Wonderful rant by @mrjamesob.bsky.social “A leadership crisis with no challenger”

At this point I'm more confused than anything. His office is constantly putting out statements and executive orders talking about how being pro-transgender is terrorism and we should be raped and tortured, and he literally can't shut up about us on air, but it keeps sliding off their brains?

There is a vast mismatch between the right's commitment to making trans people a central political issue and the left's willingness to even acknowledge that this is happening. I keep seeing trans rights called fringe, wedge, and marginal. Fuckers, the POTUS rants and raves about us constantly.

A real honour to meet the awesome Sam Hope who came to our trans-inclusion event about transphobia at UCL today. For him to describe it as “inspiring” was amazing!

The ongoing DESTRUCTION of the administrative state's ability to actually HELP anyone... Parallel with the "Renters' Rights" set-up - how many cases will take years to resolve, while people suffer on?

I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions

It’s very telling that so many Labour MPs are using the colour of the Green Party for their comms.

Palentir helped ICE target people for kidnapping and incarceration in concentration camps. Wes Streeting is actively helping a potential Reform government target people for the same treatment in the UK.

This is what parliament would look like if the only people who could vote were most of the people who bear children, do most of the unpaid work and are most likely to experience male violence. And it is the party most supportive of trans people’s human rights.

Meanwhile in Australia

Wes Streeting just gave your address, your ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, if you are cis or trans, if you've ever had an abortion, an addiction, are disabled in anyway and a million other pieces of info about you, to a far right tech company the UK government has no control over.

Labour drones are still claiming the UK doesn’t want to rejoin. This has never been true since this government was elected and is even less true now. So when Starmer says “Britain at the heart of Europe” without clarifying that he is just trying to make it appear he is pro- #rejoin when he is not.

Analysts say it is challenging to track whether Palantir is sticking to the terms of its NHS contract.

Take youth gender medicine. People are squeamish about it, sure. But most people would be happy with the answer that it has to be "safe, legal and rare". You don't need to pass an unprecedented rollback of patient autonomy!

new frontiers in protest props outside the Musk vs. Altman trial

Remember that ILGA's report is only based off of nominal rights, and not applied legislation. This matters for cases like Finland, where on paper trans rights are very accepted, but the realities of trans care are very bad.

I wrote a Substack on it too. “Heart of Europe” means something to pro-Europeans, because it’s *our* phrase. Starmer had better not be nicking our rejoin line in order to keep us outside the EU… …in doing so he’d be aggravating the very base he’s trying to appeal to in order to save himself.

Lisa Nandy: “I don't think anyone in this country wants to reopen the Brexit debate.” The Country:

..says man who wouldn't hold a by-election when he changed parties.

Reform are currently losing councillors at the rate of one a day.

If you love your trans or non-binary child this is yet another red flag, or in this instance, flashing neon sign, that you should keep them away from the NHS.

I don't think it should just be free and easy for NHS staff actively involved in Trans healthcare to be presenting talks at hate group events.

One of the authors of The Sullivan Review speaking at this is very revealing. A reminder that SEGM is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Long before colonialism, when gender was policed and queerness was punished, Trans+ communities in the Philippines were sacred www.wearequeeraf.com/before-the-b...

5th and 6th July the anti trans conversion therapy group SEGM under its front "CAN-SG" will be running a conference on "rethinking Youth Gender Medicine" featuring NHS clinicians alongside Stephen Levine (the quack used by the Trump administration to run many anti trans healthcare bills) as well as

Being able to change our names freely is something that long predates any gender recognition and LGBT protections. So it is only part of this by default, as a legacy omission.

Another of Starmer's achievements. His biggest "achievement" though is purging Labour so that no hope is left. Removing choice from the population in this way is a massive assault on democracy. Then he gives us that stupid grin. #r4today bsky.app/profile/ilga...

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Way to go @liamshrivastava.bsky.social Way to teach @mediacomgold.bsky.social !

@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social is exactly right. You cannot be at the ‘heart of Europe’ while standing behind your Brexit red lines, it makes no sense.

The UK is now in the same category as fascist Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary & Russia, which have no legal framework for changing gender. Yet government transphobes Starmer & Phillipson drone on about “dignity & respect” but the most basic element of “dignity & respect” is legal gender recognition.

This map is very telling. It's a sub-option under the Legal Gender Recognition page and show countries where there is "NO legal frame work, thus making legal gender recognition impossible" Such countries are highlighted in red! Look at the company the UK keeps 😔

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I e been saying this for nearly as long. Brexit eats Prime Ministers.

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

The moderators at bluesky need to understand that public criticism and protest against moderation policies that happen to mention them as public facing representatives of the moderation policy itself are in fact just normal behaviour and one of the things people reasonably use social media for.

If you hate Jewish people as a whole because of “Israel” and Zionism, you are doing the job of empire and helping to uphold the occupation of Palestine. I don't make the rules.

Maybe Charlie could use the #KingsSpeech to dissolve Parliament on Wednesday. Pointless setting a government agenda.

This is such an obvious and worrying nod to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 in the US. And on the front page is Falkner - discredited former Chair of the EHRC and author of the Government’s transphobic guidance on single sex spaces 😬😣 policyexchange.org.uk/project-2029/

People need to stop acting as though Burnham is a possibility. He isn’t, move on.

The inevitable trajectory of this will be the sanctioning of ordinary citizens worldwide who dare criticize the authoritarian regime of the US (etc) governments. Extricating ourselves from US tech infrastructure is a matter of urgency for a free and fair democratic society.

The concerning thing here isn't even her confusing DMs with posting. It's that she thinks that X DMs are an appropriate place to discuss anything approaching govt or parliamentary business – when Musk can read them all.

Sadiq probably wasn’t there because of the high likelihood he would’ve been assaulted by members of the crowd shouting racist insults, a thing I can only assume is well understood but never even alluded to.

Out of these options the only one the YOU can affect is 3. 1. Is unlikely, they have money to keep themselves afloat. 2. Is Starmer’s last resort & will only happen if 3. continues. Voting Green & supporting the Greens is the only sure-fire route, the only thing you can DO to defeat fascism.

The cold hard reality is that there are now three (3) things that can stop Reform from winning big in the next election: 1. Reform itself collapses from infighting or legal troubles (can't count on this) 2. Electoral reform 3. GPEW or Lib Dems /totally/ eat Labour's lunch a la SNP in 2015

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This is what you get if you vote Green… Pretty much Starmer’s only option to avoid losing more voters to the Greens. He will fudge this so keep voting Green to keep up the pressure.

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