Revolting Jolyon Maugham pretends the magic gender ideology is comparable to the anti-Franco side of the Spanish Civil War.
It’s not.
AI version:
“¡No pasarán!” (Spanish for “They shall not pass“) is a famous anti-fascist slogan and rallying cry, most notably used by Dolores Ibárruri (“La Pasionaria”) during the 1936 defense of Madrid in the Spanish Civil War.
Jolyon Maugham is not part of the 1936 defense of Madrid in the Spanish Civil War. Jolyon Maugham is a very naughty boy.
Behold the nonviolence.
Nothing like a scowling man in a balaclava brandishing a hammer to convey total committed nonviolence.
The Sunday Times takes a look at Bash Back:
A militant transgender activist group has issued a “direct action” guide to members, urging them to arm themselves and carry out repeated illegal attacks on MPs and organisations.
The group, known as Bash Back, 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.
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The group set out tactics for what it described as direct action, admitting it would be “rarely legal”, and warned participants they could face charges including criminal damage, possession of an offensive weapon and aggravated trespass. The document also included practical advice on carrying out attacks and how to escape detection afterwards.
And yet, they huffily insist they are non-violent.
A promotional image on the document featured the slogan “smash transphobia” alongside a masked figure holding a hammer and an invitation to “choose your weapon”.
Not non-violent. Their silly ploy here is apparently to pretend it’s just property damage they’re inciting, not at all at all physical damage to people. Yeah right.
Bash Back said on its website that its tactics focused on “striking where it hurts” and acknowledged that its methods involved unlawful activity, but said it did not condone violence.
It doesn’t condone it, it incites it.
Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Of character.
This “administration” , more than most, relies on image rather than actuality. We have the example from the top, with Darth Cheeto and his Atomic Combover who lies about his intelligence, health, cognitive ability, and just about everything else. Being “Secretary of War” does not require any personal strength or physical capacity. Looking like you might split a seam at if you bend over or reach for a drink does not make you “tough” or “dangerous”. Nobody thinks you’re going to Hulk out on them because you’re dressing a size smaller than you should. It makes you look like a posturing windbag who thinks appearance is more important than ability. But if you have no ability, the only kind of facade you can present is an empty one.
It seems that Hegseth has to fire everyone who has more talent, skill, knowledge and experience in order to feel secure about himself. That’s a big list of pople. Doing this just before, or during a war, is not really a very good idea. Just ask Stalin. (I suppose we should be greatful that Trump and Hegseth aren’t killing those officers they’re removing.) If all your experts and advisors tell you that going to war is a bad idea, removing them and replacing them all with a staff of yes men is not going to turn it into a good one. It’s only going to make things worse, by turning a bad idea into a poorly executed bad idea.But, purgers gotta purge. If racial purity, male supremacy, and loyalty to the Leader becomes more important than doing your actual job, be prepared to order more body bags.
Yet another gullible twerp mistakes the homemade Lemkin “Institute” for a genuine institute as opposed to someone’s hobby.
It’s not “official”. A pretentious one-person ideology-enforcer is neither official nor an institute. It’s just a very silly bystander.
The Lemkin Institute has described gender critical feminism as “genocidal ideology that seeks the complete eradication of trans identity from around the world”.
Thus demonstrating they’re not a respectable “institute”. Putative identities are not synonymous with life. It’s not genocide to tell men they are not women. Even if it is very painful for the men, it still doesn’t come anywhere near being genocide.
What they’re doing in the sentence is equivocating. They’re pretending that “trans identity” is synonymous with trans existence. They’re pretending that refusal to believe and encourage other people’s fantasies about themselves is the same thing as killing those people. It’s not. It can be cruel, certainly – cruel the way telling people they’re ugly is cruel – but emotional cruelty is still not the same as killing, much less genocide. The people who claim to be the other sex go on existing. Telling men to get out of the women’s locker room is not the same as pushing them into the gas chamber.
In a statement on the issue, the Lemkin Institute argued that rhetoric from anti-trans activists depicting trans women as dangerous were not based on fact, but instead as essential to manufacturing consent for anti-trans violence.
Gender atheists don’t say all trans women are dangerous; we point out that some men are dangerous to women and that’s why no men should be in women’s locker rooms.
In 2022, the Lemkin Institute declared anti-trans legislation in the United States as genocidal.
One, legislation that protects women’s rights is not “anti-trans”; it’s pro-women. Two, legislation that protects women’s rights is not genocidal. Men go right on existing even after being reminded that men are not women.
