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Noem out.

Trump on Thursday announced he was replacing Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary, after the killing of two US citizens by immigration agents and mounting reports of her questionable personal conduct attracted bipartisan criticism.

After or because of?

A Republican former congresswoman and governor of South Dakota, Noem was considered a potential running mate for Trump as he sought re-election in 2024, but ultimately passed over after she admitted in a memoir to killing a dog she owned. The president instead nominated her to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the border patrol and other agencies that took to the streets of major US cities during Trump’s second term

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Buhbye
By Ophelia Benson, March 5, 2026

Noem out.

Trump on Thursday announced he was replacing Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary, after the killing of two US citizens by immigration agents and mounting reports of her questionable personal conduct attracted bipartisan criticism.

After or because of?

A Republican former congresswoman and governor of South Dakota, Noem was considered a potential running mate for Trump as he sought re-election in 2024, but ultimately passed over after she admitted in a memoir to killing a dog she owned. The president instead nominated her to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the border patrol and other agencies that took to the streets of major US cities during Trump’s second term

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Buhbye 

Noem out.

Trump on Thursday announced he was replacing Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary, after the killing of two US citizens by immigration agents and mounting reports of her questionable personal conduct attracted bipartisan criticism.

After or because of?

A Republican former congresswoman and governor of South Dakota, Noem was considered a potential running mate for Trump as he sought re-election in 2024, but ultimately passed over after she admitted in a memoir to killing a dog she owned. The president instead nominated her to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the border patrol and other agencies that took to the streets of major US cities during Trump’s second term

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When crazy people 

Yes, we know.

We know. It’s even worse when crazy stupid corrupt sadistic ignorant impulsive conceited slobbery people have a nuclear weapon.

(What is it with the slobber? Possible symptom of dementia is one answer.)… Read the rest

We include you, get out 

And another thing about that gender-critical lawsuit. The final paragraph:

A spokeswoman for the Green Party said: “The Green Party always strives to be a welcoming and inclusive place. After careful consideration, we were unable to grant GWD a stall at our autumn conference 2025, for reasons we explained to them at the time. As this matter is now the subject of threatened court proceedings, it would not be appropriate to comment further at this time.”

Do they even see it? ““The Green Party always strives to be a welcoming and inclusive place, so we banish women who know which people are women.”

You can’t do both. You can’t preen yourself on how welcoming and inclusive you are and… Read the rest

Easy being green 

What is “Green” about banning and punishing women?

Green Party faces gender-critical group lawsuit over trans ‘witch-hunt’

The Green Party has been accused of carrying out a “witch-hunt” against people with gender-critical views after it allegedly refused to allow campaigners a stall at party conference.

Lawyers for Green Women’s Declaration claim the decision was “a deliberate and unlawful attempt to prevent women from expressing gender-critical views”.

Well what else would it be? That’s not a claim, it’s a definition.

The gender-critical group also plans to sue over the party’s definition of “queerphobia”, which rules it is transphobic to suggest trans women are “not real women”. In a pre-action letter sent last week, the group claimed the definition “precisely encapsulates a

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Told to cool off 

Oops.

Kelly Wilkinson was turned away from Southport police station and told to “cool off, give Brian a break” while seeking help just four days before her estranged husband, Brian Earl Johnston, burned her to death in 2021, an inquest has heard.

The allegation was made in an extraordinary 11th hour submission by the lawyer acting for her family as they successfully applied to adjourn the coronial inquiry to hear additional evidence about the allegation.

Their lawyer, Mitch Rawlings, said Queensland police’s claim during the inquest that 12 April 2021 was the last time Wilkinson engaged with police was false. He said that she also attended the police station on 16 April – four days before her murder –

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Guest post: There’s a smuggle going on here 

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Is versus labeled as.

Gender identity is a term used by some people to describe their sense of who they are.

But where did this term come from? When did it emerge? And what material thing does it point to, if anything?

Thetan is also a term used by some people — namely, Scientologists — to describe their sense of who they are.

Indigo Child is another term used by some people to describe their sense of who they are.

I could pick out a thousand terms various cults use to describe their deeply felt inner sense of self. The whole fucking point of religion is that it gives people deep feelings about … Read the rest

Wait WHO is stupid and incompetent? 

Ok that’s disgusting.

You know what else was stupid in Leavitt-world? Lend-lease! The US should have just let Hitler win!… Read the rest

Is versus labeled as 

I can’t even deal with this anymore. It’s too stupid.

The BBC asks from the pulpit:

What does trans mean and why is there a debate about transgender people’s rights?

Gosh, BBC, what fascinating questions. Please explain it all to us.

The UK Supreme Court ruled in April 2025 that the definition of a woman in equalities law is based on biological sex.

No, really?! Who knew? We thought it meant armadillo. No, ice cream soda. No, Lithuania. One of those, or something like them. Nothing to do with bibliological sekks.

What is biological sex?

The Supreme Court judgment used a simple definition of biological sex: it is the sex recorded at birth. The court said this is widely used

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Wolf calls rabbits discriminatory 

The Independent breathlessly reports:

Trans people in the UK face a rising tide of discriminatory behaviour and prejudice which is creating a “hostile environment” impeding access to healthcare and damaging mental health, according to a major new report.

But who measures the rise of this tide?

Describing the situation as a “crisis”, in which trans people in the UK are “being catastrophically failed”, Trans Actual UK, an advocacy organisation focused on healthcare and legal protections for trans people, said: “Hundreds of thousands of trans people have seen the degradation of their human rights protections” over the past decade, and are now calling for government action.

