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I think if people are being arrested for peaceful protest on the grounds that there are things the public don't know, the public should be told what those things are.

Bet there’ll be a better than 1% conviction rate.

Can this government get any more stupid???

#YvetteCooper #Labour #PalestineAction

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From this month's edition of The Onion.

Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best
Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.

It aired in 1990.

Sausages and cheese, German supermarket

the scenario we all feared

Careful with summarisation.

It basically strips stuff that people don't say a lot. So you can lose the nuance.

Big issues caused recently by people summarising business cases and spending proposals where the good stuff has gone.

"Why would I want to read something nobody could be bothered to write?"

Beth Upton has not had her say. Sandie Peggie has had countless coverage At no point did we hear from Beth Upton in the media, at no point was her story told, at no point have we heard about the effect this has had on…

I have this in the Herald today (archive version in comments)

‘When context is missing, minds are easily swayed, and humanity often forgotten.’

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Parliament surrenders to anti-trans activists on toilet policy The UK parliament has thrown trans people under the bus on toilets, abandoning its own policy to placate activists who accosted a trans barrister on the parliamentary estate.

Sometimes I post pieces which are recent and which others may not have seen. This is a reminder why groups like GLP, Trans Exile Network, TACC, TLC and so many lovely allies stand up to GCIM ideology and why the UK is literally red flagged for genocide right now.

goodlawproject.org/parliament-s...

Erm. What?

Louder for the people in back, please!

Scotland

You may not feel it, but the ground beneath you may be sinking.

In fact, the surface of California’s Central Valley is nearly 30 vertical feet lower than it was a century ago.

Why is this happening? Because our planet is rapidly drying. THREAD/

Pro-Palestine activists formed a human map of Palestine at Spain's San Fermin
Festival, yesterday. Chants of "Palestine is not alone" bellowed through the streets.

So no, we’re not aligning.

We’re gutting standards while claiming alignment.

That’s deregulation in practice, however it’s dressed up.

The way trans people are being treated by the British government and courts has literally raised red flags internationally for being genocidal.

GENOCIDAL

What are we supposed to do when nobody will help?

These are the same blokes who are very, very worried about trans women in the toilets with their wives.

wankers.

When someone asks what parenting be like… 😂🤣
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The War on Women When we said women and people who loved them needed to vote like their lives depended on it in 2024, it wasn’t hyperbole.

We weren’t just making it up when we said women needed to vote like their lives depended on it in 2024. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

YouTube video by Natacha Kennedy Labour is lying about trans people

I wasn't invited to any garden party in Downing Street, but I was invited to give a very short but angry (we have every right to be angry!) speech at @transpridebrighton.bsky.social. I used it to say that the "government" is lying about trans people in Labour's Section 28+...

THREAD 🧵 of initial thoughts on the transphobic schools "guidance" produced by this deeply transphobic Labour government today.

SECTION 28+

This morning the media coverage of the new RHSE guidance for schools led me to suggest it represents Labour’s Section 28. The real thing is, however...

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Brazil and South Korea both dunking on America historically hard, showing what rule of law democracy looks like.

Yes, future historians, the US response to high level lawbreaking and an attempted coup was to coddle the putschists, and make special exemptions for them. It happened. I was there.

This is the ‘Scottish Lesbians’ group.

All of them

They got to intervene in the Supreme Court case that negatively affects every trans person

Not one trans person was allowed to be heard by the Supreme Court- which issued a pre-cooked decision that will shame the UK Judiciary for generations

Human Rights Hijacked: The Politicisation of the EHRC Labour’s push for contested ECHR Chair reveals how UK institutions are being bent to serve politics, profit, and ideologies, not people.

🚨 New blog: Human Rights Hijacked – The Politicisation of the EHRC

Labour is pushing through the appointment of a contested EHRC Chair — ignoring Parliament, civil society, and international standards. Here’s why it matters.

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medium.com/@mimmymum/hu...

Not the lawyers.

RSE guidance is “patently and cruelly transphobic” - community responds to ‘Section 28 2.0’ curriculum It has taken a "trans exclusionary" approach and received widespread condemnation from the LGBTQIA+ community

‘Section 28 2.0’: New “transphobic” curriculum restricts teachers from encouraging Trans+ pupils to understand their identity 👇

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-new-transphobic-curriculum-restricts-teachers-from-encouraging-trans-pupils-to-understand-their-identity/

An Open Letter to the Minister for Women and Equalities re the EHRC Code of Practice and Human Rights Risks The Minister for Women and Equalities will soon be called upon to approve a new Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), f...

Phillipson is being an idiot. Let’s keep the squeeze on.

This letter now has 700+ signatures. Shall we get it to 1,000 before the Tuesday deadline?

Then I’ll print it all out—with every name—and post it to her, plus copy to every supportive MP I know.

Sign here 🤗 docs.google.com/forms/d/180G...