What I keep saying. It’s all about the narcissism.
We've probably all had a nightmare colleague like this entitled manbaby. All you can do is remain professional, do your job and as far as possible within those parameters limit your interactions. But for narcissists that's not good enough. You have to be validating their… https://t.co/Al8SwwNzfq
— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) February 11, 2025
Trivial??? How very dare you??!!… Read the rest
Trump and key members of his administration are lashing out at judges who have blocked some of his second-term agenda, suggesting they don’t have the authority to question his executive power.
Parenthetically, why do journalists so often say “suggesting” instead of “saying”? I suppose it’s an excess of caution for the sake of peace, but at the price of enfeebling the journalism. Trump and his people are saying these things very loudly and explicitly, so to call it “suggesting” is both absurd and cowardly.
… Read the restSo far, the courts have pushed back on Trump’s attempts to end birthright citizenship, freeze federal grants, and the overhaul of federal agencies like USAID and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Peak Smug Male Jumps In to Lecture Women Who Know More About It Than He Does And Have Vastly More At Stake Than He Does chapter 87 billion.
On a serious note, this is the problem with the Trans debate. There's no need to be hostile or impolite to people who identify as a different gender. All that's needed is to politely but firmly say "no, we can't allow you to do that because we have a duty of respect to others".
—1) (@DPJHodges) February 10, 2025
Oh, gee, thank you, Peak Smug Male; as if we hadn’t already done that and only been punished for it anyway.
… Read the rest“We have to protect women’s safe spaces, and they most
But sir…
DU – disagree I'm demanding, I can't make people comfortable. Spoke to DS and didn't escalate because I can't.
NC – insisting SP share a room without signs of discomfort. That insistence is bullying and abusive
DU – I've not insisted and it's not a falsehood and it's not B+H— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) February 10, 2025
“You are a man.” “Disagree.”
You can’t “disagree.” It’s not an opinion or a guess, it’s a fact. It’s a very very basic fact that everyone knows pretty much from birth. You can’t just wave it away with “I disagree” because it’s not subject to “agreement.”
… Read the restDU – no
NC – the torturer insists 4 fingers are 5, the ultimate torture
… Read the restWhile Trump and his henchmen deconstruct the administrative state, his lawyers are embracing the logic of dictatorship. The core argument emerging in their legal filings and executive orders — one without support anywhere in the Constitution or the law — is that simply by being elected, Trump has the power to do whatever he wants.
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Trump’s imperial ambitions have made for some laughably thin legal theories. As Just Security noted, the government’s argument in defense of Trump’s birthright citizenship EO does not reference any citizenship statutes nor point to any authority that would give Trump the right to undo birthright citizenship via the stroke of a pen. Instead, after quoting the relevant part of
It’s useful to have philosophy people on the scene.
The reference to the 'how many fingers?' torture bit towards the end of 1984 is very interesting. There's a similar case in Severance, where Holly has to read out an apology script over and over again, 'until she means it'. It's a kind of set piece in epistemology texts, about…
— Jon Pike (@runthinkwrite) February 10, 2025
… Read the restThe reference to the ‘how many fingers?’ torture bit towards the end of 1984 is very interesting. There’s a similar case in Severance, where Holly has to read out an apology script over and over again, ‘until she means it’. It’s a kind of set piece in epistemology texts, about ‘doxastic in/voluntarism’. Can I
The Upton fella is having his turn at the tribunal.
NC The Q is coming. U know some women will be unhappy
DU Not saying that. Some ppl have biased, misinformed unpleasant and bigotted or transphobic views about T ppl and was aware I might work w some of these ppl.
NC The reason is obvious. It's that yr male and wld expe as an— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) February 10, 2025
NC points out that he knew some women would be unhappy having him in the room where they changed their clothes. He replies that some people – not women, of course, but the evasive “people” – have BIASED, MISINFORMED, UNPLEASANT OR BIGOTED OR TRANSPHOBIC VIEWS ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE.… Read the rest
Some fads are more destructive than others.
More than 1,000 patients a year are sent for transgender chest surgery on the NHS. Data obtained by The Telegraph show for the first time the number of referrals for taxpayer-funded “masculinising” mastectomies from specialised gender clinics.
As many as 80 per cent of people using those services are females between the ages of 17 and 25. The 1,000-plus referrals could be the tip of the iceberg, because many people have transgender surgery privately to bypass long NHS waiting lists.
100 percent of people getting “masculinising mastectomies” are females, because males already have the end result of a “masculinising mastectomy.”
… Read the restZhenya Abbruzzese, co-founder and senior adviser at the Society for Evidence Based
But a fact is the very thing it isn’t. It’s the opposite of a fact. It’s a fiction, and a lie. It’s fatuous to claim that X is a fact when X is obviously not even slightly a fact. Stop doing it. Everybody stop doing it. Everybody stop pretending your increasingly absurd daydreams are “facts.” They’re not.
I want to be VERY clear: There is no LGB without the T. If you think there is, you are wrong. This is a fact. It is not up for debate.
— Andy Herren (@AndyHerren) February 7, 2025
Trump welcomes refugees. Some refugees. A particular brand of refugees.
… Read the restTrump’s offer to rehouse white South Africans as refugees fleeing persecution may not spur quite the rush he anticipates, as even right-wing white lobby groups want to “tackle the injustices” of Black majority rule on home soil.
Trump on Friday signed an executive order to cut U.S. aid to South Africa, citing an expropriation act that President Cyril Ramaphosa signed last month aiming to redress land inequalities that stem from South Africa’s history of white supremacy. The order provided for resettlement in the U.S. of “Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination” as refugees.
