Oh they’re not asking for much, only everything.

See it? “Codify trans-inclusive meanings of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ in law” – thus obliterating women’s rights.

That’s “doing better” is it? I would hate to see what doing worse would look like.… Read the rest

There’s a lot of paradox here.

[Stephen] Miller told Fox News: “Harvard has engaged in decades of invidious, unlawful and illegal race-based discrimination against American citizens … The Democrat party’s philosophy right now is for foreigners, everything – for Americans, nothing.”

Jason Johnson, a political scientist at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, said: “Their goal is to intimidate and break down institutions of higher learning in America because that is where most of the resistance to their authoritarian tendencies is going to come from.”

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Other commentators detect an element of class warfare. Trump won election last November with a base drawing largely on non-college-educated white men. Now he is stoking hostility towards the ivory

Sigh. Every single news outlet that appears makes the same damn mistake.

In fact the same two damn mistakes. Each one says “trans” or “transgender” instead of “male” and each one fails to say “women’s” meet or event or championships.

For the billionth time, the problem is not being trans, the problem is being male and competing against females.

This endlessly repeated obfuscation benefits exclusively males who cheat females.

Mainstream newspaper refers to male athlete as trans athlete instead of male athlete in the eleventy billionth refusal to tell the truth about this relentless cheating of female athletes.

When East Valley of Spokane runner Verónica Garcia crossed the finish line at Mount Tahoma High School after winning the Class 2A 400-meter dash on Saturday, she looked over at the scoreboard, saw her time of 55.70, and smiled. 

Ignoring the boos she heard from the crowd, Garcia took a moment to bask in her accomplishment of winning her second consecutive Class 2A 400-meter state title. 

How sweet – except for the fact that he’s a boy and it was a girls’ race.

As a transgender person, Garcia has heard

Tucking breaks.

An LGBTQ+ group within an NHS hospital trust drew up plans to give trans staff extra breaks if they wore chest binders or had to tuck their genitals away.

In draft guidance seen by The Telegraph, an LGBTQ+ staff network within the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust (UH Sussex) said trans colleagues “may require extra scheduled breaks in their shift in order to have breaks from binding and tucking”.

Well now wait a second. If they get extra breaks from binding and tucking, why shouldn’t women get extra breaks from/for wearing high heels or makeup or tampons? Why shouldn’t men have extra breaks from/for shaving or not shaving? If one group gets extra breaks then all groups … Read the rest

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?

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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. 

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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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