Remember when Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, wrote an op-ed trying to justify having sex with kids? Seems relevant now.

The Epstein files on the DOJ website allow you to highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it into another document, which reveals what was hidden. You can also press Ctrl+F and search for “Trump ” (with a space) to see his name appear more than 600 times. #OpDeathEaters

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff "You should look for those who can’t believe that the law would ever catch them, who believe that they act out of a right that the rest of us do not have. The job of the officer of the law is to let them know that they are wrong!"

Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide

Somebody who once sexually harassed somebody very dear to me has been charged with sexual offences in addition to previous charges and looks set to have a library's worth of books thrown at him. I hope his victims get the justice they deserve & I hope he never knows a moment's peace.

Want to hear about my worst ever Christmas Day? Sure you do. 20-ish years ago, my then-girlfriend said her brother had invited us to spend Christmas day with him and his girlfriend at said girlfriend's mum's house. Sounds cosy, right? Nope. 1/

Something tells us that we're going to be correcting a lot of people today... maryrose.org/discover/his...

In these challenging times someone might need one of them: Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 Age UK: 0800 169 6565 Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650 Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 MH text support: 85258

Historian: AI has no place in historical research or writing. AI pusher: You don't know what you're talking about! Historian: I do. I am a historian. AI advocate: Luddite! Historian: *writes twenty-seven post thread about Luddism*

Absolutely amazing that these clowns are *still going* with this, in the week that UEFA hit the club with a huge fine for their fans singing about committing sex crimes, murder and genocide.

To be clear: Maccabi Tel Aviv’s supporters do not only *sing about* sex crimes, murder and genocide. Plenty of them have been personally doing that stuff for at least two years.

Now BBC freelancer @robinince.bsky.social has been forced out because apparently wanting everyone to be kind to minority groups is "political" and might offend. The BBC defends men who posted racist+homophobic jokes+bold support of the Tories but anyone perceived to be "left wing" must STFU.

Clarkson posted very right wing stuff on Twitter. People complained. BBC said he's a freelancer not a BBC employee and doesn't present news/politics so he can tweet what he likes. People complained about Andrew Neil's right wing output - he is a BBC political presenter. BBC said he's a freelancer..

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

They'll be much mistleto....arghhh youtu.be/gFtb3EtjEic?...

Merry Christmas

How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US: Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science

the home office line for my wife's complaint is closed for the weekend so they get two days off. see you on monday, losers! 9am sharp!

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

It is coming up on 50 days of hunger strike. It looks like the government will just let them die. They have been imprisoned without trial for the crime of protesting against a genocide that the UK government is complicit in.

Breaking: Autistic community preemptively rejects David Walliams

This is from six months ago. That's how "unexpected" the Walliams news is.

Totally unrelated thought: meanwhile, jailed protesters hospitalised during hunger strike.

I keep wanting to say something, and I keep not knowing what to say. The trans community does not harm cis people by existing. They are just trying to live their lives, same as anyone else. That life doesn't look exactly like mine; my life doesn't match anyone else's. That's okay.

One should always be suspicious when the state resists disclosure of documents. And one should be more suspicious when the state suddenly purports to agree to the disclosure of documents.

As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE

If I was that flautist, I'd have twatted Cliff #totp

Two "Britain's answer to Elvis" in a row. But which is better? There is only one way to find out

Oh god, it's shouty Anthea. Someone really should have explained how microphones work to how at aome point. #totl

#totp has suddenly turned into The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club

This song will go oooon #totp

Front page of Times: police have been accused of condoning the “scourge of antisemitism” after a string of forces refused to commit to arresting all protestors who chant “globalise the intifada”. Accused by whom? A crank Tory minister and one pressure group full of roaring shitehawks and crackpots.

Full responsibility for this calamitous decision rests with Bridget Phillipson who was told by two committees of MPs that Mary-Ann Stephenson was out of her depth - and it was clear she was transphobic - but chose to appoint her anyway.

Turning people who protest against genocide into terrorists, imprisoning them without trial, and then letting them starve to death is quite the choice.

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

Bearing in mind what Edward Said had to say about who has "permission to narrate", it would be good to hear from Arabic speakers in general and Palestinians in particular about their word and concept for "uprising", what it means to them, and what they make of the Western debate about that word.

Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

Berry Bars

Really #spoty ? Bringing on a Northern Irish sportsman to a song about the troubles?

It’s International Migrants Day, and let’s never stop fighting for a world where anyone can move if they want to, and no-one is forced to move if they don’t want to

For a while, I collected the worst jokes UK political correspondents ascribed to MPs, especially those sent via WhatsApp. Because I despise you, I'm migrating the thread here, starting with this absolute *shiter* from 2022, so we can share in the horror together. Please send me the worst you have.

absolutely *incredible* update to the home office destroying jovi's naturalisation certificate, apologising, and telling us they'd send a replacement for free. it turned up in a "do not bend", hard backed envelope today...and it's for a romanian lady living in another city(!) my work is never done

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Stop equating muslims with terrorism. Stop equating Jews with the crimes of Israel. Stop equating trans people or black people or travellers or gay people with goodness knows what fucking else. Just fucking stop. Just fucking stop.

Make fascists afraid again.

He should have made it about a mime artist. You never hear them complaining.

He won't feel the benefit #scd #strictly

Its striking that people who would prob not platform as a "journalist" a man arguing "don't let Jews run for parliament [unless they have a UK-born grandparent at least]" will now platform those openly arguing that about Asians, black people, Muslims, Hindus [+ most Jews, as it happens]