Fascism spreading like a fire.

Sirens blared and orange flames audibly crackled as a thick plume of black smoke streamed out of Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein’s Edisto Beach home during a fire that blazed on Oct. 4, video shows.

The home, located off Planters Retreat in the Jeremy Cay Community, is partially surrounded by trees and a marshy area of Edisto Island. That made it particularly difficult to rescue Goodstein’s husband, a former state senator, after he jumped out the back of the house to escape the blaze, a neighbor said.

Resident Tom Peterson was near the couple’s home midday on Oct. 4 when he noticed a plume of smoke that was visible in a video of the fire that was provided to The Post and Courier on Oct. 5.

Peterson spoke with the judge, who told Peterson that she had been on the beach walking her dogs at the time her home caught fire. She informed him that her husband was injured and stranded in a marshy area behind the home.

Rescuers got him out but he and two other people were hospitalized with injuries.

The judge made headlines a few weeks ago.

A South Carolina judge has temporarily blocked the state from giving the U.S. Department of Justice its entire voter database after a voter sued, arguing that releasing such sensitive personal information would violate state law and her constitutional rights.

Judge Diane S. Goodstein of the First Judicial Circuit issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) Tuesday, stopping the South Carolina Election Commission (SCEC) from releasing the data until at least a Sept. 10 hearing in Aiken County. 

The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by Dr. Anne Crook, a registered voter in Calhoun County, after the DOJ demanded the state’s entire statewide voter registration list, including every voter’s full name, date of birth, residential address, driver’s license number and Social Security numbers.

Hmmmmmm.

Wait what? I seem to be in the wrong species. We’re told that queuing for hours = pleasure.

It’s just before 06:00 on a Friday morning and on a busy central London street a queue is growing by the second. It’s dark and chilly, but I’m told the people at the front of this line have been here since 20:00 last night.

Christina Spence is waiting with hundreds of other people who want to be the first shoppers at Korean cosmetics retailer Skin Cupid’s first store. The 16-year-old, who is here with her sister and mum Cheryl, could just buy the products online – but she wants to be part of the queue.

You what? People started to line up at 8 pm and are still there at 6 am and they say it’s because they like doing that?

“Queuing up is exciting and exhilarating – the build up of walking in, and thinking ‘I’m finally here,'” Christina tells me.

After – assuming the shop opens at 9 – standing in the street for 13 hours most of which were in the dark and cold?

I mean you could do that anyway. You could stand outside your house or apartment block or dormitory from 8 pm to 9 am. There’s your excitement and exhilaration right there.

Twenty-six-year-old Maryam has been standing in line since 05:00. “I get to meet new people and have a really nice time,” Maryam explains, as she wraps her arm around someone she first met this morning.

This is only the second time Maryam has queued for an event like this. The first was for the opening of another Korean cosmetics retailer earlier this year.

So is the attraction the queuing or the Korean cosmetics?

Is there something special about Korean cosmetics? Why wasn’t I told?

“There’s a sense of camaraderie – we’re all here together,” Cheryl tells me. She and her daughters will brave all weather for a queue, she explains, exchanging waiting stories with those in the line.

Well, yes, but have you thought of maybe queueing inside a nice all-night Starbucks or fish and chips shop or hospital waiting room? Chairs, lights, roof and walls, warmth.

Others, like Shannon Louise Brown, have gone a step further by creating a “little community” with like-minded people. Gesturing to the people next to her, the 26-year-old explains she is with people she met at previous queues and with whom she keeps in touch.

“It’s really good to meet new people from different backgrounds,” Shannon Louise says, “where a city is so big, here, you get to make and meet friends”.

But aren’t there numerous other, more comfortable ways of doing that? With the added advantage of something more in common than a passion for Korean cosmetics?

Dr Nilufar Ahmed, a psychologist at the University of Bristol says the “anticipation” of what is to come when queuers reach the front of the line – the “reward” – plays a big part in why people do it.

Queuing for “pleasurable activities” – like shopping for luxury items, a bargain, or delicious food – creates a “distinctly different” feeling to queuing for something more mundane like buying your groceries, she says. “The anticipation of receiving a reward leads to the release of dopamine…which makes us feel good.”

This is why I say I must be another species. Under no circumstances could I get a nice little dopamine hit by standing in a line in the street for hours (or minutes). There are few things I hate more.

