Some fads are more destructive than others.

More than 1,000 patients a year are sent for transgender chest surgery on the NHS. Data obtained by The Telegraph show for the first time the number of referrals for taxpayer-funded “masculinising” mastectomies from specialised gender clinics.

As many as 80 per cent of people using those services are females between the ages of 17 and 25. The 1,000-plus referrals could be the tip of the iceberg, because many people have transgender surgery privately to bypass long NHS waiting lists.

100 percent of people getting “masculinising mastectomies” are females, because males already have the end result of a “masculinising mastectomy.”

Zhenya Abbruzzese, co-founder and senior adviser at the Society for Evidence Based

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But a fact is the very thing it isn’t. It’s the opposite of a fact. It’s a fiction, and a lie. It’s fatuous to claim that X is a fact when X is obviously not even slightly a fact. Stop doing it. Everybody stop doing it. Everybody stop pretending your increasingly absurd daydreams are “facts.” They’re not.

I want to be VERY clear: There is no LGB without the T. If you think there is, you are wrong. This is a fact. It is not up for debate.

— Andy Herren (@AndyHerren) February 7, 2025

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Trump welcomes refugees. Some refugees. A particular brand of refugees.

Trump’s offer to rehouse white South Africans as refugees fleeing persecution may not spur quite the rush he anticipates, as even right-wing white lobby groups want to “tackle the injustices” of Black majority rule on home soil.

Trump on Friday signed an executive order to cut U.S. aid to South Africa, citing an expropriation act that President Cyril Ramaphosa signed last month aiming to redress land inequalities that stem from South Africa’s history of white supremacy. The order provided for resettlement in the U.S. of “Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination” as refugees.

Afrikaners are mostly white descendants of early Dutch and French settlers,

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Uh huh.

Let's be clear. The sequence of anti-trans measures brought in by Trump echo the antiSemitic Nuremberg laws of the Third Reich.
They are also in line with express demands of the GC movement such as the Women's Declaration which most leading GCs signed.
If it walks like a Nazi.

— Roz Kaveney (@RozKaveney) January 31, 2025

I beg and beseech them to repent and accept what they have helped bring about before they are more complicit in the unforgivable than they already are.

— Roz Kaveney (@RozKaveney) January 31, 2025

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Hadley Freeman tells an important truth:

I assume that, by now, most Sunday Times readers are au fait with gender ideology, which contends that a man magically becomes a woman simply because he claims to feel like one. Left-wing papers and politicians gasped in horror at Trump’s bill, and the congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez insisted only “bigoted” people would see males in women’s sport as a presidential priority. But President Biden opened women’s sports teams to males on his first day in office. This led to the deluge of videos of males clattering their female opponents, which ultimately curdled public opinion. You can’t argue that the question of males in women’s sports teams is the civil rights issue of our

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Sonia Sodha puts it very well.

Some things are plain common sense. Female employees should not be expected to share changing rooms with male colleagues. They shouldn’t be socially shamed into undressing around them, or being in spaces where male colleagues get undressed in front of them.

Common sense, but at the same time, transphobic and evil and yet another bad thing women do.

…most people don’t need to read accounts of how uncomfortable mixed-sex changing facilities make some women feel, or statistics showing that voyeurism and exposure are two of the most common male sex crimes, to understand how wrong this would be.

But not managers at NHS Fife, it would seem. Despite the law of the land

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Nope this is no good. Consumer financial protection is a good thing.

CNN:

Russell Vought took over as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday night and officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency deleted the banking watchdog’s X account, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.

Vought’s new role, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, came a day after he was confirmed by the Senate to lead the Office of Management and Budget.

The source told CNN that DOGE officials have been granted administrative access to CFPB systems, including content management system, back-end systems for the bureau’s website and the active directory of personnel.

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Ah smug pseudo-lefties, they just can’t get enough of this kind of drivel.

MSNBC host Chris Hayes tells Bill Maher that if parents want to abuse their children by mutilating them or giving them cross-sex hormones, the government has no right to step in and stop them – and that's the message the Democrats should use to win back power pic.twitter.com/RapqzDryg2

— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) February 8, 2025

…if some father and mother have healthcare for their kid lined up who’s trans just stay the fuck out of their business.

Burst of applause.

Is that right? So if some father and mother keep their desperately ill kid away from healthcare because they are Jehovah’s Witnesses or some other bullshit religion, just … Read the rest

Trump in his wisdom has decreed that medical research is a useless frivolity so he’s sabotaging it.

The Trump administration is cutting billions of dollars in biomedical research funding, alarming academic leaders who said it would imperil their universities and medical centers and drawing swift rebukes from Democrats who predicted dire consequences for scientific research.

The move, announced Friday night by the National Institutes of Health, drastically cuts NIH’s funding for “indirect” costs related to research. These are the administrative requirements, facilities and other operations that many scientists say are essential but that some Republicans have claimed are superfluous.

Look, if you can’t do medical research in your own kitchen using the available tools, what use are you?

Democrats

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Oh dear, too much cancellation eh wot? How did that happen?

https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1888179974454026332

Such as…

https://twitter.com/Sorelle_Arduino/status/1888238597377044695

Oh well. There’s always the wonderful Greta.

pic.twitter.com/LviaXZPpOe

— Gender Receipts (@GenderReceipts) February 8, 2025

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Counting twice. (The link is to the Western Standard, a conservative outlet, but you know how this goes. The other team won’t go near the truth.)

