He’s going completely batshit. He’s demoting the entire FBI to beat cops. Sir, sir, that’s not what they’re there for.

The FBI has begun dispatching agents in overnight shifts to help local law enforcement prevent carjackings and violent crime in Washington, according to two people familiar with the matter, as President Donald Trump threatens a federal takeover of the nation’s capital and considers calling up the National Guard.

…

Trump on Sunday compared forthcoming action against D.C. crime to his administration’s aggressive crackdown against illegal immigration at the southern border, saying that he plans to “immediately clear out the city’s homeless population and take swift action against crime.”

“Be prepared! There will be no ‘MR. NICE GUY.’ We want our Capital BACK,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social social media platform.

Why does he write his diary in public?

A White House official said in a statement that “we won’t get ahead of the President on any potential announcements, but the President has been clear that all options are on the table when it comes to making DC safe again.”

In other words, “We have no idea what he’s going to do next and we’re terrified so shut up.”

In recent days, the administration has authorized up to 120 agents, largely from the FBI’s Washington Field Office, to work overnight shifts for at least one week alongside D.C. police and other federal law enforcement officers in the nation’s capital…

The deployment of FBI agents to deal with local crime puts agents from the bureau’s counterintelligence, public corruption and other divisions with minimal training in traffic stops out on the streets in potentially dangerous encounters, diverting them from their typical jobs at the bureau.

It’s like drafting some senators to do his laundry.

The reassignment of FBI agents has further demoralized some agents in the Washington Field Office, who believe they have little expertise or training in thwarting carjackers and were already angered by a spate of firings inside the agency that they deemed unwarranted. Last week, the Trump administration ousted with no explanation FBI personnel across the country, including the head of the Washington Field Office.

He seems to want another Operation Valkyrie.

Impulsive golfer threatens mass arrests and deportations:

In a social media post on Sunday, Donald Trump has demanded homeless residents of Washington DC leave the country’s capital or face eviction, and again promised to use federal officers to jail criminals, even though violent crime in the city was at a 30-year low when he took office in January.

“The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Sunday morning, shortly after being driven from the White House to his golf club in Virginia. “We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.”

The post was illustrated with four photographs, all apparently taken from the president’s motorcade along the route from the White House to his golf course. Two of the images showed a total of 10 tents pitched on the grass along a highway on-ramp just over a mile from the White House.

Dude sees tents from his limo, dude pitches fit.

Trump’s post promoted a previously announced news conference on Monday, which he has promised, “will, essentially, stop violent crime” in the capital district, without explaining how. In a subsequent post, he said that the news conference at 10am Monday, “will not only involve ending the Crime, Murder, and Death in our Nation’s Capital, but will also be about Cleanliness”.

Ok there’s an idea. Can we put him in charge of washing things? That would keep him busy.

Asked by Reuters, the White House declined to explain what legal authority Trump would use to evict people from Washington. The president controls only federal land and buildings in the city.

Well yes but we know that doesn’t actually matter. He does whatever he wants.

Yes, he’s reckless and ignorant and corrupt and greedy, but on the other hand he’s also spiteful and malicious and destructive.

Once a dramatic feature of the White House entryway, the official portrait of former President Barack Obama has been moved to a decidedly less prominent position, underscoring the yearslong tensions between the 44th and 47th presidents.

Portraits of other recent predecessors with whom President Donald Trump has a contentious relationship, former President George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush, have also been moved.

Trump directed staff to move the Obama portrait to the top of the Grand Staircase, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN, where it will now be out of view from thousands of visitors who tour the White House each day. One of the sources added that the portraits of both Bushes are also now in the staircase area.

He might as well throw himself down on the floor and yell and scream that Obama is still smarter and better looking than he is and it’s just not fair.

Multiple sources have said that the president is directly involved with nearly everything that is done to the aesthetic of the White House, big or small.

