This sounds weirdly familiar…

The 92-page report, “‘You Feel Like Your Life is Over’: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025,” documents that people detained at Krome North Service Processing Center (Krome), Broward Transitional Center (BTC), and the Federal Detention Center (FDC) in Miami have been held in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, subjected to degrading treatment, and have not been given access to prompt and adequate medical care…

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Since President Donald Trump took office, his administration has driven forward a surge in immigration detention nationally, with ICE data showing that 45 out of 181 authorized detention facilities across the country exceeded their contractual capacity in mid-April.

The number of people detained by

Trump is shouting at a football team to change its name back to the racist one they dropped. What a worthy cause!

Trump threatened on Sunday to interfere with a deal to build a new football stadium in Washington, D.C., unless the local NFL team, now known as the Commanders, changes its name back to Redskins.

Yeah fer sher, what right do they have to stop calling themselves “redskins” just because it’s a crude trashy insult?

The American football team dropped the name Redskins in 2020 after decades of criticism that it was a racial slur with links to the U.S. genocide of the Indigenous population.

But Mommmmmmm, Trump grew up watching movies about cowboys and redskins and he loves … Read the rest

One or two further thoughts on the “what even is my own sex??” issue.

Isla Bumba, 29, is a senior “diversity officer” at NHS Fife. At an employment tribunal on Wednesday, she was questioned about her advice that a trans woman – that is, a biological male – should be allowed to use a hospital’s female changing room. And, during one extraordinary exchange, she told the tribunal that she doesn’t know what sex she is.

“I would hazard a guess that I would be female,” she said, with all solemnity. “But no one knows what their chromosomes are, or their hormonal composition, unless you’ve had that tested – and I at least have not.”

Wait. And then wait … Read the rest

There’s this one bit…

Asked about the reference to the Scottish prison story, she said: “It was in the media at the time. I was trying to give [Dr Upton] an example of how I and other women feel.”

Asked whether she treated Dr Upton with dignity and respect, Ms Peggie replied: “Yes, because Dr Upton’s presence there and the board’s decision to permit him to use a female-only changing room was unlawful.

“I felt upset, humiliated and harassed to find him there, particularly when I had a menstrual flood to deal with. I remained as calm as I could, but I felt strongly that he should not be there.”

His presence there was an ongoing thing, but on … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Sobbing Upton.

For the moment, let’s set aside NHS Fife’s outrageous contempt for women’s safety that is the central issue of this proceeding. Maybe Upton deserves a little more attention and scrutiny, but not necessarily the kind he’s craving. Let’s pretend that Upton really was as upset as he claims, and as upset as is being claimed on his behalf. Let’s say his sobs weren’t artfully summoned crocodile tears. They don’t say anything good or healthy about him. Clearly his distress wasn’t a matter of his physical safety. Let’s look at the whole question of sex, class, status, and power that Ophelia has been emphasizing here, and his apparent shock … Read the rest

Labour MP says people who don’t believe in magic gender are swivel-eyed loons.

A Labour backbencher has been filmed deriding “transphobes” as “swivel-eyed” and suggesting they are “not very well people”. Tim Roca described the Supreme Court judgment on trans rights as “very depressing” and rejected his own party’s stance that it had brought “clarity”.

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He made the remarks during a talk he gave earlier this month at an event hosted by the University of Westminster, called Queering Academia.

“I think actually the UK has now really gone down the rabbit hole into the way the United States discusses issues of gender, race, poverty, all of that,” he said. “So if we can bring the debate back into being

On Day 3 of Peggie v NHS Fife & Dr B Upton, the tribunal heard from Dr Elspeth Pitt, a senior consultant who encountered Dr Upton in visible emotional distress on Christmas Eve 2023. What unfolded was a revealing portrait of a system primed to cushion one staff member’s emotional response—so long as that staff member identified as trans.

