Narges Mohammadi:

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Iranian human rights activist and journalist Narges Mohammadi. The award citation said Mohammadi received the prize for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and for promoting human rights and freedom for all.

The chairperson of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, made the announcement in Oslo. Reiss-Andersen began by quoting the slogan of Iranian human rights campaigners, in Farsi and English: “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi. Woman, Life, Freedom.”

Reiss-Andersen said that altogether the Iranian regime had arrested Mohammadi 13 times, convicted her five times and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. Mohammadi remains incarcerated in Iran’s notorious

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What a sloppy evidence-free piece in the Guardian:

Belgium’s deputy prime minister, who ranks as one of Europe’s most senior transgender politicians, has urged Rishi Sunak not to join “the real bullies” after remarks made by the British prime minister at the Conservative party conference this week.

Transgender what? The fool reporter never says.

The prime minister’s comments came as it was revealed that the number of hate crimes committed against transgender people last year in England and Wales had climbed to a record high, with the Home Office suggesting in its report that the 11% rise may have been prompted by comments by politicians and media.

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Man who pretends to be a woman wins service award. What’s his “service”? Pretending to be a woman, of course.

https://twitter.com/MeechSteph1/status/1708979919210852711

Humbled? I bet he’s not a bit humbled.

Congratulations to @MeechSteph1 who has been recognised for her exceptional contribution in relation to diversity – such an inspiration and icon #ALF2023 pic.twitter.com/Tm6GPKyFJz

— Georgette Eaton (@georgette_eaton) October 2, 2023

Diversity! So much diversity! Large white man who pretends to be a woman: what could be more diversity??!

https://twitter.com/NatAmbLGBTUK/status/1708960024439955913

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The NY Times:

Shortly after he left office, former President Donald J. Trump shared apparently classified information about American nuclear submarines with an Australian businessman during an evening of conversation at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The businessman, Anthony Pratt, a billionaire member of Mar-a-Lago who runs one of the world’s largest cardboard companies, went on to share the sensitive details about the submarines with several others, the people said. Mr. Trump’s disclosures, they said, potentially endangered the U.S. nuclear fleet.

Whose idea was it to put Elmer Fudd in charge of all this?

Federal prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, learned about Mr. Trump’s disclosures

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Hmmm tough question.

ways and *sometimes* in specific contexts, failing to do that *might* be considered bullying or harassment. You can call that ‘compulsion’ if you like but unless you are a yankbrained libertarian, is the idea of us having duties to each other all that remarkable? If myself & the

— Eoin Daly (@eoinmauricedaly) October 6, 2023

Social norms don’t quite oblige us to address each other in certain ways, I would say. Social norms give us a menu of ways to address each other, but they’re not really mandatory, apart from the military and on the job and so on.

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But you can’t.

Gymnastics Australia has unveiled a new set of guidelines for the inclusion of transgender and gender diverse people.

The changes will allow individuals to choose uniforms, changing and bathroom facilities and compete in competitions which they believe best align with their gender identity.

GA boss Alexandra Ash said it was an important step to ensure all participants and stakeholders feel safe and included in the sport.

But it isn’t. It can’t be. It’s the opposite. By ensuring that men can intrude on women’s sports, they’ve ensured that women will never feel safe in their own sport. By including men in sports for women, they’re excluding women.

“Our commitment to transgender and gender diverse people involved in

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Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Listy McListerson.

…which provides detailed bios of all those they consider to be disrupting the trans narrative.

If they’re looking for culprits guilty of “disrupting” the trans “narrative,” then they need look no further than trans activism itself, which is a disjointed hodgepodge of contradictory, unevidenced claims. For each and every claim of gender ideology, there is an equal and opposite claim that contradicts it. Find an appropriate pair of trans statements and most of the work is already done for you. It’s an extension of the principle that the best weapon you can use against trans activism is to quote trans activists.

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What’s complex about it? Men are not women. Simple.

In my opinion the gender debate is a really complex conundrum but on social media people mistake winning an argument for finding a solution. In reality the 1st step to finding a solution to a complex problem is to see both sides of the argument & that takes kindness & civility.

— Eddie Marsan (@eddiemarsan) October 5, 2023

It’s a particularly creepy brand of self-flattery, that – declaring that it’s a “really complex conundrum” when women defend their rights, and that it takes kindness and civility – like his, of course – to find “a solution.” Behold, I, a man of kindness and civility, declare women’s rights too complex to figure … Read the rest

Amy Sousa on a new blacklist:

Evan Urquhart, founder of Assigned Media, has recently published the “Trans Data Library,” a list of people and organizations she considers to be dissidents to trans orthodoxy. This database, which went live on Wednesday morning, has now been featured in the popular LGBTQ+ news source, The Advocate.

Ah yes, Evan Urquhart. She did a hit piece on me in Slate back in 2015, based on a dishonest manipulative “interview.”

Evan is a woman who claims the identity of a “transman,” and together with two men who claim to be “transwomen,” she started a fundraiser in order to create a propaganda campaign to silence reasonable dissent. They raised over $12,500 with

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I hate it that the left has gone all-in on fantasy so we have to turn to The Telegraph for reality.

The Science Secretary will on Tuesday unveil a review into the “utter nonsense” of public bodies being urged to collect data on self-identified gender rather than biological sex. 

Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference, Michelle Donelan will sound the alarm at what she calls the “denial of biology and the steady creep of political correctness”.

It’s not even political correctness though. It’s not correct and it’s not political. It’s some other brand of bullshit – a noxious mix of idenniny and fannasy and narcissism. What in hell is “left” about any of that?

