Reduxx tells us:

A widely circulated video showcasing a gay couple’s “surrogacy journey” has revealed that a baby boy is currently in the custody of a registered child sex offender. The couple, Logan Riley and Brandon Mitchell, gained viral attention after posting a video introducing their newborn son. It has since emerged that Mitchell is a convicted pedophile.

Guess what. Surrogacy=anyone can get possession of a baby, no questions asked.

I hadn’t really understood that before. It’s not like adoption. There is no screening process.

The video, which was initially shared by the couple on their own social media platforms, was meant to offer a heartwarming glimpse into the first year of their newborn’s life. However, it quickly drew scrutiny after being reposted on July 27 by Irish right-wing activist and political figure Derek Blighe on X (formerly Twitter).

So there was pushback, but then the facts came out.

But just 24 hours after the video went viral on social media, it has been confirmed that one of the men in the video is a registered child sex offender.

Brandon Keith Mitchell is a Tier 1 sex offender in the state of Pennsylvania, and was arrested in 2016 after attempting to solicit a 16-year-old boy for sexual abuse. The victim in the case was a student at Downingtown West High School, where Mitchell had worked as a chemistry teacher. He was 30 years old at the time.

Well, maybe surrogate baby will have 15 good years before it all goes wrong?

Mitchell pleaded guilty to felony child pornography possession and one court of Corruption of Minors, and was sentenced to up to 23 months of incarceration. But court records show that he was granted parole just two months following his conviction.

Part of his conditions included that he have no unsupervised contact with minors and that he surrender his teaching license. He quickly moved on to obtain a job as a chemist at Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing in Lancaster, where he has worked for the past 9 years.

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Reduxx reached out to the division Pennsylvania State Police responsible for maintaining Mitchell’s registration, and was informed that the state does not automatically forbid individuals convicted of sex crimes from having children, gaining custody, or exercising parental rights.

While Pennsylvania’s adoption law does prohibits sex offenders from adopting or fostering children, gestational surrogacy circumvents any such laws through pre-birth parentage orders.

So there you go. That kid is doomed.

The cops raped the rape victims.

Five women who were exploited by grooming gangs in Rotherham as children say they were also abused [by] police officers in the town at the time.

One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a serving South Yorkshire Police (SYP) officer in a marked police car. He would threaten to hand her back to the gang if she did not comply, she says.

If only she had thought to idennify as a man.

We have seen written accounts from these women, plus testimony from 25 other victims of grooming gangs, with some of them saying that corrupt police officers worked alongside the gangs or failed to act on child sexual exploitation.

At least 1,400 girls in Rotherham were abused by gangs of men, identified by victims as being of mainly Pakistani heritage, between 1997 and 2013 – the landmark Jay Report concluded in 2014.

And by “mainly Pakistani heritage” the Beeb means “mainly Muslim.” Allah despises women. Any woman not in a niqab is a slut and fair game.

A new criminal investigation into the involvement of police officers in the Rotherham grooming scandal is now being led by SYP’s major crime unit, under the direction of the police watchdog.

Prof Alexis Jay who led that independent inquiry into abuse in the town has told the BBC she is “shocked” that SYP is investigating its own former officers and says the criminal investigation should be handed to another force or independent body.

In response, Hayley Barnett, SYP assistant chief constable said: “We know how hard it must be for a victim or survivor, who has been so badly let down in the past, to put their faith into the South Yorkshire Police of today.”

But she added that victims and survivors were “at the heart” of the investigation, with all actions being taken in their best interests.

Ah well that’s fine then.

Brilliant McLuhan moment.

Trump is really really pissed off at wind. Yes, wind. He thinks wind is a great big loser. He thinks wind orders the filet mignon and then won’t pick up the tab.

Trump spent part of his weekend in Scotland reviving his old grievances against wind power, even claiming at one point that it was “killing” Americans.

During a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Trump abruptly detoured from immigration to wind turbines. “And the other thing I say to Europe: We will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States,” Trump said. “They’re killing us.”

Also, besides, in addition, we refuse to drink Dubonnet.

He complained that wind turbines “rust and rot in eight years” and then can’t be “buried” because they will harm the soil.

“The whole thing is a con job,” he said. “It’s very expensive. And in all fairness, Germany tried it and wind doesn’t work.”

