Oh come ON.

Morrisons pressure their employees to wear pronoun badges. pic.twitter.com/H1ZM6nv0C9

— Gay Not Queer (@Gaynotqueer1) June 10, 2025

It’s not a hoax, it’s right there on their “Pride” page.

We want all colleagues to bring their full self to work, and to support our colleagues, particularly from the non-binary or transgender community, we have pronoun badges available for all our colleagues in store, sites and head office to wear with pride.

The option to display your pronoun is open to any in the LGBT+ community, as well as allies wanting to support colleagues by creating an environment where the display and discussion of pronouns is the norm.

That is, supporting the very few colleagues who subscribe to … Read the rest

Thank goodness Elon Musk is not at all impulsive or flakey, given all the powers Trump handed him.

Billionaire Elon Musk has said he regrets some of the posts he made about US President Donald Trump during their war of words on social media. “They went too far,” he wrote on his social media platform X.

How is that possible? Surely Musk, with so many serious responsibilities, would not impulsively blow up a whole row of bridges in a tantrum?

His post comes after Trump said he was open to the possibility of reconciliation in an interview with the New York Post on Wednesday. The president said he was a “little disappointed” about the fallout, but there were “no

Hahahahaha science! Science I tell you!!!

It's a purely scientific opinion.

The identity is inside your mind, a physical combination of chemicals in your brain.

— Cara Pace (@CaraPac46808618) June 10, 2025

Ice cream, Mandrake? Children’s ice cream? … Read the rest

Totalitariantrump wants to control everyone and everything.

The Smithsonian Institution has rebuffed Donald Trump’s attempt to fire the director of its National Portrait Gallery, with the museum’s governing board asserting its independence in a direct challenge to the president.

In a statement issued after an emergency meeting Monday, the Smithsonian’s board of regents declared that “all personnel decisions are made by and subject to the direction of the secretary, with oversight by the board” – turning away Trump’s claim of authority over the institution’s staffing.

The standoff centers on Kim Sajet, whom Trump announced he had fired on 30 May, calling her “highly partisan and a strong supporter of DEI” – or diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives –

This is just plain lying. The BBC telling whoppers right out in the open – whoppers that damage women and delight men who pretend to be women and take all our stuff.

Greens expel ex-spokesperson after LGBTQ+ comment row

You already know what the lie is, of course. It’s not an “LGBTQ+” comment.

The Green Party of England and Wales has expelled its former health spokesperson eight months after an investigation was launched into her comments on LGBTQ+ hate crimes.

Documents seen by the BBC show the Greens expelled Dr Pallavi Devulapalli for breaking party rules by attending a party event while under investigation for calling reports of rising LGBTQ+ hate crimes “mischievous”.

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Green Party documents show Dr Devulapalli

This is his idea of heaven.

US President Donald Trump’s administration has sent thousands more troops to Los Angeles on a fourth day of chaotic protests against immigration raids, as the unrest spread to other US cities. Some 700 US Marines have been deployed to the LA area and the contingent of National Guard troops mobilised to help quell the disorder has been doubled to 4,000.

It’s his dream – he gets to play sojers with REAL SOJERS. He gets to send the tough guys in to rough up the nasty brown people Trump doesn’t like.

The state is suing the president for sending in troops without the governor’s permission. It is highly unusual for the American military to

Originally a comment by Artymorty on More than a second.

That nurse Sofia should not have lied to Juno Dawson. He does not have a lovely new vagina. As a famous surgeon in Casablanca once put it, “I don’t change men into women. I transform male genitals into genitals that have a female aspect. All the rest is in the patient’s mind.”

And it’s my understanding that — from what my transsexual British friend told me after he had the procedure — a prerequisite to vaginoplasty surgery in the UK is signing a waiver that explicitly states that the patient is not going to come up from the anesthesia with an actual vagina between his legs.

That Moroccan sex … Read the rest

We must shut down USAID to save money but when it comes to siccing the police* on protesters money is no object.

Deploying National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles will cost at least $134 million and last at least the next 60 days, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a senior defense official told lawmakers Tuesday.

“We stated very publicly that it’s 60 days because we want to ensure that those rioters, looters and thugs on the other side assaulting our police officers know that we’re not going anywhere,” Hegseth told members of the House appropriations defense subcommittee.

Hegseth was repeatedly asked by members of Congress about the cost of the deployment, then conferred with his acting comptroller,

Well that was a hellish night/morning. I was just about to publish a post late last night when bang the electricity went out. It happens a lot in this nabe, I guess because it’s old so the infrastructure is prone to failure. Starvation because of not opening the fridge. Hot and smoggy outside. Hours and hours pass then finally pop on it comes – just a little under the 12 hours or so it took last time, which was only a year ago (or perhaps two).

Dodged one bullet anyway – before the outage laptop ordered me to update so I proceeded to update, heeding the stern order NOT to shut down during the update because that would ruin EVERYTHING. … Read the rest

Oh grow up ffs.

I had gender reassignment surgery – then the Supreme Court said I wasn’t a woman

Because you’re not. You could have had rabbit ears surgically attached to your head; you wouldn’t be a rabbit. You could have had feathers painstakingly inserted into your skin; you wouldn’t have been a bird. You could have worn a Marilyn Monroe mask; you wouldn’t have been Marilyn Monroe. Forget about being a woman; try being an adult for a change. Adults understand that cosmetic tweaks are not magic and can’t make us something we’re not.

 I’m not trying to make a statement about what a woman is, I just want to be one, writes Juno Dawson.

But you can’t. … Read the rest

The coup continues step by step.

The U.S. military will temporarily deploy about 700 Marines to Los Angeles until more National Guard troops can arrive, marking another escalation in President Donald Trump’s response to street protests over his aggressive immigration policies.

