Do people just not recognize a flat contradiction when they see one? I mean a really blatantly obvious one, like “It’s raining it’s not raining”?

Apparently.

But of course they don’t. They don’t respect the choice of their members to use the changing rooms based on the gender they identify with: they don’t respect the choice of their members to use the changing rooms for women, because there are no such changing rooms. They refuse to provide women with women-only changing rooms, and then they boast a smug boast about respecting all the choices. If men get to use the men’s changing rooms and the women’s changing rooms then women are denied the right to use the women’s changing room … Read the rest

Agh bad news.

Dammit to hell.

I regret to say that I lost my case against The BC College of Nurses and Midwives.

The fight isn't over. I will always fight for free speech and women's sex-based rights.

I'll have more to say in the near future. https://t.co/cZAM6TmH0E

— Amy Eileen Hamm (@preta_6) March 13, 2025

… Read the rest

Sex Matters has more.

An employment tribunal in South London has rejected the Metropolitan Police’s application to anonymise the identity of a witness in a gender-critical belief case.

Sex Matters intervened to object to the Met Police’s anonymity (“rule 49”) application on open-justice and public-interest grounds. We were recognised as having a legitimate interest, and Kerenza Davis made legal submissions and addressed the tribunal on our behalf.

The case of Melanie Newman v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis is the third recent gender-critical employment tribunal case where an anonymity order has been refused. Similar orders were applied for by the employers and refused by the tribunal in the cases of Sandie Peggie v Fife Health

The Telegraph:

A Met Police training officer called anti-transgender women a “bunch of lesbians”, a tribunal has heard. Sgt Karl Eccott, an LGBT+ training officer, allegedly made the comments in a session with trainee Melanie Newman, who is now bringing harassment and direct discrimination claims against the Met.

Ms Newman claimed in her witness statement to the tribunal, held in Croydon, south London, that the Met Police was a “hostile environment” for anyone with gender-critical opinions.

That’s so Met Policey. Women are horrible and deserve whatever they get, while trans women are saints and deserve endless flattery and the chance to abuse women.

Ms Newman is now a detective constable with the Met, based in the child abuse investigation

What’s the thinking process here?

Greenland’s likely new prime minister on Wednesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to take control of the island, saying Greenlanders must be allowed to decide their own future as it moves toward independence from Denmark.

Jens-Frederik Nielsen’s Demokraatit, a pro-business party that favors a slow path to independence, won a surprise victory in Tuesday’s parliamentary election, outpacing the two left-leaning parties that formed the last government. With most Greenlanders opposing Trump’s overtures, the campaign focused more on issues like healthcare and education than on geopolitics.

But on Wednesday Nielsen was quick to push back against Trump, who last week told a joint session of Congress that the U.S. needed Greenland to protect its

Judge says the fired employees must be reinstated and Trump is an ignorant buffoon.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate the jobs of probationary federal employees across multiple agencies, blasting the procedure behind their mass firings as a “sham.”

Ruling from the bench in a San Francisco courthouse, US District Judge William Alsup said the Office of Personnel Management — the federal government’s human resources department — had no basis for claiming the employees were fired for “performance” issues.

Alsup, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, said the explanation was a “gimmick” to circumvent legal requirements for laying off federal employees.

As was always obvious.

“It is sad, a sad day when our

From The Atlantic: What ketamine does to the human brain

Last month, during Elon Musk’s appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference, as he hoisted a chain saw in the air, stumbled over some of his words, and questioned whether there was really gold stored in Fort Knox, people on his social-media platform, X, started posting about ketamine.

Musk has said he uses ketamine regularly, so for the past couple of years, public speculation has persisted about how much he takes, whether he’s currently high, or how it might affect his behavior. Last year, Musk told CNN’s Don Lemon that he has a ketamine prescription and uses the drug roughly every other week to help with depression symptoms. When Lemon

Texas is in a race to catch up to Afghanistan.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Afghanistan have reported a surge in measles patients at three MSF-supported hospitals since January. While measles is endemic in Afghanistan, such a high number of cases so early in the year is cause for alarm.

At least one child in Afghanistan has died from measles every day so far in 2025, according to data MSF staff have collected at the Mazar-i-Sharif Regional hospital, Herat Regional hospital, and Boost Provincial hospital in Helmand. This is almost three times as many deaths as were witnessed during the same period last year.

Is junior Robert Kennedy jealous of this record?

“These are preventable deaths,” says Mickael Le Paih,

It’s odd that they can’t give up the nonsense even when all the walls are crashing down.

The buyouts are the latest efforts to scale back the workforce at HHS, a massive and highly consequential umbrella agency that employs more than 80,000 people.

Last week, eligible HHS employees were also offered early retirement buyouts under a separate program also managed by OPM, according to an email sent to staff. HHS also reportedly lost 5,200 probationary employees following the purge of those workers across the federal government. The agency has since reportedly rehired some. An unknown amount also resigned from HHS following the January “fork in the road email” that offered federal workers eight months of pay if

Mmmm not possible.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he feels “very badly” for the thousands of civil servants who have lost their jobs in recent weeks but that “many of them don’t work at all.”

He means he feels very bad. “Feeling badly” is a pseudo-refinement resorted to by illiterate boobs like Trump who don’t know how adverbs work. “Feeling badly”=he does a bad job of feeling – which of course is true, but it’s not the lie he was trying to tell the press.

Asked by NBC News whether he feels responsible for so many people losing their jobs, Trump said: “Sure I do. I feel very badly … but many of them don’t work at

Slash slash slash slash slash.