CNN obtained a photo of the Obama portrait hanging at the top of the stairwell in a corner, at the landing of the entrance to the private residence. That area is heavily restricted to members of the first family, US Secret Service agents, and a limited number of White House and executive residence staff. It is firmly out of view for any visitor hoping to see the photorealistic Robert McCurdy painting of the former president, a source familiar with the matter confirmed.

So there! Nyah!

White House protocol and precedent calls for portraits of the most recent American presidents to be given the most prominent placement, in the entrance of the executive mansion, visible to guests during official events and visitors on tours.

Yeah but protocol and precedent have to give way to the jealousy and stupidity of the current “president.”

Oddly enough, people who work at the CDC are not best pleased.

The day after a lone gunman opened fire on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, killing a police officer and shattering windows across the agency’s campus, employees were reeling from shock, fear and rage.

“We’re mad this has happened,” Dr. Debra Houry, the C.D.C.’s chief medical officer, said in a large group call Saturday morning with Susan Monarez, the agency’s newly confirmed director, who tried to reassure them. Another employee on the call, a recording of which was obtained by The New York Times, asked Dr. Monarez: “Are you able to speak to the misinformation, the disinformation that caused this issue? And what your plan forward is to ensure this doesn’t happen again?”

Like, for starters, can you get Evil Kennedy fired and replaced by someone actually qualified as well as not evil?

Inside the C.D.C., the shooting was viewed as part of a pattern in which health workers have been targets of political, verbal and physical assaults on them and their workplaces.

Yeah no kidding; because of Trump and all that flows from his plane crash administration.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who oversees the C.D.C., did not make a statement on Friday. Late Saturday morning, more than 30 minutes after posting photos of his fishing with his family on social media, Mr. Kennedy posted condolences on his official X account and pledged to support C.D.C. employees.

Like that. Silence, then smug selfies, then insultingly late “condolences.” The man is a monstrosity.

Mr. Kennedy has previously called the C.D.C. a “cesspool of corruption” and a fascist enterprise. He has accused the agency’s scientists of ignoring vaccine harms to children, comparing it to the Catholic Church’s coverup of child sex abuse. He has also disparaged the Covid-19 vaccine, calling it the “deadliest” vaccine ever made.

We have seen the cesspool and it is you, Mr. Kennedy.

Dr. Fiona Havers, who resigned from her position as a senior C.D.C. adviser on vaccine policy earlier this year, was on lockdown at Emory University Hospital while visiting a colleague. She heard the sirens, and stayed in close contact with her friends and former colleagues, including in a 900-person chat group where C.D.C. employees shared terrifying details of the shooting.

“I am feeling very angry and very sad for my colleagues that are still at C.D.C.,” said Dr. Havers, who quit after Mr. Kennedy fired all 17 members of a committee that makes recommendations on which shots Americans should take and when.

Evil evil man.

Lies and bullshit have consequences.

A shooting at the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention killed a police officer and rattled the community of public health workers, who said the attack was a manifestation of rampant misinformation surrounding vaccines.

A 30-year-old man who believed the Covid-19 vaccine had made him ill opened fire at C.D.C. buildings on Friday, according to the police. A young DeKalb County police officer was killed in the attack, and the gunman also died. On Saturday, investigators from local, state and federal law enforcement agencies were working to piece together the details and the circumstances that precipitated the attack.

The shooting came after years of conspiracy theories about vaccines and escalating political hostility toward the C.D.C., which some federal officials have sought to blame for lockdowns and vaccine mandates during the coronavirus pandemic.

Because how dare the government act to control a lethal disease. Much better to let it spread and pick off all the people weak and feeble enough to catch it.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, lamented the attack in a statement on Saturday. “No one should face violence while working to protect the health of others,” he said.

Says the guy who has been fomenting hatred of the CDC in his role as hhs secretary.

Some scientists and public health experts said Friday’s attack was the latest in a pattern of threats and violence against health care workers. Inside the C.D.C., which is widely considered a global leader in public health, some employees expressed frustration and distress on a call on Saturday, according to a recording of the call obtained by The Times.

