a trans woman i know is being deported back to the USA due to the Home Office messing up paperwork. her wife is desperately trying to raise the funds to prevent this. they have 48 hours before she’s put on a plane and might never be able to return. please, help if you can. they’re both terrified.

I’m sorry, I know it’s a minor point, but crack dens are traditionally indoor establishments. What the scaremongering Labour minister is describing here is a crack paddock.

The small domino was Andrew Wakefield (struck off as a doctor eventually), the next domino was a biggie: national newspaper (The Daily Mail) published his claims more than once (Melanie Phillips). The resultant panic caused a big drop in MMR uptake at the time. The UK press deserves a lot of blame.

Minnesota's resistance was so big that the mainstream media that would have preferred to bury it was forced to report on it to maintain credibility and trust. Since so many bought it, they're moving to phase 2 - control the narrative, even if it contradicts all available evidence on the ground.

Walz comparing the ICE raids to the Holocaust makes him going on that podcast and saying he hopes Tom Homan works with local law enforcement and does night raids so much more fucking horrifying, he's describing his desire for a quiet and orderly night Holocaust Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

If Walz's Nazi suggestion of midnight raids sounds familiar, remember when during the George Floyd protests biden suggested cops should shoot "an unarmed person" in the legs instead of center mass www.yahoo.com/news/biden-s...

"I'm gonna give Homan the benefit of the doubt" "They should coordinate with local law enforcement, pick these people up in the middle of the night when they're not suspecting it" Walz is capitulating to fascists and encouraging night raids. Genuinely disgusting. Why would anyone settle for this?

It is unclear whether the highly corrosive and carcinogenic hexachloroethane, or HC smoke, has been deployed in the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota. It was used during the 2020 protests in Portland, Ore., following the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.

So, so much of the response to Good called her "a mom," even erasing her wife to make her seem more like a "normal" Wife and Mother. Pretti also has a family, but I haven't heard anything about them -- just about him and his values. He valued calling out sexism, so it's worth pointing out.

anyone know what happened to airidescence? i used to love their art and writing but they seem to have totally vanished since may last year. know they had health issues so it's deeply sad to see people disappear like that.

The "riots in 2020" didn't cost you anything. It didn't cost Will Stancil anything. They were going to continue to ruthlessly murder Black people and they have. Donald Trump didn't win because of that and if your instinct is to blame protests for ICE, you're an op.

The pain and the outrage is correct and just and I'm glad everyone can see and understand it here, and this is also already what BLM was, if you argued for training, police reform or body cams instead of abolition this is what you sounded like, this is why people were so mad at you

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

In the Emily Holmes' original "tetris can help reduce PTSD" study, what was found was that tetris is an activity which busies the part of working memory called the visuospatial sketchpad: imagining the rotation of shapes. www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/tetris-...

Everyone is reasonably concerned and cautious of fedposters but please also remember that getting into the mentality of labelling everyone who is angry about an atrocity an agent provocateur is itself an excessive reaction to an excessive reaction.

we already knew this in practice - the purpose of a system is what it does - but how embarrassing for it to be an official strategy phrased like. first time in 14 years that the UK finally got it together to boot the tories, and you decide you won because the electorate *WANTED* tories? jesus fuck

What's cool about seeing people argue with each other about the best way to punish ICE agents for their crimes, do this versus that, is that the conversation is now one taking for granted that they will be held accountable and brutally punished. Not *whether* they will be held accountable.

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In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

Things to think about with NHS data going to palantir

a dog walks into a bar. bartender reaches for the phone, but realizes that he doesn't know who to call about this. and, in any case, it's just a dog. he grabs a bowl from the back, fills it with water, and puts it on the floor. he is happy to have a chance to be kind. that's been hard for him lately

seeing organisations and public figures I like the work of announce they're leaving X, and I can't emphasis enough how much it's lowering my opinion of you. 2 years+ of nazi bar is bad enough, but *2 weeks* into CSAM machine??? why wasn't day 1 enough?

if the only response to an ICE agent shooting a woman in the face in front of her wife and child is the president saying 'he shouldn't have had to deal with how rude she was' YOU ARE ALREADY UNDER MARTIAL LAW. This is the 'well Congress didn't declare it so we're not at war with Venezuela' of takes

@voixceleste.bsky.social any timeline for when royal mail shipping to the UK will come back? i've been waiting for the shop to reopen after I spoiled my last vial by mistake, so if it's a long term issue I may need to look into mail forwarding

I was still speaking to my dad in 2020 when George Floyd was killed. I called him the day after and talked to him about it. He had seen the video and thought it was absolutely awful and morally repugnant. Three days later, he was posting Candace Owens conspiracies about how Floyd was on drugs.

@goodlawproject.org What's the likelihood of success of a legal threat against ISPs that permit users to access websites hosting mass roves of CSAM (e.g. X.com)? This is OFCOM's job, but I mean in a hypothetical country in which regulators actually don't do anything to enforce law?

She was married. Her wife raised the child with her. Her father put it out that the boy "didn't have anyone," seemingly as a means of pre-emptively assuming custody over the child. To continue this narrative both insults the dead woman and adds to the surviving parent's grief.

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

Actually, it's only a rogue state if it's from the non-white regions of the Earth. Otherwise it's just sparkling regime change.

So nothing they just said in that press holds any water, they are just winging it

Starmer: My "I wasn't involved in this war crime committed by my ally" T-shirt has a lot of people asking questions about other war crimes committed by my allies that I never spoke out on, which I hadn't considered when I chose my T-shirt this morning.

I think it's always important to remember that "Human Rights Lawyer" just means that's your area of expertise. It doesn't say which side you're on

Kropotkin's analysis of women's domestic labour remains relevant over a century later.

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The joke here is we're endlessly told that children are being forced into gender transition against their best interests. When a child is so determined that they find a way to access DIY, it becomes a lot harder to suggest they're being "forced".

There's a casual vacancy inside her skull where a brain used to be due to obsessive Sharpie fume huffing.

This really gets to the heart of it: “The real issue is that boys are still socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls. “ time.com/7335723/auto...

An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

Even if you ignore the fact the royal family just spent the better half of a decade publicly protecting a paedophile and has still not cut him off financially, there is ample evidence that they consistently meddle in UK politics: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down

Drawing attention to this petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

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Posting this short article until morale improves.

The consultation: www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...

#UK #TransRights IMPORTANT! The NHS is currently engaged in a consultation about the children and young persons gender identity services. If this affects you, please provide your feedback. PS. remember that since the Cass review has been implemented that ZERO patients have been given access to HRT.