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His people 

Aha. So that’s what Trump wants, is it. Well he’s not getting it.

“Hey! He’s theee HeadofaCountry, and I mean he’s the strong head, don’t let anyone think anything different, he speaks and his people sit up at attention, I want my people to do the same.”

We’re not your people, you worm, we’re our own people, and your longing to make us sit up at attention instead of explaining in detail what a sick fuck you are is exactly why you should have a job emptying the bins in Central Park.

This was Trump getting caught on hot mic saying that he wanted Americans to treat him like the people of North Korean treat their Dictator Kim Jong Un.

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Both argue 

The “erring on the side of” bit seems all wrong in this Atlantic piece on “trans athletes” by sports columnist Sally Jenkins.

Transgender participation in women’s athletics is the single most difficult issue I’ve seen in 40 years of covering sports. It makes gambling, performance-enhancing drugs, and regulation of collegiate athletics look like tidy challenges.

What’s difficult about it? Just say no. No, men can’t play in women’s sports.

Two groups—trans women and cisgender women—both argue that they need equal protection from discrimination. But if they can’t have it at the same time in the often zero-sum realm of sports, who wins?

Oh please. It’s often the case that two groups argue that X. Deal with it.

At the

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Still no pond for women 

Jolyon Maugham gloating that for now men can continue to force themselves on women at the women’s pond on Hampstead Heath.

https://twitter.com/GoodLawProject/status/2016843975772999845

The High Court just refused Sex Matters’ permission to ban trans women from the Hampstead ponds. We’re relieved that the ponds can remain a place where trans people have always belonged.

Notice that he resorts to the usual lie. Sex Matters is not seeking to “ban trans women from the Hampstead ponds”. Sex Matters is seeking to ban men from the women’s pond. Note that if they succeed the men’s pond will still be there and trans women aka men will still be able to splash about in it.… Read the rest

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Guest post: If he dresses as a pantomime horse 

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Choose one.

Norfolk Constabulary confirmed that “in most cases” the force recorded the self-identified gender of suspects.

Do they also note their astrological sign and favourite flavour of ice cream? They’re just as useful and relevent as “gender identity.”

If that’s far as it went, there’d be little problem, but what the police are doing is letting these suspects lie about their sex.. Once they’re in the system, this putative “gender” is used in place of sex because the system is built around seeing a suspect or prisoner’s sex.

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Choose one 

Oh gee, what a good idea.

Police force lets suspects choose their gender

So rape suspects get to choose to “be” women? Men who assault women get to choose the women label? Domestic violence perps get to say they are women? All men who commit crimes against women are allowed to tell the police they are women?

Why would the police do that?

Norfolk Constabulary confirmed that “in most cases” the force recorded the self-identified gender of suspects. The policy has been criticised by women’s rights groups, who fear that it skews crime statistics and obscures focus on the safety of women and girls.

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Wait, who are angry and liars? 

The guy with the syringe is what you’d expect: a fan of the ratbag.

The man who sprayed an unknown substance on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall in Minneapolis has a criminal history and has made online posts supportive of President Donald Trump.

Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, was convicted of felony auto theft in 1989, has been arrested multiple times for driving under the influence, and has had numerous traffic citations, Minnesota court records show.

The kind of person who doesn’t give a shit about other people. Naturally.

In social media posts, Kazmierczak described himself as a former network engineer who lives in Minneapolis. Among other things, he made comments critical of former President Joe Biden

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Out, suddenly 

The Bulwark:

This White House has a playbook for scandal: Always double down, never apologize, and above all attack, attack, attack. So it was nothing less than shocking yesterday when the administration—after two days of utterly shameless lies about the killing of Alex Pretti—slammed on the brakes in an attempt to pivot to a more normie-palatable [acceptable] narrative.

Out, suddenly, were statements like Stephen Miller’s, who called Pretti “a domestic terrorist” who “tried to assassinate federal law enforcement,” or Kristi Noem’s, who called it a “fact” that Pretti had “committed an act of domestic terrorism.” No longer, apparently, was it the Department of Homeland Security’s position, as the official DHS account tweeted Saturday and Border Patrol mook Greg

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44 names 

Let’s pick a fight with Denmark.

Staff at the US embassy in Copenhagen have removed 44 flags decorated with the names of Danish soldiers that were killed in Afghanistan, put up after US President Donald Trump’s recent criticism of allied countries’ military contributions.

As yet unidentified activists put up the flags on Tuesday but they were removed later the same day by an embassy security guard, according to Danish media TV2,

In an interview with Fox News last week, Trump said that allied soldiers in Afghanistan, “stayed a little back, a little off the front lines” – causing pushback from European capitals.

Trump himself, by the way, stayed more than a little back. Trump stayed all the way back. Way way way back.

Copenhagen’s

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Framing 101 

One of those times when you compose the next sentence before reading it.

The sentence before the next sentence:

Holed up in the White House over the weekend, with temperatures dropping and a major snowstorm on its way, Mr. Trump expressed concern about the killing to aides and allies.

The next sentence you compose in your head:

You mean Trump pitched a fit about the public reaction to the killing and how everybody else had to fix it because the reaction was bad for him.

The next sentence the NY Times wrote:

But his frustrations were more about the coverage of the events rather than the incident itself, according to people familiar with the dynamic.

