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JD Vance on Trump's push to "acquire" Greenland: "He doesn't care what the Europeans scream at us … you've got probably 55,000 people living on Greenland who are not actually happy with Danish government." pic.twitter.com/KsvY21R2PR

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 2, 2025

Therefore, Trump gets to grab it.

Peak sound reasoning.… Read the rest

So lovely dude Karla Sofía Gascón turns out to be also an abusive insulting bully. What a surprise.

Wow. Karla is as nasty as they get, showing his misogyny in full light of the day. What a pathetic being. https://t.co/mfGmcUXFpU

— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) February 2, 2025

Right, knowing a man is a man is the same as being a plantation boss.… Read the rest

Revisiting the “asexuality” activist who does such a sterling job of demonstrating indifference to sexuality.

Her pinned post on twitX:

https://twitter.com/theyasminbenoit/status/1807123591906942983 Now, sure, it’s theoretically possible to dress like that and still be wholly indifferent to sexuality, but what would be the point? Those clothes are not default clothes: not what one wears when one is not making a statement or obeying company rules. Default clothes are chosen for comfort and/or utility. What Benoit is wearing in that shiny photo is neither comfortable nor useful – it’s pure “doncha just long to fuck me?”

In other words you don’t dress like that for no reason, or because it’s merely decorative. You dress like that to show off how sexy you … Read the rest

Well thank god there’s so little going on in the world that the BBC has time and space to report on a guy who couldn’t find trans underpants. Sadly it doesn’t have time to explain why it’s telling us this. The lede:

A trans man said he locked himself away every month when he menstruated because he could not access trans-friendly underwear.

What does the BBC mean “said”? Said when, where, to whom? What a bizarre amateurish way to begin a news story – “somebody said something.”

It goes on in the same dopy amateurish way, with a series of “said”s minus any context.

Jay-Harley Rees, 28, from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, said there were not enough spaces where trans and

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One can see Elon Musk in every word.

The email, sent from President Trump’s Office of Personnel Management to employees across the sprawling federal government, arrived just before 8:30 p.m. Thursday — almost exactly 24 hours after an air crash in Washington that killed 67 people. The message reiterated an offer earlier this week from the administration encouraging federal employees to seek new jobs in the private sector — and did so in terms that appeared to denigrate their contributions, if not cast them as lazy.

“The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector,” stated the email, which was reviewed

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A new depth plumbed by Newsweek.

Nearly 18 years after killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two young daughters during a home invasion in Connecticut, the murderer formerly known as Steven Joseph Hayes says she’s now at peace — though still haunted by the killings she regrets.

Well he shouldn’t be at peace. Killing three people for giggles is not something anyone should be at peace with.

Hayes — now Linda Mai Lee after finalizing a name change this month — and accomplice Joshua Komisarjevsky, now 44, were sentenced to death for the attack, which included sexual assaults of Hawke-Petit and her 11-year-old daughter. The pair, who previously met at a halfway house, doused the family’s home with gasoline and

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Nyah nyah, you don’t get the nice corner office any more.

The Trump administration’s program to shake up media representation at official briefings and press calls in Washington is set to affect the Pentagon, with credentialed media being rotated out of assigned workspaces for media newcomers.

The conservative-leaning One America News Network is set to replace NBC News, Breitbart will be given space held by National Public Radio, the New York Post has been offered the New York Times’ workspace and HuffPost will replace Politico.

The changes are set to take place on 14 February in what the Pentagon calls a new “annual media rotation program”, according to an internal memo seen by CNN.

The moves are largely symbolic

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King’s College London has a page for Yasmin Benoit, but doesn’t really explain what her research will be or why KCL thought she would be a good visiting researcher.

Yasmin Benoit is a British model, multi-award-winning asexual activist, writer, speaker, media consultant and researcher.

What’s an asexual activist? How do you activist a negative? How do you activist being asexual?

Starting her career as a model and advocate for diversity in the fashion industry, Yasmin was described as the “unlikely face of asexuality” by Cosmopolitan Magazine after publicly coming out as asexual in 2017. She started the #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike movement for diverse representation and visibility, co-founded International Asexuality Day (April 6), and is a board member of the Asexual Visibility and

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Asexual babe shares her tits with an enthralled public.

https://twitter.com/theyasminbenoit/status/1875245915155652769

If she really is “asexual” why does she choose to pose for photos looking so exaggeratedly sexual? It’s like saying you hate country music while regularly posing for photos playing a banjo.

Also, what research? If she’s a visiting research fellow then what’s her research going to be? Hair twiddling 101? Wearing a bra instead of a shirt? Attention seeking in adulthood?… Read the rest

The NY Times on the coup:

The Trump administration plans to scrutinize thousands of F.B.I. agents involved in Jan. 6 investigations, setting the stage for a possible purge that goes far beyond the bureau’s leaders to target rank-and-file agents, according to internal documents and people familiar with the matter.

The proposal came on a day that more than a dozen prosecutors at the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington who had worked on cases involving the Jan. 6 riot were told that they were being terminated.

In short we’re at the mercy of a criminal. He instigated the January 6 riot in an effort to steal a second term as president, and too many people in too many states were … Read the rest

We’re faced with both a deadly serious coup and an onslaught of dumbass incompetence.

President Donald Trump declared victory on Friday in his long-running water war with California, boasting he sent billions of gallons south — but local officials say they narrowly prevented him from possibly flooding farms.

