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When us gays got equality in law, heterosexuals did not have to give up any rights at all. Lowering our age of consent didnāt change theirs. Our right to civil partnerships and marriage didnāt not remove marriage for anyone else. āTrans rightsā are the first to take rights from others.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
12 months ago
Covid, 5 years on: "The mRNA vaccines prevented millions of deaths. [...] Masks worked. And as with every pandemic in recent history, subsequent reviews have found that the advice to go early and hard with containment was correct."
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Five years on, the rightās Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream | Laura Spinney
Before the next outbreak, we need a serious conversation about how to cope ā but first, the more strident, misguided voices must pipe down, says author Laura Spinney
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/09/covid-five-years-right-narrative-outbreak
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Colin Lawson
about 15 hours ago
Letter from 24 consultant psychiatrists in the Times calls for "reinvigorated effort" to pursue existing data on 9k GIDS patients including 2k who were given puberty blockers. The data might not be rigorous but it must surely be capable of providing useful information.
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Sanho Tree
about 17 hours ago
The virus killed my uncle in just four days during the initial wave. He died alone in the ICU on a ventilator because nobody was allowed in the room. These trolls want to make a ācomedyā out of it.
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Rachel Maddow
about 15 hours ago
ICE tackles and arrests New Jersey father outside his home, leaving his 6-year-old first-grade daughter at home alone. She goes out looking for him. "I got my boots and changed my clothes. I wanted to find some help to find my dad..."
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MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: First grade girl recounts searching for father after ICE detained him
In an MS NOW Exclusive, Antonia Hylton sits down with Annabella, a New Jersey first grader whose life was uprooted when her father, Adonay Rodriguez, stepped outside to pick up a food order and was de...
https://www.ms.now/the-weekend-primetime/watch/ms-now-exclusive-first-grade-girl-recounts-searching-for-father-after-ice-detained-him-2488541763600
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Lissa Evans
about 17 hours ago
A letter from a group of psychiatrists in Today's Times, asking why there was never any follow up of the 9000 children given puberty blockers at the Tavistock clinic.
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Jim Pickard
about 17 hours ago
there's a nugget here which helps to explain Brown's character and why he was so incensed by the allegations against Mandelson from their time in office
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Cyndicate
1 day ago
Note the framing. How dare lesbians discriminate against porn-sick men.
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Jonathan Howard
about 18 hours ago
Good example of how covid revisionist history is being used as a pretext by scientific vandals today.
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Red and green-ish
about 23 hours ago
I always forget to include a link to
terfisaslur.com
, which I think shows that they're missing part of the story. Not that ever look at it, or admit it. In fact they might blame us for the violent threats and abuse, because we could just be kind after all.
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TERF is a slur
Documenting the abuse, harassment and misogyny of transgender identity politics
https://terfisaslur.com
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Colin Gorrie
6 days ago
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
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How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language change
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
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World Bollard Associationā¢ļø
2 days ago
One of the greatest bollard walks in history.
#WorldBollardAssociation
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Charlotte Nichols MP
1 day ago
What better way to spend a day off than pitching in for the campaign effort to get the amazing Angeliki Stogia elected in Gorton & Denton! I went out on three door-knocking rounds in Denton this afternoon and the returns were positive, but the only poll that counts is polling day on Thursday! š³ļøš¹
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Craig R. Brittain
2 days ago
Ro Khanna: "If you wanna be in politics, you probably don't want to offend the billionaires. That's why the Epstein Files have been hidden for decades."
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Seth Abramson
2 days ago
This isn't a teaserāit's just an acknowledgment that the next PROOF report is taking a while and there's a good reason. The Epstein Scandal isn't primarily a sex scandal. You don't understand how powerful and well-connected this man was. This is a global scandal and it is scary.
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Lucy Powell MP
3 days ago
Hereās my reply to your letter yesterday Zack Polanski - a reply that took you three weeks to draft
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Peter Stefanovic
3 days ago
LUCY POWELL: 'Reform UK are no friends of working people in Manchester or anywhere else'
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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'Reform UK are no friends of working people in Manchester or anywhere else'
'Manchester and its residents have been galvanised against Reformās politics of division, pitting neighbour against neighbour', Labour's Deputy Leader Lucy Powell writes
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/lucy-powell-reform-uk-no-36759544
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Merry Christmas, as in the other place.
3 days ago
'Inside bitter by-election battle between Reform division and a united Manchester Angeliki Stogia called out the politics offered by Reformās candidate Matt Goodwin, and vowed to fight for her city ahead of voters going to the polls in Gorton and Denton'
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Dr Rachel Broady
5 days ago
A man adopting sexist stereotypes to claim womanhood *reifies* those sexist stereotypes. Undergoing surgery, to pretend to change unalterable sex, separates people from their humanity as a form of *alienation*. Purchasing those unachievable changes is *commodification*. Antithetical to Marxism.
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basbleu(tƩ)
3 days ago
It is important that you understand: as a man lecturing women about their own lives and liberation movement, you carry all the authority and credibility of a dog barking at the sea.
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StoptheTories
3 days ago
1. It was commissioned by a Green Party donor 2. Only a small sample was polled, about 350 people 3. There was an overrepresentation of wards that typically vote Green. It's clearly a poll to rally support, rather than give a snapshot of how people intend to vote across the constituency
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Good news ..at least I hope so. That trial would be barbaric.
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Red and green-ish
8 days ago
Protecting trans people doesn't have to come at the expense of women's rights. We're not saying trans people shouldn't be protected, we're saying their protections shouldn't remove ours. Surely we can all agree here?
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This has to stop irrespective of party.