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Incitement 

Trump and consequences:

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was sprayed with an unidentified substance by a man with a syringe on Tuesday as she gave her first in-person town hall of the year in Minneapolis, during which she called for ICE to be abolished “for good” and DHS secretary Kristi Noem to resign.

Omar had only been speaking for a few minutes when a man in the audience got up and began to shout, while spraying her with the liquid. People at the meeting said the liquid had an acidic smell.

The good news is that it was a small amount.

Some, such as Minneapolis council member LaTrisha Vetaw, pleaded with Omar to end the town hall early to get

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The values 

Nah.

pic.twitter.com/v8rHPl2rJT

— Philip Glass (@philipglass) January 27, 2026

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“We’re happy it was accurate” 

This this this! If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a billion times.

Received a ridiculous response from the BBC to my complaint about its claim that Jammie Booker was disqualified from a women's competition because he's trans

'We're happy it was accurate' – not going to wash

Back you go pic.twitter.com/AknyyufiXh

— Cath Leng (@leng_cath) January 27, 2026

“Booker was not disqualified for being transgender. This is inaccurate. Disqualification for this reason would be illegal. Booker was disqualified for being male.”

THAT. They do it every damn time, and it’s sneaky, and it’s a lie.

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As she channels 

Squeeeeeeeeeeeee another new way to insult women, how exciting!!

https://twitter.com/RainbowToffees/status/2015864724554932717

Just imagine a tweet shouting about a white person who “channels” some of the most iconic poses of Black people throughout history. Imagine a tweet shouting about Sean Hannity as he channels Thurgood Marshall, Paul Robson, Fanny Lou Hamer, Ruby Bridges, Rosa Parks.

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That’s her problem 

Shut her up.

SNP ministers tried to “silence and intimidate” a female prisoner who had been traumatised by sharing a jail with biological men by sending her testimony to police, a court has been told.

Aidan O’Neill KC, who is representing For Women Scotland (FWS) in its latest legal battle with the Scottish government, argued that ministers were in contempt of court by sending a draft of the woman’s written evidence to Police Scotland without her or the court’s permission.

The devolved government, which is fighting in court to continue to allow biological men who identify as women to remain in women’s prisons, also urged Lady Ross KC on Tuesday not to accept the sworn affidavit, calling it “irrelevant”

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Specify 

Expert in what?

Expert says trans children’s rights are not being respected

Expert in what field exactly?

The reporter, one James MacEnany, Education Specialist, fails to say.

Next we get photo caption:

Expert academic says the rights of trans children in Scotland are not being respected 

Then we get the first two paragraphs:

“It is a difficult time to be doing any kind of research on trans or queer or even feminist topics, so I’m finding that I need to be quite cautious about media coverage.”

This is the view of Dr Ruth Pearce, an expert and researcher at the University of Glasgow.

Expert expert expert, we get it, but expert in what field?

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Walking back the lies 

It’s stuff the genie back in the bottle time in Trumpolandia.

“Chief Gregory Bovino has NOT been relieved of his duties,” the DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said, pointing to earlier comments from the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, praising Bovino as a “key part of the president’s team and a great American”.

Leavitt spent Monday’s press briefing walking back initial claims made by senior administration officials about Pretti. Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff, called the victim “a domestic terrorist who tried to assassinate law enforcement”, and Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, accused him of perpetrating “the definition of domestic terrorism” – characterizations that have been undercut by video footage that showed Pretti getting

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Expected to retire soon 

Bovino is out.

Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol “commander at large” and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon, according to a DHS official and two people with knowledge of the change.

Bovino’s sudden demotion is the clearest sign yet that the Trump administration is reconsidering its most aggressive tactics after the killing Saturday of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents under Bovino’s command.

It turns out murdering a veterans’ hospital nurse is not all that popular.

Earlier today, President Trump appeared to signal in a series of social-media posts a tactical shift in the administration’s mass-deportation campaign. Trump wrote that he

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Only so much they can handle 

It turns out the border patrollers don’t like it either.

Morale is “plummeting” among federal law enforcement officers tasked with carrying out the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-immigration operation, as they complained that [of] long hours, ambitious arrest quotas and hatred from the public, according to reports.

While officers at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol, overseen by the Department of Homeland Security, said they supported the administration’s goal of deporting undocumented migrants, many of them have grown “disillusioned” with the tactics being implemented by leadership.

At the behest of the monstrosity in the Oval Office.

“You’re not addressing the problem by throwing a 500-pound gorilla into these inner cities,” Oscar Hagelsieb, a former immigration officer

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Keynote speakers or shot 10 times 

Oh yes. I had indeed forgotten about them.

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Through the blank blank eyes 

People in Minneapolis and the rest of the country may be depressed by casual murders at the hands of ICE but the Trump family is dressing up for a party.

Trump and first lady Melania Trump on Saturday night hosted a private screening of “Melania,” a new documentary about the first lady — drawing criticism from Democrats who questioned the president’s priorities hours after another fatal shooting in Minneapolis upended domestic politics and raised the possibility of a government shutdown.

So there’s a new documentary about Melania Trump.

Why?

What on earth is there to say? She’s a blank space.

The documentary “offers unprecedented access to the 20 days leading up to the 2025 Presidential Inauguration — through the

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