New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

This is a really good, clear, well-referenced thread (and unfortunately it's far from the first time PinkNews has done this kind of sloppy scare story)

"a case brought against Scottish Borders council by parents who were unhappy that their son’s primary school had only gender-neutral facilities." It's a primary school. Wtf is their issue? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I'm so glad you said this, because about 30 seconds ago, I published a newsletter piece detailing how conservatives have dump-trucked through all of the previously established common sense, nuanced, compromise positions on trans rights to get here: burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...

My absolute favourite bit of this interview is when Coates replies to Klein at one point: "But was silence not an option?"

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...

Trump and RFK Jr.’s nonsense about Tylenol and autism isn’t just about spreading misinformation: it is about dismantling the decades of work that it took to reorient society from fearing autism to focusing on making the world more welcoming to #ActuallyAutistic people. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

When I need a diversion I look up reviews of random nearby places on Google maps. Found this petrol station today and it's a classic of the genre.

In a rambling series of articles, the New York Times promoted unproven medical harms due to hormones, surgeries and pronoun use by trans and nonbinary people.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Autistic me to my autistic kids, autistic nephew and autistic mother: we need to top up on Tylenol!

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Trump will claim that Tylenol is linked to autism. But every expert Julia Musto and I interviewed say this is a gross misreading of the data. via @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Ok, I've heard enough. Nothing for it but to join the war on autism... On the side of autism

The level of ignorance is giving me a headache that no amount of paracetamol (Tylenol, whatevs) will cure. Annoyingly, it won't even top up my autism...

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”

This ↓↓↓ . Also, I want a Barbies Against Fascism shirt

Amongst all the made up stuff I was genuinely intrigued by that "trantifa symbol". They've taken it from the logo of a fairly small Facebook account that's been inactive for over two years (the only other uses are etsy and a couple of obscure online shops). That's the level....

I didn't know who this person was 10 minutes ago but i love her

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.

@leximcmenamin.com nails it — deftly explaining how we got to this rampant misinformation pipeline and where it's leading us

"we're not racist, but" - a classic of the genre...

the shooter was just a cis dude but even if he was the most trans person to ever trans it wouldnt justify rounding up all the trans people for crimes they didnt commit, really wish people in positions of power would be saying this

My onlineness is not terminal enough (and frankly I'm not young enough) to get a lot of the Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk accused killer's online references and unpack the messy politics of those, but this seems to do a good job at it

The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

the way they just flipped when they found out it was a cisgender white man

Every WSJ journalist and other journalist who pushed the lie that the shooter was pushing "transgender ideology" is as bad as journalists who pushed anti-Jewish libel in Nazi Germany. Nazis are openly calling for violence against trans people under the assumption the shooter was trans.

"A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“Kirk was not just a part of the extremely tense, very dangerous national dialogue, he was an accelerationist force whose work to dehumanize LGBTQ+ people and threaten the free speech of professors, teachers, and school board members around the country has directly put … many people in danger.”

"Honor Charlie's memory" and "continue his work". His work:

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

"There is a transparent attempt to eradicate transgender and intersex people from British life."

Trans people must be allowed ID reflecting lived gender, EU court adviser says EU countries are already obliged to recognise the legal gender a person has recognised in another member state

The criminalization of groups based on a constructed category through medicalization is fascism 101 and would open the door to medicalizing opposition to fascism as a mental illness. What we are seeing is the construction of fascist infrastructure to destroy large portions of the population.

The problem isn't Graham Linehan the individual. The problem is the UK actively discriminates against and normalises persecution of trans people. Graham is a grade A asshole but if he does get punished while the rest of this situation goes ignored we'ree missing the bigger picture.

Don't know why it's so hard for the rest of the democratic party to respond this way to the current crisis

Article 8 of the ECHR is the protection on which not only all positive trans law rests but also most LGB rights to, as well as those of families where one parent wasn't born in the UK. It prevents asylum seeking families from being split. It is utterly monstrous for Labour to want to weaken rights.

This is fucking terrifying. Genuinely truly terrifying. What’s their scheme? To prosecute parents? Doctors? To take people’s treatments away? Absolutely no way this can end well.

Remember how she posted last week about eggs making a woman and now we find out male birds are laying eggs. Perfect. No notes.

I'm wheezing. I had to look it up to confirm it is actually real. Carbonara with what looks like actual carbon. So hard to photograph but impossible to unsee.

"your existence makes me uncomfortable so you are banned" is the UK policy on trans people now, in case you are trying to catch up.

World Athletics: By just testing for this one gene we will determine "biological sex" Scientist who discovered that one gene: Nope, that's not how any of this works...

🌍 BREAKING: Climate impunity ends today - by order of the world’s highest court. The International Court of Justice has spoken: ✅ States are legally obliged to act ✅ Inaction = human rights violation ✅ Polluters must be held accountable This is a legal revolution for our planet.

Section 28 but replace the word "promote" with "encourages" and "homosexuality" with "gender". I thought my contempt for this Labour government could not grow, but...

For a whole decade, the thing that British antitrans activists are certain would be the end of civilization has been happening right next door. And everything is fine. The brutal fakeness of the antitrans argument, its casual disregard for fact, is truly at its core. Hate first, think... never.

On yer bike, vile homophobe...

You’d think someone might ask why distributing aid in Gaza has proceeded like the opening twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan, every day, for weeks. Is it normal to fire machine guns at starving civilians trying to collect flour? Because we are currently at one, two or three massacres *per day*.