Mahmood trumpeting her admiration for Danish asylum policy, only to have to distance herself from its architects because they‘re massive racists. Incredible scenes

“Yes on murdering people, no on being allowed to say that murdering people is bad.”

These words are designed to slide off of our brains and be forgotten. Say it plainly: No murdering children overseas. No locking up children in concentration camps here. No pedophiles in government or any positions of authority. No Republican freaks inspecting children's genitals.

I rly hate the term Epstein class. It's used to whitewash the bourgeoisie. A YouTuber I respect put out this puff piece on Dolly Parton and like. Man whatever. The entire bourgeoisie as a class cannot be allowed to exist. They can't be allowed to keep their wealth even if some of them are "nice".

Keir Starmer: tough on rational thought, tough on the causes of rational thought

If you’re part of any creative groups, unions or other organisations in the uk you should be passing news like this along and spreading the world. News like this gets has the chance to be overlooked but if enough organisations kick up a fuss things can change.

I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.

In an interview with BBC, Green Party leader Zack Polanski described the US and Israeli attack on Iran as “illegal and unprovoked” and warned that the UK government risks “dragging the country into another illegal war.”

whoops

It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

Observe this "debate" over who should decide on what clothes kids are allowed to wear. Labour say parents, Tories say the state. Both of course in total agreement that the kids themselves should have no say in it at all.

just fyi “soldiers are too poor and they have to kill brown people for the state. that are uwu smol beans.” is the same shit as “i was just following orders.” it’s fucking nazi shit and people need to get that through their thick fucking skulls with a quickness

Media Matters analyzed a year of NYT coverage of anti-trans bills and found that 66% of the time the paper didn't quote a trans person. Further, it found that the paper often quoted right wing sources without mentioning their histories of anti-trans rhetoric. So "right-wing rag" is pretty accurate.

The NYtimes and its pundit class manufactured consent for the war in Iraq - later admitting to using corrupt informants - for the genocide in Gaza, and now for the war on Iran. We have to see these people for who they are: mouthpieces for American imperialism.

Every professional translator I know has the same position on this and can easily explain the reasons for it when asked. The fact that executives don't even bother to ask and force translators to work on AI/MTL slop regardless makes it clear where their priorities lie: money trumps quality.

It’s not just an illegal war. That would be bad enough. Today, the Albanese government clearly admitted they gave our support to a war, without even knowing why it was launched. From us: www.lamestream.com.au/albanese-sup...

ALSO - the other thing I've discovered is that a lot of advice about HRT is _way_ out of date. In the 70s/80s a lot of the hormones were synthetic - and they WERE dangerous. this is no longer true HRT advice for cis women in peri-menopause is ALSO bad in the uk (& a lot of gatekeeping too)

Watching the US not protect any of the countries where bases are when said bases are allegedly there to protect the county as soon as the country is under attack due to actions by the US is making me think that a lot of countries will be reconsidering their arrangements regarding these bases.

3 f-15s downed by """"friendly fire"""" lmaoooo what if jfk's head just did that

they used to name these things "Operation Mongoose" or some shit, then they started calling them "Operation Reaper Deathhammer." Now, as we witness US bases being essentially wiped out in an entire region, they're calling them "Operation Chungus Chad"

two major lessons for every country rn: 1. Don't let the U.S. build bases in your country 2. Get a nuke

The NYT style guide

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A government which does not want trans people to exist, and is legally allowed to force detransition in prisons, has created incentive for itself to put more trans people in prisons.

"Defensive" bombing. Come on now.

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

My old endo under dosed me so much with patches that I elected to double my dose as I knew it was garbage and I was still scraping the bear minimum. I asked for prog and she shut me down completely citing the low evidence. I diy’d prog and told her I was doing so and she “fired” me as a patient.

On top of results that got better (although not clear if they got better cuz of injection or cuz stuff just started moving more around that time cuz I didn't have shit levels just meh ones) it's also a great way to ease the mind and have a normal life when you have to worry about HRT once a week.

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

When my doctor refused to do blood tests he justified it by saying private gender services don't do due diligence, followed by a pretty Incoherent monologue about transition risks like "increased risk of cancer" which is not true. Then, having not done due diligence, he sent me off. Absolute toss.

as a serious journalist (Times, Slate, Bioligical Woman's Weekly, Der Sturmer) I am dismayed the left can't get their tiny heads around simple ideas like my paper printing weekly opinion pieces explaining "why war is necessary" =/= being for the war

Last time my GP drew my bloods I asked the nurse if, now that they had them, they could run the HRT-related tests. She said she’d be very happy to. A week later I got a phone call from my actual doctor sternly telling me they would never do that and I should not ask again

As far as I've been able to determine the main healthcare risk endocrinologists are worried about regarding DIY HRT is that you might get an effective dose without months to years of fucking around.

this - the NHS is becoming actively trans hostile and also the waiting lists are so long I'll be dead before I ever reach the front of any of them (& yeah - it's not a massive risk, it's pretty easy AND all the advice I've seen/read is absolutely adamant you need to do blood tests)

Manga authors like Takahashi Rumiko (Urusuei Yatsura) are pulling their works from Shogakukan's site MangaONE after revelations that the publisher let author Yamamoto Shoichi publish under a pen name after he sexually assaulted a 15yo female student.

It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer. In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE it will result in dead trans people and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing you see the pipeline right? we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

I hold firm to the idea that new people are learning old information for the first time all the time, and it’s normal not to know things. If you’re a journalist (lmao with a Substack, no less) pretending the NYT is fair and balanced about trans people, you’re being malicious. Nobody is that stupid.

A weak Prime Minister, dragging us all into an illegal war. This needs to stop.

It took just one phone call from Donald Trump for Starmer to jump into yet another Middle East illegal war, failing to learn the lessons of the tragedies of Iraq, Libya and Syria.

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Testosterone is blamed for rape culture because of racist white women, jsyk. it’s nice to see obvious truth confirmed, but do not argue on their own terms with abusive hypocrites—Testosterone Aggression is a racist lie now weaponized to sexually abuse trans men the way it is used to abuse Black men.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran. Iraq lessons must be learned. Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe. Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months