King Lear without the peripeteia.

It took Donald Trump less than 24 hours to test the boundaries of Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order in his New York criminal trial.

In two posts on his Truth Social account, the former president attacked Merchan for issuing the gag order – and he went after the judge’s daughter for her liberal political work, exploiting the ambiguous language in the order that didn’t explicitly forbid discussion of Merchan’s family.

On Monday, Merchan pushed back, expanding the gag order to cover his family – though the judge remains fair game for Trump – and attempting to limit Trump’s vitriol two weeks before the trial is set to begin.

Merchan’s need to issue a second gag order highlights the significant and unique challenge that

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The Beeb reports a scandal:

The prime minister has said people should not be criminalised “for stating simple facts on biology” in response to JK Rowling’s criticism of Scotland’s new hate crime law.

Cue global gasps. What can he mean?? People should be beheaded for such an outrage.

The author took to social media to hit out at criticize the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act which came into effect on Monday.

Seriously, Beeb – stop that. Stop calling dissent you dislike “hitting out at.” It’s childish at best. Some metaphors are best left on the cutting room floor.

In a series of social media posts, Ms Rowling described several transgender women as men, including convicted prisoners, trans

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Furthermore, there’s the scandalous situation where gynecologists don’t know how to take care of a “neo-vagina”:

Gender surgery director Dr. Meredith Gray of KU Kansas City on how they train all obgyn residents at KU Med to do exams on the neovaginas she creates.

That it's unacceptable for any gynecologist to not be able to do a "well woman exam" on a trans woman. pic.twitter.com/HZN2fr1CNb

— Anna D. West (@SlimWiggy) July 12, 2023

…the aftercare, becuzz a lot of times these women have a neovagina, and then the gynecologists aren’t trained to do the routine gyn care – and that’s a real problem, becuzz you go back to yer home state, and you wanna get yer well woman exam and

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BBC dutifully repeats that JK Rowling is bad awful horrible outrageous and above all of course transphobic.

Two men here discussing
The Crimes of JK Rowling.#ArrestMe pic.twitter.com/n4YpBYKXZP

— Ulrike Bullerby (@bullrike) April 2, 2024

The presenter tells us, in full BBC RP smug confident style:

…and now with a series of pretty explosive social media posts campaigner and provocateur on free speech. In response to the Hate Crime and Public Order Act coming into force in Scotland yesterday Ms Rowling posted critical and sarcastic comments about ten transgender women, rounding off her series with the remark “The people aren’t women at all but men every last one of them.” She ended by saying “Arrest me, Hate Crime Act Scotland.”

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What a colossally stupid question.

https://twitter.com/WomenAreReals/status/1774811361857642974

What’s the wound to lesbianism, really, if, um. the category of women is expanded to include trans women, what’s the wou – what – where – how do any of the people who live in that category, how are they actually suffering, it seems to me that what they’re suffering from is a kind of hatred or phobia that is overwhelming to them.

Gee, I don’t know, prof, what’s the wound if the category of workers is expanded to include bosses, what’s the wound if the category of poor people is expanded to include rich people, what’s the wound if the category of Black people is expanded to include White people, what’s the … Read the rest

Jolyon is on the case. Of course he is.

He's loving calling people racist! pic.twitter.com/USzK95jCre

— Mat (@MatHempell) April 1, 2024

Nothing says ‘social justice campaigner’ like being a White man who lives in a £3 million windmill defending men who take women’s jobs and rape shelters and everything else they can get their hands on.… Read the rest

This is genius.

VERY well done to the Indian Council of Scotland. pic.twitter.com/4EzwYLtcGk

— Gary Powell (@GaryJPowell) April 1, 2024

Not a joke. The screenshot is from their Facebook page.

They reported in another public post ten hours ago:

Important Statement: First Minister Humza Yousaf/Scottish government have been reported to the Police for racism.

(Police Reporting number:

PS – 20240401-0595)

The Indian Council of Scotland/UK are surprised to read Scottish Government Police Scotland Hate Crime guidance highlighting White Men aged 18 to 30 yrs from socially excluded backgrounds (Working Class) in a negative manner, as this could create unfair bias against them. The Equality and Human Rights Commission of Scotland has a duty to ensure public bodies ‘Foster

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Soooo how is day one of Scotland’s hate crime bill going?

3.5k likes at present:

https://twitter.com/UnityNewsNet/status/1774771831175528705… Read the rest

JKR has thrown down the gauntlet.

She starts with a string of parody “behold this lovely trans woman” tweets and then gets down to business.

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1774749954629652873

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women’s and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males

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But don’t worry, you have nothing to fret about, unless…

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1774764799714324598

Yes but sir, you and your friends consider it “threatening” and “abusive” and “stirring up hatred” to say that men are not women. That means women in the UK have everything to worry about.

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Day one of Scotland’s heightened war on women:

JK Rowling could be investigated by police for misgendering trans people under Scotland’s new hate crime legislation, an SNP minister has admitted. Siobhian Brown, the SNP’s community safety minister, initially stated that misgendering – for example calling a trans woman “he” – would “not at all” fall foul of the legislation. But after being challenged over calls for JK Rowling to be prosecuted under the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act, she then admitted it would be for the police to decide.

