The Cranky Gremlin

"So much of the potency of the Epstein conspiracy is that it speaks to a core feeling for many that the alienation, stagnation, and fear they experience is all the result of a genuinely evil class of elites."

At what point does the penny drop that evil arrives on private jets, not small boats?

On Fox News, the anchor Will Cain choked up on-air as he read aloud President Trump's announcement of the death of Charlie Kirk. "I don't know where we go from here as a news program," Mr. Cain told viewers, "and I don't know where we go from here in America." Megyn Kelly, streaming live on YouTube, was tearful even before the news was confirmed, sobbing with her guest, Glenn Beck of The Blaze. She described Mr. Kirk as a friend who supported her even when her relations with the MAGA world were strained. "I am so sorry to be bringing you this news," Ms. Kelly told her audience. Later

They have never, ever expressed anything close to this level of pain and sympathy for school shooting victims.

3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).

The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the 2nd Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."-Charlie Kirk in 2023, after 6 ppl (inc. 3 children) were shot & killed in a Nashville school

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

Downing Street shake-up: who’s in and who’s out at No 10 Departures and new hires expected to give PM more direct oversight of delivery of key government priorities

The Guardian, in their write up of the reshuffle, completely omit mentioning that Tim Allen, new director of comms, was a Trustee for anti-trans hate group Sex Matters.

Instead he gets "Allan’s past colleagues describe him as charming and collegiate". Yikes.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is how the Hostile Environment works btw. We've had it in the UK for 13 years. It loves exploitative employers and exploitative employers alone.

Actual Conservative front bench politicians are calling for the government to overturn a not guilty verdict returned by an independent jury in respect of a political rival.

Trump levels of partisan, anti-rule of law authoritarianism.

Totally agree with the point that the public should not be asked to confront shoplifters. But the thing we should be worried about are the forms of discrimination arising from legitimised vigilantism.

The real question we need to consider is who will be confronted if this were followed...

BBC Radio 4 apologised for telling the truth

With all respect, the Court will eventually overturn Obergefell. It may not be Kim Davis’s petition. But it will happen.

The conservatives will argue that there’s no history and tradition of same sex marriage. And they will rely on Glucksberg.

I have an article coming out tomorrow about this.

One of the most urgent crises in the criminal justice system is that allegations of rape and serious sexual offending take five years to reach trial.

Any politician who claims to care about sexual violence and is silent on this issue has another agenda.

Trans women to be banned from single-sex spaces under EHRC guidance The Equality and Human Rights Commission has been criticised by trans rights campaigners for its response to the Supreme Court’s ruling

"This proposed guidance goes far beyond what the For Women Scotland judgment requires.

It amounts to a bathroom ban for trans people, violating people’s right to privacy in their everyday lives"

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Trans women to be banned from single-sex spaces under EHRC guidance The Equality and Human Rights Commission has been criticised by trans rights campaigners for its response to the Supreme Court’s ruling

UK Govt rules:

- a women’s book club or exercise class welcoming trans women is illegal

- trans men can’t be anywhere. They can’t be in men’s spaces cause they’re not men. But they also can’t be in women’s spaces cause they might look like men

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Lady Hale among 600 lawyers to sign letter calling on UK to stop arms sales to Israel Legal experts warned that the government’s actions fall ‘significantly short’ of its obligations under international law

This legal advice applies to Prime Minister Carney too:

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/isra...

A secret DWP report on disabled claimant suicides has finally been released Thank God for Disability News Service and its perseverance in uncovering this suppressed DWP report. It exemplifies rigorous journalism.

A secret DWP report on disabled claimant suicides has finally been released

Thank God for Disability News Service and its perseverance in uncovering this suppressed DWP report - otherwise the public would be none the wiser.
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Not one Al Jazeera journalist left…

All systematically murdered by a regime desperate to conceal the truth

And while many of their western counterparts and media figures (who are safe and salaried) choose silence and complicity.

CPJ calls for Anas Al-Sharif’s protection in face of Israeli smears - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, July 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely worried about the safety of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, who is being targeted by an Israeli military ...

Just two weeks ago, the Committee to Protect Journalists called for Anas Al-Sharif’s protection.

He was subject to repeated Israeli smears that were believed to be the precursor to his assassination.

The IDF have admitted they targeted him tonight. Because they know there will be no repercussions.

Anas Al-Sharif pictured with his two young children that he is holding. They are all smiling.

Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him.

Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated:

RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal

This gives me very simple joy

Miliband is right *and* apparently the only major figure in the current government to have looked across the pond, decided that was bad, and determined that *not* doing what the Democrats did might in fact be a good shout.

I aspire to have such a fabulous gravestone.

I will never not get a kick at how often modern evangelicals end up espousing heresies that would have gotten them burned the last time the religion they're trying to build a theocracy around had hard political power when they lecture people online.

NEWSMAX * • Follow NEWSMAX 2d • Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz was once again refused a pierogi from an unwilling vendor at a Martha's Vineyard market, the latest in his controversies over pierogis in the celebrity hot spot. newsmax.com Dershowitz Again Denied Pierogi, Told to Leave Farmer's Market 1.2K 750 comments 66 shares

Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.

Thousands seen sitting with placards that all read “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine action.” Big Ben is seen in the background

NEW: Parliament Square, London right now.

Thousands in a silent, peaceful protest against both the genocide in Gaza and the UK Government prescribing protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Police now making arrests.

(📸 Saul Staniforth)

Shit.

Logo of the Department of Education. Title: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education. Subtitle: Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, and teachers. Dated July 2025

🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will:

- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender

What we know so far 🧵

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

I didn't catch her name, who was it?