Karen Klomp

You would think that finding out the whole heroin chic waif look and ubiquitous fatshaming of women in the 90's was influenced by a handful of elite pedophiles as both their preference and a way to sex traffick more easily, would have made a bigger splash in the news.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar X.com Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was" LIVE GREENSBORO, NC cc # 45 our Children. 5:45 PT LIVE BREAKING NEWS TRUMP SPEAKS IN NORTH CAROLINA 'UNABOMBER' TED KACZYNSKI, 81, FOUND DEAD IN PRISON. GO TO NEWS 5:49 PM • 6/10/23 • 14M Views

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor."

Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity.

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker.

Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

1/x Have you heard of the SS Richard Montgomery, often dubbed the "Doomsday Wreck"? This shipwreck is considered one of the most dangerous in the world, resting in the Thames Estuary near Sheerness, Kent, just a mere 30 miles (48 km) from the outskirts of London. A small🧵

The short clip has gone viral with people making out it shows something very different

For 3 days a group of Americans came and stood near a Mosque and called Muslims sinful, criminals full of anger and hatred

And the worst that happened was some Muslims asked the police why that was allowed🤷🏼‍♀️

And that’s the clip that’s been circulating.

A calm, rational exchange in the face of a group of Americans declaring over a loud speaker that all Muslims are sinful, criminals full of anger and hatred as families (some with children) walked home from prayers

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Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!

The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.

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Starmer 2.0: could a more authentic PM revive Labour’s appeal? After surviving a coup, and with his critics chastened, No 10 insiders say a more combative PM is up for taking the fight to Reform UK

Condemning Reform, Ratcliffe and Lam's racist rhetoric is an important and very welcome shift.

But it means little unless accompanied by changes to the government's own *policies* -especially the vindictive and counterproductive earned settlement proposals.

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

Concerns for vulnerable road users as Met disbands specialist cycle and motorcycle safety units - Cycling News | Bike Reviews | road.cc Specialist Met Police units that investigate fatal collisions involving HGV’s and London buses, with a specific focus on cyclist and motorbike safety, are being disbanded as part of a major overhaul o...

Specialist Met Police units that investigate fatal collisions involving HGV’s and London buses, with a specific focus on cyclist and motorbike safety, are being disbanded as part of a major overhaul of road policing in the capital.

Moving the goalposts on ‘earned settlement’ is a risky gamble for this government Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer was granted a new lease of political life last week. His cabinet rallied round to reject Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar’s call to ditch their leader. Nobody knows i...

Column: why the government should rethink its major settlement reforms, which if rushed through, would harm integration and undermine progress on child poverty, gender equality + workplace protections against exploitation.
(Even the politics doesn't work either)
www.easterneye.biz/keir-starmer...

How tech turned against women As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

So why do I feel so angry about this whole AI thing? Some notes on the bullshit maximiser.

It’s on Google, even though it is making search worse. It’s on WhatsApp, even though I absolutely do not want “homework help” or “relationship advice” from my messaging app. In the year of our lord 2026, it is everywhere.

And it *doesn’t work*.

Look, now that we're trying for real consequences for the Epstein files, maybe we should also take another look at the Panama Papers

The sheer brass neck of declaring a 'National Year of Reading' while selling out authors to AI companies and giving independent bookshops a good kicking

Who benefits from this? Waterstones (monopoly model, don't pay living wage) and Amazon (planet destroyers) and genAI. All the worst people.

Well, this is horrifying.

🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨

NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space.

The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!

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How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence

How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir

By me, at FT

www.ft.com/content/5207...

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

1) Ban medication being prescribed because you say there is insufficient evidence to support it, even though it's prescribed internationally
2) Say you're going to set up a trial to get evidence that it's safe and effective
3) Pause that trial getting evidence because of "unquantified risk"

CW: sexual assault

Watching the Top Model documentary and seeing what happened to Shandi reminded me of how much the narrative in the 2000s was if you got drunk and were assaulted, it was not rape, it was “your own fault”

So many people wouldn’t have called it rape or assault, but a “mistake”

Cyclists outnumbering drivers at rush hour on busy Glasgow road, as campaigners hail “colossal” impact of safe cycle lanes - Cycling News | Bike Reviews | road.cc Glasgow – it’s just like Amsterdam. Or at least that’s the opinion of Cycling Scotland, whose latest traffic survey found that cyclists are outnumbering car drivers at rush hour on a busy road in the ...

What was that about cycling not taking off in cold, wet and hilly cities?
Turns out all you need is good safe space for cycling, but some of us have been saying that for a long time.
road.cc/news/cyclist...

The rules are pretty simple, Trump can do whatever he wants to minorities, immigrants, his political enemies etc. but he can't fuck with the money.

2 min ago I googled the red bellied woodpecker because of a meme and I am calling for a complete and total shutdown of bird names till we can figure out what the hell is going on

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

If you ever find yourself wondering how things like the Epstein story happened, consider the mid-level newspaper editor who admitted in a public judicial inquiry that he destroyed a woman’s life and drove her to suicide to try and impress Piers Morgan.

Just "hey I know there's never been a problem before but it's legal to humiliate you now so that's what's going to happen"

They warn that it’s going to destroy society, and then lecture us for refusing to “engage” when we don’t rush to integrate it into every aspect of our lives

like I don't understand the technical details well enough to know whether AI really will be coming for all white collar jobs in the next year or five but if it is......we can just choose, as a society, to not do that? people need jobs? we don't have to destroy jobs for no reason?

Elon Musk is v invested in Rupert Lowe's political project - to reverse ethnic change {white "race extinction"] in Britain

"Our ancestral land must not fall"

"there has been unrelenting hate and poisonous propaganda in the West against anyone White, straight or male over the past decade or more!"