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Seeing as a lot of prominent fellow shitlibs are finally discovering many of their long-time colleagues are oh-so-politely aligned with Trump and Orbán on trans people, here's another name for your lists. Stop going on her podcast.

As always, got to love Liberals being lectured on their cowardice by extremely online commies who refused to put a cross in a box to prevent all this in November.

I think the label of "police state" is pretty hard to argue against at this point.

Judgement Day for the EHRC: How the equality watchdog turned into a toxic culture war campaign group iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...

Tune of the night #totp

As expected: no, this wasn't a bathroom ban, just Welcome Break not having a clue what symbols mean.

AxelF, aka the tune everyone shared around the computer rooms at lunchtime #totp

What on earth were they thinking #totp

That's… not Vanilla, Google #totp

Glad you got to no.1, congrats etc but *Mute* #totp

Asked Arnie for a selfie but he said he was in a hurry

Nail-biting time for a good many high streets whose Wilkos were only saved by Poundland a couple of years ago…

The world is learning a very important truth about working with Americans: we have no honor.

I really hope this wasn't Ghostbusters

They should be dragging in Facebook execs to explain why they’re allowing organising lynch mobs on their site

Depressing watching the fascist state takeover strategy in action, steamrollering through legal red line after red line by appealing every court decision obstructing them until it lands at a court stacked with enough loyalists to throw it out.

I see #bbcqt platformed Zia Yusuf yet again. Anyone know if he was asked why as a Muslim he's supporting a party whose MPs mock up photos of Starmer as a Muslim?

Despite what the Chair of the "Equality & Human Rights" Commission said in Parliament on Wednesday, the European Court of Human Rights has, yet again, decided that states should not breach trans people's Article 8 rights.

I note particularly the dogwhistle reference to "enrichment" in Rupert Lowe's post, short for "cultural enrichment", used sarcastically by Neo-Nazis on X to refer to "non-white people" and usually accompanying violent videos featuring mostly non-white faces or memes about cathedrals vs mud huts.

A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him. #mapoli #Massachusetts

is congress smart enough to realize that if they do nothing they simply get ruled by violence from the executive like the duma, and that all of this is going to get worse

Encouraging to see the ECtHR still appears to be of a similar mind on trans rights as it was back in 2002. If UK anti-trans legal activists were hoping the GC contagion had spread as far as Strasbourg, it doesn't look like it.

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

If the feds’ objective is to “liberate” Los Angeles and California from its democratically elected leadership, then this not a peacekeeping mission but a program of invasion.

Not only does the senator identify himself but it’s pretty incredible to think that ‘we didn’t recognise a sitting US senator for the state that we are visiting’ is somehow a reasonable defence

Even boasting while brutalising elected opposition representatives about really being there to "liberate" the area from them.

Noise-cancelling headphones are great, but for the love of god, please don't wear them while walking in the middle of a busy downhill cycle path 🤬

Immigrant families are being forced to put up signs saying 'I work in a care home' to escape the racist violence that's been unleashed in Northern Ireland I come from this part of the world and I cannot tell you the sense of profound shame and horror this fills me with. It disgraces us

Just nipped over to X and of course the entire place is cheering on the Ballymena pogrom, including Tommy Robinson and boatloads of blue ticks posting blatant incitement. Barely a year from the last time it nearly happened on the mainland. It's time for the government to ban it.

Very, very dark scenes in Ballymena. Old friend in Belfast sent me this photo today. When before have we seen the ‘others’ with special markings on their doors?

What's going on in NI right now is, by simple definition, a pogrom, directly comparable to Kristallnacht. The media should be united in describing it as such to communicate the seriousness of it.

Rumble literally platforms incitement to genocide, something that wouldn't be allowed in print, radio or TV, and it's such an easy problem to deal with: just block the site here. Press the big red "block" button used whenever we take the latest Pirate Bay mirror down. Nothing of value would be lost.

Can't get a new membership who'd inevitably choose another awful leader, though, can you?

oh my *god* how did I not know this, jesus christ

Please, if you're on Facebook, look up this group and report every one of their violence-inciting posts using the bottom "UK Online Safety Act" option—the reports should be taken more seriously.

They should be given a catalogue of unlawful incitement and given 24 hours to remove it & a week to come up with an adequate plan to prevent it in future. A formal investigation of the failure to uphold legal duties on *unlawful* (incitement) harmful content is long overdue

This. It amazes me that this clear double standard of banning incitement in person or via any traditional forms of media but shrugging "what can we do" when it's happening much more effectively on social platforms isn't being raised as a matter of urgency in Parliament.

Ahmedabad crash looks bad 😔

"Anyone who's rude to the staff is a wrong 'un" once again proven correct.

A great thing to do. Let ICE drag the priests out of the way on camera.