I can’t get enough of the Trump Shouting He Does Too So Have 500 Million Dollars story.

After having reached out to several guarantors and 30 suretors for help posting his $464 million New York bank fraud bond, Donald Trump suddenly wants everyone to know he actually does have the cash.

In a bizarre rant on Friday morning, the man who was found to have defrauded banks and investors by overvaluing himself and the value of his properties claimed that he had accrued the wealth by way of “HARD WORK, TALENT, AND LUCK.”

AND TYPING IN ALL CAPS AT ALL TIMES.

The confession directly contradicts a filing from his legal team last month arguing that it would be “impossible

The Telegraph:

Doctors at a gender-critical conference were ambushed by “aggressive” masked protesters who let off a smoke bomb and had to be held back by police. Dozens of officers were required to prevent the demonstrators gaining entrance to the first conference of the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender conference held on Saturday in London.

Video footage showed the protesters, dressed mainly in black and waving flags, blocking the entrance and jostling with police.

Other video footage, which the Telegraph apparently hadn’t seen, showed the protesters doing their best to smash the glass doors at the entrance and very nearly forcing at least one door open.

Held at the headquarters of the Royal College of General Practitioners

And here’s the view from the other side of the doors.

I have to wonder why the police are all bunched up at the back doing not much, instead of at the front keeping the “activists” from smashing the glass doors and entering the building.

When they say that the trans debate is toxic and that it’s both sides, please remember that terfs have never done this but tras do it at every single public thing we do. @CanSG_org pic.twitter.com/yZw9xtjgBg

— Venice Allan (@roseveniceallan) March 23, 2024

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Unbelievable.

Protesters at the First Do No Harm conference, CAN-SG. Police failed to act, as per bloody usual, but have just now made three arrests.

Reporting from the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex & Gender, Saturday, 23rd March, 2024 pic.twitter.com/3VYPHTMiTy

— Julie Bindel (@bindelj) March 23, 2024

I guess they’re team Do All the Harm You Can?

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This is just unabashed sadistic bullying.

They booked the stand at least three weeks ago, and the bullies wait until the last minute to say “Nope we changed our minds hahaha neener neener.”

Filia’s statement:

Women’s rights charity FiLiA had booked a stand at Plaid Cymru Conference, hoping to use the opportunity to talk to delegates and Plaid Cymru politicians about a range of grass roots campaigns they support.

With less than 48 hours to go, the charity was told that they would not be welcome, and their stall booking was revoked.

FiLiA hosts the largest annual grassroots feminist conference in Europe. In 2022 FiLiA spent a year in Cardiff in the lead up to an event that

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Care is needed.

The guidance follows the BBC apologizing to Rowling twice last year. The Harry Potter author was accused of transphobia by trans rights advocates, but the claim was not properly challenged by presenters….

This is what happens when the accusation is simply repeated without challenge. It becomes taken for granted, in a smoke/fire sort of way, that Rowling must be transphobic if all these people are accusing her of being so. By assuming they are acting in good faith (or at least pretending they are), they fail to check whether or not her statements are “transphobic” at all. In bypassing this crucial step, they short-circuit their fact-checking process … Read the rest

Gender activism:

Radio-Canada’s headquarters in Montreal was vandalized by far-left extremists last Wednesday, an act claimed online as a rebuttal to the controversial report on gender transition therapy for minors. 

Sounds like Samuel Johnson dissing Bishop Berkeley by kicking a stone and saying “I refute it thus!” (A story that’s probably apocryphal.) I rebut your controversial report by smashing your windows, so nyah!

An anonymous submission was published to Montréal Contre-Information’s website titled “Radio-Canada has blood on its hands: a look back at the shop windows destroyed on the night of March 12-13.”

The letter confirmed that activists destroyed the windows of the Radio-Canada building in response to the organization’s “decision to use its broad platform to amplify

BBC finally gets a clue.

BBC presenters have been told to challenge guests who accuse others of transphobia after the broadcaster admitted that news items on J.K. Rowling fell short of its editorial standards. In an internal briefing note, BBC journalists and production teams were advised that “care is needed” when people are labeled “transphobic” and the term should be interrogated during on-air debate. The advice featured in a nine-page document on “reporting sex and gender” circulated to the BBC newsroom late last year.

Better yet they could just stop using the word at all. The whole point of it is to convince everyone that it’s both evil and irrational to be aware that men are not women. That’s … Read the rest

Trump admits – or rather brags – that he has the money. He just doesn’t want to spend it. He wants other people to do that, like the many gullible people who respond to his pleas for cash for his “campaign” (his campaign to make everyone else pay his expenses, that would be).

Former President Donald Trump claimed early Friday morning that he has “almost” $500 million in cash, undercutting his lawyers’ claims that he would not be able to comply with the $464 million judgment against him and his co-defendants in the civil fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

You’d think he wouldn’t want to claim that, seeing as how he is at the … Read the rest

[Edit: Sorry, I seem to have forgotten to include the source!]

Oh Jeeezus christ.

Starmer thinks he can get away with continuously repeating this ideological nonsense. Being a woman isn’t an ‘issue’, it’s a fact. pic.twitter.com/EFFbPeYp0Q

— Venice Allan (@roseveniceallan) March 22, 2024

This is just reducing a really serious issue to –

Interviewer tells him to answer the question.

Well look, everybody knows there’s a difference between sex and gender, and I absolutely understand that, and respect that, we will not be going down the road of self-identification –

Interviewer asks “Are trans women women?”

Well look Harry –

Interviewer says “It’s a fair comment, it’s a fair question.”

Look…forrrrrrr…as you well know, the overwhelming majority of women, it’s

Sir, it’s not our fault that you exaggerated the worth of your properties.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing back on Donald Trump’s “extraordinary” request for a stay of his $464 million civil fraud judgment, arguing the former president’s recent request was unreliable, procedurally improper and based on a flawed premise.

