Remember when Trump pardoned all the January 6 treason-committers? Cool that they’re now free to plan more treasonous murder.

An upstate New York man pardoned by President Trump after taking part in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was charged last week with a new crime: threatening to assassinate Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, at an event in New York City.

The man, Christopher P. Moynihan, 34, sent text messages to an unknown associate on Friday threatening Mr. Jeffries’s life, according to a criminal complaint issued by local prosecutors in Dutchess County, N.Y.

“Hakeem Jeffries makes a speech in a few days in NYC I cannot allow this terrorist to live,” the complaint quoted Mr. Moynihan as saying. “Even if I am hated he must be eliminated. I will kill him for the future.”

No doubt Trump will be giving him a tour of the White House this afternoon.

“Since the blanket pardon that occurred earlier this year, many of the criminals released have committed additional crimes throughout the country,” Mr. Jeffries said. “Unfortunately, our brave men and women in law enforcement are being forced to spend their time keeping our communities safe from these violent individuals who should never have been pardoned.”

While other pardoned rioters have been rearrested since the president’s grant of clemency, Mr. Moynihan appears to be the only one so far who has been charged again with committing an offense against an elected official.

Well that’s a big help.

Experts in political violence have long expressed concerns that the clemency Mr. Trump extended to the Jan. 6 rioters, including those who assaulted police officers, could lead to further politically tinged violence.

Ya think??

So this happened.

On Oct. 18, 2025, the day people across the U.S. attended “No Kings” protests to decry U.S. President Donald Trump, Trump posted an AI-generated video of himself in a fighter jet, dropping a brown substance on protesters while wearing a crown.

A brown substance aka shit.

Generated by artificial intelligence, the video depicted Trump wearing a crown while flying a fighter jet with the words “King Trump” painted on its side. As the jet flew over city protests, it dumped loads of a brown substance. The video then cut to the ground, where the substance landed on protesters, including Democratic social media influencer Harry Sisson. Reports have described the brown substance as “brown sludge,” “apparent human excrement,” a “poop-like substance,” or something that “appears to be feces.”

Or it could be, you know, chocolate mousse, or mud, or excrement originating from non-human animals, or um chocolate cake batter.

A journalist asked House Speaker Mike Johnson about the AI-generated video on Oct. 20.

“The president uses social media to make the point. You can argue he’s probably the most effective person who’s ever used social media for that,” Johnson said, according to Politico. “He is using satire to make a point. He is not calling for the murder of his political opponents.”

Ah yet another high point in our national history. The House top Republican defends the president’s literal shit-video as “satire.” We are a proud nation.

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on A clearer direction.

The police are being much too lenient on themselves. They weren’t “policing toxic culture-ware debates”, they’d become footsoldiers on one side of that war, becoming the de facto political police of trans ideology, stamping out Thoughtcrime and Wrongthink. They weren’t acting like some kind of harried, exasperated referees, patiently standing between the parties in conflict. The police went out of their way to eagerly enforce “NO DEBATE!” and “TWAW!” to such a degree that it was approaching terrorism.

It might be considered a waste of scarce time and resources, but there should be an externally run investigation into the authoritarian actions of the police force around this question, followed by disciplinary action. This whole debacle was itself a waste of scarce police time and resources that should never be repeated. We investigate plane crashes, sinkings, fires, and other disasters. This was a political, policing disaster, an abuse of power, and a betrayal of public trust. Finding out how and why it happened might help prevent a recurrence. Public, unreserved apologies to all of the women and men persecuted and prosecuted, the clearing of all associated NCHI records, and compensation are in order as well. These might go some way towards restoring the institutional reputation so wantonly squandered in obeying the toxic diktats of genderist bullies and thugs. The spirit of “Stonewall Law” that animated the unholy, zealous police collaboration with, and subordination to, this illiberal, misogynistic religion must be rooted out. Women deserve no less.

It’s about goddam time!

Britain’s biggest police force has announced it will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents.

The Metropolitan Police said it hoped the move would provide a “clearer direction for officers”, allowing them to focus on criminal investigations. The force said incidents would still be recorded for intelligence purposes but officers would not get involved in “policing toxic culture war debates”.

Good, because culture war debates are none of their god damn business. Debates in general are none of their god damn business. Public in the flesh bullying or harassment, sometimes, but debate, never.

On Monday [Graham] was informed that following an investigation he would face no further action.

A Met spokesman said: “We understand the concern around this case. The commissioner [Sir Mark Rowley] has been clear he doesn’t believe officers should be policing toxic culture-war debates, with current laws and rules on inciting violence online leaving them in an impossible position.

