We are sooooooo tired of having to point out the glaringly obvious problem.

Banning biological males who identify as transgender from being placed in female prisons would violate their human rights, the Scottish Government will argue in court.

Not banning men from being placed in female prisons would violate women’s human rights you obtuse clueless head in the sand lunatics.

The campaign group For Women Scotland (FWS) has launched a legal challenge seeking to overturn existing prison guidance in Scotland, with a hearing due to begin at the Court of Session on February 3.

Current rules allow trans people to be placed in a prison matching their gender identity if it is considered safe to do so. This does not

The Magic Ten Orders yet again.

The ten orders suck. They’re not just theocratic, they’re bad. Don’t steal; don’t kill; don’t lie. Well no shit; can you not come up with a little more than that? Be compassionate? Don’t hurt others? Be generous? Try to make your part of the world a little better? Can’t you come up with some affirmative suggestions instead of just the most basic don’ts plus a ton of godbothering nonsense?

No, you can’t, so get that crap out of the schools.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, who was in the courtroom for the debate, said, “I like our chances.” Asked what he would say to parents who don’t want their children

Originally a comment by maddog on mostly white.

“We didn’t introduce this fight about sports. This was picked by the other side,” said AJ Hikes, executive director of strategy and culture at the ACLU . . . .

The hell you say! Women and girls were not the ones who introduced the bizarre and dangerous notion that men and boys should be able to shove their way into sports for women and girls, so long as the guys say the magic incantation, “I identify as a woman/girl.” This was a fight picked by men and boys to bully and Lord it over women/girls, to steal their places, steal their victories, literally beat up on them, as well as to … Read the rest

Powerful ratiocination.

Heaven help us

Trump: “If anybody thinks that Norway doesn't control the Nobel Prize, they're just kidding. They have a board, but it's controlled by Norway, and I don't care what Norway says."pic.twitter.com/Csg46p8dvF

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) January 20, 2026

So by the same token the US controls the Oscars and the Pulitzer and the Emmies and the Grammys? … Read the rest

The lies persist:

As the US supreme court heard arguments on Tuesday for a case that could determine whether transgender children can participate in school sports – and potentially impact LGBTQ+ civil rights protections more broadly – competing groups of activists rallied in Washington DC.

First lie. The issue is not whether “trans” children can participate, it’s whether boys can and should play in girls-only sports. If they can’t, they can still participate in boys-only sports. That is participating. It’s not fair to let them ruin sports for girls on the pretext that anything else is preventing them from playing at all. Journalism really needs to stop lying about this.

On one side was a multiracial mix of

The Times on Trump’s Davos Show:

Andrew here. I am in Davos, Switzerland, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. President Trump is expected to speak here on Wednesday.

The mood: trepidation, for those who are being honest. I attended several events last night, where some C.E.O.s openly questioned the president, using words like “wild” and “bizarre.” Yet many of them are planning to attend a reception in his honor, with some even joking about the best way to praise him in person. “Tread lightly,” one C.E.O. said. Contrast that with a number of international politicians wringing their hands over the growing tensions about Greenland.

Contrast what? It sounds to me like the same thing. They all … Read the rest

Trump’s latest entertainment is creating a “board of peace” that is inclooosive of all the neighborhood warmongers. Countries that don’t join get punished.

Trump has confirmed he invited Vladimir Putin to join a US-proposed Gaza “Board of Peace”.

The board is part of Trump’s 20-point plan to end the Israel-Hamas war and expected to temporarily oversee the running of Gaza and manage its reconstruction.

On Monday, the Kremlin said the Russian president had received the offer. Neither Moscow nor Trump has said whether Putin had accepted.

Washington has asked various world leaders to sit on the board. On Monday, Trump threatened 200% tariffs on French wine after President Emmanuel Macron declined to join.

Well don’t stop there. Put also 200% … Read the rest

Another thing, that I didn’t pay enough attention to. (It’s like reading Hamlet. There’s always something you missed – some theme or repeated metaphor or word with multiple meanings and overtones – so that it expands like one of those paper flower things, except that it never stops. In Hamlet, that is. In Trump it’s just a bit of stupidity or venality you didn’t notice fully enough the first few times around.)

Why did he send his idiotic letter to multiple ambassadors?

What was the plan? They were going to text each other and hastily put together a rebellion of the ambassadors and keep at it until Norway gave in and handed over the prize in a big silver-paper box … Read the rest

And another thing. I just can’t let go of this one, can I.

What could possibly be more uncool, more gross, more not in the spirit of the thing, more tacky, than telling the world that you think you should have won a big major famous global prize? You’re not even supposed to say you’d like to win, let alone screaming like a giant baby with a wasp up his ass because you didn’t, and let alone times a billion saying that you should have won it because you deserve it more than 8.3 billion people.

This is of course even more true when you are a murderous megalomaniac who has caused many deaths.… Read the rest

I wonder what he means by this bit:

Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace

What’s the logic? How is that not a non sequitur? Not to mention based on a false premise?

