Poor Euan Weddell. He’s just not very bright.

0 days without trunes comparing black women to men. Maugham must be so proud of his pet victim. pic.twitter.com/yl6HilhqmR

— Stuart Macintosh (@stueymaco) January 17, 2026

Pointless question, bro. Knowing that men are not women is not comparable to racism. Even if you disagree with that knowing, even if you think it’s mean and harsh to act on that knowing, it’s still not comparable to racism.

And to look at it from the other angle, campaigning to force women to agree that men can be women is not comparable to campaigning to force segregationists to stop segregating people by race.

Random comparisons of non-comparable things are not a clever way to make … Read the rest

War fever heightens.

The Trump administration has opened a criminal investigation into elected Democrats in Minnesota, according to a senior law enforcement official familiar with the matter, a major escalation in the fight between the federal government and local officials over the aggressive immigration crackdown underway in the city.

Or to put it another way, Trump and his administration are treating a disagreement about immigration policy as a criminal matter. We know that Trump thinks it’s a crime to dispute his assertions, but we get a little edgy when he says it out loud.

The investigation would focus on allegations that Gov. Tim Walz and Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, had conspired to impede thousands of federal agents

The BBC takes a detailed look at the Darlington ruling.

Hospital bosses never considered ‘female discrimination’, ruling says

When talking to the nurses, NHS managers did discuss “discrimination”, the tribunal found.

But they only ever referred to it in relation to Rose, they added.

Ah. That’s quite the punchline. It’s only the man who claims to be a woman who suffers discrimination. Women who don’t want him leering at them are the lords of the manor spitting on the peasantry.

Tribunal says ruling shouldn’t detract from transgender vulnerability

In its judgement, the panel said the purpose of the Trust’s Transitioning in the Workplace policy was “to create an environment that gave transgender employees comfort and reassurance that they would

Mmmmmmno.

No, see, because the Jews in question were not being told they were not Jews, they were being genocided for being Jews.

That’s a very big difference.

They didn’t “identify” into being Jewish and they couldn’t “identify” their way out. They couldn’t identify their way out of Auschwitz. They couldn’t identify their way out of the six million.

Sophie Molly’s pretending to be comparable to Jews in the Holocaust is about as disgusting as it gets.… Read the rest

And now for the cringe.

Political leaders in Norway have condemned the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s “absurd” decision to present her Nobel peace prize medal to Donald Trump, accusing the US president of being a “classic showoff” who takes credit for other people’s work.

Good. It is absurd, of course. That’s not how this works. The whole point of it is recognition of Person X. Giving a physical emblem of the recognition to someone else entirely is dividing zero by zero. It’s like children pretending to be royalty or astronauts or moovee starrz.

Kirsti Bergstø, the leader of Norway’s Socialist Left party and its foreign policy spokesperson, said: “This is, above all, absurd. The peace prize cannot

Hmm.

Ah it’s only the KCs “with an axe to grind” who know that men are not women. What’s the axe? Knowing that men are not women, of course.… Read the rest

Yet another that’s not how it works.

Trump said Friday he may impose tariffs on countries “if they don’t go along with Greenland.”

Tariffs aren’t about forcing other countries to accept one rogue nation’s aggression.

Also wtf is “go along with Greenland” supposed to mean? They are “going along with Greenland”; it’s Trump’s plan to annex Greenland that they’re not going along with, for obvious reasons. Saying “Greenland” when he means “my determination to attack and absorb Greenland” is typical of his mind-blind sloppy way of assuming everyone sees what he sees, even when our refusal to see things the way he sees them is the very thing he’s talking about.

The Trump administration has previously said it is

Oh good god.

Darlington nurses win

A group of nurses who complained about a trans colleague using single-sex changing rooms at work suffered harassment, an employment tribunal judge has ruled.

The judge found the nurses’ dignity was violated and they encountered “a hostile, intimidating, humiliating and degrading environment” at work.

The seven female nurses, who work at Darlington Memorial hospital, brought a claim against their employer, County Durham and Darlington NHS foundation trust. It stemmed from their objection to another nurse, Rose Henderson, a trans woman, being allowed to use the women’s changing facilities.

It stemmed from their objection to a man, who calls himself Rose Henderson and claims to be “trans”, being allowed to use their changing facilities.

In a judgment handed

The Darlington nurses win.

NHS bosses discriminated against a group of female nurses by allowing a trans colleague into their changing room, a tribunal ruled on Friday.

In what the eight nurses’ legal team described as a “landmark judgment”, a specialist employment law judge also said the women were harassed by managers at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, who unlawfully required them to share the female-only facilities with Rose Henderson, who was born a man but identifies as a woman.

It shouldn’t take any kind of specialist to know that.

Judge Seamus Sweeney said that trust managers had “engaged in unwanted conduct”, that the policy had the effect of “violating the dignity” of the nurses and that

Rallying.

Several European NATO countries are deploying small numbers of military personnel to Greenland to participate in joint exercises with Denmark as US President Donald Trump ramps up his threats to forcibly annex the Arctic island.