“As a result, the Met will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents [NCHIs]. We believe this will provide clearer direction for officers, reduce ambiguity and enable them to focus on matters that meet the threshold for criminal investigations.”

Good! I can think of one such matter right off the top of my head. Rape! How about focusing on rape for a change? It’s notorious that rape is hardly ever investigated, then hardly ever prosecuted, then hardly ever punished. Maybe the Met could get to work on that first item.

H/t Rob

The Free Speech Union steps UP.

After weeks of police bail – subject to unlawful conditions, including a ban on posting on X – officers have told @Glinner that prosecutors say there isn’t sufficient evidence to support any charges. That shouldn’t have been a surprise since opposing trans ideology is not a crime.

Throughout this probe, the police have behaved like activists, not impartial upholders of the law. Last week, FSU lawyers had to take the Met Police to court to get their illegal ban on Graham contacting any trans-identifying male dropped. The Met didn’t even show up to the hearing.

Rather than inviting Graham for an interview in September, the Met sent five armed police officers to arrest him at Heathrow airport.

So, we’re not stopping here. Police forces cannot continue to suppress lawful free speech without facing consequences.

We’ve instructed a top flight team of lawyers to sue the Met for wrongful arrest, among other things. Graham deserves an apology but, more importantly, the police need to be taught a lesson that they cannot allow themselves to be continually manipulated by woke activists.

Yes.

I particularly like that they call it an ideology, because that’s what it is and it doesn’t get called that enough.

One bit of good news – but really it’s only the end of a bit of bad news.

The police have informed my lawyers that I face no further action in respect of the arrest at Heathrow in September. After a successful hearing to get my bail conditions lifted (one which the police officer in charge of the case didn’t even bother to attend) the Crown Prosecution Service has dropped the case. With the aid of the Free Speech Union, I still aim to hold the police accountable for what is only the latest attempt to silence and suppress gender critical voices on behalf of dangerous and disturbed men.

If only the police paid this much attention to, say, rape.

Trump does his Neville Chamberlain routine again.

Trump reiterated his call on Sunday for an immediate halt to the three-and-a-half-year full-scale war in Ukraine, saying the battle lines should be frozen where they currently stand, with Russia’s invading forces occupying most of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly rejected the idea of forfeiting the Donbas, or any other occupied ground, to Moscow in the years since Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022. 

But Trump likes Putin and he doesn’t like Zelensky. You do the math.

“Let it be cut the way it is. It’s cut up right now. I think 78% of the land is already taken by Russia. You leave it the way it is right now,” Mr. Trump told reporters Sunday on Air Force One, apparently referring specifically to the Donbas region. “They can negotiate something later on down the line. But I said cut and stop at the battle line. Go home. Stop fighting, stop killing people.”

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Sunday that Ukraine should not be put under pressure to make concessions on its territory.

“None of us should put pressure on Zelenskyy when it comes to territorial concessions,” he said in a social media post. “We should all put pressure on Russia to stop its aggression. Appeasement never was a road to a just and lasting peace.”

Trump is not on Team Put Pressure on Russia.

In another social media post, Zelenskyy called his Friday Oval Office meeting with Mr. Trump a “pointed conversation.” 

The Financial Times newspaper reported Sunday that the meeting had descended into a shouting match on occasion, with Mr. Trump “cursing all the time.” Zelenskyy’s delegation had brought in maps of the battlefield and Mr. Trump threw them to one side saying he was “sick” of seeing them, according to the FT report, which cited an official familiar with the matter.

A staunch ally to the end.

From The Australian:

A second woman has come forward to reveal her “five months of hell” locked in a cell with South Australia’s most notorious transgender prisoner, after being horrified by Premier Peter Malin­auskas’s dismissal of the safety of female inmates as “a niche issue”.

The then 30-year-old woman was forced to share a cell with Krista Richards, a violent criminal who was alleged last week to have brutally sexually assaulted a young woman known as Katie, who had also been forced to share a cell with the would-be hitman in Port Augusta Prison.

But it’s a “niche” issue. Why is that? Welllll come on, women don’t matter, you know that. Let’s not be silly here.

In a graphic interview, Emma (not her real name) tells The Australian of being forced to sleep next to the near-naked 69-year-old inmate, once known as Leslie Graham Richards but who has now had gender-affirming surgery and claims to be a lesbian.

Emma does not claim to have been sexually assaulted but says her life became unbearable with the dominating Richards, who “owns the jail”, seeks out “young, pretty, blonde” female inmates, and boasts of having killed 14 ­people.

