Sums it up nicely.

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— Steve Walker: #NAFO #KPSS #FBPE (@tweetdodger) October 10, 2025

Women must not be allowed to gather, speak, protest, argue, resist. Women must stay at home and be silent. Resistance is futile.

Trans activists have vandalised the venue of Europe’s largest feminist conference.

Purple paint was sprayed on the Brighton Centre and windows were smashed ahead of this weekend’s FiLiA conference.

Bash Back, a trans activist group that has claimed credit for the vandalism, posted a video showing masked figures attacking the venue overnight.

That’s not bashing back, of course, because FiLiA didn’t bash them. It’s just bashing. FiLiA planned to speak, and “Bash Back” responded by smashing windows. They are not Bash Back, they are just Bash.

[Julie] Bindel, who is speaking at this year’s event, wrote on

Neener neener.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for promoting democratic rights and fighting dictatorship, receiving the award despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated statements he deserved it.

That’s a silly addition. Repeated statements that one deserves the Nobel Peace Prize do not make it surprising that someone else won it. Rather the contrary. If they want to mention the fact that Trump has been, grotesquely, demanding the prize like a toddler demanding more cookie, they should say, in a new sentence, something along the lines of “this will piss off Trump, because he’s been shouting that he should win it for years.”

Anyway. They didn’t obey his ridiculous demands.

Machado, a

More trumpian vengeance:

A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on one count of bank fraud and one count of making a false statement to a financial institution — charges that come after steady pressure from President Trump to prosecute one of his longtime political foes.

James, a Democrat who pledged to investigate Trump during her campaign, eventually sued Trump and his company for inflating the value of some of its properties, winning more than $450 million in the civil business fraud case. The financial penalty was later thrown out on appeal.

At one of his own campaign rallies last year, Trump called for both James and the judge in that case

Oh for god’s sake. Does it not occur to him that trying to bully them into giving him the prize negates the prize? It’s a peace prize, not a bullying prize. If it were a competition for who is the biggest bully, he would win in a walk, but it’s not, it’s a prize for peace-making. He’s not a peace-making guy. He picks fights multiple times every day.

Norway is bracing for the aftermath of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on Friday as the Nordic nation has faced increasing pressure from Donald Trump and his administration to award it to the US leader.

How do they not see it? If you demand it with menaces, it become worthless to you. … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Stalling.

It’s truly fascinating watching the reactions from the UK left to the Supreme Court decision. I’ve always been fascinated by cults that collapse. What do doomsday cultists do after the deadline passed and the apocalypse never came? What goes on in their minds? The UK Supreme Court decision is rather comparable to that: an incursion of sobering reality that the delusional can’t simply pretend didn’t come to pass. It’s a devastating blow to the cult’s whole folkloric worldview and social structure.

Fascinatingly, many doomsday cults persevere even after their deadlines pass — the very ones they were so absolutely adamant were guaranteed to mark the end of the world, 100%, no margin … Read the rest

Creepy enough?

Last night, @ParkBoard did the right thing. Apologized to TGD2S community after emotional discussion. Shared some tears. Disavowed JKR. Will undertake concrete actions to rebuild trust. https://t.co/dGC0zP3eun https://t.co/PJAKF4rjgH

— Tom Digby 狄弼 (@ThomasDigby1) October 8, 2025

He’s a Vancouver Parks Board Commissioner. The responses to his ridiculous smug misogynistic announcement are many and scathing.

I disavow him. Are we supposed to say it three times? I disavow him I disavow him I disavow him. Nyah.… Read the rest

Talk about bad journalism…

‘This will not happen again’: Vancouver Park Board apologizes for hosting Harry Potter event

A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.

Members of the city’s transgender, gender diverse and Two Spirit communities had expressed concerns about the decision to partner with the event this holiday season due to its association with J.K. Rowling, author of the seven Harry Potter novels.

Some spoke at Tuesday’s meeting, include Rob Hadley, a member of Vancouver’s S2LGBTQ+ advisory committee—and someone who previously read the books to their own children.

A motion where? Passed in a unanimous vote where? Expressed concerns to … Read the rest

The Scottish government is refusing to pay its bill.

A women’s campaign group has condemned the Scottish Government for failing to settle a legal bill six months on from a crushing Supreme Court defeat.

For Women Scotland won the landmark case in April when the UK’s highest court ruled that the definition of ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act referred to biological sex.

A subsequent court order ruled that the Scottish Government must pay at least some of For Women Scotland’s legal cost during the lengthy court battle, which ran to a total of around £417,000.

But no payment has yet been made – leading to claims ministers are stalling so that the money isn’t used for further

Ok so it seems that Australia has the great good fortune of a Sex Discrimination Commissioner who doesn’t know who is which sex.

Let’s pause to think for a moment.

Done?

Ok so how do you be a Sex Discrimination Commissioner IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT SEX PEOPLE ARE?

What’s the job then? Just shrugging? Is that it? Eight hours of shrugging, five days a week?

Meet Dr Anna Cody, the Australia Sex Discrimination Commissioner.

“Just so I can be clear, the law means that a biological man who identifies as a transgender woman can enter a female only space?”

Australian women would be better off if the sex discrimination commission was abolished. pic.twitter.com/gEravPscbZ

— Sall Grover (@salltweets) October 7,

Jolyon loyally sticking to his project of forcing men on women no matter how strongly the women object.