On the call, one C.D.C. employee asked the agency’s director, Susan Monarez, “Are you able to speak to the misinformation, the disinformation that caused this issue?”

The misinformation and conspiracy theories about vaccines have circulated despite research that has proved that Covid-19 vaccines are safe for most Americans. Side effects are rare, and the vaccinations are believed to have prevented millions of deaths and hospitalizations.

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, some vaccine skeptics, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now the health and human services secretary, have sought to blame the C.D.C. for a botched response to the outbreak of the virus.

Before joining the Trump administration, Mr. Kennedy described the C.D.C. as a “cesspool of corruption” and accused the agency of covering up harmful side effects of vaccines, particularly in children. In 2021, he called Covid shots the “deadliest vaccine ever made.”

Last week, Mr. Kennedy canceled nearly $500 million in grants and contracts for developing mRNA vaccines, which many scientists see as the best way to protect people during a pandemic.

“Public health is being vilified by the current administration,” said Dr. Ina Park, a n expert in sexually transmitted diseases at the University of California, San Francisco.

This is hell, nor are we out of it.

The Times July 19 2020:

John Boyne has expressed gratitude after a comedian apologised publicly for the “relentless harassment” that caused the novelist great distress.

In a statement published on Twitter last week, Aidan Comerford issued an apology and retraction for suggesting Boyne “has engaged in transphobia [and] implying that he is transphobic, on a number of occasions”.

Comerford, the author of Corn Flakes for Dinner, a comedy about family life, said he had wrongly tweeted that no transgender person would appear with Boyne on an RTE radio interview with Ryan Tubridy in 2019. “I have been informed that, in fact, no transgender person was invited to appear; therefore, I retract and apologise,” he said.

Comerford also admitted falsely accusing Boyne of creating a “sock puppet” or fake account to tweet himself supportively. The comedian concluded that it was never his intention to harass Boyne and he was sorry for doing so. “I have deleted these tweets about John, and I will not tweet about him, or his work, in the future.”

But will he continue to harass people he perceives as being insufficiently deferential to trans ideology? Yes indeed, he will do that very thing. Today for instance…

He certainly does think he’s the boss of everyone.

And righteous.

Oh good, another fuss. There can never be enough fussing.

The Polari Prize, the UK’s literary award celebrating LGBTQ+ writing, has come under fire following the release of its 2025 longlist, with critics accusing the organisers of platforming a writer labelled by some as a “TERF”.

The horror!!

The controversy centres around the inclusion of John Boyne, author of Earth, on the main Polari Book Prize longlist. Boyne has previously faced criticism for his portrayal of trans characters, particularly in his 2019 novel My Brother’s Name is Jessica.

And mere criticism is not enough, there must be shunning.

The novel, which follows a cisgender boy struggling to accept his sibling’s transition, was widely condemned by trans activists and readers. Critics argued that the story centres cis discomfort rather than trans experience, perpetuating harmful tropes. The title itself was seen as misgendering the protagonist, with one activist stating, “He misgendered the trans person in the title… that reflects a lot on what’s going to be in the book.”

Blah blah blah everything must be written according to our specifications or there will be fuss and shunning and punishment and above all noise.

Social media erupted shortly after the longlist was announced on 6 August, with one user saying: “Trans and nonbinary readers are not going to be safe if you continue to platform TERF authors. That’s it. That’s the bottom line.” 

It may be the bottom line, but is it true? Are hordes of people going to make haste to throw heavy objects at trans people because this book is up for a prize?

In a statement published on social media, Polari Prize wrote: “The Polari Prize was founded on the core principles of diversity and inclusion. We are committed to supporting trans rights and amplifying trans voices, as demonstrated both in the history of the prize and the Polari salon, where trans and non-binary writers and performers have featured regularly as valued members of the LGBTQ+ writing community. 

Ssssshhhhh – doesn’t matter. You have been Condemned; game over.

