Author: Ophelia Benson

Here is the message that an Australian court has ordered Kirralie Smith to pin to all her social media whatsits.

PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE LOCAL COURT OF NSW AS VARIED BY THE SUPREME COURT OF NSW Following proceedings in the Local Court of NSW (2024/78280) the Local Court of NSW has declared that Kirralie Smith and Binary Australia contravened section 38S of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1997 (NSW) by making and publishing various social media posts between 19 January 2023 and 27 March 2023 and a newsletter dated 19 January 2023 that incited hatred towards, serious contempt for, or severe ridicule of a soccer player on the ground that she is a transgender person. Public acts that incite hatred towards, serious contempt for, or severe ridicule of, a person or group of persons on the ground that the person or group are transgender are unlawful under the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW). The Local Court of NSW has ordered Kirralie Smith and Binary Australia to pay damages to the soccer player, and to remove the offending posts and to not repeat or continue the offending behaviour.

But it’s not “on the ground that she is a transgender person”. Not not not. It’s on the ground that he is a male person. We don’t give a shit whether people call themselves transgender or not. We give a shit about men calling themselves women and then taking all our stuff and forcing themselves on us in our own spaces.

Courts abusing women for refusing to call men “women” is not social justice, not progressive, not lefty, not liberal, not reasonable, not sane, not fair, not decent, not ok, not acceptable.

Time to say no, perhaps?

Ministers should consider proscribing a militant transgender activist group which has targeted the offices of MPs, the government’s former adviser on political violence has said.

Writing in The Times, Lord Walney said the conduct of the group Bash Back “deserves far more serious attention than it has so far received” and that ministers should test it against the same threshold that led to the proscription of Palestine Action.

Bash Back is a transgender-led direct action group which vandalised the office of Wes Streeting in July last year when he was the health secretary, and it has pushed for a “new era of trans rage”. 

It’s not really a good fit, is it. The rhetoric doesn’t mesh with the cause. Passion and anger can work when the cause is righteous enough – stop the mass slaughter, end the torture, do away with the system that subordinates millions of people. When the cause is “fawn over men who insist that they are women” it doesn’t work so well. It’s too trivial, too niche, too fictional, too childish, too silly. The result is that demands for rage come across as entitled and coercive.

The Times previously revealed that the group had produced a guide for members urging them to arm themselves and carry out repeated illegal attacks on MPs and organisations.

There again, a flimsy and inherently narcissistic cause stumbles at the first step. If you’re going to go all militant you want to have a decent reason for it.

It told activists to form “independent local cells”, “identify a target” — including MPs, organisations and political party conferences — and “ensure your target can be hit repeatedly until they desist” from their “transphobic” activities.

It’s not accidental that that looks like telling people to resort to physical violence against people while leaving room to say “Oh no, we mean their offices and organizations.” Please. If they really meant that and only that, they would have said that and only that. The not doing so is absolutely intentional.

Walney stressed that he made no suggestion about who was responsible while proceedings were active, but said it was “a fair observation” that Bash Back had withdrawn none of its material since her death.

“Not one image of masked, hammer-wielding activists. Not the guide instructing supporters to select political targets and strike them until they desist,” he said. 

The implications of which, I repeat, are extremely obvious.

“An organisation genuinely committed to non-violence, watching the country absorb the killing of a public figure in her own home, would have paused. This one did not.”

Let’s be real here. An organisation genuinely committed to non-violence would not have said all that about striking targets until they desist.

In a statement posted on social media, Bash Back said: “We completely reject the idea that we are a ‘terrorist’ group. We are a non-violent direct action group that demands the total liberation of trans people, and opposes the rising tide of anti-trans bigotry.”

Nope. All those threats, all those images of snarling men brandishing hammers, are not “non-violent”. It’s violence by wink wink nudge nudge.

Now Trump is wanting to kill off the International Criminal Court. Well of course he is, being an international criminal.

Barely a month appears to go by without Donald Trump making a fresh attempt to destroy the international rules-based order. The US has pulled funding from dozens of international institutions, shut down USAID and withdrawn from the Paris climate agreement. Nato may survive on paper, but Trump has made clear that he has little interest in coming to the aid of any ally that is attacked. The Board of Peace is clearly an attempt to sideline the United Nations.

But the state department’s announcement last week that it wishes to dismantle the international criminal court “brick by brick” could be Trump’s most frightening move of all.

