Day one.

Israel’s foreign ministry has accused the New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, of pouring “antisemitic gasoline on an open fire” after he reversed a recent order by the outgoing mayor, Eric Adams.

“On his very first day as @NYCMayor, Mamdani shows his true face: he scraps the IHRA definition of antisemitism and lifts restrictions on boycotting Israel. This isn’t leadership. It’s antisemitic gasoline on an open fire,” the foreign ministry said in a post on X.

Mamdani revoked an Adams-era order that adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, which the previous administration said included “demonizing Israel and holding it to double standards as forms of contemporary antisemitism”.

Israel is not the same thing as … Read the rest

From Mother Jones last September:

Colleagues call Gordon Guyatt the “godfather” of evidence-based medicine.

Guyatt, a distinguished professor of medicine at McMaster University in Canada, has had sweeping influence on medical research: GRADE, the framework he helped pioneer to assess the evidence behind clinical recommendations, is a standard at more than 100 medical organizations, including the WHO. Before Guyatt, medicine relied much more on the judgment calls of senior clinicians; today, standardized research is increasingly central.

Guyatt was also, until August, a reluctant icon of the movement against trans health care.

Hang on. Let’s be clear. What are we meaning by “trans health care”? Health care for people who idennify as trans? Or health care that cures the disease … Read the rest

John Cleese terfing like a boss.

Haven't seen much of him recently

Apparently a professor talking about biologicat realities doesn't fit into the BBC's social engineering plans https://t.co/OYhBb0OjJa

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) January 2, 2026

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Trump wants to control what we are allowed to know.

The Trump administration escalated pressure on the Smithsonian this week, threatening to withhold federal funds if it does not submit extensive documentation for a sweeping content review. President Donald Trump earlier this year set out to purge what he called “improper ideology” from the nation’s most prestigious museum system, efforts that are expected to intensify as his administration tries to shape the country’s 250th anniversary celebrations next year.

Ah yes improper ideology, meaning history that Trump doesn’t want to hear about and doesn’t want us to hear about.

In a staff email obtained by The Washington Post, sent Friday evening after the funding threat, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G.

Trans people must not be used as political punchbag, says Phillipson

Eh? Who is using trans people as any kind of punchbag?

From where I sit it’s much more the other way around – women are constantly and relentlessly pushed around and told to shut up and deprived of our rights by the trans lobby.

Transgender people must not be used as a “political punchbag”, Bridget Phillipson has said, after she was accused of blocking guidance protecting safe spaces for women. The minister for women and equalities said the debate surrounding gender issues should be conducted more responsibly by those in public life.

Ms Phillipson made the remarks after it emerged she was blocking the publication of trans guidance that

Source currently unknown.

Dude is unfamiliar with the concept of going for a walk.

President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Thursday that he takes a higher dose of aspirin than his doctors have recommended, blaming that for the visible hand bruises that have generated renewed questions about his health.

“They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart,” Trump, 79, said of why he takes a larger dose. “I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?”

“They’d rather have me take the smaller one,” Trump added. “I take the larger one, but I’ve done it for years, and what

Originally a comment by maddog on Everybody across all.

Stephenson added that she believes in the importance of protecting the rights of all, including trans people, in the debate around single-sex spaces.

“The rights of trans people” with respect to “single-sex spaces” include the right of trans-identified women to access women’s single-sex spaces, and the right of trans-identified men to access men’s single-sex spaces. The waffling term “trans people” allows everyone to interpret Stephenson’s statement as supporting their own particular viewpoint.

If “trans people” means, just as it says, transgender people in general, then Stephenson must be contemplating the two different sexes of trans people: ie., those trans people who are of the male sex, and those who are … Read the rest

Ok we’re not allowed to throw the front door open to them, but we can open a window in the back.

A transgender row is threatening to tear the Women’s Institute apart.

The National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI), the institute’s umbrella organisation, announced earlier this month it would ban transgender women from becoming members in line with the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on sex and gender.

But it has now been accused of attempting to “breach the law” by creating “sisterhood” groups that would be open to transgender women.

But transgender women=men, so creating sisterhood is not possible. If you’re a sheep farmer you can’t create sheephood groups that would be open to wolves, because wolves are not … Read the rest

It’s called stalling.

The government is facing renewed pressure to publish delayed guidance on single-sex spaces after the new chair of the equalities watchdog insisted the document was “legally sound”.

Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson addressed the issue of the guidance after replacing Baroness Falkner of Margravine as head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) earlier this month.

The EHRC submitted its updated code of practice to Bridget Phillipson, the women and equalities minister, in September. But four months on, the guidance, which will be used by businesses and other organisations to inform their provision of single-sex services such as toilets and changing rooms, is still awaiting ministerial approval.

The government has defended the delay in publication, saying it 

How not to show solidarity.

Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan is facing a firestorm of criticism from conservative figures and political commentators after appearing in a hijab during a visit to a Somali market in Minneapolis.

The incident took place at the Karmel Somali Market, where Flanagan—flanked by Somali leaders and speaking in part in Arabic—opened with the greeting “Salam alaikum” and told viewers: “The Somali community is part of the fabric of the state of Minnesota.”

