I’ll just say this – it’s going to look ridiculous. It’s way out of scale, so it looks like a damn warehouse.

That huge box on the right side: that’s the stupid ballroom. The entire population of Queens could fit in there.

Euan McColm in the Scottish Daily Mail on Graham Linehan and the deranged ideology that trashed his life:

By rights, Mr Linehan should be revered, just as contemporaries such as Ricky Gervais and Simpsons creator Matt Groening are, as a visionary in his field. Instead, his career has been destroyed and his personal life upturned after years of relentless harassment by trans activists.

For rejecting an ideology –still hugely fashionable in the showbiz world from which Mr Linehan is now an outcast – he saw projects cancelled and friends turn on him. A long-planned musical based on Father Ted, the hit show Mr Linehan created alongside his one-time writing partner Arthur Matthews, was called-off while former colleagues denounced him as a bigot.

The nature of the campaign against Mr Linehan is disturbing, indeed. What makes it doubly so is the fact the police have been complicit in his harassment.

Complicit and downright helpful.

On Monday it emerged that not only had the Metropolitan Police decided no crime had been committed but that the force would no longer investigate so called ‘non-crime hate incidents’ (NCHI). This was good news not only for Mr Linehan – who plans to sue the Met for wrongful arrest – but for anyone who cares about freedom of speech in these increasingly censorious times.

Graham Linehan’s recent arrest is understood to have followed complaints from members of a network of trans activists who have been allowed to weaponise police forces across the UK by making spurious criminal reports against those who reject the mantra that ‘trans-women are women’.

Spurious is putting it politely. It’s completely deranged. “Arrest that witch, she says there is no god!!”

If these complaints are rejected, activists then demand judicial reviews which often result in the reinstatement of charges not because the decision is justified but because chief constables are shamefully cowed by activist networks in their forces.

There are activist trans networks in police forces? I did not know that.

The Met’s announcement that it will no longer waste precious time indulging in the pointless, performatory investigation of non-crimes must be followed by a similar statement from Police Scotland Chief Constable Jo Farrell. Her force has allowed itself to be used as a private security force by activists for quite long enough. The Tory MSP Murdo Fraser has spent almost two years locked in a legal battle with Police Scotland over its handling of a complaint against him.

Mr Fraser committed the crime of refusing to take trans activists seriously by posting on X that ‘choosing to identify as ‘non-binary’ is as valid as choosing to identify as a cat.

Now you could make an argument that in fact choosing to idennify as a cat is either more or less valid than choosing to idennify as non-binary, but that’s an argument, not a police matter.

What misery these activists wish to inflict and what energy they possess. Not only do they recklessly encourage confused young people towards unnecessary medical pathways which will leave their bodies disfigured, they seek to destroy anyone who speaks up about the dangers of their ideology.

Plus, they’re boring and they don’t know how to think.

Clever people who know Mr Linehan is right cannot bring themselves to be seen in the same room as him lest they be infected. Like that other great hate figure of the trans movement, JK Rowling, Mr Linehan has done nothing but bring joy to others throughout his professional career.

As in the case of Ms Rowling, there is no incongruity between the warmth of his work and the position he takes on trans issues. Graham Linehan’s opposition to the demands of activists is not, as his critics claim, cruel. It is profoundly compassionate and, given the number of public figures who have run scared on this issue, impressively brave.

And so say all of us.

Wait, who was unreasonable here?

Sandie Peggie’s legal team says it is seriously concerned about the content of secret briefings for SNP ministers prepared by NHS Fife and uncovered by The Herald.

Confidential correspondence between the board and the Scottish Government, obtained through freedom of information, contains unredacted details about the nurse, including references to her occupational health appointments and other internal employment matters.

The documents outline NHS Fife’s account of events surrounding the employment tribunal and seek to reassure ministers that the board acted appropriately throughout.

In them, the board suggest Ms Peggie’s “personal circumstances” may have “contributed to the incident” and that the nurse should have had the “skills and knowledge to de-escalate or remove herself from this situation”.

Excuse me? Why is it on her to have “skills and knowledge” to de-escalate the presence of an enormous man in the room where she needs to take off her bloodstained clothes? She was not the aggressor here; he was. Just think: if he had had the skills and knowledge to take his ass out of that room the instant she asked or told him too, this whole tribunal would have been unnecessary.

