Judge “Victoria” McCloud is not best pleased.

The UK’s only judge to ever publicly say they are transgender has told the BBC she is concerned the Supreme Court’s ruling on biological sex puts lives at risk and fears “someone’s going to get killed” because of it.

Why “they” and “she” in the same sentence?

As for the lives at risk – has the judge ever worried that women will get killed because of the anti-reality ideology he’s promoting? Has he ever told the BBC he’s worried about it?

Dr Victoria McCloud is planning to take the government to the European Court of Human Rights over the April ruling, which said a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities

If only doctors could bring themselves to use the word “women”…

The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded Biden-era guidance clarifying that hospitals in states with abortion bans cannot turn away pregnant patients who are in the midst of medical emergencies – a move that comes amid multiple red-state court battles over the guidance.

The guidance deals with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (Emtala), which requires hospitals to stabilize patients facing medical emergencies. States such as Idaho and Texas have argued that the Biden administration’s guidance, which it issued in the wake of the 2022 overturning of Roe v Wade, interpreted Emtala incorrectly.

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“This action sends a clear message: the lives and health of pregnant people are

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Bjarte’s The hardest lesson to swallow.

I keep coming back to this idea when I try to understand why people stay loyal to groups that clearly do harm — whether it’s cults like Scientology or gender ideology or extreme political movements like MAGA or Fascism.

It’s that tribal loyalty lives in a completely different part of the brain than rational thinking. And sometimes, the tribal part takes over.

Roughly speaking, it’s the lower brain versus the higher brain. Or if you prefer Freud, the id versus the superego. Or if you’re Homer Simpson, it’s Devil-Homer versus Angel-Homer.

The “lower brain” (or limbic system) is evolutionarily older. It handles emotion, fear, reward, … Read the rest

The BBC tells us lie after lie in its story on a man who tried to make a gun, but so does the Telegraph. How about nobody doing that?

First the Beeb:

A former police community support officer (PCSO) with an “obsession” for weapons has been found guilty of trying to make a gun using a 3D printer.

Zoe Watts, 38, of St Helen’s Avenue, Lincoln, was found with parts for a semi automatic weapon, a machete, bladed article, crossbow and bow during a raid on her home on 11 December. During her trial at Lincoln Crown Court, Watts claimed she was making a “fidget” toy gun as a Christmas present.

She is believed to be the first person

Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug on If.

…all his opponents thought that he was engaging in hyperbole for dramatic effect

There is certainly no shortage of normalization or “sanewashing” – not to mention delusional levels of wishful thinking – going on. I also suspect that the moderate, centrist tendency to “err on the side of least drama” has become such a reflex to a lot of people that any suggestion that things might actually be that bad sounds like obvious “alarmism” and “hysteria” and hence self-refuting.

Still “all his opponents” seems like an exaggeration to me. There are plenty of people out there who never had any illusions about Trump himself. What a lot more people seem to … Read the rest

More Bad Kennedy news:

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s overhaul of a federal immunization panel has created uncertainty around how widely vaccines will be available this fall and if they’ll be free, according tosix current and former health officials.

You want vaccines to be widely available and free, so that more people get them.

After Kennedy purged the influential committee that recommends vaccines and appointed his own picks, staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who provide the panel withresearch have now been pushed aside, according to the officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. With the new advisers scheduled to meet in less than two weeks,other

NPR reports:

RFK Jr. sent Congress ‘medical disinformation’ to defend COVID vaccine schedule change

Interested as I am in Kennedy’s criminal meddling in public health, I’m also interested in a surprising fact about this NPR item: it uses the word “pregnant” seven times and – take a deep breath here – every single time the next word is “women”. Has something shifted?

On to Kennedy’s campaign to make Americans sicker.

A document the Department of Health and Human Services sent to lawmakers to support Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to change U.S. policy on COVID vaccines cites scientific studies that are unpublished or under dispute and mischaracterizes others.

One health expert called the document “willful medical disinformation” about the

They’re there to “liberate” the people from their elected representatives.

…what’s even more significant than authorities detaining a U.S. senator for asking a Cabinet secretary a question at a news conference is Noem’s ominous remark immediately prior to Padilla’s interruption.

“We are not going away,” she warned. “We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city.”

They are there to liberate “the city” from its elected officials. Not the people of the city but the city. The city is a Platonic essence, a glorious concept that rises above the dross … Read the rest

Reichstag fire.

If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you. pic.twitter.com/cHmK5KZIVF

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 12, 2025

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable. pic.twitter.com/ZMExvMmZfE

— Senator Alex Padilla (@SenAlexPadilla) June 12, 2025

We are marching to Senator Thune’s office. There must be accountability for the detainment of a Senator. This is not normal. pic.twitter.com/kupghLfqo1

— Maxwell Alejandro Frost (@MaxwellFrostFL) June 12, 2025

America is dying.

Trump’s agents just physically attacked a U.S. Senator.

This is how freedom dies. https://t.co/pkHuJNjvCj

— Rep. Eric Swalwell

Today, in Los Angeles:

Alex Padilla, a Democratic California senator and vocal critic of the Trump administration’s immigration policies, was forcibly removed and handcuffed as he attempted to ask a question at a press conference held by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, in Los Angeles on Thursday.

That is, a Democratic US Senator from California. I thought at first he was a state senator, but the Guardian clarified halfway in. (That’s my passive-aggressive way of saying the Guardian should have made it clear from the beginning.)

In video taken of the incident that has since gone viral on social media, Padilla is seen being restrained and removed from the room by Secret Service and FBI agents.

