Wait until you hear about these things called forests.

"A woman is like a child": MAGA turns its sights on stripping Republican women of power Conservative women believe complicity will save them, but an emboldened far-right is gunning for their rights

GOP wants to remove women's right to vote. One bill requires citizens to have passport or birth certificate matching their name to vote. This would be a back-door ban on voting for any woman who took her husband's name & doesn't have a passport, an estimated 69m women.
www.salon.com/2025/02/26/a...

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE - A GUIDE TO NAVIGATING UK LAW ON SINGLE-SEX TOILET, WASHING & CHANGING FACILITIES IN WORKPLACES & IN SERVICES PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC

New legal guide about UK law re changing rooms and toilets at work by us at Legal Feminist www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2025/02/26/s...

"There is no better way to ensure people are not politically active or aware than to have them working, commuting to work, or preparing for work every moment of the day. Sacrificing so many of one’s waking hours to the gods of productivity ensures no-one has access to outside perspectives that would enable them to notice that organizing life this way ultimately decreases productivity. . As a result of this neoliberal obsession with stamping out alternative perspectives, we have been left in the bizarre situation where its plain to everyone that capitalism doesn’t work, but it’s almost impossible for anyone to imagine anything else." . - David Graeber

"The war against the imagination is the only one the capitalists have actually managed to win."

From; Revolutions In Reverse by David Graeber

Trump on immigrants: Put them in camps at Gitmo!

Trump on crime: Put them in camps in El Salvador!

Trump on the homeless: Put them in camps outside the cities!

Trump on Gaza: Put them in camps in foreign countries!

I don't dunno, but there seems to be a common theme to all these final solutions.

Fact-checking the Trumplandic bombast:

"Do so, and try to get your head around the scale of what was allowed to happen, not for morbid indulgence, but because in the justification for what has been done to Gaza’s children hides the most extreme form of dehumanisation from which all Palestinians suffer".

People don't listen.

They seem so damn confident - and complacent - about the fact that 'that could never happen.'

Which is *exactly how it happens.*

Germany’s Scholz lashes out at Musk’s ‘disgusting’ interventions in Europe German chancellor has finally had enough of the tech billionaire and Donald Trump adviser.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hammered tech billionaire Elon Musk tonight over controversial remarks he made about Germans needing to get over their “past guilt” for horrific crimes carried out by the Nazis.

Elon Musk has seized control of the American civil service.

If we define "Nazi" as an early 20th Century political/social movement then nobody is a Nazi. They're all dead.

But if you promote devout neo-Nazis, make Nazi salutes and espouse theories of ethnic purity and segregation, then you are whatever a Nazi would be called today.

the flaw in all this is that we are *not transparent even to ourselves* - is the guy who tells himself he's not a Nazi while throwing the Hitlergruß not the a Nazi!? We don't have time to waste investigating his ineffable self. Just go by what he does. It's much simpler

Considering Sex as a Biological Variable in Basic and Clinical Studies: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement Abstract. In May 2014, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) stated its intent to “require applicants to consider sex as a biological variable (SABV) in

'Most scientists now reject the idea that sex is strictly binary'.
In reality:
'The classical biological definition of the 2 sexes is that females have ovaries and make larger female gametes (eggs), whereas males have testes and make smaller male gametes (sperm)'.
academic.oup.com/edrv/article...

After his executive order on sex, is Trump legally the first female president? The confusing and vague executive order underscores how complex sex is and why it’s hard to reduce it into a neat binary

Oh please.
'Because the undifferentiated genitalia that males and females share very early in fetal development are “phenotypically female”, you could argue he just made everyone legally female.'
Just no.
Phenotype = interaction of genotype with environment.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We have another 4 years of this pig-ignorant bullsh*t to endure.

This. Exactly. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Beauty of a day on the Mersey Riviera

News alert: Good Morning America Troops arrive at the Southern border, battle for the Super Bowl and panda-monium at the National Zoo. Watch GMA on ABC.

This is probably what’s going to drive me insane in the weeks and months ahead.

Trump’s fascism is going to be presented alongside sports news and wordplay about new animals at the zoo, like all of this is normal.

I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

What took him so long?

We don’t choose which public services we fund, for good reason. Otherwise everyone pre-retirement could avoid paying for Super, able bodied people could keep their share of disability funding & so on. The “self fund or die” model might be Seymour’s utopia but it’s not mine.

Oh ffs. If anyone thinks the private health system provides all the services that the public system does, or that having to negotiate with your insurance company to get ANY service is a better alternative, I have a bridge to sell you.

The 'many people' who like license are basically the bullies.

Commentators like Rory Stewart @rory-stewart.bsky.social and Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social have recently noted how much abuse they now get on X when posting critical comments.

This, apparently, is what 'free speech' now means.

Trump demands countries surrender tax sovereignty at economic gunpoint | Tax Justice Network US President Donald Trump has signalled plans to question the right of any country to tax American multinational corporations and is threatening to take countermeasures against countries that do not, ...

“Trump hasn’t just killed the OECD’s weak tax reforms, he’s effectively threatening to scrap everything built over the last century and to take the world back to ‘robber baron’-era tax policies."

Fantastic analysis from @taxjusticenet.bsky.social taxjustice.net/press/trump-...

I think this is my favourite shot from a lovely morning shooting on what seemed like the coldest day ever (last Saturday). I've always loved the spot but the light at this time of year is just perfect. #StreetPhotography #SonyAlpha #Photography #Newcastle #NewcastleuponTyne

What we are witnessing is the normalisation of extremism. If we allow the right to pretend that the German AFD is just another conservative party... or that Donald Trump is just another president... or that Elon Musk was just getting carried away with that salute are on a distinctly dangerous path.

Govt to weaken Hauraki Gulf protections over $14k in fishing revenue Environmentalists are questioning the economic basis for the Government's decision to weaken proposed marine protections in the Hauraki Gulf.

Reducing protections for a dying Hauraki Gulf for 14k. Who are the members of small group of fishers who have the ear of the minister, I wonder.

"Govt to weaken Hauraki Gulf protections over $14k in fishing revenue."

"Ketanji Brown Jackson Wore A Symbol Of Silent Rebellion At Inauguration" For Africans, cowrie shells carry protective properties and spiritual significance... seen as conduits of ancestral wisdom and protection, used in divination and spiritual ceremonies.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/ketanj...