'Opportunity' is doing so much heavy lifting in this sentence it'll put it's back out

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I'm not going to share Stock's Unherd article. But here's the important part: "Abortions should only be done for a highly restricted set of reasons. They should not be just nodded through for any reason a pregnant woman likes." The ven diagram of the anti-trans & the anti-woman lobby is a circle.

It is Transgender Awareness Week. Trans rights remain under attack in the UK. Our branch believes that trans people are who they say they are, and trans rights are human rights!

I'm no expert on US politics but could it be that these Democrat leaders are simply naive af? They basically serve Trump the US democracy and all their own past accomplishments on a silver plate to "make a point"? theintercept.com/2025/11/10/d...

This is what is on the line. And eight Democrats have blown it apart for nothing at all. The Republicans had no cards to play and were taking most of the heat. Eight Democrats capitulated for nothing, and millions of Americans will lose their healthcare for it.

Insane decision by so many Democrats to capitulate. Utterly unconscionable. They will burn the country to the ground and grovel to Trump for the paltriest of crumbs. I have never regretted anything less than severing all ties with this political party.

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Imagine if the Labour ministers cared as much about Elon Musk’s call to violence as they did about some chants at Glastonbury

Great, but cars must stop killing cyclists & cyclists must stop cycling on pavement! We’ve lost multiple colleagues to cycling accidents. I’ve been hit & injured (fortunately minimally) by TWO cyclists + constant near misses! Roads so unsafe so they put pedestrians at risk trying to stay safe.

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In trying to steer union efforts to prevent my employer going down worst path of applying EHRC’s transphobic guidance, I’ve been frantically researching the legal situation & lived reality for UK trans people. It is worse than I think almost anyone realizes.

It’s wild how economists are going nuts over Piketty’s paper that shows what qualitative people and all people with eyes have seen for generations. Like it’s genuinely so cute when they think they’ve discovered something novel with their little numbers and formulae and stuff.

A 34 year old told me that unlike me he is too old to be here, and I will build statues to him

To be clear, Labour’s position makes them one of the most far right parties in Europe on this issue. Cutting disability benefits and allowing the higher education sector to collapse shows they are not particularly left wing on other issues either.

Gaza is out of food. Israel is starving the population to death, and the world has closed its eyes. There are some things that can never be forgiven and some moral failures for which our leaders should never be able to atone.

If you *only* consider the question of toilets, and nothing else, Britain has been turned into a hostile environment for trans people. Britain is now the most hostile country to be trans in Europe, other than Russia or Hungary.

You can make the lives of minorities extremely difficult and impose ever mounting misery on them. But no injustice can last forever, and the refusal of trans people to stop existing, or their allies to stop fighting, means this will, in time, only end one way.

Solidarity with all trans, non-binary & intersex people facing the harsh and ill-considered guidance issued by the EHRC. It’s full of holes & has clearly been written without input from trans people. I will push for this to be withdrawn until thought-out guidance can be produced.

Labour is a disgrace. Tories 2.0, and not even the centrist Tories.

Where is the emergency Saturday legislation for the rapidly disintegrating British higher education sector? Where is the emergency Saturday legislation for our unaffordable, poisoned water supply?

Could the media stop calling them “reciprocal tariffs” as if they’re legitimately reciprocating anything?

In fairness destroying the global economy is legit a way to own the libs

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

Maybe I take back the harsh things I’ve said about Ursula

I don’t know whether to feel uplifted that the protests have finally taken off in the US or disheartened because once again I keep seeing the Handmaids costumes 🫠

I have to admit there is a (relatively small) part of me that fears Trump’s tariff strategy will “work” — as a power play, not as any kind of thought through economic policy

This platform is still so cringe and kindhearted. Twitter is completely dead, can’t we get a little of the snark over here? 😭

I keep hearing giddy excitement from the UK scholars (obviously the quant people) who are giddy that we can attract more Ivy grads. Aside from all the existing problems with that… why are we sure we will want them?

Where is the global outcry over the destruction of the US Department of Education? What are the trade unions in Europe doing? What are the universities in Europe doing? Does no one understand how catastrophic this is?

Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules on a human face forever

Hungary bans all LGBTQ+ Pride events - and allows the use of facial recognition software to identify and punish anyone who attends a Pride event. This is chilling. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

I am completely despondent about the world today. What does any of our research matter? What do we do to get out of it? A complete void of leadership from any credible opposition and a seemingly inexorable global march to the extreme right.

The problem with the “vaccinated against fascism/authoritarianism” metaphor for Germany is that no one ever discusses what happens when people think they need a booster. Horrifying that 1/5th of Germany voted for hideously far right party, & nearly a 1/3rd voted for party that broke the firewall.

Gotta say I just did nazi it coming that a bunch of 19 year old tech nerds would carry out the execution of the republic this swiftly, otherwise 10/10 with my fascist playbook predictions.

En liten påminnelse till Liberalerna och Moderaterna om att era partier samarbetar med samma typ av människor som Musk och Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdrg...

What we really don’t need are exasperated, pearl-clutching centrists deconstructing the Sieg Heil instead of actually organizing. Of course that’s what it is. What did you think they were planning to do; who did you think they were?

In one day, the biggest dismantling of progress in decades, maybe ever. And there will be so little resistance from any institutions. The US corporate establishment and the European political elite have already decided on servility.

Los Angeles is literally burning to the ground and still I feel sure that Americans will not take climate change seriously.

Regular PSA: The ultra bright LED lights on your bicycle are *blinding* especially when they are blinking. They do not help people to see you; they help people to be unable to see at all.

I wonder if Gen Z understands that 25 years ago today we were all waiting with bated breath to find out if the world was going to implode at midnight.

Closing this year by making the observation that we should all spend more time talking about how profoundly weird it is that the British wear swimsuits in the sauna.

Jimmy Carter was a ray of hope on the question of Palestine. He was also (increasingly so later in life) an opponent of abortion access and women’s right to choose. Let us mourn him and also remember that politicians leave complicated legacies that should not be whitewashed.

I really need to see the comms strategy doc that outlined quelling the stan culture by giving him a glow-up, treating him under presumption of guilt, putting him in jail with a celebrity, and making him reenact the Via Dolorosa as a perp walk.

Charging Luigi Mangione with terrorism - even if he’s found guilty of murder - was unhinged. Doing so will render all of the mostly-joking hero worship not only entirely legitimate, but also extremely urgent. Such a radical expansion of the definition of terrorism is horrifying.

It’s that time of year again! The time where I give you all a reminder than nearly every male character in Love Actually is a sociopath and it is not romantic in any way and constitutes one of the worst screenplays ever written

Is this app any less dull yet? Also how did I get 600 followers without doing anything? Is there a way to transfer from Twitter or something?