Oh good, a new study.

Cisnormativity impacts core emotional needs of transgender and gender diverse people

Great title. “Cisnormativity” is meaningless and “impacts” is the wrong word. Also: yes, and? To put it in less pseudo-technical terms: knowing that people can’t change sex makes gender lunatics sad. No doubt it does, and hearing from gender lunatics makes the rest of us bored and impatient and irritated.

What in fact are the “core emotional needs” of gender loonies? That’s an easy one. Attention. Constant undivided lavish flattering gushing attention.

Guess what. They can’t have it. Two big reasons: one, we have other things to do with our attention, and two, our attention can’t be flattering because gender lunacy is so absurd … Read the rest

The boots on the ground really don’t want to be there.

California national guards troops and marines deployed to Los Angeles to help restore order after days of protest against the Trump administration have told friends and family members they are deeply unhappy about the assignment and worry their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they do not want to join.

Three different advocacy organisations representing military families said they had heard from dozens of affected service members who expressed discomfort about being drawn into a domestic policing operation outside their normal field of operations. The groups said they have heard no countervailing opinions.

That seems to mean that the service members contacted the … Read the rest

The adventures of The Most Oppressed:

The equalities watchdog has told trans activists that personal attacks on her and her staff have “got to stop”.

Baroness Falkner of Margravine, the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), appeared emotional as she revealed to MPs that she had to cancel one meeting after police warned of a “serious risk” of violence.

She said that while feminist campaigners had acted in a “dignified and respectful” manner, trans rights activists had made it harder for her staff to come to work in safety.

Well yes but that’s because they are THE MOST OPPRESSED. Of course people who are the most oppressed are not going to worry about … Read the rest

Two women say many stupid things about JK Rowling:

J.K. Rowling is, unfortunately, on a bit of a winning streak. For years now, she has been almost solely focused on being as transphobic as possible, and in April, she celebrated a ruling from the U.K. Supreme Court stating that transgender women cannot legally be recognized as women. You might think that becoming one of the most prominent faces of anti-trans rhetoric would make Rowling someone whom public figures want to keep their distance from…

No actually what I would think is that people who insist that men are women if they say they are should stop saying that and learn the difference between fantasy and reality.

While Rowling

Bad Kennedy ratchets up his campaign to stamp out lifesaving vaccinations.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday named eight new members to a crucial government panel of vaccine advisors after firing the entire group just days earlier.  His picks include some well-known vaccine critics, including Dr. Robert Malone.

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It is unclear now how, taken together, the new advisors will affect vaccine policy and availability in the U.S. But public health experts had expected Kennedy could choose members who share his skepticism of immunization.

“We all knew this would happen and it’s a national tragedy and a major threat to children’s health and lives,” Lawrence Gostin, professor of public health law at Georgetown University,

Oh come ON.

Morrisons pressure their employees to wear pronoun badges. pic.twitter.com/H1ZM6nv0C9

— Gay Not Queer (@Gaynotqueer1) June 10, 2025

It’s not a hoax, it’s right there on their “Pride” page.

We want all colleagues to bring their full self to work, and to support our colleagues, particularly from the non-binary or transgender community, we have pronoun badges available for all our colleagues in store, sites and head office to wear with pride.

The option to display your pronoun is open to any in the LGBT+ community, as well as allies wanting to support colleagues by creating an environment where the display and discussion of pronouns is the norm.

That is, supporting the very few colleagues who subscribe to … Read the rest

Thank goodness Elon Musk is not at all impulsive or flakey, given all the powers Trump handed him.

Billionaire Elon Musk has said he regrets some of the posts he made about US President Donald Trump during their war of words on social media. “They went too far,” he wrote on his social media platform X.

How is that possible? Surely Musk, with so many serious responsibilities, would not impulsively blow up a whole row of bridges in a tantrum?

His post comes after Trump said he was open to the possibility of reconciliation in an interview with the New York Post on Wednesday. The president said he was a “little disappointed” about the fallout, but there were “no

Hahahahaha science! Science I tell you!!!

It's a purely scientific opinion.

The identity is inside your mind, a physical combination of chemicals in your brain.

— Cara Pace (@CaraPac46808618) June 10, 2025

Ice cream, Mandrake? Children’s ice cream? … Read the rest

Totalitariantrump wants to control everyone and everything.

The Smithsonian Institution has rebuffed Donald Trump’s attempt to fire the director of its National Portrait Gallery, with the museum’s governing board asserting its independence in a direct challenge to the president.

In a statement issued after an emergency meeting Monday, the Smithsonian’s board of regents declared that “all personnel decisions are made by and subject to the direction of the secretary, with oversight by the board” – turning away Trump’s claim of authority over the institution’s staffing.

The standoff centers on Kim Sajet, whom Trump announced he had fired on 30 May, calling her “highly partisan and a strong supporter of DEI” – or diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives –

This is just plain lying. The BBC telling whoppers right out in the open – whoppers that damage women and delight men who pretend to be women and take all our stuff.

Greens expel ex-spokesperson after LGBTQ+ comment row

You already know what the lie is, of course. It’s not an “LGBTQ+” comment.

The Green Party of England and Wales has expelled its former health spokesperson eight months after an investigation was launched into her comments on LGBTQ+ hate crimes.

Documents seen by the BBC show the Greens expelled Dr Pallavi Devulapalli for breaking party rules by attending a party event while under investigation for calling reports of rising LGBTQ+ hate crimes “mischievous”.

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Green Party documents show Dr Devulapalli