Obama tells men it’s not Manly to be afraid to back women.

Former President Barack Obama traveled to Pittsburgh on Thursday to urge voters there to choose Vice President Kamala Harris in November, aiming a message at one group in particular: Black men.

The decision voters have between the vice president and former President Donald J. Trump, her Republican opponent, “isn’t a close call,” Mr. Obama said as he visited with a group of campaign volunteers and officials at a field office just ahead of his appearance at a Harris rally. His message was for Black male voters whom he said might not be yet on board with Ms. Harris.

Citing “reports I’m getting from campaigns and communities,” he

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The reasoned debate continues.

The LGB Alliance conference has been attacked by someone who has released bags of crickets. pic.twitter.com/ZKfhfa2c23

— Cath Leng (@leng_cath) October 11, 2024

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It turns out the hurricane was caused by meteorologists.

Trump suggested the Biden administration’s response had been lacking and planned in partisan ways that caused Republican voters be abandoned and left “Americans to drown”, particularly in North Carolina after Helene. “They’ve let those people suffer unjustly,” he said. His comments have received bipartisan criticism, including from some local and state Republican leaders in affected areas.

Remember how Trump dealt with hurricanes? Throwing rolls of paper towels at people? Ignoring Puerto Rico altogether?

Meteorologists tracking Milton have been beset by conspiracy theories that they are controlling the weather, even by using a nuclear explosion, and have faced death threats.

“I’ve never seen a storm garner so much misinformation, we

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Trump thinks “grocery” is an obscure word that needs him to explain it.

Trump: The word grocery. It’s a sort of simple word. It sort of means everything you eat. The stomach is speaking pic.twitter.com/ZphiRNfgf7

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 10, 2024

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Trump attacking other people’s intellectual capacities:

Donald Trump lashed out at the hosts of The View on Wednesday with a string of low-brow insults, including that they are “demented,” “dirty,” and “dumb.”

“I watched that stupid View where you have these dumb people,” a rambling Trump told a rally in Reading, Pennsylvania…Then, as if his brain were spitting out one of his impulsive, celebrity-obsessed tweets of yore, the former president trained his ire on Whoopi Goldberg, The View’s co-host and moderator, calling her “demented.”

Trump claimed, before he was in politics, he once hired Goldberg—a celebrated comedian who has won the Mark Twain Prize and the EGOT—to perform and accused her of having a “foul mouth.”

“Every

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Mount Holyoke College wants to have it both ways.

At Mount Holyoke College, the leading gender-diverse women’s college, students learn beyond boundaries, explore interests across disciplines and build skills and connections for a lifetime of purposeful leadership.

What thee helll is a gender-diverse women’s college?

Nothing, that’s what. A contradiction in terms. You can be a women’s something or you can be a gender-diverse something, but you can’t be both.

Its second most recent post is about “a vibrant community space dedicated to supporting LGBTQIA+ students, staff and faculty.” So they have gay male students and male students who are trans or queer or asexual or plus? But then they’re not a women’s college.

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Something called “Attitude” tells us:

India Willoughby has slammed the Labour government, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting over the party’s policies regarding the ban on hormone blockers and their stance on trans healthcare.

Speaking to Attitude on the red carpet at the Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards, powered by Jaguar, Willoughby said: “I’m not exaggerating when I say that the Labour government are going to be responsible for the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands, of trans people.”

Hahaha that’s funny, because exaggerating is exactly what he’s doing. He’s just making shit up, out of nothing. Look at Willoughby: is he dead? Is he approaching being dead? Not so much. He’s standing around in a red … Read the rest

Oh ffs. Some pond scum is attacking the Internet Archive. Why? Because Palestine uh uh uh.

https://twitter.com/Sn_darkmeta/status/1844080692772401399 https://twitter.com/Sn_darkmeta/status/1844104165192253945… Read the rest

Tom Nichols in The Atlantic on the contrasts between George Washington and the wannabe dictator:

Donald Trump and his authoritarian political movement represent an existential threat to every ideal that Washington cherished and encouraged in his new nation. They are the incarnation of Washington’s misgivings about populism, partisanship, and the “spirit of revenge” that Washington lamented as the animating force of party politics. Washington feared that, amid constant political warfare, some citizens would come to “seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual,” and that eventually a demagogue would exploit that sentiment.

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Most American presidents have had some sort of military experience. A few, like Washington, were genuine war heroes. All of them understood that

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No, he doesn’t say that.

https://twitter.com/ReformDaily_/status/1843928888772268348 What he says is even worse.

“We’ve really got to stand up for the rights of trans people, yes we’ve got to hear those women who say that there’s a case for single sex spaces, I understand that, but, I do think that we’ve got to empathize and recognize the pain that so many people, so many trans people face and treat them with the respect that they deserve.”

The whole bit between the “yes” and the “but” is rushed and gabbled, while everything after that is slowed and said with great emphasis. It’s very very very clear that the “yes yes women blah blah” bit is a contemptuous … Read the rest

So, to cheer us up, here are Jesus and Mo and the barmaid.