I missed the State Department’s announcement of that. How appalling.

It is now official US policy to destroy the ICC, and the administration is prepared to go to extraordinary lengths to do so.

Nations that do not fall into line will be punished. The state department has promised “increased scrutiny of nations that refuse to reject the ICC’s false authority while relying on US assistance”, particularly targeting those countries that “enjoy the benefits of the US security umbrella”. That will include the UK, a country that contributes just over £15m a year to the ICC, making it the fourth largest donor after Japan, Germany and France.

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The state department campaign also includes working with other nations that are not part of the ICC, suggesting that the US could ally itself with Russia and China.

Make no mistake, this is an existential crisis not just for the ICC but the very idea of international justice. The most powerful nation on Earth and the supposed leader of the democratic west is aligning itself with dictators and autocrats to prevent those accused of genocide, ethnic cleansing and war crimes from ever facing justice.

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The question now is what the “rest of the west” will do in response to Trump’s attacks. The court’s biggest donors need to stay strong and not give in to intimidation. It will be an early test for Ed Miliband, who said upon his appointment as foreign secretary on Monday that “we face a time of greater instability and threat to international law … than at any time since the second world war”.

The ICC’s imperfections undoubtedly make it a harder institution to defend. Those weaknesses can be magnified and targeted, making the court’s natural defenders reluctant to man the barricades.

Yet that is exactly what needs to happen. Even when it is badly run or cases are poorly constructed, the ICC’s very existence can have an impact. Netanyahu and Putin will for ever be referred to as men indicted for war crimes. Their worlds have shrunk thanks to the threat of arrest. The Philippines’ former president, Rodrigo Duterte, is on trial, accused of crimes against humanity during his “war on drugs”.

This is why Trump is so determined to shut it down, argues Luis Moreno Ocampo, the court’s first chief prosecutor. “Trump knows he could be a target after he leaves office,” he told me. “The ICC is a huge obstacle for him.”

He doesn’t need to worry about that. He’s not going to live long enough.

Nothing like “jokes” about assassination to liven up the party.

Police are “conducting inquiries” into an image shared by Green party leader Zack Polanski on Instagram after Reform UK reported it for “inciting murder”.

The image showed a man wearing a black T-shirt with the words “we’re only making plans for Nigel”, alongside a photograph of a guillotine.

Any jokes about hammers, Zack? You whimsical guy you!

A Green party spokesperson said that Polanski “condemns the image on the T-shirt” and accepted being tagged in a post with 20 images “without realising there was more to it than he had seen”.

Nigel Farage shared a screenshot of the image on X and wrote: “This is what Zack Polanski has just posted on his Instagram.

“If I was to post anything as inciteful then I would expect to be arrested, and so should Polanski.”

Stop right there. There is no such word as “inciteful”. There is “insightful”; the meaning is entirely different. The wording should be “If I were to post anything as likely to incite murder” – but anyway, he’s right about Polanski.

Reform UK’s spokesperson for home affairs, Zia Yusuf, said Polanski was “inciting murder”, and that sharing the image weeks after the death of former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe, who was murdered in her home in Devon, was “staggering”.

Not even three weeks yet.

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The only thing they’ve talked about on the news for the past two or three days has been the fires in the region of Bordeaux. They’ve kept everything else a secret, so if Trump has been assassinated I’ve haven’t been told. It has been understood for decades that if you don’t want forest fires you should clear the undergrowth regularly before it dries out, and you shouldn’t plant endless rows of identical trees, and emphatically not pines. So what do they do? They don’t enforce the laws about clearing the undergrowth, and they plant endless rows of pines of uniform size. Unfortunately, what we learn from experience is that we don’t learn from experience.

Fires close to Bordeaux are not partcularly frequent, but they do occur, and there was a very bad one in 2022. In the Var, much nearer to where I live, they are close to being an annual problem. Again, they don’t seem to be doing all they could to prevent them. Here in Marseilles we had a spell of heavy rain on Saturday, so we we should be safe for a while.

Remember, global warming is just something made up by Marxists to tease the bourgeoisie.

Firefighters in France and Spain are racing to bring huge wildfires under control before another heatwave this week that will complicate efforts to tame the flames.

Spain’s interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, said Monday and Tuesday were “absolutely crucial days” before temperatures rise again from Wednesday.

