Oliver Brown on Simone Biles and her show of contempt for women:

For Biles, the provocation, if you could call it that, was Gaines’ highlighting of the fact that a Minnesota girls’ softball team won a state title this month despite their dominant pitcher being male. “Your star player is a boy,” she said, prompting Biles, until that point a mute figure in the ferocious battle to compel sports to respect the reality of sex, to go off the deep end.

“You’re truly sick,” she raged at Gaines, who was infamously denied a United States collegiate trophy in 2022 by transgender opponent Lia Thomas. “Straight-up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive, or creating a new avenue where trans [people] feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender category in all sports. But instead, you bully them. One thing is for sure: no one in sports is safe with you around.”

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It is a parable for our times, in many ways, where those preaching about kindness often reveal themselves as the least kind of all. For Biles, desperate to be seen as an ally of the trans community, going after Gaines was the logical extension of her activism, which has involved frequent promotions of LGBT Pride Month. Except the move has backfired horribly, with Biles’ stock falling faster than that of Bud Light, which lost its place in 2023 as America’s best-selling beer after a tone-deaf partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

I have to wonder why Biles is desperate to be seen as an ally of the trans communniny. I have to wonder why anyone is, but especially people who are already seen as, shall we say, good at their jobs.

Biles has not responded to the comments [of critics of her outburst], although she has offered a carefully-scripted apology to Gaines, acknowledging: “It didn’t help for me to get personal with Riley.” She explained: “These are sensitive, complicated issues that I truly don’t have the answers to or solutions to, but I believe it starts with empathy and respect.”

Empathy and respect for whom?

What about empathy and respect for the girls and women cheated out of opportunities and wins by boys and men who pretend to be girls and women? What about them?

Biles’ mistake was to put the projection of virtue before even a fleeting consideration of fairness. 

It’s pretty much everyone’s mistake, among the trans-huggers. They all put the projection of [a grotesque parody of] virtue before fairness. They can’t do otherwise, because you can’t defend men invading and ruining women’s sports without putting fake virtue ahead of fairness.

None of her astounding distinctions – the 11 Olympic medals, the 30 world championship medals, 23 of them gold – would have been possible without the existence of the female category. 

But she’s got them now, so she can safely lean on other female gymnasts to “be kind.”

Originally a comment by Arcadia on Stephen Fry is a rat.

This bit is the bit that genuinely infuriates me:

‘Sir Stephen said: “She has been radicalised, I fear, and it may be she has been radicalised by terfs, but also by the vitriol that is thrown at her. It is unhelpful and only hardens her and will only continue to harden her, I am afraid. I am not saying that she [should] not be called out when she says things that are really cruel, wrong and mocking. She seems to be a lost cause for us.”’

This double standard. This quote makes clear he knows full well what Rowling has been subjected to, and he knows it constitutes harassment. The only concession he makes to deeming this bad behaviour is that he calls it “unhelpful”, but otherwise, he is blaming Rowling for failing to take this harassment and abuse well. He is expecting that, if she were nice, she would have overlooked it all, and backed down. He requires that of her to count as kind, in his estimation, while requiring no such thing of the vitriol flingers and public pissers. In fact, he excuses them so much, he still says Rowling should be “called out when she says things that are really cruel, wrong and mocking”.

There is apparently no limit to the amount of abuse he requires her to take in good humour, and she absolutely must not learn any lessons like “these are abusive men, subjecting me to abuse, and that justifies my position rather than undermining it”. Likewise, there is apparently nothing Fry won’t excuse from the trans activists, given the worst he’ll describe their behaviour as is “unhelpful”. A ten year old who won’t put their plate in the sink is unhelpful. A man threatening the beheading of women’s rights campaigners is hardly in the same league.

His behaviour and reasoning is frankly outrageous.

Laura Webster, the editor of a newspaper called The National is annoyed that JK Rowling called the paper “anti-woman.”

She made this claim because we ran an article, and have run many articles previously, describing groups like Sex Matters as “anti-trans”.

I would like to take the opportunity to defend this newspaper against Rowling’s frankly ridiculous description, and explain why “anti-trans” is indeed suitable language for these activists. 

In the social copy for the article, we stated: “An anti-trans campaign group is threatening further legal action against the Scottish Government, saying ministers are failing to implement the recent Supreme Court judgment on biological sex in equalities law.”

