truly wild to see British politicians, presumably unable to criticise anything any Israeli person does, start declaring that football hooliganism is part of Jewish culture. Gonna be honest, think you should look closer to home as to who's culture football hooliganism is...

In line with the new, nicer face of patriotism, the Home Office will now decide asylum claims with a baking competition judged by Paul Hollywood. In order to reassure Reform voters that the process will still be sufficiently cruel and dehumanising, Noel Fielding will still be involved.

when they dig up your bones in 200 years, it'll be to discharge you for not attending your first appointment

Stop buying Brandon Sanderson's books.

So we're going to force brown people to do unpaid labour against their will? The british do have previous on this one, but I think we gave it another name.

They aren't bringing ID cards in to make people's lives easier, they are specifically bringing them in to make certain people's lives harder.

I feel like "stop letting reform outflank you to the left on civil liberties" should not be a hard ask, and yet labour are tripping over that bar, even as it's buried 20 miles under ground

Engraving two bullets with "this bullet only lies" and "this bullet only tells the truth" to really stump the FBI

zero sympathy for starmer obviously, but it really is something how the press have once again just decided a prime minister is done and are publishing everything they knew the whole time until he resigns.

We're violent because....we get murdered a lot?

got the ball, fair tackle

“If you don’t like it you can leave” update

You know, this ideology is quite similar to the one they have in England

ever fucking green

For those who pay attention to UK politics, the Liberal Democrats and #LDConf A bunch of TERFs tried first thing this morning to impose a transphobic policy on our internal elections (they wanted to exclude trans women from the gender balance criteria) They failed, spectacularly.

Just one more support for the trump administration will win over those never-trump republicans who totally exist. Now to take a big sip of my drink and check how "my opponents are right" is going elsewhere. Vile to say this in any circumstances but also negative political literacy from Copmala.

Can take the party out of labour but can't take labour brain out of the party.

Creating the factions THEN the party is definitely a new way of doing politics i suppose.

Through the power of Corbyn's inexplicable popularity, they're speed running the stages of every doomed new left party ever. Has anybody said "shibboleth" yet?

zarah sultana doesn't deserve this of course. it's clear that misogynistic chauvinism is more important to a "left" that seeks an inter-national fraternity over a truly liberatory politics

like i wanna give she/they gender vibes, like woman but spicy with it, but also i don't trust 99% of people with "they" around a trans woman

Being regarded as a counterfeit man can get you punished like a woman but being regarded as a counterfeit woman never seems to get you rewarded like a man. This is because gender is not merely binary but hierarchical-- the propertied cis het man as ideal ruling class subject, and everything else

Labour aides mad because if being gratuitously offensive about Diane Abbott is a sackable offence then any one of them could be next

Sounds like that military recruitment ad: If you can hold a pencil, you can take notes, you can make a spreadsheet, you can host a meeting, you can host a conference, you can shake hands with fascists, you can lead a country Only turns out he had the pencil the wrong way to start

If you pay attention, there is a co-ordinated international response to climate change involving exceptionally good buy in from world and business leaders. It's working spectacularly well, and their plan for the future is quickly coming to fruition. And it's evil.

Let alone the fact that this electoral expression of far-right sentiment very clearly folded into UKIP, then the 2017/2019 Tories who are this particular Labour project's baseline to imitate. So now we've ended up with Diet Fascism trying to fight the real thing and oops, turns out that doesn't work

starmer being too spineless to condemn people literally calling for his assassination is bleakly funny

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

The popularity of the rally is down to Starmer choosing to provide lip service to Reform policies & beliefs whilst his government opts not to make the systemic changes required to benefit the population as a whole. It would've been trivial to say that immigration is good. 3/

the mould has taken over her brain completely, like one of those fungus ant things

Dumping out your briefcase full of spaghetti on the judges bench: SEEEE Deeply corrupt UK judge slurping up the spaghet: hmm yess you have a point actually

Nice. That said, can't wait to share this with the NHS and be told still that "no, we don't prescribe that because there's no evidence it works" 🙃

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha… No.

"your honour, let the record state that I know a lot about porn"

Casey's thread is excellent, and speaks to a much wider point I've been hesitant to articulate recently: That trans people are expected to quietly endure as non-issues things that would be considered deeply traumatic for cis people. Not just the sexual harassment or assault, but everyday things...

I would be happy if I never heard the name Graham Linehan again, but I do feel the need to comment, because the nature of a lot of the abuse trans people receive is straight up sexual harassment, but is not recognized as such because the victim is trans. What Glinner is doing is sexual harassment.

sounding kinda like 1930s Germany tbh (Verordnung gegen den Waffenbesitz der Juden). USA heading further and further into a very dark place while the Dems continue to do nothing or clap it along while frothing about a teenager playing volleyball with her friends.

Section 29B of the public order act covers the publication of words intended to incite hatred and violence on the grounds of sexual orientation. This is Robert Jenrick apparently admitting that gender critical beliefs incite hatred and violence against trans people.

Compare and contrast: which of Linehan or Gary Lineker would you say behaves more like a weird, compulsive and quite sinister oddball, constantly pushing expansive forms of hatred? A pretty easy question to answer! And yet, a quick Google News search will throw up some very surprising results.

I’m sorry but when Tim fucking Stanley is calling the Labour government right wing & complaining their immigration policies are too harsh, angle it may be but that should TERRIFY people. A telegraph writer saying Starmer’s Labour is right wing is all you should need to know something is wrong.

We tried so hard to explain that the anti-trans panic wasn't just going to hurt trans people. Whether through recklessness or intent it resulted in extremely weird, broad, harmful laws. I'm not mad, but I'm telling you, we really tried.

UK Legal updates: ❌️ Holding a Palestine Acton sign = CRIME ❌️ Trans graffiti = DEPLORABLE ❌️ Peeing while trans = CRIME ❌️ Giving a BJ while trans = SERIOUS CRIME ✔️ Encouraging anti-trans hate attacks = TRIVIAL ✔️ Racist flag graffiti = WE ALL LOVE FLAGS ✔️ Attacking asylum-seekers = LEGITIMATE CONCERNS

"Yer da got banned fae twitter by the polis"

Imagine, just fucking imagine making such an utter dick of yourself that a court has to specifically order you not to go on Twitter, and still not having the self awareness or capacity for reflection to go "Uh oh lads, I think I might have gone a bit mad"

Society absolutely does treat trans women as women, but we're automatically "demoted" to the same rung as sex workers. We can both be seen and shamefully used as sex objects, but neither are seen as "desirable breeding stock" from a patriarchal worldview.

I first saw this comparison made by Florence Ashley (arguing that transition should be available on demand, just like abortion should be), and it has stuck with me ever since. Both transition and abortion realise patient's autonomy over their own body, and both are being restricted because of this.