Wheels falling off already.

A leading spokesperson in the Department of Health and Human Services announced his resignation Monday after stark disagreements with Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over how to manage the growing measles outbreak.

Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Thomas Corry resigned effective immediately on Friday only two weeks after starting the job, he posted on LinkedIn, wishing his colleagues in the department “the best and great success.” Corry reportedly butted heads with Kennedy and Kennedy’s principal deputy chief of staff, Stefanie Spear, over how to manage the department, according to Politico.

Let me guess – he thought it should be managed in the direction of shutting down outbreaks of dangerous disease?

Specifically, Corry was not

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Goddam Democrats voted unanimously to let men invade women’s sports.

Help is on the way.

A useful graphic for all the DEMOCRATIC SENATORS!!!!! pic.twitter.com/fyLfY4FbrO

— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) March 4, 2025

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No, it’s really not.

Women’s history is women’s history. That’s all. We have zero obligation to share it with other categories of people, because it’s women’s. Words have meaning.… Read the rest

Trump is doing his tariff thing.

Donald Trump just took the biggest gamble of his young second presidency.

His hammer-blow 25% tariffs against Canada and Mexico that hit at midnight dealt a fresh shock to an economy showing alarming signs of slowing growth and rising inflation – a perilous mix for any president.

Trump also doubled an additional tariff on all Chinese imports to 20%, in a trio of decisions that sent stocks – a cherished metric of his own performance – tumbling. 

Not to worry. All part of the plan. These guys know what they’re doing. This is three dimensional chess.

“It’s going to be very costly for people to take advantage of this country. They can’t come

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Trump has stopped military aid to Ukraine.

We’re restarting our live coverage as the White House announces that the US will pause military aid for Ukraine.

“The President has been clear that he is focused on peace. We need our partners to be committed to that goal as well. We are pausing and reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution,” a White House official has told the BBC’s US partner, CBS News.

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According to officials this pause is said to be temporary until President Trump determines that Ukraine can demonstrate a “commitment to peace negotiations” with Russia.

The Trump administration basically wants President Zelensky to sign the minerals deal and “make peace” with

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The dogma is solemnly recited.

I’m not rebranding, @jk_rowling.
It’s unfortunate that rather engaging critically with my tweet, you try to turn me into some sort of caricature.
I’m less concerned with my “personal clout” than I am in challenging your bigotry.
Trans women are women. https://t.co/70wOKzWaRe https://t.co/Al3WliwhUC

— Thomas Willett (@ThomasWillett9) March 2, 2025

JKR replies:

The fringe idea that we all have a ‘gender identity’ that may or may not match our biological sex is the whole point of this discussion. Trans activists act as though the existence of ‘gender identity’ is a settled, self-evident point, when to the vast majority of the world it’s unevidenced, quasi-religious, pseudoscientific nonsense, which has been imposed top down on

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Letter to Dim Don:

https://twitter.com/rshereme/status/1896628953600995407 https://twitter.com/rshereme/status/1896628959917568466

https://twitter.com/rshereme/status/1896628969174335519 https://twitter.com/rshereme/status/1896628987180523908 https://twitter.com/rshereme/status/1896628992343683458

Signed, Lech Wałęsa, former political prisoner, Solidarity leader, President of Poland

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National Organization for Women:

ACTION ALERT: Urge your Senators to vote against the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act

Yes hello we are the national organization for women and we are telling you to vote against keeping men and boys out of women’s and girls’ sports. We are telling you to campaign not to exclude men and boys from sports for women and girls. We are, in short, telling you to ruin sports for women and girls. Are we progressive or what.

This bill prohibits school athletic programs from allowing trans women, or individuals not assigned female at birth, to participate in school athletic programs. This endangers all players on women and girls’ sports teams no matter

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“All the land,” he exclaims in dramatic shock-horror. Yes all the land that Putin invaded – what’s the shock-horror about? If somebody breaks into your house do you feel obliged to give up the living room and kitchen before calling the cops?

It’s terrifying how captured these people are.

Lutnick on Zelenskyy: "You gotta say, 'We love America, We appreciate America' … Instead he said, 'I want $300b in reparations from Russia. I want them off my land. I want all the land.' Really! All the land … it's just way too far. That's not a peacemaker. That's a… pic.twitter.com/J4kfC2XFr4

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 3, 2025

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The Guardian puts it more strongly.

The Trump administration announced it will take control of the White House press pool, stripping the independent White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) of its longstanding role in deciding which journalists have access to the president in intimate settings. The move has immediately triggered an impassioned response from members of the media – including a Fox News correspondent who called it a “short-sighted decision”.

The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, made the announcement during Tuesday’s press briefing, framing the move as democratizing access to the president.

“A group of DC-based journalists, the White House Correspondents’ Association, has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the president of the United States,”

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Now the dictator is deciding who can report on his dictatorship.

