Not a bug but a feature.

Human rights organizations on Thursday denounced the visit by the US homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to the notorious prison in El Salvador that is holding hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the US earlier this month without a hearing, calling her actions “political theater”.

Critics condemned Noem’s visit as just the latest example of the Trump administration’s aim to spread fear among immigrant communities, as the cabinet member stood in a baseball hat in front of a line of caged men bare from the waist up.

Noem visited the so-called Cecot, or Terrorism Confinement Center, an infamous maximum-security prison. The prison, built in 2022 during a brutal government crackdown on organized crime,

When unions lose the plot:

The academics behind a gender-critical documentary have launched a discrimination claim against their own union after officials branded the film “transphobic” and campaigned against screenings at Edinburgh University.

Deirdre O’Neill, a lecturer at Hertfordshire University, and Michael Wayne, a professor at Brunel University, directed Adult Human Female, which they described as the “first UK documentary feature to look at the clash between women’s rights and trans ideology”.

It defines sex as being determined by biology and says women’s rights have been damaged by aspects of the trans movement.

Well it’s not that the film defines sex that way, it’s that that is the definition. A person’s sex is what it is, and playing … Read the rest

Oh dear oh dear guess who is joining Bill Maher in making fun of The Leader.

John McWhorter??? But surely he’s on Team Trump with all the other best people, isn’t he?

Isn’t he?… Read the rest

Helen Webberly:

Said with extreme clarity and precision and nodding:

Ethnic cleansing, that’s what this is.

[Drama pause for everyone to gasp and flinch and send money]

Just like wartime, where you had to queue up and prove that you were pure enough to be able to live.

Except not like that at all. There are no extermination camps for trans people. There are no calls for extermination camps for trans people. There is simply the refusal to agree that people are whatever they say they are (in all circumstances no matter what) and the refusal to agree that sex is something anyone can swap out as easily as returning one library book and checking out a different one. … Read the rest

Peak stupidity. Any stupider and the universe would blink out.

Hi @soniasodha . What would your view be if Kathleen Stock was saying Asian people – particularly women – should not be legally recognised as equal? And banned from using the same facilities as White people because they’re dangerous? How would you describe such a person?… pic.twitter.com/xA3OpOEC8C

— India Willoughby (@IndiaWilloughby) March 29, 2025

It’s not about “equal”; it’s about “thing you’re not.” Pretending to be the opposite sex has nothing to do with equality; it has to do with pretending to be what you are not.

It’s also not about randomly “banning” Asian people from facilities; it’s about banning men from facilities where women are vulnerable. Men can hit … Read the rest

Bad Kennedy is converting the FDA to a center for quackery.

The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator was forced out of the agency Friday and sharply criticized Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his boss at the Department of Health and Human Services.

“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Dr. Peter Marks wrote in his letter of resignation, which was obtained by NPR.

Marks has long steered the FDA’s regulation of vaccines as director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. He became especially well known during the first Trump administration for his work with Operation Warp Speed, which

The project to alienate allies is flourishing.

Denmark on Saturday said it did not like the “tone” of US Vice President JD Vance‘s comments that Copenhagen had not done enough for Greenland during a visit to the strategically placed, resource-rich Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump. 

“We are open to criticisms, but let me be completely honest, we do not appreciate the tone in which it’s being delivered,” Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on X.

Really? Denmark doesn’t like having some snot drop in uninvited to berate and threaten it? How eccentric and European.

“Our message to Denmark is very simple: You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland,” Vance

Trump stamping on unions.

Union leaders have accused Donald Trump of union-busting in a “blatant” attempt to silence them after the president stepped up his attacks on government unions on Thursday, signing an executive order that attempts to eliminate collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

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Liz Shuler, the president of the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of labor unions in the US, said the move was “straight out of Project 2025”, the rightwing Heritage Foundation’s manifesto to remake the federal government.

“This executive order is the very definition of union-busting. It strips the fundamental right to unionize and collectively bargain from workers across the federal government at more than 30 agencies,” said Shuler. “It’s clear

The Globe and Mail reports:

Yale professors who left the school and accepted positions at the University of Toronto are speaking out about the Trump administration’s attacks on post-secondary institutions, expressing their fears about authoritarianism rising south of the border.

Three Yale professors – all of them vocal critics of President Donald Trump – have recently taken up roles at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

Earlier this week, philosophy professor Jason Stanley, who has written about fascism and propaganda, announced that he would leave Yale for U of T.

He joins professors Marci Shore and Timothy Snyder, who specialize in Eastern European history. The two academics are married and arrived in Canada last August, on

Micromanaging all the museums.

Trump on Thursday ordered that “improper, divisive or anti-American ideology” be removed from the Smithsonian Institution, the vast museum and research complex that is a premier exhibition space for U.S. history and culture.

That’s not his job. His power and authority are not infinite, and I really doubt they stretch to telling the Smithsonian what it can and can’t include in its museums.

According to Trump’s order, the Democratic Biden administration “pushed a divisive ideology that reconstrued America’s promotion of liberty as fundamentally flawed, inflecting revered institutions like the Smithsonian and national parks with false narratives.”

Is it divisive though? Which is more divisive: insisting that “America’s promotion of liberty” has been without flaw throughout … Read the rest

It’s so fascinating when they do this.

At the lib dem conference last weekend where they made great efforts to be inclusive.

As a woman, however, I felt like misogyny had strolled up and slapped me hard across the face.@SexMattersOrg @WomensRightsNet @DingsdaleJ95299 @GBNEWS pic.twitter.com/z6rCQYr9Pr

— Nicmar17 (@Nicmar172) March 27, 2025

MEN get men-only toilets but WOMEN do not get women-only toilets.

