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Don't Be Distracted from Trump's Filth - emptywheel Donald Trump just moved the woman who "stole" his spa girls and turned one into a sex slave into comfier prison digs to prevent her from revealing the dirt she has on him, and yet he has the gall to s...

Trump's plan to invade DC involves spinning brown people and Democrats as "filth."

We are losing a battle over "filth" to a guy who moved the sex predator who "stole" his spa girls and forced one into sex slavery into comfier digs.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/12/d...

Watching the Netflix Tour de France series and am a bit miffed that they've called it 'unchained' when the translation is 'at the heart of the peloton'.

UK really needs to start building and modifying for resilience. Too hot, too cold, too much rain, not enough rain. We can't handle any of them. Since we're a very urban and suburban population living in towns and cities, the heat island effect is very real. Which means more trees, painting […]

How RFK Jr is systematically undermining vaccines around the world Vaccines saved 154 million lives. But as fear of disease fades, so does protection – raising the chilling prospect of a return to the pre-vaccine era.

@sheencr.bsky.social and I wrote about how Kennedy is systematically undermining vaccines in a coordinated and very effective way in the US for @uk.theconversation.com

full article here:
theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-i...

Strictly Come Dancing: Dani Dyer, Alex Kingston and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink sign up Dani Dyer, Alex Kingston and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink will be taking to the BBC show's dance floor.

Strictly announcements have begun and so far I recognise all four names https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly3318nrmpo #scd #strictly

[UK transphobia, JKR, infertility, ableism, misogyny]

A deeply personal essay from a disabled woman who has struggled with infertility about how JKR's comments about "faulty egg making equipment" and defining womanhood hurt, well, everyone covered by the CWs tea […]

A three-column headline spans the top of the Washington Post today: "Trump to place D.C. police under federal control, deploy National Guard." Subheads say: Trump suggests that National Guard could be deployed in Chicago." At the center of the page is a photo of Trump at a recent White House press conference announcing the move.

This isn't going to stop with Washington, D.C. or Chicago. Also, taking >100 FBI agents off of whatever they are doing and assigning them as temporary beat cops in DC has to be the dumbest, most wasteful and demoralizing use of federal law enforcement I've […]

[Original post on infosec.exchange]

Reading some comments on a news article on RFK gutting the world's ability to respond to health risks, and I particularly like the response given as to why RFK isn't as enthusiastic about things like mRNA vaccines (could he be adopting a 'precautionary principle' approach?). I quote: 'Because […]

But none of that makes a snappy headline that appeals to bigots (because bigots buy books too).

It shouldn't be a question of someone attempting to game a system. If a system can be gamed, your system is broken. This is not to say that there are not (and should not be) differences between how prisoners are treated, but there are a lot of things that happen way earlier in the justice system […]

Cis women prisoners can be a risk to other cis women prisoners. If we're going to be doing incarceration as part of a judicial system then prisoners need to be kept safe, from other prisoners and from guards. Prisoners still deserve to be treated with dignity and respect their human rights […]

SPS took it upon themselves to override the original warrant and place Bryson in the only women-only prison whilst doing their risk assessment. The Scottish Gender Recognition Reform Bill didn't change that trans prisoners may/can be placed in prisons that do not align with their gender, based […]

Nicola has a book to sell, what better way than to use trans people as a way to get headlines and press for it. The Scottish Prison System fucked up Bryson's original placement. Once you start saying that X or Y person can't change gender it's the thin end of a wedge. Any prisoner who is a […]

Great thread about the new @uk.theconversation.com article @sheencr.bsky.social and I wrote about how Kennedy is systematically undermining vaccines in a coordinated and scarily effective way in the US.

full article here:
theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-i...

Paranoia, misinformation, and glee: inside Bristol’s far right protest: The numbers were small. But at a far right protest in Bristol, we saw a movement that believes it’s winning […]

[Original post on newsie.social]

The manufacturer came back with: 'the schedule would be between you and the installer' when it was them (the manufacturer) who offered me the date and then never booked it. They've also asked the installer to contact me, as well as that third party who they previously contacted and then ghosted […]

Cat check ups all OK (except they hate me now). A new vet and a final year vet student, so everything took twice as long, but they got through it fine and I wasn't berated about them both being over 5kg again #chonk

Decided against as the route in is likely to be far too peopley to actually be able to get where I would want to, so will just look at other people's photos. Plus I'd have to get changed.

It's only 4-5 miles each way, but it would mean not getting home to start dinner until around 19:00, at which point I'll already be hungry. I might just check to see if they're likely to float over the back garden.

Perfect blue skies for the mass ascent this evening. But can I be bothered to cycle down to Long Ashton (and back again) to see it? #bristol #BristolBalloonFiesta

Mass arrests for peaceful protests are a waste of police time, but very important to assert authority and divert attention from important gov failures like 'How the fuck was anyone able to get in and out of a RAF base??'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8de6rq37v5o

A spiral staircase in a grey, concrete carpark. At the top you can see out to the sky, and in the background is Edinburgh Castle with the Red Arrows flying over.

Haha! Can't believe it worked!

#photography #Edinburgh #Concrete #CarPark #RedArrows

Putin gets a meeting with the "pres of the US" [sic] on US soil... BECAUSE he's under indictment by the world court for war crimes..like kidnapping children.

So 2 criminals involved w child trafficking are having a powwow to dictate the fate of a country that was illegally invaded by Russia

Swell.

(This is all stuff that is covered on the website, btw).

Why, why did I read the comments on the facebook post for the balloon fiesta? So many people are, quite frankly, stupid. No, you won't be able to see the nightglow (where the balloons are tethered) from a hill five miles away. No, they can't tell you today whether they will launch tomorrow (it […]

As predicted by every trans person over a decade ago, the UK's gender critical shitshow doesn't work for anyone.

The EPA will stop updating a popular database that helps companies calculate their greenhouse gas emissions after the lead scientist criticized Trump, because he’s a fucking child. The scientist has left the EPA and will continue the work at Stanford University […]

No call back today.

the work anymore, they hadn't told him. A clusterfuck that has left me with 50% battery capacity for the last month and now who knows how much longer. It would have been quicker for me to train as an installer and figure it out myself. Bets as to whether I get a call back today? I'm not holding […]

isn't acceptable to leave me with half a battery for a month and that I'd have rather had the old dodgy unit left, and they say 'those are your only options', I say 'Fine, it will have to be 8th August then' and here we are. Me, on 8th August expecting an engineer, them haven't having booked the […]