Author: Ophelia Benson

  • To keep it open and safe

    The Facebook commentator I Fucking Love Australia is not unduly impressed by Trump’s efforts to summon help with the Strait of Hormuz thing.

    BREAKING: President Trump says the US in conjunction with “many countries” is sending war ships to the Strait of Hormuz to keep it “open and safe.”

    Trump also calls on China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others to send war ships to Hormuz.

    Oh. Oh this is beautiful. This is the geopolitical equivalent of the guy who starts a bar fight, gets his head put through the pool table, and then looks up at the bouncer with blood pouring out of his nose going “Are you gonna DO something about these guys?!”

    Let me get this straight. You bombed Iran. YOU started this. You launched Operation Epic Fury like a kid naming his Nerf gun. You flattened their cities, cratered their infrastructure, killed God knows how many civilians, and now that they’ve done the ONE thing that every single analyst on Earth said they would do… close the Strait of Hormuz… you’re asking CHINA for help?

    CHINA. The country you’ve spent three years tariffing into oblivion. The country you called an enemy of civilisation. You want THEM to send warships to protect YOUR oil supply chain? In what universe does Xi Jinping take that phone call and not just put it on speaker so the whole room can laugh?

    And here’s the bit that should be printed on a plaque and hung in the Smithsonian under the heading “Weapons Grade Cognitive Dissonance Dipshit.” Direct quote from the man himself:

    “We have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability.”

    Next sentence. LITERALLY the next sentence:

    “But it’s easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway.”

    100% except for the drones and mines and close range missiles, Smartypants! They don’t count as military capability. Because they don’t, that’s why.

  • Guest post: Bureaucracies love euphemism

    Originally a comment by Artymorty on An unusually crass opinion.

    I’m of the mind that crass language and blunt, confrontational talk is a great tool for smashing bullshit. Too often, people use politeness and euphemism as a shield to hide behind, as deflection to avoid responsibility. When confronted with blunt reality it’s often a lot harder for people to avoid facing their complicity in bad things. I see it in office culture all the time, and I can’t stand it. Bureaucracies love euphemism and they hate bluntness. Especially bureaucracies that are propping up bad things.

    In the 2000s, for example, it was euphemism and politeness that enabled unscrupulous financiers to repackage and sell junk mortgage debt: they danced around the blunt facts with pretty language, and by 2008 the ruse collapsed and nearly brought down the global economy with it. It was the pretty language that those bad mortgages were packaged in that gave everyone all up and down the financial chain of command permission to look the other way for so many years, even as many individuals within the system had surely, privately, caught on that it was a scam. More than a year before the subprime mortgage fiasco began to unravel, Harper’s magazine ran a cover story with blunt language, exposing the whole thing. But of course, finance bros don’t read Harper’s. If only more industry insiders were more plainspoken about the scam earlier on, if only they’d been more crass and called those financial instruments what they were — bullshit for suckers — all that financial destruction and the human suffering it caused might have been prevented.

    I come from poor neighbourhoods, and I feel like an outsider in environments that fetishize politeness to the point of ignoring higher principles. If I worked in law, I’d be more like Erin Brockovich than, say, Barack Obama.

    With respect to the transgender mess, the legal system could do with a whole lot more blunt talk, Erin Brockovich-style, to shake some sense into those cowardly, complicit phonies. This issue really comes down to men’s genitals and men’s sexual entitlement.

    When I see people get outraged over crude language even when it’s being deliberately deployed to call attention to more fundamental, higher-order problems, I immediately suspect it’s because the crude language is hitting them in a sensitive spot, and it’s about to uncover a hypocrisy they don’t want to face. I’ve been the one calling bullshit bluntly to people who don’t want to hear it, more than once.

    When judges panic about crude language around penises, maybe it’s because they can’t face the fact that they’ve been complicit in allowing those penises in places they absolutely shouldn’t be.

  • A snip at $220 million

    Why did Trump fire Kristi Noem?

    Her tenure was marked by high-profile immigration enforcement operations that were often publicised on social media, with Noem at times accompanying federal agents during arrests.

    During this sweeping immigration crackdown across the US, two US citizens, Alex Pretti and Renee Good, were fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis earlier this year.

    Not fatally shot in self-defense or to defend others, but fatally shot for no detectable reason other than panic and/or bad temper.

