WHAT?!!

Doctors who change gender are allowed to scrub past wrongdoing from public record

Because changing gender=a new and improved doctor who has never done any harm to anyone?

Sandie Peggie’s case against NHS Fife for alleged harassment after the nurse raised concerns about a trans colleague has caused alarm among women and campaigners across the country. The NHS, she claims, was prioritising the rights of Dr Beth Upton, a trans doctor who was born male but insisted on using the women’s changing room, over her rights to a single-sex space.

Now, it can be revealed that the General Medical Council (GMC), which regulates doctors, takes an even more extreme stance on trans medics – effectively scrubbing the public disciplinary

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Congress is supine.

Musk warned Republican lawmakers in December that he was compiling a “naughty list” of members who buck Trump’s agenda. He also pledged shortly after Election Day that his political action committee would “play a significant role in primaries” next year.

A Republican senator told The Hill that Musk’s wealth makes primary threats “a bigger deal.”

One hopes that at some point, it will become a badge of honour to have opposed Trump. Unfortunately, that time is not now. What America needs are Republican members of Congress who realize Trump is destroying the country. They have to stop being okay with that. By supporting a man who famously … Read the rest

A joke but not a joke.

Donald Trump has called himself a king.

In a post to Truth Social on Wednesday, Feb. 19, the president, 78, praised his own efforts in attempting to revoke revoking New York City’s recently reinstated congestion pricing system.

“CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan and all of New York, is SAVED,” he wrote, adding, “LONG LIVE THE KING.”

Hur hur, so funny, he’s such a card, hur hur.

Weird that other presidents haven’t made that joke though. Maybe they thought it would be inappropriate, unfunny, narcissistic, trashy?

Also of course you don’t save Manhattan by promoting more and more and more traffic. Manhattan isn’t built for a lot of traffic. It’s a skinny island: there

More terrifying (and terrorizing) every day.

Robert Reich:

Musk and his associates have not only burrowed into the Treasury’s payments system; they are now burrowing into the Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security Administration.

They are gaining access to the most sensitive personal information about Americans available anywhere, along with computer code capable of altering that information and those systems. The Muskrats have been able to turn off government funding without Congress’s consent, even in the face of federal court orders to turn the funding back on.

This is blatantly illegal, yet Congress remains silent.

Congress is supine because Republicans are in charge, and Musk has also become Trump’s hatchet man — threatening Republican members of Congress if

A news flash from Jonathan Gallant:

President Trump has issued an executive order, cancelling the name of the FDR Drive along the east side of Manhattan in New York City.   Asserting that FDR deserves no special recognition for leading the USA through World War II, President Trump asserted that there wouldn’t have been a world war at all if he had been president.  “The Poles just brought it all on themselves when they provoked Germany by signing a military alliance with Britain,” he said.  “Poland could have made a deal with Herr Hitler, by turning over Danzig and the Polish Corridor to him, and then there wouldn’t have been any war.” 

  President Trump added that FDR’s administration had … Read the rest

Lies Social

Liberal party will allow women to tell the truth.

The Liberal Democrats have been forced to allow women’s rights campaigners who believe in biological sex to have equal footing with other groups after claims that they had been “vilified and censured” for their beliefs.

Except they’re not beliefs, they’re facts.

Facts are beliefs in the banal sense that people may believe them, but it’s misleading at best and dishonest plus manipulative at worst to call facts “beliefs.” It’s not a mere belief that jumping off a tall building will cause death. It’s not a mere belief that fire burns, that rain is wet, that Antarctica is chilly. Women’s rights campaigners don’t “believe in biological sex”; we know that biological … Read the rest

Side with the aggressor much?

President Trump escalated his attacks against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday by calling him “a dictator without elections.”

Why it matters: The smear marks a new low in the deteriorating U.S.-Ukraine relationship. It comes as the Trump administration is negotiating a deal with the Kremlin to end Russia’s war in Ukraine without Kyiv’s participation in the talks.

Remember when FDR negotiated a deal with Hitler to end Germany’s war in Europe without Europe’s participation in the talks?

 “A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his

So…we mustn’t oppress trans people by having criteria for what “trans” is and how anyone knows who is trans and who isn’t, but at the same time we also must agree that trans people are indeed trans (because they say they are). So…what does “trans” mean then? What is it? Why is there so much noisy pressure to give trans people whatever they ask for at any moment? What are we even talking about?

This is what happens when a brainwashed Green Party cult member with a poor degree in Zoology comes up against a properly trained mind that has a sensitive bullshit detector. It’s exquisite to watch.

(Side note – Dodgy ‘Beth’ [Mark 1] is sitting at the back).

Originally a comment by Nullius in Verba on Accountable to the pumpkin.

Unfortunately, we’ve been sliding toward de facto dictatorship for a long, long time. Presidential administrations, regardless of party, have a history of expanding executive power and diminishing congressional authority as defined by the Constitution. (Or as Jon Stewart put it, “Again, for some reason, we have given presidents the power of a king. And then we say, oh, by the way, with that power, you’re not going to get all, like, kingly and shit on us, right?”)

  While this particular move directly asserts White House control over independent agencies, the broader pattern of presidents’ centralizing power at the expense of Congress has been ongoing for literal … Read the rest

Another winner…

Nathanielle Morin, the biologically male $140K/year govt employee who advises @MarciIen on genderwang, has put out a press release (in both official languages) after beating a 12-year-old girl to win a local running competition https://t.co/1liQcZyOzO

— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) February 16, 2025

Not, oddly enough, a press release in which he admits he’s a cheating asshole.

https://t.co/pY8JQXRM8w https://t.co/OFPGcb4Vkq

— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) February 16, 2025

Dude has the nerve to complain of “spreading hate.”