NHS Fife argues that while Ms Peggie is entitled to her belief that Dr Upton is male, the way in which she confronted her colleague was unreasonable in a workplace setting, and that it was therefore reasonable she was suspended and investigated.

Right. And by the same logic, if he had assaulted her, that too would have been her fault. She’s the powerful privileged person here and huge tall burly posh man is the cowering terrified underdog. What happened to good old intersectionality? Remember when that was a thing? Peggie is the underdog on every metric and Upton is very much the overdog on every metric. How does NHS Fife get away with reversing the under/over positions?

To put it another way, why wasn’t it his presence in the women’s locker room that was “unreasonable in a workplace setting” as opposed to Peggie’s objection to his presence there?

We’ll never be told.

Teen Vogue tells us:

Suing her school was not how Evelyn Parts envisioned her final semester at Swarthmore College. Parts, 22, a distance runner and team captain of the school’s varsity cross country and track team, set big goals for senior year. The Towson, Maryland native had qualified for the 5,000 meters in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)’s Division III Centennial Conference Championship for Women’s Indoor Track & Field set for last March in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. For her, it was the biggest competition of the season.

But she was never given a chance to run. Parts, who goes by Evie, was banned from competing with her team because she is a transgender woman.

Thus Teen Vogue cheerfully admits it lies to us in the first paragraph.

It also misrepresents the issue in the usual way. Parts was banned from competing on the women’s team because he is a man. “Transgender” is beside the point (because meaningless); the point is that he’s not a woman. However fragile and dainty and girly he may think he is, he’s not a woman. A “transgender woman” is a man. Men don’t get to compete against women, especially in a championship.

“There’s so much on my mind that nobody else has to think about,” Parts tells Teen Vogue about the ordeal. “This is not fair that I’m having to think about this. Everybody else is thinking about race strategy, and I’m thinking about whether I’ll be able to race.”

Whiney jerk. Any thought for the women he’s cheating? Of course not.

Via What a Maroon, Moumen Al-Natour writes in the Washington Post of the two Gazas:

Trump’s ceasefire has split Gaza into two alternate realities on either side of the “yellow line” behind which the Israel Defense Forces have withdrawn under Phase 1 of the ceasefire deal. On one side is a Gaza that is desperate for Trump’s plan to succeed; on the other is a Gaza that is being pulled back into the abyss once again. It is impossible for these two Gazas to exist simultaneously for more than a moment in time, and soon enough one will consume the other. Fighting over the weekend underscores just how precarious the balance remains.

My Gaza, where I wish to live, exists between Israel and the yellow line. There, the war is over and change buzzes in the air. People have access to food, medicine and electricity. And other signs of normality are beginning to return, such as some children going back to school. This is the Gaza that is waiting with anticipation to work with a new civil administration and an international protection force that will keep the peace as Israel withdraws. Few there speak of Hamas with any warmth or positivity. For once they no longer have to.

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I have been deeply involved in Gaza’s underground civil society movement for many years, much of which was spent preparing for an unknown moment where we would have a chance to be free of Hamas’s cruel domination and break the cycle of war with Israel. That moment is now here, and I am certain that this is the chance for which I spent my life protesting, organizing and suffering. It was worth the scars and the terror to see that there can be a different future here.

But on the other side of the yellow line exists another Gaza that will do anything to prevent this from happening. Over there the war continues, albeit not between Israel and Hamas but between Hamas and Gaza itself. In the nearly two weeks that have passed since Trump’s deal was signed, and in the absence of IDF soldiers, Hamas has emerged from its tunnel network and is reasserting control in the most violent manner possible, its reemergence accompanied by a terrifying bloodletting that targets any form of internal dissent, both real and imagined, past and present.

With no Israelis in their scopes, no more hostages to torment and no more leaders capable of giving them a new identity, Hamas is taking its humiliation and rage out on the Palestinians who happened to be on the wrong side of the yellow line when the war ended. Whether the militants are executing a line of shackled men on the street or engaging in firefights around hospitals, Hamas’s violence against Palestinians has now become so intense and so visceral that you would think that their true enemy was Palestinians, not Israelis.

I suspect that violence is one of those drugs that you have to take in ever-larger doses to get the same high. Hamas’s doses are stratospheric.

I have lost many friends to Hamas’s barbarity and have come close to losing my own life on more than one occasion. And if we refuse to stand up to Hamas when it kills Palestinians and blatantly breaches the terms of the peace agreement today, then we are showing Hamas that the world will stand by as it reclaims the rest of Gaza, extinguishing my hopes and dreams once and for all.

