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They deny the possibility

Aug 26th, 2025 4:49 am | By
They deny the possibility

Adults thinking, or pretending to think, like toddlers.

“discriminatory to trans women because they deny the possibility that individuals born into male bodies can feel and identify as women.”

People can “feel and identify as” anything and everything. The issue is not feeling and identifying, it’s being. We can all “feel as” planets or stars or the universe or a worm or a particular semi-colon on a particular … Read the rest



The gesture was anything but altruistic

Aug 25th, 2025 10:45 am | By
The gesture was anything but altruistic

Oliver Brown talks to Tracy Edwards:

Even today, 35 years on, you can still detect the magnitude of Maiden in Edwards’ Putney home, a beautiful Victorian house just yards from the Thames. A painting of the boat takes pride of place in her front room, while in the conservatory, boxes of documents from her trailblazing life are piled high, ready to be digitised for the National Maritime Museum.

Although she is uneasy with adulation – “I find compliments hard and my daughter, definitely the grown-up in our relationship, tells me off for it,” she says – she has grown used to the attention, even gracing the Hollywood red carpets when a 2018 documentary about her defining voyage was nominated

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After an immigration check-in

Aug 25th, 2025 9:54 am | By

Fascist regime continues to do fascist things.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who reunited with his family last week after 160 days apart following his mistaken deportation to El Salvador, was taken into ICE custody on Monday after an immigration check-in, his attorney said.

The check-in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Baltimore was part of the conditions of his release from federal custody on parole on Friday.

While such meetings are usually routine and are meant for case updates, Abrego’s attorneys said they expected he would be taken into ICE custody during the check-in after the Trump administration announced over the weekend its intention to deport him to Uganda.

To Uganda ffs – why not Antarctica or a tiny … Read the rest



Rhys Cheaty McCheaterson

Aug 25th, 2025 9:02 am | By

Oh gawd he’s back.

Remember him? Rhys McKinnon? Who left Canada to take up an academic job in Charleston only to quit before he was fired for being a useless combative pig?

He’s found a new way to cheat women in sports; isn’t he adorable.… Read the rest



Telling

Aug 25th, 2025 4:19 am | By
Telling

Remember that decidedly mediocre women-hating comedian who won an award the other day?

Here he is in the women’s toilet with his award.

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Dense as concrete

Aug 25th, 2025 4:05 am | By

Bro journalist writes in the Herald Scotland about the awesomeness of standing up for men who claim to be women at the expense of women. There are women who would like a word, but he’s blocked them.

Rebecca Don Kennedy runs the Equality Network. She talks candidly to our Writer at Large about the attacks, abuse and hate she’s suffered campaigning for trans people

It was around 2018 that Kennedy, by then a policy officer for the Equality Network, began raising her voice in defence of trans people. It resulted in the first of countless “horrific social media pile-ons” where she was attacked en masse.

I wonder if she’s aware of the countless horrific social media pile-ons that gender critical … Read the rest



Guest post: A lot to think about

Aug 24th, 2025 5:28 pm | By

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Referred to.

Interesting that team trans’s defence here is that transwomen are male after all — or this particular one at least is — and that there is a clearly visible difference between males and females.

Watkin’s lawyers said she saw and presented herself as female but was “visibly and audibly” male, so it would have been “blindingly obvious” to the man that Watkin was not biologically female.

It’s notable that they only ever admit this when it’s advantageous to their side to do so. Still, this is one of those items that’ll make a handy bookmark. It can be deployed to show that transactivists are never consistent in what they profess to … Read the rest



Referred to

Aug 24th, 2025 2:01 pm | By

Just a slight misunderstanding.

A transgender woman “deceived” a man into thinking she was a biological female so he would have sexual relations with her, a court has heard.

Ciara Watkin, 21, told the man she was on her period to stop him discovering she was biologically male, prosecutors told Teesside Crown Court…Ms Watkin, who was referred to by female pronouns in court, denies three counts of sexual assault.

He shouldn’t have been referred to by female pronouns in court. Courts shouldn’t allow lying, let alone encourage it or enforce it.

The defendant, who was born male, had used the name Ciara since the age of 13 although had not undergone any medical treatment or surgery, the court heard.

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Head he wins, tails we lose

Aug 24th, 2025 9:35 am | By

Chicago’s turn:

The Pentagon has for weeks been planning a military deployment to Chicago as President Donald Trump seeks to crack down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration, in a model that could later be used in other major cities, officials familiar with the matter said.

Trump on Friday touted his ongoing National Guard intervention in D.C., where more than 2,200 Guard members have been deployed in what he has cast as an overdue effort to crack down on crime. He zeroed in on Chicago as the next target.

“Chicago’s a mess. You have an incompetent mayor. Grossly incompetent,” Trump said, in remarks that were immediately dismissed by Chicago’s leaders as unfounded. “And we’ll straighten that one out

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Nero, Caligula, Norman Bates

Aug 24th, 2025 5:04 am | By

Here’s a funny little circle. The other day I found a book in a Little Free Library titled The Sociopath Next Door. When I see or hear the word “sociopath” I always wonder how it differs from psychopath, so I snapped it up. Reading it last night I naturally noticed that Trump meets every criterion for both, and that that doesn’t get said all that often. So this morning I googled, and turned up The White House has become the Bates Motel by Robert Kahn from last April.