Adding to the appeal, Dr Ahmed adds, is when the queue is for something that is “hard to get”, or if a person has the “opportunity to be one of the first people to experience something”. Recent examples of this include queues of people snaking around high streets to get their hands on limited edition Labubu plush toys – which are usually sold out online.

“[This creates] a sense of excitement and buzz for the novelty and exclusiveness of the reward,” Dr Ahmed says.

Well, to put it bluntly, only if you’re seriously stupid. “Ooh I’m one of the few people who stood in line for 12 hours to buy a plush toy, how exhilarate.”

People are nuts.

The lust for public humiliation continues.

An FBI agent has reportedly been suspended because they refused to participate in a “perp walk” of the bureau’s former director James Comey, US media reports. The agent was suspended for insubordination, according to the BBC’s news partner CBS, after the agent found the plan to be inappropriate.

Mr Comey was indicted in Virginia on two federal charges days after Donald Trump called on law enforcement to more aggressively investigate his political adversaries, including Mr Comey.

FBI leadership has discussed sending “large, beefy” agents in Kevlar vests to bring Mr Comey to his court arraignment in Alexandria next week, CBS reports.

Trump is so ungrateful. It’s possible that without Comey he wouldn’t have been elected in the first place. Her emails yadda yadda.

The ACLU talks maudlin nonsense on its pet subject yet again and does it dishonestly yet again. The author is one Gillian Branstetter, communications strategist. I would say her strategy is crap.

Over the last five years, politicians across the country have targeted transgender people and our families. 

Ah. “Our” families; so Gillian is trans; so he’s a he.

To the point: it’s not “targeting” men to tell them to get out of the women’s toilets and stop taking women’s jobs and prizes. If anybody is “targeting” it’s men who pretend to be women and take all the women’s stuff.

They’ve banned our health care, censored our speech, and made schools less safe for transgender students. One of the most consistent focus areas for many of these politicians has been the rights of transgender student athletes, specifically the right of transgender girls, to play with other girls. While the overall number of transgender athletes is extremely small–most states have fewer than a handful of transgender students playing sports among 10s of thousands of student athletes– politicians have introduced hundreds of bills over the last few years targeting their ability to play.

Blah blah blah. Not even worth pointing out, it’s so obvious. Boys don’t have a right to play “with other girls” because boys are boys. The fact that there aren’t (yet) many boys cheating girls this way is not a reason to let them keep doing it.

Now, the Supreme Court will hear our challenge against a state law that categorically bans transgender students from girl’s teams.

Liar. The issue is not “transgender”; the issue is boys.

Politicians hope to use the case to legitimize a broad range of discrimination against transgender people (and all LGBTQ people), excluding us not just from sports teams but from civil rights protections and pushing us further out of public life altogether.

Liar again. It’s not about “transgender people” and it’s not about pushing them out of public life. Telling boys they can’t cheat girls is not pushing them out of public life.

Becky Pepper-Jackson of West Virginia is just like any other 15-year-old. She loves spending time with her friends, playing with her brothers, and is active in her school’s band and track & field team, throwing discus and shotput. But under a ban passed by the West Virginia state legislature, Pepper-Jackson would be prohibited from playing on the girls’ team. “She likes to do the best in everything, be it algebra or running or shot put or discus,” her mother told NBC News. “She tries to excel in everything that she does, just like any other kid.”

Except she’s a he, so trying to excel in the girls’ shot put or discus is cheating, and unfair to the girls he’s cheating.

With the help of Lambda Legal and Cooley LLP, the ACLU and the ACLU of West Virginia filed a lawsuit on behalf of Pepper-Jackson and her mother challenging the ban on the grounds it violates her rights under Title IX – the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in public schools – and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

I hope they lose. I really really hope they lose.

Zack Polanski really is a horrible man.

Newman: Well you said the Greens should be a broad church, but that all churches have walls, I mean your walls are potentially keeping women out of your conference aren’t they?

Polanski: Well I think they’s lots of women, including thousands of women who are inclusive feminists, who reconnize that trans rights are human rights –

Newman: So feminists are not welcome, only “inclusive” feminists.

Polanski: Well it depends on how you define yourself as a feminist, I would say if someone doesn’t support trans rights, if they don’t support the LGBT comunniny, if they want to be transphobic or demeaning to trans people, then no.

Newman: So are gender critical feminists welcome at your conference?