On Wednesday night, Rowling tweeted: “For Women Scotland is a feminist campaigning group. You appear to be an anti-woman newspaper.”

Rowling was right. It’s not “anti-trans” to resist the wholesale attack on women’s rights that’s going on under the banner of tranzzz inclooosion. We despise the ideology and the rhetoric and the endless relentless remorseless bullying of women.

First of all, let’s take on the argument that describing Sex Matters as “anti-trans” is unfair, pejorative language. Rowling says it is simply a “feminist campaigning group”. Is that the case? 

Sex Matters is an organisation which spends most of its time trying to keep trans women out of all women’s spaces.

Yes, because they are men. You are a person who thinks men get to invade women’s spaces as long as they call themselves “trans women.” We disagree.

Vance is going to Los Angeles to rub their noses in it.

The vice-president will meet with law enforcement and military leadership deployed by Donald Trump in the city to help control violent protests.

“Vice-president JD Vance will travel to Los Angeles, California, where he will tour a multi-agency federal joint operations centre, a federal mobile command centre, meet with leadership and Marines, and deliver brief remarks,” according to a readout.

The visit risks inflaming the already tense relationship between Gavin Newsom, the state’s governor, and the White House.

It doesn’t so much risk inflaming it as make a point of inflaming it.

An appeals court on Thursday allowed Mr Trump to keep control of National Guard troops he deployed to Los Angeles.

The decision halts a ruling from a lower court judge who found Mr Trump acted illegally when he mobilised the soldiers despite opposition from Mr Newsom.

The court said that while presidents don’t have unfettered power to seize control of a state’s guard, the Trump administration had presented enough evidence to show it had a defensible rationale for doing so and that Mr Newsom had no power to veto the president’s order.

That’s not good news. He’ll be doing it at every opportunity now.

This is such a key point for the resistance to trans ideology and blurghy thinking generally.

“Hallmark soundtrack” is an excellent label for it.

I hate it, not in a calm all in the head way but viscerally – I hate slushy elevated pompous look at me wording the way I hate fat buzzing flies anywhere near me, or noisy crowded shouty spaces, or cigarette smoke. I hate self-conscious posturing look at me writing. I hate the substitution of manipulative drool for actual arguments and reasons. And of course trans ideology is riddled with it, for the obvious reason that it has nothing else.

Beware the Hallmark Effect.

Extras for everyone except women. Women are the privileged class you know. Bitches and Karens all of them.

An amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that would introduce tougher sentences for hate crimes committed against LGBT people and people with disabilities is being backed by East Thanet MP Polly Billington.

The new law, if passed by MPs, would make serious crimes motivated by prejudice against anyone because of their disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity “aggravated” offenses – as is currently the case for hate crimes motivated by race or religion. Aggravated offenses carry tougher sentences for perpetrators.

Got that?

Disability, sexual orientation, genner idenniny, race, religion.

But not sex. No extras for women: women don’t need extras and women don’t deserve extras. Women are privileged and women are bad.

Is that clear?

Originally a comment by iknklast on Break everything.

As for how [anti-vaxxers] can live with themselves, they are sure they are doing the opposite of killing people. They believe they are saving people. (I don’t think that’s the case with Trump; I think he doesn’t think at all, and doesn’t give a damn about anyone but himself.)

I met a lot of anti-vaxxers in the years I was part of the environmental science program in my doctoral program. For the most part, they were the youngsters, those born after we managed to solve so many problems of diseases. They had been raised on a media drumbeat of the evils of big Pharma, big Medicine, and science denialism, but they didn’t believe it was science denialism. They don’t remember what it was like to have half the class out with the measles, mumps, or other diseases, and the risk that came from these diseases. They grew up in a world where the diseases were not manifest in large numbers. If people are so healthy, why do we need vaccines?

A frightening number of students in the science program were anti-science based policies. It was even worse in the environmental philosophy program, with which I was required to engage for two graduate level classes. They outright believed all science was evil. They believed science was in the clutches of ‘big’ everything. They were woke before there was ‘woke’. They had avoided all science classes, and gave us (the scientists required to engage with philosophy) regular renditions of what exactly science said and did – and they were never right. They stuck by their beliefs even in the face of half the class being scientists who were capable of correcting their mistaken beliefs.

I think at the time I underestimated the numbers of science deniers in the program, because our program tended toward older. Most of the students were Baby Boomers who grew up with diseases and new the benefits of vaccines and other scientific advances. The only one of the older students who had any anti-science beliefs was actually a devout Catholic who believed that abortion was bad for women and society. He wasn’t anti-vax, though.

