Threat level high.

Trans activists have called for their community to be “armed” after a Supreme Court ruling barred biological men from women-only spaces.

A protester on the London Trans+ Pride march on Saturday carried placards reading: “DIY or Die. Trans emancipation. Not rainbow capitalism. Arm trans people.”

Another sign read: “Bitch trolls from hell,” with pictures of JK Rowling and the bosses of For Women Scotland, who won the Supreme Court case against the Scottish Government on gender in April.

https://twitter.com/NoShirleyNo/status/1949355256577466733

Ah well in that case we’ll change our minds and decide that trans people are the nicest, most reasonable, least demanding and entitled, best in every way people you could ask for.

Helen Joyce, the director of

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Originally a comment by Artymorty at Miscellany Room.

I don’t think there’s anything remotely “chicken” about Sackbut’s in-person strategy for handling the gender issue. I think it’s courageous and commendable. Yours, too, Mike B.

This is a war! It really is. All resistance is good resistance. Even just “passive” non-compliance adds a bit of weight on the good side of the scale rather than the bad one. (By that I mean avoiding the use of coerced pronouns.) Anything at all to avoid putting one’s full weight on the other side of the scale is a win in this war. Size doesn’t matter. Even just not putting pronouns in one’s email bio. Or if even that could get one in … Read the rest

It’s all about class today.

‘I find it suspicious that you, a working class woman, managed to find the money to defend yourself in court, because this is usually something only the wealthy can afford. I wouldn’t ask a rich person where they got their money, of course. That would be terribly rude.’
1/2 https://t.co/7K68tUqvyc

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 29, 2025

And today I learned that Jane Russell is married to John Russell, 7th Earl Russell and grandson of Bertrand Russell. It doesn’t get a whole lot more posh than that.… Read the rest

Yes good plan. Let’s do that with everything. Repeal the knowledge that people need oxygen to live; goodbye suffocation. Repeal gravity; we’ll be able to fly! Repeal agriculture; there are plenty of nuts and berries out there. Repeal the science of medicine; rely on miracles.

President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday proposed revoking a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule would rescind a 2009 declaration that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.

And by rescinding that declaration Trump’s administration would cause it to become not true. What a brilliant move!… Read the rest

Reduxx tells us:

A widely circulated video showcasing a gay couple’s “surrogacy journey” has revealed that a baby boy is currently in the custody of a registered child sex offender. The couple, Logan Riley and Brandon Mitchell, gained viral attention after posting a video introducing their newborn son. It has since emerged that Mitchell is a convicted pedophile.

Guess what. Surrogacy=anyone can get possession of a baby, no questions asked.

I hadn’t really understood that before. It’s not like adoption. There is no screening process.

The video, which was initially shared by the couple on their own social media platforms, was meant to offer a heartwarming glimpse into the first year of their newborn’s life. However, it quickly drew

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The cops raped the rape victims.

Five women who were exploited by grooming gangs in Rotherham as children say they were also abused [by] police officers in the town at the time.

One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a serving South Yorkshire Police (SYP) officer in a marked police car. He would threaten to hand her back to the gang if she did not comply, she says.

If only she had thought to idennify as a man.

We have seen written accounts from these women, plus testimony from 25 other victims of grooming gangs, with some of them saying that corrupt police officers worked alongside the gangs or failed to act on child sexual

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Brilliant McLuhan moment.

As @nicoleepeggiee’s girlfriend, I can confirm Sandie and her family have been welcoming, supportive and accepting of our 4 year relationship

— morgan-leigh (@morganritchie14) July 28, 2025

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Trump is really really pissed off at wind. Yes, wind. He thinks wind is a great big loser. He thinks wind orders the filet mignon and then won’t pick up the tab.

Trump spent part of his weekend in Scotland reviving his old grievances against wind power, even claiming at one point that it was “killing” Americans.

During a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Trump abruptly detoured from immigration to wind turbines. “And the other thing I say to Europe: We will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States,” Trump said. “They’re killing us.”

Also, besides, in addition, we refuse to drink Dubonnet.

He complained that wind turbines “rust

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In the theocracy section of the job ads:

A job advert for a role in a sharia court posted on a government website has caused major controversy, with critics saying it promotes a separate Islamic legal system in the UK.

Well yes, separate and Islamic, but more to the point, women-hating and theocratic. It wouldn’t be nearly so alarming and disgusting if, say, a job advert for a role in a Quaker organization were posted on a government website.

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Such a progressive movement.

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The left hates women and the right hates women. Sucks to be us.

Darts drama as three protestors dragged away during World Matchplay match involving transgender player

Yebbut what kind of “transgender player”? Even GB News won’t say it’s a man cheating women. Instead it sneers at the women who objected.

Three individuals from the “Save Women’s Sport” campaign protested at the Winter Gardens during Noa-Lynn van Leuven’s quarter-final darts match at the Women’s World Matchplay on Sunday. The demonstrators, dressed in shirts bearing messages opposing the 28-year-old’s involvement, made their feelings clear as the Dutch competitor prepared to face Lorraine Winstanley.