    The announcement came following controversy over a $220m border security advertising campaign featuring Noem on horseback. After Noem told Congress that Trump had approved the campaign, Trump denied involvement.

    In a phone interview with the Reuters news agency, he said: “I never knew anything about it.”

    If he had he would have put the kibosh on it. No horseback! Makes him look bad! Golf cart or nothing!

    Trump’s decision to reassign Noem followed a two-day congressional hearing on Capitol Hill, during which the Homeland Security Secretary faced questioning about her actions from members of both parties. Reporting from Washington, DC, Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher said Noem was “destroyed under questioning”, citing a series of controversies that made her continued leadership difficult.

    Look, Trump doesn’t need any help with the controversies. He can create them all by himself, thank you very much.

    Noem was grilled about a roughly $220m border security advertising campaign that prominently featured her, including promotional footage of her on horseback near Mount Rushmore.

    Hahahahahaha that’ll be it. There’s no need for any other reason. How dare she pose on horseback?! She did it to make Trump look bad! Get her out yesterday!

  • Funzies

    Yes that’s the way to talk about the slaughter of war.

    Trump says US strikes have “totally demolished” much of Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub and threatened that “we may hit it a few more times just for fun”.

    It is fun, isn’t it? It’s as much fun as driving Dad’s car into a brick wall.

  • His own stamp

    Ick.

    The administration plans to issue a $1 coin with President Donald Trump’s likeness on it next year, despite a century-old precedent of not honoring sitting, or even living former, presidents on coins.

    Instead of quarters honoring the abolition of slavery, granting women the right to vote and the Civil Rights movement, the Treasury will instead issue historical quarters featuring white men from the 18th and 19th centuries who were already well represented on currency and in historical tributes.

    It’s DEI-evil to honor the abolition of slavery, granting women the right to vote, and the Civil Rights movement.

    The new coins, coming after the administration stopped issuing new pennies earlier this year, underscore Trump’s drive to put his own stamp on the presidency far beyond the confines of the White House – whether it’s by putting his own face and name on US institutions or by pulling back on diversity efforts to reframe the story of America itself.

    Win-win. More about Trump, less about anyone else, much less about people ignored or persecuted for generations by rich powerful pale males like Trump.

    The US Mint told CNN on Friday that instead of the previously recommended tribute quarters to abolition, suffrage and the Civil Rights movement, the new designs celebrate “American history and the founding of our great nation.”

    Hey. Guess what. Abolition, suffrage, and the Civil Rights movement are American history. They’re much more significant to American history than a bonehead real estate hustler from Queens.

    The panel recommended an abolition of slavery coin featuring Fredrick Douglass, a leading abolitionist and Civil Rights leader of the 19th century, on the front. A hand and arm breaking free of chains were on the back.

    The women’s suffrage coin would have shown a woman carrying a banner calling for “Votes for Women.”

    And the Civil Rights coin would have shown Ruby Bridges as a six-year-old girl, carrying her schoolbooks close to her chest as she integrated an elementary school in New Orleans in 1960. She and three other Black schoolmates were accompanied to class by federal marshals. The back of the coin showed Civil Rights marchers locked arm-in-arm.

    The panel’s designs, developed over years, stemmed from legislation that Trump himself signed his final week of his first term in 2021.

    He’ll be making his horse a senator soon.

  • An unlikely shine

    From the Broadcast News Gossip department:

    New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani pulled out of an appearance on the now Donald Trump–friendly CBS News because of the actions of the network’s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss.

    The progressive Democrat Mamdani, to whom the president has taken an unlikely shine, had been in talks to do a sit-down interview with Robert Costa for CBS News Sunday Morning.

    However, Mamdani has now backed out because Weiss has stirred CBS News to launch wave after wave of negative press coverage of the mayor, Vanity Fair’s Aidan McLaughlin first reported in his Party Animals newsletter.

    Hostile press coverage, they mean. The euphemistic word “negative” is so useless there; I wish journalists or their editors would stop using bland empty adjectives like that.

    This includes Weiss reposting a CBS News clip of Iranian dissident and activist Masih Alinejad criticizing Mamdani’s description of U.S. strikes on Iran as “a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression,” along with a fire emoji on X.

    Part of the problem there is that Trump is the wrong guy to be helping Iranian dissidents and activists. He’s doing what he’s doing because he likes to blow people up.