Kennedy has been awash in the environmental movement for some time. To most people, environmental movement and environmental science are synonymous, so they don’t realize that people like Kennedy have been associated with anti-scientific people who don’t know what the science says, don’t like it anyway, and are determined to bring ‘purity’ back to the Earth.

I don’t know if these groups and individuals shaped his beliefs, or if he helped shape theirs. I suspect more than anything they were all the result of multiple anti-science sources that sound more appealing to them than the rigorous science practiced by the environmental scientists.

Science is hard work. I suspect Kennedy is lazy, at least intellectually. A lot of the students who passed through my classes were intellectually lazy, and felt the science was too hard to understand. It was common practice for them to dismiss the actual science because the articles were filled with graphs and charts and large, unfamiliar words.

There is also the ubiquitous and ill-informed worship of the ‘natural’. Yes, natural can be good. It can be very good. But arsenic is natural. Rattlesnakes are natural. Earthquakes are natural. All of them can kill you. Meanwhile, Pepsi isn’t natural, and while it might kill you if you drank too much of it, a glass of Pepsi is not going to affect you in the same way that a glass of arsenic would.

Vaccines don’t seem ‘natural’. They seem to a lot of people like ‘playing God’. They are ‘chemicals’. (One of the first things I told my students, often the first day of class, is that everything is chemicals. Water is chemicals. Food is chemicals, no matter how ‘natural’. We are chemicals.) Hatred of ‘chemicals’ is also intellectually lazy thinking. There are chemicals that harm us, and chemicals that are essential to maintain our health. Some fall in both categories, depending on dosage or interactions. It can be hard work to sort that out.

The BBC does a surprisingly good job of letting Martina Navratilova state her views on trans ideology without interrupting to throw rocks at her. The article is about her views on Trump (briefly: not what she emigrated to the US for).

There is, however, one extremely divisive subject on which she has previously said she agrees with President Trump – transgender women’s participation in sport. Navratilova is firm in her belief that the inclusion of trans women in women’s tennis is “wrong”.

She says she doesn’t agree with current World Tennis Association (WTA) rules, which state transgender women can participate in women’s games if they provide a written and signed declaration that they are female or non-binary, that their testosterone levels have been below a certain limit for two years, and that they sustain those levels of testosterone.

She says she feels trans women have biological advantages in women’s sports – a belief that is hotly debated.

“There should be no ostracism, there should be no bullying,” she says, “but male bodies need to play in male sports. They can still compete. There is no ban on transwomen in sports. They just need to compete in the proper category which is the male category. It’s that simple.” She adds: “By including male bodies in the women’s tournament, now somebody is not getting into the tournament – a woman is not getting into the tournament because now a male has taken her place.”

In December last year, Britain’s Lawn Tennis Association changed its rules, meaning transgender women can no longer play in some female domestic tennis tournaments. And in April, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex. Asked if she felt tennis should follow the lead of the UK court, she says: “100%”

Pushed on whether we should “spend a bit more time being sympathetic to” trans people, Navratilova replies: “Very sympathetic – but that still doesn’t give them a right to women’s sex-based spaces.”

It’s not perfect, certainly. It’s absurd to say she “feels” that men (what the Beeb calls “trans women”) have biological advantages in women’s sports, and that that’s “a belief that is hotly debated.” It’s hotly debated by fools; it’s something that everyone knows. Human sexual dimorphism is a fact; the belief is that it’s not. So, not perfect, but perhaps a step on the road to honest reporting.

It’s so very blatant. Instead of saying the true thing, say this manipulative lie.

I especially like the ones where they just delete “women” and substitute something completely different. Yes we know, thanks for documenting.

If you’re a sleb you have to stand up in public and tell abusive lies about JK Rowling or you won’t be a luvvie any more. Stephen Fry energetically complies.

Speaking on the Show People podcast, Sir Stephen said: “She has been radicalised, I fear, and it may be she has been radicalised by terfs, but also by the vitriol that is thrown at her. It is unhelpful and only hardens her and will only continue to harden her, I am afraid. I am not saying that she [should] not be called out when she says things that are really cruel, wrong and mocking. She seems to be a lost cause for us.”

