Another bold advertisement of how radically different and horrible the Trump regime is:

Trump says he wants to stage UFC fight on White House grounds

Next year it will be fight to the death gladiators.

US president Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s thinking of staging a UFC match on the White House grounds with upwards 20,000 spectators to celebrate 250 years of American independence.

“We have a lot of land there,” said Trump, a UFC enthusiast who has attended several of its mixed martial arts matches in recent months and is close friends with Dana White, the league’s president.

Oh good. That’s an excellent reason to celebrate independence with a display of violence.

Military displays serve the same purpose, … Read the rest

Hahahaha you don’t say.

Join us! No wait, don’t, we’re not doing it after all. Pretend we never said anything. Pretend you never heard of us.

The full announcement, which hilariously has not been quietly deleted.

This Pride Month we’re celebrating the diversity of sexual behaviour, biology and reproduction found in nature.

Speak with our scientists about all manner of subjects, from asexual reproduction in Komodo dragons to the marvellous mating methods of molluscs. Watch award-winning drag king Bi-Curious George perform and pick your favourite specimen to use as a muse in one of our art workshops.

Enjoy exploring our galleries away from the daytime crowds, including our new free Fixing Our Broken Planet Gallery. Plus, visit our new exhibition 

Thick as two short planks.

pic.twitter.com/4oKAb41am5

— Dr Helen Webberley (she/her) (@HelenWebberley) July 3, 2025

She probably didn’t write it herself but she did choose to share it despite the obvious stupidities.

Of course we allow “color critical views.” I dislike beige. I’m allowed to say that. Of course we allow “disability critical views.” Disabilities are bad and nobody wants them. I’m allowed to say that. As for “religion critical views” – ever heard of atheism? There are cultures that frown on it and even some that punish it, but the more prosperous and free cultures allow it. I can confirm: I co-wrote a book about God’s apparent hatred of women and I was never visited by the police for … Read the rest

He could ask Jared…

The Anti-Defamation League on Friday condemned President Donald Trump’s use of the term “Shylock” at a Thursday night rally, saying the president was invoking a “centuries-old antisemitic trope.”

During a campaign-style rally speech in Iowa on Thursday — in which the president basked in his megabill success — Trump touted what he and Republicans have promoted as benefits of the sweeping legislation.

“No death tax. No estate tax. No going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker — and in some cases, shylocks and bad people,” Trump said.

You can see him flailing there even before you get to the “shylock.” He was going to paint banks in general as … Read the rest

Ffs how stupid do you have to be to set off fireworks IN LOS ANGELES?

A woman has been left in critical condition after suffering injuries in a residential fire involving active fireworks that more than 100 firefighters responded to, officials said.

The incident occurred just after 9 p.m. in the Pacoima neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, when authorities say that three one-story homes were showing fire when the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to “active fireworks inside a detached garage are exposing more homes and brush in the area,” according to information obtained from the LAFD by ABC News’ Los Angeles station KABC.

Bad writing, but we get the idea – some idiot set off fireworks inside … Read the rest

Erm…sir…

Tomorrow at Pride in London we’ll send a message to the world: in our city you are free to be whoever you want to be, and love whoever you want to love.

We must take a stand against those seeking to roll back hard-won rights. pic.twitter.com/zGPiOMQs3X

— Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan (@MayorofLondon) July 4, 2025

Leni Riefenstahl would be all over that. … Read the rest

When Pride becomes megalomania:

When Marion Harding contacted the chief executive of Surrey County Council in 2021 to raise safeguarding concerns about her local Pride organisation, she expected a speedy response.

After all, the council itself had given Pride in Surrey tens of thousands of pounds in funding, and her concerns were about the protection of potentially vulnerable young people who came into contact with the LGBTQ organisation, which was set up in 2018 by local activist, Stephen Ireland.

Harding, 62, and her wife, Cathy, 59, had volunteered for Pride in Surrey, but both had a number of worries about Ireland’s conduct, not least that he had appointed himself head of safeguarding – a role that, according to

Oh goody, an open letter.

Open Letter: “Biological Sex” and Its Variants are Transphobic Slurs

Says Trans Advocacy & Complaints Collective, which I suppose is a person and a phone.