EU officials have said wildfires could still be burning until early November in what threatens to be a record-breaking year for the area of land burned.

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The Gironde fire has so far burned 42,000 hectares, making it one of the biggest devastations of land in France since the second world war.

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The vast fire, which has triggered the evacuation of 220,000 people, had not progressed during the early hours of Monday but was “not contained” and remained “very complicated to control”, Nuñez said.

Speaking after an emergency meeting of the French government on Monday, he described this year’s wildfires as “completely exceptional”. More than 116,000 hectares of forest and vegetation have been burned since January, far exceeding the 70,000 hectares reported for the whole of 2025.

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A series of heatwaves, including record-breaking temperatures in June, that scientists say would have been impossible without the climate crisis, has left parched soils and tinder-dry vegetation that have fuelled this summer’s fires.

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The scale of Europe’s wildfires has raised questions about the continent’s ability to respond. Italy is among about 10 European countries that have sent firefighting equipment or teams to France and Spain while grappling with its own blazes.

Firefighters fought to extinguish a major wildfire in the southern region of Puglia on Monday. More than 400 people, many of them tourists staying in campsites set among pine forests, were evacuated by sea from the Gargano peninsula on Sunday as the blaze, fanned by strong winds, encroached on beaches.

Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.

An impassioned account of why women’s sport matters:

For many women around the world, sport is a pathway to a different future. It can lead to educational opportunities, financial provision for whole families and a freedom to express themselves. All of those potentials, which athletes have spent their lives training in order to achieve, are taken away in one fell swoop. It can be a devastating psychological and material blow.

And yet, bizarrely enough, the context of that sympathetic explanation is a defense of men in women’s sports.

Hmm.

But sir, they announce their commitment to violence themselves. They’re proud of it. They glory in it. Meanwhile For Women Scotland does not threaten violence. Do you get it now? Bash Back promises violence, For Women Scotland does not. Clear?

Oh gosh, who could possibly have foreseen that a town built in a desert might run low on water? It’s just so random and weird and out of nowhere.

Mayor Curtis Stacy starts every morning checking two websites that tell him how much he needs to worry about water.

One site tells him about the reservoir that supplies his tiny desert town — it’s effectively empty. The other site tells him if the town gets additional water that other communities with more senior rights aren’t using; right now, the answer is yes.

But Stacy tries to remind Kearny’s roughly 2,000 residents that they could easily tip back into crisis mode, just like this spring. In newsletters, he underscores that fragility with no less than 20 exclamation points. If other communities call for more water, they will have to cut back again.

You see, this is because it’s in a desert. What is a desert? It’s a place with little or no water. If you build a town in a desert, even a tiny town, it’s going to have little or no water, because of the “in a desert” part. If you like having plenty of water, don’t live in a desert.

Kearny is an extreme example of the water crunch facing communities across the West as states and cities stare down a future of “megadrought” and fight over scarce resources. An unusually dry winter this year left the Southwest parched, with not enough water for everyone laying claim to it.

Kearny is in Arizona. There’s a reason Arizona is called Arizona.

The town tried to prepare residents late last year for what was coming. In a Dec. 29 letter, officials warned that the reservoir fed by their primary water source, the Gila River, was running low.

The first question in the FAQ section was, “What happens if our allotment is zero?”

Answer: “Severe restrictions will be imposed.”

Why? Because if the water isn’t there, then it isn’t there. Mayors can’t wave a magic wand and cause it to be there.

In late March, Kearny imposed “Level 5″ restrictions on water — the most stringent possible. A declaration of emergency told residents they could use water only for the essentials; the mayor went door to door to convey the situation’s gravity. There would be no washing of cars, no kiddie pools, and no watering of grass. Even the Little League field would go dry.

Ffs. People have to be told this? Of course you don’t wash the damn cars or water the damn grass in a drought.

At the bar across the street from the Little League field, people wondered when the monsoon season would bring some real rain. But everyone thought the town would get through the water crisis. When Kathy Taft asked her friend Dave Olsen if the town was “really going to run out of water,” Olsen answered without hesitation.

“No,” he said. “I just don’t see that happening.”

Oh well then. Dave just doesn’t see it happening, so it won’t happen.

They just will not follow the law.

A police force is placing biological men in women’s cells despite the Supreme Court ruling that transgender women are not legally women.

