I have to say I find it incredibly gross that a lot of Platner stans, including Hasan Piker, are still acting like they were totally justified disregarding Lindsey Fifield's allegations.

This would end Internet privacy. They want to be able to tie everything you do to a government ID.

Imagine finding out that a sitting US Senator and former majority leader is brain dead and its not the biggest US Senate news that day.

The number of I-told-you-soes getting paid out tonight over Platner could crash the economy.

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

Hi, trans people have been studying the movement since it emerged in 2016/7 and their success is down to a) a huge amounts of money from organised christofacsists b) the particularly incestuous nature of the UK media class and c) the "left" folding like a wet paper towel coz they too hate trannies.

Ken Klippenstein should never live this down.

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

Platner is hoping someone will save his ass and it sure would be useful if the folks who have been boosting him, pushing past all the red flags would ruin his hopes so that he just bails and someone better can be picked. @emmavigeland.bsky.social ? @majorityreport.bsky.social ?

Oh its OVER OVER

@majorityreport.bsky.social Any comment on the Nazi you were ride-or-die on being accused of rape?

Labour have to get as much authoritarianism in place before Starmer actually leaves in the hopes that Burnham can spend the next three years as a more palletable figurehead for the McSweeney project without changing anything further.

Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney are such political geniuses that they gave 16 years old the vote and then banned them from social media so they have a grudge against Labour. Clearly Starmer was put there to destroy the Labour Party and he has done a bang up job.

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Trust the plan meth heads in control

There's no good outcome here for him. He can call the snap election and risk losing his premiership to Farage in the first months, or he can "lead" Starmer's Labour for the next 3 years hoping his visage will make it look less odious than Starmer's.

Some day, Starmer will be remembered for what he was, a Trojan horse fake progressive who was sent by the Epstein Class to continue Tory rule after the formal Tory party was discredited beyond repair.

Apparently swiping left was too much to ask of these people.

Tucker auditioning to be the US's Nigel Farage, and I hope that he does exactly that.

Never let them get away with explaining away malice as incompetence.

Only 2-4% failure? Wow. What was the percentage of trans people in the general population again?

I wrote about the Supreme Court's latest disgusting anti-trans ruling. I wrote about it because I refuse to act like taking away constitutional rights and allowing legal discrimination is okay just because it's happening to people who don't poll well in a diner in Ohio. In @thenation.com

Sounds more like a counter-revolution to me. What if we had a revolution, and we called it adopting Catholic Sexual prudism.

We are in a full on dictatorship, rivaling the most entrenched ones in the world. Anti ICE activists, who printed a zine, are labeled “terrorist” and sentenced to 30-100 years in federal prison. By this metric we’re all targets. Genuinely chilling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Where was this energy for the last two years of Republican rule?

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

The US has found it's Morgan McSweeney.

This is an insane intimidation tactic.

It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but there really is a highly organized, widely supported, and well-funded group of researchers trying to sabotage gender affirming medicine from the inside.

A major scandal has broken out in Norway at NBTK, the national gender clinic that has notoriously limited access to care. Researchers, including SEGM affiliate Anne Wæhre, engaged in substantial misconduct and ethical violations in their research on trans people. www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/43RE...

The “gender-critical” transphobes are bringing up the old, discredited trope of Autogynephilia again as a reason to harm and segregate trans people. So just to remind everyone: Dr Charles Moser’s study in 2009 found that 93% of *cis women* fit the diagnosis of “autogynephilic”.

TikTok's latest illegal 'life hack' seems to be 'dispute credit card transactions for free stuff' and legality aside I am here to beg you: Do not do this to small businesses. It really fucks them over in ways you may not be aware of beyond stealing from them (which is, to be clear, what this is).🧵

Brad Lander isn't an ideal candidate, but him beating Dan Goldman 2 to 1 should still tell Democrats that the only path forward to victory is to break with Israel.

No, there is no "nuance" about the Prairieland defendants. Anything less than total condemnation of these prosecutions and sentences is capitulation to fascism. The leopards will eat your face too

A day after sentencing a supposed "antifa" defendent to 30 years for moving a box of leftist literature and another defendent to 100 years, Reed O'Connor is being given the FTC's frivolous lawsuit against WPATH. Trump has picked a new favorite judge, it seems.

Following the shameful decision of NHS England to forcibly detransition trans kids under the care of Brighton WellBN Good Law Project is funding gender affirming private healthcare for at least 10 young trans people whose treatment has been withdrawn and whose financial need is greatest.

1. She changed her ID to comply with Kansas’ new anti-trans law. Now, the state wants to put her in jail for having an inaccurate license. Kris Ripper is being charged with driving with an invalid license—a class B misdemeanor—after a cop refused to believe the ID the state forced on her was valid.

The Cass Review speculated that the fact that the vast majority of trans kids who go on puberty blockers go on to graduate to hormones meant that it was a "pipeline" that caused them to be trans, and explicitly said that it didn't offer time to think. Thats already absurd at face value. But now...

For my latest video, I found this absolute masterpiece of a Clinton smear ad from 1995. Is this YOUR vision for a better America???

It’s a little concerning that too many people on here and other social media are uncritical of Starmer and his claim to have left the country in a better way than before. In 2024 the UK was habitable for trans people. Now it is not. If you are unconcerned about that. You have a problem.

Britain has such a rich political system that it actually has two heads of state: the king, whose duties wearing silly hats and protecting pedophiles, and the President of the United States, whose duties are deciding foreign policy, domestic policy, and protecting pedophiles.

The one thing Starmer leaving definitely won't change is Labour's continuing support for Israel's many genocides. Im fairly certain Burnham was chosen because he agreed to go along with that. Just watch what happens. Its just reputation laundering and getting rid of the stink of a very unpopular PM

I did not know about the A-pillar blind spot problem (gift article) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I’ve been worried about her campaign since it started & I’ve not said much because her trauma must be truly horrific. But at this point she is basically lying about Brianna’s death. Matthew Shepard’s mother fought homophobia & pushed to create hate crime legislation. Esther is doing the opposite.

One thing about this ban is that it functionally expands the OSA dramatically by removing the size limits on the platforms it covers. The OSA previously targeted companies above a certain size. Now all social media is the target. The OSA roll-out was a test case for more fascism.

“The bottom line is that Minnesotans refused to buckle, even in the face of literally murderous violence. And we’ll do it all over again if we have to regardless of the any trumped up charges brought by Rosen and his band of aspiring fascists.” By @snipy.bsky.social in @atrupar.com’s PN:

Honestly the Mayfield by-election is one of the most undemocratic managed democracy ploys I've ever seen. What do you mean the ruling party, with it's historic supermajority, doesn't have one single MP ready to stand up and take over?

Immediately after the fall of the Assad government Israel began a project of turning southern Syria into a new version of the West Bank, with house confiscations and demolitions and a new network of military bases. The government yesterday indicated that their presence in Syria would be permanent:

NEW: Paramount refused to air a TV ad critical of its merger with WarnerBros. The ad was made by @freedom.press, to run during Trump's UFC event. It criticized the $111 billion merger as a threat to the First Amendment. The irony!