Nailed it.

The opposition.

Oh gee will you look at that.

Two Guardian headlines.

21 days apart.

Don’t ever let them say they’re not erasing the word ‘woman’. pic.twitter.com/sipJ6U9KVQ

— Jill Foster (@JournalistJill) June 24, 2025

Kind of conspicuous, isn’t it.… Read the rest

Or as the Telegraph puts it, doctors are revolting.

Doctors who support the Cass Review into children’s trans services are revolting against the British Medical Association (BMA).

Insiders claimed that “ideologues” have infiltrated the union and “silenced” doctors who backed last year’s report by Baroness Cass into the care of children who think they are transgender.

The BMA controversially decided to reject the review during a council meeting, but later backtracked to a “neutral” stance after receiving a barrage of complaints from members.

What, doctors complaining about their union’s belief that men can be women? How hoity-toity of them.

It said it would carry out its own evaluation into the Cass Review’s recommendations by the end of 2024,

Absolute monster.

The U.S. will no longer contribute funding to Gavi, a global alliance that helps buy vaccines for the world’s poorest children, because it ignores safety, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Wednesday, without providing evidence.

In a video statement seen by Reuters and shown at a Gavi fundraising event in Brussels, Kennedy – a long-time vaccine skeptic – also accused Gavi of making questionable recommendations around COVID-19 vaccines, and raised concerns about the DTPw (diphtheria-tetanus-whole cell pertussis) vaccine.

Gavi said in a statement that safety was key, and that it acts in line with World Health Organization recommendations. It has full confidence in the DTPw vaccine, which has contributed to halving child mortality in the

Hmmm. Trump on Truth Social:

Stupid AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the “dumbest” people in Congress, is now calling for my Impeachment, despite the fact that the Crooked and Corrupt Democrats have already done that twice before. The reason for her “rantings” is all of the Victories that the U.S.A. has had under the Trump Administration. The Democrats aren’t used to WINNING, and she can’t stand the concept of our Country being successful again. When we examine her Test Scores, we will find out that she is NOT qualified for office but, nevertheless, far more qualified than Crockett, who is a seriously Low IQ individual, or Ilhan Omar, who does nothing but complain about our Country, yet the Failed

I’m reading a long Guardian piece about Harvard and slavery and what to do about that whole massive scar on US history. In doing that I find myself doing what I always do, which is wonder how it worked – how people explained it to themselves, lived with it, understood it, all that. It’s a puzzle. If I’d lived then instead of now I would have done the same thing, so naturally I’m curious how it worked.

Part one is that it’s not all that puzzling that bad working conditions were taken for granted, because that was just a given and had been since forever. It’s the ownership part, the permanent capture part, that sticks out. The enslavement.

As the

This guy…

The @LibDems MP for North Cornwall seems very cross with @jk_rowling and women generally, it seems.

Ben Maguire is also a Lib Dem shadow attorney general and a qualified solicitor.

2024 intake

Wonder if he’s met @LibVoice4Women yet?

Good luck, women in North Cornwall pic.twitter.com/ifL8Q3qTvV

— teresa smith (@treesey) June 23, 2025

As well as politicians, desperate for attention and relevance, like JK Rowling and others

Stop right there, Sherlock. JK Rowling is desperate for attention and relevance? Really? Really? You seriously think she’s starved for attention and relevance?

have poisoned the public discourse with attacks on our trans communinny, all under the false dichotomy that you cannot be a true feminist and protect women’s rights without attacking

So, she’s been found, dead. I continue to wonder why anyone thinks it’s a good idea to take tourists (as opposed to experienced climbers) on such a dangerous walk.

After a complex rescue operation, teams finally reached her body on Tuesday, her family said in a statement on social media.

That’s another thing. Letting amateurs do dangerous climbs puts rescuers in danger too.

I wonder if she had any idea how dangerous the climb is – I wonder if the people who make money from taking tourists on such strolls pretended it was exciting but totally safe, because they want to make the aforementioned money.

One group member told Brazilian TV that the terrain was slippery, the climb “very

Michael Deacon at The Telegraph has some questions for Stephen Fry. He wants to know exactly which of JK Rowling’s beliefs about women are “radical” in Fry’s view.

Take, for example, Ms Rowling’s belief that women don’t have testicles. Or her belief that men can’t give birth. Is either of those beliefs radical? Extreme? Wildly at variance with established medical science?

Perhaps he’s thinking of her belief that biological males should not be entitled to enter the female changing room at their local swimming pool and strip naked in front of small girls. Or her belief that confused children should not be pumped with drugs designed to prevent them from going through a normal, healthy puberty. Or her

People can be so tiresome.

An 18th Century oil painting has allegedly been damaged after a museum visitor tripped while taking a selfie.

Florence’s Uffizi Gallery said a tourist fell backwards while trying to “make a meme in front” of a portrait of Ferdinando de’ Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, by Anton Domenico Gabbiani. The museum explained the damage could be repaired quickly but director Simone Verde warned restrictions on visitor behaviour could be imposed in the future.

If what you want to do is take selfies to impress your friends or social meeja or the unlucky people in your immediate vicinity then do it somewhere other than in front of a unique work of art, mkay?