After repeatedly failing to answer questions last week from The Australian about Katie’s allegations, which included being digitally penetrated by Richards, Mr Malinauskas on Friday told The Adelaide Advertiser: “I have not turned my mind to our policy pertaining to trans prisoners. I would categorise it as a niche issue that I hope our officials are making thoughtful decisions in accordance with the law,” he said.

Ah, he hopes. Well that’s good enough. Next subject?

Richards had previously been held in a men’s prison but during a more recent incarceration after trying to kill an underworld figure to pay off drug debts, was allowed to move to a women’s prison.

Brilliant! Good move! He tried to kill someone so obviously it’s time to put him in a women’s prison.

Measles continues to spread.

The South Carolina Department of Health reported three additional cases of measles in Spartanburg County. That brings the number of cases in the state to 19 in 2025 overall and 15 in the current outbreak.

Two Spartanburg elementary schools have been linked to the ongoing outbreak ― Global Academy of South Carolina and Fairforest Elementary. About 140 students are quarantined at home.

“We have seen measles spread quickly in unvaccinated households here in South Carolina,” state health officials said. DPH confirmed that the three new cases are among unvaccinated individuals.

Thanks Trump, thanks Evil Kennedy.

Dr. Aqil Surka, with AnMed Pediatrics, underscored that vaccines are safe and effective in a recent Greenville News article about the outbreak. “They’re one of the best evaluated treatments we have, and they’ve been instrumental in preventing disease,” he said.

But, you know, a couple of ruthless sadists with no medical training whatsoever know better.

Trump thinks Putin owns vast chunks of Ukraine because “they fought.”

He is helping an enemy country because it has career-
ending information on him https://t.co/rHdUNmEkYB

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) October 19, 2025

Yeah we know, bozo, they attacked Ukraine and “they fought”; that doesn’t mean Ukraine belongs to them.

There are usually more than two possibilities. Lots more. Sometimes it’s just on or off, up or down, in or out, red or blue, but most of the time it’s more or less rather than yes or no.

Like, reasons for objecting to Trump, for instance. This is a subtle point but I think it’s fair to say it’s not just communists who consider Trump a regrettable head of state.

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday doubled down on his criticisms of millions of protesters who joined Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies across the nation, decrying the widely peaceful demonstrations as evidence of “a rise of Marxism in the Democratic Party.”

Mmmno. Really. No Marxism is required to perceive that Trump is a wretched human being and a disastrous head of state. I could cite some reasons but you know them already.

Demonstrators gathered across the country in an estimated 2,700 separate “No Kings” rallies Saturday to protest what they call President Donald Trump’s authoritarianism. It was the third mass mobilization against the Trump administration since he returned to the White House in January.

Reports of the protests show demonstrators dressed in costumes of inflatable animals, dancing in the streets and holding signs criticizing Trump and his administration. Organizers estimated that almost 7 million people took part.

Ok when exactly did Marx say people should wear inflatable animal costumes on demonstrations?

Leo Varadkar in the Times:

Our gender recognition law is not perfect, but it is right

Is it? How is it right to have a law that “recognizes” pretend genders? Is it right to have a law that recognizes the human ability to fly like a bird?

Subhead:

Opponents spout myths on sport and single-sex spaces while ignoring the evidence that the trans community poses no threat and self-determination works

Point either missed or deliberately ignored. After all this time, the latter is far more likely.

What does saying “the trans community poses no threat” have to do with anything? Nobody says they’re like the Taliban. Point one is that people can’t change sex. Point two is that letting men pretend to be women with zero real-life restrictions makes nonsense of women’s rights. It’s not a threat, it’s an ongoing reality.

What does “self-determination works” even mean? If I self-determine that I’m Leo Varadkar would that work for Leo Varadkar?

It’s just glib empty slogans in place of thought, and I’m fed up to the back teeth with it.

Last month marked the tenth anniversary of the coming into force of the Gender Recognition Act. It is one of the most progressive laws of its type in the world, given that it allows people to have their preferred gender recognised in law without having to undergo a medical or psychological test, let alone surgery or medication.

That’s not progressive. Ask women, you stupid tree trunk.

All around the western world, trans people are being demonised and scapegoated by populist, nationalist and religious fundamentalist actors. As always, those actors need an enemy within to target. They tell their citizens that allowing people to have their preferred gender recognised in law will lead to social breakdown and disaster. Women and children will not be safe. The floodgates will open and millions of confused children won’t know if they are a boy or a girl.

