Cygnets.

Labour's next PM needs to be someone who's competent and worthy enough for the traditional weekly meeting with JK Rowling.

andy burnham has turned up in euston with a bucket of fried chicken and a fishing rod.

"We're totally a force for good, according to us"

Starmer is a coward Streeting is a coward What we need is someone who is not a coward and doesn’t listen to cowards. Because a conflict-avoidant leader is a terrible leader

Rosie Duffield calibrating her political career on main

The absolute lowest bar for a Labour win in 2024 was "at least people like Farage and Badenoch won't be in government during a Trump second term". Clearly, that was expecting too much from Labour.

Somewhere right now there are Labour MPs who think the answer to all their problems is Blue Labour reactionary Jonathan Hinder.

"It is true that many voters do see immigrants as the source of all economic woes, but they are wrong and it matters that they are wrong."

“You’ll never win voters over by telling them they're racist” will be the response from ‘reactionary centrists’ who insist we appease the far-right.It is their only response. Unthinking, uncritical, axiomatic. Something reasoned from, not reasoned to."

'We have to confront reality: if you weren't born here, aren't white, in these election results we once again have confirmation that millions of your neighbours hate you & will prioritise hurting you over their own livelihoods.' Fantastic piece from @polphilpod.bsky.social

Breaking: Jess Phillips resigns as safeguarding minister just ahead of the 1pm news bulletins

Wes Streeting is all about being parachuted into a safer seat one way or another.

Starmer needs to put up the World Cup bunting now while he still can.

Great. These are the people that got voted in last week.

Just wingnuts! This paper was always just very tedious, bog-standard, too-online right wing cranks with absolutely insane ideas about sekrit infiltration of Our Culture by the lesser races. In 2007, this would’ve just been a warblog called Infinite Resolve or some similarly stupid shit.

Rofl, the UK has "no legal framework, making gender recognition impossible" Thanks to the @ilgaeurope.bsky.social for this analysis. Amazing stuff, really should ram home to everyone what exactly has happened in the UK's regression.

We’ll keep encouraging coverage of our work and the many women who support it through mainstream media articles like this. When so much reporting is negative, sensationalist or seeks false balance, we want our message of compassionate inclusion to be heard. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Hard to not be cynical and think “huh, this exclusively Israeli report about Oct 7th sure is released close to that story in the NYT about IDF/settlers/Shin Bet interrogators systemic rape of Palestinians”

Cygnet.

YES. Cygnets finally back in my local pond after 3 or 4 years with none. <3

Or is it expected they go into traditional caring roles? There is the risk of a deeply sexist outcome from these policies

One thing that kept me up last night was thinking about Labour's policies toward working class young girls. They've traditionally done very well through the arts, but if access to that falls while trades rise where will they go? Will Labour radically address gender imbalances within trades?

The UK used to be no.1 but due to being a transphobic trash fire is now 22.

As Miliband's name gets raised, I can't help thinking about the time he accepted an Pink News award, literally dedicating it specifically to my trans daughter, her rights & happiness & then shut his mouth completely for the next 7 years as her rights were removed & her chances of happiness squashed.

This faction split, briefed against the party, wrecked, gifted us with Boris Johnson and the hardest possible Brexit, all so they could wrest control of the party and immediately pilot it directly into a mountain. For no reason.

If you can’t change Prime Minister because of the bond markets, then the bond markets *are* the Prime Minister.

The Guardian did an entire podcast called "Why Does Everyone Hate Keir Starmer" in which trans rights wasn't mentioned once and the only feelings on immigration and refugees mentioned were those of the right. The idea Labour's assault on minority rights are uncontroversial is just accepted as rote.

of course all the chaos is funny and I'm glad that Keir Starmer, a bad person, is having a bad time. but jfc what a waste of two years, what a waste of a majority, what a waste of a once in a generation window to improve things. and now it's just 24/7 infighting, briefing, backstabbing. pathetic

Some of these people are key parts of Wes Streeting's approach to trans youth healthcare by the way if anyone was on the fence about him

Also on the billing is Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of anti trans campaign "Transgender Trend" former Subud cult member and campaigner against sex education in schools including information on safety around anal sex (because why stop at hurting trans kids?)

Prof Michael Biggs, an Oxford university Sociologist who was outed running a vicious anti trans troll account 5 years ago, Alice Sullivan (the architect of the British government ripping up approaches to recording trans gender identity that respect trans people's self identity in the census).

5th and 6th July the anti trans conversion therapy group SEGM under its front "CAN-SG" will be running a conference on "rethinking Youth Gender Medicine" featuring NHS clinicians alongside Stephen Levine (the quack used by the Trump administration to run many anti trans healthcare bills) as well as

Wes Streeting recently, unprompted, said "it's not like I'm some kind of Christian religious bigot" talking to parents of trans kids. But he's putting people in charge of NHS trans healthcare who are funded by LITERALLY the same Christian conservative organisations that brought Trump to power.

"I don't think this social media platform should be run according to the whims of one extremely irrational man in complete control of moderation" [USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST]

My romantic companion was wearing a Sleater Kinney sweater and the guy at the store was like “is that your law firm”

BREAKING: The Scottish Greens have demanded that the head of the Electoral Commission resign after it refused to investigate the far-right "party" Independent Green Voice

Labour, specifically, Bridget Phillipson, Reeves and Starmer are leading us to an economic disaster simply because they think everyone working class belongs in a trade. I am begging just one journalist to stand up and ask our education secretary what her degree was in. Just one small question.

If universities go bust so will many towns and cities, our economy will tank due to mass layoffs, those people will struggle to find work thanks to AI. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The people you can most reliably track as "anti-Zionist who is also antisemitic" are the folks who have also been openly transphobic. Kasparian, Greenwald, Carlson. Left and right, this is the common thread for many.

Keep in mind that the person in question was apparently in T&S on Twitter, before Musk took over, and made the decision to allow LibsOfTiktok to stay active despite its blatant violations of harassment policy.

incredibly weird behavior for this website to allow one member of their team to singularly decide that any/all criticism of them is harassment to the level of a bannable TOS violation it cultivates an environment where no one is able to criticize bluesky and that makes everyone less safe

YES. Cygnets finally back in my local pond after 3 or 4 years with none. <3

"Pressing the tip of his dick against the entrance to my ass, he lets out a guttural grunt." This time last year, part 2 of the 24-hr fuck trilogy: #ass.

If it was “the country” that was the problem then it would be everybody’s fault, and thus nobody’s fault at all. I feel like we can assign blame somewhat more specifically than this, can’t we.

Spare me the “man of great integrity” schtick. Starmer: - Lied through his teeth to become Labour leader - Defended Israel’s right to commit war crimes - Appointed the friend of a notorious paedophile to high office - Went Enoch Powell on migrants And so on!

They say they’re not banning romance projects, but literally the first thing prohibited on the rules list is saying your book is horny. A platform to avoid!

Civil society is gonna have to start punching back at the far-right bullies in politics and the media, and a big part of that is having a government that gives people confidence that it will side with them as they stand up for social liberalism rather than try to appease its political enemies

Would be incredible to get the first gay PM in Wes Streeting if he wins the inevitable leadership election only for the Labour Party to be decimated in the following general election because the LGBTQ+ community refused to vote for him