Hmm. This looks libelous to me.

Standing back, families are left with unenviable choices. Trans people are taking their own lives in numbers and Wes Streeting is suppressing the evidence.

There remain private providers based outside the UK who can offer both PBs and blood tests – to those who can afford them.

— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) April 10, 2025

What is “in numbers” supposed to mean? 2 is a number; if he means large numbers why not say that? To avoid a libel case perhaps? … Read the rest

Gosh, ya think?

Competence questions pose risk to Trump’s political image

Oh that’s what we’re calling it: competence questions. Polite for “complete driveling idiot who can’t find his own ass in the dark.”

2½ months in, agencies such as the Social Security Administration have struggled to provide basic services. Trump’s team issues edicts, then reverses them. A leaked Signal chat suggests top security officials were unfamiliar with the basics of protecting military secrets.

Crucial government workers have been fired, then rehired. A much-ballyhooed immigration detention center at Guantánamo Bay has faced logistical problems. Trump’s team told laid-off workers at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to contact a particular individual if they felt they were

Punish the woman.

The U.S. military announced on Thursday that it had removed the commander of its Pituffik base in Greenland, adding that it would not tolerate any actions that go against President Trump’s agenda.

The decision to remove Col. Susannah Meyers was announced in a statement by the U.S. Space Force that was posted on social media by Sean Parnell, the chief spokesman for the Pentagon.

While the statement didn’t cite a specific reason for her removal, Mr. Parnell said that “actions to undermine the chain of command or to subvert President Trump’s agenda will not be tolerated.”

That’s disturbing. I get that the military is all about the chain of command and unquestioning obedience and all that, … Read the rest

Trump lost. The Central Park 5 defamation case is going ahead.

Trump has failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of making defamatory statements about five Black and Hispanic men who were wrongly convicted and imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a white jogger in New York’s Central Park.

Philadelphia-based U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone ruled on Thursday that the men had presented enough evidence for now to pursue their lawsuit accusing Trump of defaming them in comments he made during the 2024 presidential campaign. The judge narrowed the lawsuit, however, by dismissing a claim by the plaintiffs of intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Can we get him on being too evil and self-regarding … Read the rest

Eyes on the important stuff.

Donald Trump is going to “make America’s showers great again” by easing rules restricting water flow, the White House says.

The US president is ordering the energy secretary to rescind a change introduced by Barack Obama that restricted multi-nozzle showers from discharging over 2.5 gallons of water per minute overall. This served “a radical green agenda that made life worse for Americans”, the White House said, as Trump criticised the “ridiculous” amount of time he says it takes to wet his hair in the shower.

Suuuure it does, because he has such manly thick strong turgid hair it takes 10 times longer to soak it than it takes for average inferior people like the … Read the rest

Republicans are excited about disenfranchising women.

Republicans in the House of Representatives blocked an amendment to the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act which would protect married women’s ability to register to vote.

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The SAVE Act has come under intense scrutiny for how it would require US citizens to register to vote in person with their ID and a birth certificate, passport, or other ID that proves citizenship—something that is difficult for the 69 million married women whose current legal last name does not match their birth certificate.

Republicans have said the SAVE Act is necessary to prevent noncitizen voting. However, recent audits of voter rolls have found instances of noncitizen voting to be “vanishingly rare.”

Vanishingly rare, … Read the rest

Look at this guy putting it right out there. “You don’t have the power,” he gloats.

Tell a “tranzwoman” he’s a man, and watch how fast the man shows up. pic.twitter.com/CZHHpZ7aH4

— EstroGenny (@XxtraEstroGenny) April 8, 2025

You don’t have the power to tell me where I belong; that was the freedom I won for myself.

Pause for gloating smirk.

Rears back while lifting upper lip in the manner of an agitated horse; takes deep breath and blows it out.

I’m not a man, I’m a transgender woman. And uh…I don’t know how to break this to you [pause for smirk] but I’ve got the tits to prove it. [more smirking and face-making] Why don’t you fuck yourself sideways, how’s

Ok who knew there was such a thing as “enby feminine”???

I certainly didn’t.

BH is one Blair Hamilton.

SC – your 1st academic post
BH – was lecturer at Brighton
SC – you identify as NB
BH – I am NB feminine, use she hers they them
J – what pronouns
BH – any of those four
SC – you do research in transgender medicine

— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) April 10, 2025

WHAT IS ENBY FEMININE?

What possible meaning can that have?

Enby=non-binary=neither female nor male.

Pick a story, bro.

BH who idennifies as enby-feminine has a page at the University of Brighton (not to be confused with the University of Sussex). It is eloquent and excitable.

Introducing Blair

Is it ok for Trump to manipulate the stock market right out in the open? Oh sure. Where’s the harm?

When Donald Trump offered some financial advice Wednesday morning, stocks were wavering between gains and losses.

But that was about to change.

“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT,” he wrote on his social media platform Truth Social at 9:37 a.m.

Less than four hours later, Trump announced a 90-day pause on nearly all his tariffs. Stocks soared on the news, closing up 9.5% by the end of trading. The market, measured by the S&P 500, gained back about $4 trillion, or 70%, of the value it had lost over the previous four trading days.

