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The famous Nazi book burning photos are literally of research and stories by and about queer and gender non-conforming people and, still, reactionary centrists are saying “we have to throw transgender folks under the bus to defeat fascism.” Both cruel & ahistorical, it boggles the mind

Even Judge Dredd, an actual fascist cop, identifies himself.

Bit rich complaining about New York being taken over by immigrants when there's a big fucking statue in the harbour that invites everyone to come live there.

Should politicians accept donations/funding from organisations or individuals representing foreign governments?

Screen shot of CNN site with a Saturday breaking news alert explaining that Trump launched a strike against Iran atop a CNN story from the same day headlined “Always a peacemaker”: How Trump decided to hold off on striking Iran

really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency

“Forget about intelligence” is a pretty good mantra for this administration

A war in Iraq "could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

— Donald Rumsfeld, February 7, 2003

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

Surely "defend Israel" should be the phrase in inverted commas here

wracking my brains to think of someone who would have had access to a police uniform, a police-issue plate carrier, and a police car

These people like Helen Lewis want "polite transphobia" and just like any other form of bigotry, you cannot have a polite form of it. It will always devolve into pure cruelty.

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The crumbs of the huge chocolate cheesecake demolished last night suggests otherwise

Choco shreddies and a mini pork pie for breakfast? Must be holiday time!

2018: Number of times Kathleen Stock, Maya Forstater, Helen Joyce, Fiona McAnena or Sex Matters were mentioned in the papers? Once, and it was Forstater taking about a non-trans subject.
2019: 143
2020: 228
2021: 324
2022: 557
2023: 631
2024: 796

Empty cardboard tray on a market shelf labeled “evaporated milk.”

you gotta be faster

Trans folks and Allies in Glasgow - free on Monday night? Please consider coming along to support and hear some great performances as well!

Labour's AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right | Computer Weekly Critical computing expert Dan McQuillan argues that, on top of the clear social and environmental harms associated with the technology, Labour's vapid fixation on AI-led growth in lieu of real change ...

"What we urgently need, instead of a political leadership in thrall to AI's aura of total power, is a reassertion of context and agency by returning control to more local and directly democratic structures." Excellent summary.

In a few years (max) when people start asking why we thought AI was a good idea I am creating a record that we did NOT think it was a good idea and the main reason people were ever convinced was billions of dollars of propaganda

Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy.

This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.

fantastic, the country that already has among the highest per capita water consumption in the world & tenth-most strained water supply in the world is investing in magic waste lots of water boxes

Letter: We are not strangers Letter to the editor

“I woke up with a sense of dread…”

— from an EU citizen in the UK on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging.

Powerful open letter. 👇

Ah yes, the 'Rowling Maneuvre':

"I was abused by a cis male relative years ago... Anyway, let's talk about trans women for some reason."

Sadly "number of clicks" has replaced "quality of journalism" as the target for most written media now.

Thought this for ages. Journalists should be researching actual stories, not just pouring out whatever the first half baked nonsense they woke up with in their mushy brains

This is why I think we should abolish the profession of the columnist. All they do is go after people who have never hurt them once and can't defend themselves against their attacks. It's an abominable profession that should not exist.

I milked cows on a beautiful, amazing family farm through high school and college. Anyone who goes to a local farm, looks the farmer in the eyes, pets the cow, and doesn’t immediately demand pasteurization has in fact never been to a farm.

I am amused by the framing of this article because you may as well accuse me of refusing to use a flame thrower in my work. I'm not refusing, it is of no use to me because I am a non-fictition writer. That's all.