Yo, Sir Stephen, take a look at the things trans “activists” say about women, then get back to us about anything JKR has ever said that comes within shouting distance. Take all the time you need provided you shut up while you search.

Sir Stephen is the latest high-profile figure to criticise the author, following well-documented fall-outs with original cast members Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.

No, not fall-outs, you lying weasels. Backstabs by Radcliffe Watson and Grint.

“She started to make these peculiar statements and had very strong, difficult views,” he continued. “She seemed to wake up or kick a hornet’s nest of transphobia, which has been entirely destructive. I disagree profoundly with her on this subject. I am angry she does not disavow some of the more revolting and truly horrible, destructive, violently destructive things that people say. She does not attack those at all.”

Yo, Mister Sir, are you at all angry about the revolting truly horrible, destructive, violently destructive things that the pro-trans ideology faction says about and to her?

He said he was “very happy” to go on the record and say he was “really angry” about Rowling’s “crowing” of the gender ruling in court.

Happy to go on the record being really angry that women have rights?

Horrible man.

Cool cool. Something for women for a change.

We are delighted to launch the first West Cheshire Women in Leadership programme, in partnership with women leaders at Chester Racecourse, Cheshire West and Chester Council, the Countess of Chester Hospital, Lloyds Banking Group and the University of Chester.

The programme grew out of a panel discussion at the 2024 Storyhouse Women festival, entitled The Future of Chester is Female. With so many of Chester’s key organisations now run by women, we asked ourselves ‘how can we use this to benefit other women?’

That question led to the development of this programme. We are not representative of all women, but we have come together to share our lived experience with others, to support and inspire more women to gain confidence around leadership.

We hope you decide to join us.

Sounds good.

Vision:

To make West Cheshire a place where women leadership can thrive.

Aims:

• To provide support to women to increase the number in leadership positions
• To recognise and share the characteristics and principles of leadership demonstrated by women
• To strengthen the quality and diversity of leadership in the public, private and voluntary sectors across West Cheshire

Good, good.

Who is it for?

Women (including trans women or anyone identifying as non-binary) working in the public, private or voluntary sector…

Oh.

Not for women after all.

Don’t call it “for women” when it’s not.

Source: Jonny Best

Rolling Stone on The Ugly:

Among the weighty roles and responsibilities placed on the American president’s shoulders, the least controversial is the practice of calling other politicians, in the face of personal or public tragedy, to make sure that they have everything they need. If a president wants to go above and beyond that lowest of bars, they offer condolences, and act like a human instead of a partisan hack. 

This week, after a spree shooter killed former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman [and] her husband, and severely injured state Senator John Hoffman and his wife, President Donald Trump hasn’t bothered to pick up the phone to speak with Minnesota’s head of state. 

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By Tuesday morning, it appeared the president was not just committed to giving Walz the silent treatment, but to openly spurning the governor, who ran against him and J.D. Vance as the vice presidential candidate on the 2024 Democratic ticket

Speaking to reporters Tuesday on Air Force One, Trump stated that he had no interest in calling the former vice presidential candidate. “I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out. I’m not calling,” Trump said. “The guy doesn’t have a clue, he’s a mess… so, you know, I could be nice and call him, but why waste time?”

This wasn’t a one-off moment of being loose-lipped with reporters. A source with direct knowledge of the matter says that Trump has been relentlessly trash-talking the Minnesota governor behind the scenes since the horrific news broke. “He’s not letting up,” the source said.

The guy is wired wrong. Very very very wrong.

This is disgusting. You have to lean in to hear what he says – and what he says is nausea-inducing.

Days after a Minnesota state lawmaker was killed and another was injured in a “politically motivated assassination,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would not call the state’s governor, eschewing a traditional presidential response to tragedies.

“Why would I call him? I could call and say, ‘Hi, how you doing?’ The guy doesn’t have a clue,” Trump said, referring to Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, who was the vice presidential contender facing off against Trump’s ticket last year. “He’s a mess. So I could be nice and call, but why waste time?”

He does actually say that.

The Associated Press is staffed by teenagers.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a stunning setback to transgender rights.

Stunning shmunning. There is no “right” to be mutilated or prescribed harmful drugs or both. The whole idea of “gender-affirming care” is both absurd and malign.

Imagine if people started claiming to idennify as trees, and doctors rushed to provide transarborial rights. Yes, certainly, we will encase you in bark and replace your head with foliage, and behold, you are affirmed as a tree.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a conservative majority that the law does not violate the Constitution’s equal protection clause, which requires the government to treat similarly situated people the same.