Staffordshire Police says its custody policy means “detainees may be placed in accommodation consistent with their gender identity”, The Telegraph can reveal.

That means biological men who identify as transgender women can be placed in women’s-only custody cells.

Which is both unsafe and unfair for women.

The force introduced the rules in the wake of last April’s Supreme Court ruling that sex in equality law refers to biological sex, which has been widely interpreted as meaning that biological men cannot use female single-sex facilities.

But…”sex refers to biological sex” should lead to not housing men with women. Not, you see. Not doing it, but not doing it. Did no one explain?

Its revised policies commit to allowing a person to self-identify their chosen gender.

But you were supposed to revise your stupid policies in the other direction, you fucking fools.

Cathy Larkman, a director of the Women’s Rights Network and a retired police superintendent, said: “These policies do not comply with the Supreme Court judgment, and they indicate a level of ignorance with the law and a disregard for the rights of women that is deeply concerning.”

Not to mention a level of just plain stupid.

Staff are expected to “uphold inclusive language” and will be given training on “respectful” pronoun use.

Oh shut up. It’s not “inclusive” to call men women. It’s an insult and a threat to women; not inclusive.

When asked to clarify whether this meant that they would be therefore searched by a female officer, the force said that a GRC did not “automatically” determine search policy.

The policy sets out that trans people can request to be “searched by someone of their lived gender” as long as the detainee and officers agree.

There’s no such thing as “lived gender”. Silly trans jargon is just silly trans jargon; institutions like the police should have no truck with it.

Terence Stock, a former member of the force’s Independent Advisory Group, who obtained the policies using FOI laws, said: “Clinging to outdated policies is a clear failure of the core moral duty of policing.

“It is unforgivable that Staffordshire Police still fails to reflect fully the For Women Scotland Supreme Court judgment and the clear same-sex requirement in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act.

“Intimate searches are among the most intrusive powers imaginable, and disproportionately affect women with histories of trauma and sexual violence. Police forces must follow the law, protect those in custody, and treat sex as the biological reality it is – not continue to make concessions that put women at risk.”

How many more times do they need to be told?

Oh good, a new horrible idea for how to mess with the planet and the sky and night and day.

The federal government has approved plans by a start-up company to test a satellite that would use a 60-foot mirror to reflect sunlight back to Earth after dark, as part of a project the company says would power solar farms, provide light for rescue workers and illuminate city streets.

In a license issued on Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission gave the green light for Reflect Orbital of Hawthorne, Calif., to launch its Eärendil-1 satellite into low Earth orbit. The company plans to deploy its test satellite this year but has said it eventually wants to send as many as 50,000 big mirrors into space.

Listen up. We evolved on a planet that has day and night. We need both. We rely on our circadian rhythms. We don’t need elonmusk types blasting sunlight at us at 2 a.m. GO AWAY.

The approval came despite a flood of opposition from astronomers, wildlife experts and others who say the light from the mirrors could distract airplane pilots, wreak havoc on astronomical observations and interfere with circadian rhythms, the light-and-dark cycles that help people, animals and plants know when to wake and sleep, to bloom or to migrate.

Yeah no shit. Leave our circadian rhythms alone.

In a letter to the F.C.C. sent last month, the American Astronomical Society, said the endeavor “cannot be considered to serve the public interest” and in fact would waste taxpayer dollars by wrecking the work of federally funded astronomical facilities, even as it brought untold risks to people and wildlife.

“It is clear that the activities that Reflect Orbital is proposing will have an impact on the Earth environment, including on human health, agriculture and wildlife, in addition to astronomy,” Roohi Dalal, the society’s director of public policy, wrote.

Darkness is a human right.

Biting off one’s foot to spite one’s hairdo.

Trump on Friday ordered the interior department to display signs in front of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History that accuse the institution of inaccuracy.

That’s fetch’em or I don’t know Arkansas!

The order escalates the Trump’s attacks against the Smithsonian, which he and his allies accuse of politicizing the institution by focusing too much on injustices in American history, instead of more triumphant moments such as the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Who decides how much is too much? Who decides how little is little enough?

Trump wouldn’t really know, would he. He has no experience of being any kind of underdog, and he doesn’t have enough intelligence, let alone empathy, to figure out for himself that other people have experiences that are different from his. Where the rest of us see the fortunate and the unfortunate, he sees winners and losers.

