How embarrassing. A grown-up museum is doing this.

Gender Stories

Challenging rigid definitions and binary narratives, Gender Stories dives deep into the intricate connections between sex, gender, sexuality, and identity. Discover how these fluid, and multifaceted ideas have been mythologised, stereotyped, expressed – and sometimes concealed – through art, history, politics, and daily life over time.

Blah blah blah. It’s so rigid and binary and last Tuesday to know that men are not women. Do you want to be your grandmother?? Do you???!

Featuring works by David Hockney, Rene Matić, Zanele Muholi, Catherine Opie, Grayson Perry, and Del LaGrace Volcano, this ground-breaking exhibition invites visitors to delve into the multifaceted world of gender. It challenges traditional binary narratives and explores

When confusions collide:

A practising witch claims she was thrown off a druid training course over accusations by a member of the UK Pagan Federation that she was “transphobic” in a row about women’s rights.

When even the Druids believe it you know it’s gone mainstream.

Angela Howard said she became involved with paganism and joined the British Druid Order (BDO) in 2020 to find “spiritual healing” after being sexually assaulted.

Somebody needs to set up a British Terf Order.

However, Howard said the solace she sought in druidry and paganism was shattered when she was banned in April from continuing her training because of her support of the exclusion of trans women — males who identify as female —

Hmm. Is citing non-existent sources a “formatting issue”? I don’t think so.

The White House will fix errors in a much-anticipated federal government report spearheaded by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which decried America’s food supply, pesticides and prescription drugs.

Kennedy’s wide-ranging “Make America Healthy Again” report, released last week, cited hundreds of studies, but a closer look by the news organization NOTUS found that some of those studies did not actually exist.

Excuse me, excuse me – that’s not “errors.” Citing studies that don’t exist is not an error, it’s lying. It’s fraud. It’s playing craps with other people’s lives. It’s not a mistake, it’s a crime.

Asked about the report’s problems,

Ouch. Sports journalist Steve Bunce is getting ferociously chastised for pretending he never did fall for the Imane Khelif bullshit when in fact…

The anonymous fools are out early – well done @RealWorldBoxing for insisting on the reliable tests some of us called for last summer in Paris – those of us that knew, rejected all the historic tests. Hopefully less hysteria and death threats this time.

— Steve Bunce (@bigdaddybunce) May 30, 2025

Some of us did, but it seems he did that other thing.

Well um errr

Hmm. pic.twitter.com/o7XMEziFPF

— Gender Receipts (@GenderReceipts) May 30, 2025

https://twitter.com/JammersMinde/status/1928568993092092104 The wheels of justice grind slowly but they grind exceeding fine. … Read the rest

Thieves fall out.

Donald Trump unleashed a furious screed lamenting his recent legal loss on tariffs, and pointed the finger at “sleazebag” conservative billionaire Leonard Leo, the ex-chairman of the Federalist Society.

In a post on Truth Social Thursday night, Trump railed against the U.S. Court of International Trade’s ruling the previous day, which found that the president had exceeded his legal authority by imposing sweeping tariffs on dozens of countries, based on vague claims of “national emergencies.”

Oh dear, he’s a sleazebag? According to Donald Trump, the sleaziest sleaze bag most of us have ever seen?

On Thursday, the Trump administration was granted a temporary stay of the little-known federal court’s ruling while the government appeals—but that

Khelif told “no” at last.

Imane Khelif, the boxer at the heart of the gender controversy at the Olympics, has been barred from making a competitive comeback next week.

World Boxing have confirmed that they will introduce mandatory sex testing and that they have written to the Algerian Boxing Federation to inform them that Khelif will not be able to compete at the Eindhoven Box Cup.

The amateur boxing federation said that Khelif would have to undergo sex testing before she could compete at any of their events.

HE. Don’t call him “she” in the very act of reporting on his cheating ffs.

In a statement, the governing body, which has taken on running amateur boxing and did not

This is just dumb. Really dumb.

Gay and lesbian adults identify more with straight and bisexual individuals, nearly doubling in percentage compared to what they have in common with transgender individuals, according to a new survey.

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About half of gay and lesbian adults said they have a great deal or a fair amount in common with bisexual people (50 percent) and straight people (51 percent), compared to 28 percent who said they have a lot in common with transgender people.

But it’s a stupid question. It’s like asking people if they have more in common with farmers or Santa Claus. Pretending to be the opposite sex is radically different from being attracted to either sex. Attraction is one thing … Read the rest

Difference? What difference? I don’t see any difference? Do you see any difference?

Spot the difference

Female erasure @guardian – please don’t pic.twitter.com/lomFUogB6E

— SEEN in Journalism (@JournalismSEEN) May 30, 2025

Difference?

… Read the rest

The Catholic church is evil chapter eleventy billion.

Washington’s Catholic leaders sued state leaders and county prosecutors Thursday, alleging that a controversial new law requiring priests to break the confessional seal to report suspected child abuse is “a brazen act of religious discrimination.”

Oh piss off you evil theocratic shits. Your “confessional seal” has protected who knows how many child rapists and torturers.

The new law adds clergy to a list of other professions, such as health care workers and school personnel, who are mandatory reporters of abuse. But the church’s lawsuit pushes back on a provision of the law that does not allow carve-outs for things said during confession, and exposes priests to potential arrest. 

Long overdue. … Read the rest

Fake fake fake fake.

A US government report on children’s health cited “totally fabricated” studies to back up its findings, academics wrongly listed as the authors of those studies have said.

