It is just racism. She cannot fathom that people sympathize with Arabs. More or less that.

It is fascinating that a genuinely intelligent person like Clinton cannot fathom people just disagreeing with her based on the evidence, clearly this is a racial (and ideological) blindspot on her part, but this is true for pretty much everyone of her generation and of her particular elite cohort.

So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through. Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.

Much like “pretending” to be trans for some imagined advantage, the hoops you would have to jump through to game the accommodations process are so ludicrously high that this is not a particular concern of anyone who has tried to get accommodations.

“I just have concerns about fairness in sport” - no, you don’t. There’s nothing fair about elite sports. You’re just looking for post hoc justification because we give you the ick

“Would have” isn’t good enough #JFT97

It’s also what happened with Virgin gyms. Everywhere targeted caves when the date on the letter before action gets too close

I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.

Oh look, it’s Orwell Prize judge Michael Gove

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

People catastrophizing about a precedent where no one can mark anything down anymore for being wrong when the real precedent is trans people not being able to do literally any job without an army of bigots launching a harassment campaign against their employer.

For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss: It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!! www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...

adf lawyers represent 'for women scotland', 'sex matters', 'lgb alliance', and 'keira bell'. labour are also in bed with these ppl. wes streeting is constantly cheering on 'the darlington nurses' who are represented by the adf. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social allows 'sex matters' to set policy.

Congratulations on only being 30% transphobes and 70% people who will willingly work with transphobes, I guess?

Today, in The Times, there is an attempted hit piece on my employer – Good Law Project. It is *incredibly* weak, and perhaps the biggest compliment really is just how little they have to accuse us of. But it also promotes the Trans Mission concert – to which you should buy tickets! Thread 🧵👇

That MSPs are now openly saying stuff like this is chilling. "Controversial groups like LGBT Youth Scotland"? LGBTYS didn't need to be in my schools for me to be gay, but they sure as hell would have helped me avoid 9 years of fear and self-loathing if they had been. Despicable stuff.

if it seems a bit strange to you that an ostensibly ‘feminist’ organisation should be campaigning against free period products, I’d invite you to consider where said organisation is getting its funding and whose views it’s set up to promote

So many people who imagine themselves to be Marxists have a deeply liberal and idealist understanding of transphobia. It's not a debate, it's a power struggle and if you aren't willing to clearly take trans people's side, you are a scab.

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

in germany, the fascists want to found a new youth organization, antifa is blocking access to the conference hall, so police are literally chauffeuring the fascists

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Will it be Serwotka and the TERFs or Sultana and the SWP? Join me after the break to see which of our two teams progresses to the next round.

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Evil wee fuckers

Taskmaster cos it's had two of its best series and always puts a smile on me kipper.

Has anyone seen the Murderbot series - the books by @marthawells.com are fantastic but I don't have Apple.

it's just respectability politics through and through. calling someone a racist, a transphobe, an ableist, a misogynist, a homophobe or even quite famously; a bigot, is hands down far worse than the bigotry itself. always has been. because it benefits power and no other reason.

As they're part of the discourse rn, fuck the SWP

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Girl get out of there, it is clearly not *your* party.

For the many (arseholes), not the few (trans people)

The louder they shout about "biological reality", the more I can hear the "gay sex is unnatural" echoes from the 1980s. Reactionary cunts, the lot of them. Then, and now.

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Zero reckoning from any of the elites who credulously parroted the absurd idea that the right wing was in favor of free speech.

The idea that there are doctors who throw Puberty Blockers, let alone HRT at a kid who wanders in off the street and then whip them away for surgery is on a par with believing in secret alien bases at the centre of the earth, one will get you weird looks, the other will get you a job in journalism

Please help if you can

So she'll work with rape apologists, aside from the entryism

I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.

Your Party ultras giving it the big one over trans rights while Mark Serwotka is basically in charge of the Welsh Branch, is it?

Bono on telly, is he?

The same Palantir that won a contract to create an NHS data platform in the UK.

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

Can’t underline this enough really: these cases are a squillionaire giving crackpots money to seek out individual members of the public quietly going about their working day, so they can turn them into national hate figures, hand in hand with our utterly poisonous media outlets. That’s all it is.

If there's one lesson I think we can draw from stuff like this it's that "optics" are a lie. Power will spin fascist cranks as just normal academics who've been unfairly persecuted and peace activists as terrorists if it suits its purposes.