Speaking as the Act came into force on Monday, Ms Brown said: “It could be reported and it could be investigated. Whether or not the police would

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Trump’s lovely message for today:

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL, INCLUDING CROOKED AND CORRUPT PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES THAT ARE DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024, AND PUT ME IN PRISON, INCLUDING THOSE MANY PEOPLE THAT I COMPLETELY & TOTALLY DESPISE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA, A NOW FAILING NATION, LIKE “DERANGED” JACK SMITH, WHO IS EVIL AND “SICK,” MRS. FANI “FAUNI” WADE, WHO SAID SHE HARDLY KNEW THE “SPECIAL” PROSECUTOR, ONLY TO FIND THAT HE SPENT YEARS “LOVING” HER, LONG BEFORE THE GEORGIA PERSECUTION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP BEGAN (AND THEREBY MAKING THE CASE AGAINST ME NULL, VOID, AND ILLEGAL!), AND LAZY ON VIOLENT CRIME ALVIN BRAGG WHO, WITH CROOKED JOE’S DOJ THUGS, UNFAIRLY WORKING

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Gosh, I remember when NOW was a feminist organization. Now it’s all about men, and telling women to do what men tell them.

https://twitter.com/NationalNOW/status/1774442033781805299

How is it white supremacy? What does it even have to do with white supremacy?

As for patriarchy – no, NationalNOW, what’s patriarchy is lying through your teeth about women who refuse to sign up to a religion that deifies men who say they are women. You’re the ones who are going belly-up for men; we are saying No.… Read the rest

What could go wrong?

Degrees in homoeopathy, computer science, English literature and human resources are being accepted as entry qualifications to train to become a physician associate, the Daily Telegraph can reveal.

The NHS is rolling out a mass expansion in the use of such workers, despite concerns that patients are being put at risk by workers with insufficient training.

And not just insufficient but QUACK. No one with a degree in homeopathy should be anywhere near the NHS.

The figures for 2021 to 2023 show Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge accepted two students with degrees in homoeopathic medicine, while Bournemouth University accepted degrees in anthropology, nutrition and computer systems engineering.

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Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on If colleagues object.

A set of ONS resources on “Gender Identity and Transitioning at Work” …

Is there any other hobby/delusion/fetish that has government departments drawing up resource packages so that employees in it can do so in the workplace? Do Furries get special breaks in order to be taken outside by their colleagues for “walkies”? Do men who enjoy being treated like babies have other staff members feed them and change their diapers? Why is one group of fetishists pandered to but not others? Have we found a specimen of Trans Privilege in the wild, after having been assured that no such creature exists?

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World to Scotland: you can’t police us all.

An English barrister will challenge the Scottish government’s “attempt to police the world” by flouting the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act when it comes into force on Monday.

Sarah Phillimore, a child protection lawyer and advocate of women’s sex-based rights, ridiculed Scotland’s “insane” new legislation which could have extraterritorial powers to prosecute crimes perceived as stirring up hatred.

“It’s not just that it’s a really bad law, it’s the fact that we are two countries right next to each other, and there’s the internet,” said Phillimore, who has offices in London and Bristol.

“What does Scotland think it’s going to do? Police the world? I was shocked to discover

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Institutional capture:

Women working for the Office for National Statistics could face disciplinary action if they object to male-born colleagues using single-sex lavatories and changing rooms, documents leaked to The Sunday Telegraph reveal.

News flash: male-born=male. There are no male-born women. If yer born male you stay male, just as if yer born human you stay human.

A set of ONS resources on “Gender Identity and Transitioning at Work” includes a manager’s checklist for supporting a transitioning employee with a section headed “use of single-sex facilities”. It says: “Have you agreed when the employee will start to use single-sex facilities, such as toilets and changing rooms, appropriate to their acquired gender? This will usually be on the first day

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Trump inciting violence:

President Joe Biden’s campaign on Saturday excoriated former President Donald Trump for sharing a video on social media depicting what appears to be an image of Biden tied up and kidnapped in the back of a pickup truck.

“This image from Donald Trump is the type of crap you post when you’re calling for a bloodbath or when you tell the Proud Boys to ‘stand back and stand by,'” Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said in a statement to ABC News.

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Ahhhh yes, this will go well.

https://twitter.com/DreyfusJames/status/1774166629313544216

There will be men who claim to be women “perceiving” hate incidents in their thousands every day. Since evidence of malice or ill-will is not required for a hate crime or incident to be recorded, there will be thousands of them recorded every day.

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Gosh, the CBC asks, blinking rapidly, is there really a competitive advantage???

Right below the headline and subhead, we are treated to this heartbreaking photo and caption:

Aria McGowan becomes tearful as she reflects on a proposed policy in Alberta that would ban trans women and girls from competing against women and girls. (Samuel Martin/CBC)

Oh oh oh the puir wee lass, that’s so sad. Her big red eyes, her crinkled brow, her tilted head, her leather thumb on her trembling lip. What have we done???

The lede:

Aria McGowan picks up a football and gingerly takes a couple of steps back before throwing it to a teammate down the field.

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