That’s the ticket! Harass the scientists until they get fed up and leave. Who needs scientists? We want advertisers and PR geniuses and movie stars, not scientists.

As the Trump administration slashes support to research institutions and threatens to freeze federal funding to universities like Harvard and Columbia, European leaders are offering financial help to U.S.-based researchers and hoping to benefit from what they are calling a “gigantic miscalculation.”

“Nobody could imagine a few years ago that one of the great democracies of the world would eliminate research programs on the pretext that the word ‘diversity’ appeared in its program,” President Emmanuel Macron of France said on Monday.

One of the former great democracies. We’re one of the crappier … Read the rest

From Antiques Roadshow to…

1/ Hello and welcome to the a neutral BBC show in which we discuss "Are terfs complete scum?". In this episode, we'll begin crossing live to a terribly sad transvestite (TST) who cannot play in women's sport because of evil terfs. I began with the question "are terfs evil?"

— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) May 5, 2025

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BBC Drone: "Well, there you have it. A compelling and, some reasonable people might say disgusting display of hatred by evil terfs. For balance we will now cross to a drag Queen"

Drag Queen: "Hi"

BBC Drone: "How evil are terfs in your view?"

Drag Queen: "Very"

— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) May 5, 2025

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Sharron: "Pretty

Axios is in a swivet.

Transgender and nonbinary people across the U.S. are navigating an upended sports landscape — on top of additional rollbacks of their protections and civil rights — following President Trump‘s February executive order banning trans athletes from women’s sports.

Same old lie. The issue is male athletes in women’s sports.

“If you can dictate my identity on a sports field, why can’t you then dictate my identity in different areas of public life?” asked Sydney Bauer, a rower, runner and journalist who covers sports and LGBTQ+ rights.

Stupid question. Stupid framing. Stupid choice of words. Nobody’s “dictating” anyone’s “identity.” Some people are pointing out realities and the areas where they make a difference. Nobody … Read the rest

You have got to be kidding.

Fears Trump’s foreign film tariffs could ‘wipe out’ UK movie industry

Trump’s WHATS???????

Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on movies made outside the US could wipe out the UK film industry, ministers have been warned, as they came under immediate pressure to prioritise the issue in trade talks with the White House.

100%! Tariffs! On movies!!!

Well hey, at that rate, how about 100% tariffs on foreign books, too? Retroactive, of course. Make it hurt to buy a copy of Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, Lucky Jim, The Needle’s Eye, Alice in Wonderland, The Origin of Species, The Rise Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – just think of all … Read the rest

Here’s another stupid thing:

Statement on Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010

We are leaders of centres, research groups and networks, of scholarship, teaching, learning, and expertise in gender, feminist, women’s and sexuality studies across the UK. We are dismayed by the recent Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010.

Oh I see, they’re expert leaders and leader experts. They know things. They have expertise. They know more than we peasants and nose-pickers do.

This judgment, which states that ‘sex’ for the purposes of the Act refers to the ‘sex of a person at birth’, was handed down after a refusal to hear any testimony from

Oy oy oy.

Trump admits not knowing anything.

Donald Trump said “I don’t know” when asked if he needed to uphold the US constitution when it comes to giving immigrants the right of due process as he gave a wide-ranging TV interview broadcast on Sunday.

Let’s be very clear. This isn’t some guy waiting to pay for his cigarettes at a 7/11, this is the fucking chief executive of the whole large bossy globally-busy country. He is supposed to know this stuff. Just for a start, he swore an oath to do exactly that, not once but twice. He swore an oath to uphold the constitution and says he doesn’t know if he needs to uphold the constitution. … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Then he announced an Australian DOGE.

I think a lot of people were dabbling in conservatism because they’d been alienated by the left’s creeping dogmatism. But with Trump 2.0 everybody realized no matter how badly the left had been tainted by extremism — and all of us in the gender trenches have the scars to prove just how bad it got — the right is dangerous, too, so much so that it’s become an existential threat to democracy.

I’m furious at the Liberal party. I’m furious at the CBC. I’m furious at pretty much all of Canada’s progressive apparatus. But I’d rather work to repair it than to see the conservative apparatus take … Read the rest

JKR has one of them there long post items on TwitterX, and as usual it’s a good read.

In light of recent open letters from academia and the arts criticising the UK's Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights, it's possibly worth remembering that nobody sane believes, or has ever believed, that humans can change sex, or that binary sex isn't a material fact. These…

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 3, 2025

These letters do nothing but remind us of what we know only too well: that pretending to believe these things has become an elitist badge of virtue.

An elitist badge of virtue or a desperate measure for the sake of avoiding punishment. We don’t know which are which, of … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Rev David Brindley on Trump boosts the other team.

Peter Dutton is the first opposition leader to lose his seat. As late as January all the polls were predicting he would be the next Prime Minister with a sizeable majority. Then he announced an Australian DOGE to be headed up by a woman wearing a MAGA hat, an uncosted plan to build 7 nuclear power plants around the country, sacking 47,000 unspecified public servants, and most tellingly, insisting that women would be forced back into the office instead of working from home, and if they didn’t like it, they could quit or job share.

He would announce a policy today only to reverse the announcement … Read the rest

There’s a lot that Trump doesn’t know, but whether or not he has to adhere to the US Constitution shouldn’t be one of them.

President Trump — when asked if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution on “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker” — said, “I don’t know,” but added that his lawyers “are obviously going to follow what the Supreme Court said.”

Dude. You can say you don’t know what’s on the menu for dinner tonight, but you can’t go saying you don’t know whether you have to uphold the Constitution or not. It’s like not knowing how to apply the brakes when you drive a car.

