You want horrendously bad journalism? I’ll give you horrendously bad journalism. The Northern Echo:

Tempers flared at an International Women’s Day event in Darlington after the council asked a group to leave over an “anti-trans” leaflet.

Concerns were raised over a Let Women Speak pamphlet that was being circulated at an event at Number Forty, on Skinnergate, on Saturday, March 8.

Darlington Council, which has run the site since 2022, said staff tried to intervene when some of the material at the event was found to be “inflammatory and anti-trans”.

Huh? Wut? Whose tempers flared? What group? Who asked them to leave? What does “over a leaflet” mean? What do the quotation marks on “anti-trans” mean? Concerns were raised by what … Read the rest

Musk is having a sad because people don’t want to buy his cars, because they hate him.

Elon Musk — the world’s richest man, who for the past two months has been dismantling or threatening to dismantle government services that help the less fortunate — is having a bad week, and Donald Trump feels sorry for him.

The president’s trade wars have been tanking the stock market, and Musk’s signature company, Tesla, has been along for the ride. The EV behemoth’s shares fell 15 percent on Monday alone, and are down more than 50 percent since peaking in late December. Musk has been melting down as a result, alleging that rival automakers and anyone who prefers them are Nazis,

This is interesting, at least to me, because I think I do know what she means.

Gender activists have had years to tell us what a woman is, yet they still have nothing coherent to say.

This is probably the first time she's been asked this simple question, and based on her expression the first time she's ever even thought about it.pic.twitter.com/sf8eNNtsmr

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) March 11, 2025

“What does it mean?” he asks, and she’s not able to answer, she can only repeat. He asks if it means wearing a dress, reading certain books, and adds that not every woman wears a dress.

I think what it can mean is just the thought in the head. Nothing … Read the rest

Bad title.

In West Texas’ measles outbreak, families forgo conventional medicine along with vaccines

“Conventional” is not the right word there. It’s misleading at best; at worst it nudges people to avoid medicine that works.

They’re trying for the “conventional” journalistic neutrality, but it’s not neutral to apply a pejorative adjective to non-fake medicine. The issue here is doing what works to treat a dangerous disease versus doing what doesn’t work to treat a dangerous disease. It’s a life or death distinction in some cases, so major news outlets really shouldn’t blur it.

Sick families, mostly Mennonite, sit in a makeshift waiting room on the far left, and Dr. Ben Edwards is at a table on the far right.  One

UN gives Saudi Arabia the women’s rights desk.

Joke? No. I wish it were, but it’s not.

Despite its abysmal record on women’s rights, Saudi Arabia is now chairing the UN’s top women’s rights body, presiding until March 21st at a gathering of global leaders that is supposed to address gender equality amid a reported backlash against women’s rights, at the 69th annual session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Saudi Arabia is systematically, explicitly, with malice aforethought opposed to women’s rights. Saudi Arabia despises women. The UN insults women.

The UN’s commission on the status of women meets every year and has a unique opportunity to hold country violators of women’s rights to account. Yet

He’s not even from here. He doesn’t even go to this school.

U.S. DOGE Service leader Elon Musk on Monday called Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) — a decorated Navy pilot and former NASA astronaut — a traitor in a post on X after the senator visited Ukraine and expressed his support for the country in its war with Russia.

Who’re you calling a traitor you filthy thieving bullying self-enriching toad of a man??? A traitor to what? You? You are not the boss of us and never will be.

Kelly, who flew dozens of combat missions in the Middle East as a Navy pilot and took four NASA missions to space, also told reporters at the Capitol later Monday

RTE News exclaims

A building is to be named after a woman for the first time in Trinity College Dublin’s 433-year history

The Women Exist Society retorts

Here’s the @tcddublin student union president sitting in his office with a sign saying ‘F*CK TERFs (women)’ How are the female students in Trinity meant to feel safe on campus when this level of misogyny is allowed

Yes, sure enough “Jenny” Maguire is a man. We’ve encountered him before. September 2023: there was a Let Women Speak rally so of course the pretend men turned up to Try to Make Women Shut Up.

The counter demo organised by Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin assembled outside the Dail on Kildare Street ahead of

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Good relations between groups of staff.

…NHS Fife has a duty to foster good relations between groups of staff with different protected characteristics.

Yeah, but some groups are more equal than others.

Neither Upton nor Peggie should ever have been put in this position. It is the employer’s failing and NHS Fife has failed both.

I disagree. NHS Fife did not “put” Upton “in this position.” He put himself in that position all by himself. Upton chose to enter a female single sex space knowing he was male. NHS Fife permitted him to do so. That was not an accident. That was not a mistake. It was deliberate, on the … Read the rest

Jane McClenachan in the Morning Star on the Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife tribunal:

This is a case that should never have happened and responsibility lies with the Scottish government, the NHS and the trade unions.

Their collective disregard for women’s rights has been made public. Inaccurate guidance issued by all of these organisations advises that individuals can choose which single-sex facilities they wish to use according to their gender identity. This mistaken position is set out in model trans equality policies produced by trade unions.

In point of fact, the Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulation 1992 requires employers to provide separate changing rooms and toilets for male and female staff.

NHS Fife has failed to do so.

Another Baltimore.

A major rescue operation was launched after a tanker laden with fuel and a cargo vessel collided in the North Sea off the East Yorkshire coast, with both vessels catching fire.

Great. Fabulous. Marine life and wildlife destroyed for miles around.

Maritime firm Crowley, which manages the tanker, said the vessel had suffered a ruptured cargo tank, adding crew had abandoned ship following “multiple explosions onboard”.

The vessels involved in the collision are the US-flagged Stena Immaculate tanker and the Solong, a Portuguese-flagged container ship, according to data from the ship-tracking website MarineTraffic.

