The Labour government has just further emboldened the worst people on the planet to intimidate, harass and threaten any woman they see in a toilet who doesn't meet their weird standards of femininity. The most transphobic government the UK has ever had.

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Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

An Irish activist who featured in footage posted online by the Israeli National Security Minister has spoken out about her treatment and what she witnessed while in Israeli detention.

The EHRC’S new code has been published. We’ll have a detailed analysis out shortly. The guidance has been toned down from the previous draft – but it still treats trans people like they’re a third sex. This pushes trans people out of public life and violates their human rights.

More importantly, she called out Bertie's racism in her acceptance speech, called him a c**t and said fuck Farage and Reform, but for some reason that's not included in RTE's report.

Important explanation that these headlines were not based on any science but are essentially the opinions of well connected people. open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...

I find the level, speed, and depth of radicalisation frightening. This isn't about safety or fairness. Her core assertion is that someone else ticking a box somehow dilutes her womanhood. How is this different to what bigots were saying a few years ago on marriage to exclude people like her and me?

Adding to this - I worked as a manager at a fast food place for a few years, we had 3-4 trans staff members, and we didn’t have staff bathrooms so they used the public ones. Not once did any member of the public *ever* take issue. Because normal people *do not* fixate on other people when they go

This is such nonsense but is setting the stage for US intervention. I wrote about this a couple of days ago open.substack.com/pub/christin... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In 2019 MPs voted on including a Customs Union in the withdrawal agreement. It was defeated 276-273. If 2 MPs had voted the other way it would have passed Among those who voted against were 5 LibDems, including Ed Davey. Why? They didnt want to do anything that helped Corbyn

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Nice to see this summarised by someone with impeccable Sensible credentials. Yes, austerity was a needless national disaster driven by ideological idiocy; yes, the entire system unified to crush the organically arising anti-austerity movement, out of spite, and it has now fucked itself doing so.

I'm glad, but I wish news outlets would stop lying that this was a 'free speech row'. A TERF had a hissy fit, quit her job, and leveraged her connections to try to punish her former employer, despite their (disgraceful) decision to back her to the hilt.

Appalling scenes and displays of racism over the weekend. I don’t believe these marches seek to ‘Unite the Kingdom’ in any way but instead incite division by scapegoating minority communities.

This is atrocious. Donald Trump’s former personal criminal defense lawyer, now serving as Acting Attorney General of the United States, signed a one-page document in which the United States government “RELEASES, WAIVES, ACQUITS, and FOREVER DISCHARGES” Donald Trump, his sons, his businesses,

Happy to benefit from all the breaks given to them to exploit the rental market - but not willing to turn up and be accountable #spéirghorm

Correction: kidnapped by Israel. Source: The Guardian share.google/wY4SvWqozh84...

1 month apart, the bbc State Broadcaster report framing on, near identical, plans by the Scottish Government and uk Government 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 “POTTY GIMMICK” 🇬🇧 Classic bbc State Propaganda, “Belittle, diminish, undermine” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺

Starmer seems to spend most of his time coming up with ideas to piss people off.

Whatever you think of government price controls - not a lot in my case - the underlying fact is that all governments have to negotiate with the large companies which dominate the national and global economy. And this has not been recognised in political discourse. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I’m amazed anyone needs reminding of this, but local government spending power per person fell by 18% from 2010 to 2024 (would have been 26% but for increases in council tax). At the same time, social care pressures on local govt have grown a lot. The decay of the public realm is NOT a mystery

But the EU is not honouring its legal commitments to its other WTO partners not to discriminate against them. That was a deal and the EU is not honouring its. So much for its claim to stand for the rule of law. So much for the solidarity of middle powers. MEPs can still do the right thing in June.

Good question. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Of course they did. We are witnessing genocide and ethnic cleansing on a massive scale in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon and our politicians sit back and do nothing. Why?

Meanwhile, for all those who broke the country, the grift keeps on grifting. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One for the growth as main priority types - how can you do this in the short term without further solidifying the influence of the largest companies - which is probably in the longer term an anti-competitive drag on growth...?

Remember the cynical "safe to be me" campaign of a few years ago? The one brought down by LGBT people saying it absolutely really wasn't 'safe to be me' in the UK. Well, I think we have a repeat of it here! www.gov.uk/government/n...

Got to be honest, loosening sanctions on Russia before we’ve even tried any basic demand-side measures is not filling me with pride or joy

Massie fought tirelessly to get the Epstein files released. Stood in solidarity with survivors. Threatened to read all the names out loud on the house floor. He received threats. His staff received threats. This loss is payback by the pedophile in charge.

Google is justifying a move to default AI search by saying it "removes friction." The problem is that friction is a necessary part of life and this incessant need to rid ourselves of it is going to lead to so many problems we can't anticipate.

Millions of us are straightforward and honest with our financial affairs. The very least we should demand is that our members of parliament do the same. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Relaxing sanctions on Russian oil on the same day as Putin's regime threatens to attack Latvia. Ukraine has withstood relentless attacks on its civilian population for 4 years. And we can't even contemplate fewer & more expensive holiday flights this summer? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Nothing makes someone look guiltier than forcing the Justice Department to promise never to investigate your taxes or prosecute you for anything they might find

Shapiro: Somehow, he can’t find the money to pay for healthcare, but he can steal from you to pay off the criminals who stormed the Capitol.

An American president sues/extorts his own government, then settles with his own justice department to funnel money to his criminal allies. He will go down in history as the president who came up with forms of corruption never contemplated before.

don’t know a ton about government financing. And even I know the President isn’t supposed to have tax immunity and his own government-funded slush fund. How is this happening in broad daylight?

Thomas Massie: “Today is the six month anniversary of the Epstein Transparency Act. We’ve taken out two dozen CEOs, an ambassador, a prince, a prime minister, a minister of culture, that was just six months. I’ve got seven months left in Congress.” video courtesy @acyn.bsky.social

This is piracy in the Mediterranean Sea and the EU is just standing back and letting Israel seize its citizens. What is wrong with our politicians?

Israel's foreign ministry has said that 430 activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid flotilla are being taken to Israel, after their vessels were intercepted in international waters. jrnl.ie/7045148

Never forget, Cameron's Tories brought Brexit because Farage's UKIP was taking a bite out of Tory polling. Without a care, Cameron & Cabinet bet the nation for Tory Party benefit; to the absolute disastrous detriment of the nation.

A Reform voter tells me: "[Farage] cares about working people. He will make this country great again.” Such devotion, such faith in one so unworthy. It does my head in.” You and so many of us @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social Disgusted by the man and the abject failure to hold him to account iPaper

In his first term, Trump ended an early pandemic warning program just months before the onset of COVID-19. Last year, he and Elon Musk gutted funding for agencies like the CDC and USAID that respond to infectious diseases like hantavirus and Ebola. The pro-virus president.

Nobody is born Islamophobic. Islamophobic children are made and will continue to be made in a society that treats Islamophobia as a bipartisan norm and even sometimes social good. Islamaphobic children with access to guns are made possible by an Islamophobic society that loves guns.

How do these people sleep at night? Source: The Intercept share.google/uCRrdfZkYjxx...

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Devastated by the horrific attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego. There is no place for anti-Muslim hate in America. We must confront this violence and protect the right to worship safely. My prayers are with the victims and their loved ones.