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

He’s not even from here. He doesn’t even go to this school.

U.S. DOGE Service leader Elon Musk on Monday called Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) — a decorated Navy pilot and former NASA astronaut — a traitor in a post on X after the senator visited Ukraine and expressed his support for the country in its war with Russia.

Who’re you calling a traitor you filthy thieving bullying self-enriching toad of a man??? A traitor to what? You? You are not the boss of us and never will be.

Kelly, who flew dozens of combat missions in the Middle East as a Navy pilot and took four NASA missions to space, also told reporters at the Capitol later Monday

RTE News exclaims

A building is to be named after a woman for the first time in Trinity College Dublin’s 433-year history

The Women Exist Society retorts

Here’s the @tcddublin student union president sitting in his office with a sign saying ‘F*CK TERFs (women)’ How are the female students in Trinity meant to feel safe on campus when this level of misogyny is allowed

Yes, sure enough “Jenny” Maguire is a man. We’ve encountered him before. September 2023: there was a Let Women Speak rally so of course the pretend men turned up to Try to Make Women Shut Up.

The counter demo organised by Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin assembled outside the Dail on Kildare Street ahead of

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Good relations between groups of staff.

…NHS Fife has a duty to foster good relations between groups of staff with different protected characteristics.

Yeah, but some groups are more equal than others.

Neither Upton nor Peggie should ever have been put in this position. It is the employer’s failing and NHS Fife has failed both.

I disagree. NHS Fife did not “put” Upton “in this position.” He put himself in that position all by himself. Upton chose to enter a female single sex space knowing he was male. NHS Fife permitted him to do so. That was not an accident. That was not a mistake. It was deliberate, on the … Read the rest

Jane McClenachan in the Morning Star on the Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife tribunal:

This is a case that should never have happened and responsibility lies with the Scottish government, the NHS and the trade unions.

Their collective disregard for women’s rights has been made public. Inaccurate guidance issued by all of these organisations advises that individuals can choose which single-sex facilities they wish to use according to their gender identity. This mistaken position is set out in model trans equality policies produced by trade unions.

In point of fact, the Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulation 1992 requires employers to provide separate changing rooms and toilets for male and female staff.

NHS Fife has failed to do so.

Another Baltimore.

A major rescue operation was launched after a tanker laden with fuel and a cargo vessel collided in the North Sea off the East Yorkshire coast, with both vessels catching fire.

Great. Fabulous. Marine life and wildlife destroyed for miles around.

Maritime firm Crowley, which manages the tanker, said the vessel had suffered a ruptured cargo tank, adding crew had abandoned ship following “multiple explosions onboard”.

The vessels involved in the collision are the US-flagged Stena Immaculate tanker and the Solong, a Portuguese-flagged container ship, according to data from the ship-tracking website MarineTraffic.

No news on the crew of the Solong.

According to MarineTraffic, the Stena Immaculate had travelled from the Greek port of Agioi Theodoroi and

Oh honestly.

Trump lets us know he thinks he’s Elvis.

In the early hours of Sunday the US president shared a photo on social media showing half his face and half of Presley’s in a post with no words.

And not just Elvis but young Elvis – young hot smoldering Elvis.

NB: there is no resemblance.

Even President Trump’s biggest fans might have been questioning whether he was feeling lonesome on Saturday night when he posted an image comparing himself to Elvis Presley.

Trump, 78, posted an image that showed half of his face and half of Presley’s in an update on his Truth Social platform. It was posted at about 1.30am on Sunday when the president was at

Hospital tells men to go right ahead and barge into women’s toilets.

A London hospital trust has told trans employees they can use the lavatories and changing rooms of their choice in a challenge to Wes Streeting.

Not to mention an insult and threat to women.

Why do we even have separate toilets and changing rooms for women and men? Oh that’s right, because some men enjoy sexually assaulting and intimidating women.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ trust’s new transgender equality policy tells all staff they must refer to everyone with the pronoun of their choice, even if they do not believe in gender ideology.

Seriously? Guy’s and St Thomas’s trust tell employees they have to memorize specialty … Read the rest