Earlier this

Some people have a strange idea of fun.

Rescuers in Indonesia are searching for a Brazilian tourist who fell while hiking near the crater of Mount Rinjani, an active volcano.

Like that. Why would people want to hike near the crater of an active volcano?

Brazilian media and the woman’s family have identified her as 26-year-old Juliana Marins, who was hiking with a group when she disappeared around 06:30 local time on Saturday (23:30 GMT Friday).

Brazilian authorities said she fell from “a cliff that surrounds the trail next to the volcano’s crater”. Search and rescue attempts have so far been unsuccessful due to the extreme terrain and foggy weather, according to Indonesian authorities.

I don’t know, I guess … Read the rest

This guy is enormous, and according to women who have encountered him, extremely intimidating. It’s very easy to believe that, listening to and watching him drone on and on about how poor poor HE was “attacked” i.e. told he doesn’t belong in women’s toilets. He’s huge, he’s confident, he has a deep rumbly voice and he talks slowly and importantly. (If you watch him you will see what I mean.) He’s a massive growly man making a display of himself rebuking and tacitly threatening women, because some women spoke up when he forced himself on women in a women’s toilet. He’s loathsome.

The @GoodLawProject publish an interview with @moira_robin where he claims @HeatherB_WRN & Kate Harris of @AllianceLGB have “attacked

The ridiculous airy confident belief in magic yet again.

“Be what you want,” he says, as if he were 3 and believed in Santa Claus. We can’t just be what we want, because we are what we are. Some things are changeable, but the vast majority are not. We work within narrow limits. We can be more educated or strong or talented by working on it, but we can’t be zebras or cars or apples, no matter how hard we work. That’s neither a shackle nor a prejudice, it’s a reality.… Read the rest

What was that about dumb moments?

This is exhausting, but, if anyone wants to write a complaint to the BBC about Martine Croxall misreporting research and attempting to erase trans women in one utterly unnecessary and dumb moment, feel free to borrow this text written to fit the BBC word limit for complaints. pic.twitter.com/koSnoBL1vz

— Jeremy Sachs (@JeremySachs_) June 23, 2025

Dude thinks the erasure of women causes no harm. Easy for dude to say.… Read the rest

I find news from American Atheists in my email.

As the Board Chair of American Atheists, I’m writing you today with some difficult news: Due to escalating threats to civil liberties, human rights, and international relations under the Trump Administration, the board and staff of American Atheists have withdrawn our organization as host of the 2026 World Humanist Congress, originally scheduled to be held next August in Washington, D.C.

The Board of Directors takes seriously our duty to ensure the safety of our members and the continued ability of American Atheists to carry out its mission. This decision was not made lightly. It comes after a thorough evaluation of our organization’s ability to successfully host and safely execute an event

It seems we have turned a corner.

BBC bosses have backed a television presenter who corrected the phrase “pregnant people” to “women” while broadcasting live, in what has been welcomed as a rejection of gender-neutral language.

Martine Croxall, 56, was citing a study about protecting vulnerable people in hot weather and, after reading out the report’s phrasing, immediately rolled her eyes and changed the wording to “women”.

“Malcolm Mistry, who was involved in the research, says that the aged, pregnant people … women … and those with pre-existing health conditions need to take precautions,” she said.

I gotta say, it was a very minimal eye roll. It was such a minimal eye roll that it’s hard to distinguish from … Read the rest

Everything is our fault.

A Florida Republican congresswoman is blaming fearmongering on the left for the reluctance of hospital staff to give her the drugs she needed to end an ectopic pregnancy that threatened her life.

Kat Cammack went to the emergency room in May 2024 where it was estimated she was five weeks into an ectopic pregnancy, there was no heartbeat and her life was at risk. Doctors determined she needed a shot of methotrexate to help expel her pregnancy but since Florida’s six-week abortion ban had just taken effect medical staff were worried about losing their licenses or going to jail if they did.

While Cammack risked losing her life. Remember Savita Halappanavar?

Cammack looked up the

Originally a comment by Papito on The CIA or the Koran.

The comment that leads this is mostly nonsense. “Since the war with Iraq, Iran has kept within its borders, has not attacked its neighbours.” displays a level of ignorance about middle-east affairs it is hard to believe isn’t motivated. Iran has funded a network of terrorist organizations that have been instrumental for decades in keeping countries around the region from developing. Lebanon would not be the mess it is, or Yemen, or Syria, without the Iranian terrorist network having perverted their politics for decades, all so it could persecute the Jews – many of whom were chased out of those very countries to Israel.

Meanwhile, back in reality, … Read the rest

The Times has a long crushing despair-inducing piece by Eli Saslow on vaccine denialism and the return of measles. Very worth reading.

Twenty-five years after measles was officially declared eliminated from the United States, this spring marked a harrowing time of rediscovery. A cluster of cases that began at a Mennonite church in West Texas expanded into one of the largest outbreaks in a generation, spreading through communities with declining vaccination rates as three people died and dozens more were hospitalized from Mexico to North Dakota. Public health officials tracked about 1,200 confirmed cases and countless exposures across more than 30 states. People who were contagious with measles boarded domestic flights, shopped at Walmart, played tuba in a town parade