So he did people … Read the rest

When infant-tech goes wrong:

A woman in Australia has unknowingly given birth to a stranger’s baby, after her fertility clinic accidentally implanted another woman’s embryos into her.

Oops! Was her fertility clinic drunk at the time or what?

The mix-up at Monash IVF in Brisbane, Queensland has been blamed on human error, Australian media reports. “On behalf of Monash IVF, I want to say how truly sorry I am for what has happened,” CEO Michael Knaap said, adding that everyone at the fertility clinic was “devastated” at the mistake.

Last year, the same clinic paid a A$56m (£26.8m) settlement to hundreds of patients whose embryos were destroyed despite them being viable.

So you can see why they were devastated … Read the rest

Is market manipulation legal? Is it mostly illegal but legal when Trump does it? Asking for a friend psycho.

Trump posts THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!—then caves on tariffs hours later. Market surges. Middle-class investors who sold during the chaos lose big. Insiders win again. This is market manipulation to help his base profit. How is this legal or OK? pic.twitter.com/iXs92TRzS5

— Rep. Mike Levin (@RepMikeLevin) April 9, 2025

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But also

Ah, good. Now we know how he’s working the magic.

Jesus—Trump just said that he will be looking at exempting certain US companies from tariffs.

Reporter asks: “How will you determine that”

Trump: “Instinctively”.

Sounds like whoever will bend the knee and kiss the ring. pic.twitter.com/WmfZlRaOzE

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 9, 2025

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Oh good god.

Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately. At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off…

— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) April 9, 2025

At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable. Conversely, and based on the fact that more than 75 Countries have called Representatives of the United States, including the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and the

Jamelle Bouie asks probing questions about Trump’s hypothetical “reasons” for the tariff war.

…How do you revitalize American manufacturing if manufacturers can’t reasonably import the materials they need to build factories and produce goods? Where is capital supposed to come from? How do you reset the nation’s relationship with its trading partners if those partners are forced to treat you as a bad force that can’t be trusted?…

There is a hypothetical president with a hypothetically similar agenda who could answer these questions. This actual president cannot. He did not reason himself into his preoccupation with tariffs and can neither reason nor speak coherently about them. There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim

Manipulate much?

The New York Times tells us of a man who deliberately went into a women’s toilet and brags about it to adoring journalists. The Times of course presents his intrusion rather differently.

A transgender woman was arrested at the Florida State Capitol last month after she used a bathroom there to protest a state law that blocks transgender people from using a rest room that aligns with their gender identity.

Or to put it another way, a man who claims to be a “transgender woman” used a women’s bathroom to protest a state law that forbids men to use women’s rest rooms. It doesn’t sound quite so right-on-ish put that way, does it.

It almost doesn’t matter how … Read the rest

Oliver Brown at the Telegraph is not impressed by John Oliver’s sneers at women who don’t want men taking over their sports.

John Oliver, the British comedian whose viral rants have made him an unlikely standard-bearer for liberal America, broadcast his latest sophomoric skit on transgender athletes late on Sunday night. It was full of his usual fallacies: that biological males depriving women of sporting glory was somehow analogous to taller basketball players competing against shorter ones, or to Michael Phelps dominating swimming despite being “half-dolphin”. And yet the timing could not have been worse. For at the very moment this segment dropped, portraying sport’s trans scandal as somehow a niche issue, a women’s pool final in Wigan was being

Trump and his gang are firing thousands of federal employees who do vital work, but they apparently think it’s totally justifiable to spend millions to throw a birthday party for Dum Don.

President Donald Trump is making plans for a military parade in Washington, D.C., on his 79th birthday, according to a report. A source in the capital told the Washington City Paper that Trump has earmarked June 14—which is the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army—for the event.

The display of military might will march around four miles from the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, to the White House, the D.C. source told the publication.

That shit’s expensive. It’s not a matter of just summoning a few people … Read the rest

Celebrity hillbilly calls Chinese factory workers “peasants.”

Speaking to Fox News last Thursday, Vance defended President Donald Trump’s market-hammering tariffs and railed against the “globalist economy.”

“What has the globalist economy gotten the United States of America? And the answer is, fundamentally, it’s based on two principles – incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries make for us,” Vance told news show “Fox & Friends.”

“To make it a little more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.”

To underline the obvious: if they’re manufacturing they are not peasants.

To underline the equally obvious: don’t forget yer raisin.

A hashtag on Vance’s remarks became the top

Bad Kennedy fires key official to make room for his own lethal crankery:

The former top vaccine official at the Food and Drug Administration says he was forced out of his job for trying to protect vaccine data from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Dr. Peter Marks told The Associated Press Sunday he refused to hand over unrestricted access to a vaccine safety database to the Health and Human Services secretary and his team, fearing that the information might be misused, manipulated, or deleted altogether.

Initially, Marks said that he tried to be on good terms with his vaccine-skeptic new boss regarding vaccine safety, making plans to develop a “vaccine transparency action plan.” Marks also gave Kennedy and his team the