Throwing a pinch of Stalin into the mix:

Prosecutors are expected to ask a grand jury to indict former FBI Director James Comey in the Eastern District of Virginia in the coming days, two sources briefed on the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

The exact charges remained unclear, and it was uncertain whether the grand jury would return an indictment against one of Trump’s longtime political antagonists.

There’s nothing to indict him for, but Trump has ordered them to come up with something.

One of the sources said some prosecutors within the Eastern District of Virginia have presented new U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan with a memo explaining why charges should not be filed, saying the case lacked evidence

Well, he’s not wrong.

The slogan “trans women are women” is scientifically false and harms the rights of women, Richard Dawkins has said.

It’s silly that that’s even news. What are trans women? Men who say they are women. Of course it’s false – scientifically and otherwise – to say that men are women. It’s false and it’s absurd. It’s like saying elephants are rabbits or houses are airplanes.

In The War on Science, Dawkins joins several scientists and philosophers contending that academic freedom and truth in universities was being stifled by diversity, equity and inclusion policies that promoted falsehoods under the banner of social justice.

“I draw the line at the belligerent slogan ‘trans women are women’

Another entry for the President Baby file.

Trump has added a “Presidential Walk of Fame” to the exterior of the White House, featuring portraits of each of the previous commanders-in-chief – except for one.

Instead of a headshot of Joe Biden, the Republican incumbent instead placed a photo of an autopen signing the Democrat’s name – a reference to Trump’s frequent allegation that the former president was addled by the end of his term in office and not really the one making decisions.

The snub is the latest attempt by Trump to delegitimise a predecessor he routinely belittles, including in front of more than 100 world leaders on Tuesday at the UN general assembly gathering. Trump has never acknowledged

Dang. Talk about going out of your way to insult and dismiss women.

Chris Northwood is a man.

The Express asked us about awarding the Patsy Carlton Prize to Cllr Chris Northwood. This is our response:

"This prize acknowledged an exceptional woman in Cllr Chris Northwood. The message it sends to women members and voters is that the Liberal Democrats honour and value all…

— Liberal Democrats (@LibDems) September 24, 2025

“This prize acknowledged an exceptional woman in Cllr Chris Northwood. The message it sends to women members and voters is that the Liberal Democrats honour and value all of our women members.”

And what they mean by that, of course, is that the Liberal Democrats honour and value men … Read the rest

Sorry, kid, no dice.

Oop! Emma Watson has realised the tide is turning and is setting the groundwork so that she can come crawling back to @jk_rowling when it’s politically convenient!

“I just don't think these things are either or. I think it's my deepest wish that I hope people who don't agree… pic.twitter.com/s1tuV9FCIk

— Hazel Appleyard (@HazelAppleyard_) September 25, 2025

Nope.

A little reminder for anyone who may be regretting their very public sprint to the front of the mob and is now trying to discreetly shove their pitchfork out of sight. https://t.co/pt6SOguDUI

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 25, 2025

That ship has sailed and disappeared over the horizon. … Read the rest

Julie Burchill in the Spectator:

‘I was born to play Lady Bracknell,’ Stephen Fry swanked recently, in an interview to mark a new production of The Importance of Being Earnest, running until January. I can’t be the only one to greet the idea of another round of Fry interviews with a desire to go to bed and not come out till it’s all over. But that would be a long hibernation. For Stephen Fry pronouncements are like professional tennis; it’s always open season.

You can’t get away from the clown, particularly when he’s lecturing women on how they should feel about having great hairy men in mascara sharing their private spaces. Magnificently, J.K. Rowling denied they had ever

Obama is stealing Trump’s thunder.

Barack Obama has said Donald Trump’s claims linking paracetamol to autism in infants is “violence against the truth” that could harm pregnant women if they were too scared to take pain relief.

Obama, who was being interviewed by David Olusoga at the O2 Arena, told the audience that Trump’s claims about paracetamol – branded as Tylenol in the US – had been “continuously disproved” and posed a danger to public health.

“We have the spectacle of my successor in the Oval Office making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproved,” he said. “It undermines public health … that can do harm to women.”

That “my successor” is a … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Sackbut on The point is.

This topic brings to mind a number of things that are related in my mind, if not in anyone else’s.

JK Rowling was verbally attacked and threatened. People talking about it seemed frequently to say “I don’t care for her writing, I didn’t like Harry Potter, but…”

Harvard University was attacked by Trump and his lackeys, and the university resisted doing what was demanded, under threat of restrictions and reduced funding. Many people seemed to find it necessary to say, “Harvard has all these problems, I disagree with what they were doing, but…”

Jimmy Kimmel was recently (temporarily) pushed off the air. People found it necessary to say “He’s not … Read the rest

Ah yes, Trump has “learned more” and “changed his position.” Trump has not however learned to stfu when he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, which is always.

President Trump on Tuesday shifted his position on whether Ukraine should hold out for all the territory seized by Russia, saying on social media that he thinks Ukraine is in a position to win it all back.