But the hijab is part of the fabric of the oppression and repression of women. Women in Afghanistan and Iran are beaten and imprisoned (or worse) for not wearing the hijab. It’s not a nice cuddly symbol of nice cuddly religion, it’s … Read the rest

I’m pleased to see that I’m not the only one who emphatically insists that trans ideology is indeed an ideology.

Being LGBTQIA+ isn’t an ideology.

So when someone says they want to ‘kill’ an ‘ideology,’ I have to ask what exactly they think they’re killing? Because there’s no ideology to being LGBTQIA+. Just people.

— Sam (he/him) (@mushycrouton) December 30, 2025

I was drawing a deep breath to say “Oh yes there is” but then I realized I didn’t need to. (I said it anyway though. Might as well.)

Saying everyone has a “gender identity”, and that that gender identity should override sex when it comes to women only spaces absolutely is an ideology.

That’s the bigoted, misogynistic, homophobic ideology

Helen Lewis gives the prize to For Women Scotland.

Lovely shout out today on @BBCWomansHour from @helenlewis to ourselves, @mbmpolicy & all the women who wouldn't wheesht!

Thank you! pic.twitter.com/Xh3x6IddOm

— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) December 31, 2025

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If only people would tell the truth in these discussions, it would save so much time and effort. The endless evasions and concealments just prolong the misery.

THE new head of the UK’s human rights watchdog has said she will “endeavour” to protect trans people amid the ongoing row over access to single-sex spaces.

What does that mean? Protect them how? Nobody is trying to beat trans people up, so what kind of protection do they need? Spell it out!

Mary-Ann Stephenson said she is keen to “uphold the rights of everybody across all protected characteristics”, having taken up her role as Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) chair at the beginning of December despite a campaign to block

The Women’s and Some Men’s Institute.

The Women’s Institute is facing a potential schism after one of its leaders advised members to hold “sisterhood” meetings to get around a ban on transgender women, The Times can reveal.

Funny kind of sisterhood, trying to sneak men into an organization for women.

The suggestion prompted warnings that such a move could mark the end of the 110-year-old female-only network.

Oh stop with the “could” shit. Don’t be ridiculous. It would do that by definition. Of course adding men to the WI would – not could, would – mark the end of the female-only network.

This month the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) said it had decided to exclude trans women

Questions questions.

Trump-Kennedy Center says it plans to sue jazz musician who canceled Christmas performance over Trump name change

Well look. Suppose you’re booked to do a performance at a fundraiser for women in Afghanistan, and then after you signed up, the fundraiser is taken over by the Taliban. You would know the funds raised would not be going to women in Afghanistan, wouldn’t you. So, not wanting to fund the Taliban, you would cancel, right?

This is like that. A gig at the Kennedy Center is not the same thing as a gig at the Trump-Kennedy Center.

The Trump-Kennedy Center, led by President Donald Trump’s appointee Richard Grenell, says it is planning to file a $1 million lawsuit “after

More people ditch Trump’s Trump-Kennedy Center.

At least three more events are no longer happening at the Kennedy Center after its board, which was handpicked by President Donald Trump, voted to rename the venue the Trump-Kennedy Center.

New York Dance Company Doug Varone and Dancers announced that they would no longer bring their pre-scheduled performance to the institution in protest of the decision to rename the arts center.

Not simply in protest of the decision to rename the arts center; in protest of Trump’s decision to rename the arts center named after an assassinated president so that it includes Trump along with the assassinated president. It’s about as crassly greedy and callous and just plain dumb as it’s possible … Read the rest

We must end the scourge of scientific research once and for all.

The Trump administration is breaking up a research center praised as a “crown jewel” of climate research after accusing it of spreading “alarmism” about climate change.

Russell Vought, the director of the White House’s office and management budget, said the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, would be dismantled under the supervision of the National Science Foundation.

“This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country,” he wrote in a social media post. “A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.”

Excellent. If we don’t do research … Read the rest

The level of detail is impressive.

The White House has installed plaques along President Donald Trump’s “Presidential Walk of Fame,” offering descriptions of his predecessors, often written in the style of his social media posts — including insults, baseless claims and random capitalization.

Nobody asked for a “presidential walk of fame” but he had to slap one up so that he could make his insults and caricatures that little bit more conspicuous.

What’s a walk of fame anyway? Former presidents are already “famous” in some sense, because of being former presidents. What need is there to give them a “walk of fame”? Apart from creating a new way to crap on them, that is, which I guess answers the … Read the rest

Ermmmmm what?

Indiana Senate Majority Floor Leader Chris Garten celebrated Christmas by posting AI-generated images of himself violently attacking Santa Claus in front of the Indiana Statehouse.

Well…I’m sorry to say this, but not Santa Claus – someone in a “Santa Claus” suit. There is no real Santa Claus. (There may be people named Santa Claus. Doesn’t count. You know what I mean.)

That aside, wtf?

In one picture—clearly edited to make him look super muscly—Garten is seen riding bareback on a reindeer with his fist in the air, while supporters stand behind him holding signs rife with AI-induced spelling errors.

As one does.

From President Trump to failed New York gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo, to Garten, so much