Aside from protecting women’s spaces from dudes, you mean ?

— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) February 16, 2025

… Read the rest

Tom Nichols at The Atlantic:

I watched Sean Hannity’s Fox News interview tonight with President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

But I am still not sure who’s in charge. If there is a headline from the interview, it is that the president of the United States feels that he requires the services of a multibillionaire to enforce his executive orders. Trump complained that he would write these “beautiful” executive orders, which would then languish in administrative limbo. Musk, for his part, explained that the president is the embodiment of the nation and that resisting his orders is the same as thwarting the will of the people. Hannity, of course, enthusiastically supported all of this whining about how hard it

It turns out that actions based on moving fast and breaking things can be…well…destructive. Who knew?

The movers and breakers are trying to unfire some of the crucial people they fired so swiftly and breakingly, but they’re having trouble because they did so much breaking.

The US government is trying to rehire nuclear safety employees it had fired on Thursday, after concerns grew that their dismissal could jeopardise national security, US media reported.

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) workers were among hundreds of employees in the energy department who received termination letters.

…

The Trump administration has since tried to reverse their terminations, according to media outlets, but has reportedly struggled to reach the people that were fired after

Oops wait a second come back

Trump’s administration is attempting to rehire officials with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) who worked on the government response to bird flu before being fired over the weekend, US media report.

The layoffs were a part of a cost-cutting mission across the US government by Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) leader Elon Musk.

The terminations came as the latest outbreak of the bird flu has wreaked havoc on poultry and cattle farms, causing egg prices to skyrocket and raising concerns among public health experts.

A USDA spokesperson told the BBC that although “several” officials working on bird flu were “notified of their terminations” over the weekend, “we are working to

The transfer to dictatorship proceeds apace.

Trump has signed an executive order making independent regulatory agencies established by Congress now accountable to the White House – a move that some experts said clashes with mainstream interpretations of the constitution.

The order forces major regulators such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to report new policy priorities to the executive branch for approval, which will also have a say over their budgets.

Everybody and everything has to get Trump’s permission to do anything, and if he doesn’t give his permission, that’s the end of it.

In a fact sheet, the White House described the move as, “ensuring that all federal agencies are

Zelensky points out that Trump tells a lot of lies.

“I would like to have more truth with the Trump team,” Mr. Zelensky told reporters in Kyiv during a broader discussion about the administration, which this week opened peace talks with Russia that excluded Ukraine. Mr. Zelensky said that the U.S. president was “living in a disinformation space” and in a “circle of disinformation.”

Which is a lightly veiled way of saying he lies non-stop.

Later Tuesday, Mr. Trump said of Ukraine’s leadership and the war, “You should have never started it”…

Note: he didn’t start it.

“Yesterday, there were signals of speaking with them as victims,” he said of the Trump officials’ tone in discussing the Russian officials,

Jo Bartosch at UnHerd:

The United Nations has been dragged into the global conflict between the defenders of biological reality and the demands of transgender activists. UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, Reem Alsalem, has dared to acknowledge the existence of two sexes in her reports — at once a fact so mundane and an act so rare — that over 200 NGOs have signed a letter denouncing her.

According to this outraged coalition, co-led by Planned Parenthood International (PPI) and Women Deliver (WD), Alsalem’s “sex-based” approach is nothing less than a “Western colonial patriarchal worldview” that “undermines decades of progress.” Apparently, recognising that men commit violence against women “further marginalizes vulnerable groups, including trans and

Michael Tomasky puts it starkly:

I’d be hard-pressed to argue that JD Vance’s meeting with the leader of the German fascist party on Friday was weakly covered by the press. Yet somehow, it hasn’t registered quite the degree of shock and revulsion here in the United States that it deserves to. That visit, along with Vance’s shocking speech at the Munich Security Conference, confirms every worst suspicion about this morally rudderless mountebank. The argot of diplomats and newspaper editorials, which express “concern” or even “grave concern,” doesn’t begin to describe how we Americans should feel about what Vance did last week in our name.

The Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) has been declared a “suspected extremist” organization by the German

Well how do you think they get there?!

It doesn’t bother me to call trans women ‘she’, but it does bother me if they deliberately destroy women’s rights to fairness & equality. https://t.co/7BHRIzxbar

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 18, 2025

It’s not about being “bothered” ffs. It’s also not personal. It’s about the whole set of demands and changes and rules and lies that impose this terrible religion on all of us. How is it not blindingly obvious that if you call a man “she” you are accepting the ideology? And when you’re Piers Morgan doing it on social media you are promoting and validating the ideology. Cut it out.… Read the rest

A Congressional press release:

House Appropriations Committee and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro is warning of the fatal consequences of unelected billionaire and self-appointed president Elon Musk’s crippling of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). By slashing CDC’s workforce, President Trump and unchecked billionaires are leaving Americans more exposed to disease, illness, and death.

“Elon Musk – an unchecked billionaire – President Donald Trump, and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are continuing their assault on Americans’ health,” said Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro. “In the midst of a severe flu season, and as a potentially deadly avian flu outbreak threatens to raise the stakes for public health even further, firing thousands