Yes, the Declaration of Independence is a stirring document, but it doesn’t erase or mollify other aspects of US history, in particular slavery and genocide. It’s not as if those items are tiny little pimples on a vast and healthy bum. If it’s “politicizing” to mention them it’s also politicizing to conceal them.

The order directs interior secretary Doug Burgum to huddle with the National Park Service and assistant to the president for domestic policy Vince Haley to come up with some temporary signs to install along the National Parks Service-maintained sidewalks and walkways leading into the museum.

The signs will read “These poopyheads are all wrong and the US is perfect and fabulous in every way!!!”

But…why doesn’t NHS Fife want to make it public?

NHS Fife ordered to publish trans guidance

If it has trans guidance why not publish it? Why does guidance have to be secret?

The Information Commissioner in Scotland, David Hamilton, has told NHS Fife to make its 2024 Trans Policy available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act. NHS Fife has thus far refused to release the document, citing a number of exemptions, all of which have been rejected by the Commissioner.

Why? Why resist, why refuse? If it has a good policy, why not publish it? Presumably they think it is a good policy, so why are they swathing it in secrecy?

Could it be because they know it’s incompatible with some rights of women?

But this is a very healthy, beneficent, progressive, lovely, not at all sick ideology.

Love to pay plastic surgeons to use bonesaws to literally chop the bones out of my body affected by testosterone. pic.twitter.com/u5a05QMY1j

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) July 25, 2026

It’s incitement. Never mind “offensive”; the issue is that it’s inciting genocide.

Here is another view that was posted earlier . TRAs are despicable. pic.twitter.com/8qQEIoe0Y9

— SnowStormYou🇺🇸 🐙🏄‍♀️🌱 (@snowstormyou) July 25, 2026

Geddit? Women who don’t comply should be gassed.

This one strikes me with disbelief with every update.

Women’s Rights Campaigner Guilty of ‘Vilification’ for Calling Trans-Identified Male Athletes ‘Men’ Loses Appeal, Ordered to Pay $95,000

How. is. this. possible???? Men remain men no matter how many god damn times they say they are women, and it should not cost a woman one god damn penny for saying so.

The Supreme Court of New South Wales has ruled on appeal that a woman convicted of ‘vilification’ for referring to two trans-identified male athletes as men must pay a collective $95,000 to them, in addition to court costs, despite documented evidence of one player having injured at least one female athlete on the pitch.

The pathetic circularity of it. They’re not women, but they like pretending to be women, so the state decides their enjoyment of pretending to be women is some sort of sacred right and therefore any woman who fails to humor their pretending has to pay a grotesquely inflated fine. How does it make any kind of sense?

The decision, handed down today, argues that by referring to the trans-identified males by their sex constitutes “serious contempt” and “severe ridicule,” and orders women’s rights campaigner Kirralie Smith and the publication Binary Australia to publish a statement provided by the court, to remain as a pinned and featured post on her social media for a period of three months.

Who is on this Supreme Court? Are they all 16 years old and not very bright?

In November 2023, Justin “Riley” Dennis and Nicholas “Stephanie” Blanch lodged criminal complaints against Smith for raising public awareness of their inclusion in women’s football. Smith, a spokeswoman with Binary Australia, a campaign group dedicated to advocating for single-sex sports in Australia, had been raising public awareness of their inclusion in women’s sports after learning of injuries sustained by female players.

And therefore she has to give them a very large amount of money.

In addition to punitive damages, Smith and Binary Australia have been ordered to publish a public statement “on all social media pages and websites over which they have control,” stating that they violated the Non-Discrimination Act. The statement, according to the ruling, must be “designated as a feature post,” “pinned to the top of the Defendants’ profiles,” and “published prominently on the front page” of the Binary Australia website.

Labeled as Annexure A in court documents, the statement forces Smith and Binary Australia to publicly announce that, by opposing male athletes in women’s sports, they have “contravened section 38S of the Anti-Discrimination Act,” and have “incited hatreds towards, serious contempt for, or severe ridicule of” the two trans-identified male players in posts they made identifying them as men. If the announcement is not made public, Smith risks a $40,000 penalty.

It’s just monstrous. It’s more like the Inquisition than like contemporary law and human rights.