Much of what the president said was wildly inaccurate: Germany gets more than a quarter of its energy from wind, turbines last about 30 years (not eight), according to the U.S Department of Energy, it’s not the most expensive form of energy, and they’re not “almost all” made in China.

Ok but besides that it was all true. Mostly. I guess.

Trump has previously taken his anti-wind stance to absurd extremes, such as in 2019, when he falsely claimed wind turbines cause cancer.

“The wind, the wind, it sounds so wonderful,” he said last year. “The wind, the wind, the wind is, the wind is bullshit, I’ll tell you.”

Except when it’s his wind of course.

In the theocracy section of the job ads:

A job advert for a role in a sharia court posted on a government website has caused major controversy, with critics saying it promotes a separate Islamic legal system in the UK.

Well yes, separate and Islamic, but more to the point, women-hating and theocratic. It wouldn’t be nearly so alarming and disgusting if, say, a job advert for a role in a Quaker organization were posted on a government website.

Such a progressive movement.

The left hates women and the right hates women. Sucks to be us.

Darts drama as three protestors dragged away during World Matchplay match involving transgender player

Yebbut what kind of “transgender player”? Even GB News won’t say it’s a man cheating women. Instead it sneers at the women who objected.

Three individuals from the “Save Women’s Sport” campaign protested at the Winter Gardens during Noa-Lynn van Leuven’s quarter-final darts match at the Women’s World Matchplay on Sunday. The demonstrators, dressed in shirts bearing messages opposing the 28-year-old’s involvement, made their feelings clear as the Dutch competitor prepared to face Lorraine Winstanley.

The protest occurred as van Leuven appeared at the Blackpool venue for the third time.

Security staff responded immediately to the disruption, forcibly restraining two of the protesters whilst a third person filmed the confrontation. A banner saying ‘he’s a man’ was also visible.

Which he is, so why not say so? Merely mentioning a “transgender player” doesn’t do that.

Security staff responded immediately to the disruption, forcibly restraining two of the protesters whilst a third person filmed the confrontation. A banner saying ‘he’s a man’ was also visible.

Because he is. GB News should woman up and say so.

The incident appeared to have no impact on van Leuven’s competitive focus or performance.

The darts star delivered a commanding display against Winstanley, winning the quarter-final match with a comprehensive 4-0 scoreline.

Yes, because he cheated.

The left hates women but don’t worry, the right also hates women.

Oh gee how exciting another man beat another woman competing in a women’s sport.

A dominant display indeed.

Oh here we go – the old “women are sluts whores harlots slags” routine.

Yebbut don’t forget to support your trans siblings.

The union idennifies as a union but it doesn’t protect the workers the way unions are supposed to do.

NPR has further details on the updated Statue of Liberty.

Artist Amy Sherald is canceling an upcoming show of her work at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Sherald’s boldly colored portraits documenting the African American experience have graced magazine covers.

She is best known for her painting of Michelle Obama commissioned by the museum.

Amy Sherald: American Sublime was scheduled to be on view at the National Portrait Gallery for five months beginning Sept. 19. Described as “the largest, most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date,” the exhibition was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, or SFMOMA, and is currently at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Sherald is canceling the show because of a dispute over her painting of a trans woman with pink hair and a blue gown holding a torch, called Trans Forming Liberty, 2024.

That’s not quite all there is to say about the painting though. About that blue gown…

See there’s more to it than just swapping a “trans woman” in for the woman in the original. There’s also the pose.

The original stands squarely on her two feet, holding the torch of liberty aloft with one strong arm and a tablet bearing the date of the American Declaration of Independence in the other. She is not, repeat not, poking one leg out of a split skirt in a “wanna fuck me?” manner, nor is she holding a vase of posies next to her ear, nor is she clutching her hip with the other hand, nor is she lifting her left heel off the floor for no reason in the manner of India Willoughby.

Censorship is bad; in other news, that painting is a woman-hating piece of crap.

Originally a comment by What a Maroon at Miscellany Room.

Sometimes it’s hard to know whose metaphorical bed to jump into. On the one hand, Amy Sherald, the celebrated painter best known for her official portrait of Michelle Obama, has canceled an upcoming exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, citing concerns that the museum might remove an artwork that could further provoke the Trump administration as it seeks to exert control over the Smithsonian Institution.

Sherald and a Smithsonian spokesperson Thursday confirmed that Sherald had withdrawn her exhibition, “American Sublime,” from the museum.

