Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

Mr Jekyll would like everyone to admire his loaf technique. He’s been working hard on his left paw tuck. #caturday

Asylum seekers will be banned from using taxis for medical appointments from February, the government has announced. Then goes on to say one person had to travel 250 miles to see a GP and yet the mode of transport is apparently the problem with that...

Thanks UK for more terrible news. New legal case says non-binary people aren't protected under 'gender reassignment' in the Equality Act which covers only those moving between binary 'biological sex' categories 1/2

WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.

"I never thought leopards would eat MY face," sobs woman who trained leopards to eat faces

Ah "reverse migration". Your mum was Scottish so deport yourself (though we don't want you)

The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..

They are Black & Tan. That probably isn't a coincidence.

This further proves my point here. He gets feature after feature to say whatever he wants and strive for peak ghoul. And can never be cancelled. bsky.app/profile/that...

... when the horrible attack on his niece and her wife then made NO DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER to his behaviour and actions? LGBTQ+ people have abandoned and condemned his party. Medical support is withdrawn. People are fleeing the country. Why tell us now, Mr Starmer?

metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k... Why are we hearing about this now if it happened a few years ago? Since coming to office AFTER the attack on his niece, Starmer's culture war anti-LGBTQ+ words and policies have got him and Labour banned from every Pride. He has personally made ...

1/🧵 He did something similar after the murder of Brianna Ghey, using the mention of a hate crime as a kind of prop. He never talks about hate crimes themselves; he only talks about how virtuous it supposedly is for him to acknowledge that they exist.

🤣Now they're complaining that immigrants are leaving? Also, the Mail hates people with brains. All the time.

You'd think the BBC would be aware of the Streisand Effect. Either they aren't, or someone at the BBC is *very* aware of it and deliberately exploiting it. The line in question is @rutgerbregman.com calling Trump "the most openly corrupt President in American history" in case you hadn't heard yet.

Everyone in the press is obsessed with the same framing again and again where the "gender criticals" get a free pass to say whatever they want, dehumanise people as "trans ideology" or as the BBC now loves to do, refer to one minority by how they were born. No trans voices. Ever.

very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here

REPORTER: There are people upset with the president, believing the National Guard members shouldn't have been there PIRRO: I don't even wanna talk about whether they should've been there. We ought to kiss the ground and thank God that the president said it's time to bring in more law enforcement

FB pushes the most clickbait crap. And yet deny actual news or facts to Canadians because they were actually challenged on paying up for their use of legit content.

this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.

BREAKING A Turkish court on Thursday acquitted four journalists, including AFP photographer Yasin Akgul, who were on trial over mass demonstrations in Istanbul in March. The four were arrested several days into the wave of protest sparked by the arrest of Istanbul's opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu

I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are

All these people who use the word "socialism" should be forced to pick up a dictionary. Then smack themselves with it.

His Thanksgiving message.

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AFAICT, up until the 2010s casual transphobia among the general public in the UK was much worse than it is now, while the news media and government were mostly indifferent to us (apart from occasional salacious tabloid stories and transphobic comedy). Now that seems to have largely reversed

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That's not what the papers tell me. They say maybe 60% plus view trans people as the most important issue. . .

I would urge the same in Scottish courts.

What gets me about both the reporting and the judge's language is that even supposing "gender ideology" is some sort of religious belief, you would be more respectful of someone's religious belief than this. "..born Robert Prevost but now identifying as 'Pope Leo'".

The media really will treat LLMs as human before they give trans people the same courtesy

The local fash saw Glasgow got attention for protesting a primary school so they're going to try it too. They think men being near a primary school (which is also a community centre and food bank) is creepy so they're going to..hang around outside a primary school videoing themselves.

There have been 62 murders in DC in the past six months, including two dozen since Trump seized control of the city's policing. I found the names of 21 of the victims, killed since Trump's takeover, he ignores when he tells this lie: www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.

HAHAHA! HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS ARE FUNNY! DEHUMANIZING IS FUN! HAHA! WE'RE HAVING FUN!

This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.

But this isn't harassment, nor is producing a 400 page dossier

Trump on the turkeys he's about to pardon: "I shouldn't say this. I was gonna call them Chuck and Nancy. But then I realized I wouldn't be pardoning them. I would never pardon those two people. I wouldn't pardon them. I wouldn't care what Melania told me."

It's a standard that has been adopted by large sections of the press as more and more derogatory language is used on a regular basis. Even those who 'play nice' tend to just not use any pronouns at all for trans people.

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

How much of these cases is it the judge being awful and how much is the trans person's lawyer being useless at explaining what is happening in ways the judge can understand?

"Anti-trans activist Graham Linehan guilty of criminal damage" - This is how this story should be framed by any neutral outlet.

From the BBC... What journalists have made life hell? All of them appear to be on his side. He is as powerful as JKR or Farage to get a free press ride.

You can literally say what you want about trans people and the UK courts are fine with it. This was a *child*

She was 17

Really important decision for the rights of gay people, who are EU citizens, moving around the EU and seeking to ensure their marriage in one Member State is recognised in another. Notably more weight placed on citizenship rights than in the AG Opinion: curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...

This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.

Today is White Ribbon Day in the UK. A day for us to encourage all men to speak up about violence against women and girls. We can all do something. #WeSpeakUp www.whiteribbon.org.uk