Such an outcome would be a tragedy not only for Palestinians but for the rest of the world as well. If Hamas retains a foothold in Gaza, it will quickly undermine and disrupt the progress we are now trying to achieve. The only solution is to force Hamas to abide by the terms of the deal, by handing over its weapons and leaving the future of Gaza to people who have been denied a voice for a generation, rather than leaving a vacuum for it to exploit. The creation and implementation of a new civil administration and international stabilization force as outlined in the plan cannot come soon enough.

Here’s hoping.

Fun fact it just occurred to me to look up to make sure it is a fact.

All of Trump’s grandparents were immigrants. All of them. One two three four.

On October 7, 1885, Friedrich Trump, a 16-year-old German barber, boarded a ship with a one-way ticket to America, escaping three years of compulsory German military service. He had been a sickly child, unsuited to hard labor, and feared the effects of the draft.

…

Trump is the son, and grandson, of immigrants: German on his father’s side, and Scottish on his mother’s. None of his grandparents, and only one of his parents, was born in the United States or spoke English as their mother tongue. (His mother’s parents, from the remote Scottish Outer Hebrides, lived in a majority Gaelic-speaking community.)

Worth keeping in mind.

Once again we see that religions have actual substantive beliefs about other people, specifically the kind of beliefs that lead to quarrels, fights, wars, genocides.

We’re supposed to pretend otherwise. We’re supposed to pretend that religions are entirely a force for good.

A pro-Gaza MP who welcomed the ban on Israeli football fans from Villa Park previously cast doubt on the atrocities committed in the Oct 7 attacks. Ayoub Khan, the independent MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, cast doubt on claims that women were raped during the Hamas-led massacre in 2023.

Religion! Ethnicity! History! Theocracy! Rivalry! A toxic brew. Football doesn’t improve it.

His comments have come to light as he faces a backlash for celebrating the decision to bar Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from attending their team’s Europa League match against Aston Villa on Nov 6.

Fans of the Israeli club were informed of the ban on Thursday following a recommendation from West Midlands Police to Birmingham’s safety advisory group.

Sir Keir Starmer has led criticism of the ban. Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, said MPs who celebrated it were “absolutely disgusting”.

Aww, the MPs are just defending their communniny.

Man knocks out woman in boxing ring surprise.

Olympic gender-row boxer Lin Yu-ting controversially romped to victory on her return to the ring on Tuesday night, knocking out a 19-year-old female university student in just 94 seconds.

Lin, 29, won gold in the women’s featherweight division during last year’s Paris Olympics, despite being disqualified from the 2023 World Championships for failing a gender eligibility test.

If you don’t already know that Lin is a man you wouldn’t learn it from that beginning. What is the point of obscuring the truth this way? It’s not HER return to the ring, it’s HIS. He’s a man determined to punch women and he knocked one out yesterday. That’s the story. Saying he failed a gender eligibility test is meaningless: carefully, deliberately meaningless. But it’s ok because hey it’s only women who are harmed so never mind.

Prior to Tuesday, the Taiwanese boxer had not returned to the ring at international events since winning gold in Paris, which sparked a huge gender row over disputed sex tests.

World Boxing introduced mandatory genetic sex testing for all boxers aged over 18 in August, in an effort to better determine eligibility for its competitions.

The decision has seen Lin and fellow gender row boxer Imane Khelif, who also won gold at the Paris Games in the welterweight category, undergo extended periods away from the ring.

Blah blah blah, on and on, and every word of it is evasive.

Fined how much for doing what?

A woman says she was “shocked” when she was fined £150 for tipping the remnants of her coffee down a road gully in west London.

Burcu Yesilyurt, who lives in Kew, said she thought she was acting “responsibly” when she poured out a small amount of coffee from her reusable cup down the drain rather than risk spilling it on the bus she was about to catch to work.

But to her surprise, she was then stopped by three enforcement officers at the bus stop near Richmond station and fined under Section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

Who were hanging out waiting for someone to pour a bit of coffee into a drain?

I wonder if they’re aware that all the coffee that people brew ends up in a drain one way or another.

Richmond-upon-Thames Council said its officers “acted professionally and objectively” and that the fine was issued in line with its policies.

Its policies of having no coffee in the sewer system??? They might as well have laws against peeing.