“There is nothing unusual about even billion-dollar judgments being fully bonded on appeal,” Senior Assistant Solicitor General Dennis Fan said in a filing this morning. “Defendants object to a possible ‘fire sale’ if they were to sell assets to generate cash to use as collateral for a bond or as a deposit —but the alternative would be to shift the risk of executing on defendants’ illiquid

Trump is trying to get the peons to pay his legal bills.

Donald Trump has sent out a panicked fundraising message to his supporters as he begs them to help foot his ballooning legal bills.

The desperate memo, titled “Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!”, comes as the Monday deadline to pay his $464m bond in his New York fraud trial judgement ticks ever closer.

I wonder how many shlubs will think it makes sense for them to help Trump hang on to his expensive luxuries.

The frantic tone of the plea stands in stark contrast to the statement issued by Trump spokesman Steven Cheung to CNN on Wednesday in which he dismissed the network’s reporting that

Trump is telling Jews how to be Jews.

Since the start of his political career, Donald Trump has played on stereotypes about Jews and politics.

He told the Republican Jewish Coalition in 2015 that “you want to control your politicians” and suggested the audience used money to exert control. In the White House, he said Jews who vote for Democrats are “very disloyal to Israel.” Two years ago, the former president hosted two outspoken antisemites for dinner at his Florida residence.

Hey, he’s a friendly guy.

And this week, Trump charged that Jewish Democrats were being disloyal to their faith and to Israel. That had many American Jews taking up positions behind now-familiar political lines. Trump opponents accused him

The BBC continues its futile struggle to convince us that what sex a person is can be that person’s very own choice.

You might have heard the term non-binary. People use it when they don’t fit into the categories of female or male.

No, people use it when they’re vain and self-absorbed enough to think they’re Not Like You Tame Conventional Peons.

Caitlin Benedict came out as non-binary last year. But as they’ve found, it doesn’t mean they know all the answers straight away. In fact, they had so many questions, they decided to make a podcast about it.

Save yourself the trouble, Caitlin! Just catch on that we all “feel we don’t fit” into some category or other and … Read the rest

Jeezus.

Scottish police have been accused of targeting JK Rowling by inventing a fictional character called “Jo” who thinks that sex is binary and bizarrely calls for transgender people to be sent to gas chambers.

“Bizarrely” is not the right word.

Let’s get one thing straight: there’s no wiggle room here for Scottish police to say oh they didn’t mean Jo Rowling. Of course they did. They’re obsessed with “trans rights” and evil people who don’t believe trans ideology. Of course they didn’t call this gas chambers fan “Jo” at random with no reference to JKR intended whatsoever at all.

At an official Police Scotland hate crime event, attendees were presented with a “scenario” in which Jo is described

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? at Miscellany Room.

Here’s a story I came across from Canadian Press that has been carried on a number of news services:

Transgender people bear brunt of misinformation about gender identity, experts say

(They have no idea how true that is, but not in the way they’re thinking; trans identified people pay with their health and well-being for the misinformation they’re fed. I’d say that’s “bearing the brunt” alright. This story contains some of that very disinformation from these “experts.”)

Dupré Latour, a trans woman who grew up in West Africa and immigrated to Canada five years ago so she could affirm her gender identity, believes that religion, stereotypes and misconceptions

Hey, here’s an idea, don’t put any religious messages in secular public spaces. But also yes, calling us all “sinners” is especially obnoxious and intrusive. That’s true even when it’s GB News saying it.

Outrage has been sparked by a King’s Cross display board featuring an Islamic teaching that describes people as “sinners” who must “repent.”

On the 9th day of Ramadan, the holiest month for Muslims, the central London train station featured a “Hadith of the day.”

Well don’t. Just don’t. Don’t feature a psalm of the day and don’t feature a hadith of the day. Just leave it alone. You’re a train station, not a church or a mosque. Mosques don’t put up billboards advertising railway journeys, … Read the rest

Trump has only 5 days…

Donald Trump’s lawyers are asking a New York court to put a $464m (£365m) fine in a civil fraud case on hold, as the former president finds himself in a precarious financial situation that could ultimately see his most prized properties taken. If Mr Trump wants to continue his appeal in the case without the state seizing the fine from him, he must submit the full amount in cash or secure a bond from a private company by 25 March.

But he’s tried to secure a bond and everyone has told him no.

He’s trying to get a stay, and opinions are divided on whether he’ll succeed or not.

Ultimately, if Mr Trump does

The Telegraph reports that the BBC director general has told MPs that it’s no big deal that the BBC forces its reporters to lie about the sex of Our Trans Siblings.

Tim Davie, BBC director general, accused people of “whipping up” outrage as he defended the corporation’s stance on the topic.

The BBC last month upheld a complaint against Today programme presenter Justin Webb after he described trans women as “males”. The broadcaster’s Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU) found Webb had broken impartiality rules after a listener complained the comments amounted to a personal opinion.

But of course it’s not a personal opinion, in the sense of not being an impersonal fact. It is precisely an impersonal fact that men are … Read the rest

Civil servant being sued for saying up is not down.

A lawyer and the government department she works with are being sued after she made gender-critical statements at work, including expressing the belief that only women menstruate.

That’s not a belief though. It’s just a fact, a simple humdrum quotidian fact like a billion other facts. It’s not a clever idea to sue people for stating impersonal facts of the type “only women menstruate.”

Her name is Elspeth Duemmer Wrigley and she is a chairwoman of a civil service network that represents staff with gender-critical views.

She is one of three key signatories of an explosive letter sent in October to the cabinet secretary warning the impartiality of the