BBC tells us:

A former police community support officer who was “obsessed with weapons” has been jailed after she tried to make a gun using a 3D printer.

Zoe Watts, 39, of St Helen’s Avenue, Lincoln, was found with weapons, including knives and a crossbow, alongside parts for 3D printed guns during a raid on her home on 11 December. Watts denied a charge of attempting to manufacture a prohibited weapon, and claimed she was making a “fidget” toy gun as a Christmas present.

Watts, of course, is a large hulking man. This crime is not the crime of a woman; this sentence was not handed down to a woman.

Two days before the raid on her home, Watts had done an online search for “Has anybody been killed by a 3D printed gun?”

The court was told on behalf of Watts – who was appearing by videolink – that she “apologised to the jury, to her family and her friends for putting them through this”.

It also heard that she “expressed her sorrow that it may have an impact on how the gay and lesbian community may be viewed”.

No sorrow for the trans communniny?

Judge Hirst said he realised custody would be more difficult for Watts because of her neurodivergence, her previous police career and her transgender identity.

That’s the next to last sentence of the longish article – only at the very end does the BBC admit that Watts has a “transgender idenniny” i.e. is a man. If you heard the story on the radio as opposed to reading it and thus seeing the photo at the top, you would have no idea the perp was a man until the very end. Most people stop reading before the very end. It’s journalistic malpractice on steroids.

Updating to add: Lincolnshire Police are even worse.

Originally a comment by Dave Ricks on A Harvard professor.

The Harvard prof Sarah Richardson concluded her book review:

Reprising the anti-biological determinist tradition, Fuentes respectfully explains science in plain language to a wider public, presents biological knowledge as one among many sources of sense-making about the world, and recognises biomedical scientists’ responsibility to respond to harmful deployments of inaccurate, overly simplistic, and reductionist science by those attempting to naturalise and depoliticise their hateful views.

This interdisciplinary, scientist-humanist voice is vital in our time. As the Lancet Commission makes clarion, gender is an essential concept for improving health and wellbeing for everyone. Defending research and clinical practice in gender-related areas must be a priority in the face of perilous new attacks on science and academic freedom.

I bolded the word harmful because Carole Hooven highlighted that one word in yellow in her post of the image file here. That one word highlighted yellow stands out and makes me think. Richardson sees herself as an arbiter of which views are harmful. But would she ever judge her own views are harmful? And how did she become an arbiter? Evidently, Harvard has been cultivating this culture over many years. I will quote Hooven saying this, so it’s not just me:

The Lancet review goes well beyond disagreement about the facts, and exemplifies one of the main reasons Harvard is being targeted by the government.

By the way, considered harmful is a fun trope, known especially in computer science from the short paper Goto Statement Considered Harmful (Edsger Dijkstra, 1968). Of course, that led to a reply ‘GOTO Considered Harmful’ Considered Harmful (Frank Rubin, 1987), and so on.

I will never, ever, ever understand how lawyers and legislators can convince themselves that all this is true and good.

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Badgey MaBadgerson.

It’s the most ridiculous thing, a safety rating system where everyone rates themselves.

Restaurants in Toronto are inspected by the health commission or whatever it’s called, same as in any other normal city. Here, the inspectors issue a “grade” to the restaurant, a Red, Yellow, or Green Card, which must be prominently displayed at the business entrance.

But imagine if restaurants all just issued their own cards. Each restaurant could just post a big yellow “You’re safe eating with me!” badge on its front door if it chooses to.

It’s so fucking stupid, it’s not even worth imagining. It’s not even funny. It’s just plainly, obviously so dumb, it’s tedious to even try and entertain the idea.

And now imagine that kids are the ones doing the evaluating of what’s safe and what’s not!

This is a perfect example of how the gender cult activates the primitive parts of the brain that are fixated on signalling virtue to protect their status among their tribal peers, while at the same time completely deactivating the brain’s entire critical thinking parts when doing so. There is not just a lack of critical thinking behind the badge thing, there’s an active, glaring, explicit, and frankly shocking suppression of people’s mental faculties going on here.