“This case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field. The voices in these debates raise sincere concerns; the implications for all are profound,” Roberts wrote. “The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements. Nor does it afford us license to decide them as we see best.”

I wish the goddam liberal majority agreed.

In a dissent for the court’s three liberal justices that she summarized aloud in the courtroom, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, “By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent.”

Newsflash: the ludicrous notion that people’s sex is all in their heads and can contradict their bodies is a political whim. It’s the whimmiest whim that ever whimmed.

The decision comes amid other federal and state efforts to regulate the lives of transgender people, including which sports competitions they can join and which bathrooms they can use. 

Snide misogynist bullshit. It’s not a matter of “regulating the lives” of trans people, it’s a matter of preventing male people from grabbing everything that belongs to women and girls.

In April, Trump’s administration sued Maine for not complying with the government’s push to ban transgender athletes in girls sports.

Male athletes you craven callous shitheads.

Brilliant work, Bob.

In 13 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Fiona Havers crafted guidance for contending with Zika virus, helped China respond to outbreaks of bird flu and guided safe burial practices for Ebola deaths in Liberia.

More recently, she was a senior adviser on vaccine policy, leading a team that produced data on hospitalizations related to Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus. To the select group of scientists, federal officials and advocates who study who should get immunizations and when, Dr. Havers is well known, an embodiment of the C.D.C.’s intensive data-gathering operations.

On Monday, Dr. Havers resigned, saying she could no longer continue while the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., dismantled the careful processes that help formulate vaccination standards in the United States.

That’s the ticket. Get rid of all the people who know what they’re doing and replace them with cranks. Set free the viruses!

Dr. Havers, 49, cited an escalating series of attacks on federal vaccine policy by Mr. Kennedy. Three weeks ago, the health secretary announced in a minute-long video on X that the agency would no longer recommend Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children or pregnant women.

Last week, he fired all 17 members of the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, saying without evidence that the group was beset with conflicts of interest and that a clean sweep was needed to restore public trust.

Mr. Kennedy went on to name eight new members, at least half of whom appear to share his antipathy to vaccines. Two have testified against vaccine makers in trials.

What I’ll never understand is how Kennedy and other cranks actively destroying public health can live with themselves. How does it not keep them awake all night? How do they not stop to think “Oh wait, I have no medical training, why am I second-guessing all these people who do? Why am I so eager to make more and more people dangerously ill? How many deaths will I cause? What am I doing this for?”

“It’s a very transparent, rigorous process, and they have just taken a sledgehammer to it in the last several weeks,” Dr. Havers said.

“C.D.C. processes are being corrupted in a way that I haven’t seen before,” she added.

The agency was not consulted about any of it, Dr. Havers said. The C.D.C. has languished without a director since the new administration began.

Because who needs disease control, right? Pandemics are good for us! They build character!

Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human services, said, “Under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, H.H.S. is committed to following the gold standard of scientific integrity.”

No it isn’t. That’s a flagrant, criminal lie. Burn in hell, all of you.

Originally a comment by Nullius in Verba on Veering.

I recently joined the local YMCA because it’s the only gym within anything like reasonable driving distance. When filling out the application online, there was a gender identity field that was marked mandatory. Since I don’t play that game, I went the next day to ask about it in person. My mother went with me, as she was also incensed about it. The girls at the front desk weren’t even aware of the field, since it isn’t on the paper app. (They also were clearly unaware of the significance of the language.) In any case, they said they’d contact their CEO about the issue and have him get back to us. The next day, the CEO called my mother (because she’s the one who knows literally everyone who could make a real stink, not me), and promised at the end of their conversation to get back to her in early July before the next board meeting. He actually got back to her within the week to report that the offending field had been added by a third party without their knowledge. This, of course, is completely consonant with what we know of how the gender brigade goes about their mission, sneaking things in when and where people aren’t looking so that they can rely on the inertia of the status quo to cement what they’ve done.

I submit this as just anecdotal evidence that the bullshit TRAs have done by whining and complaining can sometimes be undone by vocal, unwavering objection.

Originally a reply by Mike Haubrich.

I spoke to the Greens at a table at a State Fair here in Minnesota, and even though they claimed to approach the environment and social issues with a scientific viewpoint, they were opposed to any sorts of GMOs, insisted that if we all became vegan we would solve global warming, warned that babies were pumped full of vaccines too quickly, etc etc, and they wanted to know my pronouns.