Afrikaners are mostly white descendants of early Dutch and French settlers,
Uh huh.
Let's be clear. The sequence of anti-trans measures brought in by Trump echo the antiSemitic Nuremberg laws of the Third Reich.
They are also in line with express demands of the GC movement such as the Women's Declaration which most leading GCs signed.
If it walks like a Nazi.— Roz Kaveney (@RozKaveney) January 31, 2025
I beg and beseech them to repent and accept what they have helped bring about before they are more complicit in the unforgivable than they already are.
— Roz Kaveney (@RozKaveney) January 31, 2025
Hadley Freeman tells an important truth:
… Read the restI assume that, by now, most Sunday Times readers are au fait with gender ideology, which contends that a man magically becomes a woman simply because he claims to feel like one. Left-wing papers and politicians gasped in horror at Trump’s bill, and the congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez insisted only “bigoted” people would see males in women’s sport as a presidential priority. But President Biden opened women’s sports teams to males on his first day in office. This led to the deluge of videos of males clattering their female opponents, which ultimately curdled public opinion. You can’t argue that the question of males in women’s sports teams is the civil rights issue of our
Sonia Sodha puts it very well.
Some things are plain common sense. Female employees should not be expected to share changing rooms with male colleagues. They shouldn’t be socially shamed into undressing around them, or being in spaces where male colleagues get undressed in front of them.
Common sense, but at the same time, transphobic and evil and yet another bad thing women do.
… Read the rest…most people don’t need to read accounts of how uncomfortable mixed-sex changing facilities make some women feel, or statistics showing that voyeurism and exposure are two of the most common male sex crimes, to understand how wrong this would be.
But not managers at NHS Fife, it would seem. Despite the law of the land
Nope this is no good. Consumer financial protection is a good thing.
CNN:
Russell Vought took over as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday night and officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency deleted the banking watchdog’s X account, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.
Vought’s new role, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, came a day after he was confirmed by the Senate to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
The source told CNN that DOGE officials have been granted administrative access to CFPB systems, including content management system, back-end systems for the bureau’s website and the active directory of personnel.
Gee I wonder why guys like Trump and … Read the rest
Ah smug pseudo-lefties, they just can’t get enough of this kind of drivel.
MSNBC host Chris Hayes tells Bill Maher that if parents want to abuse their children by mutilating them or giving them cross-sex hormones, the government has no right to step in and stop them – and that's the message the Democrats should use to win back power pic.twitter.com/RapqzDryg2
— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) February 8, 2025
…if some father and mother have healthcare for their kid lined up who’s trans just stay the fuck out of their business.
Burst of applause.
Is that right? So if some father and mother keep their desperately ill kid away from healthcare because they are Jehovah’s Witnesses or some other bullshit religion, just … Read the rest
Trump in his wisdom has decreed that medical research is a useless frivolity so he’s sabotaging it.
The Trump administration is cutting billions of dollars in biomedical research funding, alarming academic leaders who said it would imperil their universities and medical centers and drawing swift rebukes from Democrats who predicted dire consequences for scientific research.
The move, announced Friday night by the National Institutes of Health, drastically cuts NIH’s funding for “indirect” costs related to research. These are the administrative requirements, facilities and other operations that many scientists say are essential but that some Republicans have claimed are superfluous.
Look, if you can’t do medical research in your own kitchen using the available tools, what use are you?
… Read the restDemocrats
Oh dear, too much cancellation eh wot? How did that happen?
https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1888179974454026332Such as…
https://twitter.com/Sorelle_Arduino/status/1888238597377044695Oh well. There’s always the wonderful Greta.
— Gender Receipts (@GenderReceipts) February 8, 2025
Counting twice. (The link is to the Western Standard, a conservative outlet, but you know how this goes. The other team won’t go near the truth.)
… Read the restA transgendered advisor to the federal Minister of Women claims biological males have no advantage in athletics despite dominating a women’s 5 km race,
Nathanielle Morin advises Liberal MP Marci Ien, Minister of Women, Gender Equality and Youth. In a Wednesday post to X, Morin objected to Trump’s executive order to ban biological males from competing in women’s and girl’s sports in the United States.
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Morin was favourably profiled by Radio Canada for her diversity, during a run for MP representing the Liberals in the riding of Louis-Saint-Laurent.
“Of the many,
Reduxx has more on the powerful arguer for the absolute truth that men have no physical advantages over women.
The advisor to the Canadian Liberal government’s Minister of Women, who claimed on X that trans-identified men do not have an advantage over women in sports, is a trans-identified male who previously dominated a women’s 5km race.
Nathanielle Morin is currently the advisor to Member of Parliament Marci Ien in her capacity as the Minister of Women, Gender Equality and Youth.
Oh is he now. Why? Why would a Member of Parliament who is Minister of Women want a man who pretends to be a woman as “the advisor”? I would really like to know.
… Read the restOn February 6, Morin took to
Oh gosh, it turns out we’ve been wrong all this time, science says trans women are NOT men. The proof is these blue box-thingies with words in them.
Some myths about Transwomen competing in sports.
I tought it would be interesting to share as I'm runner myself. Concerns about fairness in sport needs to be heard and it's good to have discussions about it. But facts have to be also shown.
Image made by Pinkmantary. pic.twitter.com/pRiKyhhhMU
— Nathanielle (@Nathanielle_Qc) February 6, 2025
That first paragraph of the first box has knocked me sideways with its epic proofyness. You can’t get much more proofy than “Research has shown that trans women are, in fact, NOT biological men.” Case closed; conflict over; … Read the rest