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Mark Chadbourn
4 days ago
Detectives investigating Andrew have asked the FBI and DOJ for unredacted copies of the Epstein Files, via the National Crime Agency.
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Epstein files could be just tip of the iceberg for Andrew investigation
It is likely we have only seen the tip of the iceberg compared to what the police have seen.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd032xnm804o
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Merry Christmas, as in the other place.
4 days ago
I think if you read the UKs Social and Economic History you will find the Labour Party has never been 'like the Tories'
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Gudule Martens
4 days ago
After the priests, after the boy scouts, after Epstein, there are still people (mostly men), telling me that no men would put on a wig simply to enter women's spaces. That this would be too much effort.
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TRIGGER WARNING The introduction to this article contains incredibly disturbing artwork created by Maria Farmer (the first woman to make allegations against Epstein)
open.substack.com/pub/lisevold...
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ā...he's fine, they threw him in a dumpster.ā
Trump/Epstein and Associated Criminal Enterprises: Victim Interviews: GT
https://open.substack.com/pub/lisevoldeng/p/hes-fine-they-threw-him-in-a-dumpster?r=1q9mcv&utm_medium=ios
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5 days ago
President Trump has withdrawn his support for Sir Keir Starmerās deal to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius because the UK has not agreed to allow the use of British bases to attack Iran. And the Conservatives and Reform UK Ltd, have helped him. Treacherous
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I think the Shallow Cabinet would be a suitable description for Reform's latest effort. If integrity was water you wouldn't get your feet wet going through it.
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Red and green-ish
5 days ago
That's exactly it. Only women are being denied freedom of association and rights to privacy, dignity and safety when men can just self-ID into our spaces. I have nothing against certain spaces being inclusive of all, but I absolutely also want certain spaces to be female-only.
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Reuters
5 days ago
BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, BBC News reported
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Cathy Devine
7 days ago
So 12 groups are closing or considering closure. Probably under pressure from males with trans identities on committees. Meanwhile the rest of 7000 groups are probably delighted. I'm sure the WI will survive. Speaking as a former Head of Sport at the NFWI. It's an organisation for women. That's it.
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RSPB
7 days ago
This
#NationalNestboxWeek
, remember not all birds nest the same way! Here's a few options to get you started... Robins and Wrens like to keep hidden, tucking their nests away in dense cover. An open-fronted box placed low down and out of sight is just their style. (1/4)
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AdyBee š
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Weāve been here before ā¦. havenāt we š¤Ø
#Brexit
#DublinAgreement
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Paul Marvin
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Graham
6 days ago
'Protect the Dolls'
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Cyndicate
6 days ago
"It was never 'hateful' to say that people can't change sex..."
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Cyndicate
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Dr Rachel Broady
7 days ago
"Working-class women need to know that the women-only public services we need such as changing rooms, toilets, domestic violence refuges, sexual assault and rape crisis centres, health services, sports clubs, lesbian social groups and prisons will remain women-only."
labourlist.org/2026/02/ruli...
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'This ruling should now remove any remaining barrier to approval of EHRC code' - LabourList
Labour Womenās Declaration welcomes the High Courtās dismissal of the Good Law Project and three anonymous partiesā challengeā¦
https://labourlist.org/2026/02/ruling-remove-barrier-ehrc-code/
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Hannah š¹š³ļøāš
7 days ago
One person who I omitted from my reply is a man named, Andy Pennington, who was killed trying to protect his MP. Staff work extremely hard, whether that be assisting with case loads, or making sure MPs are safe. Let's not forget them.
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LaindonFeminist: Labour led by Keir for me
7 days ago
Have you filled in the BBC Survey? If you havenāt and youāre hacked off with Mason, Kuensberg etc. this is your chance to have a say.
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British politics in a nutshell.
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Cathy Devine
7 days ago
'There is nothing āLabour,ā or āsocialistā or āprogressiveā about telling nurses they are bigots because they do not want to undress in front of men, and it is shameful that the Darlington Nurses, Sandie Peggie, and Jennifer Melle were not supported by their trade unions.'
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Labour Women's Declaration
7 days ago
š£ Calling all UK Labour members: Support Lynne Troughton and Miriam Rice ā both UK Labour councillors ā for the National Womenās Committee. Candidate statements will soon be available:
labour.org.uk/updates/memb...
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Richard Delevan
8 days ago
"From: "jeffrey E." <
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> To: Joscha Bach Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 re taboo , maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation. the earths forest fire. potentailly a good thing for the species".. 1/2
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Jonathan Portes
7 days ago
Employment rates for non-EU born are now *above* those for the UK born. Gap used be nearly 10 percentage points. A tribute to the success of UK immigration/immigrants and labour market integration, especially in recent years. Something government should celebrate..
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Labour hasn't done a U-turn they were taken to court, so after legal advice reinstated the elections. Why they wanted them postponed "councils were concerned with cost to taxpayers of holding elections for councils due to be abolished" In a year results will be irrelevant but cost us £63 million.
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PassBlue
7 days ago
Epstein Files "contain disturbing & credible evidence of systematic & large-scale sexual abuse, trafficking & exploitation of women & girls & could amt to sexual slavery, reproductive violence, enforced disappearance, torture, inhuman/degrading treatment & femicide"
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Flawed āEpstein Filesā disclosures undermine accountability for grave crimes against women and girls: UN experts
GENEVA ā The so-called āEpstein Filesā contain disturbing and credible evidence of systematic and large-scale sexual abuse, trafficking and exploitation of women and girls, UN experts* said today.Acco...
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/02/flawed-epstein-files-disclosures-undermine-accountability-grave-crimes
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