    Status recently reported CBS News staff were concerned that Weiss—an outspoken supporter of Israel and a fierce critic of progressive “woke” ideologies—was trying to steer the network toward the same editorial stance as The Free Press, the media company she founded, which is also highly critical of the New York mayor.

    What a surprise: she has the same views in two different places. Who saw that coming?

  • Bribe the cap guy, get security briefings

    Peak trolling. The world points out how disgusting it is for Trump to exploit one of the soldiers he got killed by wearing one of his own vulgar baseball caps while saluting the coffin, so Trump exploits the disgust at his disgusting behavior.

    Not content with wearing his own merchandise at a dignified transfer, President Donald Trump is now doubling down on the “shameful” insult by attempting to cash in on the controversial photo op.

    In a twisted turn of events, the 79-year-old has used an image of himself saluting the coffin of a soldier killed in his war on Iran to drum up cash for his own campaigning.

    Last week, Trump became the first president in history to wear a baseball hat while honoring returning service members who made the ultimate sacrifice. The move drew condemnation from across the political spectrum.

    Why? Because it’s not a party, much less a party for Trump, much less a party for Trump to advertise both himself and his trashy merchandise.

    It’s as if there is a god after all, and this god wants to punish us for being such a crass money-grubbing shameless bunch of vulgarians.

    In an email to his supporters on Friday, Trump doubled down on the disrespect by using a shot of the transfer to promote a private newsletter group receiving “national security briefings.”

    He what???

    “This is President Donald J. Trump,” the email reads. “I made a special announcement to the public an hour ago.”

    “For the very first time ever, I’m opening up spots on the National Security Briefing Membership.

    “CLAIM YOUR SPOT. VERY FEW SPOTS REMAINING!”

    For the very first time ever because that is not what you do with national security briefings!!! As even he must know perfectly well – not least because of course everyone will have told him so in terms that underline how powerful and special that makes him.

    I’m not enjoying this journey downward. Can we hit bottom already?

  • Without exception

    Reduxx has news from Brazil:

    A trans-identified male politician who previously attempted to have a woman imprisoned for “misgendering” him was elected as president of the Women’s Rights Committee. Felipe Santos Silva, who has adopted the name Erika Hilton, told the Chamber of Deputies that the Committee should focus on women “without exception in their dignity and plurality,” and included transvestites in his definition.

    Plurality is one thing and calling men “women” is another.

    “We will discuss projects here, we will discuss the lives of women here, we will remember that, whether they like it or not, cis women, trans woman and travestis [transvestites] will not be abandoned in this discussion, and I don’t care about anyone’s wishes,” Hilton, of the Socialism and Liberty Party, stated.

    That’s a good stance for a political figure to take. Not caring about anyone’s wishes is the straight road to popularity and landslide elections.

    Upon accepting the role of President of the Women’s Rights Commission, Hilton blasted his critics as “LGBTphobes” and “defenders of pedophilia.”

    Sir, sir, sir, you’re taking a role that should be a woman’s. You shouldn’t do that, nor should you bully the women who tell you you shouldn’t do that.

  • An unusually crass opinion

    And so they fall into the trap.

    A Donald Trump-appointed federal appellate judge invoked the term “swinging dicks” three times in an unusually crass opinion involving a nude, female-only Korean spa, drawing sharp rebukes from 29 of his colleagues.

    “This is a case about swinging dicks,” began a Thursday dissenting opinion from Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the US Court of Appeals. He said he would have ruled in favor of Washington state’s Olympus Spa, which had sought to bar transgender women from its spa facilities on free speech grounds.

    “You may think that swinging dicks shouldn’t appear in a judicial opinion. You’re not wrong,” he wrote. “But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely encounter that phrase in this opinion, I hope we all can agree that it is far more jarring for the unsuspecting and exposed women at Olympus Spa— some as young as thirteen—to be visually assaulted by the real thing.”

    He went on to say that it “feels like the supposed adults in the room have collectively lost their minds” and criticized “woke judges’ willingness” to sacrifice constitutional rights “on the altar of ‘social progress.’”

    VanDyke’s dissent prompted a harsh rebuke from more than two dozen of his colleagues, who wrote separately to say that the US legal system “is not a place for vulgar barroom talk” and that VanDyke’s dissent “ignores ordinary principles of dignity and civility and demeans this court.”