A transgendered advisor to the federal Minister of Women claims biological males have no advantage in athletics despite dominating a women’s 5 km race,

Nathanielle Morin advises Liberal MP Marci Ien, Minister of Women, Gender Equality and Youth. In a Wednesday post to X, Morin objected to Trump’s executive order to ban biological males from competing in women’s and girl’s sports in the United States.

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Morin was favourably profiled by Radio Canada for her diversity, during a run for MP representing the Liberals in the riding of Louis-Saint-Laurent.

“Of the many,

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Reduxx has more on the powerful arguer for the absolute truth that men have no physical advantages over women.

The advisor to the Canadian Liberal government’s Minister of Women, who claimed on X that trans-identified men do not have an advantage over women in sports, is a trans-identified male who previously dominated a women’s 5km race.

Nathanielle Morin is currently the advisor to Member of Parliament Marci Ien in her capacity as the Minister of Women, Gender Equality and Youth.

Oh is he now. Why? Why would a Member of Parliament who is Minister of Women want a man who pretends to be a woman as “the advisor”? I would really like to know.

On February 6, Morin took to

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Oh gosh, it turns out we’ve been wrong all this time, science says trans women are NOT men. The proof is these blue box-thingies with words in them.

Some myths about Transwomen competing in sports.

I tought it would be interesting to share as I'm runner myself. Concerns about fairness in sport needs to be heard and it's good to have discussions about it. But facts have to be also shown.

Image made by Pinkmantary. pic.twitter.com/pRiKyhhhMU

— Nathanielle (@Nathanielle_Qc) February 6, 2025

That first paragraph of the first box has knocked me sideways with its epic proofyness. You can’t get much more proofy than “Research has shown that trans women are, in fact, NOT biological men.” Case closed; conflict over; … Read the rest

Of course he does.

Trump plans to name himself chair of Kennedy Center, fire board members

President Trump says he is taking over leadership of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. He declared himself chairman of Washington D.C.’s long-celebrated cultural institution on Friday. In doing so, he’ll replace billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein, an ally of former President Joe Biden who was set to chair until 2026.

Posting on Truth Social, Trump wrote he was immediately terminating “multiple individuals” from the center’s Board of Trustees “who do not share our vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture.”

Trump said he would soon announce a new board, “with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!”

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No advantage, no advantage; what do you mean advantage??!

The advisor to the Canadian Liberal government’s Minister of Women, who claimed on X that trans-identified men do not have an advantage over women in sports, is a trans-identified male who previously dominated a women’s 5km race.

That’s just great. Not only does he lie about male advantage in sports, he is also advisor to the government’s Minister of Women – he insults and steals from women in two ways instead of just one. How impressive. A woman loses top spot in a race, and women in general lose the Minister of Women.

Nathanielle Morin is currently the advisor to Member of Parliament Marci Ien in her capacity as the

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The ugliness on the ground.

The Trump administration’s abrupt decision to repatriate the U.S. Agency for International Development’s overseas workforce has thrust the agency’s global staff into chaos and despair, as workers scramble to uproot their lives and brace for what they fear will be a shutdown of all American aid missions in 30 days.

In interviews, USAID staffers said Tuesday’s recall order hassent them racing to make temporary housing arrangements back in the United States, identify new day cares or schools for their children, and plan for a future in which, as many now believe is inevitable, they are left unemployed.

These employees, some assigned to dangerous “hardship” posts, are attempting to navigate that process with little information

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So it turns out that Musk’s horrifyingly successful purge of USAID is based on his deep knowledge via various pseudonymous conspiracy wackos on his toy X.

Musk’s sudden — and consequential — interest in USAID did not emerge from a vacuum: The agency has long been a target of criticism that its aid programs masked nation-meddling and overspent American tax dollars abroad. Some conspiracy theories alleged that the global humanitarian programs were a cover for biowarfare research or that USAID’s funding enriched an elite few who control the world. 

But until very recently, those claims were largely outside the mainstream, and USAID, which delivers billions of dollars of food and medicine to more than 100 countries, generally enjoyed

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He doesn’t actually have the authority to do this.

Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly planning to keep just more than [over] 600 essential workers at USAid, according to a notice sent to employees of the US foreign aid agency on Thursday night.

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The USAid staff reductions are set to take effect at midnight on Friday, as indicated on the agency’s website. But a lawsuit filed on Thursday by the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) seeks to prevent the administration from dismantling USAid, which was established as an independent agency by a law passed by Congress in 1998.

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Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug at Miscellany Room.

…the day is fast approaching when you’ll want to pretend you always saw through the craziness and never believed it for a second.

For years lots of people have been predicting “Peak Tr… (1)”, and lots of people have been predicting “Peak Tr… (2)”.

The former kept expecting Tr… (1)’s outrageous behavior, his lifetime of crime and corruption, his pathological lying, his pussygrabbing, his obvious authoritarianism and illiberalism, his nepotism, his use of the office to funnel money to his private businesses, his theft of classified documents, his attempted coup d’état (!), his endless legal trouble etc. to finally catch up with him.

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Health is non-essential.

The White House is working on an executive order to fire thousands of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services workers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

White House on Thursday denied it is drafting an executive order to cut workers across federal health agencies.

According to the Wall Street Journal, under the order, which could come as soon as next week, the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health agencies would have to cut a certain percentage of employees.

How do Musk and his troops know that there is a “certain percentage of employees” who are useless to public health?

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