Polanski: Well anyone is welcome at the conference based on their beliefs, this is about how people behave, and no, no one is allowed to behave in a way – and I’m not talking about these people in particular, I’m talking more widely – in a way that is transphobic, I stood on a trans-inclusive ticket, I think that anyone who takes any notice of politics would accept that [if] there is a leader who stands for one thing they have an entitlement to say this is who is and isn’t welcome at the conference.

End of clip.

But as always the question arises: how are we defining “transphobic”?

It’s not phobic for women to know that men are not women, and it’s not even phobic for women to say that men are not women. It’s kind of more the other way around, frankly. It’s misogynist for men to insist on being in women’s spaces and taking women’s jobs and prizes on the spurious grounds that they are “trans women.”

Men like Zack Polanski will never admit that though.

No no no no no. Wrong.

No no no. Conversion therapy is trying to “convert” same-sex attracted people to straighthood. That is not the same as telling people that it’s not possible to change sex.

Same-sex attraction harms no one. Gender ideology harms its adherents and women and, ironically, same-sex attracted people.

I wonder what would happen if gender ideology faded out to be replaced by an ideology that says people who identify as airplanes are airplanes. I wonder what the explanations and justifications and purported rights would be.

Now wait just a damn minute here.

Then why haven’t I been sent some? Even just a little? A token amount?

It’s interesting that the rival monotheisms are so hostile to each other. There is only one god and it’s NOT the one you’re bending the knee to. Bang bang.

The number of people arrested in the wake of the Manchester synagogue terror attack has risen to six as the attacker “may have been influenced by extreme Islamist ideology”, police have confirmed.

Jihad Al-Shamie drove a black Kia Picanto into worshippers at the Heaton Park synagogue and stabbed congregants on Thursday.

Two men were killed and three seriously injured in the terror attack which took place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

And we’re thinking maybe just possibly it might have something to do with Islamist ideology? Excuse me, sorry, I mean extremist Islamist ideology – because there’s definitely a nice kind mild form of Islamist ideology, where they say “excuse me” before killing you.

What could possibly go wrong?

When the Vienna Regional Court for Civil Matters permitted the enforcement of an arbitration ruling based explicitly on Sharia law, the decision passed largely without international notice.

Yet its implications are profound – not merely for Austria, but for Europe as a whole. At stake is nothing less than whether the continent retains its secular constitutional foundations, or whether it drifts into the dangerous territory of legal pluralism, where parallel systems of justice compete against the law of the land.

Parallel but not comparable. Allah hates women; Quranic law is not fair to women, to put it mildly.

Critics are right to warn that this ruling risks legitimising “parallel societies.” For decades, European leaders have wrestled with the failure of integration policies. In cities from Malmö to Marseille, segregated communities have emerged in which religious authority often supplants the secular state. Informal Sharia councils already exist in parts of Britain, where Muslim women in particular have been pressured to submit to tribunals that deny them equal rights. The danger is not hypothetical – it is happening within the EU.

Sharia councils can be “informal” and still treat women like garbage.

Supporters of the ruling may argue that it is a harmless recognition of cultural diversity. If two consenting adults wish to settle disputes under Sharia, why should the state intervene? But this framing is profoundly misleading. Law is not merely a private contract; it is the foundation of citizenship. To permit religious codes to replace civil law is to suggest that citizens can opt out of the social contract altogether.

Also there’s the question of those “two consenting adults.” How consenting is the woman? How will any outsider know? How free will she be to refuse to consent?

Get serious. Men who want Sharia are not likely to see their wives as a consenting adult; they’re far more likely to see them as the inferior half of the couple and the source of the all-important sons, who must be fiercely watched and disciplined less they spread their legs for an outsider which the men will be tricked into raising. Can’t have that.

Cultural differences…

On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Zealand law enforcement agencies told The Associated Press.

Such a thoughtful present. How about an electric chair next time?

Inoperable weapons are treated as though they’re operable in New Zealand if modifications could make them workable again. The pistols were judged by gun regulators to be potentially operable and were destroyed, New Zealand’s Police Commissioner Richard Chambers told AP in a statement Tuesday.

Weird: people who don’t love guns. How can anyone not love guns?!

From The Times last March:

Doctors will be banned from giving transgender children a new NHS record after it emerged that biological sex had been erased from official data.

Wes Streeting, the health secretary, said it was wrong that doctors were changing the NHS numbers of children if they changed gender. He has told the health service to stop giving out new NHS numbers to under-18s.