No news on the crew of the Solong.

According to MarineTraffic, the Stena Immaculate had travelled from the Greek port of Agioi Theodoroi and

Oh honestly.

Trump lets us know he thinks he’s Elvis.

In the early hours of Sunday the US president shared a photo on social media showing half his face and half of Presley’s in a post with no words.

And not just Elvis but young Elvis – young hot smoldering Elvis.

NB: there is no resemblance.

Even President Trump’s biggest fans might have been questioning whether he was feeling lonesome on Saturday night when he posted an image comparing himself to Elvis Presley.

Trump, 78, posted an image that showed half of his face and half of Presley’s in an update on his Truth Social platform. It was posted at about 1.30am on Sunday when the president was at

Hospital tells men to go right ahead and barge into women’s toilets.

A London hospital trust has told trans employees they can use the lavatories and changing rooms of their choice in a challenge to Wes Streeting.

Not to mention an insult and threat to women.

Why do we even have separate toilets and changing rooms for women and men? Oh that’s right, because some men enjoy sexually assaulting and intimidating women.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ trust’s new transgender equality policy tells all staff they must refer to everyone with the pronoun of their choice, even if they do not believe in gender ideology.

Seriously? Guy’s and St Thomas’s trust tell employees they have to memorize specialty … Read the rest

Well, we all know how this is going to go.

Shaping the Century: 25 brilliant Irish women in 2025

Ireland has no shortage of brilliant women: decision-makers, entrepreneurs, sports people, artists and activists who have inspired others and served to change lives.

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2007: Lydia Foy

Often it is individuals who make a large contribution to changing legal history in Ireland. In 1993, transgender Kildare woman Lydia Foy sought a new birth certificate with her female gender. She was refused, and brought High Court proceedings in 1997. While her claim was rejected in 2002, in 2007 the case was brought back to court and the judge found that her rights under the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated.

Trump and Musk are slashing services, and meanwhile Trump costs us millions every time he takes his lardy ass down to Florida, which is nearly every damn weekend.

It has become a familiar routine for the Palm Beach county sheriff, Ric Bradshaw, and his deputies. Almost every Tuesday in recent weeks, the Federal Aviation Administration has posted to its website a formal “notice to airmen” advising of upcoming flight restrictions over south Florida, signaling once again to those who must protect him that Donald Trump is on his way to Mar-a-Lago for another weekend of golf.

The president is at his waterfront mansion again this weekend, his sixth visit to Florida and the beloved golf courses he

Ah there it is.

Well, actually it does https://t.co/8wCPfGr4Gq

— Sally Hines (@sally_hines) March 9, 2025

No actually it doesn’t. A piece of paper can make something legal, but it can’t make a woman in the sense of turning a man into a woman (which of course is the sense Hines has in mind). It can create a legal fiction, but the fiction remains a fiction.

It’s odd that an adult academic either doesn’t grasp this, or pretends not to grasp it.

Laws are laws, but not all laws are good laws. There is such a thing as civil disobedience. Trump is issuing executive orders as a dog sheds fleas, but he can’t change reality. He can’t move Greenland to … Read the rest

The rage, it choketh.

A man pretending to be a woman preaches to women about what it means to be a woman during a women’s march on International Women’s Day.

Beyond parody pic.twitter.com/Y7SGz8OxPD

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 9, 2025

… Read the rest

A man who gets it.

Sebastian Coe will demand urgent talks with Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to stop “pond life” abusing female sports stars with impunity if he becomes International Olympic Committee president.

Speaking after a week in which Emma Raducanu spoke about not being able “see the ball through tears” after being approached by a stalker, and Eilish McColgan faced a blizzard of hate after posting a video of her running on social media, Lord Coe pledged to create a taskforce to find better ways to protect female athletes.

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Asked what he made of comments posted on Facebook, Instagram and X attacking women, the World Athletics president, who is among the favourites for the IOC presidential election

The dear dear Guardian.

Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order

Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’

Oh yes?

Now consider what women could report when men turn up in their prisons. Groping possibly at all? Staring? Peering? Rape? Violence of all kinds?

“I’m just continuing to be punished for existing,” said Whitney, a 31-year-old trans woman who was transferred from a women’s facility to a men’s prison this week. The BOP changed her records from “female” to “male”, records show. In messages before her transfer, she said she felt like a “pawn in others’ political games”. The Guardian is not using her full name due

Oh ffs.

Take a GOOD look. This person is protesting against the existence of trans people. Oblivious to the fact that she has, on many aesthetic levels, actually socially transitioned herself.
I think there is a BIG jealousy factor among GC lesbians. They feel miffed that trans people -… pic.twitter.com/18XrThWvEm

— India Willoughby (@IndiaWilloughby) March 8, 2025

The full photo:

Sista. That’s pretty much how I “present” except that I don’t wear earrings and I don’t wear glasses except when reading or online-babbling. I don’t have those nice curls at the top of the head, either. The woman at the desk, too – much the same.

That is not “transitioning.” Jeans have been for both sexes for decades, men … Read the rest

Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk

Aka King Kong v Godzilla v all of us.

Cabinet officials almost uniformly like the concept of what Mr. Musk set out to do — reducing waste, fraud and abuse in government — but have been frustrated by the chain saw approach to upending the government and the lack of consistent coordination.

“Chain saw approach” is too mild. It’s more like carpet bombing.

In a post on social media after the meeting, Mr. Trump said the next phase of his plan to cut the federal work force would be conducted with a “scalpel” rather than a “hatchet” — a clear reference to Mr. Musk’s scorched-earth approach.

Derp. That’s like … Read the rest