How is this even a question? How is there arguing over it?

https://twitter.com/sportsagentspod/status/1821093927254159458 Of course you can’t have across the board “inclusion” in sports, because the whole point of sports is to exclude the less skilled.

You can have inclusion at the start – everyone can compete – but you can’t go on having it forever, because contests are either lost or won.

You can have athletic activities that aren’t competitive, and those can be as inclusive as you like, but when the sport is all about competing, then that’s what it’s about. One side has the ball and the other side tries to get it away from them. One side has the puck and the other side tries to … Read the rest

This is where the obsession with “communities” gets you.

What more proof do some need? Here is a West Midlands Police officer admitting that there was no police present in Birmingham yesterday because the “community leaders” said there would be no trouble.

When police presence is optional for some communities, it’s two tier policing. pic.twitter.com/Xk4KCiMfys

— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) August 6, 2024

It all becomes so much safer and more cuddly when it’s a “community” – The Community of violent enraged men told us we didn’t need to worry about them today, so that’s why we didn’t. Thanks, bro. … Read the rest

Hmm. Really? Are we sure?

As Trump fumes, Republicans wince at ‘public nervous breakdown’

Do they? Or do we just want them to?

Republicans on Monday reeled from Trump’s undisciplined approach to the opening stages of his new general election matchup with Harris — following a weekend that saw him praise Russian leader Vladimir Putin while smearing Harris as “low IQ,” and “dumb” and attacking a popular swing-state GOP governor whose turnout operation he may need in November.

He always refers to rivals and enemies as low IQ and dumb. He also frequently attacks people who could be useful allies. He’s an agent of chaos. That’s why his fans are his fans.

Republicans who saw their party lose the White

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Is the policing two-tier?

Amid escalating far-right violence across England and in Belfast over the past week, instigators and apologists for the rioting have sought to spread a pernicious myth: the idea that white far-right “protesters” are the victims of a “two-tier policing” system that treats them more harshly because of their race and political views.

That is an idea propagated by Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, as well as Laurence Fox and various other social media demagogues in the past few days. On Monday, Nigel Farage claimed that “ever since the soft policing of the Black Lives Matter protests, the impression of two-tier policing has become widespread”.

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This has been annoying.

Seattle Public Library still reeling from May cyberattack

Three weeks ago, waist-high cardboard boxes filled to the brim with books cluttered every aisle of this industrial Georgetown warehouse. Stacked in rows, the still-to-be-processed books packed 90 boxes at its peak. 

Now, two months after a ransomware attack shut down many of Seattle Public Library’s services, library workers are celebrating: They’ve finally finished sorting and processing a backlog of thousands of borrowed books. 

We get to return books again. I did enjoy returning that book about Orwell v women after all these weeks. I felt rebuked every time I saw it sitting there waiting.

On Memorial Day weekend, the library was forced to shut down everything: from

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It’s what week?

It’s #WorldBreastfeedingWeek! As midwives, supporting parents postpartum with breast or chest feeding and other feeding options is part of the robust continuity of care that we provide. Learn more about #WBW2024: https://t.co/gpBq3aBuzx pic.twitter.com/9O5vqRYfIw

— Midwives Association of BC (@bcmidwives) August 2, 2024

What?

What kind of weirdo association of midwives is that? There’s no such thing as “chest feeding.” It’s breast feeding or nothing.

Maybe they just mean “chest feeding” as a pointless euphemism for the use of confused women who idennify as men. But they shouldn’t use it, because it’s ambiguous at best, and will sow more confusion. And anyway maybe they don’t, maybe they also mean “chest feeding” as the nightmare where men … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Acolyte of Sagan on Frenzy intensifying.

J.A.:

It’s almost impossible to win in the court of public opinion with respect to how gender ideology has practically eliminated the material reality of sex.

Funny you should say that because there was a transgender boxer competing in this Olympics who appears to have flown under the trans activists’ radar – or they are deliberately ignoring her for very obvious reasons.

Hergie Bacyadan is a Filipino who has won World Championship medals in two separate martial arts and is now a boxer, and she was eliminated from the Women’s 75kg class boxing tournament by China’s Li Quan four days ago. Bacyadan is a male-identifying female, albeit not medically … Read the rest

Deepening feud time.

Elon Musk’s claim that race riots in the U.K. are “inevitable” is “pretty deplorable,” a government minister said Tuesday, amid a deepening feud between the U.K. administration and the tech billionaire.

Heidi Alexander, the U.K. courts minister, slammed the social media boss for a series of posts on the violent disorder gripping Britain in recent days.

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Musk has come under fire from government figures after he suggested Sunday that “civil war is inevitable.” The X owner has also described the U.K. police response as “one-sided” and has been directly critical of Starmer’s explicit condemnation of the far-right for attacking mosques.

“I think Elon Musk’s comments are totally unjustifiable,” Alexander told the BBC Tuesday morning. “I

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Lots of words, no clear meaning.

Sebastian Coe has taken a thinly veiled swipe at the hugely controversial Olympic gender policy in boxing, saying that all sports governing bodies must tackle the issue head-on with a clearly defined stance.

Well yes but it also needs to be the right stance. A clearly defined stance that men can invade women’s competitions would not be an improvement. The problem with the “hugely controversial” policy that lets men punch women is not that it’s not clearly defined.

Coe is the president of World Athletics, which introduced a new gender policy last year that means any athlete with differences in sexual development (DSD) must reduce their testosterone to 2.5 nanomoles per litre

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Nobody needs to hear what Musk thinks.

Downing Street has criticised comments by Elon Musk who posted on X that “civil war is inevitable” under a video of violent riots in Liverpool.

