health care, for trans people? Or is it health care specific to transness? If the latter, what does that include? Blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgeries? If so, is that really health care, or is it something else? Given the drastic nature of it, and the disconnect from actual disease or injury, isn’t it more like attempted psychological care rather than … Read the rest

Same paper, same day, same front page:

New data reveals extraordinary global heating in the Arctic

New data has revealed extraordinary rates of global heating in the Arctic, up to seven times faster than the global average.

The heating is occurring in the North Barents Sea, a region where fast rising temperatures are suspected to trigger increases in extreme weather in North America, Europe and Asia. The researchers said the heating in this region was an “early warning” of what could happen across the rest of the Arctic.

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“We expected to see strong warming, but not on the scale we found,” said Ketil Isaksen, senior researched at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and who led the work. “We were all

This is what I’m saying.

Biden calls on US oil refiners to raise gas and diesel production to tackle prices

Climate change? What’s that? Ohhh right, that; yes well that’s a concern but it’s long-term, gas prices are now.

Now trumps long-term, and that’s that.

Joe Biden on Wednesday called on US oil refiners to produce more gasoline and diesel, saying their profits have tripled during a time of war between Russia and Ukraine as Americans struggle with record high prices at the pump.

“The crunch that families are facing deserves immediate action,” the president wrote in a letter to major oil refiners. “Your companies need to work with my Administration to bring forward concrete, near-term solutions that address