Trump is making an extra special big splash fuss over Mr Saudi Arabia. Bros before hos.

Trump rolled out an elaborate welcome at the White House for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, who is seeking stealth fighter jets, security assurances and economic promises from the United States.

The arrival ceremony exceeded the typical pomp for a visiting foreign leader: A Marine band played as officers on horseback carried the Saudi and American flags, and advanced fighter jets flew over the White House in a V formation. Mr. Trump greeted Prince Mohammed with a handshake and gave him a pat on the back before they headed inside.

They’re very compatible.

Who wants a great big hug?

Dirty dirty dirty.

When Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visits Washington on Tuesday, President Donald Trump will yet again find himself face-to-face with the ruler of a country where he and his family have immense personal business at stake.

The Trump Organization has multiple active projects in Saudi Arabia, including Trump Towers in both Jeddah and Riyadh. And on the eve of bin Salman’s visit, the Trump Organization announced plans a new project with their Saudi-linked development partners, Dar Global, in the Maldives set to open in 2028.

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Last month, the Trump Organization also announced plans for a Trump Plaza to be built in Saudi Arabia, complete with “a vibrant green spine inspired by Central Park that

The NY Times has a great big long piece on the demolition of the Justice Department. Depressing and enraging but crucial reading.

President Trump’s second term has brought a period of turmoil and controversy unlike any in the history of the Justice Department. Trump and his appointees have blasted through the walls designed to protect the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency from political influence; they have directed the course of criminal investigations, openly flouted ethics rules and caused a breakdown of institutional culture. To date, more than 200 career attorneys have been fired, and thousands more have resigned. (The Justice Department says many of them have been replaced.)

But guess what: the ones who have been fired or … Read the rest

Good old trans epistemology.

The majority of trans people in the UK think the BBC is “hostile” towards them in its news coverage, a survey has found, countering claims by rightwing figures that the corporation has a pro-trans bias.

The YouGov poll, commissioned by the Good Law Project and based on a… pic.twitter.com/1gA9D44gma

— Novara Media (@novaramedia) November 14, 2025

Poor pathetic dopes. Right there in the first paragraph they confuse some people thinking something with established fact. Yes of course “the majority of trans people” think [insert noun here] is hostile to them because that’s the sum total of trans thinking – everybody is hostile to them and they are the most persecuted ever. That’s all they have. It’s … Read the rest

In Comey news:

A federal magistrate judge on Monday raised the possibility that the criminal indictment against former FBI director James Comey on charges of lying to Congress — which was obtained at the behest of President Donald Trump — could soon be dismissed.

The suggestion by Judge William Fitzpatrick came as he ordered the Department of Justice to release all grand jury material related to Comey’s case to him by the end of the day.

Comey’s defense lawyers had requested that material in order to request the indictment be tossed based on alleged irregularities by interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan when she presented the case to the grand jury and asked it to charge him.

Fitzpatrick said Halligan

She did this months ago but I somehow missed it. Godalmighty.

Dr Helen Webberley, the ghoul of Gender GP, is currently doing the media rounds.

This is the woman who, alongside sterilising children, posed in front of an image of a Nazi death camp, arguing that sex testing for athletics is equivalent to the Holocaust.

She belongs in prison. pic.twitter.com/CKOM0e3U3W

— James Esses (@JamesEsses) November 17, 2025

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Classic Trump.

Trump on Sunday brushed aside concerns about conservative commentator Tucker Carlson‘s recent interview with a far-right activist known for his antisemitic views, which has caused a schism within the Republican party. Trump defended Carlson, saying the former Fox News host has “said good things about me over the years.”

Bahahahahaha that’s all it takes. Tucker Carlson has said good things about Trump ergo Tucker Carlson is a Perfect Human.… Read the rest

If “progressives” would look up from their sobbing over Our Trans Siblings for one minute maybe they would manage to notice this kind of casual contempt for women.

"Just look at the degree on that chick"
~ No man ever pic.twitter.com/ZFAJ0GelxX

— Richard Cooper (@Rich_Cooper) November 15, 2025

Clear enough? “Look at this dumb bitch telling us about her PhD when the whole point of her is that she’s HOT.” … Read the rest

NHS wants to yammer about trans people to the exclusion of everything else, ok?

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has applied to alternately fly a Progress Pride flag and Transgender Pride flag from the roof of its building on the banks of the Thames.

In an “advertisement consent application” submitted to Lambeth council, the trust proposes hanging the flags from the sole flagpole on the North Wing, which looks out on Parliament.

Looks out on Parliament from directly across the river. It’s not a massively wide river.

But that’s a relatively trivial point. What I want to know is why so many people are so obsessed with “Pride” and especially its rude demanding selfish offspring Trans Everything. Why … Read the rest

Sigh. Alan Cumming interview.

I mention how Twitter/X amplifies hate speech. Cumming, who once told Harry Potter producers to “f*** off” during negotiations for the role of Prof Gilderoy Lockhart (eventually played by Kenneth Branagh), has opinions on the views pushed by JK Rowling about trans people. “I thought feminism was about equality,” he says. “Women being equal with everyone else in society. And yet it appears…”

He focuses his thoughts. “I’ve kind of moved away from being obsessed with the horror of things that have come out of that quarter, of trans rights being perceived as anti-women’s rights. But there’s several things that stick out to me – and I don’t want to get into a battle at

I can’t find any news coverage on this so it will have to be a twitter summary.