What he means, of course, is that women are trying to ban men from Hampstead women’s pond. He says it’s time to fight women who are trying to keep men out of the women’s pond. He’d love to punch them right in the face, wouldn’t he.… Read the rest

Michael Goldfarb in a public post on Facebook:

Are you tired of the Germany 1933 comparisons? I’m tired of the Germany 1933 comparisons. Let’s shift to the China 1966 and the Cultural Revolution comparison with Chairman Don instead of Chairman Mao and MAGAts in place of Red Guards. The liberal elites across media and the academy being purged and forced publicly to admit ideological errors and bend the knee to the new dispensation.

It’s not a completely farfetched analogy. An aging and increasingly senile Chairman Don makes cultural, economic and increasingly physical war on American society and is aided and abetted by his own Gang of Four: Stevie Miller, Russ Vought, Pam Bondi and Pete Hegseth. The rest of

The next great battle – HRT for men!

It is genuinely hard to believe any adult could actually write this, let alone a sitting TD: “I want to prioritise the issue of access to the free HRT scheme. It is completely unacceptable that trans women are being excluded from the scheme. There can be no excuse or justification for this decision. I and others have been raising this with the Minister for a couple of weeks now and I am disappointed with the response. Instead of accepting that the exclusion of trans women is wrong and changing course, the Minister has dug in, further disadvantaging one of the most marginalised groups in society. It really is simple. Trans women

Where we are now.

Pam Bondi had a heated and contentious hearing today before the Senate Judiciary Committee where she refused to answer questions, made personal attacks against Democratic senators, and got extremely defensive and angry whenever the subject of Jeffrey Epstein came up.

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Ranking Member Dick Durbin’s opening remarks to Bondi: “You disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and the National cryptocurrency enforcement team, despite the growing threat of foreign election interference and the drastic rise in cryptocurrency crimes. You forced out almost 75% of the Civil Rights Div’s career attorneys while hate crimes are on the rise. You fired more than 100 immigration judges. While the immigration case backlog is more than 3 million. You

Divoosity training hits another bump in the road.

Since its creation in 2020, the [Free Speech Union] has handled over 2,500 individual cases and queries relating to free speech. Of our free speech cases, 46% are in some way associated with the workplace and, among these, approximately one fifth concern EDI (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) training (approximately 230). In practice, this means that our members are asking whether they’ll get into trouble if they refuse to do the training, or seeking our help because they’ve already got into trouble for challenging it.

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In some cases, EDI training extends to telling employees and professionals how they should behave outside the workplace, such as the insistence that employees should use

The Times:

The House of Commons has been forced to apologise after allowing a transgender woman to use female-only lavatories on the parliamentary estate despite the recent Supreme Court ruling that protects single-sex spaces.

I do wish the news media would not bow to the trans rules and thus mislead readers/listeners. The reality is he’s a man, who claims to be trans, and thus a woman. The basic fact is that he’s a man, and he has no right to bounce into the female-only lavatories.

Robin Moira White, a trans barrister who is a biological male, was directed to use the ladies’ loos in Portcullis House last week after attending a meeting of the women and equalities committee in

Now look here, if you’re going to call yourself an LGBT station you had damn well better be an LGBT station. You can’t just idennify as one and then kick back and relax, you know, it simply won’t do.

The head of a Belfast LGBT radio station has called a ruling that it does not broadcast enough programmes for the LGBT community “truly baffling”.

The broadcasting regulator Ofcom found Juice Radio to be in breach of some of its “key commitments” of service.

Ofcom said Juice Radio aired “a very limited amount of specialist programming for the LGBT+ community, rather than a service specifically for that community”.

Being on the other side of the planet, I don’t quite see what’s … Read the rest

Snippets from a dialogue:

Judith Butler said it, therefore it is true.

Honestly it’s so pitiful. Because she seems (to the naive) to be saying something technicalish and difficult, therefore she is a genius and to be believed without question. It’s smoke and mirrors, people. It’s pseudo-difficult. It’s bullshit dressed up in fake profundity.

Updating to add another choice snippet of bufoonish hero-worship.

Now why would Trump hate Chicago in particular?

The state of Illinois and Chicago on Monday sued the Trump administration over its move to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago as the White House targets Democrat-led cities amid weeks of protests against the federal government’s immigration enforcement campaign.

The lawsuit opens a new front in the legal battles the White House is waging against state and local officials, coming just hours after a federal judge blocked a similar deployment of the guard to Portland, Oregon.

“Defendants’ deployment of federalized troops to Illinois is patently unlawful,” the lawsuit says. “Plaintiffs ask this court to halt the illegal, dangerous, and unconstitutional federalization of members of the National Guard of the United States,

Today in Trumpofascism:

A federal judge on Sunday night blocked the Trump administration from deploying hundreds of out-of-state National Guard troops to Oregon, even as President Trump turned to the Texas guard in a widening hunt for military forces to send to Democratic cities.

The Trump administration had tried to send hundreds of California National Guard troops to Portland, Ore., while mustering hundreds more from Texas, despite a stern ruling from Judge Karin Immergut of U.S. District Court in Oregon just Saturday that sought to block military forces.

Judge Immergut, an appointee of President Trump, called an emergency hearing Sunday, then broadened her restraining order to cover “the relocation, federalization or deployment of members of the National Guard of