Justice Belinda Rigg’s ruling demands that the statement “should remain visible for a period of three months,” and that the purpose of the public statement is “not to stigmatise or shame” Smith, contrary to its implications. Justice Rigg argued that by ordering the statement, she intends for others who are critical of the situation to see the announcement of guilt.

Does it not occur to Rigg that this will have the opposite effect from the one she intends? Oh yes we see all right; we just don’t see what you’re trying to force us to see. MEN STILL ARE NOT WOMEN.

Man shrugs off that which harms women but not men. Easy for some.

I know I’m shrill about this but it really upsets me that people prioritize the sanctity & integrity of competition in high school or college athletics over the minuscule number of trans athletes who just want to play & be a part of something. I promise your daughters will be ok

— Joel D. Anderson 🆓 (@byjoelanderson) July 23, 2026

Hey it really upsets him that some people pay attention to policies that harm women and girls. He promises women and girls will be ok despite these policies that harm them.

First US City Could Run Out Of Water

A coastal city in Texas with more than 300,000 residents is facing a severe water shortage and could become the first modern US city to run out of water.

…Corpus Christi, a coastal city in Texas with more than 300,000 residents, is struggling with falling water supplies after years of drought, rising demand and delays in developing new sources of water.

The city’s water shortage has been made worse by rapid industrial growth. Large petrochemical facilities in the region require huge amounts of water, adding pressure on supplies already affected by extreme weather conditions.

A plastics chemical plant built in 2022 reportedly uses as much water for cooling every day as all residents of Corpus Christi combined.

Hmm. Maybe not such a great choice to build the plastics chemical plant there, eh?

Experts say the crisis highlights a growing global challenge as cities struggle to balance rising demand, climate change and shrinking water resources.

Oh well. Just keep saying climate change is a hoax, and it will all work out somehow.

Trump persists in thinking he’s a funny guy.

Trump bombed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Friday night. He knew he was bombing, too, and he even tried to meta-joke his way out of it.

But no. Even the president’s jokes about his bad jokes fell flat, and he was widely ridiculed for the comedy routine afterward.

To the surprise of no one. You need a sharp mind to be funny. Trump’s mind is about as sharp as a pile of wet laundry.

“Nobody gives a damn about anybody else,” he said, and proceeded to count how many stories on The New York Times front page are about him.

Hmmyeah. Trump griping about an absence of empathy is way too much irony in one spot.

Trump also gave shoutouts to media executives whom he views as allies, namely Larry and David Ellison, who took control of Paramount last year and are now trying to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company. Paramount suffered a major setback earlier on Friday when it agreed to accept a months-long delay to the merger while legal challenges are resolved.

Invoking the fact that Paramount owns CBS News, Trump said David Ellison is “going to make, I think, fantastic changes and keep some of the great stuff going.”

Trump also made a convoluted joke about the controversial changes implemented by Ellison’s handpicked editor-in-chief of CBS News, Bari Weiss: “Under my administration, a once-feared and powerful regime that relentlessly attacked America has finally been toppled. Their former leaders have been removed, and they’re now being run by a gay dictator facing internal divisions. But I, for one, wish Bari Weiss all the best at CBS News. She’s a wonderful woman.”

Toward the end of the speech, the president donned a red “Trump 2028” hat. 

Ha ha. He’s so funny.

The outgoing president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, Weijia Jiang, introduced Trump after discussing the importance of press freedom. Jiang drafted her remarks knowing the president would be sitting next to her and listening.

Jiang said there is “an existential difference between criticizing the press and trying to undermine it. One is healthy, and it makes all of us better. The other is exactly what the founders hoped to prevent.”

The CBS correspondent also addressed Trump directly: “When we ask questions, you push back. You give us answers, and we push back. You have always been a deal guy. Well, that’s the deal. And the First Amendment is a done deal. And that’s what we toast tonight.”

He’ll still think they’re toasting him.

Bolton News:

Two Bolton community champions who have transformed the lives of hundreds of local people are set to be honoured at the Palace of Westminster later this month.

Tunde Olasupo and Khadija Patel have been named among 28 recipients of the prestigious British Citizen Award (BCA), which recognises people making an outstanding contribution to communities across the UK.

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Also being recognised is Khadija Patel, founder of KRIMMZ Girls Youth Club, whose work has empowered hundreds of young women across Bolton through sport and physical activity.

Under that paragraph is a photo of Khadija Patel.

We know they mean well, but this is an absolutely poisonous message to girls.