Trump is chewing the wallpaper.

Trump Mon: “Greatest Election Fraud in the history of our Country”

McCarthy Wed: “I don't think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election”

Trump Thurs: “Corrupt, third world election”

Trump Fri: “Rigged and stolen”

Trump Sat: “CRIME OF THE CENTURY!”

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 15, 2021

The thing about the Republican Party is that @GOPLeader can say things like "I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election" and then three days later Trump will send out a release calling it the crime of the century pic.twitter.com/mgAieJHQ8Q

— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) May 15, 2021

It’s telling that Trump is whining about the “crime of the century” now that he

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mole at the counter is hilarious.

https://twitter.com/moleatthedoor/status/1393658807016898571

OUT OF DATE BUFFET CAR SAUSAGE ROLL FILMS hahahahahahaha

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The AP isn’t altogether happy about the bombing that demolished an office block almost on their heads.

An Israeli airstrike destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets on Saturday. All AP employees and freelancers evacuated the building safely.

Al Jazeera was another tenant.

Israel gave the media organizations one hour to evacuate, but reportedly refused to allow journalists to take their equipment.

Targeting journalists is a war crime.

— AJ+ (@ajplus) May 15, 2021

It is utterly unacceptable for Israel to bomb and destroy the offices of media outlets and endanger the lives of journalists. Israeli authorities know where media outlets are housed. https://t.co/BnIhS8DA3b

— Committee to Protect

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Don’t you know there’s a war on?!

No, wait, not a war, a closing of pubs. Same thing though! All must do their duty.

Pubs and bars will be allowed to serve customers indoors from Monday (17th May) after a long third lockdown which has seen many pubs struggle to survive.

According to the latest estimates some 2,500 pubs have already shut during lockdown, with many others facing an uphill battle to recoup losses as the economy opens up.

Campaigners have produced a ‘Your Local Pub Needs You’ poster urging revellers to get their hands in their pockets to save the UK’s 40,000 boozers.

In other words, pour more alcohol down your throats, it’s a public good!

They are

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Student being investigated for stating basic facts.

A law student who said that women have vaginas and are not as physically strong as men is being investigated by her university.

Investigated why? For doing what? What is there to investigate?

Disciplinary action is being taken against Lisa Keogh, 29, over “offensive” and “discriminatory” comments that she made during lectures at Abertay University, Dundee.

The mature student was reported by younger classmates after she said women were born with female genitals and that “the difference in physical strength of men versus women is a fact”. The complaints have prompted a formal investigation into her conduct.

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Cleanup on aisle 7:

The Biden administration on Friday revoked a Trump-era restriction on migrants who enter the country without health coverage and rolled back six executive orders intended to stoke anger over street protests and attacks on Confederate monuments in 2020.

The actions, while hardly unexpected, represented a broad repudiation of former President Donald J. Trump, and his practice of using executive orders to advance his political agenda.

To advance his political and spiteful agenda. He’s got to be the most spiteful human being on the planet.

The restriction on migrants was blocked by a judge soon after Trump issued it.

The others rolled back on Friday were a grab-bag of Trump pronouncements and initiatives that now seem

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See the reporter get it wrong in the very first paragraph (and thus also the headline).

Neuroscience Professor Removed From APA Discussion After Saying There Are Only Two Genders

Wrong. He said two sexes.

A neuroscience professor was ousted from the American Psychological Association’s (APA) email discussion group by vote after suggesting that there are only two genders as well as past concerns over his posts, the College Fix reported Friday.

Wrong. He said two sexes.

Psychology and neuroscience professor John Staddon at Duke University was removed from the APA’s Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology (SBNCP) Division 6 listserv and was notified via email by the group’s presidential trio who said use of the forum was

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One tiny ray of light:

Women must have the right to question transgender identity without being abused, stigmatised or risking losing their job, the new head of Britain’s equalities watchdog has warned.

