Might want to have a look at how far trans rights have retreated under this *Labour* government. Until HMG restores the Equalities Act and corrects the Supreme Court’s decision, Labour MPs have no place nor right celebrating Pride. Spineless hypocrites.

Interesting; but I can't help taking with a pinch of salt its suggestion that 29% of UCU (University & College Union) members are now Reform UK voters (see www.jlpartners.co.uk/polling-resu... for deets). I don't want to stereotype my sectoral colleagues as a bunch of typical liberal-lefties but....

This comes back to the absolutely fucking insane situation that government business, by members of parliament and senior government members, is conducted on personal devices. A situation which, again, would be deeply frowned upon in other settings

Fairly consistently these groups have made it clear they want to be trans-inclusive and have had to be forced to be trans-exclusive by lawfare from anti-trans obsessives like Rustin.

Mel Morris talking about turning things to economic powerhouses, as he took Derby into administration with a points deduction even larger than Sheffield Wednesday's this season

Labour seems to have internalised the Supreme Court judgment as though it was a damning referendum loss that saw the public reject its position, rather than a plainly incorrect reading of a single point of law

Declaring any sort of support towards a prescribed group would probably get you banned. But I'm very confused as to what the fuck Cenk has done to get banned in the same way

Knowing the law, I'm not surprised Hasan has been banned, for saying he's said he'd 'vote for Hamas over Israel', and that's frankly very illegal here. But the law is so bad and vague about everything else. It's based on whims

The trouble with this argument is - it’s not true and it was discussed in Parliament at the time. ‘Sex’ meant trans people with GRCs and it was always intended to mean that. bsky.app/profile/hear...

Jesus fucking Christ Zack. Do you want me to vote for the Greens or not??

A common feature im noticing is rather than left wing populism being about a belief that the govt can produce material wealth via centralization its just about the idea that market constraints arent real

So so many points in this half where OKC hasn't shot when they really should have, only to see time run away

idk why these teams don’t just try the Knicks formula of “beat other team by 37.” seems inefficient this way?

there’s the SGA Bullshit c’mon man crowd chanting MVP just makes it worse

Wait wait wait, Platner is a creep who disrespects his wife? The slur guy? The mercenary? The guy who loved doing imperialist violence? Are you sure? The guy who pretends to be a working class common joe whose excuse for his nazi tattoo was that he's very stupid? That guy? No. Don't buy it.

Is Andy Burnham on a bet as to whether he can make Wes Streeting a viable candidate for Labour Leader?

I hadn’t realised Andy Burnham had done a Tik Tok about not building on fields. He is mayor of Makerfield and his own policy prescribes building on fields, because it isn’t possible to hit housing targets any other way

The Greens, putting Tory leadership into councils which prevent housing and a new home for a major women's football team. Really doesn't fill me with a lot of hope when I probably have to vote for the Greens in 2 weeks

“Hates Muslims” + “the social policy preferences of el-Sisi’s Egypt” - truly the weirdest thing about the new right.

Surprised to see Luke Akehurst making up 4% of any poll

👇 This. If you’d asked me to guess “Lisa Nandy has been Culture Sec for two years, what are your thoughts on her” I would have guessed “she has made a huge amount of changes, some I think sensible, some far too leftwing for me, some too focused on towns not core cities”. Not “Lisa was Culture Sec?”

Fucking hell fire.

Genuinely think the composition of the BBC Question Time panel for its AI special is the most unbalanced in the history of the programme. Every single panellist is a pro-AI. If there was an attempt at balance, it was a *spectacular* failure. (Also there's a weird stunt)

This is the least surprising development from one of the least viewer friendly experiences I've had in a theatre in a long time

I'm also somewhat of the mind that this is generally good because it's bad (even if the numbers are closer to even than a loss). If they're starting out from "not serious" it's probably something that's dropped in the end rather than something you lose games for.

A cap system forces players to fight among themselves for a fixed piled of money. It is corrosive to a union, and does nothing but raise franchise values.

I have many, not that complimentary, thoughts about this show. I would have died if i had to wait an hour for it to start

the challenge for talarico and dems will not just be repeating this accusation over and over again, but telling the story over and over again, so that voters understand the words "adam hoffman" as a synecdoche for the entire case against Paxton every time they are invoked.

Oh my god “Wealthy areas like the city centre” At least google some pictures of it in the 1990s

sentences you can read, even when you can't

I have been convinced that the triple lock is a necessary evil (though it should be a double lock in my head), but we must tax all pensionable income like employment income. I truly truly despise someone retired having the same income as me paying significantly less tax

The way a senior labour figure going 'i know who the first woman leader of the labour party should be. The person who is introducing the new section 28. That'll do it'

It's fascinating that as Starmer's failures in office makes us all reassess what made Blair such an effective Prime Minister, his post-premiership continues to make impossible any genuine rapprochement between him and the public

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

Deeply pathetic that BBC is reporting this as a Reform power struggle rather than explaining that Reform's policies would require deporting people -including pensioners - who have lived and worked here legally for decades. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Or indeed how Starmer has essentially overseen through inaction the introduction of Don‘t Ask, Don‘t Tell for trans people in public. But a referendum on something the public broadly agree was a mistake? Heavens no. Too divisive.

A fascinating hangover of covid is that it has sort of removed “you can just ask people to do things” from the policy toolbox.

Yep - keep hearing the "oh it only affects the U16s" in the media reports and the point is - that no! It affects everyone. We have a major issue with radicalisation amongst the O50s!

We are at the point of the heat where a lot of British insulation is so shit, that even if you managed the house set up properly for 4 days, it is still just too hot

The sun is slowly coming up. It is 4am. It is a million degrees outside. The Knicks are in the NBA Finals. It is a truly wonderful day

Honestly, would buy one to be in the building

I wasn't even born. This is unbelievable

@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep

Go win the whole fucking thing

They are down 24 going to hack a mitch. They are a fucking disgrace

Has anybody checked the analytical scoreline

This is belt to fucking ass

I would be fucking livid if I was a Cavs fan

That is a fucking disgrace by the Cavs to open a quarter

The Times here describing Restore’s “deport, detain” line on immigration as “robust”. This is how this stuff gets further and further normalised, the ratchet cranking ever rightwards.