It seems that a Netflix drama about male violence against girls and women can get attention but actual real world male violence against girls and women not so much.

@PrifWeinidog Hands up any women invited to talk about misogyny with Starmer. Our MS @RebeccaEvansMS has told us to stop talking about misogyny with her. I don't know any woman permitted to meet Eluned Morgan to discuss this subject. But Lu Thomas is in there, grifting.

— Outspoken Women (@women_outspoken) April 2, 2025

When real women talk about it it’s just boring and shrill. When Netflix does a male-focused drama about it Keir Starmer sits up and takes notice.… Read the rest

Wisconsin steps up.

Democrats were tasting unfamiliar triumphalism on Wednesday after the election for a vacant Wisconsin supreme court seat turned into an emphatic repudiation of Elon Musk, Donald Trump’s richest supporter and key ally.

Musk endured a wave of gloating on Twitter/X, his own social media platform, after Brad Schimel, a Trump-endorsed judge that he spent $25m supporting, lost by 10 percentage points to Susan Crawford, whose victory sustained a 4-3 liberal majority on the court.

On a day that Trump has earmarked as “liberation day” to mark his long-awaited roll out of trade tariffs, Democrats seized on the result as a referendum on Musk – who has spearheaded the president’s slashing of federal government workers

Lots of hedging here so don’t get too hopeful yet…

Trump has indicated to top advisers that Elon Musk could be taking a step back from his current role in the administration, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Musk is employed by the government as a “special government employee” — meaning his appointment is not to exceed 130 days. His term would be up around the end of May, but it was widely rumored that the White House could take steps to keep him on or extend his employment status in some way.

As ABC News has previously reported, Musk’s decision-making has divided Trump’s top aides and at times has sparked rifts among those closest to the president.

Headline:

Sandy Stone is the first transgender woman inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame

Should of course be “Sandy Stone is the first man inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.”

They just can’t get enough of insulting us, can they. Without rubbing women’s noses in male contempt what would “trans women” even mean?

Bupkis. Insulting women is the entire point; there’s nothing left over.

The Advocate really relishes the work.

Stone, credited with starting the academic field of transgender studies, is also a recording engineer, an artist, and the first known trans woman in the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Around the end of this year, her story will be told in a documentary film.

Originally a comment by Mosnae on No no not the chair, the person.

Gender is a [social] construct. But so is sex. So is money. We work with [social] constructs all of the time.

The point appears to be that it’s not bad for gender identity to be a social construct because the authors can come up with examples of social constructs that aren’t bad. Leaving aside the highly dubious claim about sex, there are a few issues with this. For starters, why not throw in some undesirable social constructs, too? Why not point out that God is a social construct, as well as racism and homophobia and honor killings and forced marriages and slurs?

Then there’s also the … Read the rest

Oh look, it’s Alok Vaid-Menon again. It’s been a long time.

To paraphrase somewhat liberally, he says the reason people think trans ideology is bullshit is because we’re so miserable and unfree. “It’s easier to romanticize the unfreedom,” he says emphatically, “decorate and accessorize it” –

Wait wait wait. He’s the guy recording himself in a colorful abstract-patterned shirt and dangly earrings and bright pink hair and heavy eye makeup and lipstick. Who is decorating and accessorizing here?

Another deepity: “People are made to destroy their own creativity, their own simultaneity – “

Our what now? Simultaneity? No we’re not. Look at me: typing and breathing with all the simultaneity in the world.… Read the rest

Aw, sad. Trump thought he could lead Putin around like a little toy donkey on wheels, and it turns out to be not that easy. Who could have known?

Russia cannot accept U.S. proposals to end the war in Ukraine in their current form because they do not address problems Moscow regards as having caused the conflict, a senior Russian diplomat said, suggesting U.S.-Russia talks on the subject had stalled.

The comments by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov suggest Moscow and Washington have so far been unable to bridge differences which President Vladimir Putin raised more than two weeks ago when he said U.S. proposals needed reworking.

They come as U.S. President Donald Trump appears to be growing increasingly

Who knew people are required to endorse trans ideology when they don’t even know how to tie their shoelaces yet?

A toddler was suspended from nursery after being accused of being transphobic or homophobic, The Telegraph can reveal.

Department for Education (DfE) data show the child, aged either three or four, was suspended from a state school in the 2022-23 academic year for “abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity”.

Age three or four. Children that age don’t know what “sexual orientation” even is – they don’t know what “sexual” means. Nobody knows what “gender identity” is. And anyway since when are children, let alone very young children, being kicked out of school for ideological reasons?

I could see it … Read the rest

Large strides into the new hellscape.

Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people. The notices came just days after President Donald Trump moved to strip workers of their collective bargaining rights at HHS and other agencies throughout the government.

A twofer – union busting and making people sick.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan last week to remake the department, which, through its agencies, is responsible for tracking health trends and disease outbreaks, conducting and funding medical research, and monitoring the safety of food and medicine, as well as for administering health insurance programs

Via James Esses – A person-centred approach is antithetical to gender critical beliefs.

Approach to what? That’s just the title, and already we’re in the presence of mushy thinking. Also they mean the other way around – gender-critical beliefs are antithetical to their “person-centred” approach. Approach to what? Therapy. So naturally you have to wonder what other kind of therapy there is – therapy centered on chairs and buttons and spoons?

But, believe it or not, it gets steadily worse.