And whoever introduced the clumsy neologism “trans+” has just cranked up the purity spiral another notch. As sure as April rain, we’ll see it soon pretty much everywhere.

Argh, people are so stupid!

Oh come on. Much too easy.

Of course they can. It’s because trans women are men! That’s it, that’s all you need.

No hurry. We’ll get to it over the next few months, or perhaps next year, or some time soon after that.

The NHS has delayed a ban on staff who are trans women in female changing rooms and lavatories until the autumn.

Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, promised new guidance in April, after the Supreme Court ruled that trans women – people who are biological men – should be barred from using women’s single-sex services.

The Telegraph can reveal that NHS England has no plans to bring out the guidance until “late summer or early autumn” – meaning it may not be published until October or November.

That’s ok. It doesn’t matter. It’s only women who are at risk or uncomfortable. No hurry. Sit back, have another glass of wine, ignore the clock.

Many public bodies have already started observing the rules. The Football Association, for example, has barred trans women from the female game.

But NHS England has still not acted, despite Sir Keir Starmer telling organisations to comply with the law “as soon as possible”.

That’s interesting because you would think the NHS should be one of the first organizations to get their shit together. Not one of the slow, foot-dragging, reluctant, sulky, uncooperative ones, but one of the other kind. The NHS is the one that has the power to fuck up people’s bodies, so they really ought to be in a hurry to get their knowledge of who has which kind of body right.

An NHS spokesperson said: “The NHS is working through the implications of the ruling, and we absolutely recognise the need for revised guidance.

“It’s important for the Equality and Human Rights Commission to publish its statutory guidance before final decisions about future policy are taken.

“In the meantime, we are working closely with Government to ensure we can provide updated guidance for the health service as soon as possible.”

I don’t really get what the obstacle is. Men are not women and they never have been.

Jo Bartosch writes:

If there’s one thing predators are good at, it’s spotting soft targets. Thanks to Dr Ronx Ikharia, this could soon be easier than ever. Ikharia – a BBC children’s presenter and NHS emergency medic who identifies as ‘trans nonbinary’ – has launched a new scheme called ‘Safe With Me’. It involves distributing large yellow badges, which signal that the wearer is available to escort ‘trans+ people’ to ‘their preferred facilities’. In other words, it is to help men in frocks breach the law on single-sex spaces.

The first thing that occurs to me is not even the “but women” bit, it’s the glaringly obvious fact that someone saying or signaling something does not make it true. What’s to stop men who like a little recreational violence getting one of those nice large badges and slapping it on? What if the wearer turns out to be available not to ‘escort trans+ people’ to ‘their preferred facilities’ but to kick the shit out of them? It seems like a wildly fatuous campaign in its own terms.

But the second thing of course is the usual “yes but what about the safety of women who don’t want your huge male friend in their toilets?” So what about that, eh?

It’s no surprise Ikharia seems to have overlooked the risks here. She has the monomaniacal focus of a true believer. Not only did she have her own breasts amputated to align with her ‘trans nonbinary’ identity – she has also used her position as a children’s TV presenter to promote harmful interventions to confused young people. In one BBC Three clip, she hands out a new breast binder to a girl whose previous use of one had displaced her ribs.

Here, kid, make your ribs even worse.

Ikharia’s badges are a petulant response to the recent UK Supreme Court ruling that the word ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refers to biological reality, not identity. This legal clarity has caused a moral panic among activists. As Ikharia told the local press: ‘The ruling means trans+ people may be forced into spaces where they don’t feel safe… Toilets are one of the most dangerous of these spaces.’

Now think about women in those spaces when a man comes in.

Oooh a surge in young pipple idennifying as nonbinaree. But which kind of nonbinaree??

Staff at Scotland’s youth gender clinic say they are struggling to deal with surging numbers of children who identify as neither male nor female.