I declined their offer for me to donate to their party.

Feminism? Meh. Anti-racism? Bleh. Internationalism/multiculturalism? Yawn.

The Green Party=The Trans Party.

The Green party is veering away from its founding culture towards a more leftwing authoritarianism, its former health spokesperson has claimed.

Dr Pallavi Devulapalli said trans rights had become an obvious totem in the new climate, and accused the party of trying to purge anyone with gender-critical views.

Devulapalli, a GP and member of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk council, was expelled from the party for a rules breach that she has said was due to her beliefs on gender. Her expulsion this month, she said, has exposed a rift in the party’s leadership on transgender issues that threatens to widen during this summer’s leadership election.

But the rift or rifts have been happening for several years.

The party’s current co-leader Adrian Ramsay, who has argued that members should not be thrown out for saying trans women are not women, is pressing internally for Devulapalli’s expulsion to be reviewed.

Members should not be thrown out or ostracized or yelled at or punished in any other way for knowing that men are not women.

Devulapalli was suspended last September, three months after she failed to back the party’s manifesto policy on the right of self-identification for trans people during a hustings event. Last week she was informed she had been expelled from the party after attending what Devulapalli said she thought was a social gathering, but which a disciplinary panel deemed was an official party event from which she was banned because of her suspension.

Yeah great. They ostracize her, then she accidentally gets near some of them, so they kick her out. Lovely people; so very green.

Devulapalli is now one of 25 “Greens in Exile” – former party members who have been suspended or expelled largely for their gender critical views. Last year a court found the party had removed Dr Shahrar Ali as a party spokesperson in a procedurally unfair way that discriminated against him because of his gender critical belief. In 2021, Ali’s position as spokesperson is understood to have prompted Siân Berry, now an MP, to quit as co-leader.

Devulapalli said the party’s belief that trans women are women was “peddling a falsehood”, adding: “It denies science and denies reality and alienates the Greens from the vast majority of voters who know the truth when they see it.”

Quite so. It’s a fantasy, a fiction, a story, and grownup political parties should not be imposing fictions on its members.

Following April’s supreme court ruling that a “woman” in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman, the Greens’ policy has come under strain. In interviews since, Ramsay, who is standing again as co-leader with fellow MP Ellie Chowns, has refused to commit to an answer, but Carla Denyer, who is standing down as co-leader, has said that “trans women are women [and] trans men are men”. Zack Polanski, a leadership challenger, is campaigning on the slogan “trans rights are human rights”.

But of course trans women are not women, which is why they’re called trans women. That’s the whole point. It’s not just a descriptor, like “friendly” or “wise” or “decent”; it’s a negation. Trans women=men who claim/pretend to be women. It’s fatuous for adults to keep saying pretend women are women.

More Nazi-style takeover theater:

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander was handcuffed and detained by federal agents Tuesday afternoon while escorting migrants from immigration hearings in Lower Manhattan — with video of the incident packing a politically potent punch for his suddenly energetic mayoral campaign.

On Tuesday morning, Lander was at 26 Federal Plaza in downtown Manhattan to observe an immigration hearing when he walked out of the courtroom locking arms with a Yoruba-speaking immigrant, according to Lander’s wife, Meg Barnette, who spoke to reporters at a press conference.

When federal agents moved to detain the immigrant in the hallway outside the courtroom, Lander asked for them to show a judicial warrant. The agents did not and put him into custody.

Why?

Why did they put him into custody aka handcuff and arrest him? He’s a civilian government official; he’s allowed to ask questions. What legal basis can ICE possibly have for arresting and handcuffing him?

None. Hence this is fascism. It may be very short-term weak clumsy fascism, but armed thugs defying and detaining civilian government is the real thing.

Worst possible time to have a pinhead in That Office.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned Iranian leader Ali Khamenei that he is an “easy target” and that “our patience is wearing thin,” before demanding Tehran surrender in its conflict against Israel.

“We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Yeah great, war by social media, that will work out well.

“He is an easy target, but is safe there – We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now,” he wrote. “But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin.”

Trump added in a subsequent post: “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”

That will definitely work.

He what now?

Donald Trump slammed his “publicity seeking” French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in an excoriating social media post overnight, saying “whether purposely or not, Emmanuel always gets it wrong.”

Trump called someone else “publicity seeking”???