In her first interview since taking office, the incoming chairwoman of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission said it was “entirely reasonable” for people to challenge the biological status of women who were born as men.

Baroness Falkner of Margravine added it was a “freedom of belief” the commission was determined to protect.

“Someone can believe that people who self identify as a different sex are not the different sex that they self identify,” she said. “A lot of people would find this an entirely reasonable belief.”

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The Times (the London one) reports:

Academics at Edinburgh University claim they are teaching in a climate of fear with some lecturers allegedly “hunted down” because of their failure to comply with the “unchallengeable orthodoxy” of gender identity theory.

Contributors from Edinburgh to a new internet forum have complained of bullying and repeated personal attacks on social media if they are open about their opinions while others fear students are being indoctrinated “with fixed mindsets on gender identity”.

No surprise there.

Scores of academics, many claiming to be from the Russell Group of leading universities, shared their anonymised experiences on GC Academia. One part-time lecturer at Edinburgh said a sense of intellectual freedom had been supplanted by a

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Ah there it is, the whole point – force other people to pay attention to precious One, and force them to do extra things and make extra efforts, all for precious One.

London North Eastern Railway (LNER) has said its conductors will be warned to not use the greeting “ladies and gentlemen” following a complaint from a non-binary passenger.

LNER said train managers should not use the phrase to avoid offending passengers who might identify as neither male nor female.

Passengers might identify as a potato, too, but that doesn’t mean they are one. Nobody is neither male nor female. They can ask their friends to call them non-binary if they like, but the world at … Read the rest

How the trick works.

“The more typically male propensity to defy illegitimate authority” – how sweetly self-flattering that is, and how indifferent to the realities.

Males in the abstract represent illegitimate authority. Males are the beneficiaries of that stupid mistake that goes “the bigger and stronger get to rule.” Decent males not in the abstract of course don’t endorse that social law, but I doubt that any of us can escape its influence entirely.

That stupid mistake pervades all of life and has for all of history, yet a man still flatters himself that his war against masking is thanks to a more typically male propensity to defy illegitimate authority as opposed to a more typically angry-conservative propensity to see … Read the rest

It’s almost as if Marjorie Taylor Greene shouldn’t be there at all.

Folks, this is not complicated. If you harass and incite violence against your colleagues, you do not belong in Congress. Expel Marjorie Taylor Greene.

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) May 14, 2021

.@mtgreenee, @RepMTG is an embarrassment to America. She is clearly not mentally well and walks around Congress with a gun trying to start fights. It should not be lost on voting Americans that @GOPLeader and the @gop support her but not @RepLizCheney.https://t.co/QGtRIDCPKg

— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) May 14, 2021

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Taylor Greene: "I used to work as a bartender. These are the kinds of people that I threw out of

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Good. Well done Rep. Swalwell.

I had a mask on as I stepped off the Floor. An aide with @mtgreenee yelled at me to take my mask off. No one should be bullied for wearing a mask. So I told the bully what I thought of his order. Predictably, he went speechless. I regret I wasn’t more explicit. https://t.co/o8j0DXWOBm

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) May 14, 2021

MTG should be expelled from the House. The move to do exactly that failed, but try again. She should be out of there. She’s another Preston Brooks just waiting to happen.… Read the rest

Vigilance! Eternal vigilance! You can’t ever have enough of it, and the object can’t ever be too many connections away. If you know someone who has a friend who has a neighbor who has a colleague who approved of someone who committed wrongthought once ten years ago or so, you are a legitimate object of vigilance, censure, and ostracism.

CW: Transphobia, violent threat

Hi all, I know you all have "nothing against trans people," so I'm puzzled as to why you're all following an acc with a pinned link to an online shop that has the banner "shoot a tro*n"? Oversight?@SimonFanshawe @DreyfusJames @jo_bartosch pic.twitter.com/RXFAETV4W8

— Aidan Comerford (@AidanCTweets) May 14, 2021

What?

