Reform council spends £600k on eight free parking spaces for senior councillors | LBC The majority of staff, who will not be able to use the free parking facilities available to their senior colleagues, will still be expected to pay to park every day

Reform Kent council spends £600k on eight free parking spaces for senior councillors

Left: France to ditch US platforms citing security concerns

Right: UK gives billions to US platforms

France, in the EU, is investing in their sovereignty

UK, outside the UK, is giving away our sovereignty

Suella Braverman, "There is a very strong case to increase the powers of any immigration enforcement officers that we deploy"

"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"

The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians:

‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’

Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.

THIS IS SO FUCKEN PUNK IT RULES

Populists attack London because it is ‘progressive and successful’, says Sadiq Khan Rightwing attacks on one of the world’s most visited cities at odds with reality, says mayor

Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:

‘It’s a scary time’: Sophie Lewis on the ‘enemy feminisms’ that enable the far right In a new book the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists today

Who'd've thunk Graun'd cover me favorably? But the US (less-TERF) desk did thanks to @joolia.bsky.social: "[Trump 2.0] demonstrates the weaknesses of Harris’ brand of feminism, even as it precipitated crises in every aspect of life that demand a feminist response" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

The results are in! People hate AI! But not as much as they hate the people foisting it on them!

Some 2026 Predictions I think we've made it past rock bottom?

Wrote up my predictions for 2026.

-I think 2025 will have been rock bottom.
-The Trump coalition is going to panic and fall to infighting as election day draws closer.
-The AI bubble will get even more obviously bubbly.
-We'll begin the long road to repair.
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Maybe the main thing that gets me; trans people are such a tiny minority that if the 1st through say, 15th things you think/say/(God forbid post) about them aren’t variations on “How can I help them out?” you are genuinely going out of your way to be weird and mean.

The political desire to define women solely in terms of their reproductive capacity is, and always has been, a way to control their bodies. This is why affirming trans rights is also affirming women’s rights. Feminism disrupts patriarchal logics that seek to police people according to their biology.

Worcestershire County Council plans to raise tax by more than 5% Worcestershire County Council says keeping tax

Council plans to raise tax by more than 5%

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Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.

56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.

Read that back.

The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too, says Jess O’Thomson of the Good Law Project

"This is a moment that requires bravery in standing up for right. Organisations that value trans people should know not just that the law is on their side – but so, also, are many people who will step up to defend them if they have the courage to take a stand." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It is the White Wing who cry about everything.

People with a different religion, cry.
Not every face is white, cry.
Women don't want them because they are awful, cry.
People don't want to work for slave wages, cry.

Cry, cry, cry, cry.

Rules on single-sex spaces pose risk to trans people’s mental health, UK charities say Fifteen organisations sign letter expressing deep concern over EHRC guidance being considered by ministers

“Mental health services should be places of refuge, not risk, and equality protections must strengthen, not erode, the conditions that enable people to feel safe and supported.”

It’s good to see more organisations speak out against politics that degrade trans people’s safety, health, and wellbeing.

I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:

"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."

All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.

"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”

What does this do for women's rights?

amnestyfeminist The Guardian @theguardian.com Trans girls banned from joining Girlguiding 25 The Guardian Amnesty UK Feminists @amnestyf... • 4m No00000000!!!!!!!! Girlguiding was always so wonderfully trans inclusive and this development is truly chilling. Sending solidarity to the trans community. We love you! AMNESTY FEMINISTS

With so much abuse from cis men still covered up , with so much misogyny rife , with anti trans activists starting to turn towards abortion rights - well done to all the bigots who decided relentless abuse of trans kids was the solution #translives

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

A human rights expert just confirmed the truth about being trans in Britain It’s about time someone with authority and actual expertise made it clear.

“Everyday activities like going to a public bathroom or going swimming with your friends has suddenly become an area riddled with anxiety, uncertainty and risk.”

@uglastefania.bsky.social reminds us how the British government is making public spaces hostile to trans and gender non-conforming folks.

So much talk of economics and far right radicalisation but my increasingly view is we are all - myself included - underestimating the impact of both internet culture and (more importantly) the economics of the internet/social media on politics and radicalisation

How Reform ‘misinformation’ campaign sank town’s refugee sanctuary plan Party accused of stoking divisions in Weston-super-Mare over scheme to improve support for asylum seekers

This is really worrying. And so sad.

Family firm of Reform UK council leader threatened with compulsory strike off Mansfield Carpets (Contracts) Limited faced Companies House action over four consecutive years of delayed filings

Family firm of Reform UK council leader threatened with compulsory strike off

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