Why?

Women perving on men in public toilets is not a thing.

Men perving on women in public toilets is most definitely a thing.

So WHY the FUCK do these imbeciles proudly make the men’s toilets exclusive to men while making the women’s toilets open to everyone?

Other than sheer deep-dyed loathing of women?… Read the rest

Law firms fight back.

Two major law firms are taking the Trump administration to court on Friday, seeking to block executive orders that the firms say target them for zealous representation of clients and their hearty pro bono work.

The lawsuit by the Jenner & Block firm, filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., alleges violations of the First Amendment guarantees to free speech and free association. It also alleges the order violates the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment by hurting the firm’s ability to practice law; and violates the Sixth Amendment, for undermining the relationship between attorneys and their clients, and clients’ right to lawyers of their choosing.

And Amendment forty seventy leventy … Read the rest

I love it when people I don’t like show up on my doorstep demanding dinner.

When he arrives in Greenland on Friday, Vice President JD Vance is not going to get much of a welcome from Greenlanders.

Mr. Vance will be the highest-ranking American official ever to visit the island.

But the government of Greenland never invited him and after all that President Trump has said about his desire to “get” the island, many Greenlanders don’t want Mr. Vance coming at all. Mr. Vance is scheduled to visit a remote American military base on the northern coast, far from any town.

Military base. Geddit? MILITARY BASE? They’re so subtle.

The White House’s original plan was more ambitious. Usha

The Smithsonian must present US history as one long list of Very Excellent Things.

Trump issued an executive order Thursday evening promising to eliminate “improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution’s museums and restore “monuments, memorials, statues, markers” that have been removed over the past five years.

There can’t be anything “divisive” in Smithy museums. Hmmm. That means Smithy museums have to be empty. Everything is “divisive” to someone. People aren’t clones of each other, so their thoughts can differ, so there is never any guarantee that not one single person will say No.

The institution, the official keeper of the American story, has operated independently as a public-private partnership created by an act of Congress in 1846.

More like Nazis every day.

While there is a lot of focus on the major scandals involving Donald Trump’s administration, it’s important we don’t lose sight of what’s happening inside this country, where we are witnessing the federal government snatch people right off the streets for their political speech. The latest, most chilling example of that happened Tuesday outside of Boston, when Rumeysa Ozturk, a Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar at Tufts University, was taken off a residential street in Somerville, Massachusetts.

At 5:15 p.m., Ozturk, who came to the United States from Turkey on a student visa, had just left her apartment when, as video obtained by NBC News shows, she was approached by a man

Also by the way the future fines will be much bigger.

Universities could face multi-million-pound fines for breaches of freedom of speech rules, the Office for Students (OfS) said.

The University of Sussex was fined £585,000 after the OfS said its equality policy – which included rules to “positively represent trans people” – could prevent staff and students voicing opposing views. Sussex was investigated after Prof Kathleen Stock left the university in 2021 accused of transphobia.

Arif Ahmed, OfS director for freedom of speech, said the fine could have been as high as £3.7m and there was “potential for higher fines in the future”.

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The University of Sussex was the first to be fined under new powers given

The Defenders of the Holy Genderfaith are vowing revenge.

Obviously, Sussex should challenge this ruling, and I hope they go hard on the line that "gender critical beliefs" is just a misnomer for transphobia, and get GC people under oath challenged on what their "gender critical beliefs" actually are.

— Aidan Comerford (@AidanCTweets) March 27, 2025

I wonder what he imagines that “get GC people under oath challenged” can mean. Get them under oath how, where, by what authority, under what circumstances? Is he fantasizing mass arrests, mass incarceration, mass grillings by a heroic prosecutor? For what? On what grounds? Under which dictator?

Stupid little twerp. … Read the rest

Baddy Kennedy is slashing health agencies, because of course he is.

Robert F Kennedy Jr said the nation’s health agencies will cut 10,000 jobs from their 82,000-person workforce – an enormous reduction the US health secretary characterized as streamlining federal bureaucracy amid internal resistance to the administration’s agenda.

The cuts announced on Thursday, along with previous restructuring and voluntary buy-outs, mean the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will lose roughly 20,000 workers.

Kennedy said the department will also close half of its regional offices and create a new agency called the “administration for a healthy America”, or AHA.

Aha, Kennedy wants us all to rely on quack medicine instead of the real kind.

HHS is among

In current (outrageous) news –

I was just fired by @VCHhealthcare after 13 years of employment as a registered nurse, with no severance, because I know that men are not women.

— Amy Eileen Hamm (@preta_6) March 27, 2025

So Vancouver Coastal Health wants nurses who don’t know that men are not women?

Doesn’t that sound like the very short route to medical malpractice? Doesn’t that sound like “First do all the harm you can”? Doesn’t that sound like the flat negation of any reasonable hiring/keeping criterion for medical professionals?

What next? Firing nurses and doctors who can’t can tell the difference between people and rabbits, cormorants, rattlesnakes, bowls of soup?… Read the rest

Aw. Nobody wants her to knock on the door.

Representatives of the American government have been going door to door in Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, in recent days ahead of the now-canceled visit by the U.S. Second Lady, Usha Vance.

This is according to TV 2’s correspondent in Nuuk, Jesper Steinmetz.

“American…

— Orla Joelsen (@OJoelsen) March 26, 2025

“American representatives have been walking around, practically knocking on one door after another in the past few days to ask if people might be interested in a visit from the Vice President’s wife. Everywhere, the answer was the same: ‘No, thanks.’” Source; TV2.

My answer would have been “Hell no” at best.… Read the rest