    “That language makes us sound like juveniles, not judges, and it undermines public trust in the courts. The lead dissent’s use of such coarse language and invective may make for publicity or entertainment value, but it has no place in a judicial opinion,” wrote Senior Judge M. Margaret McKeown, joined by 26 other Ninth Circuit colleagues.

    True. So, if the words “big swinging dicks” have no place in judicial opinions, are we really truly completely sure that actual dicks belong in female changing rooms?

    They walked into his trap. The crude language was a trap. Guess what, colleagues: if the mere words upset you that much, why are you so relaxed about the actual physical dicks themselves in the actual physical presence of girls and women who are changing their clothes?

    Please do explain, in your most dignified judicial language. We’ll wait.

  • Up

    Just don’t do it again, ok?

    A serial upskirter whose phone contained more than 100 videos of young women secretly filmed in public toilets has heard of his lecherous behaviour’s “profound impact” on one of his victims.

    Bao Phuc Cao, 23, a Vietnamese biomedicine student at The University of Melbourne, appeared for sentencing in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court after he was caught filming a woman in a public toilet at a Docklands shopping centre in February 2025.

    Cao pleaded guilty on Thursday, March 5, but his hearing was adjourned as the court awaited a victim impact statement…The statement was not read before the court, but magistrate Michelle Mykytowycz said Cao’s victim had been deeply affected by the incident.

    “This has had a profound impact on the complainant,” Ms Mykytowycz said. “She remains hyper vigilant … it affects her ability to use public rest rooms at work and in public space.”

    …

    The court was told Cao had been sentenced to a community corrections order in May last year for “effectively identical offending” against one known victim. The prosecutor said police had seized Cao’s phone containing “over 100 different videos” of unknown people whom he had secretly filmed.

    …

    Since his previous sentencing, Cao had been complying with orders, not missing any appointments, and had been referred to an offence-specific program, the court was told. A conviction wasn’t recorded against Cao, but he must comply with a good behaviour order and his already-in-place community corrections orders.

    That’s it. He doesn’t get any actual punishment, he just has to refrain from doing it again. More than 100 of these revolting sex crimes and he gets away with it.

    Would it help to issue all males with a plastic or rubber model of the female genitalia for their very own?

  • Be less pleased

    This is astounding.

    And who’s that up near the top of the table on the left? None other than Mridul Wadhwa, the man who ran the Edinburgh rape crisis centre for way too long. Why did Olivia Bailey MP go out of her way to insult women and why does she look so happy about it?

    Reactions are intensely hostile.

    Lefty women taking great pains to insult and taunt other lefty women for the sake of men who like to pretend to be women. How did we get here? How can we get somewhere else?

    Update:

    Oh guess what, it’s not one man pretending to be a woman in that snap, it’s two. On the left side, with bangs/a fringe – that’s “Helen” Belcher. 11 people in the photo, and two of them are men pretending to be women. How representative. So feminist.

  • boop boop boop

    New low achieved.

  • If only there had been signs

    Well, be sure to respeck the idenninee.

    A transgender woman and former volunteer Metropolitan Police officer from Chesham, who was found guilty of raping a child, is due to be sentenced.

    James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, groomed one of his two victims online before sexually assaulting her when she was just 12 years old. The 27-year-old defendant was also found guilty of raping a woman he met online while posing as a 16-year-old girl.

    After his initial sentencing was postponed last year, a new date has been confirmed for Friday, March 13, at 10.30 am at Aylesbury Crown Court.

    I bet he was a really great cop.

    James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, groomed one of his two victims online before sexually assaulting her when she was just 12 years old.

    The 27-year-old defendant was also found guilty of raping a woman he met online while posing as a 16-year-old girl.

    He shouldn’t be able to “identify as” a woman named anything at all, because he’s a rapist. His idennifying-as privileges should have been revoked when he was found guilty.

  • Efficiency

    It’s so creepy. He looks about 12, and as self-confident and smug as Musk himself. This punk was in charge of demolishing great swathes of research on the basis that they were “DEI” and thus evil garbage.

    “Do you think maybe there was a reason the government doesn’t use Signal?”

  • Bureau of punks

    Now there’s a title.

    DOGE Staffers Used ChatGPT to Cut Holocaust History Grants During Counter-DEI Purges: Lawsuit

    The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) relied on the ChatGPT large language model program when deciding to cut grants for Jewish-related history programs, including one focused on violence against women during the Holocaust, according to a new class-action lawsuit.