The artist said she had been told that the museum — whose director, Kim Sajet, resigned after President Donald Trump called for her ouster for being “a highly partisan person” — might remove a painting…

The government really shouldn’t be in the business of censoring art. The Smithsonian is supposed to be an independent institution, without any direct interference from the president, especially this president.

But on the other hand,

…might remove a painting that depicts a transgender woman posing as the Statue of Liberty from the exhibition, which was slated to open in September after touring at museums in San Francisco and New York.

Why? Why does everything have to be transed? What is the underlying metaphor here–that brave men have to take everything from women, including (especially?) liberty?

And, as it turns out, the Smithsonian wasn’t even proposing that the painting be removed, but just that some context be added.

The New York Times first reported news of Sherald’s withdrawal. According to that report, Sherald said Smithsonian head Lonnie G. Bunch III proposed replacing the painting with a video discussing the piece, which she understood “would have opened up for debate the value of trans visibility.”

But the Smithsonian spokesperson told The Washington Post that Bunch wanted the video to accompany the painting — not replace it. The spokesperson added that the museum offered to spend more time contextualizing her work, but Sherald chose to remove herself from the show.

So it’s self-censorship.

It just keeps getting worse. This one takes the breath away. Daniel Sanderson in The Times:

One of Sandie Peggie’s bosses wanted her to be reported to police for confronting a transgender doctor in a hospital’s female changing rooms.

A male doctor, god damn it. The problem was not “transgender”; the problem was male. Peggie did not want to have to take her clothes off in front of a man.

So anyway – for the crime of not wanting to undress in front of a man, one of Peggie’s bosses thought the police should be called. Not to arrest the man spying on the woman, of course, but to arrest the woman telling the man to get out. Welcome to 1890.

Peggie confronted Upton in the women’s changing rooms at the A&E department at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, on Christmas Eve 2023, telling Upton she believed they had no right to be there. 

What, both of them?

She believed he had no right to be there. Because he’s a he.

Previously, the tribunal was told on several occasions that Upton had discussed with senior colleagues the possibility of reporting to police what was viewed internally at NHS Fife as a potential hate crime.

However, it was not previously apparent that figures within NHS Fife were actively encouraging the step.

It’s so filthy.

On December 30, 2023, days after the Christmas Eve row between Peggie and Upton, Doyle emailed a number of colleagues to tell them he had found the doctor’s initial formal report of the incident, which it emerged had been typed by the A&E consultant Kate Searle, “very difficult” to read.

The report, known within the Scottish NHS as a Datix, described a “hate incident” concerning “transgender identity” and claimed that Peggie’s “aggressive and confrontational manner” was an “escalation of prior behaviours”.

He endorsed placing Peggie on “special leave”, meaning she could not return to work, and described the incident as a “potential hate crime” that was “not acceptable” and not to be “tolerated in any circumstance”.

Doyle added: “Such incidents should also be reported to Police Scotland, which I believe the staff member raising [the] complaint has been advised to consider, and we could also support if needed.”

Because a woman didn’t want a man in the room when she changed her clothes.

Tess White, the Scottish Conservative equalities spokeswoman, said the emails offered “further alarming evidence of the witch-hunt” against Peggie. White claimed the nurse, who had 30 years of previously unblemished service, had been “vilified by bosses at NHS Fife for standing up for her rights”.

“The behaviour of her employers is frankly indefensible,” White said. “Who in their right mind would think it’s appropriate to call the police because a female nurse didn’t want to share a changing room with a biological man?”

Well exactly! It’s grotesque!

Hunnnnnnnnnh

Do you accept that calling this man a man is likely to cause immense distress?

No, I fucking do not. I think it causes him irritation and vanity-bruising at worst, and more likely a nice little thrill of righteous indignation. Meanwhile, do you accept that bullying women into agreeing with a man who says he’s a woman is harmful to women in general? Because that’s a far less fanciful petulant self-involved claim than his claim of “immense distress”?

I mean come on. He’s an adult. He’s a doctor. Surely he’s expected to have enough resilience and sense of proportion to accept that he can’t force his colleagues to participate in his fantasy about himself? Times a million when it’s this particular fantasy and it’s women he’s trying to bully into participating? Where are all the grown-ups???