Pitt testified that she found Upton “very shaken,” “pale,” and “sobbing” after a confrontation with nurse Sandy Peggie (SP) in the female changing room. The details were vague—Pitt could not recall the exact words—but Upton felt “cornered” and likened the encounter to hearing something as hurtful as a comparison to a rapist. Pitt moved the conversation to a wellbeing room

It just gets worse and worse.

This is Dr Kate Searle's email on the 29th of December 2023 to c. 20 senior doctors.

She said "we all condemn the actions of Sandie".

(my transcription from the redacted bundle which is available to read in Dundee). pic.twitter.com/9vao4MJadd

— Maya Forstater (@MForstater) July 18, 2025

Good old Esther, Louise and Lauren are aware, so that’s nice.

Poor darling fragile “Beth” was approached by this peon of a nurse in the changing room for female nurses simply because he’s neither a nurse nor female! Can you believe it?! Will the working class never learn to stay in its place? Will women never learn to obey?? We women must join hands to shun and … Read the rest

For Women Scotland back in February:

Imagine, if you will, a man called Pete. Pete is a manly-man, tall, with a beard and well-developed muscles. He’s also not real – or at least there may be many such men called Pete in the world, but the Pete who became a talking point in the Sandie Peggie tribunal this week is an invention of Naomi Cunningham, the barrister acting for Ms Peggie. Pete, Ms Cunningham suggested, enters the female changing rooms where a woman stands in her bra: he fails to leave; he shuts the door and walks into the room; he starts to undress. At what stage is a woman allowed to feel uncomfortable or scared? Well, according to

Is NHS Fife trying to get sent to bed without any supper?

Lawyers for a nurse who complained about sharing a hospital changing room with a trans doctor have condemned an NHS Fife statement on the case as “irresponsible”. The health board published the four-page document online while evidence was being heard in a case brought by nurse Sandie Peggie.

The statement alleged the employment tribunal had triggered “a threat of physical harm and sexual violence” against NHS staff. The matter was raised before the tribunal adjourned for the weekend and Judge Alexander Kemp said he would assess it before making any public comment.

Later, Scotland’s information commissioner criticised NHS Fife and said he may report the board to the

Aha, it turns out everything is Sandie Peggie’s fault after all.

NHS Fife has revealed it’s called in police after a threat of “physical harm and sexual violence” was received by a staff member as the health board defended its actions in a contentious employment tribunal.

In a statement published just as the tribunal was concluding for the day, the health board also hit out at scolded the organisation Sex Matters, whose chair is the KC representing the claimaint in the case, nurse Sandie Peggie.

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In the surprise statement this afternoon, NHS Fife said it was “having to defend” itself and wanted to answer questions posed by the press and politicians, addressing “misinformation” online. It urged for respect

Oh dear how sad, Trump is simply furious at the Wall Street Journal. Whatever next? A feud with Putin? Fisticuffs with JD? Fox News on the naughty stool?

A “bawdy” letter to Jeffrey Epstein bearing President Donald Trump’s signature was included in an album of letters Epstein received for his 50th birthday in 2003, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday evening, citing documents reviewed by the newspaper.

The letter, which the Journal said Trump sent at the request of Epstein’s friend Ghislaine Maxwell, would have been written 16 years before the Justice Department charged the now-dead Epstein with child sex trafficking in 2019, during Trump’s first term in office.

The missive, which Trump denied having written,

Let’s read this, shall we?

NHS Fife statement: https://t.co/EYVwiBhxmm

— Sex Matters (@SexMattersOrg) July 18, 2025

NHS Fife is setting out its position on a number of matters related to the ongoing employment tribunal and provide clarity around some of the misinformation circulating around the tribunal case that NHS Fife is defending.

NHS Fife is so furious it can’t even get a coherent sentence out. It means “in order to provide clarity” or similar.

The legal case brought against NHS Fife began after it commenced an internal investigation following allegations made by a member of its staff. The claimant’s case is being supported by Sex Matters, whose chief executive officer and co-founder was called as a witness by the claimant

Gosh, you don’t say.