In November 2024, Joseph Lemkin, a US lawyer who is Raphael Lemkin’s relative stated to Algemeiner Journal that he objected to the Lemkin Institute’s use of the Lemkin name and its use of the word genocide for the Gaza genocide.
The Lemkin Institute is nothing to do with Lemkin; it just helped itself to the name.
In September 2025, Joseph Lemkin told The Algemeiner that his family, with the support of the European Jewish Association (EJA), was considering legal action against the Lemkin Institute over use of Lemkin’s name. The family had previously requested a name change through formal letters and is awaiting a response. The EJA also contacted Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and the state’s Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations regarding the matter. According to Lemkin, if no action is taken and state officials do not intervene, the case will be brought before a court.
A fad for cross-dressing really has nothing at all to do with genocide. The “official genocide warning” Lismore drivels about is not “official” in any meaningful sense. It’s just one more person blathering.
Slate is angry that men won’t be able to invade women’s Olympic events.
The International Olympic Committee has instituted mandatory sex testing for every single athlete who aims to compete in women’s sports, the organization announced last week. This regressive policy, which will come into play at the 2028 Games in Los Angeles and formally resumes the Olympics’ long and shameful tradition of sex testing women, is effectively a ban on transgender women. That’s ghoulish.
Ghoulish?? Someone needs a dictionary.
But more to the point – it’s not regressive to keep men out of women’s sports. If there were an Olympics for children 10 and under, it wouldn’t be regressive to keep adults out of that Olympics.
Since 2004, when trans athletes first became eligible for the Olympics, there has been just one trans woman who has competed: New Zealand weight lifter Laurel Hubbard, in the 2021 Tokyo Games.
Just one openly trans “woman” that is. Imane Khelif for instance denies being a man.
Athletes believed to be intersex or trans are often subjected to intense, hateful scrutiny by sports governing bodies and the general public. The Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who won Olympic gold in 2024, was forced to endure a massive global hate campaign, stoked in part by President Donald Trump, who wrongly described her as both transgender and “male.”
How do we know he’s not male? Why, he says so.
The IOC, for its part, would like everyone to know that its policy “does not apply to any grassroots or recreational sports programmes.” That’s a nice thing to say, but it’s not true in any sense but the most literal. While this particular sex-testing policy applies only to women in Olympic settings, it has been well documented that national, state, and local policymakers—even down to youth recreational leagues—take their cues from the IOC and other groups that govern top-tier athletes.
What should they take their cues from? The trans communinny?
So is Trump a god-botherer or no?
No.
White House Faith Advisor Paula White-Cain’s attempt to rehabilitate the president’s religious image during a Fox News appearance backfired spectacularly Saturday night, triggering a wave of mockery after claiming he attended Saturday and Sunday school up to three times a week as a child.
Also, even if he had attended goddy school as a child, that wouldn’t establish that he’s goddy now. I was dragged to church a few times as a child and I hated every second of it. It didn’t make me religious.
White-Cain made the claim during a conversation with Laura Trump, telling Fox viewers that “many people don’t know about the upbringing of President Trump” before adding that he “went to, sometimes, three times a week to, he said, depending on the teacher, to Saturday school, Sunday school, church.”
“Church was a big part of his life,” she insisted.
Church can be a big part of your life in childhood and teach you to dislike religion. Some people change as they get older. Life is complicated.
Trump has leaned heavily into religious imagery during his second term, frequently invoking God’s blessing and surrounding himself with evangelical allies like White-Cain.
Trump has leaned heavily into a lot of things. He’s an eclectic kind of guy, or to put it another way, he’s random.
Hegseth continues his campaign to rid the US military of competent people.
Ousted Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Randy George, told Pentagon officials in an outgoing email that U.S. soldiers deserve “courageous leaders of character,” after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked him to step down and take immediate retirement.
CBS News exclusively reported earlier this week on the general’s ousting, with one source saying Hegseth wants someone in the role who will implement his and President Trump’s vision for the Army.
Their vision for the Army is that all brass will wear too-small jackets the way Hegseth does, because he thinks it makes him look muscular as opposed to ridiculous. All the wars will be won in an hour or less!
Hegseth has fired more than a dozen senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Slife and the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse.
Their jackets fit them too well.
But that’s not the question.
Of course they do. I don’t know of anyone who has said “Trans people are not equal” or “Trans people are inferior”. That’s not where the disagreement is at all. The disagreement is very simple and clear: dissenters from trans ideology do not agree that men can be women or that women can be men. That’s it.
