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a huge amount of labour mps are landlords.

World's worst gotcha from Trevor Phillips: "If trans women are women why don't we just say 'women'... who needs 'pregnant people?'" 🤔

Whats extra baffling is that pregnant people/women has nothing to do with trans women either purposefully playing dumb from Phillips or he genuinely doesnt understand the most basic thing this is about

As a cis woman I’m actually super stoked to uncouple the concept of fecundity from the concept of cis woman & given that feminism has been trying to do this exact thing for decades (centuries?) it’s baffling to see ‘feminists’ being like ‘no ACKTUALLY women ARE defined by their ability to reproduce’

Who had "biology is destiny, after all" on their feminist bingo card? The answer is "no one," because it's the complete antithesis of everything feminism stands for. And if that isn't obvious enough, just look at who's pushing it: every authoritarian fascist in the world, without exception.

ICYMI

lol she got his ass and he knows it

I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!

Yes, we told the lads repeatedly that there’s no Just The Tip version of reactionary flag-fucking crackdowns politics you can use from a desire to do good. There’s only ever reactionary flag-fucking crackdowns politics that makes everything worse more slowly, or more quickly.

This is an entirely uncontroversial view in international law and usually taught in 101.

The Democratic caucus trying to stop Chuck Schumer from agreeing to a CR with a nationwide abortion ban attached

the thing is as a leftist i could easily come up with a better plan than the aca. republicans can't because the aca is the best conservative healthcare plan that exists

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

The dynamic bluffing system in 007 First Light seems incredible

45 years of this drivel and it’s got worse and nastier every year of this century so far, but still these horrible people are not satisfied and are pushing for more.

What you're seeing here is a political tendency whose only appreciable skill was wrecking their own side, detonating upon contact with power and wrecking their own ability to actually do anything other than tell people to fuck off.

it is extremely funny that people were convinced he was doing fifth dimensional chess

so i said it sounds like you’re just feeding suicidal teens to chatgpt and then the New York Times started crying

“I know you can’t afford things but we also cannot afford things” will be, I predict, a losing message. The world’s first trillionaire is on the horizon. “We can’t afford transportation, healthcare, food and shelter” will no longer cut it for the “progressive” party.

I’d add here: The Thick Of It really was not about politics, not the politics of that era or any era. It was about clueless people being put in positions of prominence and having to work out how to operate, despite being utterly clueless. Which is what most of Armando’s stuff is about.

What do we think a Death of Stalin treatment of e.g. the Joe Biden White House might look like, once the genocide in Gaza really got going? Having read all about the Labour Party 2020-2024, it is IMO absolutely ripe for exactly that treatment, utterly truthless snakes jockeying for position.

me yesterday: look, Chuck Schumer is an incompetent dipshit, but somehow he’s played the shutdown semi-functionally because his opponents are even stupider today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted should have known better

Do you notice parallels between all the lads roaring for Starmer to kick fuck out of the left and e.g. all the same lads screaming for Britain to invade Iraq, or launch a programme of brutal austerity. Do you notice how all of this is an incredible disaster, even as the smartest wankers bayed for it

Do you notice how all of this country’s smartest, most authoritative dickheads have got their way over and over, and now nobody is standing in their way, and it isn’t good for you or anyone you know.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

don't remember if I've mentioned this before. tell anyone you see using Google to do this. hiding "actually do what I asked" is another expression of the paternalistic techbro mindset that gives you "yes" or "not now" options for an unwanted new feature or only lets you hide something "for a while"

An inspiring message of “good things aren’t possible” from Labour.

I would add: nobody can ever admit this happened on their watch, and they didn’t raise serious objections. Because that’s what corruption is: it makes you complicit by your silence, and raises questions about what you didn’t comment on, for the good of your career.

And then finally, when there's nothing left, when you can't borrow another buck from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the joint out. You light a match.

"In the weeks before Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral dream went up in smoke on election night, a handful of independent spending groups backed by New York City’s oligarchy spent more than $55 million supporting the ex-governor or attacking his ultimately victorious rival, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani."

A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.

is it better for countries to invest in boring things like transport and energy infrastructure or should they invest all their money in useless chatbots that talk in reddit-voice on the vague and completely unsubstantiated hope that they'll be able to do something profitable one day

In the last 3 days, the Supreme Court ruled trans people have (again!) lost access to valid passports, a federal district court legalized bullying against (only!) trans kids, and Cornell University joined the growing number of colleges agreeing to discriminate/ban trans people. When is it enough??

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

We're at 82 percent, appreciate any and all motion on this. The check in is the twelfth and the surgery is coming on the 5th

sure would be nice if we had some trains right about now

they’re really trying their hardest to not release the epstein files it’s crazy

hold your nose trans people, all the media messaging organs including Big Compromised Trans are gonna go demon mode

labour has threatened to pull out of the echr if they prevent labour from persecuting trans ppl.

The 6th Circuit has been competing to be the most anti-trans circuit in America and is now carving out a right to bully transgender kids. Despicable.

Airlines are canceling hundreds of flights to comply with the FAA's order. But there are still questions about the plan, which the agency says will keep the skies safe during the government shutdown. n.pr/3JRbd5Z

God, a thousand times this. That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis. I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.