Blah blah blah. Doesn’t get within shouting distance of the actual problems.

With heads of state like this…

The struggle to demolish women’s rights never ends.

A group of peers is at the centre of a House of Lords plot to derail guidance protecting women’s single-sex spaces, leaked documents have revealed.

The group, which includes a former head of Stonewall and one of its founder members, is seeking to scupper rules drawn up by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) by delaying the government’s process until a new chair of the regulator is appointed.

A source told The Times that Lord Collins of Highbury, the government’s equalities spokesman in the House of Lords, had been involved in “strategy development” with the group.

Always with the doublespeak. An equalities boffin is working to destroy women’s rights. Where’s the equality in that?

The women’s and equalities minister, Bridget Phillipson, received the updated rules last month. They are understood to restrict the ability of trans people to access services of their chosen gender and follow an April Supreme Court ruling to clarify that, under the Equality Act 2010, the term “woman” refers to biological sex.

Even the Times, not generally considered a woke outlet, words it in this snotty women-ignoring way. Wa wa the updated rules – the ones that tell men to stay out of women’s spaces – are mean to trans people!!! Wa!!! It’s like saying laws against rape are mean to rapists. What about women god damn it? Why do men’s projects to force themselves on women matter more than women’s projects to avoid men in places like toilets and changing rooms?

It is understood the group of peers met in parliament on Wednesday after a debate in the Lords on the guidance.

Among those in the group is Baroness Hunt, who previously led Stonewall’s “no debate” approach on transgender rights. The group, calling itself “friends and allies”, believes “the EHRC is at risk of being pulled towards more restrictive positions”, documents showed.

Friends and allies of what? Not women, obviously.

Claire Coutinho, the shadow equalities minister, said: “It’s outrageous, though hardly surprising, that peers with links to Stonewall are trying to delay this crucial guidance. Women and girls deserve protection, not dither and delay. Bridget Phillipson needs to get on with the day job and publish the EHRC guidance immediately.”

Maya Forstater, the chief executive of the charity Sex Matters, said it was “devastating to see a group of peers in the House of Lords plotting to thwart the law”.

She said: “The Supreme Court has spelled out what the Equality Act means, and that women’s rights depend on recognising that everyone is either male or female, and no one can change sex. There is nothing kind about this wicked attempt to put trans identifying men’s wishes ahead of the privacy, dignity and safety of women and girls.

“The government must stamp on this disgraceful behaviour and get on with confirming the EHRC Code of Practice and ensuring compliance with the Equality Act across the country.”

Yeah! Stamp on it! Hard!

Julie Burchell asks: How do so many women end up as ‘Feminists for Islam’?

The first sign that something might have been amiss at FiLiA was a hijab’d woman selling similar head-coverings in the foyer. ‘What next, binders?’, Sonya Douglas asked on X. The number of keffiyehs and Palestinian flags on show could have persuaded a person that they had wandered into the Oxford Union debating chamber by mistake. Veteran feminist Bev Jackson posted that: ‘An organisation called Total Woman Victory had a stand at FiLiA disseminating a pamphlet with some of the most virulent anti-Jewish tropes I’ve ever seen.’

Jewish women have had to put up with enough monstrous bullying and belittling from the world generally over the past two years (BELIEVE ALL WOMEN – UNLESS THEY’RE JEWISH, as the saying has it). And now the poison of anti-Semitism seems to have trickled into the very heart of a conference where women of all races and belief systems should feel safe. But sadly, we’ve seen before that Islam and diversity, though often used in tandem by politicians and other clueless scolds, are often strangers to each other. Here at the FiLiA conference was evidence of a strange beast – here was Feminists for Islam.

A strange beast but not a totally unfamiliar one. Much of the left has been trying to mash together feminism and Islam for years despite the obvious fact that Islam treats women like shit. That clash was the main spark for writing Does God Hate Women?

[D]uring the FiLiA conference a rather un-British spat broke out when the aforementioned group of Feminists for Islam ended up waving a Palestinian flag at a disco, only to be challenged by the beautiful and brilliant Aja the Empress, a long-time beacon of glamour and guts in the women’s rights movement (which has surpassed the rather weedy ‘feminism’ so beloved of academics). Unpleasantness ensued and the losers, as ever, were Jewish women, even if their Gentile allies did their best to speak up for them. One, Freya Papworth, said that she was ‘deeply concerned about the dissemination of disgustingly anti-Semitic material at the FiLiA conference… [the organisers] made an egregious error in platforming a speaker who has openly shared anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas material.’

