Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

The consultation on the govenrment's earned settlement proposals is scheduled to close tonight, but this is what you get if you click on the "respond online" link now. Has the government closed it early? This is the link if others want to try: ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I can't overstate just how much of a disinformation weapon X has becomeand it's being targeted at trans people in particular. A 6 year old video is going around being passed off as the shooter. Fake images are circulating like crazy along with outright genocidal language.

"and it didn't do me any harm" says the most visibly harmed man you have ever encountered.

Masterful outfit sir

NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again

If you were trying to come up with more harmful guidance towards trans and non-binary young people you would be hard pressed to find it. The fact it is backed by Cass shows how wrong it is. We are already seeing an increase in suicide rates among trans young people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized. And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

Also a lot of the records that *have* been digitized have mistakes in them. I've been doing some amateur genealogy research and there's a ton of stuff like the places of people's birth being incorrectly recorded in the digitized copy because the person converting it struggles to read cursive.

#speirgorm I can't read too much about the new UK guidance for schools on trans kids due to a mixture of heartbreak and apoplectic rage. What they are recommending would certainly have meant my son didn't finish school and very possibly he would have ended his life. Instead 1/

Yeah sorry child who bravely came forward to share who they are and what would make them happy we do not agree you should get to pick a name, clothes, or haircut. We don’t want to give you any ideas that who you are is in any way okay

I know cis people don't realize the cruelty, so with gentleness and empathy for them, let me try to explain. Being trans is difficult. Instinctively, you already know this because you think it would be better not to be trans.

This stuff needs to be challenged as a violation of the human rights act. It's absolutely indecent in terms of destroying children's rights to express themselves.

Techdirt pulling no punches: "Even if you’re the sort of prick who thinks whatever happens to non-citizens is deserved due to their alleged violation of civil statutes, one would hope you’d actually care what happens to your fellow citizens. I mean, one would hope..."

ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn’t Do What DHS Says It Could, Deployed It Anyway The DHS and its components want to find non-white people to deport by any means necessary. Of course, "necessary" is something that's on a continually sliding scale with Trump back in office, which means…

Peter Thiel, the talk: "I’m sort of always in favor of maximal free speech." Palantir, the walk: sues Republik Magazine after it publishes an investigation into Palantir's activities in Switzerland.

It's pretty clear to us that implementation of the Sullivan 'review' breaches UK GDPR obligations. EU GDPR, identical to ours, says you can't process data about the sex assigned at birth of trans people unless there is a very good reason for doing so. And we are active in this space.

The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!

Listing in the Administrative Court for tomorrow not before 11am: read out of the judgment in our challenge to the EHRC Interim Guidance.

Note also: the Palestine Action proscription decision is out tomorrow, not before 10am. Solidarity with those battling Labour's disgraceful attempts to silence those protesting against Israel's genocide in Palestine.

The Cass report is anti-science, and what it suggests/recommends is in breach of the Human Rights of trans people in the UK. The sooner it can be challenged in a fair court the better.

This is state-mandated child abuse, insisted upon by the Labour Party.

This was absolutely horrible reading. Fuck the Labour party with their "we're introducing legislation against conversion therapy" lies, fuck the "gender critical" assholes that were given a free hand in unleashing this absolute shitstorm, and fucking hell.

So, it looks like the new DfE guidance on trans students in schools incorporates recommendations from the Cass report. Suffice to say that is an *incredibly awful* decision. Here's a thread with my analysis of Cass on social transition from back in 2024.

Also the link for the consultation is up. Everyone needs to respond to this: consult.education.gov.uk/independent-...

New Section 28 just dropped, and no - schools can’t opt out.

I am beyond angry at the way trans children are being systematically persecuted. The full power, violence and force of our state is smashing down onto them, making their life impossible.

New School Guidance announces: Full bathroom ban. Full PE ban. Full school trip accommodation ban. Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/

This man went to dinner with the President of the United States. Along with the idiot Kanye West who wrote a song called, “Heil Hitler”. And the right somehow thinks we’re mischaracterizing him when we call him a fascist.

right, so, some quite insane professional news from me: last month I went to Paris to interview Gisèle Pelicot about what happened to her, and what her life looks like now - out in print on Sunday

You can't prove received wisdom wrong if you don't try... and you've got to give China credit for not being afraid to try. A step on the way to serious reduction of shipping emissions by 2050? Or an expensive experiment with niche coastal uses? Time will tell! maritime-executive.com/article/chin...

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Every day I hear a new upsetting story about how trans kids are being treated in our schools. When responding to today's important claim that segregation might not apply to workplaces - let's not leave behind our youngest community members who are being completely failed across our schools.

"A conservative network led by Michael Gove and Nigel Farage’s senior adviser James Orr has spent more than half a million pounds pushing far-right and anti-trans voices – some of it fuelled by profits from Russian oil."

Almost every human being is born with potentially-functional mammary glands. This is a simple fact. Some cis men spontaneously lactate. This is another simple fact. Many cis women find they cannot breastfeed. This is also a simple fact. Simple facts do not matter to bigots.

One of the persistent weird claims of the GC movement is that transfem breastfeeding (induced via similar means to inducing a lesbian co-parent, or another relative to breastfeed using domperidone especially in cases where natal parent can't give milk) is that trans women's breast milk isn't milk.

One aspect of FWS that has not been widely remarked on is the bald assertion by UKSC (para 178) that trans women can’t breastfeed. This is, of course, false. But this falsehood was part of the reasoning behind the claim that the Equality Act obviously has a trans-exclusionary understanding of sex.

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

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In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different. www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

This is an important read. I don't want to take anything away from it. However: It really should have been a news item informed by the Good Law Project's data. It isn't bc the British press has shut out any story that contradicts anti-trans talking points. goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...

Like, I entirely agree that Trump, Farage and the Tories are pushing insanely extreme politics, and I spent a surprising amount of the 2010s being roared at for saying so by Sensible people telling me that my divisive rhetoric was the blade in the heart of democracy that’s killing us all, and so on.

In a sign of how poorly this hearing is going for Pam Bondi, Fox News has cut away from live coverage which is highly unusual for a high-profile hearing of this sort

If you feel "hamstrung" by human rights laws and by health and safety laws - you are the person those laws were designed to protect us against. You need to be obstructed by those laws. Also, she's lying.

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