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EHRC drops interim trans advice and urges ministers to act fast to approve its guidance Equalities watchdog removes interim response to supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman from its website

A Whitehall source said: “Unfortunately this looks like the EHRC deflecting – they still haven’t sent ministers the information requested in order to assess the draft code. The EHRC should be cracking on with their job, not giving lectures on timing while government still awaits their material” 🔥

Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza

Many of the 90 bodies of Palestinians returned to Gaza by Israeli authorities under the ceasefire deal showed signs of torture and execution, including blindfolds, cuffed hands and bullet wounds in the head, according to doctors’ accounts.

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’ After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics

Keep it going. Get your family and friends to join
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Men like Piers Morgan have found women in trans women who it is socially acceptable to abuse.

Every time they do this stuff they are telling you how they'd treat cis women if they could get away with it.

The grand tradition of lying to strangers asking you survey questions

One hundred percent this. Transmisogyny is misogyny.

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

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Donate to 'Brummies United Against Racism and Hate' Poster Campaign, organized by Brummies United Help Us Flood Birmingham with a Message of Unity and Hope … Brummies United needs your support for 'Brummies United Against Racism and Hate' Poster Campaign

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‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation

"A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation"
#antifa #StGeorge #racism #flags
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it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people

reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

In a new memoir, “The Klansman’s Son," R. Derek Black writes about their upbringing and personal transformation – from a committed white supremacist since ch... They Were the Poster Child for the KKK; Now They Advocate for Antiracism | Amanpour and Company

Excited to learn that R Derek Black has a new book out! There was a minor media blitz about Black a few years ago because they'd come out against white supremacy after growing up deeply embedded in the white nationalist movement. Rare Youtube algorithm win.

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Those who weaponise aid and kill under its cover must face justice My friend Nader was killed at a GHF site. I want those responsible for his murder held to account.

My friend Nader was killed at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) site. I want those responsible for his murder held to account. Silence over these crimes is complicity, and silence today means they will happen again tomorrow.

Habibi trouncing!😂

😏😙🤌

Chef’s kiss emoji

World War 2 & Vietnam War lasted a combined 27 years, or just shy of 10,000 days. In that time, a total of 132 journalists were killed.

Israel has sieged Gaza for just under 700 days & killed 242+ journalists.

This violates Art 79 of Add’l Protocol (I) of Geneva Conventions.

These Are War Crimes.

Anyone who fails to see that we are careening toward fascism is not paying attention.

Reform just tell people whatever they think you want to hear.

And of course that includes former Tory Ministers turned Reform.

We must hold them to account.

Every. Single. Time.

Heartbreaking to watch a much of our world descend into misogyny, butchery, homophobia, transphobia and out and out racism and realise that those politicians and media outlets we thought would fight them actually are more confident encouraging them, platforming them and silencing criticism

Israel’s starvation denial is an Orwellian farce The Israeli ‘hasbara’ cannot disprove the obvious, but it can obfuscate and exhaust.

"For a brief moment, the publication of photos of starving Palestinians broke through the wall of propaganda, prompting minimal concessions. But the siege continues, the hunger deepens and the mass killing expands."
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Finally, a large-scale anti-war protest in Israel Suffering of Palestinians is still very low on the priority list for most Israelis, but anti-war sentiment grows nonetheless

#israel #anti-war #Zionism #protest #gaza #palestine

This was the largest and most raucous anti-government demonstration in months. “The anger was palpable; it was probably the first demonstration that I can recall that had a decidedly anti-war sentiment.”

A man with a spectacular 1970s mullet, wearing big wellies and a v-neck jumper over a T-shirt, looks at camera as he stands on a boat which is itself standing on the muddy bottom of an empty canal. He is holding up an enormous wooden plug on a long chunky chain

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

Half the first book prize, 40% of judges and a third of the main prize! It’s not looking great Polari.

I will be asking to remove 'Queer As Folklore' from the long list for the Polari Prize 2025.

“The timing and frequency of the flights also raised questions about what atrocities British military pilots had borne witness to in the past 20 months.”

BACK IN BRITAIN: There are fresh questions about the British military's involvement in surveillance operations over Gaza. The Times reports that the U.K. is paying American contractors in Nevada to carry out secret spying missions for Israel due to a shortage of RAF planes. Larisa Brown's scoop was the product of a "schoolboy" error which meant the flight path of the U.S. aircraft was made publicly available and it could be seen flying over the largely leveled city of Khan Yunis in July. RAF spy planes: Despite longstanding opacity over its involvement, MoD officials are now confirming to Playbook (and others) that the RAF has indeed been carrying out surveillance flights over Gaza since December 2023, just

Gee whizz, why aren’t these people doing anything to stop the crimes against humanity, why won’t they meaningfully speak out against it. A real mystery

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.ne... • 29m Politico today: "There are fresh questions about the British military's involvement in surveillance operations over Gaza. The Times reports that the U.K. is paying American contractors in Nevada to carry out secret spying missions for Israel due to a shortage of RAF planes."

A US media outlet. British ones were instructed on day one to not talk about any of this and have obeyed faithfully, even when the PM went to the Cyprus airbase Britain and America have been using to keep Israel armed the teeth and said he couldn’t talk openly about that had been going on there.

Polanski said trans rights are human rights. We have to be actively anti racist. We also have to take on transphobia and be actively anti transphobic. Trans men are men, trans women are women and non binary identities exist. Lets make sure we actively defend trans people...because they need it right now.

So good to be in Brighton tonight for our South East Hustings.

We need to tackle inequality and take the fight to Reform.

All while keeping solidarity to the people who need us to show up for them.

That's what the Green Party stands for.

Link below to live hustings feed. 👇🏼

Librarian here, and Ebook Central (formerly ebrary, longtime ProQuest platform) is moving away from a model where libraries can directly license individual books, alongside full AI integration. It’s led their top competition EBSCO to double down on… NOT doing that. Very happy to use EBSCO.

Okay this is worse than I thought. A large # of academic press books (incld. a textbook I use in class) have been moved to a platform called Ebook Central. It's like Kindle paired w/ AI. No footnotes. No page #s No facsimile PDFs are available. I just wrote a lengthy complaint to my library. Sigh.