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Online Safety Act consultation : Threat to protest and political content The Online Safety Act The Online Safety Act (OSA) has given Ofcom powers over what we say, see and do online. Services have to comply with a large set of complicated rules and regulations. They risk h...

Feels ironic posting this on BlueSky as it's about the online safety act... but we need to fight against proposed changes that means direct action can be scrubbed from the internet more easily - because if activists "damage property" they could be proscribed as terrorist orgs. Share your views here:

#BinUCBill Template Letter to MP's DO NOT EDIT THIS DOCUMENT DIRECTLY! How to use this document: Copy and paste the text below into a new document. Then input your info into the below fields. You can send the entire email, or you can ...

📅Tomorrow is the final vote of the Government's disastrous Universal Credit Bill

Crips Against Cuts have created this MP email template - let's flood their inboxes and do everything in our power to make this vote fail tomorrow! #BinUCBill

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

cis (adj.) Last updated Aug 24, 2023 Short for cisgender. Using cis as a stand-in for cisgender is the direct equivalent to using trans for transgender. Nonetheless, some cisgender people object to its use. cisgender (adj.) Last updated Aug 24, 2023 A term coined by a biologist and used to describe someone whose gender is exclusively the one they were assigned at birth. Use this term rather than normal, typical, etc. when contrasting trans people with the broader non-trans population.

Cisgender, or cis People who believe in innate gender identity use these adjectives for people to whom they attribute a gender identity that is the same as their sex. Using them implies that you think there are women of both sexes, and men of both sexes. This belief is not universally shared, and is not reflected in law. People who do not believe in innate gender identity usually do not regard “cis” or “cisgender” as applicable to themselves. Moreover, many feminists object to the implication that they feel some sort of affinity with the sex stereotypes they regard as defining gender. Cis and cisgender are therefore not neutral, impartial words. Journalists should not use them of people who do not use them of themselves. To do so is to present those people as within a belief system they do not share – rather like calling an atheist a “heretic” or “apostate”, which suggests that they know God exists but reject him, rather than disbelieving in God altogether. If cis or cisgender is used by a contributor, or in a quote, it should be explained with a definition that does not assume belief in innate gender identity.

"Cis and cisgender are therefore not neutral, impartial words. Journalists should not use them of people who do not use them of themselves."

It's funny, because I no of no trans people who refer to themselves as "trans identified males/females"
Left, Trans Journalist Style Guide, right: Sex Matters

Trans-inclusive academics say they face abuse and censorship Students and academics say they are bullied and threatened with legal action for opposing ‘gender critical’ views

Here’s @sasha98.bsky.social’s excellent reporting on what happened. www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/anti...

One of the first book burnings the Nazis ever did was in 1933 when 25,000 books, many of which contained unique insights into transgender history and medicine, were burned in Opernplatz Square.

Great post on how using AI at work is essentially doing yourself out of a job:

If you want to flood the Committees with requests to scrutinise Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson on trans rights, do it now!
She is due to be appointed the new chair of the EHRC
The pre-appointment scrutiny session is tomorrow (see thread below).
Another template letter here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I’m always pro-disabled people leading what affects them but the reality is, many disabled and chronically ill people are paying a huge physical price for fighting tomorrow’s welfare bill. Many are suffering more pain and exhaustion from campaigning, all whilst in a brutal heatwave. 1/2

Judge grants Palestine Action urgent hearing to try to stop ban taking effect Co-founder of protest group to be given opportunity to apply for ‘interim relief’ to prevent proscription order

Palestine Action is not a danger to democracy. But Yvette Cooper is.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

This is from Haaretz, an Israeli news site. It proves that Israeli concentration camp soldiers have been ordered to deliberately shoot at unarmed Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid.

No Western media will run this story or even refer to it, because real Western journalism is mostly dead.

We Also Broke Into an Airbase to Stop War Crimes. Thankfully, We Were Two Nice White Boys | Novara Media In 2017, we broke into a BAE Systems airfield to stop jets from going to bomb Yemen, write Sam Walton and Daniel Woodhouse. Our lenient treatment exposes the Palestine Action ban for what it is: racis...