The response came after a series of questions regarding the

Of course they do.

Transgender footballers plot to flout ban and play on

Transgender women and their allies have threatened to flout the ban on those born male playing in women’s football in England.

Telegraph Sport has been shown WhatsApp messages from those involved in a women’s league plotting to ignore a ban announced by the Football Association following last month’s Supreme Court ruling on single-sex spaces.

Fae Fulconis, who plays for Hackney Women in the sixth tier of the female game, told The i Paper: “I’m going to fight this ruling. If they want to ban me, then they can physically come and get me off the pitch.”

What does that sound like?

Oh yes: rape.

It sounds … Read the rest

What do we get in return?

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has secured a second term in office in a disastrous night for his conservative rivals, as voters chose stability over change against a backdrop of global turmoil inflicted by US President Donald Trump.

Australia’s return of a left-leaning government follows Canada’s similar sharp swing towards Mark Carney’s Liberal Party, another governing party whose fortunes were transformed by Trump. The loss of Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton’s seat mirrors that of Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre.

I’m happy for Australia and Canada, I really am, but the price is too high.… Read the rest

Oh. good. god.

Watch the expression on the interviewer’s face when Trump doesn’t know what the declaration of independence is.

Don’t migrants who apply for a citizenship have to know what the Declaration of Independence is?

Why doesn’t the president of the United States know? pic.twitter.com/ISRH0NUYWQ

— BlueDream (@58bugeye) May 1, 2025

… Read the rest

Stonewall is poking its foot over the line Mummy told it not to cross.

Stonewall will be referred to the Charity Commission on Monday unless it withdraws “wrong and dangerous” advice on the meaning of last month’s Supreme Court ruling on women’s rights.

Sex Matters, the women’s rights group, say the controversial LGBT charity has encouraged “organisations to act unlawfully” by suggesting they delay any changes to female facilities such as toilets and changing rooms.

It’s heart-warming that Stonewall is so desperate to keep punishing women for being women. It’s impressive that Stonewall’s great project these days is to urge men to invade women’s toilets and changing rooms, because obviously women are bad people – spawn of the devil, … Read the rest

When misogynistic labels become ordinary language:

An NHS trust has come under fire for using the derogatory term “terf” in a guide on how to support transgender staff.

In documents drawn up by the North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT), the guidance uses the slur, which stands for “transgender-exclusionary radical feminist”, to describe women who do not want to share single-sex facilities with trans women.

The women in question do not want to share single-sex facilities with men. The fact that they’re men is the part that matters. The fact that they call themselves trans is just a kind of veil drawn over the awkward fact that they are men. The men part should be front and … Read the rest

Cricket.

Transgender women have been banned from competing in all levels of women’s cricket with immediate effect, the England and Wales Cricket Board has announced.

In an update to its transgender regulations, the ECB said “only those whose biological sex is female” will be able to participate in women’s and girls’ cricket.

It doesn’t get much more tautological than that. Men and boys won’t be able to participate in women’s and girls’ cricket. Well duh: that’s what it says on the tin: women’s and girls’ cricket. Obviously men and boys won’t be able to participate. Yet all this time all these people pretended otherwise. Could it be because women and girls just don’t matter?

Amelia Short, a transgender cricketer

Originally a comment by Acolyte of Sagan on More in the spirit of Mao than of Mill.

In regards to education around trans “rights”, I’ve sometimes thought that a good start to getting people to see gender ideology for what it is would be to get them to examine and understand the following concepts:

Understanding the concepts would be useful, but I believe that an understanding of where and how the modern concept of transgender actually began would explain so much about why the ideology is such a confused and confusing mess.

So far as I can tell, it started in the late 1990s as a purely philosophical idea centred on a post-modernist ‘no absolute truths’ view of sex … Read the rest

Dude is angry that men can’t ruin women’s sports any more. Dude needs to find a better hobby.

The i is the only news source I've seen that has pointed out that there is nothing at all in the UKSC ruling that mandates or justifies the FA's actions.

The FA are being a bit economical with the truth. https://t.co/VjoNSe6L0m

— SpeakOutSister (@speakoutsister) May 2, 2025

Also the pull quote is quite interesting. “Sport should be a safe haven.” Wut? If sport should be a safe haven, why should men be allowed to compete against women? Nonono you see sport should be a safe haven for men; never never never for women. Obviously.

“I’m a male footballer forcing my way … Read the rest

Stephen Robinson at Public Notice offers a selection of cold cuts Trump ramblings that reveal and emphasize how gone his brain is. Listening to such ramblings is torture, but reading them is not as much like having nails driven into your head, and they do underline how empty it is in his head.

Trump has always been an ignoramus who masks his intellectual shortcomings with bombast and declarations of his own brilliance, but his rambling nonsensical responses in these latest interviews should set off alarms…

Well, sure, but that’s been true all along, and he got elected anyway.

But there is a kind of morbid entertainment in probing the infinite emptiness.

Time asked Trump, “You recently signed memos calling for

The wave continues.

ECB update on transgender participation in women’s cricket

The ECB is today announcing a change to its regulations regarding eligibility for transgender players in women’s and girls’ cricket. This is based on the updated legal position following the recent Supreme Court ruling.
 
With immediate effect, only those whose biological sex is female will be eligible to play in women’s cricket and girls’ cricket matches. Transgender women and girls can continue playing in open and mixed cricket.  

Bam.

Our regulations for recreational cricket have always aimed at ensuring that cricket remains as inclusive a sport as possible. These included measures to manage disparities, irrespective of someone’s gender, and safeguard the enjoyment of all players. However, given the new