Let’s make this clear. You cannot be both an Islamist and a feminist. It’s as illogical as saying you can be a woman and be a penis-haver. Yet it seems increasingly difficult for a group of otherwise enlightened women to grasp.

The trouble is that the Islam issue gets mixed up with the immigration issue (see also the anti-immigrant issue and the racism issue and the xenophobia issue) such that people on the left feel compelled to defend Islam itself. Lots of people are racists therefore Islam is benign. Sadly, not true.

Women who voluntarily don the hijab are trampling on the broken bodies of all the brave women – the young women of Iran come most heartbreakingly to mind – who are raped, tortured and murdered for daring to take theirs off. 

Let’s not forget what the point of the hijab is. It’s to make women just ugly enough so that men can refrain from raping them for the few seconds it takes to walk past them in the street. That’s all it’s about. There’s nothing inherently pious or goddy about it; it’s just a cold shower in portable form.

Originally a comment by Bruce Gorton on Blame the women.

The thing the pro-Palestine idiots don’t get is how this contributes to creating the ideal conditions for a genocide.

Look at it from the Israeli perspective, practice some of that empathy that these activists love to yammer on about without ever once in their lives exhibiting.

I mean, these are the same types who think death and rape threats will somehow magically make people think trans women aren’t a potential problem in prisons, women’s shelters or toilets. “Accept us into your places of safety or we’ll beat you up” isn’t the sales pitch they seem to think it is.

Anyway, you are told that your country is committing genocide, by the same people who initially celebrated an act of mass rape against your country. When that turned out to be less popular than they expected, they turned to denying the rape happened. When that didn’t work, they started protesting anyone talking about the rape.

These same people targeted Jews who don’t live in or even particularly support Israel for harassment, blocking Jewish students from going to classes. They include professors who went to tell the US congress that calls for genocide against you aren’t necessarily hate speech.

Understand, UNRWA was part of this, UN workers took part in the attack, the UN taught Hamas propaganda in Gaza, the UN dithered on admitting the attack was a war crime. The UN is infested with the same types of people.

Do you believe the people telling you your country is committing genocide? On an emotional level, do you believe that the pro-Palestinian side is a reliable source of that sort of information? And if you don’t believe that, what information sources do you really have to know if a genocide is happening?

Speaking of community leaders…

Put your hands together for…

the Green Party.

I’ve been asking these questions for YEARS. It’s good to see others asking them.

One more urgent question is how do we get the BBC to stop using it so relentlessly and so entirely without thought?

Originally a comment by Arcadia on Beneath his notice.

Malinauskas is in fact, my state Premier, so this feels personal, even though I’ve never been to jail.

I take issue with this: “ adding he would not characterise as “the number one priority” the issue of transgender women in female prisons”.

The persistent magical take on priorities. It is apparently simultaneously so low a priority that it need not be given any thought, while also such a high and urgent priority that they must turn prison policy upside down over it.

Let’s be honest, shall we? It is not a high priority to record on official documents what convicted prisoners think of their gender. It is not a high priority to transfer male prisoners to female prisons based on the requests of those same male prisoners. It is not a high priority to ensure that male prisoners have easy, unimpeded access to female prisoners.

However, from his actions, we can conclude that things not on his priority list are: the safety of female prisoners, the safety of female prison staff, or the risk of being sued by either of the former for exposing them completely unnecessarily to unacceptable and avoidable risks.

Joan Smith on yet another protest against women talking:

Students at the London School of Economics (LSE) have tried to cancel a private meeting to discuss sexual violence committed by Hamas during the October 7 attacks of 2023. The event went ahead last night with a heavy police presence as pro-Palestinian protesters chanted anti-Israel slogans outside the building. Inside, an Israeli lawyer spoke about the problem of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) in several countries where women have been targeted by mass rape and other kinds of sexual assault.

Notably, one of the organisations calling for the meeting to be cancelled was a feminist society at the university. In an “open letter to LSE management”, they demanded that the “egregious” event shouldn’t be allowed to go ahead, claiming that it ignored “concerns expressed by experts and LSE staff”.

If that’s the feminist society, one shudders to think what the other societies are like.

When it became clear that the meeting would take place as scheduled, an “emergency rally” was planned outside the venue. “Zionists off our campus,” a flyer proclaimed. “No platform for genocide apologists”. This is not a one-off: women with legitimate and long-standing concerns about sexual violence are suddenly finding themselves labelled as supporting “genocide” for demanding justice for victims who happen to be Israeli.

It’s always women’s fault in one way or another.

World’s hugest woman wins another prize for his womanyness.