Evan 🔶️🏳️‍⚧️

Oh, Em Dean, what a fantastic Lib Dem Conference speech, impassioned, science-based, Liberal.
I am a burnt-out old curmudgeon, but you’ve raised my heart.

Blazing brilliant speech from Jennie @rigg.lgbt against ignorance and conformity in Lib Dem Conference LGBTQ+ debate
Freedom from poverty, ignorance and conformity is what Liberal Democrats are for, or what’s the point?

A glorious speech from @rigg.lgbt
Lib Dems are against enslavement by ignorance or conformity.
Those against this motion argue from ignorance and seek to impose conformity.

That said it is mind-blowing that she is saying Keir Starmer needs to 'get on a plane to Washington' when he is, in fact, getting on a plane to Washington.

Perfidious Donald. In 1939, the USSR and Nazi Germany carved up natural resources in chunks of eastern Europe as part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Today, we are left wondering what was stitched up in US-Russia talks on Tuesday. The Lavrov-RubioTrump Pact?

Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn.

It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.

Donald Trump’s latest rant against President Zelensky could have been written by the Kremlin - spewing ludicrous and false attacks, seeking to divide the alliance that has helped Ukraine stand strong. Shameful.

Last week in the Commons, I called Trump’s behaviour on Ukraine a betrayal. Defence Minister Maria Eagle rejected that, saying she "did not accept" my words. Does she still stand by that – or will the government now call it what it is and condemn Trump’s reckless appeasement?

I was 25 when I first had to do a ring round of all the govt aid agencies in western Europe to say “um, the US cut our funding overnight, can you help out?” But the scale of this is unprecedented. There is no way that any source, private or public, can smooth over a financial shock of this scale.

Mug with handle as woman doing downward dog. Lettering: Pilates because punching people is frowned upon.

Happy Weekend everyone 😀
#Weekend

Mexico refuses to accept a U.S. deportation flight The Mexican government has criticized President Donald Trump's unilateral immigration actions, and the landing would have required Mexico's assistance.

(NBC News) - Mexico denied a U.S. military plane access to land Thursday, at least temporarily frustrating the Trump administration's plans to deport immigrants to the country, according to two U.S defense officials and a third person familiar with the situation.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

I’ll feel better about our situation if we’re constantly passing the hat around to help the helpers. Giving to abortion funds, defending trans people, immigrants, prisoners, the vulnerable in general. Indie journalism. The resistance grifters and centrist orgs steal oxygen from those doing the work

Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.

What are they reviewing? Whether these people’s lives are worth saving?

There's not much to be done to cut down on Amazon, especially in remote areas, beyond buying directly from companies when possible instead of their Amazon storefronts. I've been trying to choose small businesses where possible, too - like, I needed a notebook of graph paper for designing a craft project, so I ordered from Cognitive Surplus, which is a self-described women and minority owned business, with an inclusive workplace and sustainable practices. Basically, shop local first, shop online small businesses if you can't source locally, and if you have to order from or shop at the local branch of a big box store because you can't get it elsewhere or need it more urgently than shipping can make it happen, do it

What she had to say

Trying to find some mild amusement in a grim situation, a just think if there is one nation you canonically cannot use "Give us what we ask for and we'll stop there" on, it's the Danes.

The one thing I have done that helps me with handling the PTSD of having survived Some Shit is simply to materially, NON ABSTRACTLY, do something. I can make a blanket. I can hand out socks. I can buy people a cold drink or hot meal. I can edit a document. A dead person can't help. I can.

“Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?”

Read: "Trump puts a hit out on Fauci."

Ack, that sounds tough, I'm cutting down rather than outright boycotting and I don't have the remote living issues! Have asked a friend who also lives in a rural area and will feed back if she has any ideas

I hate that my first reactions to these stories are, "Oh thank goodness a cis person was affected, now people will actually start giving a shit because the people they *actually* care about are catching flak from it"

Why are anti-trans polices only ever seen as a problem when they start affecting cis people, but never because They target trans people

cool how Judith Butler said the gender critical movement is ideologically incapable of offering resistance to the coming fascism and got pilloried for using big words, and now official GC organisations are releasing statements of support for Trump's first acts as returning president

Much of the public record and commentary will go the same way as photos lost when cloud storage lapses or gets written over, OCs and laptops and phones died or get stolen.

Who remembers microfiches?

Fuck the Tories.
Fuck Cass.
Fuck Wes Streeting and the Labour government.

Can you imagine using the wonderful tool that is the internet and using it to post TERF shit?

Pathetic.

Somerset House fire: Dozens of firefighters tackle blaze London Fire Brigade says it has sent ten crews to the scene in central London.

I hope that the firefighters are successful and that damage to Somerset House is minimal. BBC News - Dozens of firefighters tackle Somerset House blaze
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nigel Farage revealed to be UK’s highest-earning MP Reform UK leader banked £1.2m from role as presenter on GB News and payments from social media

I knew Farage was on a good amount at GB News but I never expected it to be £1.2million a year. If he was at the BBC that would put him just behind Gary Lineker. www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

attn new followers if you are a TERF please explode and die, i'm not one of your little friends

How does the blocks are public thing work? Was intending to just stick to mutes when I saw that and then realised can't soft block...