Andrew McRae

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Great quotes in military history.

@atrupar.com

Trump is heading for a hard reckoning over Iran It isn’t a sign of Trump Derangement Syndrome to consider the Trump administration's Iran war video obscene

An utterly brilliant article on a revolting spectacle. Do Read. @questingvole.bsky.social

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Truly unbelievable stuff. Just up there shamelessly lying his ass off

New MP Hannah Spencer was given a police escort after an anti-hate demonstration turned violent. The Green Party MP had made a speech at the Greater Together Manchester event on Sunday afternoon in Piccadilly Gardens.

I try very hard not to use the word Orwellian too much but it’s the best adjective for the mauling of language at the start of this BBC News report. “… an anti-hate demonstration that turned violent”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

absolutely deranged headline from the depths of hell

Hannah Spencer: Green MP gets police escort from violent demo The Green Party MP was put into a waiting police car after a demonstration turned violent in Manchester.

How odd – I thought all of this anti-trans stuff was about women's rights?

"The 34-year-old, who won last month's Gorton and Denton by-election, was helped by the police towards a waiting car after anti-transgender activists clashed with women's rights and anti-racism campaigners."

‘And now we have our regular far-right US commentator slot, in which we allow his lies to go unchallenged, then discuss his fantasies among ourselves in the most serious serious tones.’ #r4today

Steve Reed very keen to assure us that, whatever other restrictions his government might impose, transphobia remains totally ok. #r4today

YouTube video by LBC Lewis Goodall: 'You would welcome Iranians on small boats?'

A reminder that if you back regime change (morally) you ought to accept the likely consequences. www.youtube.com/shorts/Uuber...

You can bet your shorts this paper won’t say anything about the fascist thugs’ attack on Hannah Spencer today.

The "feminist" anti-trans movement, everyone

Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.

Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

🤦‍♂️ ‘UK-born graduates are’ NOT ‘increasingly competing with international students for places’. International students help keep universities afloat, enabling them to offer many of the courses that home students take. Why keep peddling this xenophobic myth?

3 Big Reasons Software Companies Need English Majors — Dear English Major I’m not the only English major working in tech at HubSpot. I could see a lot of English majors taking the same path as me. The tech industry needs people who can fulfill three important business needs...

English degrees - dispelling the myths about employability. www.dearenglishmajor.com/blog/3-big-r...

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

I’m sorry, what? How can Chelsea & Westminster Hospital’s official charity *possibly* accept a £1 million ‘donation’ - meaning, in reality, an attempt to buy public credibility - from the Sacklers? Yes, those Sacklers, whose company, Purdue Pharma, caused >800k deaths from pumping out opioids. 1/3

It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain.

This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region.

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You've got to be kidding me...

Really kind of morally offensive how much contempt these people have for curiosity.

This is a social democrat.

A little bit obsessed with all the nut clusters currently ‘ashamed to be British’ because Starmer didn’t sign us up to this shit show.

YouTube video by Breaking Points Professor Jiang Warns US Will LOSE Iran War #Shorts

Jiang predicts that the West will ultimately lose the war when the economies of the Gulf states fail because Iran continues to damage critical infrastructure; they stop propping up the AI bubble in the US; this will lead to a collapse of the US economy.

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THEY FINALLY DID IT! Sheldon Whitehouse officially called out the connections between Trump, Epstein, and Russia on the Senate floor.

Withheld Jeffrey Epstein files with accusations against Trump released by justice department The Department of Justice said the released files had been

'FBI documents summarising interviews with a woman who made unsubstantiated claims of sexual assault against Donald Trump have been released as part of the...Epstein files.'

Might we, in 2026, just have a wee bit of a think about how and why claims of sexual assault might be "unsubstantiated"?

Female athletes must pay £185 to prove their sex Matt Lawton - Chief Sports Correspondent British female track and field athletes are being asked to pay £185 for a sex test if they want to compete internationally. World Athletics requires all athletes to take an SRY gene test before competing in the female category at major championships and Diamond League events to guarantee fair competition by excluding trans and DSD (differences of sex development) competitors. Before the World Championships in Tokyo last September, World Athletics gave $100 per test for the thousand or so female athletes needing one. More money will be provided by the international federation for this year’s World Junior Championships. But British women have been advised by UK Athletics (UKA) to pay for the test themselves, urging them to have the cheek swab, which indicates the presence of a Y chromosome, “as soon as possible to avoid delays around selection”. However, some women have complained it is unfair when the test is not required for men. UKA has a hardship fund to pay for the test and will assess requests on a case-by-case basis. But the situation is symptomatic of a national federation already facing financial challenges, made worse by UK Sport cutting its funding for this Olympic cycle. While almost £32 million was given to the relatively niche sports that won five medals at last month’s Winter Olympics, athletics has had its funding cut from £22.18 million to £20.45 million despite winning ten medals in 2024. It was only last year UKA returned to some form of financial stability, posting a profit of £107,588. But it is now facing a big fine after admitting corporate manslaughter over the death of Abdullah Hayayei, who died in 2017 after a metal cage fell on him while he was training for the World Para Athletics Championships in London.

"Feminism" [Times]

I know I'm a broken record on this but being lectured about the nature of war by the supreme assholes who started it as though we, THE PEOPLE WHO DID NOT WANT THIS WAR, are hopelessly naive, makes me want to [redacted] [redacted] [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

From FT comments

Jonathan Pie's Take on Trump's War With Iran is Unmissable - Dorset Eye Another blisteringly insightful take on psychopaths doing their thing. And when he destroyed Trump’s poodle, Farage Report Article To report this post you need to login first.

Jonathan Pie's Take on Trump's War With Iran is Unmissable - Dorset Eye

And an infinitely more intelligent commentary. bsky.app/profile/greg...