It’s almost Quaker in its simplicity.

President Donald Trump’s mass firings of permanent federal employees have already begun and are expected to accelerate over the next few weeks with tens of thousands more employees terminated. But the layoffs didn’t come out of nowhere.

This week, federal agencies face a deadline to provide Trump administration officials with plans for a reduction in force, a dramatic downsizing of the nation’s more than 2 million federal workers that will occur over the next few months. Along with layoffs, some agencies are expected to indefinitely extend their hiring freezes, eliminate currently vacant positions and consolidate offices as ways to reduce headcount.

To belabor the obvious, this isn’t a … Read the rest

Ah. The woman who says “living as a woman” = being a woman is not just some random akkteeveest, she’s a big wheel.

Green MP for Bristol Central. Co-leader of @TheGreenParty. Engineer.

Too be completely honest, I would expect an MP and co-leader of the Green Party to be more intellectually serious than someone who blithers about “living as a woman” being the same thing as being a woman.… Read the rest

Yeah there is.

Of course there is “one way” of being a woman, just as there is one way of being a doe, a cow, a mare, a hen, a sow, a vixen, a ewe.

There’s not one way of living while being a woman, but there is one way of just basically being-a-woman-not-a-man.… Read the rest

Uh oh uh oh someone referred to a man as Mr.

A House subcommittee hearing abruptly ended on Tuesday after a Republican lawmaker was confronted over misgendering Rep. Sarah McBride, a Democrat from Delaware and the first openly transgender member of Congress. 

In other words the first man playacting being a woman in Congress. Congress shouldn’t be a stage for playacting.

McBride, a transgender woman, had been the subject of attacks from Republicans since starting her term in January. She was previously misgendered by other members, including Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., and Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C.

There’s no such thing as “misgendering.” There is a misogynist thing where men taunt other men for being “pussies” and “cunts” and … Read the rest

I somehow missed this yesterday. Ignorance was bliss. Trump did a car commercial on the White House lawn while Musk brandished his kid as a human shield.

President Donald Trump turned the South Lawn of the White House into a temporary Tesla showroom Tuesday in a conspicuous favor to his adviser Elon Musk, the car company’s billionaire CEO.

Tesla delivered five of its vehicles to the White House and parked them on a driveway for Trump to personally inspect, hours after he said on Truth Social that he planned to buy a Tesla to demonstrate his support for Musk and for the slumping company. 

Ok ideally he would do nothing but this from here on out, but nothing is … Read the rest

You want horrendously bad journalism? I’ll give you horrendously bad journalism. The Northern Echo:

Tempers flared at an International Women’s Day event in Darlington after the council asked a group to leave over an “anti-trans” leaflet.

Concerns were raised over a Let Women Speak pamphlet that was being circulated at an event at Number Forty, on Skinnergate, on Saturday, March 8.

Darlington Council, which has run the site since 2022, said staff tried to intervene when some of the material at the event was found to be “inflammatory and anti-trans”.

Huh? Wut? Whose tempers flared? What group? Who asked them to leave? What does “over a leaflet” mean? What do the quotation marks on “anti-trans” mean? Concerns were raised by what … Read the rest

Musk is having a sad because people don’t want to buy his cars, because they hate him.

Elon Musk — the world’s richest man, who for the past two months has been dismantling or threatening to dismantle government services that help the less fortunate — is having a bad week, and Donald Trump feels sorry for him.

The president’s trade wars have been tanking the stock market, and Musk’s signature company, Tesla, has been along for the ride. The EV behemoth’s shares fell 15 percent on Monday alone, and are down more than 50 percent since peaking in late December. Musk has been melting down as a result, alleging that rival automakers and anyone who prefers them are Nazis,

This is interesting, at least to me, because I think I do know what she means.

Gender activists have had years to tell us what a woman is, yet they still have nothing coherent to say.

This is probably the first time she's been asked this simple question, and based on her expression the first time she's ever even thought about it.pic.twitter.com/sf8eNNtsmr

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) March 11, 2025

“What does it mean?” he asks, and she’s not able to answer, she can only repeat. He asks if it means wearing a dress, reading certain books, and adds that not every woman wears a dress.

I think what it can mean is just the thought in the head. Nothing … Read the rest

Bad title.

In West Texas’ measles outbreak, families forgo conventional medicine along with vaccines

“Conventional” is not the right word there. It’s misleading at best; at worst it nudges people to avoid medicine that works.

They’re trying for the “conventional” journalistic neutrality, but it’s not neutral to apply a pejorative adjective to non-fake medicine. The issue here is doing what works to treat a dangerous disease versus doing what doesn’t work to treat a dangerous disease. It’s a life or death distinction in some cases, so major news outlets really shouldn’t blur it.

Sick families, mostly Mennonite, sit in a makeshift waiting room on the far left, and Dr. Ben Edwards is at a table on the far right.  One

UN gives Saudi Arabia the women’s rights desk.

Joke? No. I wish it were, but it’s not.

Despite its abysmal record on women’s rights, Saudi Arabia is now chairing the UN’s top women’s rights body, presiding until March 21st at a gathering of global leaders that is supposed to address gender equality amid a reported backlash against women’s rights, at the 69th annual session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Saudi Arabia is systematically, explicitly, with malice aforethought opposed to women’s rights. Saudi Arabia despises women. The UN insults women.

The UN’s commission on the status of women meets every year and has a unique opportunity to hold country violators of women’s rights to account. Yet