It’s quite a tell that Pink News misrepresents the disagreement this way. It hints at how difficult it is to keep trying to argue that men can be women if they just simper and bat their eyelashes enough.
Of all things he could be doing Trump comes up with re-opening Alcatraz. Bro, it was closed for a reason. It’s a not very big rock just off San Francisco; it’s not a practical site for a prison.
Trump is seeking $152m (£115m) to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison as part of his proposed budget for the 2027 fiscal year.
Located near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, the site, also known as The Rock, was once regarded as one of America’s most notorious prisons, but has served as a tourist attraction in recent years.
The budget request is seeking money “to rebuild Alcatraz as a state-of-the-art secure prison facility”, with funds covering the first year of costs.
What on earth for? It’s a very small island in San Francisco Bay. What’s his point?
I suppose it’s just the usual Stupid Impulse of a Stupid Impulsive Peabrain who wants a new toy.
The maximum security facility was closed in 1963. As a tourist site, it is currently run by the National Park Service.
Maybe that’s it. Trump hates the National Park Service.
Previous criticism of Trump’s plan has pointed to the lack of running water and sewage on the island, and the fact all supplies are required to be brought in by boat.
By the time Alcatraz closed, it was three times more expensive to operate than any other federal prison, according to the US Bureau of Prisons.
Never mind, we’ll just defund Yosemite and the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone. Everybody wins!
Oh, so that’s the plan. Palm the kids off on the grandparents. There’s just one tiny flaw, JD – what makes you think the grandparents will comply?
Make it so that maybe grandma and grandpa wants to help out a little more. How does one do that exactly? How does one arrange or manipulate or disguise the situation such that grandparents who are not currently being daycare for the children will consent to become daycare for the children? “Hi Mom, hi Dad, we want to make it so that you want to help out with our kids a little more, by which we mean take care of them from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (or more if the commute is bad) five days a week. How can we make it so that you want to do that?”
This rosy question of course assumes that the grands live next door; if there’s a second commute to get the kids to the grands or the grands to the kids then it’s from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Roughly. Could be a little less, could be a little more.
There’s just one tiny snag. If the grands wanted to do this, wouldn’t they be doing it already?
But hey, Vance just said a little of the pressure, so maybe he means that the grands could drop in for an hour on Wednesday afternoons. Of course that assumes they live in the same city or suburb, which is true of some families, but certainly not all of them.
Annnnyway. I’m sure the great minds in the Trump regime will figure it out.
Inside Trump’s recreational sadism:
Trump brutally ended Pam Bondi’s career as his attorney general while they rode in his limousine to the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
“I think it’s time,” Trump told Bondi, The Wall Street Journal reported.
He had in fact decided to fire her earlier in the week, but waited to do it in the back of the Beast, turning what is seen as an honor given to a chosen few—a one-on-one in his limousine—into a humiliation ritual.
That’s our boy – goes out of his way to pinch people harder. I have zero sympathy for Bondi but I do marvel at Trump’s passion for torture.
Trump, it has been reported, was displeased with Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and the lack of progress on prosecutions of his perceived political enemies, like former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Bondi, according to the report, said to others that some of Trump’s demands weren’t possible and were “outside of things she could do.”
On account of how Trump hasn’t yet managed to replace every single prosecutor with a Trump stooge, and non-stooges won’t charge people with imaginary crimes.
Bondi is out. Expect someone even worse to replace her.
Trump has fired Pam Bondi as attorney general. She will be replaced for now by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who will serve as acting attorney general, Trump said.
The president wrote on Truth Social that Bondi would be “transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector,” praising her for her work in his administration and offering no specific reason for why she would be leaving.
I bet I know what the reason is. I bet it’s because he likes firing people. It’s fun!
Trump had been frustrated with Bondi on multiple fronts, sources said, including her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and that she had not investigated or prosecuted enough of his political opponents. She is the second Cabinet secretary to be ousted in recent weeks; last month, Trump removed Kristi Noem as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. One source said Trump felt that firing went smoothly, making him less wary of removing others.
Fun fun fun. One of the many perks of the job. Sadism is the best part of squatting in the Oval Office.
She tried to cling on but alas…
Bondi in recent weeks had spent more time around Trump, including by joining him at the Supreme Court for oral arguments in the birthright citizenship case on Wednesday. It’s the opposite tack taken by other top officials in the first Trump administration, who reduced their time around the president when they determined he was growing dissatisfied with their work.
Well there you go. Avoid him; yer fired. Cuddle up to him; ya fired.