The U.S. Northern Command said a battalion would be sent to help protect federal property and personnel until more National Guard troops could reach the scene. For now, the Trump administration was not invoking the Insurrection Act, which would allow troops to directly participate in civilian law enforcement, according to a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity.

For now. One step at a time.

Trump said on Monday he felt he had no choice but to

More on Kennedy’s campaign to make America sick again:

Kennedy said the committee members had too many conflicts of interest. Currently, committee members are required to declare any potential such conflicts, as well as business interests, that arise during their tenure. They also must disclose any possible conflicts at the start of each public meeting.

But Dr. Tom Frieden, president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives and former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Kennedy’s actions were based on false conflict-of-interest claims and set “a dangerous and unprecedented action that makes our families less safe” by potentially reducing vaccine access for millions of people.

“Make no mistake: Politicizing the ACIP as Secretary Kennedy is

Wannabe dictator rehearsing:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that he has been told President Donald Trump “is deploying another 2,000” National Guard troops to Los Angeles.

Newsom tweeted that news hours after about 700 U.S. Marines were mobilized Monday to support the California National Guard to protect federal personnel and property in Los Angeles during protests there.

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Earlier Monday, Trump said he would support arresting California Gov. Gavin Newsom for purportedly obstructing federal immigration enforcement actions in Los Angeles.

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Trump’s comment came shortly before Newsom and state Attorney General Rob Bonta said they would sue Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for deploying the initial tranche of 2,000 National Guard troops to deal with protests over

These people are so enraging.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday said he is “retiring” all 17 members of a crucial government panel of vaccine advisors, a shocking step that could help to sow doubts about immunizations in the U.S.

He has no professional training in this field whatsover. He’s an outsider, an amateur, a crank, a hobbyist, a fraud. He’s not qualified to clean the toilets at the agency he runs, let alone firing panels of advisors.

It is not a good idea to put ignorant obstinate conceited amateurs in charge of technical bodies that oversee public health.

Kennedy is removing all members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP,

Another expulsion.

The initial suspension in September 2024 was for not quoting GPEW policy on Gender Self ID & ‘Transwomen are women, transmen are men’ policy at a hustings.
I don’t agree with these policies, and it felt dishonest to quote them in front of my electorate
2/n

— Pallavi Devulapalli (@doctorpallavi) June 9, 2025

The final email of expulsion stated that in order to protect the party, they had concluded that I needed to be permanently expelled.
One person found it so difficult to decide if I was a danger to the party that they abstained from the vote. The vote was carried 9-8.
4/n

— Pallavi Devulapalli (@doctorpallavi) June 9, 2025

I have received many messages of support

Embrace the label.

Darlington nurse Karen Danson has accused the NHS Trust of “abandoning” its female workers after their landmark legal victory against the hospital.

The Darlington Nurses won their legal case against their employer after raising concerns about a biological male, who identifies as a woman named Rose, being allowed to use the female staff changing room.

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Defending their legal fight against the trust, Danson declared that the nurses are simply “fighting for what’s right”, and are “not terfs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists)” for doing so.

She stated: “There’s been lots of positivity out there for us, there’s loads of positive comments, and I’m not a bigot, I’m not a terf, I’m just fighting for what’s right.”

Hey … Read the rest

Trump has been wanting to do this for at least 9 years.

During his first term, Trump mused on several occasions about deploying US troops on domestic soil, either to crush protests or tamp down on crime. Aides at the time talked Trump out of the move, which would amount to a dramatic step without recent precedent.

Now, however, the president is less encumbered by aides who seek to restrain his more extreme impulses. And after a campaign during which Trump promised crackdowns on crime and illegal immigration, he appears eager to demonstrate a willingness to use maximalist actions to follow through on his pledges.

Well. He appears eager to do what dictators and fascists do. It’s not about his … Read the rest

Do people even understand their own words?

A customer of Asylum Hair and Beauty in Durham received this text message after her appointment.

In a conversation with her stylist, when the topic came up, she said that men cannot become women and children shouldn’t be sterilised.

She has now been banned from the salon. pic.twitter.com/dYZg7gJDW0

— James Esses (@JamesEsses) June 7, 2025

Incredible enough?

“We are a proudly inclusive and respectful space for all people”

Except, of course, you, because we don’t like your thinking.

“regardless of gender identity, background, or beliefs.”

Except, of course, your beliefs. We’re wonderful people, hugely kind and welcoming, except when you walk in to get a haircut.

“We believe in equal rights, dignity, and … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Troops with assault rifles.

As David Frum said, this is a dress rehearsal — and by that he means it’s a dress rehearsal for a military coup. And as California Governor Gavin Newsom warned, the federal government is looking for a spectacle — and by that he means Trump and his minions are seeking a spark to blame the upcoming Reichstag fire on.

This is how it happens, folks. Sinclair Lewis was right: it can happen here. History is repeating, as it does, no matter how much we’re forewarned.

The problem with history books is that they always look at it from hindsight. Historians have tragically failed at conveying to the public what … Read the rest

Reuters reports:

President Donald Trump’s administration said it would deploy 2,000 National Guard troops on Saturday as federal agents in Los Angeles faced off against a few hundred demonstrators during a second day of protests following immigration raids.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that the Pentagon was prepared to mobilize active-duty troops “if violence continues” in Los Angeles, saying the Marines at nearby Camp Pendleton were “on high alert.”

What violence though? Reuters doesn’t report any. It could be that Reuters is just failing or refusing to report it, but it could also be that there isn’t any to report that Reuters knows about.

Federal security agents on Saturday confronted protesters in the Paramount area in southeast Los Angeles,