To our Public bodies, MPs, and Media outlets,

When considering the language we use to address a group, particularly a minority group, the most precise and respectful term is the language they choose for themselves. This is a widely accepted principle of respect, yet in recent years, it has been inexplicably overlooked when it comes to addressing transgender people and the trans community as a whole.

Is it? Is it? Is it really?

I don’t think so. The words “a group” can mean almost anything. Say you have … Read the rest

The reporting on trans issues is such a hodgepodge of incoherent language and bizarre assumptions. Reuters for instance:

Transgender minors. Transgender soldiers. Transgender characters in books.

The U.S. Supreme Court‘s latest term was bursting with fodder for America’s culture wars, few more so than three cases touching on transgender rights. The court, powered by its 6-3 conservative majority, in each case ruled against transgender plaintiffs or their interests more broadly.

But what if the putative rights are not rights in the first place? It’s not just obvious that men have a right to force themselves on women in women’s spaces provided they claim to be trans women. I, for one, don’t think they do have such a right, … Read the rest

Bad deceptive anti-informative journalism yet again.

Trans athlete wins USA Cycling women’s event as female opponents protest and speak out

MALE athlete you dishonest panderers. The problem is that he’s male.

A trans-identifying athlete won a women’s cycling event that was officially sanctioned by USA Cycling on Tuesday, prompting female opponents to protest and speak out. 

A MALE trans-identifying athlete. Decent journalism does not hide the most important aspect of a story.

The trans athlete, Kate Phillips, won first place at the Lyons Masters National Championships in Wisconsin on Tuesday. Phillips beat out veteran women’s cyclist Julie Peterson for the gold, and Peterson then refused to take the podium at the medal ceremony in protest. 

Think he’s huge enough?

Fellow

Originally a comment by Dave Ricks on The rights of female athletes.

I looked up this source material:

PRESS RELEASE

U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Finds the University of Pennsylvania Has Violated Title IX

APRIL 28, 2025

PRESS RELEASE

U.S. Department of Education Announces the University of Pennsylvania Has Entered into a Resolution Agreement to Resolve its Title IX Violations

JULY 1, 2025

I see 3 things: (1) The words “male” and “female” appear extensively in both press releases, to explain the government case against UPenn in terms of sex discrimination; (2) The phrase “trans” does not appear in either press release; (3) The phrase “gender” appears only once, in the July 1 press release, to … Read the rest

Just one little thing here.

Penn to ban trans women from women’s sports

By Tuesday afternoon, the Penn website showed other athletes holding the school’s top times in Thomas’ events. The site was annotated with a note that read, “Competing under eligibility rules in effect at the time, Lia Thomas set program records in the 100, 200 and 500 freestyle during the 2021-22 season.”

“While Penn’s policies during the 2021-2022 swim season were in accordance with NCAA eligibility rules at the time, we acknowledge that some student-athletes were disadvantaged by these rules,” Penn President J. Larry Jameson said. “We recognize this and will apologize to those who experienced a competitive disadvantage or experienced anxiety because of the policies in effect

Alice Sullivan in The Times:

In the past decade, British academics have been attacked, vilified and ostracised simply for asserting that sex is real, binary and important. 

Very important indeed, I should think. Without it we wouldn’t exist!

In a climate where people are frightened to express their views or even to ask questions, universities have a responsibility to act as bastions of critical analysis, where reasoned debate and the pursuit of knowledge thrive. This is not only about protecting individuals but also the integrity of scientific research and scholarship.

Instead, universities have, perhaps unwittingly, institutionalised behaviours which undermine free speech and inquiry. Equality, diversity and inclusion policies and networks have been turned against groups they are supposed to protect,

There are many “Lemkin Institute” debunkers out there, fortunately, because there are also lots of credulous fools citing it as if it were a genuine human rights “institute” as opposed to one fanatic with no scruples.

Always remember the CEO of this organisation (run by a bunch of volunteers with no connection to Lemkin) transed her own daughter and believes that anyone who rejects trans ideology is genocidal, whilst the project ignores actual genocides.

