A good blog on the Darlington bigots ET tribunal decision today. A bad decision, which effectively says it’s reasonable to segregate away trans people. Not judicially precedent-setting but in the epilegal sphere of HR departments likely to be quite influential.

They nearly killed this woman. Then they went on national TV and tried to smear her.

Virginia has become the latest state to propose a special tax (HB720) on whatever the state deems "harmful to minors." Not just porn, but sex ed, LGBTQ+ art, romantasy, who knows what else. "The power to tax is the power to destroy." — Justice John Marshall, McColloch v Maryland (1819)

I find this sickening, tbh. The claim that simply being in the presence of a trans woman creates a “a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment” for cis women could not be more transphobic* if it tried. *Literally: showing discrimination against, aversion to, or fear of, transgender people

Thanks to Akua Reindorf KC for crediting us for stopping the tsunami of bigotry she sought to start following the For (Some) Women Scotland case. 1/2

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Politico: "We've got the world's most credulous reporter here to tell you that a university sponsored by billionaires whose anti-trans faculty are at the cutting edge of 18th-century race science wasn't a hard-right project." Jesus Christ.

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I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes: these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.

The jackboots are out here saying "One heritage, one people" and liberals are like "One more training can fix this, just one more training bro please"

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incandescent rage. people not subject to criminalization in this country don’t understand that this. is. policing. and this type of sexual violence is completely inseparable from it.

NHS Darlington full judgment and media summary. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/ms...

I worked with Arash, a game journalist and developer, on a couple projects on the history of games in Iran, and we've kept in touch since. Quite striking to see what's going on over there as people try to find ways to communicate and the government shuts them down.

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JUST IN: The Virginia Senate has approved a constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights. The Virginia House already did this on Wednesday. It's official: there'll be a referendum later this year on the issue.

Gavin Newsom has never had a homeless, a working unhoused, or an affordable housing advocate on his podcast despite governing California. So yeah I think it’s weird that he’s entertained & platformed multiple fascists while grinning, nodding & relenting to their easily defeatable talking points.

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For the nth time, reminded that practices that "the West" claimed epitomized the moral perfidy of the Eastern Bloc when I was growing up (such as violent repression, family separation, mass surveillance, restrictions on free movement) are now the common practice of the immigration-obsessed "West"

Yet another easily avoidable national calamity here that was forced through despite of overwhelming opposition from people who knew what they were talking about. We can only chuck it on the teetering pile of unnecessary disasters that government after government has racked up, and nobody can explain

This is where I reached in about 2021 and what happens is: you stop asking why they’re doing their jobs so badly - there’s no way to explain that - and you start understanding that they’re mostly doing the jobs they were actually hired to do, which are quite different to the ones you see in movies.

This is a dream, it’s Edward G. Robinson watching meadows and waterfalls in the euthanasia booth at the end of Soylent Green. It has been made brutally clear since 2020 that no help is coming; that this is the best we should expect, ever, and that anyone who tries to change it will be scythed down.

I assume we all know the drill: an inquiry will find some minor infraction - a process not properly followed, details cited incorrectly, whatever - and then that will be proof that all of the very wackiest accusations were all true and correct, and the verdict is Damning. Over and over, now.

Not that there were serious consequences for the architects of this. Amber Rudd was back in months, it was never a serious problem for Theresa May and if anything, the political/media class now regards the whole thing as small beer. And now, this little fash conspiracy crank has everything he wants.

Starmer's Labour is now a grimly unpleasant anti-immigrant cult.

Plenty I could say about this guy but I’d focus on: zero responsibility. The government sent him to Iraq and that requires no thought at all. His job is to kill people; if you do anything at all that looks suspect to him, then you 100% deserve to die. Fuck you.

This intro to David Frost's Telegraph column sums up so much that is wrong with British politics.

Jenrick didn't need to join Reform to mainstream reactionary politics, just like Badenoch and Starmer haven't needed to either We can't keep exceptionalising the far right and instead make accountable all of those who mainstream its politics, regardless of their affiliation in politics or the media

In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.

One thing is very clear about the standard Western liberal politician from this era: they really value the fascist perspective and believe that it's important to have as part of the political system, while they resent anything to their left and want to eradicate it.

Another episode of trans people's favorite media: "two ignorant cis people talk about trans lives"😒

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If someone is willing to toss away her Nobel Peace Prize to get closer to her real goal of doing a mafia bust-out against her own country on behalf of international finance capital, I think that's revealing of how much they actually value 'peace' and the values these prizes actually exist to reward.

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

We need to make this more explicit: The violence and civil collapse we're now seeing in Minnesota is by design. It's exactly what Trump and Stephen Miller want. MAGA is *all about* deliberately unleashing ethnic hatreds and violent antagonisms among Americans. newrepublic.com/article/2052...

This is the universe these folks have built, one where all that matters is how to convince “moderate” white Americans and nothing else. Nothing about morality, fighting for others, etc. They frame it as smart, but ironically it’s a lesson in how to constantly lose a messaging battle.

NYT ran 11 stories on trans athletes in 2 days including one about brett kavanaugh’s special POV as a girls’ basketball coach. they sent 6 people to scotus to write up their victory lap & meanwhile this is how far you needed to scroll yesterday to find coverage of ICE in MN. stop giving them money.

Gently: I think the sweet little leftist fiction that right-wing politics are the result of epistemic gaps---that you can just newsletter and educate and evangelize your way to leftism---is dead. Consider: many people want to hurt others. Want to feel superior. Want to inflict pain on the lesser.

this completely horrifying. ICE is a domestic occupying threat against us all

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Too often schools for "us" and schools for "them" is exactly what we have. We've been trending backwards on integration for most of my life. This betrays the racist belief that too many policy makers hold- that our disparities are rooted in individual failing. granitepostnews.com/2026/01/14/l...

Meanwhile in the UK, a Palestinian *citizen* of Israel has won his asylum battle and has been deemed a refugee due to the "substantial evidence of systematic discriminatory practices against Palestinians in Israel: apartheid, forced removal, restrictions of rights and exclusion from society”.

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

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Even though the author of this column is a woman, I categorise this column alongside the utterance of the man that murdered Good: they both hate a particular type of women (left-wing, queer, etc.) and want to see them subjugated, dead, institutionalised and pathologised, barefoot, in the kitchen

One gets a sense that the leaders of MAGA hate academia because deep down, they know the truest antifa supersoldiers look like this.

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