Trump’s declarations have thrown Europe’s decades-old, US-led security alliance into crisis, raising the prospect of NATO’s largest and most powerful member annexing the territory of another.

And that another is very far from being NATO’s next largest and most powerful.

Denmark, which is responsible for Greenland’s defense, has warned an attack on Greenland would all but end NATO, and announced on Wednesday that it was expanding its military presence “in close cooperation with NATO allies.”

Germany, Sweden, France, Norway, the Netherlands and

Oh ffs.

Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, has “presented” Donald Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize as she attempted to woo the US president. 

Sigh. Look. That’s not how this works. The object is not the point. It takes someone pathetically literal-minded and obtuse to think it is. In fact, if you think about it for five seconds, it becomes obvious that being in possession of someone else’s prize is more a disgrace than an honor. It’s like being a toddler whining about not getting any presents at another toddler’s birthday party.

Mr Trump has made no secret of his desire to be awarded the honour, which has been bestowed on several former presidents including Barack

Trump is spoiling for a fight.

Trump threatened on Thursday to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy military forces in Minnesota after days of angry protests over a surge in immigration agents on the streets of Minneapolis.

Confrontations between residents and federal officers have become increasingly tense after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a U.S. citizen, Renee Good, in a car eight days ago in Minneapolis, and the protests have spread to other cities. Trump’s latest threat came a few hours after an immigration officer shot a Venezuelan man the government said was fleeing after agents tried to stop his vehicle in Minneapolis.

Rumor has it that immigration officers aren’t empowered to shoot people who are … Read the rest

What a bizarre headline:

Trump would want military action in Iran to be swift and decisive, sources say

Oh, so he doesn’t want it to be slow and futile? What a surprise!

Dumb headline aside, the subject is the usual Trump failure to grasp reality.

Trump has told his national security team that he would want any U.S. military action in Iran to deliver a swift and decisive blow to the regime and not spark a sustained war that dragged on for weeks or months, according to a U.S. official, two people familiar with the discussions and a person close to the White House.

Yes, bro, so would anyone, but somehow the other team never gets the message. That’s why … Read the rest

Much as I hate having to agree with Josh Hawley…god almighty “Doctor” Verma is a smug lying evasive enemy of women.

If you say men can get pregnant, no one should ever believe a single thing you say about anything else. Because if you will lie about something so obvious, we can assume you will lie about everything. pic.twitter.com/XXlrevytYh

— Sall Grover (@salltweets) January 15, 2026

… Read the rest

Mike Haubrich at Miscellany Room:

Hey, there’s even more alarming fuckery coming from the Trump admin, from the EEOC no less. They are demanding a list of Jews at UPenn.

The Guardian:

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is demanding the university turn over names and personal information about Jewish members of the Penn community as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses. But some Jewish faculty and staff have condemned the government’s demand as “a visceral threat to the safety of those who would find themselves identified because compiling and turning over to the government ‘lists of Jews’ conjures a terrifying history”, according to a press release put out by the

Well, yes.

Any attempt to “modify” Greenland’s territorial or constitutional status would not only violate international law, but could also “undermine” regional stability, the experts, appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council, said in a statement Wednesday.

“Assertions suggesting that a territory can be taken, controlled or ‘owned’ by another state in pursuit of perceived national security or economic interests evoke a logic of colonial domination that the international community has long rejected,” the UN experts said on Wednesday.

Of course it does. There’s no other way to describe it. “I want this country, you have to give it to me or else” is colonial domination on stilts.

We’re going backward in time.… Read the rest

Again with the forced-team-labeling.

Men should never have been allowed to be women in law, go into female spaces or compete in female sport. It was an absolute brain fart of an idea, not a civil rights movement. pic.twitter.com/zNlo8gyyA2

— Sall Grover (@salltweets) January 13, 2026

There are no LGBTQ+ rights. There are universal human rights, and then there are lesbian and gay rights. I don’t know of any specific to trans people rights that don’t negate the rights of other people, mostly lesbians. The specific to trans people purported rights are not rights, they’re grabs and intrusions and sulks.… Read the rest

Freedom of the press on the way out?

The FBI raided the home of a Washington Post reporter early Wednesday in what the newspaper called a “highly unusual and aggressive” move by law enforcement, and press freedom groups condemned as a “tremendous intrusion” by the Trump administration.

Agents descended on the Virginia home of Hannah Natanson as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials. The Post is “reviewing and monitoring the situation”, a source at the newspaper said.

In other words the Post is not preventing the situation.

The reporter’s home and devices were searched, and her Garmin watch, phone, and two laptop computers, one belonging to her employer, were seized,

Saying “I need ___” is not automatically a valid claim to have a right to that ___.

Trump thinks it is, at least when he says it. If anybody says “I need” about something of his, of course that’s not a valid claim to have a right to it.

 Trump insisted that the United States “needs Greenland” on Wednesday, hours before the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland, a semiautonomous Danish territory, met with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House.

It doesn’t matter whether or not the US “needs” Greenland. It can’t have it. Trump can’t have it. Nobody can have it. Countries aren’t party favors or ice cream cones or … Read the rest