Zelenskyy telling it like it is: “We are grateful to everyone around the world who helps to reinforce international law and rebuild countries after Bashar al-Assad and other douchebags leave them in ruins.”

Aldrich said: “How many WhatsApp messages in a row is too many? Where’s the sweet spot between ‘I like you and wish to cultivate a friendship’ and ‘dear God stop before this person takes out a restraining order’?”

It’s very classic salami tactics. Slice by slice. A technical glitch here, a pilot error there, a unit that got lost, training that went off map, and while we’re still arguing about what it is it turns into tanks on the road to Tallin and the Gulf of Finland cut off by gunboats and MIGs.

Got my performance review.

The truly perfect business model doesn’t exi-

One of the other nuns looked at them when we got back, covered in mud, hands full of bone, and was like "where have you been???" And I was like "I've been leading them into sin, Sister."

I will freely admit I didn't realise quite how thick and impressionable some pretty important people are. I really thought it would take more than just putting random tweets by White Anglish Patriot 88 on their newsfeed to make MPs and journalists go off the deep end

The radicalisation happening of UK elites is bad, bodes ill for the future, but is also, to be clear, really really funny quite a lot of the time.

I live near this hotel and the people who live there are... Completely unremarkable. They are just in a terrible circumstance. They are my neighbours as much as anyone else and the government has mafe it ok to target them violently. It sickens me.

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights. sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

I disconcerting thing I've noticed this summer is that both Sunder & Stephen have gone from being slightly "to my right" on equalities issues to being loudly raising the alarm about how bad things are getting. When will Labour notice that this upsurge of racism is happening *on their watch*

Part of me is kinda relieved at how blunt and obvious fascist messaging is getting all over the world I was really tired of the particular gaslighting where you have to pretend they don't actually think that stuff

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

Our media is entirely unable to deal with a situation where politicians just lie all the time, which is unfortunate, because most of our politicians just lie all the time

A senior Reform figure is found guilty of taking bribes to act on behalf of a hostile foreign power. In old money, this is treason. Any chance of Chris Mason treating this as a serious story? (Can’t @ him because despite being a professional journalist he can’t be arsed to have an account here.)

Give it a month and Keir Starmer will tell someone interviewing him that he hadn't read this morning's speech before delivering it.

Cis 'allies' be like: Why are trans people weird about the UK's ID proposals? Us: They will force out us 'Allies': I'm sure that won't happen Us: They have literally involved transphobe groups in the design stage. It will happen from day 1. 'Allies': You're just hysterical. Won't happen.

But instead they are gonna try and get it through the House of Lords based on, to reiterate, a *lie*! You need ID to work now! Anyone who has moved jobs in a legitimate business in the UK knows this!

Funny to me that one of the other progressive politicians in the audience for this speech is *Mark Carney*, who I assume on his first day at Threadneedle Street had to turn up with a bunch of documents for the BoE's HR department to prove he had the right to work.

I would point out that Phillimore phrase "sexuality or transgenderism" - it's not going to stop with the trannies.

"How many traitors are in Farage's new party?" would, I suggest be a better line than Digital ID. To beat Reform, make wavering voters ashamed to back them.

it's genuinely quite bleak watching them trot out the same lie as Ohio

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

They aren't bringing ID cards in to make people's lives easier, they are specifically bringing them in to make certain people's lives harder.

"on a technicality" Not really. A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge. Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

it's fascinating how there's a subset of Americans on the left who basically think they cannot reap the whirlwind of world rage against them simply because americans are too fucking stupid to realize their social position

As a foreign transgender in this country im sure this isn’t going to be scary and dehumanising at all no way

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.

Way to support your trans members.

Some people here love to dismiss ‘sportsball’ but S. African teams being banned from international competition was an important factor in ending Apartheid because it made their crimes real for non-political folk.

A lot of people are reacting to the mad statement in headline, and sleeping on the even madder statement that "if we lose, we lose, but you lose by war anyway". You are running to be president of a country that won its independence *in a war*.

I've just done Stand Up Against Harassment training, designed to empower bystanders when they see harassment taking place. These free 30-minute webinars are run by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and are available to book throughout the year. www.suzylamplugh.org/anti-harassm...

The vacuum at highest levels in talking about this dark turn in British life over the last few months HAS to end.

Absolutely spot on - and also completely in line with their essential purity/taboo ideas of sex. Tale as old as time: this kind of sex is dirty, but I want it, therefore the dirt 'belongs' to the object of desire, who can be sectioned off and disposed of as contaminated, while I remain clean.

Hmm, I wonder what other scientists think of Dawkins....

UNISON members who support LGBTIQ+ people may want to actively oppose their union on this one.

Roz is a badass. Roz is also an amazing poet. But more than this, Roz is a walking talking reminder of how confected this stupid bloody trans panic of the last few years has been. She's been a woman for longer than Wes "lickspittle cunt" Streeting has been alive, and she's worth a million of him.

Denmark may invoke NATO's Article 4 due to repeated unidentified drone incursions into its airspace, Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulson says. That would be the third time in a month article 4 - calling for discussions among members - has been invoked.

I'm going to say this again: when my partner was dying, the hospital couldn't find a single side room anywhere in the building, so he died on a ward behind a curtain! And yet Streeting is proposing creating "third spaces" for trans people in hospitals because transphobes don't like being near them 😡

Wes Streeting to gullible idiots: "I want to treat trans people with dignity and respect" Wes Streeting to transphobes: "I will segregate the evil transes for you"

Just a week ago he was positioning himself as a friend of trans people. Trans people said he was a liar. We said his words were meant for cis people. If you believed him, you're at best cabbage brained.

Thing with all the soft language of dignity and respect and compromise being used to describe loss of human rights, persecution, and segregation, is that it immediately frames any opposition to it as unreasonable and aggressive

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men. There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

Extreme (to put it mildly) far-right christo-fascist groups Oversight Project and the Heritage Foundation, are now placing all resources into forcing the FBI to declare trans people as terrorists by default. This is one step away from camps. ‘Debate’ ?

Friends have explained that street harassment today is significantly worse than it was just after the riots a year ago, taking clear action to condemn does set a tone and direction!

Modern slavery laws have already been weakened to the point where victims are at serious risk. Further undermining them will be absolutely catastrophic for vulnerable victims. It isn't modern slavery laws which need changing. It's Labour anti-asylum policies. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

Five hours apart

The Russians have been banned since they invaded Ukraine