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They seem curiously invested

Aug 28th, 2025 10:23 am | By

The suspense continues.

Apparently to refer to Mr XX’s inverted penis as a ‘wound’ is sufficiently morally culpable to mean I have no article 10 protection.

I repeat: inverting your penis to line a surgically created cavity is not a ‘vagina’. It is a wound that will require persistent dilation so it does not close up. This is a fact. It is not harassment

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Poison

Aug 28th, 2025 4:26 am | By

The war is on.

The White House on Wednesday fired Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after she refused to resign amid pressure to change vaccine policy, which sparked the resignation of other senior CDC officials and a showdown over whether she could be removed.

Hours after the Department of Health and Human Services announced early Wednesday evening that Monarez was no longer the director, her lawyers responded with a fiery statement saying she had not resigned or been fired. They accused HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of “weaponizing public health for political gain” and “putting millions of American lives at risk” by purging health officials from government.

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Their

Aug 28th, 2025 2:32 am | By

The Telegraph:

The BBC has defended its use of female pronouns to describe a transgender killer who stabbed their [HIS] partner to death with a samurai sword.

Way to undermine what you just said, Telegraph! Y U afraid to say “his”???

Joanna Rowland-Stuart, who was born male and was known as John Stuart, attacked Andrew Rowland-Stuart at their Brighton home in 2024, in what a jury found was an unlawful killing.

The couple had married in a civil partnership but reporting on the court hearing earlier this year, BBC News headlined one story “Wife killed husband with samurai sword” and began: “A woman killed her husband…”.

The BBC used the pronouns “she” and “her” throughout its coverage.

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Weeks after she was confirmed

Aug 27th, 2025 4:57 pm | By

Bad Ignorant Kennedy continues to sabotage US health care.

Susan Monarez, the newly installed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was ousted Wednesday, weeks after she was confirmed to lead the public health agency, according to multiple administration officials familiar with the matter.

Monarez was pressed for days by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., administration lawyers and other officials over whether she would support rescinding certain approvals for coronavirus vaccines, according to two people with knowledge of those conversations. Kennedy and other officials questioned Monarez Monday on whether she was aligned with the administration’s efforts to change vaccine policy, the people said.

Efforts to sabotage vaccine policy.

Monarez, who was a longtime

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The article will name you

Aug 27th, 2025 10:33 am | By
The article will name you

A new player arrives on the scene.

Note: XXX and XX are the same person; the XXX was a typo.

The first thing that strikes me about this remarkable overture is the casual rudeness of “Hi Sarah” as if they were old buddies instead of complete strangers and as if the overture were a friendly one. “Hi … Read the rest



By the way

Aug 27th, 2025 9:45 am | By

Trump says he has power without limit.

In a televised cabinet meeting that lasted more than three hours, Mr. Trump attacked Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, a Democrat who has pushed back against a threat by the president to deploy troops in Chicago in an expansion of the crackdown on crime he is conducting in Washington.

“You have a guy in Illinois, the governor of Illinois, saying that crime has been much better in Chicago recently and Trump is a dictator,” Mr. Trump said. “Most people are saying, ‘If you call him a dictator, if he stops crime, he can be whatever he wants’ — I am not a dictator, by the way.”

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Buzz buzz buzz

Aug 27th, 2025 5:09 am | By

Trump still shit-stirring in Greenland.

Denmark’s foreign minister had the top U.S. diplomat in the country summoned for talks after the main national broadcaster reported Wednesday that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.

Trump has repeatedly said he seeks U.S. jurisdiction over Greenland, a vast, semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. He has not ruled out military force to take control of the mineral-rich, strategically located Arctic island.

You can’t just “seek jurisdiction” over other countries as if it were normal.

Denmark, a NATO ally of the U.S., and Greenland have said the island is not for sale and condemned reports of the U.S. gathering intelligence

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Guest post: Fake academics have spun a citation-laundering ring

Aug 27th, 2025 4:41 am | By

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Who actually.

Trans activists learned early on that if you call yourself something enough times, people will start to believe it. “Fake it ’til you make it” has become the central tenet of the movement.

Fake that they’re women enough, people will eventually capitulate.

Fake being a legal clinic long enough, lazy journalists will start treating it like an authoritative source.

Fake academics have spun a citation-laundering ring, endlessly citing one another in a closed loop. “Gender identity” is the Ivies’ yellowcake uranium: a complete fiction, yet deadly enough to justify their attacks.

Even the grand, pompously titled “World Professional Association for Transgender Health” is just a rebranding of a once-puny little outfit … Read the rest



Clear and appropriate

Aug 26th, 2025 4:47 pm | By

Oh come on, Beeb.

The BBC has defended its use of female pronouns to describe a transgender killer who stabbed their partner to death with a samurai sword.

Joanna Rowland-Stuart, who was born male and was known as John Stuart, attacked Andrew Rowland-Stuart at their Brighton home in 2024, in what a jury found was an unlawful killing. The couple had married in a civil partnership but reporting on the court hearing earlier this year, BBC News headlined one story “Wife killed husband with samurai sword” and began: “A woman killed her husband…”.

The BBC used the pronouns “she” and “her” throughout its coverage.

A number of people contacted the BBC to complain. One wrote: “Using female pronouns to

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The hobgoblin of little minds

Aug 26th, 2025 4:15 pm | By
The hobgoblin of little minds

Uh oh, trouble in paradise. Magaworld is seriously pissed off at Trump.

President Donald Trump seemingly caught his loyal conservative base off-guard and sparked backlash by saying he would allow 600,000 Chinese students into American universities.

That would be a departure for the Trump administration after it added new vetting for student visas, moved to block foreign enrollment at Harvard and expanded the grounds for terminating international students’ ability to study in the United States.