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson said the violence came from a small minority of people who “do not speak for Britain” and said the prime minister did not share the sentiments of the billionaire, who has previously been criticised for allowing far-right figures back on to his social media platform.

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Musk was responding to a video posted on X by the Libs of TikTok account, originally posted by the far-right activist Tommy Robinson, who has been spreading videos of rioting that has targeted mosques and hotels housing asylum

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Clarence Thomas found pocketing bribes again.

Justice Clarence Thomas took a previously undisclosed flight on a private jet owned by GOP megadonor Harlan Crow in 2010, a top Senate Democrat said Monday – the latest in a series of revelations that come as the high court is under pressure to strengthen its ethics practices.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said US Customs and Border Protection records reviewed by the committee showed Thomas and his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, flew from Hawaii to New Zealand on Crow’s jet on November 19, 2010, and then returned on the jet a week later.

The flight was not listed on Thomas’ financial disclosure reports and is the most recent example of the

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Round and round we go with the same old obfuscations.

Olympic boxer Imane Khelif said the wave of hateful scrutiny she has faced over misconceptions about her gender “harms human dignity,” and she called for an end to bullying athletes after being greatly affected by the international backlash against her.

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The vitriol stems from claims by the International Boxing Association, which has been permanently banned from the Olympics, that both Khelif and Lin failed unspecified eligibility tests for the women’s competition at last year’s world championships.

Khelif declined to answer when asked whether she had undergone tests other than doping tests, saying she didn’t want to talk about it.

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It’s hilarious that Mark Adams huffily says the sex of Olympic athletes is PRIVATE when Olympic sports are divided by sex.

How can they have male and female categories in sport if competitors' sex is a private matter? Are they complete idiots?

— Joan Smith (@polblonde) August 5, 2024

Beyond belief that they would have a category for women and think that sex tests are illegitimate or the results confidential. It's open season on women without such tests.
They test for doping. What is the procedure if an athlete fails? Surely they announce why they've DQed her?

— Alex Smith (@AlexSmith90014) August 4, 2024

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Good lord. The head of the IOC is shocked, shocked, that people are publicly talking about the sex of competitors in Olympic sports. That’s PRIVATE. How very dare you. It’s PRIVATE. You filthy meddling bad people talking about who is or is not a woman; it’s PRIVATE.

New and important from morning presser: @marq and @iocmedia condemn whistleblowing as an invasion of the boxers’ human rights.

Indicates that the competitors’ sex should remain private.

Context: This is a common or garden trans advocate position, not a sports science position. https://t.co/mKxpXS3EkA

— SEENinJournalism (@JournalismSEEN) August 4, 2024

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Riots, clashes, two-tier policing, communinnies, violence, fires, cops.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said violent protesters who had targeted Muslim communities would swiftly face the “full force of the law” as he sought to quell days of anti-immigration rioting.

The stabbing to death of three young girls in the northwest English town of Southport last week has been seized on by anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim groups, with disinformation spread online and amplified by high-profile far-right figures to spark disorder in towns and cities.

“Whatever the apparent motivation, this is not protest, it is pure violence and we will not tolerate attacks on mosques or our Muslim communities,” Starmer said on Monday after an emergency meeting with police and prison chiefs.

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More entrenched than ever.

This is a frenzy intensifying by the day, the further Khelif advances towards an Olympic title and the more desperate the IOC obfuscation becomes. Just a few hours after Thomas Bach appeared confused as to the basic differences between transgender athletes and those with differences in sexual development, Khelif continued to cut a swathe across the competition, demolishing Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori.

The sense of extreme polarisation at ringside was uncomfortable. Outside the venue, public disquiet increased over how an apparently biological male had been permitted to punch women. Inside, a 600-strong Algerian contingent made sure the dynamic was sharply different, bedecking an entire stand in the green, red and white of their national flag.

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Still stuck in the playpen.

Donald Trump broadsided Kamala Harris in a string of derisive social media posts on Saturday, focusing his attacks on the vice president’s intellect after a week that saw her both out-fundraise him and surpass him in some battleground state polls.

In a succession of Truth Social posts after calling off his planned ABC debate with Harris, Trump called Harris “low IQ,” “dumb,” and said she lacked the “mental capacity” to debate him.

Hm. I don’t know either of them personally, but just going by what I’ve seen of the two, I would not give him the job of evaluating her intelligence.

The former president’s remarks indicated a sustained ratcheting up of the rhetoric

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The cheating continues.

https://twitter.com/fairplaywomen/status/1820067713940668886… Read the rest

Trying to burn migrants alive:

A far-right mob have set fire to a Rotherham hotel used to house migrants as police brace for more violence across the UK on Sunday.

Masked rioters, some draped in England flags, assembled outside a Holiday Express hotel in Manvers, South Yorkshire, as they clashed with police. After thugs threw bricks and smashed windows, footage emerged of a fire raging from a bottom-floor window as hotel guests looked on from the top floor. It is unclear if they were migrants.

It comes after at least 90 people were arrested after riots rocked major cities including Manchester, Liverpool, Hull and Stoke on Saturday, leaving destruction in their wake.

A library was torched in

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Trump says no let’s have the debate at my house.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump proposed to debate Democratic U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Fox News on Sept. 4, and the Harris campaign said Trump is trying to back out of a debate that had been set to run on ABC.

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Trump and Biden had agreed to a second debate on Sept. 10 on ABC News which the former president had suggested should be moved to Fox, the most popular network with his followers. Harris, who on Friday secured the delegate votes needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for the Nov. 5 election, said on Saturday that she plans to participate in the originally planned debate.

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