One minute I compare trans ideology and its coerced beliefs racket to the Catholic church and its coerced belief racket, and the next minute I drop in on twitX and find

WE ARE NOT COMPELLED TO BELIEVE IN THE GODS OF OTHERS.

Those days are over. Our ancestors were so compelled, but we are not. You are not the pope of us, you are not the Taliban of us. Your religion is stupid. Shut up.

Yes! Agreed! It’s a religion! And you can’t force us to join or endorse your religion! Those days are over! At least outside the Ummah they are. I don’t believe in your religion, I think it’s harmful and bad and stupid, now go away.

Also, of course, it’s an idiotic analogy. Mr Pope is one guy, the monarch of one religion. We’re free to ignore him and his religion. Even his neighbors in Rome are free to ignore him. That hasn’t always been true but it sure as hell is now. The Catholic church is a horrific institution and it still has its claws in way too many things, like hospitals and schools and universities, but at least it no longer inquisitions us for refusing to grovel to the pope.

Trans people however keep sending us new bills for ever-expanding attention. I’m not going to call Dave “Sally” no matter how loudly he announces he’s a woman now. Go say a rosary.

The Daily Mirror:

OAP wife who repeatedly slashed husband with Samurai sword ‘had no choice’

Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 71, repeated slashed husband Andrew, 69, to death with the Samuari sword she’d bought in the 1980s at their 15th floor Brighton flat.

…

Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 71, had been deemed “unfit to plead” to the murder of her husband Andrew, 69, in their 15th-floor flat in Brighton, on May 27 last year. She appeared in front of a jury at Lewes Crown Court for a trial of the act which decides if someone physically committed a crime, rather than their intent.

The BBC:

Transgender woman, 71, killed partner, jury finds

A jury has found that a transgender woman killed her partner.

Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 71, was charged with murdering Andrew Rowland-Stuart, 70, at their home in Brighton in May 2024.

Weird to see the BBC being slightly more truthful than the Daily Mirror.

This is a very very very important point.

Nah. An ideology whose foundation is an absurd lie can be tossed in the Bullshit Bin without further ado.

Helen Webberley is letting us know how much contempt she has for women.

I tell you what, I wouldn’t want to be alone in a room with her. That’s some scary ragey contempt right there.

The Scotsman:

A war of words over pronouns broke out at the ongoing employment tribunal between nurse Sandie Peggie and trans doctor Beth Upton.

That is, male doctor “Beth” Upton who identifies as female. The journalistic surrender makes it impossible for reporters to write clearly and truthfully about this subject.

Ms Peggie’s lawyer Naomi Cunningham was accused by NHS Fife’s legal team of being “offensive” by referring to Dr Upton as a man and told she must use “appropriate language”.

But the fact that he is a man playacting being a woman is at the core of the whole tribunal. It’s just ludicrous to try to force opposing counsel to prop up the very lie that the tribunal is about.

On Thursday the tribunal heard from charge nurse Angela Glancy, who was appointed as the investigating manager into the allegations against Ms Peggie, and HR official Anne Hamilton.

When Ms Glancy was giving evidence to the tribunal in Dundee, she referred to Dr Upton as “he” and then quickly corrected herself and said “sorry, she”. This was in response to a question from Ms Cunnigham where she used the pronoun “he” to refer to Dr Upton.

Throughout the tribunal Ms Cunningham has consistently referred to Dr Upton as a man and used the pronouns he/him in her questioning.

That’s because he is a man. It’s the people who refuse to call him a man who are in the wrong. It’s not as if the tribunal is about something else altogether so hey gee the participants could just call the poor guy “she” to be extra special nice. The fact that he’s a man pretending to be a woman and trying to ruin the life of a woman for not agreeing that he’s a woman is what this tribunal is about. It’s outrageous to try to force team women to call him a woman in the tribunal. Beyond outrageous; outrageous squared.

NHS Fife’s lawyer Jane Russell interjected to stop the proceedings and said: “I want to raise concerns about the consistent misgendering. I have checked the equal treatment benchmark from May 2025 which says we should use an individual’s preferred pronouns or alternatively the gender neutral ‘they’ to help minimise offence.”

She added there is an exception when discussing “a biological male attacker”, but said this does not apply to his case.

Yes it does. He is an attacker, and he is a biological male. He’s attacking Sandie Peggie as profoundly as he possibly can.

When you pause to think about it you simply realize more sharply than ever what a horrible man he is. This ideology is not good for the characters of its adherents.