Clashing world views:

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The IOC is now trying to prevent people from sharing a short video clip in which Lin Yu-Ting throws illegal punches.

https://twitter.com/babybeginner/status/1821572895996555674

This account still can though. Fair use.

Anyone snitch tagging this proof of the man Lin Yu-Ting doing the illegal strike called a rabbit punch, illegal in all combat sports bc it can cause paralysis or death, is getting instantly blocked. You might as well work for the people who made this possible. pic.twitter.com/TZP2kxRO1H

— Admiral Invalidator (@Artofhunger75) August 8, 2024

It’s fascinating that the IOC is going to the trouble of stopping people sharing an 11 second clip of a man rabbit-punching a woman to the back of the head.… Read the rest

Too much?

Labour has suspended a councillor over a speech at a counter demonstration calling for the throats of anti-immigration protesters to be cut.

Dartford councillor Ricky Jones has been suspended by the party over the video, which shows him in the middle of a cheering crowd at a protest in Walthamstow, east London, organised to stop the far-right from targeting asylum centres and the offices of lawyers helping asylum seekers.

In the speech on Wednesday evening, he said: “We need to cut all their throats and get rid of them.”

Not what you want in a councillor.

He followed his speech with leading a chant of “free, free Palestine.”

Or what? We’ll cut your throats too?

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Well, you get what you pay for, or what you shilled for. Republicans are unhappy that Trump is not deploying substantive arguments in his campaign to get back in the White House. This is silly, because Trump doesn’t do substantive; Trump has never done substantive. Trump wouldn’t know substantive if it bit him on the ass.

The way Republicans see it, it should not be hard for Mr. Trump to pivot from President Biden to this new Democratic ticket. All he has to do is hammer Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz for things they have said and done, to paint them as out-of-step from most Americans, on everything including policing, immigration and transgender policies.

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The Nation (the magazine) is such misogynist garbage. Long piece on abortion; women not mentioned once.

There is an alarming disconnect between the agenda of our most powerful organizations and the real needs of abortion seekers and providers on the ground.

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Local abortion funds from across the country are eager to share their perspectives and expertise on the challenges of funding abortion in their area, and the frustrations that are brought on by the failure of national reproductive health, rights, and access organizations to attend to the needs of so many pregnant people on the ground.

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Abortion funds created a bridge between the theoretical right to an abortion and the real-world ability to access that right for

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Oh god not this again.

Hindus in Bangladesh Face Revenge Attacks After Prime Minister’s Exit

Hindus in Bangladesh, perceived by many to be supporters of the prime minister who was ousted in a popular uprising, braced for violent reprisals on Wednesday as the rudderless country awaited the formation of a new government after a month of unrest.

The former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, fled Bangladesh on Monday after a violent crackdown failed to quell a nationwide movement against her government. As thousands of protesters celebrated her ouster that afternoon, reports began to emerge of retaliation against members of Ms. Hasina’s party, the Awami League, and against those seen as her allies, including the Hindu minority.

In addition to the

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Even the Sun?

But how deeply sad that a global event with so, so many stories — ones of triumph, adversity, heartbreak and sheer, hard work against all odds — should focus on the back stories of these two individuals.

Everyone has their opinion. And everyone is entitled to their opinion.

But those with the loudest, people such as JK Rowling — who should really get back to Privet Drive and lay off some of the militant anti-trans stuff — need to be careful.

When the author labelled the athletes “male”, she knew what she was doing: Stirring up her cauldron of hatred and winding up the ill-informed masses.

Her “cauldron”; get it? She’s a…rhymes with “bitch.”

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Trump pissing all over the landscape:

In an appearance on Fox News early Wednesday morning, former President Donald J. Trump called the Democratic ticket of Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota “communist” and suggested he was willing to debate Ms. Harris anywhere, despite having pulled out of a scheduled debate.

Well by “anywhere” he means…anywhere unless he doesn’t like it.

In the interview, on “Fox & Friends,” Mr. Trump repeated an attack that he has made many times before and that has been criticized as antisemitic, saying any Jewish person who voted for Democrats “should have their head examined.”

“He’s probably about the same as Bernie Sanders,” he said of Mr. Walz’s ideology. “He’s probably

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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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