whatthetrans.com/trans-allies... The narrative put forward by Maitliss is the one you're likely to have heard. But that isn't what really happened. The kids lost their care. Some took their own lives. Nobody was 'saved'. There is no 'trans ideology', just people who needed help.

Also - why is the BBC interviewing an employee from GB News. He's not an MP.

That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death. The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social How news coverage eases us into tyranny. When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us - they gaslight us. www.stopthepresses.news/p/how-news-c...

David Allen Green @davidallengreen.bsky.social The BBC’s depressing lack of inherent institutional strength davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...

Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK. And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there. THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Here are the two plaques that were removed. I am so ashamed of our racist current administration.

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Wiener Blut, Aalto Musiktheater Essen, 9 November 2025

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One of the few positive aspects of this era in American history is that it's super-easy to identify the villains.

Nabucco, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Theater Duisburg, 8 November 2025

The New York Times says federal agents‘ abduction of a toddler “alarmed immigrant rights groups.” How about “alarmed all decent human beings“?

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Rigoletto, Aalto Musiktheater Essen, 7 November 2025

A heartening piece from HCR. We can win. We will win — if we fight. As legendary (albeit MAGA-loving) athlete Wayne Gretzky once said: “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Let’s join together, steadfastly and nonviolently, and take our shot against this regime.

Remember the Hillel BC‘Contractor’ Who Spread “I ❤️ Hamas” Stickers Framing the SJC at UBC? Turns Out He Had Been Hillel BC’s Advocacy Officer & President of UBC’s 'Israel on Campus' marcowenjones.substack.com/p/remember-t...

New, by me The real problem which blights our prison and punishment system The way we think about custodial sentences is what needs to change Reflections on the wrongful prison release news Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-real-p... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...

Der fliegende Holländer, Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, 6 November 2025

"When politicians or commentators are afraid, they vacillate, they hesitate, they dodge the issue, or they say nothing at all. Britain’s elite has a reflexive reaction to avoid saying anything about flags, poppies, or patriotism that might even slightly upset the Daily Mail or Nigel Farage."

The blathering jargon one involuntarily overhears in an airport lounge (one end of a phone call in this case). Martin Lukes carries on.

The political editor of the Guardian. It never would be missed.

#Charlton #moon

h/t @davidnice.bsky.social

Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social Storm and The Winds Of Change. A small dog with a big future. niallharbison.substack.com/p/storm-and-...

Mike Shanahan @mikeshanahan.bsky.social Planet Ficus Monthly Roundup #6. Sacred bats in India. Lightbulb leaves. Fig tree rituals in Africa. Forest restoration and protection in Borneo. An adept tree climber. And more. #figs planetficus.substack.com/p/planet-fic...

For perspective: There were 8 special elections for Mississippi Senate yesterday and 2 for Mississippi House. Mississippi Democrats flipped 2 of the 4 GOP-held Senate seats that were on the ballot and the sole GOP-held House seat that was on the ballot. Democrats held the other 5 seats.

Agree with this. And starting a little in-house betting pool on which big-thinking pundit or "analyst" will be the first to grace us with: "Well, actually, the Dems are still in disarray..."

Grauniad gets the continent right at least.

Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social The Gaslighting, It's Getting Worse. The black widow analogy. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/the-gaslight...

This is not new and fact that many will see this as a revelation says a lot about media failures in last 50 years. Especially about the groups based in DC and elsewhere that have pushed/funded racist ideology/strategy for so, so long. It’s a real problem that people close to power won’t name racism.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social Medicare freeze beneficiary secretly donates $2.5 million to Trump ballroom popular.info/p/update-med...

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

As many, many, many people have been saying from the start, Labour should have been honest about Brexit all the way through. Every lie, every ‘jobs-first Brexit’, every ‘make Brexit work’ has been a nail in Labour’s coffin.

Horrific. Shame on TIME.

Today’s politics may be confusing, but it’s clear that the Republican Party supports these 2 things: 1. Masked, armed men snatching people off the street because of the color of their skin. 2. The hiding of records to cover up for powerful people who rape children.

Come for the baseball, stay for the politics; vice versa is equally true. @stevemcgstates.bsky.social has no off season. stevemcgookin.substack.com/p/dodgers-st...

Linking to an explanation of gleichschaltung as applied to Teen Vogue, what a world. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichs...

Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social Enshittification: The Book curmudgucation.substack.com/p/enshittifi...

Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social Nobody Knows What to Fear Anymore. The normalization of indifference. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/nobody-knows...

It's finally happened. Christmas cancelled in Kent because Operation Raise the Colours tatty lamp post flags prevent the Christmas lights going up. www.harrietshamparishcouncil.gov.uk/community/ha...

Trump really, really wants the US to fund war, occupation, concentration camps, and genocide in Europe.

A Mississippi mother has shot and killed one of the lab monkeys that escaped a wrecked truck last week, fearful after hearing rumors the monkeys were infected. The Mississippi Free Press debunked that last week—but not before dozens of national & international publications reported the false claim.

The Trump regime is doing all it can to take food out of the mouths of poor people. They’re banning stores from giving special discounts to SNAP recipients whose benefits have been disrupted by the shutdown.

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Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

Von Thalia geküsst, Oper Wuppertal, 2 November 2025