As a student of Ancient Rome, I am disturbed that the reign of Donald Trump.2 so closely resembles the reigns of Nero and Caligula. By some measures, Trump.2’s is worse. After

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Quite the ratio

Aug 23rd, 2025 2:38 pm | By

Wo. Just happened to notice the headlines about this and read further and wtf.

SEATTLE — The Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) arrested the captain of the container ship MSC on Wednesday for allegedly operating the vessel while intoxicated.

I can see the container ships gliding past from where I’m sitting, so I take an interest. I can see them in detail at the terminal every time I take a bus to West Seattle (which I do often), so I take an interest.

The incident began when watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound received a report from a Puget Sound Pilot aboard the MSC Jubilee IX, a 333-meter container ship operating under the Liberian flag.

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Don’t wait for it

Aug 23rd, 2025 10:59 am | By

Hmm.

I watched the clip. I gotta say, he’s not very good. Too slow. Waits for laughter that doesn’t arrive. Also of course not particularly funny. Other than that…… Read the rest



How to elevate the debate

Aug 23rd, 2025 9:40 am | By

JKR firing with both barrels.

Is there a clinical term for an individual who has extreme thinness of skin when it comes to their own perceived hurts, coupled with a rhino-hide when it comes to the fear and suffering of others?

I’m thinking in particular of the two women Isla Bryson raped, who had to watch their First Minister squirm and smirk on TV

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Will be skipping

Aug 23rd, 2025 5:56 am | By

Imane Khelif says he’d just love to come back, the very minute they drop those pesky tests.

Olympic champion boxer Imane Khelif insists she has not retired, accusing her former manager of ‘betrayal’ after he falsely claimed she had called it a day. 

Although the gender row fighter will be skipping the upcoming World Championships after the introduction of sex testing, she shut down any notion that she has stopped competing for good. 

Nasser Yesfah, who used to represent her, had been reported in French newspaper Nice Matin as saying she had hung up her gloves, which was then denied by gold medal winner.

I don’t know why the Mail calls him “her” at this point.

Since the

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How dare women ____

Aug 22nd, 2025 1:40 pm | By

Not even at first glance.

Recently, a disturbing trend has surfaced at the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) games: fans throwing dildos onto the court. At first glance, some might brush it off as a crude joke or a bizarre stunt.

Might they? That would be stupid. Of course it’s not a joke or stunt. It’s just boring old misogyny. “You think you’re so great, bitch? Hahaha suck my dick.”

Throwing a dildo onto a court where women are competing isn’t comedy. It’s about control and humiliation. It turns a professional sporting event into a stage for sexualising female athletes and stripping away the focus from their skill and hard work. This act reinforces the belief that despite

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Call him Babycakes

Aug 22nd, 2025 1:19 pm | By

Very special man with pink hair interrupts this broadcast to tell us he has brand new twin babies but he doesn’t love being called Daddy.

‘Daddy’s right here for you, okay?,’ said the neonatal medic to my newborn identical twins as they wheeled them to the special care unit.

This was the first time someone had referred to me by this name, but as well as finding it sweet and overwhelming in a good way, I also found it quite jarring. 

As an assigned male at birth (AMAB) non-binary person, being referred to as ‘the dad’ or ‘daddy’ – which are clearly masculine-gendered terms – didn’t fit with my gender identity. 

Way to make it all about you, bro. Way … Read the rest



He gots a picksher

Aug 22nd, 2025 12:42 pm | By

This is what’s holding us hostage. This.

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High noon

Aug 22nd, 2025 10:41 am | By
High noon

This will go very well.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown to start carrying firearms, the Pentagon said Friday.

The step is an escalation in Trump’s intervention into policing in the nation’s capital and comes as nearly 2,000 National Guard members have been stationed in the heavily Democratic city, with the arrival this week of hundreds of troops from several Republican-led states.

Trump initially called up 800 members of the District of Columbia National Guard to assist federal law enforcement in his bid to crack down on crimehomelessness and illegal immigration. Since then, six states have sent troops to the city,

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The hell it won’t

Aug 22nd, 2025 10:30 am | By

He done undercut the principle again.

When federal agents armed with a search warrant showed up at John R. Bolton’s home outside Washington at dawn on Friday, it was a display of one of the government’s most intimidating powers, in this case deployed against a fierce and high-profile critic of President Trump.

It is not yet clear what evidence the Justice Department cited in convincing a federal judge to sign off on the search warrant, or what culpability Mr. Bolton might have in an on-and-off investigation into whether he mishandled classified information dating back to when he served as Mr. Trump’s national security adviser during the president’s first term.

But the episode illustrated how Mr. Trump’s campaign of retribution

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The impact

Aug 22nd, 2025 10:00 am | By

The Australian:

A parliamentary committee examining the impact of stillbirth on mothers has prefaced its evidence by acknowledging that men who have transitioned or are transitioning to become women should also be part of the conversation around the loss of babies during labour and pregnancy.

What???

Obviously fathers are affected by stillbirths, but that’s not what this says. This singles out fathers who pretend to be women, and what the hell is the point of that?? I can guarantee you that men who pretend to be women are not physically affected by stillbirths the way women are, so what remains? There’s no reason to think fathers who pretend to be women are emotionally more affected than fathers who are … Read the rest