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Heartbroken family of trans teen speaks out about how bullying led to his death The family of trans Iowa student Miles Phipps has spoken out about bullying following losing their son to suicide. He was just 15-years-old.

A trans teen in Iowa completed suicide after severe bullying by classmates and teachers.

"Miles’ death came a day after a substitute teacher refused to use his preferred pronouns."

It's the type of bullying @thefireorg.bsky.social and @aricohn.com support.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/17/m...

BREAKING: Among 2024 Labour voters, 35% have a favourable opinion of Zack Polanski, 11% have an unfavourable opinion of him.

2024 Labour voters say Polanski is more net favourable than:

Keir Starmer
Ed Davey
Jeremy Corbyn
Rachel Reeves
Zarah Sultana
Nigel Farage
Kemi Badenoch

(YouGov, 16-17 Nov)

Zack Polanski: ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ | The Observer

"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not.

He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.

Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Lest we forget

Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

“Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford.”

The political refusal to admit how badly they screwed us over with Brexit keeps us trapped in inevitable, snowballing failure. We can’t let them dodge this reality forever.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Titanic hit an obstacle (iceberg) and sank, with the loss of a lot of lives....

Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

More powerful evidence of the disaster of #Brexit from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social. If we’re to avoid yet more austerity, we need to start by rejoining the customs union & single market. Brexit was a reckless waste of money we simply can’t afford @europeanmovement.co.uk

Labour -25.7...

I'm sooooooooo looking forward to little Wesley Streeting losing his seat. 😂

History will remember we banned Palestine Action for putting graffiti on planes.

But never stopped supplying Israel with bombs to drop on children.

Labour, always arguing in favour of the big corporations. There is no point voting for a party that has no real solutions to urgent issues.

Energy minister says 'there's no shortcut' to bringing down bills - as price cap rise announced The average annual energy bill will rise by 0.2% in January, despite wholesale costs falling.

Households face higher energy bills.

No end to profiteering - £30bn last yr.
£4.4bn bills arrears.
128000 a year, including 110,000.pensioners die in fuel poverty.

Must remove all subsidies from bills, pay via general taxation.

Exclude gas produced electricity from general Ofgem pricing formula.

@adamjohnsonCHI X.com Washington Post editorial board comes out against releasing the Epstein files, dismisses them as having no public interest (how they know this without seeing them first is a mystery) and praises the lone 'no' vote against their release from Clay Higgins

The Washington Post editorial board decided the Epstein files have “no public interest” before even seeing them. That’s a stunning position for any newsroom to take. Praising Clay Higgins as the lone ‘no’ vote, too? No wonder no one trusts legacy media. Absolutely disgusting.

During Israel's Gaza genocide, @Reebok became sponsor of the Israel Football Assoc, which includes teams in illegal Israeli settlements and has a league for Israeli soldiers.

Join 367 Palestinian teams demanding Reebok end its sponsorship. #BoycottReebok

New immigration rules demand people speak English to A level standard. There's no oral element to A Level English exams (nor GCSE), so how is this to be tested, & by whom?

I teach English in state secondary school. Most of my colleagues aren't A Level standard, so I doubt border guards will be...

Gutted for La Voix who’s been left with no choice but to withdraw from Strictly because of an injury. Having known her for years, there’s no doubt in my mind that she would’ve been working her fabulous arse off for the win! She did herself and our community very proud!

🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍🌈

Analysis of the language used in Trump’s Ukraine “peace plan” shows it was drafted in Russian and translated into English.

I’ll try to dig up a link.

Article which reads: Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance or behaviour, according to proposed new guidance seen by the BBC. A code of practice, produced by the Equalities watchdog and awaiting ministerial approval, says it may be legitimate for businesses or services to ask people to provide confirmation they are of the eligible sex "by proportionate means"

This is a dark and dangerous path.

The government has said it won’t be rushed, and I sincerely hope this means that Ministers will reject any EHRC guidance that further harms trans people.

Parliament should instead make clear in legislation that “single-sex spaces” are to be trans-inclusive.

Zack Polanski: 'Labour Has Lost Its Soul On Immigration, Their Silent MPs Should Be Ashamed' Writing for HuffPost UK, the Greens leader says only his party will stand up to the powerful and defend the 99%.

Time to replace them.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-p...

Starmer writes for the Telegraph and uses X. No government presence on Bluesky. Its like everyone to the left of Farage is dead to them.

There has never been a clearer example of the fact that we do not have a legislature in the United States right now. Trump tells them to vote no, so they all vote no. Then Trump changes his mind and they all change their votes. That is autocracy. Vote them out!

Centre-left tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history Political rivals say PM’s divisive politics have encouraged voters to ditch the Social Democrats for the far right

Perhaps Mahmood should have waited a couple of days with her new flagship policy on immigration, modelled on Denmark?

Labour no longer exists under Starmer.

The Green Party has socialist policies under Polanski.

100% true

This country is not broken because of migrants!
Nor is it broken because of Asylum seekers!

It is broken because successive governments over the last 45 years have gotten rich quick!

They have made companies and billionaires richer than ever!

TO THE DETRIMENT OF YOU AND OUR SERVICES!

"Polanski was joined by many Labour MPs in opposing the government’s plans, although most of them are thought to be prepared to reluctantly support the measures."

What's the point of being in Labour?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

To all those angry #LabourParty: #PLP #MPs #TradeUnions #CLP #LabourMembers. YOU HAVE #AGENCY there are non - #Racist #NeoFascist #FarRight #Reform #Tory #PoliticalParites showing compassion, empathy & logic on #immigration & #refugees. Join #YourParty or #Geens - it's time to #StandUp & #BeCounted

Mimicking Reform was a disaster for Sunak and the Tories. There’s NO point voting Labour to keep Reform
out if Labour are acting as Reform. Attacking the vulnerable, and poorest and cosying up to the rich. What is the point of Labour anymore? No wonder their vote has collapsed

Right Labour hates their voters SOOOO much they would rather burn down the party than seek their votes. It’s actually incredible

Labour partisans: "But if we sacrifice the rights of <insert victim outgroup of the day> then maybe we can create the space to talk about the other stuff we're doing!"

Sorry, no. I'm still a little bit stuck on that part where you're happy to sacrifice the rights of my fellow humans.

Labour is now Reform