They have zero credibility. https://t.co/JCw7UyvG0P pic.twitter.com/TBr8cUDLZH

— FeministRoar (@FeministRoar) July 2, 2025

https://twitter.com/yatakalam/status/1940358282696409310

Beware of people setting up bogus “institutes” that are really just a person and a laptop.

Remember the “Secular Policy Institute”? Yeah, like that.… Read the rest

UN Women:

15 years ago, @UN_Women was created.

Today, we continue to stand up for the rights, equality, and empowerment of the world’s 4 billion women and girls.

We will never back down. We will never give up.

Join us in driving change #ForAllWomenAndGirls: https://t.co/NcpkpZ7tVw pic.twitter.com/YTTCEU8rpt

— UN Women (@UN_Women) July 2, 2025

Also UN Women:

#Trans women have the right to recognition of their self-identified gender – but in most countries, this is not available or subject to abusive restrictions.
This makes even everyday tasks difficult & potentially dangerous.

Let’s demand change: https://t.co/9FUJoNVare#AllWomen pic.twitter.com/93dCCCLgEU

— UN Women (@UN_Women) January 10, 2023

You do the math.… Read the rest

Of course CNN does the usual.

Some critics claim transgender athletes have an unfair advantage in sports, but that’s not what the research shows.

While research is limited and ongoing, a 2017 review in the peer-reviewed journal Sports Medicine found “no direct or consistent research” showing trans people have an athletic advantage.

No, dummy, of course “trans people” as such don’t, but men do, and trans women are men. It’s men who have the advantage, because men do have an array of physical advantages over women, which is why women have a separate category. Trans is used as a screen for that, to enable men like William Thomas to cheat.

Thomas has not commented publicly on the latest lawsuit.

Holy shit “Lia” Thomas has to give it all back. FINALEEEEEE!!!

The University of Pennsylvania says it will update records set by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas and apologize to female athletes “disadvantaged” by Thomas’ participation on the women’s swimming team, part of a resolution of a federal civil rights case.

The U.S. Education Department and Penn announced the voluntary agreement Tuesday. The case focused on Thomas, the transgender swimmer who last competed for the Ivy League school in Philadelphia in 2022, when she HE became the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I title.

The department investigated Penn as part of the Trump administration’s broader attempt to remove transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports, finding the

It’s not just trans ideology that hates women.

Dear Helen Lewis: @helenlewis @TheAtlantic

Remember when I tried warn everyone about this for years way out ahead of the curve and your response was to do everything you could to damage my public reputation?

This catastrophe lays at the feet of people who think exactly as… https://t.co/UShO0JWySJ

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) June 30, 2025

Remember when I tried warn everyone about this for years way out ahead of the curve and your response was to do everything you could to damage my public reputation? This catastrophe lays [sic] at the feet of people who think exactly as you do

70 million views, ma'am.
Disgraceful.https://t.co/dA22yWqAwP

Have you learned anything?

Churches are not institutions set up to sort truth from fiction. Result: they’re not good at it.

The Church of Scotland flouted the law on single-sex spaces by wrongly insisting that biological men could still share female lavatories with girls, it has emerged.

A mother raised concerns that at least one man from an LGBT club was using female facilities at a church-run community centre in Cupar, Fife, where her 11-year-old daughter attended a drama class. She was told by the church that it was “lawful and often appropriate” for “women-only spaces to include trans women”, despite the Supreme Court ruling in April.

There you go. The truth is it’s neither lawful nor appropriate, but how is the church … Read the rest

Huh. The BBC admits it left out important details in a story about the usual subject. I haven’t seen it do that before.

A Guernsey teenager has been sentenced to almost three years in youth detention for child sexual offences, according to Guernsey Police.

The force said 18-year-old transgender woman Jessica Garnham-Burton was arrested in May 2024 for using social media platform Snapchat to speak to children.

That second sentence is a tweak. At the foot of the article we get:

This story was updated on 1 July 2025 to make it clear that Jessica Garnham-Burton is a trans woman and will be held in the male wing of the detention facility.

NOW DO THAT WITH ALL SUCH STORIES.… Read the rest