“Hidden” if you’ve ignored every other scandal, act of violence, whistle blown. Horrific but sadly not “shocking” as Starmer says - it’s exactly what you’d expect based on recent evidence. Let’s see how long it takes govt and police to forget and move on this time www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I feel like this hasn’t been said loudly enough: if you want to protest and do so at the place of residence of people with no power or influence, that isn’t a protest. It’s intimidation and harassment, and inherently violent

8 years 💔 No justice 💚 #grenfell

Reckon we’re around two days from JK Rowling insisting she can’t be anti-asexual because of the existence of the asexual character, David Virgincunt, a third year Hufflepuff student.

“In 2023 in the UK, there were 6,522 stories relating to trans+ people in mainstream titles. That's almost 18 stories a day with a majority having negative framing.” Why are brands still advertising on these platforms??? www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/time...

Fourteen hours before the crash. 👇

The project, which asked autistic subjects for their saliva for reasons that definitely have nothing to do with eugenics, honest, announced yesterday that it was closing the doors to its creepy basement lab (probably) after autistics responded with a resounding “ew, stop it.”

They are just trying to get us used to the idea that the military can just enter states and do what they are ordered to - normalizing it!

In-work benefits are employer subsidies. Make employers pay workers enough to live on. Be honest about employer subsidies and apply your sanctions and regulations to them

The more people say this the more I hear: “It’s fine for rich people to buy our democracy - as long as they’re not foreign.”

Hillary Cass scolding MPs who oppose the puberty blocker ban when her own (debunked and misleading) review didn’t even recommend a ban anyway sums up how disingenuous transphobes are.

Libs: Trans people and allies are biased towards supporting trans kids Trans folk: Yes, so we look objectively at the research as we want trans kids to get safe, effective treatment Libs: Can’t listen to you then. We’ll listen to people who want trans folk not to exist - they say they’re not biased

Their concern is only for suicides that could directly be linked to the ban - so those that immediately follow prohibitive change. They don’t give a shit about those pushed to suicide 20 years later as a direct result of permanent physical changes caused now. Harder to prove a causal link you see

A double-blind study isn’t just unethical it’s impossible. Puberty blockers are extremely effective for their primary function (suspending puberty). They want trials to study secondary (psychological) impacts but due to the effectiveness of primary function everyone would know who was on a placebo

I love these kids 🩷✊

Glad IUD insertion is mentioned. I know it pales in comparison to many experiences but that agony is so avoidable. Instead, you’re told pain varies from zero to mild. When it’s excruciating you’re treated as ‘abnormal’, so it’s your body’s stupid fault (a common thread) tinyurl.com/MedMisogyny

The report names misogyny as one of the problems but the systemic and cultural issues are much broader, not just in the doc’s office (where a ‘these things are supposed to hurt’ attitude towards pregnancy, periods and related fertility issues prevails) but also in medical research and training

Because sometimes you just need to see a bat eating a banana youtube.com/shorts/QC1bw...

i spent a month investigating how republicans could cut off access to trans healthcare for most americans, and how democrats can likely stop them — but it’s unclear if they will. tw: president of wpath warning of mass suicides www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Dear lib/left, arguing with people who are being violently attacked by a political party because of they way they were born that they should vote for that political party because it’s better than another is the height of privilege. Stop doing it

Everyone understands sports psychology until it comes to gender, where constantly telling us we’re massively inferior to men apparently has no impact. It’s all the ‘biology’

A decade ago I used to worry that the Guardian/Observer would fold and we’d be left without a liberal/left-ish national paper. But I realised years ago that although it’s still there, it’s not been liberal for years. Like the Labour Party, it’s already left us

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1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

It’s been taken down now, but The Times of Israel really did publish this

“Yes, it’s a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Amos Goldberg, Israeli Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)

Spot on

@natashadevon.bsky.social speaking truth on @lbc.co.uk “unless you look like ‘original Barbie’ you’re being told you don’t ‘fit’…this is disproportionately affecting women of colour and women athletes… they’re having oceans of abuse because, they don’t look ‘womanly’ enough for JK Rowling!”

Just heard from a parent whose daughter’s been struggling to access education, finally given an EHCP and accepted to specialist school. But school won’t let her use the girls’ loos, so she’s unable to attend. Not the 1st time this bigotry has prevented a vulnerable young person from going to school

For the likes of Rees-Mogg, the solution is for Brits to incubate the workforce we need, from scratch, for 18+ years at huge cost to the taxpayer. Completely irrational, but that’s racism for you

Refusing to call themselves women while going to court over the definition of ‘woman’ is objectively weird behaviour

Both our lawmakers and our police need to take a good hard look at themselves and ask, why does this stuff tend only to come out when the abuser is dead?

It is always - and I mean always - Black and brown women who are deemed not woman enough for the these people

Ask them to name one banned event/book that would’ve benefited students in any way. The yt men will offer some hypothetical far right speaker they’d defeat in verbal conquest with their superior intellect; the transphobes will point to a transphobe who cancelled herself and got huge press coverage

“We committed genocide in the past so we’ll support it again now”?!

Registered as a donor when my friend’s son had leukaemia. Didn’t know it was so easy or I’d have done it sooner

This! Doubt the professionals who spout this rubbish would cope with half the stuff neurodivergent kids have to deal with

Damn, I thought she was talking about herself for a minute there

Will never understand why so many people want to be subjugated. It’s a reminder that mind manipulation of the masses is not a new, social media thing. The human brain is maladapted to civilisation www.channel4.com/programmes/t...

“Bluesky’s an echo chamber.” What the hell do people think the mainstream media is?

It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety

Depressing and appalling. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

She has no more right to be heard than anyone else We never stop hearing her It’s our turn to be heard now

Some crazy calls this week. This one was unbelievably moving. youtu.be/gJYHyIGaqA4?...

I’m worried I’m going on like a broken record about ‘assisted dying’, but it genuinely upsets me how eager people are to hand life or death power over to a state that frequently claims those on dialysis are ‘fit for work’.

In other words, it is the difference between left and right (politics of mutual respect and social justice vs politics of hierarchy and contempt, hate or, at best, pity)

AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride. "They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."