Lie down with rats, get up with bubonic plague.
The Good Law Project aka Jolyon Maugham’s project is sad to have to tell you that it has failed to punish a barrister who doesn’t subscribe to The Sacred Ideology.
Bar Standards Board fails to act on barrister harassment
Barrister Sarah Phillimore repeatedly deadnamed and misgendered a trans woman online. Her regulator has rejected our complaint but we won’t be giving up
But this is the law we’re talking about. Is there a law that says people have to call men women and say “she” when they know he’s a he? Is that in fact something lawyers should be doing at all? Aren’t there very good reasons for the law to stick to reality, the facts, the truth?
In August 2025, we complained to the Bar Standards Board (BSB) after Sarah Phillimore shared more than 50 posts across multiple social media platforms that referred to Kate*, frequently in derogatory terms. In those posts, Phillimore misgendered, deadnamed and shared photos of Kate, and used graphic language about her genitals. Following that campaign Kate made an attempt on her own life – as is evident from her GP records.
Kate who? Why just Kate? Why a first name only?
Anyway, Kate is Euan Weddell, who calls himself Sophie Molly, and shouts disgusting insults at women through a megaphone. He is not a nice guy.
As a barrister, Phillimore is meant to be held to high standards by the Bar Standards Board. The board’s handbook makes clear that barristers must not “behave in a way which is likely to diminish the trust and confidence which the public places in you or in the profession”.
I think a barrister who insists that a man is a woman is behaving in a way likely to diminish trust and confidence. I certainly wouldn’t trust that barrister.
In its decision, the BSB said that “The context of [Kate’s] social media and public comments has brought her own trans status into the debate” and “We do not consider that [Phillimore] singles [Kate] out for cruel treatment, such that her behaviour victimises [Kate]”. You can read its decision, redacted of private information, here.
But of course it’s true that Weddell’s social media and public comments have brought his trans status into the debate. They have also brought his venomous hatred of noncompliant women into the debate. The clip where he calls JK Rowling “you heinous old bitch” at a public demonstration is still there for all to see.
*Kate’s name has been changed because of concerns about her safety. We have also redacted the BSB’s letter only to remove information which might identify Kate.
No concerns about Sarah Phillimore’s safety though. Why’s that?
A Boise State professor’s comments calling independent women “medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome” have spurred backlash in the Treasure Valley.
Scott Yenor, a political science professor at Boise State University, made the comments on Oct. 31 during the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, Florida. But the comments went viral when a Boise nurse posted a Nov. 25 video with excerpts of his speech on TikTok.
“Our culture is steeped with feminism,” Yenor said during the conference. “It teaches young boys and girls that they are motivated by much the same things and want much the same things.”
“Thus girls are told to become as independent as boys are said to be. … They are more medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome than women need to be.”
He went on to condemn feminism and said its teaching of individualism is a fundamental threat to strong families.
Because what “strong families” mean = men in charge and women obeying.
So why doesn’t Scott Yenor just move to Afghanistan? He’d love it there.
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Originally a comment by Papito on Another first.
Trump can glower all he wants to, it’s not going to work. His argument is too wacky and ahistorical to win. All the same issues and questions have been hashed out extensively, on the record, in the past. You’d have to go all the way back to Wong Kim Ark, and say the Court decided that case wrongly, or even before, to to Lynch v Clarke, before the 14th Amendment was even passed. It’s a position that is so far outside American legal tradition that I expect a 9-0 ruling.
For lagniappe, the lawyer arguing the case on behalf of the ACLU is a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship – her Taiwanese parents were on student visas when she was born.
And because Trump is dumb and wrong about just about everything, no the US is not the only country with a tradition of jus soli. Almost every other country in the Americas does, for starters.
Ten minutes before oral arguments for the birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court began on Wednesday, a hush came over the courtroom. President Trump walked in and came face to face with justices whom he has tried to bully and intimidate.
Mr. Trump became the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the court, watching from the courtroom’s public gallery as the justices across the ideological spectrum questioned his efforts to strictly limit birthright citizenship.
The first. Not the good kind of first; the other kind. Blatant intimidation move. Nice little court ya got here.
He watched as the arguments began and delved quickly into a history lesson about the 19th century debate surrounding the 14th Amendment.
That will have been gibberish to him. The what now? What century? What debate? What amendment? What mean? Is there a comic book version?
