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frdragonspouse.bsky.social
Still all the things I was over at the Other Place. And still angry. Preoccupations: politics, education, disability and inclusive feminism. Cishet trans ally. Widow. Socialist. She/her.
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Next on Rachel's fuckit list, your pension savings.

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America is becoming a Nazi state.

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Next time politicians and policy makers claim that despite stripping back support and services for trans people, they still believe they deserve “dignity” and “respect” - ask them specifically *which* part of the definition applies to their exclusionary actions?!?

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I certainly wasnt expecting a response from the Women and Equalities Select Committee on a Saturday. I think they may suffering from a high volume of communications.

submitted 4 hours ago • 8 comments

You know its heating up when someone says "Neo nazis"... Barbs fly as UK Equality Body remains mired in controversy amid latest anti minority Labour PR disaster. (Tories rubbing hands in glee as Labour falls still further from its LGBTQ pedestal in Pride Month) medium.com/@selfsovall/...

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

Download Festival partially rolls back plans to ban trans people from toilets 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/download-festival-partially-rolls-back-plans-to-ban-trans-people-from-toilets/

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

This is so jarringly unAmerican that I sort of hope it wakes some normies up. It is occurring in a context where military-style equipment is being used to enforce immigration roundups and conveys the notion that we are increasingly living in a police state.

submitted 4 hours ago • 292 comments

This is so depressing and pathetic from everyone involved. Genocide is one-sided, Dawn! And honestly if you take Tracy-Ann Oberman seriously these days... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Hugely important. Some of us (ahem) are old enough that MMR wasn't widely available and yet lucky enoughto have avoided infection. We are all eligible for a two-shot MMR booster at the GP. As uptake in juvenile groups declines and epidemics follow, this could literally be life saving. #VaccinesWork

submitted 4 hours ago • 7 comments

THE NEW YORK TIMES ETHICIST (watching Zone of Interest): haha nice. sick house

submitted 4 hours ago • 10 comments

Out of the ashes of the Trump-Musk divorce is a damning new report highlighting, once again, that the Trump administration is a giant national security risk.

submitted 5 hours ago • 32 comments

This week's announcement on free school meals is good news, but comes in the context of the UK having among the worst rates of child poverty in Europe. In the UK, 11% of 15-year-olds reported they had skipped a meal in 2022 because there wasn't enough money to buy food. 👉 buff.ly/4biQa5z

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

"E's a villain, sir!" 21st century version... #NTNOCN

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submitted 9 hours ago • 16 comments

My man here is correct, and this is the reason why the Times has been vastly more poisonous than the Sun or the Mail: 1) it is the ruling class talking to itself, setting the boundaries of acceptability and common sense, and 2) its output for 15 years has been wildly inflammatory far right drivel.

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

lol FiLiA doing their event in Brighton is like when the EDL marches through Tower Hamlets, or the Orange March goes passed the Celtic grounds

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Judge brands Equality and Human Rights Commission “complacent” towards its Public Sector Equality Duty. Another hole below the water line in the sinking ship HMS Falkner. Soon to be renamed with a new figurehead, but remaining on course for the seabed. Insightful analysis from Ashleeee below.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

The EHRC is collapsing into authoritarianism. Their Chair says it's "unacceptable to question the integrity of the regulator", but when an EHRC commissioner openly tells trans people to accept fewer rights, the integrity is already gone. The Amazing @jessicaharriet.bsky.social covers this:

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

@downloadfestival.bsky.social why not have one set of toilets for people who don't understand Supreme Court judgements and one set for everyone else?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This headline 👇🏻 is why Labour is totally relaxed about throwing trans people under the bus - then hitting the accelerator. The Times applauds them when they do.

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

Transphobes are just copying past racists homework.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

I wonder if this might help M in the future, @crisisincarnate.bsky.social ?

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Following EHRC advice could constitute criminal offence, court told 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/following-ehrc-advice-could-constitute-criminal-offence-court-told/

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

In 25 years as a Green member, I’ve got so used to party figures treating policies as embarrassments rather than cheerfully arguing for them that I’m actually a little emotional watching this interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social youtu.be/OlrbFVUMzWM

submitted 10 hours ago • 7 comments

Should we follow Putin out of the ECHR? Or is it just another Brexit where we give up our rights in the vain pursuit of making migrants disappear?

submitted 10 hours ago • 80 comments

Noticeable that the candidates with Westminster positions are disparaging democratic struggle (as with the Labour right's we’re a party not a protest movement that led to Starmer). Isn’t it about time we asked what is it about Westminster that enforces this hegemonic surrender?

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

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submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

The importance of public space - safe places of public interaction, free of charge and unsullied by traffic - is one of the things that the British political class doesn’t get, and reveals their privilege when they don’t.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

By the end of this, there will be more trans toilet signs than trans people in the UK and cis women will still be raped regularly by cis men, who will never face justice.

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees

submitted 11 hours ago • 11 comments

Forcing people into cars at a time when the climate is really beginning to come apart And simultaneously making it damn near impossible to cycle anywhere because everyone is in cars

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

🚨 New: 'Shocking' scale of Labour’s Big Tech ties In its first 6 months, Labour ministers and top officials met with tech giants an average of *six times a week.* We’ve got the documents. 🧵 New on Democracy for Sale with @lucasamin.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-s...

submitted 11 hours ago • 20 comments

It’s the apostrophe, isn’t it? It’s good to see someone insisting on proper use of grammar.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

THREAD: Five years on from the toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol, there’s a range of views in the city about what difference, if any, that act has made to the city now. Read more here: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

🔴How the Media is Trying to Talk a Nigel Farage Government Into Reality Why for much of the British press, the unlikely story of Reform UK's rise to power is simply "too good to check" www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-me...

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