    Yes how dare anyone waste government money on Holocaust research.

    DOGE staffer Justin Fox is named as one of the defendants in the suit filed in US federal court on Friday by the Authors Guild, which alleges that he was the one who developed the method of using ChatGPT prompts to determine which grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) — also a defendant — to cut in the name of eliminating any programs related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

    Fox said in a deposition that he regarded any grant related to a minority group as qualifying as “DEI” and thus up for elimination. When asked about a grant he chose to cancel related to violence against women during the Holocaust, he responded, “It’s a Jewish — specifically focused on Jewish culture and amplifying the marginalized voices of the females in that culture.” Fox added, “It’s inherently related to DEI for that reason.”

    Which is why there should never have been a blanket rule against all possible manifestations of “DEI” you vile little toad.

    The lawsuit alleges that Fox and his fellow DOGE staffer Nathan Cavanaugh “made and executed the termination decision without any legal authority conferred by Congress. There is no jurisdictional barrier to vacating these unlawful terminations, and permanent relief is warranted.”

    One of the projects targeted by DOGE was a translation project titled In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers From the Soviet Union, which the lawsuit describes as “a critical, annotated translation into English of Yiddish and Russian works written in the aftermath of the most significant Jewish tragedy of the 20th century.”

    ChatGPT put the book on the chopping block, stating that “this anthology explores Jewish writers’ engagement with the Holocaust in the USSR.”

    Therefore we hate it.

    According to the suit, the DOGE cuts “are unconstitutional several times over. The record establishes, without genuine factual dispute, that the terminations violated the First Amendment by targeting grants for their viewpoints and perceived political associations; that they violated the equal protection guarantee by classifying grants based on race, sex, and other constitutionally protected characteristics.”

    DOGE also allegedly targeted Catholic efforts to promote Holocaust studies. The suit notes that another grant Fox and Cavanaugh chopped was support for the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education at Seton Hill University.

    Never mind, callow frat boys are exactly the right people to decide what universities can and cannot research.

    The lawsuit details that Fox and Cavanaugh lacked “any relevant background in the humanities, public or private grant administration, peer review, or government service of any kind prior to joining the administration.”

    According to the filing, the two DOGE staffers met with McDonald and Assistant Chair for Programs Adam Wolfson on March 12. However, Fox and Cavanaugh “entirely controlled the process of selecting grants to terminate and executing the terminations — their approach was top-down, viewpoint- and race-based, and indifferent to the views of NEH leadership or the ordinary processes of grant administration.”

    Naturally. Smug frat boys are smug frat boys. If you bring home a bucket of mud for dinner, you’re going to have a nasty dinner.

  • in the in the in the earth

    From The Terf Island Playbook by Helen Joyce:

    This new belief system means abandoning the healthy individualism of classical liberalism, which involves respect for differences of opinion and emphasis on “freedom rights”. Within it, notions of a shared human nature and the common good are no longer regarded as normative or aspirational but instead as coercive. It prioritises freedom to do as thou wilt. It’s freedom for the strong, not the weak; freedom to impose, not freedom from being imposed upon. It’s all about the swinging fist, with no concern for where the nose begins.

    And that’s why it’s women who suffer when you say that “man” and “woman” are opt-in categories. It’s just fact – unwelcome fact, but fact nonetheless – that women are physically weaker, that we’re the rapeable sex, that we bear nearly the entire burden of reproduction, that we commit few violent crimes and almost no sexual ones, and are victimised far more often than we victimise. We need “freedoms from” more than men do, and men enjoy “freedoms to” more than we do. Freedom for women means constraints on men.

    I’ve been thinking about that lately – about women and reproduction and the different jobs and the relationship of all that to female subordination. Of course I’ve always been thinking about it, as I assume women do, but a bit more so in the past few days.

    One thought is that in a way it’s just bizarre that women are the entire source of all humans and for that reason we are treated like shit. Why not the other way around? Eh?

    I suppose because people are more like Trump than whatever the opposite would be. When in doubt, bully. When a living resource is very important, be sure to dominate and police and punish it.

    So the upshot is women make all the people therefore they must be lifelong political prisoners. The most obvious illustration is darling Islam: put bags over their heads, watch their every move, kill them if they so much as blink. Don’t love them, don’t help them, don’t protect them, just punish and terrorize them. If they take a single step outside bury them up to their waists so that no Other Guy will get to see their genitals, and throw stones at them until they die. It’s their own fault for being the ones who make the people.

