Mná na hÉireann told Steen and people like her where to go several times in recent decades, especially in 2018. Why, now, is the media pretending that women are crying out for her to represent the entire nation.

If you called a woman an “sjw” in the 2010s for talking about feminism, you should have to pay her reparations

Colin is correct, & also now we have a crew of politicians who are openly saying that we are getting too big for our boots and should have no voice in any part of policy development - the policies the government then contract to us to do for pennies. More organisations will follow Parenting Focus.

Yesterday I was making this argument on the radio and arguing we need proper sentencing guidelines and the legal dude who disagreed with me called me "the other lady".

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

Our feminism is intersectional and includes all women, cis and trans. Human Rights are universal.

Everywhere you look in the UK it's like this - schools, universities, hospitals, police, work place...sexual abuse is rampant. If the UK govt tried to address this with the same vigour they have for targetting trans people, perhaps they could actually make a real difference for all women and girls.

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

charging at my boyfriend in the bedroom and he screams "olé!" as I crash into the wall instead

You can replace the name Steen and switch the religion as needed and make the same apply to hyper conservatives in other countries, too.

Just got called "the other lady" on the radio which is the greatest gift ever when you're looking to drop the mic

Am I the only one who cannot tell the difference between Steen's fancy pants handbag and one you could buy in Primark for £10?

No, it doesn't. The amnesty *itself* (among other things) is under challenge in the UKSC. Does no one read anything before publishing these days?

A quick tally of who was responsible for killing each failed Irish presidential campaign: Nick Delehanty ❌ Kieran Cuddihy Joanna Donnelly ❌ Kieran Cuddihy Conor McGregor ❌ Nikita Hand Peter Casey ❌ too much Jameson Gareth Sheridan ❌ his own hubris Maria Steen ❌ Gerard Craughwell Bertie Ahern ❌ CMAT

They are weird about their obsession and we should call them weird.

The control-de-wimmen caucus in Leinster House want Steen on the ballot so people have a “right to choose”. How ironic. www.thejournal.ie/maria-steen-...

@seanburkeshow.bsky.social doing the lord's work

Dragged to this position by the left, kicking and screaming all the way.

We can all joke about the insanity that is blaming Tylenol but this is right on the money — it isn’t about that — it is about blaming WOMEN. Religious fanatics see God’s plan as infallible and if something bad happens, it is human failure. And when it comes to children, they always blame women.

You have no idea how much I despite these anti-science dipshits for making pregnant women terrified of taking (safe, mild, proven) pain relief.

It's quite incredible that this Covid exposé hasn't dominated the UK headlines today. A classic story of ministers taking voluable credit for their "lifesaving decisions", and then insisting that all of the disastrous PPE contracts were the work of officials... www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

When are we going to start calling this line of questioning out as sexual harassment? m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

Happy Hobbit Day To celebrate, steal a despot's favorite piece of jewelry and toss it in a volcano. Ruin that guy's whole day

"You're irrelevant on Bluesky!" m8 I was irrelevant on Twitter where I had 110k followers and frequently got over a million views on my videos. It was still just shitposting on a social media site. Deciding that posting is activism has rotted a lot of brains on all sides.

When racist violence erupted last summer, inaction from the executive let it fester and emboldened fascists. Stormont has a leadership vacuum on this and other issues. When far-right thugs try to lynch migrant workers outside McDonalds, silence from elected representatives is complicity.

We love that ginger @briansmyth99.bsky.social

Thank goodness Colin has said this, it's non-diminution of rights, not non-dimunition of vibes. Additionally, Emerson's equating the obsessive desire these people have to erase trans folks with feminism makes me want to boke.

The Burkes turning up at the DUP Conference to accuse them of promoting the LGBT community is a funny bit, gotta say

Counterpoint: no we should not. Time we moved past worshipping a domestic abuser just because he could kick a ball.

"Be ruthless with systems, be kind to people." — Michael Brooks

Thank goodness they made comedy legal again

Audre told us.

Just seen the script for Disney’s Andor remaster: Cassian gazes up at the enormous face of Palpatine. Two gin-scented tears trickle down the sides of his nose. But it’s all right, everything is all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved the Galactic Empire.

Capital and fascism have immediate-term mutually-aligned interests?

Call this shit out immediately and shut it the fuck down. Show them that we don't operate on the US/UK rules where you can say any old bollocks without consequences. It's the only thing that will stop them getting a foothold.

Antifa, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo Antifa, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo Antifa, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo Antifa

Remember the outrage at Tories supporting Turning Point UK in 2019? Yet here we are - broadcasters too scared to repeat accusations that Turning Point UK is linked to Turning Point USA and is far-right, racist and anti-Islamic. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

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Note this part, and yet he never stops complaining (see, for example, last week at the Executive Office committee) that "gender critical groups" aka WRN, are not involved in co-design. Which is it Timothy, do you want co-design or do you not?

Nice one @theguardian.com front page & Carol Ann Duffy ❤️. 

I assume this is obvious, but I’ll say it anyway: The advantage of proscribing a non-existent organisation is that no one can prove they don’t belong to it.

Very telling example of ideological blindspots. Dylan Roof not part of the extended MAGA cinematic universe for reasons you can figure out for yourself.

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Reminder, yet again, that "sex based rights" do not exist and have never existed and we should correct anyone using the term to that effect. They're human rights, the feminist position is just that..we should have them, too.

It seems that the FBI director is arguing that his own agency, having conducted extensive investigations, arrested and charged Epstein for a crime he never committed, and then Epstein, perhaps distraught at an anticipated miscarriage of justice, took his own life in prison?

been very hard to watch a bunch of 50-year-old podcasters come to terms with having a job.

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Why are some political parties incapable of vetting their candidates? Shares in Palantir and now this? It's not like he's been around for 40 years and his youth is distant and undocumented, you could have found this out LAST YEAR.

The DUP and TUV never shut up about trans people. The UUP and DUP have stripped healthcare from trans kids, ordered they be misgendered in school and excluded from the correct facilities. This, they say, is an 'emergency'. Meanwhile, this is today's Belfast Telegraph front page

Thiiiiiiiiiiis. ICE is political violence. Deportations are political violence. Abortion bans are political violence. And so on.