"Dominique Pelicot could have been arrested before he started inviting men to rape his wife. "He provided a DNA sample after a conviction for taking pics of women with a spy camera in 2010. It linked him with an attempted rape the year before&a report was posted to prosecutors, but was lost." Times

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Thanks to Akua Reindorf KC for crediting us for stopping the tsunami of bigotry she sought to start following the For (Some) Women Scotland case. 1/2

I've yet to encounter a KC - other than those with an axe to grind - who thinks For (Some) Women Scotland was correctly decided. Its only clear legacy will be decades of uncertainty and destructive litigation.

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist. UEA Student Union Inspiral Carpets, 1990 And baggy jeans are now back in 🫣

This jumpsuit looks like it's straight out of James Bond with a nutty megalomaniac pointing a space laser at earth

"Less enthusiasm among more casual Trump backers who might think twice before sporting a MAGA hat in public... "The only presidency this century that had a lower approval rating at this point in a term was also Mr. Trump’s, during his first term..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

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Labour cancelling elections tells me one thing: anyone who does have an election coming up might not get another chance to get rid of their Labour representatives for a long time. So take it. Vote Green.

i think gavin newsom fucking sucks and if you ever try to guilt me into voting for him i’ll scream

Gavin Newsom has never had a homeless, a working unhoused, or an affordable housing advocate on his podcast despite governing California. So yeah I think it’s weird that he’s entertained & platformed multiple fascists while grinning, nodding & relenting to their easily defeatable talking points.

Absolutely horrible what everyone is going thru and imagine how upsetting this is for kids. The felon/rapist, his enablers and entire administration MUST be held fully accountable for these acts.

The Government have u-turned on ID Cards. Good. Authoritarian plans to scrap jury trials need to go next.

I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.

Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.

"I’ve commanded soldiers in combat zones where anonymity could mean life or death. Even then, we understood that identity signaled responsibility. It signaled professionalism, discipline, and confidence in the mission. *We answer for the things we do.*" lnk.thebulwark.com/49wOyob

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

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On the latest @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, my cohost @adriandaub.bsky.social and I talked about the murder if Renee Good, and the gender politics animating both the right’s response to her death and the broader Trumpist project of domination.

It’s been one month since 100% of the Epstein files were due by Act of Congress. Thus far they’ve only released .6% of them and are using murder and war to distract you from this fact.

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $12 million in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics, saying the terminations appear to be retaliation for the group's view points re: vaccine safety/efficacy. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Like I’m sorry, this is a *pathetic* way to cover this. Even if you’re too cowardly and still - still!! - too craven to headline it as the clumsy power grab it so transparently is, to not even headline that the Fed Chair himself is openly calling it that is just…an embarrassing failure of journalism

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

Yes, that does say it all.

TAPPER: Does your rhetoric need to change? FREY: I said this was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying because that was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying. I got two eyes.

Poor Mandelson waiting for all his very close pals to come back from a day of sex crimes, wondering why he's never invited.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

Granted I’m biased but I actually don’t think that looking like a lesbian should justify summary executions.

The conservative rhetoric around protecting women makes more sense once you understand that victims exist purely as a hypothetical for them. Once a victim actually claims the label, they become a threat. This is also why they prefer dead women to living victims.

You are doing the right thing. It sucks to be under siege but you are under siege. And you won't be free while these law enforcement agencies continue to exist.

San Francisco’s Ocean Beach!

Anyway it would be cool if the left was willing to organize around women’s liberation, because the right is definitely organizing around misogynist contempt.

looking at Airbnbs for a trip I'm taking later this month and woah, what a lovely, tasteful, not-in-any-way-a-sex-couch couch

Green Party leader Zack Polanski suggested Reform must be stopped.

Five years ago today, the United States Capitol was attacked in a violent insurrection incited by the President of the United States for one purpose: to overturn a free and fair election and cling to power in clear violation of the Constitution.

Feels to me like it would be good for organisations that want to remain trans inclusive to contribute to this survey. We will certainly be influenced by the results. open.substack.com/pub/joannelo...

We got a 'response' from the BBC, who couldn't be bothered to write more than 3 small paragraphs (153 words) to our letter, and avoided all the points raised. This is why your help is important.

We can’t go on like this. In just two days, the average FTSE 100 CEO has made a median workers full time annual salary. The right calls this “wealth creation”. It’s wealth extraction. Time to tax the rich. @highpaycentre.bsky.social highpaycentre.org/fat-cat-day-...

1. Conversion therapy is torture. 2. It doesn't work. 3. It cause suicides. 4. Ask yourselves and your god what it would take to convert you to being LGBTQ. Oh and 5. LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOURSELF!!!

Re-upping this after the Christmas/New Year break. At least one Australian journalist has not ignored my research about the harm being caused by the puberty-blocker ban. UK "journalists" do not report this because it doesn't fit with establishment transphobic narratives. 1/2

Five days into the Government's 'strong start to January.' Day 1 blame the voters. Day 2, blame the civil service. Days 3-5, ignore international law. Voters & civil service didn't make a Labour government cut winter fuel payments & refuse a wealth tax. Join.greenparty.org.uk

A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.

My son put it best when he was a young kid: "Cats are great because you get happy every time you encounter them. You turn a corner, and there's a cat there, and it's like there's a cat, and that's great." I always think about it whenever I turn a corner and encounter a cat.

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Imagine having your parents brutally murdered and then having to do this because the fucking President of the United States is so disgusting.

The weirdest thing about Americans is how many of them think their laws apply to every person in the world. But they're certain other countries' laws don't apply to them.