"The UK court system is a fucking joke. "No facts, no standing, no harm. They get a court to strip the rights of a minority group without them being involved in the case or any factual record. "As bad as things are in the US... there are still constitutional restraints that prevent stuff like this."

This is a pro rape policy. They want to facilitate the rape and abuse of trans women. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

at a certain point we have to stop asking what's going on with our prominent trans scholars and start asking what's going on with academia, that prominence is awarded only to scholars who are willing to ask such brave questions as 'which trannies are the fake kind' and 'are lesbians bourgeois'

You're not supposed to say this, but conservatives hate HPV vaccines because they think that removing the risk of cervical cancer from sex incentives women to be sluts. It's been a Christian thing since way before RFK Jr. was around, everybody knows what it's about, but you have to pretend not to.

IIRC this is the beginning of the plot of Ring My Bell

look he was very busy coaching that Jamaican bobsled team

“NO REASON TO CHANGE WHAT IS WORKING” is just unbelievably poetic and apt for this entire era of (God forgive me for using this term) neoliberal implosion.

Where’s Andy Burnham going?

Reminder that at one point when Zuckerberg was trying to break into China he asked Xi to name his child and Xi was “for the love of God, have some self-respect you weirdo”

This is literally you right now

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

A major Wired investigation this week revealed details of Peter Thiel's secretive "Dialog" network after a leaked database exposed hundreds of members. One name caught my attention: Jonathan Haidt. A thread 🧵

An interesting thread from a month ago that predicted exactly what we’re seeing in the reflecting pool now (peeling up, prolific microbial activity)

Invite the PA in now instead of in 5 years. Demand that Israel allow presidential elections to be held in occupied Palestinian territory including EJ within the year. Demand that Area C be handed over to the PA by the end of the summer. End trade with settlement goods. Enforce the ICJ 2024 ruling/

There have been other proposals put forward since Oct 2023 that are far more substantive, for example the Arab League proposed in early 2024 that a UN peacekeeping force be established and deployed to all of the OPT, including East Jerusalem, and for a UNSCR-overseen 2yr peace process to begin.

Ben-Gvir is a monstrous war criminal who belongs in the Hague, but this is rank Holocaust revisionism designed to use anti-Zionism as an entree into questioning all of Jewish history.

Even fascism is no match for the All-Conquering Power and Holy Terror of the Soul-Destroyer, the Word that Breaks Wills and Slows Time — the Environmental Impact Statement.

Iran war so crazy, what will people say in 20 years, ya we just flopped, ya no reason at all

lol

This is a very important point in my view and I really do not think it can be overlooked. The way Clinton speaks about Palestine can only really be understood if you understand that she implicitly thinks of us and our demands as an internal problem for Israel. This is just completely incorrect.

if you genuinely think Reform (or Restore) are harbingers of dangerous politics, should you not take politics more seriously?

really is remarkable how like, whether you're on the left or centre and critiquing the contemporary Labour government, the usual line against critiquing Keir or any of his associated gurus is "look only KEIR/MORGAN COULD HAVE DELIVERED US A HUGE MAJORITY" ok, but what is that doing to stop Reform

The money and the desire and the demand and the plan and the malice are not the same thing as completion, fight like hell, they are announcing their plans long before they're close to completion, they're strategically ass backward, weak, cowardly pathetic fools

#hobbystreak Day 2127: trying to make the model pop a bit more, it's looking very muddy at the moment. Made some details silver, darkened the rifle to a black wood, faffed about further with the rats, started painting the rocks. Tried tinting the armour red but was a little too conservative with it

Electoral reform in New Zealand was a reaction to how the previous twenty years of successive majority governments had been able to force through radical and unpopular legislation with very little pushback. It was not about how the wrong people were winning elections

Also note how the electoral reform debate is entirely about who might win the election, and not even remotely about how parties, voters and governments might behave differently under a different system vs how they do now

pokemon trainer throwing a whole buncha stones at their eevee simultaneously trying to achieve a 'sparkledog' effect

This piece is another example of how evidentiary standards for covering young people basically don't exist. It's a take on the supposedly widespread and normal use of this language anchored around guesstimates from two (2) people about behavior at a single high school.

The implication of this "New York Times" headline is that "goy" is simply a slang term used by Generation Z now, no longer attached to antisemitic implications. I think this is not only wrong, but rather dangerous for the newspaper to be printing.

I think it is true a lot of Gen Z is unaware that they are using terms that got adopted by Stormfront adjacent areas at least partially ironically, but that doesn't make it any less dire that that sort of language is being normalized.

2012 tumblr ass response

how loudly can the subaltern speak? tone policing, violence, and the (un)knowing of working class lifeways - JD Vance, Gender Studies Quarterly, 2026

good news for people who don't consume food and rely on energy

This seems to be the Israeli narrative now after the deal. They want you to believe, and many believe themselves, that a few hundred lightly armed militiamen with Israeli satphones sitting in Iraq could have overthrown the Islamic Republic.

say what you will about pre-Musk X but i don't recall female suffrage being a point of contention

The persistent belief among Israeli Jews that the United States is not and never has been pro Israel enough is genuinely impressive

the thing is that establishment democrats do not need to be left wing to be successful in this moment, they just have to hate donald trump as much as the base does but they have like oppositional defiant disorder w/re to their voters

Recall that the New York Times has been caught out multiple times passing off College Republicans and state Republican Party operatives as apolitical "man on the street" types

I have bad news for him… Vancouver literally is a land of 80% single family homes 😭😭 and this isn’t even counting Metro Vancouver which would be an even higher number

Hi, Midwestern millennial here. I had to do an annoying amount of peer-to-peer education around the pejorative “gay.” It’s not actually that people didn’t _know_ what they were saying; their insistence that they didn’t mean it “that way” was instead them saying they couldn’t be made to _care._

God it's so fun to watch them all line up to throw Vance under the bus

Even at their most brutal and ineptly led, no other post-1945 European war of imperial retreat led to anti-colonial armies launching airstrikes on the imperial capital

Really not beating those 'gone into hiding' rumours

I thought guessing players from their swing was impressive

>why are they bombing us Childish delusions. Childish delusions. Childish delusions. None of you are free of childish delusions.

For decades, American leaders ignored the Iran problem. President Trump is the only President brave enough to do what should have been done for years: give Iran £300bn and control over a key strategic waterway

I can't even make a joke here bc this is just objectively funnier than anything I could say

AUSTIN POWERS (de-aged): baby I was practicing free love back when your granny was knocking boots, I don’t see the issue! VIVICA GOODBOOBS (Sydney Sweeny): Austin you can’t just shag anyone without telling me, being Poly is about communication! AUSTIN: (looks Wistful, sad song by The Weeknd plays).

This country is absolutely mad. The legitimisation of far-right actors is unhinged. He should be banned from literally everything if not in prison.