On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced the White House would determine which media outlets would cover the president in smaller spaces such as the Oval Office.

The White House Correspondents’ Association has traditionally coordinated the rotation of the presidential press pool. Reuters, an international wire service, has participated in the pool for decades.

This is all wrong. Administrations should not be deciding who can cover them, for reasons that are blindingly obvious.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that while traditional media organizations would still be permitted to cover Trump on a day-to-day basis, the administration plans to change who participates in smaller spaces. The pool system,

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National Organization for Men spits on women yet again.

To laugh or cry at this?
National Organisation for Women
2024 pic.twitter.com/sw2LLL93lh

— Gay Not Queer (@Gaynotqueer1) March 3, 2025

They order us to vote AGAINST defending women’s sports. Against it, I tell you.

From their website: pic.twitter.com/7ImVys1SXs

— Bucking Fitches (@buckingfitch50) March 3, 2025

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I can’t read the cartoonist’s name (on the back of Zelenskyy’s chair) and can’t find it otherwise but I like the cartoon.

ZEZVOZ?

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Please, insult us some more.

An Australian ‘Woman of the Year’ award has become the subject of furious backlash because the winner was not born female.

No, that’s not accurate. The fury is because the winner is male and thus cannot be any kind of “woman of the year.” The fury is because it’s wildly insulting to give an award for women to a man. The fury is because of the contempt for women behind calling a man “woman of the year.”

Transgender woman Brianna Skinner was named the 2025 Sydney Local Woman of the Year this week.

A NSW government initiative, the annual awards give MPs the opportunity to celebrate the contribution of women in their electorate.

By

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Because there’s not enough bad news yet – How Trump is Crushing US Climate Policy:

In a few short weeks, President Trump has severely damaged the government’s ability to fight climate change, upending American environmental policy with moves that could have lasting implications for the country, and the planet.

With a flurry of actions that have stretched the limits of presidential power, Mr. Trump has gutted federal climate efforts, rolled back regulations aimed at limiting pollution and given a major boost to the fossil fuel industry.

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To achieve such a wholesale overhaul of the country’s climate policies in such a short time, the Trump administration has reneged on federal grants, fired workers en masse and attacked longstanding environmental

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Originally a comment by YNnB on Soz.

How would “trans people” not feel safe sitting near her? For that matter how would they know they were sitting near her? How would they have the faintest idea they were sitting near her? Or who she was or what she had said?

It’s not as if she was infected with a disease, or radioactive. The fact that trans people claim that being in an online meeting with alleged TERFS and transphobes makes them feel “unsafe”, means it can’t be simple physical proximity that concerns them. Online meetings and fora are not, as far as I know, covered by the inverse square law. What is being policed is not “safety” but disbelief… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Upside down.

Donald Trump has been under constant political persecution since the beginning of his first term.

Donald Trump has been under criminal prosecution since before his first term. He’s a fraud, a charlatan, a sexual predator, and violated the Emoluments Clause in the Constitution he swore to protect. Going after him for these offences is not “persecution”; it is the normal course of justice. Being a celebrity, or rich, or President of the United States, doesn’t (or shouldn’t) put you beyond the reach of the law when you have broken it. Also, people pointing out that you are a raging narcissist, bully, autocrat, and all-’round asshole is not “persecution.”… Read the rest

They’re floundering. They’re backtracking. They’re seeking any port in a storm. They’re resorting to deepities. They’re contradicting themselves.

When we say “trans women are women”, we’re not saying that they’re the same as cís women.
No two women or men are the same. Concepts of womanhood & manhood evolve across times, place & culture. What we mean is that trans women are valid & deserving of recognition as women. https://t.co/f6x4FO6r2h

— Thomas Willett (@ThomasWillett9) March 1, 2025

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They have better manners across the pond.

Rattled European leaders gathered in London on Sunday, scrambling to salvage any U.S. backing for Ukraine — and to map a way through disintegrating transatlantic security relations — after the televised Oval Office blowup between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

European heads of state continued to rally around Zelensky, who was greeted with cheers outside 10 Downing Street and a warm hug from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer when he arrived Saturday. European Union and NATO leaders met later Sunday in London, where Ukraine was at the forefront of discussions, and Zelensky attended. Starmer, in brief remarks before the leaders walked in for talks, said recent events had brought

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Police admit they probably maybe should not have terrorized a woman for saying men are not women.

Police have apologised over an investigation they mounted into a Newcastle United fan banned by the football club after expressing gender-critical views on social media.

Northumbria Police have told Linzi Smith that crucial elements of their investigation into claims she had committed a hate crime were not acceptable.

Yeah, “crucial elements” like the fact that what she said is simple obvious truth that everyone over the age of 3 is well aware of.

Ms Smith, 34, was accused of being transphobic by a complainant who told Newcastle United that trans people would not feel safe sitting near her.

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