What mean “deal with”? How do you deal with children who idennify as tigers or cars or archaeologists? What kind of dealing is there?

A warning about the rise in “non-binary” patients was raised as part of a review into the impact of government spending on trans healthcare. However, workers at the Sandyford clinic in Glasgow highlighted a lack of guidance on how they should be looked after.

One health professional revealed that some young “non-binary” patients who say they do not belong to either gender still request sex hormones that would either feminise or masculinise them.

Oh don’t worry about that. Just give them both.

“Over the last ten years, obviously there’s been a big increase in the number of people presenting [with] gender non-conforming identities … we’ve really struggled to think about how we deal with that in a fair way,” the staff member said.

Why yes. Thank you for noticing. Big increase, and struggled to think. Yes, there’s been a big increase, because it’s a fad, and lots and lots of people have enthusiastically embraced the fad. Yes, it’s a puzzler how to deal with that, because it’s wrong and bad and harmful.

One consultant who has worked in gender healthcare told The Times they had encountered patients who shifted genders depending on how they felt on different days. “We have got into a position where we are enabling people to deny reality and we have reinforced delusional behaviours,” the consultant said.

Yes. As we have been pointing out for way too many years now.

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on A Harvard professor.

…“sex is a biocultural construct. Gamete size represents but one of multiple components and developmental processes—including gonads, hormones, genitals, fertility, mating, parenting behaviour, secondary sexual characteristics, and gender identity.”

And yet none of these other factors results in a third gamete, or individuals that are, biologically, partway between male and female. None of these other complications allow humans to change sex, or offer some “other” pathway for being a woman. “It’s complicated,” doesn’t do the heavy lifting they claim it does. Sure, it’s complicated, but it’s not magic. It’s not arbitrary. It’s not swayed by wishful thinking. It’s not as uncertain and unknowable as they would have us believe. Transgenderists have to bury biology under the rug in order for their word games to work. They think that retooling the language retools reality. The stench of their desire for this to be true would be pathetic if it weren’t so dangerous. They need these other factors and complications to enable them to “become women” after discrediting the only definition of woman that counts, the one that precludes their being female. It’s a sick love-hate complex they’ve set up and launched against women.

They might plead otherwise, but trans identified females are an afterthought in all of this. If this movement were founded solely on the desires and delusions of women pretending to be men, it would have gone nowhere, and would have acquired none of the power and influence it now enjoys. The whole point of this is for men to invade women’s spaces. Unlike the charge that women defending women’s rights are really only out to hurt trans people, trans identified males really are out to take over everything women have or want for themselves. “WE JUST WANT TO PEEEEE!” was never true.

“Although the gametic definition makes reference to biological systems, it is sophistry, not science. Those who promote this definition favour the assertion that sex inheres in gamete (sperm and egg) production because, in part, it facilitates their political aims by fuelling unhinged panic in some quarters about transgender threats to traditional gender roles.”

And transgenderism is not a political program? I would say that the denial of the gametic definition of sex by genderists “facilitates their political aims”. Material reality is the biggest obstacle to the claims of gender identitarianism, so, given their inability to rebut reality, it’s only natural that they must attack the character of those who uphold its salience. Just more of the phenomenon of “Every accusation is a confession” that we’ve seen before. The threat posed by transgenderism is not to “traditional gender roles” (which are bullshit for reasons having nothing to do with “gender identity”) but to women.

Feminists would be happy to burn the traditional, sexist, patriarchal gender roles to the ground. How do you account for their stance against the “sex spectrum”? This is bad because gender ideology depends on the reification of those very traditional roles to justify the whole “born in the wrong body” trope. Susie Green decided her son was actually a girl because he was playing with the wrong toys. She decided to “trans away the gay” on the basis of gender stereotypes. Where would Susie have gotten her diagnosis of “trans” without the idea that “dolls are for girls”? Instead, because of her and her husband’s homophobia, she short-circuited any possibility of desistance and pushed her son into the gender-industrial complex.