Trump, who has appointed three justices to the Supreme Court, has often talked about the justices not as independent checks on his power appointed for their expertise but as loyalists who should support his agenda. Last month, he suggested that Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, whom he nominated during his first term, were “an embarrassment to their families” because they sided with the majority against him.
That’s what he knows. Mobster loyalty. The history of enslavement and the 14th Amendment, not so much.
Many people outside the court expressed strong opposition to the president’s presence.
“I think it’s basically kind of a strong-arming tactic, wanting to be there, intimidate them with his presence,” said Michelle McKeithen. “And, kind of a statement of: ‘Make a decision while I’m here, looking you dead in your eye — and don’t make the wrong decision.’”
Damn right that’s what it is.
They don’t see how insulting it is? Really?
Elizabeth I will be transgender in ITV drama
She will? Why? Because women are too weak and inferior to have the top job?
Elizabeth I will be portrayed as transgender in a forthcoming ITV drama.
The Tudor queen, who never married and established England as a rising imperial power, will be shown as a biological man in the six-part series next year.
The independence of the “Virgin Queen”, who ruled from 1558 to 1603 and defeated the Spanish Armada, has given rise to improbable conspiracies that she was a man masquerading as a woman.
Claims of her being a trans woman will be a central focus of the new series, titled Majesty, in which the monarch will be played by a transgender woman, according to reports.
So, insult piled on injury. Hey don’t stop there. Do a series on Jane Austen, because obviously no woman is intelligent enough to write Emma.
In 2022, academics working for Shakespeare’s Globe in central London said she could have been non-binary, when people believe they are neither male nor female.
Elizabeth I was presented as such in an essay published by the theatre which referred to the female monarch with the gender-neutral they/them pronouns.
Feminist thinkers have raised concerns that casting doubts on the womanhood of prominent women because they defied gender norms and did supposedly “manly” things will effectively write them out of history.
That plus the fact that it amounts to shouting that women are too weak and brainless to accomplish anything.
James Strong, the director behind the production company, previously said the series would “re-imagine” history to make it “modern and relevant to today’s viewer”.
“The brilliant scripts are a director’s dream as we get to re-imagine and recreate an iconic piece of English history and tell a period story that looks stunning but also feels modern and relevant to today’s viewer,” he said.
Yeah bro, claiming women didn’t do those important difficult things because they’re too stupid is the best way to feel modern and relevant to today’s viewer.
Well there’s a headline.
National Education Union conference to debate if Supreme Court trans ruling is ‘attempted genocide’
Of course it’s not. What a ludicrous and downright abusive question. No, kiddies, saying that men are not women is not attempted genocide. The question is insanely insulting and misogynistic.
The National Education Union (NEU) is set to discuss whether the 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman constitutes “attempted genocide” against transgender people.
Delegates are expected to debate the issue today (31 March) at the union’s annual conference in Brighton.
According to the Daily Mail, Britain’s largest teaching union may hear arguments that the judgment amounts to an “attempted erasure of a group from public life”, with criticism potentially directed at both the judiciary and the government.
Fancy footwork. “Erasure of a group from public life” is not genocide. It’s a sneaky rhetorical move to pretend that it does. “Erasure” can mean elimination but it can also mean simply ignoring, withdrawing attention from, indifference, disbelief, refusal to promote and amplify. It can include pointing out that a putative “group” is not necessarily or automatically entitled to public attention. You can call three people at a bus stop a group, but that doesn’t mean those three people are owed public attention. It’s not written on a Sacred Tablet somewhere that people who claim to be the sex they are not are owed fervent intense admiring public attention.
The word “group” is not sacred. The existence of a group does not automatically entail public enthusiasm and endorsement.
The Supreme Court previously ruled that, under the Equality Act, the definition of a woman is based on biological sex, a decision that has prompted ongoing debate about the operation of single-sex spaces and the inclusion of trans people.
How do you prompt ongoing debate? If it’s ongoing it doesn’t need prompting, does it.
Anyway…you’ll never guess what’s coming next. Or perhaps you will.
Today’s debate follows a motion submitted to conference which describes the ruling as a “step towards an attempt to erase that group’s existence”.
“The goal of which is to completely erase transgender people” – Lemkin Institute on trans rights in the US
The discussion comes amid similar warnings internationally. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security has issued multiple Red Flag Alerts in response to anti-trans policies in the United States.
Oh good god. How many times do we have to point out that the “Lemkin Institute” is just one or two people and a label? They’re not Hannah Arendt, they’re not Philip Gourevitch, they’re not authorities.
I repeat. Saying men are not women is not genocidal.