Ms Donelan has been moved

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The Times informs us:

Former President Donald J. Trump said undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country” in a recent interview, language with echoes of white supremacy and the racial hatreds of Adolf Hitler.

That’s quite breathtaking.

In the interview, Mr. Trump was asked about immigration and the Southern border.

He replied: “Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad, and people are coming

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More more more men.

Gymnastics Australia changes guidelines to allow Transgender athletes to compete in the women’s category and for biological males to undress in girls locker rooms and showers.

93% of 800,000 Australians involved in gymnastics are under the age of 12.

Under the new rules,… pic.twitter.com/iy8xdxl6no

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) October 4, 2023

That is some baaaaaaaaaaaad gymnastics in that photo.

The full tweet:

Gymnastics Australia changes guidelines to allow Transgender athletes to compete in the women’s category and for biological males to undress in girls locker rooms and showers. 93% of 800,000 Australians involved in gymnastics are under the age of 12. Under the new rules, biological males will be allowed to compete in whichever category matches

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Trudeau says he never said parents who dissent from trans dogma are hateful, he just…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday he never suggested that individuals concerned about their rights as parents were hateful when he issued a statement in response to the thousands who attended recent protests about “gender ideology” in schools.

Speaking to reporters at a housing announcement in Vaughan, Ont., Trudeau said the post he issued Sept. 20 on [Twitter] was about taking a stand for the LGBTQ+ community.

There is no such community. Trans people are not part of a big jolly group that includes lesbians and gay men; they’re a separate group that focuses on fantasies about being the sex one is not.

Trudeau said

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Aha! Appearances are never deceiving! Actors who play characters are the characters they play! You are what you say you are!

Made this to show how ridiculous Rishi Sunak looks at the #ToryPartyConference among Real People, hope you don't mind pic.twitter.com/teSfnqr4dP

— kevinjwoods (@kevinjwoods1) October 4, 2023

Yes indeed and Helen Mirren is Elizabeth Windsor, Gillian Anderson is Margaret Thatcher, Tom Hanks is Ben Bradlee, Robert Redford is Bob Woodward, Helena Bonham Carter was on the Titanic when it broke apart and sank.

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Why do we have to have Steve Bannon running things?

On Wednesday morning, two Republicans who hours earlier had toppled Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House made a well-worn trek to a 19th-century brick townhouse a few blocks away from the Capitol and entered the cluttered sanctuary of Stephen K. Bannon’s recording studio.

Representatives Matt Gaetz of Florida, the instigator of the rebellion, and Nancy Mace of South Carolina, one of seven other Republican defectors, huddled with Mr. Bannon for a morning meeting ahead of a joint appearance on his “War Room” podcast.

Steve Bannon ffs. Why don’t the Republicans just go scour all the psych wards for their gurus, it would be cheaper.

From this cavelike studio

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Good grief. The journalist asks the minister if refusing to use luxury pronouns is unlawful discrimination, and the minister refuses to answer that question, saying it’s an individual case and it’s for the court to decide. The journalist keeps repeating that that’s not what he’s asking, he’s not asking about the individual case, he’s asking what the law is. Minister persists in changing the subject. Dude. What is the law? Does the law make it a crime to use ordinary pronouns?

"That's not an answer to the question": Ben Scallan accuses Irish Equality Minister Roderic O'Gorman of "evasion" for refusing to say whether or not "misgendering" someone at work could constitute unlawful discrimination or harassment.#gript pic.twitter.com/MDONaRHfTs

— gript

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Wo, dude, that’s a mirror you’re looking at.

Donald Trump called his former chief of staff John Kelly a “lowlife with a very small brain and a very big mouth” after the former marine general confirmed reports about the ex-president’s derogatory attitude to members of the US armed forces.

Trump is a lowlife.

Trump is extremely stupid.

Trump never shuts up and never says anything that’s not stupid.

In posts to his Truth Social platform, days after Kelly spoke to CNN, Trump said his former aide was “by far the dumbest of my military people … incapable of doing a good job” as chief of staff or, before that, homeland security secretary.

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Exciting.

Data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service found that September was the most anomalously warm month in recorded history.

Last month shattered the record for the hottest September on record by such a wide margin that climate scientists say it was almost beyond belief.

The September milestone, reported in new data released late Wednesday by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, added to an alarming stretch of record-breaking global temperatures. During June, July and August, the planet had its hottest summer on record “by a large margin.”

September’s temperatures have climate scientists even more stunned.

“This month was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist — absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” Zeke Hausfather, the climate research

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Lots of people know lots of things “in their heart of hearts.” That’s the problem.

I know in my heart of hearts that what I'm doing is right.

And that's enough for me. #transgender #nonbinary #ftm #healthcare #mtf #pronouns #gender #genderreassignment pic.twitter.com/1QNlsDdaLI

— Dr Helen Webberley she/her (@HelenWebberley) October 5, 2023

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How does that work?

I as Head of EDI and my colleagues .@CUH_NHS will be continuing to encourage sharing of our pronouns to ensure Trans & non binary people we provide care for and who are our employees are respected and not misgendered – we stand with you @drmbrady https://t.co/LhlA4pyMkZ

— Monica Jacot (@MonicaHelenJ) October 4, 2023

But there’s no such thing as “our pronouns”. Pronouns don’t belong to the person referred to; they’re not property. Talking about “our pronouns” is the opposite of “inclusion” (the I in DEI), because it excludes the vast majority of people. It insults them, it alienates them, it pisses them off. Is that a good thing to do in a healthcare setting? Make … Read the rest