And last, there’s the link between those who hold the gametic view and bigots:….[T]he recent favour bestowed on the gametic definition of sex by anti-trans gender traditionalists appeals selectively to science to naturalise and rationalise inequality and exclusion.”

If you can’t argue against the message, shoot the messenger. If you can’t support your own argument, claim the both the messenger and his message were evil, and that the messenger deserved to be shot, and the message is too vile to be heard by anyone, ever. But GAMETES BAD isn’t an argument that shows that sex is indeed a spectrum. You might think you’re crippling the best horse in the race, but you still have to run the track to claim victory. You still have to produce evidence, proof, and arguments. An aspiring scientific explanation still has to prove its worth and validity; it doesn’t “win” by default or acclamation. You still have to make your case. At some point you have to stop handwaving and start building. If genderism could do this, it would just go ahead and argue how it is better at explaining how the world actually works than any other competing hypothesis. It wouldn’t have to rely on the bogus political strawman to scare and intimidate people into their camp. This is just a wordier version of “NO DEBATE!” That game isn’t going to work any more. You have to show your work, which means doing the work in the first place.

There are lots of fruitful avenues of research that genderism could be exploring, but isn’t. Where are the rest of the “colours” of this supposed “spectrum” beyond and between male and female? Give me a definition of “gender identity” that isn’t circular. Provide an evolutionary explanation for the origin of “gender identity,” and a physiological explanation for its operation and functioning within a given individual. If gender identity actually existed, it would be a whole new field of scientific enquiry. But like astrology and comunicating with dead people, it is no more than a cruel scam.

And as for “inequality and exclusion”, those are not necessarily bad things, particularly when you turn it around to see what genderists mean, and what they want. “Equality” for them means TWAW, that men can become women and are women if they say so. “Inclusion” means that men get access to all female single-sex spaces. This is the ultimate goal and result of denying biology and claiming that sex is a “spectrum.” This is what they’re fighting for. This is what they want: a nightmare blend of Huxley, Orwell, and Kafka that we’ve been living through for more than a decade. Anyone giving legitimacy to this is aiding and abetting crimes against women, girls, and children. Slow clap. Well done. Fuck off.

JD Vance gets to steal water from a lake for the sake of a joy ride, but solar panels for the proles is another thing altogether.

The Trump administration is preparing to terminate $7 billion in federal grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels on their homes, according to two people briefed on the matter.

The Environmental Protection Agency is drafting termination letters to the 60 state agencies, nonprofit groups and Native American tribes that received the grants under the “Solar for All” program, with the goal of sending the letters by the end of this week, according to the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly.

If finalized, the move would escalate the Trump administration’s efforts to claw back billions of dollars in grants awarded under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s signature climate law. And it would be certain to draw legal challenges from the grant recipients, many of whom have pursued projects in Republican-led states.

…

Already, the E.P.A. has sought to cancel $20 billion out of the $27 billion in climate grants authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act. That move has prompted a drawn-out legal battle and a widening controversy involving the E.P.A., the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Citibank, where the funds are being held.

Just think of all the lakes JD Vance could empty with $20 billion to spend!

On his first day in office, Mr. Trump issued an executive order declaring a national energy emergency. But his administration has been withdrawing federal support for renewable energy like wind and solar power while encouraging the production and use of fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal.

The non-renewable kind is more luxurious.

Nice for some.

JD Vance’s team had the army corps of engineers take the unusual step of changing the outflow of a lake in Ohio to accommodate a recent boating excursion on a family holiday, the Guardian has learned.

The request from the US Secret Service was made to “support safe navigation” of the US vice-president’s security detail for an August outing on the Little Miami River, according to a statement by the US army corps of engineers (USACE).

Vance was spotted in the south-western Ohio area on 2 August, his 41st birthday, according to social media posts that noted he was seen canoeing on the river, a tributary that Caesar Creek Lake feeds into.

USAID slashed, the National Weather Service slashed, $7 billion in grants for solar energy canceled, but by golly no price is too high for JD Vance’s boat trip.

