KD Smith

Did you remind him when you were 5 and swore you couldn't sleep in your bed because your little friend Billy told you there were child-eating monsters under there?

Explain he's not 5 years old and both he and the other guy should grow up, know better, and stop believing stupid things.

Whilst the police in London arrest blind pensioners in Wheelchairs for being anti-genocide, in Portsmouth the leader of UKIP makes a nazi salute at an anti migrant demo and the police do nothing. Welcome to Britain 2025.

A deadly shooting at the CDC shook its scientists. Now they want answers from RFK Jr. CDC Director Susan Monarez convened an online all-hands meeting of the agency division that focuses on vaccines, and employees called out Kennedy’s rhetoric specifically.

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

Far right violent demonstration - ONE arrested

peaceful anti genocide demonstration - 474 arrested

@yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social needs to GO

Gravestone inscribed: Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell. 13-6-1957, 10-2-2019. Barrister of the Middle Temple. My brain, socialist. My heart, anarchist. My eyes, pacifist. My blood, revolutionary. Around the edge, the legend: The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman with someone else’s teeth.

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby.

Note the border inscription.

Polari Prize update Judges Edition:

Alongside the seven longlisted authors who've pulled out (so far), it seems that two of the Polari Prize judges, Nicola Dinan and Bob Hughes, have also pulled out.

This footage of police manhandling peaceful people protesting against genocide, our government’s complicity in it and their misuse of laws to silence us, has me weeping.
The powerlessness I feel at the hands of a government, who are far more of a threat than any of these protesters, is overwhelming.

I feel much safer this morning, knowing that all those sign-wielding Quakers and nuns are behind bars where they belong.

If birthright citizenship is under attack so is every other amendment and the constitution itself.

Banning support for a group that protests genocide is an astonishing admission of your guilt in that genocide

Sky News, "It's just been arrests after arrests after arrests"

"People protesting in front of statues of Ghandi and Suffragettes.. I don't need to tell you the symbolism of what that means.. The police crowded around them and took them away"

Palestine Action can challenge UK ban, court review - BBC preview 30 July

BBC preview from 9 August - Police arrested 474 at Palestine Action ban protest

Sky News understands senior leaders in the prison service, known as "Capacity Gold", met today to discuss how to deal with the large number of arrests as the male prison estate is close to full. It's understood 800 inmates were moved out of the busiest jails in and around London beforehand.

WTF is going on?

30 July: Permission to challenge the ban granted

...800 people moved out of prison...

9 August: 474 arrested

Vague comments from the government about how they support the right to peacefully protest.

Democracy & human rights trashed.

Genocide continues with UK complicity.

Former Palestinian National Team Player Suleiman Obeid Martyred in Gaza While Awaiting Aid - Jordan News | Latest News from Jordan, MENA Former Palestinian national team footballer Suleiman Obeid was martyred on Wednesday after being shot by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza City, according to medical sources in the besieged Strip.

Suleiman died 8/6/2025 in Gaza City while waiting for humanitarian aid.
www.jordannews.jo/Section-20/M...

The UK Today: The Observer front page: "The Sound of Silence: More than 400 arrested at a peaceful protest in support of Palestine Action." Meanwhile the so called free speech advocates of the British right remain silent or support this new authoritarianism.

one of the great tragedies of our age is how many people are willing to view AI as magic because they don't understand how it functions but unwilling to exhibit any humility at all towards more important things they understand even less (like the climate or medicine)

...women's bodies and bodily functions (cis and trans women) as being something shameful, that must be kept hidden from men, which is harmful to everyone. And of course, being bigots, they regard trans women as men, and that's why they're doing this. :(

It's that trans-hostile activists are trying to claim more and more "spaces" to be for cis women only, including sections of shops an aisles in supermarkets because they are fixated on excluding trans people (trans women especially) from society.

But yes, they are using regressive ideas about...

democrats are going to be dealing with anti-trans hate until they either

- nut the fuck up and defend these people from bigoted attacks

- concede to every republican attack on the issue, inevitably leading to the total eradication of trans people from all public life

literally the only 2 options

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"What do you do for [a] living?" I do my best [image of a very sad cat in a desaturated field of grass.]

The least we, who don't have the conviction and principles they do, can do is support them, not dismiss their action because it "puts their jobs at risk."

I think they'll have thought about this already.

(The Hill) - Minnesota state Sen. Justin Eichorn (R) was arrested for soliciting a teen on Monday, authorities said, hours after he introduced a bill proposing "Trump derangement syndrome" (TDS) as a form of mental illness. Detectives with the Bloomington Police Department had communicated with Eichorn, who was under the assumption he was talking to a 17-year-old female, police said. He arrived Monday to meet the teen in person but was instead met by local officers. He was later booked at the Bloomington Police Department jail and was expected to be transported to the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center. A felony charge of soliciting a minor to practice prostitution was pending, authorities said in a statement Tuesday.

they're all like this, aren't they?

Once more, the thing leftists predicted would happen happened

A witch's familiar, from The Reader's Digest Folklore book

People don't talk nearly enough about how cute 16th Century Witch's Familiars were.

Luxurious UK manor JD Vance is set to stay in during family visit The Cotswolds, often dubbed 'the Hamptons of England,' are swarming with anticipation and security agents as Vice President JD Vance's luxurious summer plans begin in the UK.

Add the pricey English manor to the growing list of Vance vacations: skiing in Vermont, sightseeing in Rome, a family trip to Disneyland, and a kayaking outing where he had the military raise the river’s water level just for him.
www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

Some people are principled, and would tell their employers about a criminal conviction for non-violent direct action. They believe condemning genocide and standing against our despotic Government is more important than a successful career path, or "falling into line."

They aren't stupid.

...I expect they'll now try to re-stigmatise breastfeeding next, couched as some "sacred ritual" and giving a whole new generation of parents something else to worry about.

"Gender criticals" really are intent on returning society to the 50's. Maybe even the 1850s.

I despise these puritan bigots are trying hard to re-introduce the stigma and shame of menstruation after decades of feminist activism to remove it.

Pity sake, my dad bought my mum's sanitary napkins with the regular grocery shop, because it was convenient. They weren't exactly radical feminists...