Daily Mail today, left without comment

New Jersey’s NJ Transit is currently planning to charge more than $100 for return rail tickets from New York’s Pennsylvania Station to MetLife Stadium for FIFA World Cup games. The 18-mile rail journey ordinarily costs $12.90 for a return ticket. 📝 @adamcrafton.bsky.social 🔗 nyti.ms/3QaZJwX

🏳️‍⚧️ NEW 🏳️‍⚧️ “Further legal analysis” has revealed flaws in the EHRC’s draft guidance, which has now been revised and will be presented to parliament in May: https://goodlaw.social/xal1

I cop a lot of flack because this is an informal platform and my typing is terrible. I am actually a solicitor. These details matter. It looks more likely than not that the EHRC have already broken the law with the new Code of Practice:

I have a very simple rule about knowing who is behind a protest. If your protest blocks a road, the time it takes the cops to smash your heads in with batons and arrest you is directly correlated to where the organisers are on the political spectrum.

Not to be all election-y about it, but in terms of trans folk having decision-making power, if the Scottish Greens do well in Glasgow and Edinburgh we're likely to elect our first trans candidates to parliament ✊

If you'd just woken up from a coma and heard people going on about 'enforcing the Equality Act' you'd get a really big surprise when you found out what that means in the UK in 2026.

Fascinating to see many right-wing pundits drawing a line at an AI image of Trump as Jesus when rape, ICE, Venezuela, bombing fishermen, and everything he's doing in Iran didn't get them so angry. Very Christian.

See. This is how you do it. In every other party in the UK (and institution) trans people are excluded from making any decisions that impact the lives of trans people on the basis that we are too biased. Every. Area.

EHRC confirms that there will be changes to the draft guidance. Talk about how “narrow” those changes are suggests it will still be fundamentally based on the same transphobic core: www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

I'm sure it does 👍

Dignity and Respect, our least favourite duo, strike again.

Don't you have to be hanging around a long time to notice someone hanging around a long time?

Three and half years ago, 21 Labour MSPs (including Anas Sarwar) voted to pass the Gender Recognition Reform Bill which would have granted self-ID rights (but the UK Tory government blocked it). Now, the anti-trans Scottish Labour want to eliminate trans integration, safety and privacy altogether.

It's wild to me that the only thing you can rent in Belfast for under £600 a month is a room in a house.

Love the inverted commas round ‘male’. What, don’t you believe in ‘biological sex’?

Cis people: just nip over to your GP to feel a little perkier by taking some T. Trans people: just spend 5 years on a waiting list, go through a few psychiatric assessments, and if you survive that then you might get a prescription for exactly the same HRT.

A piece in the Telegraph with Badenoch saying that motorists shouldn't be penalised for doing 22mph in a 20mph zone, based on a story of a Dr who has 9 points from doing 22 in a 20. Leaving everything else aside, I thought ther was a 10% error margin so you would have to be 23+, no?

"The nephew of Ghislaine Maxwell is standing as a councillor in Tower Hamlets in the local elections on May 7." [Telegraph] Ted Maxwell. Running as an independent.

Daily Mail today, left without comment

"The wife of Spain’s prime minister has been ordered to stand trial on charges of embezzlement, influence peddling, business corruption and trademark misappropriation." [Times]

"A year on, ministers are frustrating a court ruling protecting single-sex spaces" [Times opinion]

"Pope’s attitude to the Iran war is shocking" [Melanie Philips, The Times]

"Nurse wins settlement in misgendering row" [Times]

"Immigration lawyers are refusing to represent migrants due for deportation to France under the one-in, one-out deal." [Times]

"Ministers have rejected calls for a new legal power that would allow the government to ban groups such as Palestine Action without designating them as terrorist organisations." [Times]

"Dog walkers in west London have been told that individuals may be attempting to poison foxes or dogs with contaminated chicken left in parks." [Times] Met Police notice.

"The health secretary [Wes Streeting] has said that he is “not a fan of the politics” of the people who run Palantir but defended using the US tech firm’s software in the NHS." [Times] "used by more than half of NHS hospital trusts"

"Households will be offered free electricity to do their laundry on sunny weekends to help prevent Britain’s power grid being swamped with surplus solar energy this summer." [Times front page] I don't think this would apply in NI.

Asking for help. I want to buy a few trans coloured items, such as a scarf, jewellery etc. Etsy seems to be popular however I want the money to go to a trans seller over anyone else. Reaching out to see if anyone can point me in the right direction. Thank you 🏳️‍⚧️

Why didn't God make sure she finished higher than fourth?

The Times have the picture of Trump as Dr Jesus on their front page.

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

something to keep in mind when looking at that trans eliminationist Scottish Labour manifesto is that Anas Sarwar didn't even know how many trans people were even in prison. it is pure cynical, opportunistic bigotry from Sarwar and Labour

It takes real guts to stand up to an organisation you've poured your heart and soul into (as many political party activists do). I'm truly grateful to Duncan and other Labour members who stand in solidarity with our trans siblings, friends, and family. Trans rights are human rights.

For the avoidance of doubt, following the publication of the explicitly transphobic Scottish Labour manifesto this morning, I will not be campaigning for any Scottish Labour candidates in the upcoming election, and I will not be voting Scottish Labour either. #NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

Growing a beard seems like a hard barrier for babies, also.

BREAKING: The Trump administration has agreed to keep flying a rainbow Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument in New York.

Just checked and this is real - Scottish Labour’s manifesto refers to trans people using slurs and commits to a policy of explicit segregation in public life

This breaches articles 3,5, and 14 of The Human Rights Act 1998.

Important story by Max Colbert here: 🔴 GB News Hosts Reform UK and Conservative Politicians and Activists Posing as Ordinary Voters The individuals were presented as ordinary members of the public, without informing viewers of their political affiliations, a new Byline Times investigation reveals

somebody media trained grandma

We’re 88% of the way to our target of £200k for our Arsenal Vision Podcast Fundraiser for the Arsenal Foundation and their Coaching for Life programme at the Za’Atari Refugee Camp in Jordan www.justgiving.com/page/avp2026...

I dunno, I get the sense most Christians can tell the difference between a doctor and Jesus.

Every candidate for Scottish Labour is running on an explicit platform of trans segregation, even the ones you like, do not vote for a single one of them

Was picking up my T from the chemist and heard the pharmacist say to someone else who worked there "make sure you order more nebido. That's important". There are a few trans guys that live around here. Always has it on hand. Every other chemist has to order it in.

The only way the Labour Party in 2026 makes any sense is as an op to destroy the Labour Party.

At Scottish Labour Conference in Feb 2025, a leadership-backed motion to adopt a transphobic policy on single-sex spaces in schools was defeated. Party members and affiliates voted it down. Today Scottish Labour's leadership put that transphobic policy into its manifesto for May's election anyway.