It wasn’t Norway that “decided” not to give him a prize, it was the Nobel committee. Except it didn’t have to “decide” anything because it never considered him for the prize. Ok I don’t actually know that for a fact, but why would it? Why of all people in the world to elevate as a force for peace would anyone pick out Donald Trump? He’s … Read the rest

To cheer us up:

Ht notBruce… Read the rest

Great god almighty.

This is one time when a post on TwitX is the actual source: the news outlets quote it as the source so I might as well start there.

NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:

Dear Ambassador:
 
President Trump has asked that the…

— Nick Schifrin (@nickschifrin) January 19, 2026

NEW:

@potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:

Dear Ambassador:  

President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with

Hand it over or I’ll shoot the kid.

In a Truth Social post this weekend, President Trump gave an ultimatum to Europe: If they didn’t allow “the Complete and Total purchase” of Greenland, he would slap tariffs on a group of European countries, 10 percent in February, and then 25 percent in June.

European leaders responded that they would not be bullied.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain called the ultimatum “completely wrong.” President Emmanuel Macron of France went so far as to say Europe should retaliate with the strongest trade tool at its disposable: activating a regulation that could restrict the access of American companies to the E.U. market.

Within hours of the post, members of the

Hadley Freeman in The Times:

The process is the punishment. This is the conclusion every woman will draw from the experience of the Darlington Memorial Hospital nurses who were humiliated and degraded by their employer just because they didn’t want a man, known as “Rose” Henderson, to use the women’s changing room, where he could watch them undress.

On Friday an employment tribunal upheld the nurses’ complaints of discrimination and harassment, which is a victory and should be celebrated. But it is obscene this tribunal was necessary, and future generations will look upon cases like this with the same horrified bewilderment with which we look back on witch trials.

Or perhaps not quite the same because even more so … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug on Hand it over or else.

I remember from history classes that during hard times in absolutist monarchies, it was common, for those petitioning for the redress of grievances, to blame harmful conditions and bad policies on a rotten apple or two among the king’s counsellors, rather than the king himself, as complaining about the former was, sometimes, somewhat less dangerous than the latter.

Same in Mao’s China where the disastrous effects of things like the “Great Leap Forward” were always blamed on unfaithful underlings who abused the chairman’s trust and good intentions for their own self-serving ends. The more people were made to suffer as a direct consequence of the chairman’s policies, … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your name’s not Bruce? on Hand it over or else.

This is a nightmare. How much farther into madness must Trump (and America) plunge before somebody calls for the invocation of the 25th Amendment? I wonder if Putin has the Epstein files, and this is what he’s been holding over Trump all of this time? Putin is the biggest beneficiary if Trump immolates NATO from within. It says nothing good about the United States (or our species) that the fate of billions of people hinges on the psychopathology of one man and his handlers, both American and foreign.

I remember from history classes that during hard times in absolutist monarchies, it was common, for those … Read the rest

Where did the adults go?

A professor was suspended after defending a gender-critical academic from accusations of “transphobia”.

Prof David Gordon said it was in the “interests” of staff and students at the University of Bristol to hear from Prof Alice Sullivan after he invited her to give a talk in November 2024. The Russell Group university’s LGBTQ+ Staff Network had claimed Prof Sullivan, of University College London, was guilty of “transphobia” and would cause “real and enduring harm” if allowed to speak.

But when Prof Gordon, Bristol’s professor of social justice, responded to their concerns via email, he was suspended because his manager had told him not to do so. An investigation concluded in March 2025 that he had

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think tariffs are supposed to be used as aids to extortion.

Trump said Saturday that he would impose a new 10% tariff on Denmark and seven other European countries until “a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.”

The other countries affected would be Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland.

Trump said the duties would increase to 25% if a deal is not reached by June 1.

That seems like not so much a tariff as like a bunch of guys with baseball bats and guns holding up a 7-11.

“We will not allow ourselves to be blackmailed,” said Sweden’s prime minister

So what do Norwegians think?

Norwegian lawmakers reacted with shock and dismay over Venezuela opposition leader María Corina Machado’s decision to present U.S. President Donald Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal.

“It’s completely unheard of,” Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor of international politics at the University of Oslo and former state secretary in the foreign affairs ministry, told public broadcaster NRK on Friday. She called Machado’s gesture “disrespectful” and “pathetic,” saying it undermined the value of the prize, which the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards annually.

It does rather. It’s just so silly. The object is merely an object; the fact that the award was to Machado and not in any way to Trump makes the object irrelevant.

Only … Read the rest

From the Department of Weird Manipulative Headlines:

Emma Watson up for national award after JK Rowling comments

Weird because “after” anything and everything. Time is what it is, so pretty much everything is “after” any given X. Emma Watson up for national award after brushing her teeth, after lunch, after someone in China eats lunch, after everyone in China eats lunch – you get the idea.

It’s sly and sneaky, is what it is. They don’t want to say “despite” or similar, because it might make trouble, so they fall back on the neutral “after” and thus say something absurdly devoid of meaning.

Beware of “after”.… Read the rest