That is, after Trump pitched fit after fit after fit about immigration and foreigners and communists and our precious bodily fluids.

Trump’s announcement Monday adds to the confusion about the administration’s restrictive visa policies and its approach to China as the superpowers tussle over

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Who actually

Aug 26th, 2025 10:50 am | By

For some reason the name Ponzi keeps drifting through my brain. Like when re-reading the Guardian piece from yesterday about Victoria McCloud.

McCloud, who is supported by Trans Legal Clinic and W-Legal, said the application was brought under articles 6, 8 and 14 of the European convention on human rights, “essentially the rights to respect for who I am, my family, my human existence, my right to a fair trial in matters determining my own freedoms and obligations without discrimination.”

See, the reason that rings the Ponzi bell is because I’ve just been reading about how “Trans Legal Clinic” is…an empty shell. It’s another “Lemkin Institute”. When people are citing empty title pages as backup you want to take a … Read the rest



Rejecting a bid

Aug 26th, 2025 9:45 am | By

Judge to Trump: No.

A federal judge on Tuesday threw out an aggressive, unusual lawsuit the Trump administration brought earlier this year against all 15 federal judges in Maryland, rejecting a bid by the Justice Department to limit court power in fast-moving immigration cases.

The opinion on Tuesday framed the lawsuit as a major constitutional standoff, with Judge Thomas Cullen writing the Justice Department couldn’t pursue a “constitutional free-for-all.”

The ruling from Cullen, who was appointed to the bench by President Donald Trump during his first term and brought in from another district to handle the case in Maryland, said the government lacked the legal right — known as standing — to bring the challenge and that the judges

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Legacy at risk

Aug 26th, 2025 8:53 am | By

Yosemite is not thriving.

Home to more than 400 species of animals, 1,500 species of plants, and roughly 4 million annual visitors, the park has stood, since President Abraham Lincoln first preserved it, as a radical idea: that some landscapes are too magnificent to belong to private individuals, and instead should be given to the nation.

Today, this legacy is at risk. Over the past six months, permanent staff at the National Park Service (NPS)—which is the agency that governs the park—have been cut by 24 percent. It’s the result of layoffs, buyouts, and a hiring freeze from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). This year, of the 8,000 seasonal positions allotted by President Donald Trump’s budget, barely

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They deny the possibility

Aug 26th, 2025 4:49 am | By
They deny the possibility

Adults thinking, or pretending to think, like toddlers.

“discriminatory to trans women because they deny the possibility that individuals born into male bodies can feel and identify as women.”

People can “feel and identify as” anything and everything. The issue is not feeling and identifying, it’s being. We can all “feel as” planets or stars or the universe or a worm or a particular semi-colon on a particular … Read the rest



The gesture was anything but altruistic

Aug 25th, 2025 10:45 am | By
The gesture was anything but altruistic

Oliver Brown talks to Tracy Edwards:

Even today, 35 years on, you can still detect the magnitude of Maiden in Edwards’ Putney home, a beautiful Victorian house just yards from the Thames. A painting of the boat takes pride of place in her front room, while in the conservatory, boxes of documents from her trailblazing life are piled high, ready to be digitised for the National Maritime Museum.

Although she is uneasy with adulation – “I find compliments hard and my daughter, definitely the grown-up in our relationship, tells me off for it,” she says – she has grown used to the attention, even gracing the Hollywood red carpets when a 2018 documentary about her defining voyage was nominated

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After an immigration check-in

Aug 25th, 2025 9:54 am | By

Fascist regime continues to do fascist things.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who reunited with his family last week after 160 days apart following his mistaken deportation to El Salvador, was taken into ICE custody on Monday after an immigration check-in, his attorney said.

The check-in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Baltimore was part of the conditions of his release from federal custody on parole on Friday.

While such meetings are usually routine and are meant for case updates, Abrego’s attorneys said they expected he would be taken into ICE custody during the check-in after the Trump administration announced over the weekend its intention to deport him to Uganda.

To Uganda ffs – why not Antarctica or a tiny … Read the rest



Rhys Cheaty McCheaterson

Aug 25th, 2025 9:02 am | By

Oh gawd he’s back.

Remember him? Rhys McKinnon? Who left Canada to take up an academic job in Charleston only to quit before he was fired for being a useless combative pig?

He’s found a new way to cheat women in sports; isn’t he adorable.… Read the rest



Telling

Aug 25th, 2025 4:19 am | By
Telling

Remember that decidedly mediocre women-hating comedian who won an award the other day?

Here he is in the women’s toilet with his award.

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Dense as concrete

Aug 25th, 2025 4:05 am | By

Bro journalist writes in the Herald Scotland about the awesomeness of standing up for men who claim to be women at the expense of women. There are women who would like a word, but he’s blocked them.

Rebecca Don Kennedy runs the Equality Network. She talks candidly to our Writer at Large about the attacks, abuse and hate she’s suffered campaigning for trans people

It was around 2018 that Kennedy, by then a policy officer for the Equality Network, began raising her voice in defence of trans people. It resulted in the first of countless “horrific social media pile-ons” where she was attacked en masse.

I wonder if she’s aware of the countless horrific social media pile-ons that gender critical … Read the rest



Guest post: A lot to think about

Aug 24th, 2025 5:28 pm | By

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Referred to.

Interesting that team trans’s defence here is that transwomen are male after all — or this particular one at least is — and that there is a clearly visible difference between males and females.

Watkin’s lawyers said she saw and presented herself as female but was “visibly and audibly” male, so it would have been “blindingly obvious” to the man that Watkin was not biologically female.

It’s notable that they only ever admit this when it’s advantageous to their side to do so. Still, this is one of those items that’ll make a handy bookmark. It can be deployed to show that transactivists are never consistent in what they profess to … Read the rest