There's a new strip up at J&M today: https://t.co/UovvfgDOSj pic.twitter.com/vw7ggDTcoQ

— AuthorJ&M (@JandMo) October 9, 2024

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The UN coughs up a hairball onto women again.

Today is International Lesbian Day. The #lesbian community is incredible and diverse.

Lesbians have many gender expressions, body types, and sex characteristics. They are also of any race, ethnicity, class, or background.

Today we celebrate them ALL.#InternationalLesbianDay pic.twitter.com/EGS6VJAZ1f

— UN Free & Equal (@free_equal) October 8, 2024

Oh look! There are the women with missing lower legs again, complete with weird antiquated Captain Hookish prosthetic replacements. Corporate Memphis Pegleg.

Anyway. The real issue is here is the UN again telling us that men can be women, i.e. men can push women aside and take over everything. I tried to find a parallel Gay Men Day but was unable to. UN … Read the rest

Are we there yet? I think we are.

Catastrophic hurricane approaches popular low-lying state

Hurricane Milton tore towards Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday, leaving residents with one final day to evacuate or hunker down before the “catastrophic” Category 5 storm is predicted to hit, triggering a life-threatening storm surge.

With more than 1 million people in coastal areas under evacuation orders, those fleeing for higher ground clogged highways on Tuesday and gas stations ran out of fuel, in a region still recovering from the devastating impacts of Hurricane Helene less than two weeks ago.

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Milton is on a rare west-to-east path through the Gulf of Mexico and is likely to bring a deadly storm surge of 10 feet

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Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Trump’s decompensation on the campaign trail.

“Climate change covers everything. It can rain, it can be dry, it can be hot, it can be cold….”

That’s exactly right, and that’s a huge part of the goddamn problem. It’s not just a “change” like flipping a switch on or off; it’s the disruption and destabilization of established, reliable patterns upon which human civilization (and the biosphere in general) depends. It is the removal of “pattern” itself, which makes human planning much more difficult, in this instance, the rescheduling, or the end of the concept of a hurricane “season” itself.

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What’s the big deal?

A trans rights activist who poured tomato juice over controversial women’s rights activist Posie Parker is seeking to have her conviction overturned, with her lawyer saying it was out of proportion to the offending.

Eli Rubashkyn previously pleaded guilty to assault after she poured tomato juice over Parker – also known as Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull – and another woman at Auckland’s Albert Park in March 2023.

Eli Rubashkyn ain’t no she.

Rubashkyn earlier pleaded guilty to two charges of assault and was convicted and discharged by Judge Kirsten Lummis in September.

On Tuesday, Rubashkyn’s lawyer, James Olsen, appealed the conviction at the High Court at Auckland. Olsen told Justice David Johnstone that Judge Lummis was not correct

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Interlude for hilarity.

The image. I just can’t love the image enough.

Can’t remember where I found this but wanted to make everyone feel included today pic.twitter.com/jnYn9jo9Xj

— Charlotte Gill (@CharlotteCGill) October 8, 2024

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Trying to make who is what sex a matter of law instead of fact:

Amnesty International has been given permission to intervene in a landmark Supreme Court case on the legal definition of woman.

The charity, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Scottish Lesbians, and Sex Matters have all been granted permission to take part in For Women Scotland vs Scottish Ministers at the end of next month.

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The case at the UK’s highest court is the latest development in a long-running legal battle over whether someone who is biologically male can legally be regarded as female for the purposes of the Equality Act.

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Public Notice on Trump’s relentless lying about climate change:

With another historic storm, Hurricane Milton, now bearing down on Florida, Trump not only still refuses to acknowledge that climate change is happening and creates conditions more favorable to severe storms, but he’s actively lying about it.

“Nobody thought this would be happening, especially now,” Trump said during a photo op in a Helene-impacted part of Georgia on October 1. “It’s so late in the season.” 

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[This story is a couple of years old but what the hell, a second thrashing is well deserved.]

The Times reporting does eventually hint at how appallingly reckless and women-hating the “Marceline” Harvey story is.

It is unclear where [Susan Leyden’s] path first crossed Ms. Harvey’s, but at the time Ms. Harvey posted about Ms. Leyden, she was seeking her own placement in city shelters. Immediately after her 2019 release, she sought housing in the Bronx. [In other words Harvey was seeking placement in city shelters.]

Ms. Harvey “presented as a mild spoken, very tall Black man,” said Anne Brennan, the nurse practitioner who ran the intake. “I said, ‘Well, why are you in the women’s shelter?’”

Ms. Brennan

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The New York Times, July 30, 2022:

The person before the parole panel in June 2019 was tall and slim, in far better shape than 81 years of life might have suggested. Mild and polite, the supplicant seemed nothing like the murderer who had spent decades in prison, first for shooting a girlfriend dead in 1963, and then for stabbing another in 1985, stuffing her corpse into a bag and leaving it in Central Park.

“I’m no longer that person,” the inmate told the parole board commissioners. Despite misgivings, they would rule in favor of release.

Two and a half years after leaving Cayuga Correctional Facility, Marceline Harvey was accused again, charged with killing Susan Leyden, 68. Parts of

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