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More on Greene’s playful harassment of Ocasio-Cortez and her staff:

During a February 2019 visit to congressional offices at the US Capitol with associates who include a man who would later enter the Capitol during the January 6 insurrection, Greene — then a conservative activist — can be seen taunting Ocasio-Cortez’s staff outside the congresswoman’s locked office by talking through a mailbox slot urging her to come out.

In the video, from a since-deleted Facebook Live of Greene’s that was saved by CNN’s KFile, Greene tells Ocasio-Cortez to “get rid of your diaper,” referring to the congresswoman’s office as a “day care.” Greene repeatedly indicates throughout her stream that security has been called on them.

“We’re going to

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It turns out that Marjorie T-G has been hating on Ocasio-Cortez for a long time.

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1393208622054842368

It’s very January 6-like in the giggling menace, the snickering orders and challenges and expressions of contempt.

Greene and her associates the vandalize AOC's office's guest book outside the door, calling her "crazy" and drawing pictures of a border wall.https://t.co/QgcJucs4o8 pic.twitter.com/HYrOcrCBhp

— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) May 14, 2021

"Bye. Bye, AOC. Ocasio-Cortez. Bye, bye, baby. Bye-bye, baby. Bye-bye, little baby girl. Ocasio-Cortez– she went and hid. She couldn't take it," Greene says.

Visit was the same day Greene suggest Nancy Pelosi could be executed for treason.https://t.co/QgcJucs4o8

— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) May 14, 2021

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Is this rapey enough yet?

“The widespread penis-disgust that a lot of cis lesbians have is actually really transmisogynistic, because it makes transfeminine lesbians like myself feel really disgusting just for existing as lesbians in the body that we do.”
– a heterosexual malepic.twitter.com/iMwDrYJiYB

— Donovan Cleckley (@DonovanCleckley) May 14, 2021

Man talking too fast: “Quickreminder tosome cislesbians outthere that pleasestop centeringyour lesbianism around penis disgust.”

That “quick reminder” item – nobody asked for some “reminder,” slow or fast, that lesbians have to love penis. Nobody has that requirement on her to-do list or schedule or daily planner page. It’s not a requirement, so you can’t “remind” us of it as such. Also “quick reminder that please stop” is … Read the rest

Gee, I didn’t know people were allowed to set up “sting” operations without any kind of legal authority.

A network of conservative activists, aided by a British former spy, mounted a campaign during the Trump administration to discredit perceived enemies of President Trump inside the government, according to documents and people involved in the operations.

The campaign included a planned sting operation against Mr. Trump’s national security adviser at the time, H.R. McMaster, and secret surveillance operations against F.B.I. employees, aimed at exposing anti-Trump sentiment in the bureau’s ranks.

See this is what I mean. That stuff is illegal if you don’t have a warrant and stuff, isn’t it? People can’t just do “sting operations” and “secret surveillance” on … Read the rest

That? That wasn’t an insurrection, that was just a few tourists visiting the Capitol.

Congressman Andrew Clyde was asked about his widely criticized comments downplaying the Capitol insurrection earlier today.

“You didn’t take what I said in context at all,” the Republican lawmaker told NBC News this morning. “So you go listen to what I said.”

Here’s exactly what he said during that committee hearing yesterday: “Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and ropes, taking videos, pictures.”

He added, “You know, if you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from January the 6th, you would actually think it was a

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What a good plan.

Hundreds of people experiencing poor mental health will be introduced to the natural beauty of wetlands under a “blue prescribing” scheme.

In London, this is.

There is increasing evidence of the benefits of nature for mental health and wellbeing. A recent pilot wetlands project showed that people diagnosed with anxiety or depression moved up a clinical mental health grade, from below average to average.

I swear by this. I’m not afflicted with anxiety or depression but I can testify that getting outside always elevates my mood. (Well…one exception – when the air is in the red zone.) A clear bright breezy day elevates it into the stratosphere, as does going to the Lake or the … Read the rest