Social media of course is the perfect place to air his uninformed musings.

It’s a reversal from his long-held position that Kyiv would need to give up some of its territory to Moscow to end the war – such as Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.

But now, “after getting to know and fully understand

Well then let’s look at the Aims page; maybe they get more informative there.

The Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group (SSQRG), was established in 2006 and aims to:

▼ Encourage geographic research and scholarship on topics related to sexualities and queer studies

▼ Promote educational ways for communicating geographic perspectives on sexualities and queer theories that will inform both curriculum and pedagogical needs

▼ Promote interest in geographies on issues related to sexualities and queer studies and promote the exchange of ideas and information about geographical intersections between sexualities and queer studies, where involvement of early-career researchers is maximised

Erm. No help. It’s just more repetition of labels without saying what’s behind them. What the flaming hell are … Read the rest

So of course I had to find out more about the Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group at the Royal Geographical Society, because the what what and what research group??? Why would the RGS have such a research group?

So here they are.

Welcome to the virtual site of the Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group (SSQRG), a Research Group established in 2006 as part of the learned Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).

The SSQRG is a leading study group dedicated to the promotion and support of research, scholarship and scholar activism regarding sexualities and queer geographies. The Research Group works across interests and disciplines within the academe, and beyond. As such, it supports the production and application of knowledge

I recommend watching the video. It’s much worse than it sounds. Kadri lunges at Hamit Coskun while holding a very large knife in the stab position. Coskun tries to run away from him but falls down, and Kadri proceeds to kick him repeatedly. Kadri doesn’t actually stab Coskun, so props for that, but he’s extremely violent and threatening. Coskun was threatening a book, a book of which there are billions of copies in existence; Kadri was threatening a human being. The judge told Kadri what a great guy he is.

In this video, Moussa Kadri repeatedly slashes a knife at a man for burning a Koran. Today, he has been spared jail time.

In the sentencing remarks, the Judge said:

Aw how sad. It turns out that gender dogma that fails to attract paying customers will be shown the door.

An honours course covering “queer and trans geographies” has been dropped by Edinburgh University one week into the semester as the institution seeks cuts of £140 million…Edinburgh University said it had paused the unit due to the small number of students who had signed up.

It’s not a good combination, is it – small number of gullible customers plus utter nonsense.

Part of an undergraduate geography degree programme, the “Queer Geographies: Spatialising Sexuality and Gender” class was described as an opportunity for students to “critically, and self-reflexively, consider how sexuality and gender inform and unfold in the everyday spaces we inhabit”.

The dignity of the man.

It’s strange when for-profit commercial entertainment becomes an arm of the resistance, but then it’s strange when corrupt violent law-breaking real estate tycoons are voted into the boss job, too.

Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night stage Tuesday night and urged viewers to stand up to President Trump’s threats. Shortly before Kimmel’s show aired, the president sent out a new missive against Kimmel’s network, ABC.

Of course he did. He’s a corrupt violent law-breaking real estate tycoon with zero education or experience relevant to being a head of state, so of course he tries to destroy anyone who doesn’t kiss his festering ass.

In an eloquent and emotional monologue, Kimmel assailed “anti-American” efforts to curtail free speech in the

Trump got some things wrong.

Trump’s poll numbers: The president claimed, “I was very proud to see this morning I have the highest poll numbers I’ve ever had. Part of it is because of what we’ve done on the border. I guess the other part is what we’ve done on the economy.” It’s theoretically possible Trump saw some private polling that gave him dramatically better numbers than public polling has produced, but his standing in public polling is nowhere near his highest ever — in fact, it’s down substantially from the beginning of this year.

Hmm, what happened at the beginning of this year? Oh yes, Trump started presidenting! Remember when he released all that water that California farmers … Read the rest

Erm…getting to know? Now? Having not known before?? What were you doing all this time????

After meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and the president of the European Union, President Trump appears to have shifted his view on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. No longer is he claiming that Ukrainian lands have been lost for good to Russia.

“After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Just like that, he comes out … Read the rest

Pliny calls it.

Trump is pestering the UN.

Trump to the UN: "Everyone says I should get the Nobel Peace Prize." pic.twitter.com/Vu83j6Fxxb

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 23, 2025

He says “Now after ending all of these wars and also earlier negotiating the Abraham accords which is a very [long pause] big thing for which our country received no credit, never receives credit, everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize”

Well which is it? The US never receives credit, or everyone says Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize?

It can’t be both.

Especially not in the same sentence.… Read the rest

Guest post by Jonathan Gallant

In retrospect, it is lamentable that the US labored under the leadership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the early 1940s.  Think of how glorious things might have been if, instead, the US of 1941 had had a president with all the qualities of its present chief executive, Donald H.Trump.  Let us imagine such a scenario.

  In 1940, our ideal President would have campaigned for America First, against entanglement with European affairs, and against Lend-Lease and all the various rip-offs that Winston Churchill had been able to extract from the US under FDR’s presidency.  Our candidate explained that there would have been no war at all if he had been President in 1939; and he … Read the rest