The protest occurred as van Leuven appeared at the Blackpool venue for the third time.

Security staff

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Oh gee how exciting another man beat another woman competing in a women’s sport.

Noa-Lynn van Leuven caps off a dominant display to break new ground in Blackpool! pic.twitter.com/CXUhKS5EcI

— PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) July 27, 2025

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Oh here we go – the old “women are sluts whores harlots slags” routine.

“JK IS A SLAG”
“FUCK JK ROWLING.”

It is incredibly chilling that this extremist procession through our capital city denigrating a woman who has spoken publicly about her abuse at the hands of men as “a slag” is applauded & cheered.

Trans Pride is a misogynistic hate march. pic.twitter.com/98TjUtJvMm

— Robbie Travers (@RobbieTravers) July 27, 2025

Yebbut don’t forget to support your trans siblings.… Read the rest

The union idennifies as a union but it doesn’t protect the workers the way unions are supposed to do.

https://twitter.com/VioletWhiteG/status/1949399497236226092 It doesn’t come right out and say our support is for team trans only, but the mawkish wording is all too typical of that particular brand of “support.” The right-thinking people these days see trans people as needing endless declarations of love and support and sympathy and more love, while they see women who know men are not women as The Evil Other needing nothing but rebuke and punishment. I wouldn’t be in a hurry to “share my thoughts” with them.… Read the rest

NPR has further details on the updated Statue of Liberty.

Artist Amy Sherald is canceling an upcoming show of her work at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Sherald’s boldly colored portraits documenting the African American experience have graced magazine covers.

She is best known for her painting of Michelle Obama commissioned by the museum.

Amy Sherald: American Sublime was scheduled to be on view at the National Portrait Gallery for five months beginning Sept. 19. Described as “the largest, most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date,” the exhibition was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, or SFMOMA, and is currently at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Sherald is canceling the show

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Originally a comment by What a Maroon at Miscellany Room.

Sometimes it’s hard to know whose metaphorical bed to jump into. On the one hand, Amy Sherald, the celebrated painter best known for her official portrait of Michelle Obama, has canceled an upcoming exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, citing concerns that the museum might remove an artwork that could further provoke the Trump administration as it seeks to exert control over the Smithsonian Institution.

Sherald and a Smithsonian spokesperson Thursday confirmed that Sherald had withdrawn her exhibition, “American Sublime,” from the museum.

The artist said she had been told that the museum — whose director, Kim Sajet, resigned after President Donald Trump called for her ouster for

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It just keeps getting worse. This one takes the breath away. Daniel Sanderson in The Times:

One of Sandie Peggie’s bosses wanted her to be reported to police for confronting a transgender doctor in a hospital’s female changing rooms.

A male doctor, god damn it. The problem was not “transgender”; the problem was male. Peggie did not want to have to take her clothes off in front of a man.

So anyway – for the crime of not wanting to undress in front of a man, one of Peggie’s bosses thought the police should be called. Not to arrest the man spying on the woman, of course, but to arrest the woman telling the man to get … Read the rest

Hunnnnnnnnnh

Sandie Peggie’s cross examination 4.2.25

‘My dignity as a female is important to me’ pic.twitter.com/gVWoCX5Uee

— teresa smith (@treesey) July 25, 2025

Do you accept that calling this man a man is likely to cause immense distress?

No, I fucking do not. I think it causes him irritation and vanity-bruising at worst, and more likely a nice little thrill of righteous indignation. Meanwhile, do you accept that bullying women into agreeing with a man who says he’s a woman is harmful to women in general? Because that’s a far less fanciful petulant self-involved claim than his claim of “immense distress”?

I mean come on. He’s an adult. He’s a doctor. Surely he’s expected to have enough resilience and … Read the rest

One minute I compare trans ideology and its coerced beliefs racket to the Catholic church and its coerced belief racket, and the next minute I drop in on twitX and find

We do not, should not, have compelled speech in this country. We should not be compelled to comply with the belief of another just because of hurt feelings. We are not compelled to believe in the gods or faiths or delusions of others, except when it comes to gender ideology 2/

— Scottish Feminist Network (@Scot_Feminists) July 25, 2025

WE ARE NOT COMPELLED TO BELIEVE IN THE GODS OF OTHERS.

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Yes! Agreed! It’s a religion! And you can’t force us to join or endorse your religion! Those days are over! At least outside the Ummah they are. I don’t believe in your religion, I think it’s harmful and bad and stupid, now go away.

I'll call you Calvin Klein underpants. pic.twitter.com/XpGIstKMrB

— Gay Not Queer (@Gaynotqueer1) July 26, 2025

Also, of course, it’s an idiotic analogy. Mr Pope is one guy, the monarch of one religion. We’re free to ignore him and his religion. Even his neighbors in Rome are free to ignore him. That hasn’t always been true but it sure as hell is now. The Catholic church is a horrific institution and it still has its claws in … Read the rest