    Like for instance this imam at the (notorious) Green Lane Mosque in Birmingham.

    According to the Sharia again, when it comes to women, they must be, there must be, there must be a hole dug in the in the earth, in the in the ground, and she must be covered up to [places his hands at his waist] half of the body, so that her [sounds like suttah] does not appear.

    Is that plain enough yet? There are several sources for this clip, and they all flinch away from spelling out that last bit. They don’t want to admit that this guy says you have to stick her in the ground up to her waist so that nobody can see her crotch. That’s the important thing. The woman is so much garbage; it’s her magic portal to 1. sex 2. making new people that must be buried and concealed while she is tortured to death.

    So, yeah. What Helen said. It matters. It matters, it’s fucked up, it’s always been fucked up, it’s pathetic that humans can’t get it right after all this time.

  • Celebrity pundits

    I’ve always found Malcolm Gladwell glib and annoying, but it turns out he’s all that and worse.

    Gladwell does actually say that, with energetic conviction. “If you’re someone who thinks that trans women should not participate in the female category, you have to go out of your way to be an advocate for all other aspects of the trans agenda.”

    It’s quite startling to watch him say it. He’s very impassioned and emphatic about it, making big eyes and frowny mouth. The whole second half of the sentence is in spoken italics. Fuck you, bro. No we don’t. We get to have all our rights, because they are rights, not nice little prezzies the men dole out to us if we behave ourselves. Of course we think that men should not compete in the female category, and no that does not mean we have to welcome them in our spaces and our feminism and our rights. That includes you: get out.

  • Do you believe in magic?

    Zack Polanski hasn’t always been a rising-star woman-hating political hopeful. Not all that long ago he was a hypnotherapist, who…

    I’ll let the Beeb tell you.

    Zack Polanski’s claim to have immediately apologised for saying that hypnosis could increase a woman’s breast size has been thrown into doubt by a newly unearthed interview.

    Before entering politics the Green Party leader worked as a hypnotherapist and offered a session in 2013 to enlarge a newspaper reporter’s bust. Polanski has since said he was misrepresented and never believed it was possible, claiming he spoke to the BBC the day after the article to apologise.

    BBC News cannot find evidence of such an interview, but six days later he spoke to Radio Humberside to stand by the theory saying “the evidence is growing”.

    It’s a “theory” is it?

    How would it work? What’s the link between the mind and the breasts that would enable the mind to puff up the breasts? I wonder if he’s explained it, with citations to the BMJ or similar.

    A Green Party source said: “Zack has repeatedly apologised for an interview he did with the Sun more than a decade ago. Now, Zack is focussed on the issues that really matter to people: bringing down bills, protecting the NHS and rebuilding our public services.”

    Do silly lies that exploit women become less creepy over time? Do they in particular become enough less creepy to make people want a Prime Minister who has that in his work history?

    A 2013 article in the Sun featured Polanski offering a reporter hypnosis to increase her cup size. The reporter claims the session, at Polanski’s Harley Street consulting room, had the desired effect, to her surprise.

    Since entering politics and becoming leader of the Green Party of England and Wales in September 2025, he has distanced himself from the claim. He has repeatedly said he was misrepresented and claimed that he appeared on the BBC to apologise the day after the Sun article was published, on 12 June 2013. The BBC asked the Green Party to point us to the BBC interview in question and also searched programme running orders but could find no record of it.

    Well…maybe ask him to hypnotize you until you can find them.

  • The glorious cause

    It’s been some time, so let’s refresh our memories of that clip of Euan Weddell calling JKR “you heinous creepy old BITCH.” It’s just 17 seconds in so no need for masochistically watching the whole thing.

  • Something something DEI something

    Look. at. this. guy.

    One of Musk’s ignorant punks who set fire to great swathes of the government last year so that Trump would have plenty of extra $$$ to drop bombs on Tehran. He can’t say what “DEI” is but by god he can snuff out an organization labeled as it. It’s a very good idea to give huge destructive power to guys like this.

    It’s in the EO. I don’t know what the EO said, but it’s in there. I acted on the EO. That’s the one that I don’t know what it said, but that didn’t stop me acting on it. I like to act on things. I don’t need to know anything about them. Somebody wrote it down; that’s good enough.