First released on 22 May, the report detailed causes of a “chronic disease crisis” among children in the US. An amended version was issued on 29 May after digital outlet NOTUS found it had used seven non-existent sources.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said there were “formatting issues” and the report would be updated, but it did “not negate the substance of the report”.

Uh, no, citing sources that don’t exist is not a “formatting issue” – and citing sources that don’t exist very much does negate … Read the rest

Hmmm. Who is really biased and abusing power?

A federal appeals court on Thursday granted the Trump administration’s request to temporarily pause a lower-court ruling that struck down most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The Trump administration had earlier told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that it would seek “emergency relief” from the Supreme Court as soon as Friday if the tariff ruling [were] not quickly put on pause.

The judgment issued Wednesday night by the U.S. Court of International Trade is “temporarily stayed until further notice while this court considers the motions papers,” the appeals court said in its order.

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The three-judge trade court panel — which included a

Guest post by Ryan Richter

At this point I hope we have all imagined the possibility of a future with economic prosperity and without fossil carbon-based motor fuels. You can use electricity and renewable sources for most things. OK, but what about everything else? Motor fuels and fossil carbon electricity generation aren’t the whole story by a long shot. There’s steel and aliminum, oh and also cement. And then there’s organic chemistry more generally – can’t you do that without burning the oil? Well, no, not today you can’t. This is what I want to take the knife to. We have the tools, but I don’t hear many people talking about how to really use them to full effect.

I’m … Read the rest

Paul Krugman is verklempt.

It will take me a while to digest this:

Quoting from the NY Times article then commenting:

A panel of federal judges on Wednesday blocked President Trump from imposing some of his steepest tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners, finding in two cases that he vastly overstepped his ability to issue those expansive duties under federal law.

The ruling, by the U.S. Court of International Trade, delivered an early yet significant setback to Mr. Trump in his campaign to strike a series of agreements that reorient the nation’s trading relationships, setting up a legal fight that could soon reach the Supreme Court.

The cases centered on the president’s use of a 1977 federal

A fool named Kate Nash lectures JK Rowling and the rest of us on feminism.

Germ, a spoken word track, consists of a repeated declaration that an unnamed “girl” is “exclusionary, regressive, misogynist” for raising concerns about transgender issues.

Nash has said it is transphobic to exclude trans women from female-only lavatories and sports, and declared in the track that she had “never felt threatened by a trans person”.

The track appears to reference the Harry Potter author posing with a cigar to celebrate the Supreme Court ruling that trans women are legally male.

It states: “you can call a cigar a cigar” but “a cigar cannot be compared to a human being can it, you f—ing idiot”.

Jolyon telling us what feminism is and what we must do and when we must shut up.

"It is the responsibility of a feminist to be progressive, to learn from previous waves but to always be pushing towards a new one.

“Feminism must be intersectional. Feminism must not be used to bully and berate both cis women and trans people.” https://t.co/br8L9OHsuJ

— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) May 28, 2025

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Who gets to define an emergency? Why, Donald Trump, of course. No one understands emergencies the way Donald Trump understands emergencies.

The Trump administration blamed “activist judges” on Thursday for blocking Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs as it looks to overturn a major legal blow to the president’s signature economic policy.

On Wednesday a US trade court ruled Trump’s tariffs regime was illegal, in a dramatic twist that could block the US president’s controversial global trade policy.

The ruling by a three-judge panel at the New York-based court of international trade came after several lawsuits argued Trump had exceeded his authority, leaving US trade policy dependent on the president’s whims and unleashing economic chaos around the world.

Tariffs typically need to

Some men refuse to take no for an answer.

Imane Khelif is preparing to return to competitive women’s boxing in Eindhoven next month, threatening another major international controversy in a sport still reeling from the Algerian’s gold medal at the Paris Olympics.

Promoting this year’s Eindhoven Box Cup, Dutch organisers have released a poster declaring: “Proud that Imane Khelif is there again to defend her title.”

Don’t be. Enabling a man to cheat his way into a women’s match is not something to be proud of. And it’s his title he’s “defending” aka stealing.

While Khelif has made dramatic legal threats against Elon Musk and JK Rowling, accusing them of “cyberbullying” for their comments on the gender row,

The Telegraph informs us:

Kate Nash has taken an apparent swipe at JK Rowling in a new pro-trans single. Germ, a spoken word track, consists of a repeated declaration that an unnamed “girl” is “exclusionary, regressive, misogynist” for raising concerns about transgender issues.

Nash has said it is transphobic to exclude trans women from female-only lavatories and sports, and declared in the track that she had “never felt threatened by a trans person”.

And as we all know, if one person has never felt threatened by X, that is irrefutable proof that X is safe for everyone on the planet. There’s a bear racing toward you looking hungry, but don’t worry, I don’t feel threatened by that bear, … Read the rest

Aw look at Jolyon telling us how to feminist.

A classic from The Boys’ Book of Feminism.… Read the rest

Trump fires all the historians.

An advisory committee of diverse historians helps ensure that the record of America’s history — especially classified and covert actions — remains unbiased, transparent and thorough.

President Donald Trump just fired all of the members of the committee.

These advisers help oversee the exhaustive publication series called the Foreign Relations of the United States — or the FRUS, as insiders call it — and lawmakers rely on it daily. It is available to the public in major libraries and online.

The volume began in 1861, when Congress demanded a full account of Lincoln’s foreign policy during the Civil War. More than 450 volumes have been printed since.

Later accusations that the documentation was partisan