The news raises questions about whether Vance’s office was potentially exploiting public infrastructure resources for his personal recreation at a time when the Trump administration has cut billions of dollars in foreign aid, scientific research and government jobs as part of its “efficiency” drive.

The vice-president’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

The Guardian first approached the USACE in Louisville for a comment about the change on Tuesday. Publicly available data on the US Geological Survey (USGS) shows a sudden increase in the river level and corresponding drop in lake elevation during the early August days when Vance was vacationing.

Divert that lake into that river, a Trumpkin wants to go paddling!

According to the Guardian’s anonymous source with knowledge of the matter, “special releases” are generally not done for individuals or by individual request.

Ah but that’s ordinary aka plebeian individuals. The rules for royalty are quite different.

While there is no allegation that Vance’s office did anything illegal, the ethics lawyer Richard Painter, who served in the George W Bush administration, said it seemed hypocritical and “pretty outrageous” for Vance to be receiving these particular accommodations for his family holiday when the administration’s cuts have led to drastic cuts in the National Park Service (NPS).

The National Parks Conservation Association has estimated that the NPS has lost about a quarter of its staff since January, which in turn has led to sections of some parks to be closed and hours to be changed due to staffing issues.

See above. One rule for plebs, another for royals. Suck it up.

Norm Eisen, a former White House special counsel for ethics and government reform, said: “When I was President Obama’s ethics czar in the White House I got a lot of unusual requests, but I never got one to increase the outflow of a waterway as part of a government official going kayaking.

“My nickname was ‘Mr No’ and I certainly would have lived up to it in this situation. I never would have permitted this kind of a thing because whether it technically violates the rules or not, it creates the appearance that the vice-president of the United States is getting special treatment that’s not available to the average person who wants to utilise that body of water for recreational purposes.”

It creates the appearance and the reality.

You know…

What these clowns don’t get is that “trans women” are not the black people in this scenario, they’re the white racists. They are. We’re not; they are. They are men. They are trying to dominate and punish and exile women. They are not the underdogs, they are not the victims, they are the KKK, the Birmingham cops, George Wallace in the schoolhouse door.

They are.

Jean Hatchet lets fly.

Upton and Tickle, who sound like a pair of bad electricians, were in court over the last two weeks for one reason only and that was to try to make people, especially women, say the words, “you are a woman”.

Everywhere they walk they hear these coveted words. They hear them from the compliant, the sycophants and the fearful alike. Their neighbours will say it, their friends will say it, some of their family will say it. Other men in frocks will say it, and they will return the feel-good falsehood. The newspapers will say it, the television will say it, posters will say it and songs will say it…

However, the reason they came to court is because they each found someone who refused to say it. Sandie Peggie and Sall Grover refused and have carried on refusing. This is unbearable to them. Upton and Tickle’s lie is only true if everyone repeats it for them, and to them. Everyone.

These men don’t want changing rooms or chatting apps, they want full submission. They don’t want justice they want power.

And they want power over a particular set of people – the set that is female not in their dreams, not on paper, not by bullying, not by calling the cops, not by going to court, but just by birth.

Only by commanding everyone to believe they changed into women does anyone say “Oh him! I mean her. Sorry, don’t report me. Please?”

But when these men returned home they knew what they had each been told. They heard very loud and very clear, “You aren’t a woman because this woman right here, this one with the support of fucking thousands, who doesn’t give a fuck about your personal pretence or your tears by your car, she said so and she refused to fucking unsay it”.

So I’m glad they had to get in their house, take off their sham costumes, take a deep breath and look in the mirror with the brave words of those women ringing in their ears, “You, my lad, are not a woman”.

When the door closes and they take off the dress and the lipstick, the mirror screams, “Sorry pumpkin, you’re a fucking massive bloke” and you can’t drag a mirror to court.

And even if you could it wouldn’t be nearly as much fun as dragging a living breathing woman.