“Today, 1.6 billion gallons and, in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons. Everybody should be happy about this long fought Victory! I only wish they listened to me six years ago — There would have been no fire!” he said in a post on his social media site.

Right, and if there’s a shed on fire next door to you the thing to do is flood the entire neighborhood.… Read the rest

Allah hates women.

Hira Anwar, 14, lived in two contrasting worlds in New York, where she was born and raised. Outside her home, she was a typical American teenager, laughing with friends, posting videos on TikTok and dreaming of a boundless future.

Inside the home, her reality was very different. Her parents, Pakistani immigrants who had settled in the United States over two decades ago, expected her to adhere to their cultural and religious values, which demanded modesty from women. 

So laughing with friends, posting on TikTok, and dreaming of a future=not modest? She should be friendless, silent and invisible, hopeless?

That’s not modesty, it’s annihilation.

Hira was fatally shot by her father and an uncle on Monday night,

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The dictator purges law enforcement:

The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials, with dozens of FBI agents who worked on January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and Trump-related investigations as well as some supervisors being evaluated for possible removal as soon as the end of Friday, according to people briefed on the matter.

This is, already, a dictatorship. Purging law enforcement officials because they enforced the law=dictatorship. If laws don’t apply to Trump, then nothing can stop him, and that’s a dictatorship. At the rate we’re going he’ll be eating people on camera in a week or two.

Agents who worked the investigation of Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, and those

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None of this is by the book.

Federal employees are receiving additional communications that appear designed to entice them to accept the Trump administration’s “Fork in the Road” resignation offer, despite mounting questions about whether the offer is legal.

While the initial offer to federal employees to resign by Feb. 6 and retain their pay and benefits through Sept. 30 came directly from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), some of the latest guidance is coming from agency leaders, further sowing confusion over what’s to be believed.

Employment attorneys and union representatives emphasize that OPM, which handles many human resource matters for federal workers, lacks the authority to promise paid leave for government employees other than

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The subhead gets at the essence of the matter.

President Trump at moments of national tragedy has always been more comfortable finding fault than providing comfort or expressing empathy.

In fact you can omit the “at moments of national tragedy” part. Trump just in general has always loved to attack and sneer and jeer rather than doing the other thing. He’s the guy who jeered at the very idea that he would take his own kids to the park.

In the wake of this week’s midair collision near Washington, Mr. Trump was more than happy to jump to conclusions and pull the country apart rather than together. After declaring it to be an “hour of anguish for our nation,” Mr.

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George Mason University shouts Breaking Barriers for Menstruators:

Menstrual equity has been a prevalent topic that is kept behind closed doors for centuries, even though it requires more attention and recognition in our society.

Wut?

Wtf is a “prevalent topic”? How do you keep any kind of topic “behind closed doors”? What centuries are we talking about? Was there a time before all those centuries when “menstrual equity” was front and center?

Menstrual equity can be referred to as the idea that 

Wait wait wait – you mean “defined as.” Not “referred to” but “defined as.”

Why is a barely literate adolescent allowed to write rules and regulations for a university?

Period poverty is a kind of poverty that

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So what’s he supposed to do? Where, exactly, does he put the speculum?

Reduxx reports:

A French gynecologist has been sanctioned by medical authorities after a trans activist group reported him to the Minister of Equality for comments which they deemed to be “transphobic.” Dr. Victor Acharian, who operates in the Pau region, has been prohibited from practicing medicine for five months, with an additional one-month probationary period.

In August 2023, a trans-identified male and his partner visited Dr. Acharian’s office in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. After a few minutes of waiting, the secretary told the man that the doctor had refused to see him.

“I told her that I’m not competent, but I can guide you. I can refer you

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TIME magazine:

The Trump Administration is facing its first major test after a passenger jet and Army helicopter collided mid-air in the Washington, D.C. area on Wednesday night, in what officials are calling the most fatal aviation disaster on U.S. soil in more than two decades.

The collision quickly raised concerns about the state of air traffic control and oversight and sparked questions about recent leadership changes within the federal agencies charged with regulating air travel.

Just days before the crash, President Donald Trump enacted a sweeping shake-up of the federal agencies responsible for aviation oversight, removing the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), David Pekoske, and eliminating all the members of a key aviation security advisory group.

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Um.

Trump’s 1st week:
– 1/20: FAA director fired
– 1/21: Air Traffic Controller hiring
freeze
– 1/22: Aviation Safety Advisory
Committee disbanded
– 1/28: Buyout/retirement demand
sent to employees
– 1/29: First American mid-air collision
in 16 years

Trump: “It’s… pic.twitter.com/qLTANKcU6T

— ThisWillHold (@ThisWillHold) January 30, 2025

Now that he mentions it I remember flinching at that ATC hiring freeze. Really we’re gonna economize on that? Penny wise and pound foolish at all?… Read the rest

Trump says it’s all the fault of the women and other worthless kinds of human.

President Trump blamed diversity requirements at the Federal Aviation Administration and his two Democratic predecessors for the midair collision over the Potomac River on Wednesday night, saying that standards for air traffic controllers had been too lax. Mr. Trump cited no evidence, and even admitted when pressed that the investigation had only just begun.

Moments later, he blamed the pilots of the Army helicopter that appeared to fly into a passenger jet that was on final approach to Reagan National Airport, across the river from the capital.

Mr. Trump went back and forth between blaming diversity goals that he said were created by President Barack

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