"We also broke into an airbase to stop war crimes. Thankfully, we were two nice white boys" - impassioned argument against proscribing Palestine Action by Dan Woodhouse and Netpol's Sam Walton novaramedia.com/2025/06/27/w...

RAF Brize Norton: Four arrested by counter-terror police after break-in Counter-terrorism police arrest four people after pro-Palestine activists claim they sprayed paint on planes.

Counter terrorism police aren't bothered with waiting for a ban - four people have been arrested for the protest at RAF Brize Norton, on suspicion of "the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, contrary to Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000" www.bbc.com/news/article...

because there's no proper care or support for us provided by the state, Government policy alone is woefully insufficient to protect us.

And that's before we start to think about this in the context of an under-staffed & overstretched NHS who will be making final decisions on individual's lives

The assisted dying bill being pushed through at the same time the Government is about to make sweeping cuts to Personal Independence Payments (PIP) for disabled people feels so dystopian.

I support assisted dying in a fair society, but when we (disabled folks) are made to feel like a burden >

Ben Maguire MP has had to come off socials after being dogpiled by terfs unsurprisingly - really like the idea below about writing thank you letters...

Amazing to see from this Lib Dem MP...

Labour MPs launch major rebellion to stop welfare bill Amendment intended to kill off legislation that would cut benefits could be backed by up to 100 Labour MPs including senior figures

Breaking: Labour MPs have launched a rebellion against the government’s disability benefits cuts.

Up to 100 MPs, including senior figures, have signed an amendment designed to kill the bill. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘The right change at the right time’: MPs vote to decriminalise abortion Women will no longer face prison for ending a pregnancy. There are two reasons why this reform was urgently needed

‘The right change at the right time’: MPs vote to decriminalise abortion

I don't know what ones they're using in America, but these are some of the plastic bullets the British used on their own citizens in Northern Ireland.

Disabled People are Being Mistreated in ICE Detention Facilities Why is no one talking about it? Where's the media? Where's the public outcry? Another example of the pervasive nature of ableism and how society views disabled people as expendable.

As anti-ICE protests continue in LA, I want to remind folks of the risk the Gestapo poses to disabled individuals.

Alma Bowman and Rodney Taylor are suffering medical neglect in ICE custody.

Ableism & anti-immigrant sentiment have caused folks to turn away from atrocities.

We must speak up.

The Onion: Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

they never miss

This is residents in San Diego telling Ice-Gestapo agents to get TF out of their neighborhood. More of this please. 💙👊

I don't want the UK to be ready for war, I want us to have functioning hospitals.

I don't want the UK to be ready for war, I want us to have well funded schools.

I don't want the UK to be ready for war, I want us to have an effective and compassionate welfare system.

Disabled woman killed herself after DWP mistakenly withdrew benefits Rare second inquest hears that Jodey Whiting, 42, left notes saying she had no food and could not pay bills

I fear we will see many more tragic stories like this when Labour deliberately withdraws benefits - from millions of people with disabilities. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Union members to protest against Oxfam GB amid ‘outsourcing’ row Unite says Oxfam GB plans to outsource roles in its publishing and training teams but the charity says the claims are misleading

Union members at Oxfam GB are set to protest against the charity’s plans to cut up to 265 jobs and its alleged intention to outsource some of the roles

Tops off: The public pool protest changed Trans+ rights in Italy One summer in Milan, a group of trans women's topless protest was a spark to a broader movement in Italy that changed Trans+ rights across the country

🏳️‍⚧️ “Wearing their bikinis and waving a sign saying, “We are transsexual, enough with discrimination” - they headed to the pool”

www.wearequeeraf.com/tops-off-the...

April's nearly over. But the protests aren't stopping. We still have a bunch of protests happening all over the country next month.

Check out if there are any near you on our website!

And please get in contact if you know of any not on the list!

Trans rights: standing together in solidarity for what’s next – Siân Berry MP Trans rights: standing together in solidarity for what’s next – Siân Berry MP

Me in @brightonargus.bsky.social today.

Every trans rights related e-petition on the Parliament website reports Brighton Pavilion right at the top of the league table for responses.

Whenever human rights principles are threatened, our citizens show up👇
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2511866...

Sign all of these. It’s five minutes out of your day.