A review ­commissioned by the last government and ­released on Wednesday found that the word “gender” started to replace “sex” in the collection of data in the 1990s and that for the past ten years ­“robust and accurate data on biological sex” had been lost.

That’s what happens when you tell lies about what sex people are.

Cancer referrals were missed and previous convictions were overlooked because biological sex had been erased from official data on health, crime and education. In medicine, adults and children have been able to request their gender is changed on their medical record. When this happens, a new NHS number and, therefore, medical record would be created.

The review, led by Professor Alice Sullivan of University College London, reported how in one case a paediatrician said that a child had been brought up in the preferred gender of the mother, which was different to their birth sex.

Oh really?! What happened to people are who they say they are? Now they’re who their mothers say they are, even if that means they are the opposite of what their mothers say they are? Parents can now stick their children with a fake “gender” of their choosing? In infancy???

“[The mother] had gone to the GP and requested a change of gender/NHS number when the baby was a few weeks old and the GP complied. Children’s social care did not perceive this as a child protection issue,” the doctor ­reported.

How does that even work? We are told and told and told that what’s in the gender-haver’s mind is what counts, not what anyone else perceives. How can a parent possibly “know” that an infant is trans? Does it fill its diaper in a peculiarly gendered way?

Unbelievable.

Sturgeon: “Trans women are women but in the prison context there is no automatic right for a trans woman – “

Interviewer: “There are contexts where a trans woman is not a woman.”

Sturgeon: “No there is” – nervous laugh – “there is circumstances in which a trans woman will be housed in the male prison estate, because [inaudible].”

WAIT WAIT WAIT.

Why?

You say trans women are women. You firmly slap down any suggestion that they are not. If trans women are women then how in HELL can there be “circumstances” in which they’ll be housed with the men? How can that possibly make any sense if they are women?

Game over.

The Green Party doesn’t want women defending women’s rights.

Women’s rights campaigners have claimed they are victims of discrimination after being banned from the Green Party conference.

Invidious discrimination, they mean.

The Green Women’s Declaration (GWD), a group advocating for sex-based rights for women, were told two days before the party’s conference that their stall booking was cancelled and they would not be allowed to recruit members. The group said the move “undermines the rights of women to advocate for single-sex spaces, services, and sports — rights that are protected under UK law”.

Sometimes protected. Other times, as we see, not protected.

The ban is the latest argument between those in the party who believe in sex-based rights and those who have made transgender rights a priority.

Those in the party who believe in women’s rights and those who believe that men are entitled to idennify as women and help themselves to women’s rights.

Zack Polanski, the new Green Party leader, has repeatedly spoken about his support for transgender people. He said this week that the party’s policy would remain that transgender people should be able to self-identify as whatever gender they wish.

But the issue isn’t really ability to self-idennify or not, the issue is forcing everyone else to endorse the self-idennifying. The issue is what follows from the self-idennifying. Nobody cares what other people think they are inside their heads; it’s when they act on it that things can get tricky.

In a letter seen by The Times, Jon Nott, the Greens’ chairman, said the party had “considered feedback from concerned members about the possibility of GWD attending, who described the hostile and demeaning encounters they have had with GWD in the past (including at previous conference)”.

He said: “They also noted the confrontational and derogatory ways in which some of GWD’s leaders and supporters have campaigned on issues of sex and gender identity, including online.

“The view taken is that there is a real likelihood that GWD would behave in a similar way at conference this year, and that in any event their presence would deter other members from attending and so would inhibit our ability to run an effective, inclusive event.”

And this is all entirely the fault of women. The men who claim to be women and shove women aside and tell women to get out are not at all a deterrent to other members, it’s only the women who object to being shoved aside who are the problem. It’s not the men in lipstick who deter others from attending, it’s those bitches who deter. It’s those bitchy mean demanding women who inhibit the Green Party’s ability to run an inclusive event, so kick them the fuck out, ok? Women are the problem no matter what; men who pretend to be women are their victims. That’s the rule.

A party spokesman said: “The Green Party will always offer a safe and welcoming space. The party decided that GWD’s presence at the conference would risk undermining that commitment and deter members from attending.”

Safe and welcoming for men, that is. Not for women. God no. Who cares about women? They’re a tiny minority, they’re pests, nobody cares about them. Welcome to our safe and welcoming space.

To the surprise of no one…

Dangerous thug Barbie Kardashian is facing arrest – as a prison Governor and officer are forced to take security measures amid threats she allegedly uttered.

