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

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

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

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

Adults thinking, or pretending to think, like toddlers.

The panel of women who found me guilty did so on the basis of things like this (below).

Gender cultists & the CBC etc. happily condemn my alleged “discriminatory” comments—which are only “discriminatory” in the minds of said cultists.

Biology isn’t hateful. pic.twitter.com/b5p4IFM3Zd

— Amy Eileen Hamm (@preta_6) August 25, 2025

“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

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

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

Oh gawd he’s back.

Veronica Ivy has won his second women's golf tournament in Canada this month pic.twitter.com/0OOJURLTPJ

— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) August 25, 2025

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

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.

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

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

Just a slight misunderstanding.

A transgender woman “deceived” a man into thinking she was a biological female so he would have sexual relations with her, a court has heard.

Ciara Watkin, 21, told the man she was on her period to stop him discovering she was biologically male, prosecutors told Teesside Crown Court…Ms Watkin, who was referred to by female pronouns in court, denies three counts of sexual assault.

He shouldn’t have been referred to by female pronouns in court. Courts shouldn’t allow lying, let alone encourage it or enforce it.

The defendant, who was born male, had used the name Ciara since the age of 13 although had not undergone any medical treatment or surgery, the court heard.

Chicago’s turn:

The Pentagon has for weeks been planning a military deployment to Chicago as President Donald Trump seeks to crack down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration, in a model that could later be used in other major cities, officials familiar with the matter said.

Trump on Friday touted his ongoing National Guard intervention in D.C., where more than 2,200 Guard members have been deployed in what he has cast as an overdue effort to crack down on crime. He zeroed in on Chicago as the next target.

“Chicago’s a mess. You have an incompetent mayor. Grossly incompetent,” Trump said, in remarks that were immediately dismissed by Chicago’s leaders as unfounded. “And we’ll straighten that one out

Here’s a funny little circle. The other day I found a book in a Little Free Library titled The Sociopath Next Door. When I see or hear the word “sociopath” I always wonder how it differs from psychopath, so I snapped it up. Reading it last night I naturally noticed that Trump meets every criterion for both, and that that doesn’t get said all that often. So this morning I googled, and turned up The White House has become the Bates Motel by Robert Kahn from last April.

As a student of Ancient Rome, I am disturbed that the reign of Donald Trump.2 so closely resembles the reigns of Nero and Caligula. By some measures, Trump.2’s is worse. After

Wo. Just happened to notice the headlines about this and read further and wtf.

SEATTLE — The Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) arrested the captain of the container ship MSC on Wednesday for allegedly operating the vessel while intoxicated.

I can see the container ships gliding past from where I’m sitting, so I take an interest. I can see them in detail at the terminal every time I take a bus to West Seattle (which I do often), so I take an interest.

The incident began when watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound received a report from a Puget Sound Pilot aboard the MSC Jubilee IX, a 333-meter container ship operating under the Liberian flag.

The Liberian flag signals, … Read the rest

Hmm.

https://t.co/3ZPZDXI5F0 pic.twitter.com/yoMHQqa1tq

— Jonny Bell (@Jonnywsbell) August 23, 2025

I watched the clip. I gotta say, he’s not very good. Too slow. Waits for laughter that doesn’t arrive. Also of course not particularly funny. Other than that…… Read the rest

JKR firing with both barrels.

I see Nicola Sturgeon is once again complaining that I posted a picture of myself wearing a T-shirt with her name on it and the legend 'Destroyer of Women's Rights.' Apparently this didn't 'elevate the debate.'

Is there a clinical term for an individual who has extreme thinness… pic.twitter.com/O4MDKQBnrS

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 22, 2025

Is there a clinical term for an individual who has extreme thinness of skin when it comes to their own perceived hurts, coupled with a rhino-hide when it comes to the fear and suffering of others?

I’m thinking in particular of the two women Isla Bryson raped, who had to watch their First Minister squirm and smirk on TV

Imane Khelif says he’d just love to come back, the very minute they drop those pesky tests.

Olympic champion boxer Imane Khelif insists she has not retired, accusing her former manager of ‘betrayal’ after he falsely claimed she had called it a day. 

Although the gender row fighter will be skipping the upcoming World Championships after the introduction of sex testing, she shut down any notion that she has stopped competing for good. 

Nasser Yesfah, who used to represent her, had been reported in French newspaper Nice Matin as saying she had hung up her gloves, which was then denied by gold medal winner.

I don’t know why the Mail calls him “her” at this point.

Since the

Not even at first glance.

Recently, a disturbing trend has surfaced at the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) games: fans throwing dildos onto the court. At first glance, some might brush it off as a crude joke or a bizarre stunt.

Might they? That would be stupid. Of course it’s not a joke or stunt. It’s just boring old misogyny. “You think you’re so great, bitch? Hahaha suck my dick.”

Throwing a dildo onto a court where women are competing isn’t comedy. It’s about control and humiliation. It turns a professional sporting event into a stage for sexualising female athletes and stripping away the focus from their skill and hard work. This act reinforces the belief that despite

Very special man with pink hair interrupts this broadcast to tell us he has brand new twin babies but he doesn’t love being called Daddy.

‘Daddy’s right here for you, okay?,’ said the neonatal medic to my newborn identical twins as they wheeled them to the special care unit.

This was the first time someone had referred to me by this name, but as well as finding it sweet and overwhelming in a good way, I also found it quite jarring. 

As an assigned male at birth (AMAB) non-binary person, being referred to as ‘the dad’ or ‘daddy’ – which are clearly masculine-gendered terms – didn’t fit with my gender identity. 

Way to make it all about you, bro. Way … Read the rest