Recently, we were struck, on finding a register of ‘gender critical’ therapists, by the fact that some of those therapists list themselves as person-centred, and so we start this piece with this statement.

One cannot both be ‘gender critical’

Civil liberties.

Let’s be extra careful with the wording here:

Female lawyer who proclaims she’s a man spends her time helping boys beat your daughters in athletic events.

That’s Chase Strangio. And that’s some kind of messed up. https://t.co/N4gNUrJxoH

— Christina Dalcher (@CV_Dalcher) March 31, 2025

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Always with the framing. So. much. framing.

Top Republicans on Capitol Hill poured cold water on President Donald Trump‘s talk of a potential third term, downplaying the prospect that he would pursue it.

Several lawmakers insisted that Trump wasn’t serious about it, even though he told NBC News on Sunday that he’s “not joking” about wanting another term, which is barred under the 22nd Amendment, and that “there are methods” to being able to run again.

What makes them so confident that he doesn’t mean it? It’s not as if he doesn’t say shocking horrifying appalling things all the fucking time. Why should anyone assume he’s not serious about this one?

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said

It turns out that giving the green light to corporate spending on elections does have consequences. Who could have known?

Fifteen years ago, Justice Anthony Kennedy made a prediction. Writing for the majority in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, in which the court struck down key guardrails against corporate spending in American elections, Kennedy rejected the allegation that the court’s ruling would have deleterious effects on how Americans perceived their republic.

“The appearance of influence or access, furthermore, will not cause the electorate to lose faith in our democracy,” he wrote. Kennedy’s reasoning was stilted and formulaic: Because corporations were “willing to spend money to try to persuade voters,” he argued, that dynamic “presupposes that the people

When Trump says he’s considering it, BELIEVE HIM, no matter what the “it” is.

Donald Trump’s suggestion that there are “methods” by which he could run for a third term as US president has been met with scorn – but also warnings that he could seriously attempt it, despite being explicitly barred from doing so by the US constitution.

There it is right there, even in the very act of warning against it. It’s not a “suggestion”! Calling it a suggestion weakens it, which is exactly what we should not be doing, journalism very much included. He’s not fucking suggesting, he’s shouting as loudly as possible.

“The biggest mistake of the last eight years is that we somehow failed

The Let Criminals Run Everything party is fuming.

Elon Musk lambasted the French court verdict that blocked Marine Le Pen from a 2027 presidential run after she was found guilty of embezzlement.

“When the radical left can’t win via democratic vote, they abuse the legal system to jail their opponents,” Musk said on Monday afternoon. “This is their standard playbook throughout the world.”

Or to put it another way, some criminals are prosecuted. What a shock!

The White House has become increasingly critical of democracy in Europe, with Vice President JD Vance delivering a withering speech in Munich in February in which he attacked European governments for their approach to a series of hot-button cultural issues.

Le Pen and

Jaw-dropping. The Sussex University Vice Chancellor bleating about the right and indeed the need of universities to create respectful and inclusive communninies when that is exactly and precisely the very thing Sussex University entirely failed and indeed refused to do for Kathleen Stock and thus implicitly for all staff and students who are aware that humans can’t change sex.

The self-admiration of people like this is breathtaking.

Trump is breezily telling major news outlets that he plans to be dictator for life.

Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House, which is prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment, saying in an exclusive interview with NBC News that there were methods for doing so and clarifying that he was “not joking.”

“A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call with NBC News, referring to his allies. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.”

It’s not about “people want him to do it.” It’s about … Read the rest

Ok, classic. Absolutely classic.

2.
Public Ultimatums:
“This isn’t going to go away. It will likely just get worse. Unless she obviously changes her stance.
Then you have a choice:
You either need to live with the stigma of her choices, which will cost you gigs & friends or
Publicly distance yourself from her… pic.twitter.com/tDpK6OHZdV

— TheFamousArtistBirdyRose (@TheFamousArtBR) January 16, 2025

Do you see it? The two paragraphs after “Mate I really don’t wanna get involved or argue” –

We are all “pro-women”. Birdy, you, me, all of us. All of our little festival family are. Of course we are. Great!

But when Birdy uses the word “woman”, she only means people who were born with biologically female genitalia.

Musk expects everyone to sympathize with him because Tim Walz was not sad that Tesla’s stock fell.

Tesla’s stock price had fallen by half and “he was overjoyed.” Pause. “What an evil thing to do.”

Ah yes – evil. Evil is not Musk abruptly shutting down USAID with the result that thousands of people in poor countries were plunged into illness and misery, no no no, that’s not evil at all, what’s evil is to be pleased that the man who shut down USAID lost some of his billions.

His whine continues. “What a creep. What a jerk.”

Seriously, this shit is mind-boggling. He’s thrown thousands of civil servants out of useful jobs and here he is whining because an … Read the rest

Not a bug but a feature.

Human rights organizations on Thursday denounced the visit by the US homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to the notorious prison in El Salvador that is holding hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the US earlier this month without a hearing, calling her actions “political theater”.

Critics condemned Noem’s visit as just the latest example of the Trump administration’s aim to spread fear among immigrant communities, as the cabinet member stood in a baseball hat in front of a line of caged men bare from the waist up.

Noem visited the so-called Cecot, or Terrorism Confinement Center, an infamous maximum-security prison. The prison, built in 2022 during a brutal government crackdown on organized crime,