Threats “she” uttered. The replies on TwitX all shout at the reporter for the many shes and hers in the story but it could be an editorial ruling – but either way it’s interesting that the first two words are “dangerous thug.” Women are not generally called thugs, however violent they may be; it’s a male-coded word.

Either way this lying really needs to stop. Just stop. Nobody cares that he claims to be a woman; everybody knows he isn’t one. Just stop.

Prison authorities believe Kardashian has already breached the conditions of her release – and want her hauled before a court where a Judge can have the power to reinstate the suspended portion of her prison sentence. Gardai are also understood to be examining the new threats, many of which directly threatened named individuals.

If convicted of such threats Kardashian could face a maximum penalty of 12 years in prison. In a statement to this paper, the Irish Prison Service said that such threats are taken very seriously – and that staff who are subjected them are offered support.

Great; go for it. Lock him very up. Also stop calling him “her”.

Bahahahahahaha I don’t think I knew this.

Gary Larson is a Seattleite, and back in the day he was friends with the herps people at the Zoo. Still is for all I know. This means I knew people who were buddies with Gary Larson, so there, ha.

Yet another reason to love Jane Goodall.

Originally a comment by Artymorty on In the face of challenges and hostility.

Alice Sullivan reported the most chilling thing I ever heard throughout the whole gender mess.

I wrote in late 2024, facetiously, that, “No doubt soon there will be newborn trans babies.” Barely a few months later, Alice Sullivan reported she’d uncovered at least one case where deranged parents brought their newborn child back to the hospital to have the paperwork changed: they were unhappy about the sex of their newborn so they decided to carry on as though the child was the other sex — the one they wanted — and to that end they simply declared that the newborn was “trans”. Then they stormed back to the hospital and demanded the doctors change the paperwork, and re-issue a new birth certificate that “affirmed” their child as the sex they wanted it to be. So far, so crazy. This is supposed to be the part where the hospital alerts the authorities and the child is taken into protective custody, because, obvious mental cases, right? Obvious child endangerment, right? It’s tragic, I know. But you’re wrong! Far crazier, and far more tragic, is that that’s not what happened. Instead, EVERY SINGLE PERSON at the hospital capitulated and said nothing to contradict the deranged parents. The doctors issued a new birth certificate with a false sex identification to placate them.

I guarantee you, every single person who bore witness to that went home and privately ranted about how crazy gender madness is. And I also guarantee you: not one of those fuckers stepped up in public to protect that child. In fact, we already know that that’s the case. Because it fucking happened, and it went unnoticed and undocumented until Alice Sullivan reported on it.

It burns my blood. I watched person after person after person keep his or her mouth shut while all this gender extremist horseshit was happening. Meanwhile, I lost all my friends, my jobs, everything. It’s been six years since I really started speaking up, and my life is still a fucking shambles. I struggle to keep a roof over my head, to pay my billls, to remain employed. It’s gotten to the point that I resent anyone with any money, any comfort, any success. Because they had to see what was happening. They must at some point have made a conscious choice to cover their eyes and their ears in order to maintain that status. And the very few of us who spoke up, we still haven’t gotten our recompense. It’s bloody brutal, living through a historical scandal and not being a coward about it.

I went to a gender-critical talk by Alice Sullivan in London a couple years ago. A University College thing. It was a strangely “underground” affair. We in the audience all knew that the event was considered taboo, even dangerous, to outsiders.

(Allow me a wee cheeky brag: I briefly met Kathleen Stock in person at the reception afterwards. Very unexpectedly, she came up to me and told me she recognized me! I nearly fainted. I’ve never interacted with her in person since. But I surely would do! I felt like I’d met a fucking rock star!)

It’s academics like Sullivan who are maintaining the integrity of the whole system. Can you imagine being a university dean in the future, looking back at your student body, and not finding even one single person who spoke up for the truth? UCL has Alice Sullivan almost single-handedly to thank for saving its reputation, because she pushed for that event, and they allowed it to take place, despite the risks.

God, there are so many institutions that weren’t so lucky. If only there were more Alice Sullivans and Kathleen Stocks across academia — across the whole of society!

Brava to Alice, for her nomination. Much deserved.

Oh god oh god oh god.

Push the play button. You’ll regret it, but do it anyway.

Sullivan nominated for Sullivan Review.

A leading gender critical researcher has been shortlisted for the 2025 Maddox Prize for her landmark review into how sex is recorded in publicly funded research.