On November 15, 2025, Governor Maura Healey appointed Giselle Byrd, a Black transgender woman and executive director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, to the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, alongside 14 other new commissioners. The commission, established in 1965, advises on gender equity policies to combat discrimination and expand opportunities for women and girls in the state. Byrd’s expertise in transgender rights and HIV prevention for marginalized communities supports the state’s inclusive approach, though the appointment has sparked online backlash from conservatives and support from LGBTQ+ advocates.

Oh shut up, twitter. It is NOT only conservatives who object to … Read the rest

The end of a beautiful friendship.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a longtime Republican ally who previously fiercely defended Donald Trump and his Maga movement, said on Saturday she had been contacted by private security firms “with warnings for my safety” after Trump announced on Friday he was withdrawing his support for and endorsement of the Georgia representative.

In a post on X, Greene said that “a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world”, without referring to Trump by name, adding it was “the man I supported and helped get elected”.

Yes you did. Do we now get to watch you and Trump destroy each other? That would … Read the rest

The BBC is getting mauled these days.

That the BBC had been “captured” by activists promoting a “pro-trans” agenda to the detriment of women’s rights is one of the criticisms in the memo that helped precipitate the resignations of [Tim] Davie and his chief executive of news, Deborah Turness.

In this document, sent to the BBC board last month, Michael Prescott, a former journalist, claimed that the specialist “LGBT and identity” desk had effectively censored stories that “raised difficult questions about the trans debate”. He accused the desk of “a constant drip feed of one-sided stories … celebrating the trans experience without adequate balance or objectivity”.

Or without any balance or objectivity.

I don’t subscribe to the view that journalism … Read the rest

Ew. Jolyon Maugham openly seeking wrongthink gossip about a woman he disagrees with.

Who put him in charge of what we’re allowed to think?… Read the rest

The BBC always gave the trans person the last word. Not by accident, but very deliberately indeed. The BBC literally refused to let gender atheists speak last. It was systematic.

I’m so naive, or clueless, that I still after all this time find that surprising. Where were all the grownups?

The BBC has been captured by activists who peddle trans “propaganda”, the woman who blew the whistle on the Tavistock clinic has claimed.

Sue Evans helped expose the medical centre’s use of puberty blockers on child patients, which eventually led to its being shut down.

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She alleges that a flagship Radio 2 show refused to let her have the final say during debates on gender

Hahahahaha Jolyon is complaining that the BBC is………….transphobic.

A rightwing campaign has forced resignations at the BBC over claims including “pro-trans” bias, but the people who bear the brunt of its coverage disagree. A YouGov poll of trans people commissioned by Good Law Project has shown that 70% think that BBC News generally takes a “hostile” stance when reporting on them.

And they’re right. When we offered the BBC an exclusive on this survey – showing how trans people in Britain live in fear and have suffered a catastrophic loss of faith in politicians, judges, the police and the media – it didn’t dare pick it up.

Hm. It didn’t dare pick it up, or it didn’t want to pick … Read the rest

Legal Feminist asks some probing questions. Three, to be precise.

1. Does the government really accept the Supreme Court’s judgment?
2. If so, why are its lawyers in court currently putting forward arguments which run contrary to what that judgment says and which were argued before and rejected by the Supreme Court.
3. Who is responsible for giving the instructions to the government’s lawyers?

On the first question, LF notes that the government has said it accepts the judgment, but it has acted as if the other thing. The not so much accepting thing.

The judgment itself was clear: it was accepted by all parties before the judgment that anyone without a Gender Recognition Certificate remained their birth sex. The judgment determined

Before you kill off all the sparrows, get information on what they eat and what will happen when there are no sparrows to eat whatever that turns out to be. It might for instance be insects. Think about that for a second.

Keystone species like bats and vultures have been found to play an important role in human wellbeing. A new study provides similar evidence of the role of sparrows. The study finds that the sparrows’ collapse helped to incite China’s Great Famine—the world’s most deadly famine, which led to tens of millions of people dying of starvation between 1959 and 1961.

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The Chinese government targeted the sparrow for eradication in 1958 because they believed the birds were

Ahem. I see that it is Trans Awareness Week.

Is there anyone not aware of them at this point?

I feel like it’s about as useful as a common cold awareness week.

We know. Trust me. We know. pic.twitter.com/8a6jH7JEgq

— Hazel Appleyard (@HazelAppleyard) November 14, 2025

There’s nothing like a Corporate Memphis banner to get us all enthusiastic.

Anyway they’re not just making it up. If you Google Transgender Awareness Week you do indeed get ample confirmation that this is indeed that very week.

The Human Rights Campaign explains our duties:

Honor Transgender Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance

Transgender Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance is a time for the LGBTQ+ community to celebrate, uplift and

She always does this. It’s not an accident.

Trans rights are under threat. How are we still debating equality?

— Dr Helen Webberley (she/her) (@HelenWebberley) November 14, 2025

What are trans rights???

What rights do trans people have that are specific to being trans?

She never says.

My bet is that that’s because she knows the answer would be absurd on its face.

Do men have a “right” to be called women?

No.

Can we move on now?… Read the rest