Section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 makes it an offence to deposit or dispose of waste in a way likely to pollute land or water, including pouring liquids into street drains.

So what happened to the “likely to pollute” bit? How is a bit of coffee in the bottom of a cup likely to pollute land or water?

Yet more outrageous monetizing of everything by the monster:

Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter, who added that any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.

The situation has no parallel in American history, as Mr. Trump, a presidential candidate, was pursued by federal law enforcement and eventually won the election, taking over the very government that must now review his claims. It is also the starkest example yet of potential ethical conflicts created by installing the president’s former lawyers atop the Justice Department.

Just a tad.

Mr. Trump submitted complaints through an administrative claim process that often is the precursor to lawsuits. The first claim, lodged in late 2023, seeks damages for a number of purported violations of his rights, including the F.B.I. and special counsel investigation into Russian election tampering and possible connections to the 2016 Trump campaign, according to people familiar with the matter. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because the claim has not been made public.

The second complaint, filed in the summer of 2024, accuses the F.B.I. of violating Mr. Trump’s privacy by searching Mar-a-Lago, his club and residence in Florida, in 2022 for classified documents. It also accuses the Justice Department of malicious prosecution in charging him with mishandling sensitive records after he left office.

All bullshit, but since he now tells the Justice Department what to do (in a way that previous presidents didn’t have the gall to do) it doesn’t matter that it’s bullshit. The rules are that Trump wins and everyone else loses.

“What a travesty,” said Bennett L. Gershman, an ethics professor at Pace University. “The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don’t need a law professor to explain it.”

He added: “And then to have people in the Justice Department decide whether his claim should be successful or not, and these are the people who serve him deciding whether he wins or loses. It’s bizarre and almost too outlandish to believe.”

So is everything else.

Originally a comment by Jim Baerg; posted with the permission of his sister/source.

From my sister in Maine:

Went to this yesterday. There were about 2000 people there and it looked pretty much like this photo from June’s that I missed.

I had my little Canadian flag along with a little American flag. Progressives are trying to take back what it means to be a patriotic American.

One guy jokingly said to me, “You don’t have to gloat about being Canadian.” And I replied, “Yes, I do”. All in good spirit.

Lots of creative signage. My favorites were:

They’re eating the immigrants! Soylent Green is People! (Remember in the debates when Trump claimed that Haitian immigrants were eating their neighbour’s dogs and cats? Not sure if that made news in Canada.)

No Faux King Way!

No Kings’ rally Oct. 18 in Wiscasset

Colombia’s Leader Accuses U.S. of Murder, Prompting Trump to Halt Aid

It’s not the US that’s the murderer, it’s Trump. Trump himself, ordering murders on the high seas. Did he order the code red? You’re god damn right he did.

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia accused the United States of murdering an innocent fisherman in an attack on a boat that the American authorities claimed had been carrying illicit drugs, prompting President Trump to declare on Sunday that he would slash assistance to Colombia, one of Washington’s top aid recipients in Latin America, and impose new tariffs on the country’s goods.

The feuding between the two leaders reflected rising tensions in the region over the huge U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean targeting Colombia’s neighbor, Venezuela. U.S. forces have killed dozens of people in recent weeks aboard vessels that the Trump administration says were ferrying drugs from Venezuela.

The administration has provided no evidence to support the claims beyond descriptions of intelligence assessments and declassified videos of portions of the attacks. Legal specialists have called such killings illegal, because militaries cannot lawfully target civilians who do not pose a threat in the moment and are not directly participating in hostilities.

In other words he’s committing war crimes, daily, day after day.

“U.S. government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters,” Mr. Petro wrote on social media. He said the man killed in the mid-September attack, Alejandro Carranza, was a “lifelong fisherman” whose boat had experienced damage and was adrift, probably in Colombian waters, at the time of the attack. His description of Mr. Carranza and his boat could not be immediately confirmed.

Mr. Trump responded by accusing Mr. Petro of not doing enough to curb the production of illegal drugs, calling him an “illegal drug dealer” with “a fresh mouth toward America.” Mr. Trump also said that the United States would halt aid payments to Colombia, which has long ranked among the largest recipients worldwide of U.S. counternarcotics assistance. He later told reporters on Air Force One that he would announce new tariffs on Colombian goods on Monday.

Mr Petro doesn’t want the US murdering Colombians? Colombia must be punished!

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.