Alice Sullivan, professor of sociology at UCL, is the only UK-based researcher named on the six-strong shortlist for the prize, awarded by Nature Awards and the science communication charity Sense about Science, which recognises researchers with a record of “standing up for sound science and evidence in the public interest, and for showing courage and integrity in the face of challenges and hostility”.

It doesn’t get much more challenges and hostility than trans ideology. That’s probably because they are coming from inside the house.

Published in March, Sullivan’s independent review revealed how inconsistent approaches in how sex is recorded in publicly funded research has led to a “widespread loss” of data over the past decade.

Numerous studies carried out after 2015 dropped questions related to biological sex and instead collected data on ‘gender’, the study explained, with the term referring to gender identity.

Sullivan’s report recommended researchers should collect data on gender identity but avoid combining this category with questions on sex.

Because obviously they should, because “gender identity” is the opposite of sex. It’s about feefees, thoughts, fantasies, daydreams. It’s not just not the reality, it’s the enemy of the reality.

While Sullivan’s report won plaudits from many experts and politicians, including health secretary Wes Streeting, it was heavily criticised by others, including the transgender support group TransActual who claimed the report is “biased, inadequate and potentially harmful to all”. 

Snort. Sure, it’s “potentially” anything you like, but let’s stick to current reality, shall we?

Mermaids, a charity which supports families with transgender children, claimed the UCL professor is an “adviser to an organisation widely considered to be an anti-trans campaign group” – namely, the gender critical charity Sex Matters.

So typical. Typical of Mermaids and typical of gender ideology/manipulation in general. Anything they don’t like is “widely considered” to be anti-trans whatever. We know that, and we do not care.

Oliver Brown in the Telegraph:

Lisa Nandy should surely have taken the hint when, having worn a “protect the dolls” T-shirt on a transgender rights march in August, she found herself roundly eviscerated.

Dolls, a slang term from the 1980s for men trying to pass themselves off as women, had long been viewed as misogynistic, a description that succeeded only in objectifying femininity. Except now the Culture Secretary has gone a step further, making the fatuous suggestion at this week’s Labour Party conference that biological men should still be allowed to compete in certain women’s sports.

“There are three things that we’re trying to achieve,” she said on Wednesday. “The first is inclusion, the second is fairness, and the third is safety. And there are some sports where it’s perfectly possible to include everybody and still meet those principles around fairness and safety.”

Gaaaaaaaaaah!

If you “include everybody” then you exclude women from their own sports, so no, it is not “perfectly possible” to include men in women’s sports while still meeting any principles around fairness and safety.

The instinctive reaction to these remarks is to despair that somebody so oblivious to the reality of sex, and to why immutable male advantage means that the integrity of the women’s category in sport must always be protected, could have been elevated to an office of state. It is as if this year’s Supreme Court verdict never happened.

It’s also to despair that this somebody so oblivious to immutable male advantage is herself a woman and in the government.

“Inexcusable,” said Sharron Davies of Nandy’s latest statement. “Women’s sport is not a consolation prize for non-conforming males. Women’s sport belongs solely to females.” Tracy Edwards, the round-the-world yachtswoman, said: “It is beyond depressing that we finally have so many women in government and most of them don’t know what a woman is.”

Or, worse, pretend not to know at the behest of a lot of entitled women-hating men.

Farewell to Jane Goodall.

The United Nations said it mourned the loss of Dr Goodall, saying that she “worked tirelessly for our planet and all its inhabitants, leaving an extraordinary legacy for humanity and nature”.

Greenpeace said it was “heartbroken” by her death, calling her “one of the true conservation giants of our time”.

Its co-executive director in the UK, Will McCallum, said: “Dr Goodall’s legacy is not only in science but in the global movement she helped spark to protect nature and give hope for a better world.”

Naturalist Chris Packham told the BBC that he counted her among his heroes, calling her “revolutionary” and “remarkable”.

“To have lost a hero at a time when we need all of them on the frontline fighting for life on earth is a tragedy.”

…

Her Jane Goodall Institute, founded in 1977, works to protect chimpanzees and supports projects aimed at benefiting animals and the environment.

Dr Goodall was appointed a Dame in 2003 and received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2025.

January 2025 to be exact – received it from Biden.

I went to a talk of hers once, years ago, when I was volunteering at the zoo. I had campaigned hard to work in the gorilla unit. She was of course a hero to everyone who worked with the Great Apes, and I tagged along with them to her talk.

H/t Acolyte of Sagan