Really? What human rights protections are we talking about?

Trans Actual surveyed over 4,000

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Let’s uplift 

Oops. Plot twist.

Opinion: This International Women’s Day, let’s uplift the rights and dignity of all women

Sad, isn’t it, that we know that “all” doesn’t mean “all” but “including some who are not women.”

It starts well enough.

International Women’s Day is this Sunday. Every lesson I’ve learned, every battle I’ve been part of, has taught me one truth: when working class women organise, nothing can stop us.

Women make up the majority of the public service workforce, yet you bear the brunt of unsafe staffing levels, low pay, discrimination, and impossible workloads.

But it doesn’t continue well enough.

There are signs of things getting better – the Employment Rights Act is an important step on the road to

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Perfect timing 

I have a good idea, let’s try to climb Chomolungma wearing bathing suits and flip flops. My inspiration is Fox tv personality Pete Hegseth.

Kash Patel baselessly fired an elite team of agents specializing in foreign threats from the Middle East just days before Donald Trump launched an illegal military campaign in Iran.

Patel terminated a dozen employees and staff after accusing them—without providing evidence—of improperly investigating Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence. The FBI director specifically gutted a group known as CI-12, a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran and its proxies. Days later, Trump toppled Iran’s regime and sparked a sprawling regional conflict in the Middle East.

So, flawless timing. Who

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Stupid rules he said 

Hegseth says it’s stupid to have rules of engagement. Yeah, man! Let’s bring back war crimes! We miss those! Remember My Lai? We laughed ourselves sick! Pass the doobie!

Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth’s dismissal on Monday of what he called “stupid rules of engagement” in the illegal war against Iran amounted to an invitation for American and allied forces to commit war crimes, human rights organizations and other critics warned.

Hegseth’s remarks came during a press conference alongside the top US general, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine. The Pentagon chief boasted that the US is “unleashing the most lethal and precise air power campaign in history,” “all on our terms with maximum authorities,” unbound by “stupid rules

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It grew up – or did it? 

The funniest thing about this is that it’s not parody.

About Robin

Robin Gow is a poet, educator, and witch. It grew up in rural Pennsylvania and lives with his queer family on unceded Lenape land also called Allentown Pennsylvania.

Quite the medley of deliberate annoyingness in 28 words. There’s the “it”, the instant switch to “his”, the “queer family”, and the obligatory pious smug pretense of giving a shit about forcibly removed native people.

Awarded the Jerry Cain and Scott James Creative Writing Fellow, Gow earned faer MFA in Creative Writing from Adelphi University where fae also taught as a professor of English.

What is even the point? Other than extra added attention?

Fae is a managing editor The

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Numbers 

Never mind.

A councillor who was investigated over a possible breach of Cornwall Council’s code of conduct will face no further action. The council received ten complaints concerning comments Cllr Dulcie Tudor made about trans people.

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The complaints largely stemmed from a post Cllr Tudor made on social media which said: “Men claiming trans identity are not more vulnerable than women and girls. This is what they claim but it’s simply not true. A woman dies at the hands of a man every three days in this jurisdiction. Nine men who pretend to be women have been murdered in the last ten years in the UK.”

A woman every three days in that one jurisdiction, compared to nine … Read the rest

Challenging times 

It’s all in the family.

Melania Trump presided over a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday focusing on children in conflict, one of her signature issues, and acknowledged she was doing so in “challenging times” as the United States has joined Israel in attacking Iran.

Did she acknowledge she was doing so with no apparent qualification or reason?

Melania Trump was the first spouse of a world leader to take the president’s seat at the United Nations’ most powerful body, which is charged with ensuring global peace and security, according to the U.N.

Not the good kind of first. We don’t need spouses of “world leaders” to horn in on Security Council meetings. That’s called nepotism and it’s not … Read the rest

Are you trans or are you trans? 

Don’t be shy – just erase women entirely.

The only option for women is the one that includes men, so there is no option for women.

And what’s the “Trans” for? What’s the point of checking that? What even is the question? Trans is neither a sex nor a gender, it’s a modifier.

Back to Ontology 101.… Read the rest

Jeez anointed the wrong guy 

Jonathan Larsen tells us:

A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.

From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).

The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.

Great. That means there are way too many military commanders who think … Read the rest

Goldy gold 

Meanwhile, in the corridors of power…

The occasion was actually a medal of honor ceremony.… Read the rest

They will find ways 

Pink News is ecstatic that women can never have anything just for women now.

Women’s Institute vows to ‘find ways to keep welcoming trans women’ after ban 

WI vows to keep forcing men on women who want to do something without men.

On 16 April 2025, the Supreme Court judgement in the case of For Women Scotland vs Scottish Ministers decided the protected characteristic of “sex” for the purposes of the 2010 Equality Act means “biological sex” only and does not include trans people.

In the wake of the ruling, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) – the UK’s human rights watchdog – drafted interim updates to its Code of Practice on single-sex spaces. 

How dare they? How dare they … Read the rest

Equipment 

Trump to Iran: Ok we fixed that for you, now get on with it, kthxbye.

The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei marked the latest decapitation or defeat of a bitter U.S. adversary overseas, following the ouster of the Taliban in 2001, the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq two years later, the breaking of Moammar Gaddafi’s grip on power in Libya in 2011 and the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro just two months ago.

The United States has often followed such triumphant moments with attempts to fill the void — deploying thousands of troops, spending billions of dollars, seeking to nurture fledging democracies or, in the case of Venezuela, leaving the decapitated government in power. But those efforts

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