🚨URGENT: Trump's UNHINGED DHS pick—Markwayne Mullin—confirmation hearing tentatively set for next week! He defends ICE fatally shooting citizens, backs expelling US-born kids, objected to 2020 election results. Tell your Senators: BLOCK this nomination!

I generally assume that political parties know what their constituencies think better than the rest of us do: they spend so much money on polling and focus groups. But I would be *amazed* if they understood how viscerally they are loathed by young progressives for pushing trans people under a bus.

Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones. Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

Let's hope this opens up space for change within the Labour Party. There is not a fascist, or misogynist, political leader in the world whose position on trans rights differs from Labour's.

"Politicians must stop prioritising 'socially and ecologically destructive growth' that only increases the profits – and serves the consumption demands – of the world’s richest individuals and corporations." I expect Starmer would call him an extremist.

This is terrifying www.advocate.com/news/crime/b...

We had an absolute blast last week playing a wonderful sold out gig in Belper, thanks to @bdrandy.bsky.social and then at the lovely. @trinityartscentre.bsky.social. Thanks to aaaaall of you who came and made our weekend! xx

Tomorrow we are in the High Court suing Reform for breaching data processing rules. We think it's really quite important. 👇

Might we tactfully point out that to obsess negatively with trans people when the richest and most powerful men in the world are trying to reverse centuries of humane progress and equality to acquire impunity for rape and murder shows a weird sense of priorities?

On the Tibetan plateau, China has installed a 16-17 GW mega solar plant that is turning an alpine desert into a “micro-oasis”: more moisture, more grass, and soils with more carbon under 64 km² of panels www.ecoticias.com/en/on-the-ti...

It should never be possible for any minister to revoke citizenship with a stroke of the pen. #checks #balances Jenrick - like Farage - wants to be an unaccountable tyrant like Trump.

We will never know *how much* this is attributable to Labour's decision to track not tackle Reform's rhetoric of hate on immigration. But that Labour *helped* render these views acceptable cannot, surely, be doubted.

How and when did it become unacceptable to be anti- Zionist? My Uncle was a synagogue attending, Tory voting, High Court judge who was (two decades ago) anti-Zionist. He'd be amazed to read this passage (and others) in Sigrid Rausing's piece in The Times (web.archive.org/web/20251227...).

Well, would you want bigots pushing a hard right billionaire funded patriarchal agenda in your boozer?

Goodness me, these judicial comments are astonishingly damming of the Campaign Against Antisemitism. news.sky.com/story/regina...

“The issue is men. So maybe we need a man only carriage where we put them all in the back of the train and they can just stay there and harass each other": @patsystevenson.bsky.social on the money, as always.

I hope to be on the right drugs* to get to this gig. I missed their last London gig due to mental discombobulation. Wonderful duo/group/couple/folk. ❤️ . . . . . . . . . . * for ADHD (inattentive type) 💊

An important piece of work. 👇🏻

June Lockhart in SHE-WOLF OF LONDON (1946) #RIP

In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people. goodlaw.social/ncfw

If only there was someone who could fix it, Rachel Reeves. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My mornings' work has been to break the internet by posting too many TOUR DATES at once on FB! I've also uploaded them to BANDSINTOWN so give us a follow on that to keep up with it all...CLICK BELOW @concertedartists.bsky.social @knappdivermusic.bsky.social @gerrydiver.bsky.social bnds.us/xrxlbq

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When the PB ban came in I wailed to a friend about our transphobic government. She listened patiently then said “but they had to do something because of all the court cases”. My reply “There was one. It got overturned”, was dismissed with bluster and a wave of the hand. Cis people are the problem.

With legal challenges to this law pending, we cannot justify building the expensive required infrastructure. For now, we have made the difficult decision to block access in Mississippi. To learn more, read our blog post:

“astonishingly brilliant” ☺️ Spread the word. Her Name Is Alice

A big reason I prefer BlueSky over other social media platforms is its moderation system 🛡️. Although other platforms have moderation tools, BlueSky’s approach is far more effective and reliable. That’s why it remains my favorite 💙 @bsky.app Thank you so much for giving us such a wonderful platform 💙

Big thanks to Lewis for debunking the dangerous misinformation going around about nationality and sexual assault statistics. Bottom line - the big headlines over the last few days have no basis in the facts. Irresponsible reporting from major news outlets stirring up fear.

LinkedIn has removed hate speech protections for transgender people and people of color. www.advocate.com/news/linkedi...

"Complicity is the US’s foreign policy in Palestine." — Francesca Albanese

What, you thought it would stop with the proscribing of Palestine Action? No, all visible opposition to Israel's genocide must end. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Now Labour has legitimized the proscription of non-terrorist organisations that embarrass it you have to wonder what fun future Governments will have with the practice.

The image that should form in your mind as you read this thread is of loving families desperately fighting to keep their kids healthy and alive whilst being harried at every turn by the NHS, social services, the police, the British media, and the Labour Government. If this isn't fascism what is?

It looks as if members of the cabinet regularly talk to organizations that want to drive trans people to death, the closet or aboard. And that Starmer would rather remove our human rights than risk Rowling or Musk funding Reform or Trump stopping a trade deal. inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issued a Red Flag Alert on Anti-trans and intersex Rights in the UK. “We see evidence of genocidal intent and actions targeting these communities.” www.lemkininstitute.com/_files/ugd/b...

My thoughts on Stephen Fry's turn around. I'm delighted. He could and should have understood sooner, so should I, none of us can turn back time, but we can act to make amends. The story arc, of his defence of JKR, to his slowly coming round to denouncing her, is powerful. And he is so influential.

For anyone who doesn't know "Article 8" is the European Convention on Human Rights right to a private life This is the head of the EHRC saying that she does not believe that *anyone* has the right to privacy when it comes to being trans or cis Brazenly immoral, legally untrue

Tilly! 🥊🏆👏

Big news, tickets for the @networkgender.bsky.social (FGEN) midsummer conference in London on 21st June are now on sale! Keynote speakers include the awesome Katie Montgomerie @katymontgomerie.com and the fierce Jo Maugham @goodlawproject.org more. feministgenderequality.network/product/entr...

The knives are properly out for Kishwer Faulkner and the little clique of culture warriors masquerading as regulators she has gathered around her. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

TW Suicide On the 3rd anniversary of my daughter Alice’s death, I’m sharing this in the hope it will eventually help reverse the anti-trans measures sweeping the UK, measures I know harm trans people. I can’t send Alice a gift. Instead I have sent our PM another letter. Our government knows.

There is absolutely no reason to cancel the Labour Women's Conference. Such an insane decision. I hope everyone knows this is directly because of "Gender Critical" people both in and out of the party

Good. We are making a difference. We have to keep pushing. We are starting to build momentum. This is the best time to be annoying. Write to your MP. Ask to meet with them. Write to every org you interact with. Keep applying pressure as it's making a difference

A chilling piece from @jessothomson.co.uk on what Labour's indifference or active hostility to the trans community in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision means for the Far Right's target of choice. goodlawproject.org/the-devastat...

gif of man removing latex mask of Keir Starmer, Mission: Impossible style, to reveal Nigel Farage. how do I make this?

I really, strongly, support this. It really is true that they need to hear more from us. We need to be RELENTLESS

I see the EHRC, Bridget Phillipson and the Supreme Court are #MakingWomenSafe "I said: “Would you like to see my tits?” "I started unzipping my hoodie. He panicked: 'No no no, don’t do that!'"