In March, after Cammie Woodman won a match she was thrown out of a New York metro tennis women’s league because she is a trans woman.

On June 28-29, the self-named “Trans Tennis Princess” from Brooklyn completed a sweep to a crown at the Lincoln Terrace Open. Woodman raced through the tournament’s women’s division through four matches, giving up a mere two sets for the entire draw en route to her first open title.

Well of course he fucking did, because he’s a man.

She said it was a symbol of how far she’s come from being a self-described “queer kid who never played a sport” when she first took up the game.

Revenge is a dish best served cold, yeah?

Maurene Comey, a career federal prosecutor who worked on the Jeffrey Epstein case and was abruptly fired by the Trump administration this week, warned her colleagues Thursday about the chilling effect such firings could have on their work.

“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain,” she wrote in an email that was circulated to her colleagues within the federal prosecutor’s office in Manhattan. “Do not let that happen.”

She called fear “the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.”

Ms. Comey, who is the daughter of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director and an adversary

Nice title.

I can’t even be sure of my own sex, equalities officer tells tribunal

An equalities officer who advised that a transgender doctor should be allowed to use a hospital’s female changing room has said she cannot be sure of her own biological sex.

Isla Bumba told an employment tribunal that the definition of biological sex was “far more complex” than whether someone had a male or female body.

She is very young, she is NHS Fife’s equality and human rights lead officer, and she is paid far more than Sandie Peggie is.

Ms Bumba also told the tribunal, brought by nurse Sandie Peggie, that she did not need to “know anything” about the body of Dr Beth

If you’re going to tell silly braggy lies about yourself and your relatives, at least don’t include details that make the fictionality obvious.

On Tuesday, Trump conjured an especially odd imaginary tale – that linked his uncle with the late terrorist Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber.

Trump was speaking at a Pennsylvania event about energy and innovation when he said he had to “brag just for a second” about his uncle’s intelligence. After wrongly saying his uncle was “the longest-serving professor in the history of MIT” (he was one of the longest-serving but not the very longest) and wrongly saying his uncle’s three university degrees were “in nuclear, chemical, and math” (two were

Wait, there’s a thing here.

From the hearing today:

Ms Peggie’s lawyer Naomi Cunningham later quizzed Ms Bumba over whether she had stated in guidance to NHS Fife that the nurse had the right to be gender critical.

She said she was “100% certain” she had done this.

The lawyer said Ms Bumba’s advice was inclusive of trans people but not women who would not want to share changing facilities with them, citing women who had been sexually assaulted or had religious beliefs.

And hey you know what? We just don’t want to, for a host of reasons, derived from a lifetime of being seen and treated as inferior in some way, by the media and the entertainment … Read the rest

Fake official.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Sunday that reports that she’d kneecapped FEMA’s response to the deadly flooding in Texas were “fake news.”

During an appearance on NBC News’s Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker asked Noem to respond to a New York Times report that found thousands of calls for assistance from flood victims to FEMA call centers went unanswered because the secretary had failed to renew contracts to keep call center employees in place until nearly a week later.

“Why did it take so long to extend those contracts?” Welker asked.

“It’s just false. Those contracts were in place. Nobody—no employees were off of work. Every one of them were answering calls. So false

But you don’t. You say you do but you don’t.

A chief constable’s decision to allow uniformed police officers to take part in a Pride march was unlawful, a judge has ruled.

A case was brought against Northumbria Police Chief Constable Vanessa Jardine by Lindsey Smith, from Newcastle, who describes herself as “gender critical”. Ms Smith argued Mrs Jardine and her officers’ participation in Newcastle Pride last year meant they would have been unable to remain impartial if a dispute between those with similar beliefs and trans rights supporters had occurred.

The force said it would work through the ruling to understand the implications but would remain true to its values of “fairness, visibility, and support for all”.

But those … Read the rest