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Riley Gaines is comparing teenage trans girls to rapists. This vile coward defended her own swim coach after it was revealed he sexually assaulted her teammates. Simone Biles stood up to the man that systematically sexually abused her and her teammates.

submitted 20 hours ago • 38 comments

BBC 7 Jun 25 -- The most decorated Olympic gymnast in history, 11-time medal winner Simone Biles, calls out one-time 5th place collegiate finisher Riley Gaines: "You're truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser..." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

The only thing sad about Simone Biles standing up for trans athletes is the fact that, with just two tweets, she’s shown more integrity and leadership on this issue than most House Democrats.

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Didn’t expect this from Scientific American but here we are. (Article from 2020 but everything still relevant including COVID precautions)

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

When I imagined the guy who would be put in place of enforcing a new fascist American police state it was in fact exactly this guy

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The basic fallacy in chasing votes by being "tough on immigration" is that the modal American's position on the issue is "Deport the Bad ones and keep the Good ones," and they alone know who is which, and that simply does not translate into workable policy. So this kind of gestapo stuff (1/2)

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

People should ask Cuomo how he will deal with ICE and the NYPD goose-stepping alongside them every day until the election, ideally with visual aids of cops beating on protesters and ICE goons snatching guys out of restaurant kitchens

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

submitted 12 hours ago • 955 comments

The point is impunity. They believe they are entitled to do whatever they see fit no matter what the law and without any resistance. It's the same with every authoritarian force. Any even token push back must be crushed and they must be able to wield every authority to do so.

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These are masked men, with weapons, no warrants and this is extrajudicial abduction, and with local police aiding and abetting this thuggery. It is illegal under international human rights law. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...

submitted 13 hours ago • 29 comments

"LAPD tear-gassed a baby under age two. When we were trying to chant their rights ICE honked so no one could hear." —An immigration lawyer on the scene in LA.

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One thing is for certain after this week: Local cops in sanctuary cities—Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York—are working in lock step with DHS and ICE.

submitted 16 hours ago • 134 comments

If The Times is celebrating your appointment as the Chair of a neutral regulator because you are on its side you can't lead a neutral regulator.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Kind of wild that the New York Times has more sympathy for an influencer who posted child porn than it does for trans children who want to be left alone.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

This is a secret police force to match 20th century Europe

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For the record:

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If Musk were an efficient political operative he'd know he doesn't need to "create a new party for the 80%". With his cash he could easily fade into the background and create one without ever saying he is by buying up both Republican and Democratic primary contests. That's how US politics works.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

For those who want it in simple terms, one of the people in charge of ensuring the UK respects human rights for everyone has said some people should accept having fewer rights.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Having spoken to an MP myself as a result of one of the letters sent after the SC ruling, I can attest to the impact that these letters make. MPs, for all their faults, care when hundreds or thousands of letters pour in on an issue. Our last letters had an impact. These will too. Get signing!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Sure but if you aren't fighting for people's attention by, say, taking advantage of a giant public display of chaos and incompetency, then no one is going to hear your measured discussion about health insurance

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Do folks like Kevin realise that when they unjustifiably turn criticisms of someone's lack of rhetorical skill into a class issue, they're the ones introducing classism into the equation?

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

i love it when a public figure is shite at something and columnists come out of the woodwork to declare that being shite at stuff is working-class coded

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EHRC Commissioner - "Stop fighting back, it's making it harder to stab you."

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The #EHRC Chair must be a credible, impartial arbiter of human rights - with a clean record on equalities. Mary-Ann Stephenson cannot be that person. Read our full statement 👇 www.prideinlabour.org.uk/post/labour-...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Ukraine destroys military bombers. Russia responds by throwing bombs at civilians. Just in case anyone needed a reminder of the moral balance of this conflict.

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Anyway this seems to be the moment to remind everyone the ehrc lost their attempt to make protesting their london hq illegal

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

NEW: Labour councillors joined Tories to vote AGAINST prohibiting arms manufacturers from using public parks in Edinburgh to test equipment It comes after Leonardo tested its equipment in the Braid Hills area last year, prompting public anger www.thenational.scot/news/2521857...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

For too many this isn't an accidental misunderstanding, it's either deliberate misrepresentation or determined ignorance bred by contempt

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

So much manufactured outrage against queer folk in the culture wars, boils down to cis/het folk blithely strolling into queer spaces and queer conversations and completely misunderstanding them. Let me explain 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

"I'm afraid all the work I've put in to harm trans people has, so far, been very successful. I'm very sorry that I succeeded in exactly what I set out to do."

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dude you won't believe it. that violently insecure mad king? he had a falling out with that super annoying failed jester he made grand vizier

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

This is such a profound summation of our global moment I can hardly process it.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

John Swinney pledges to do the opposite of what he's been doing for the past year of ditching every major plank of hope and optimism his predecessors had set in motion.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I guess the SNP's non-existent program for government in which they dropped pretty much everything that could distinguish them from Labour this year didn't work out for them

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

It is absolutely intolerable that the Labour Government has another committed transphobe as their preferred candidate as new head of the EHRC. I rather doubt that the Women's and Equalities Committee has even been consulted.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

The past 6 weeks showed how many people can mobilize for trans rights. Now we have to put it to good use. Absolutely flood the WEC and your MPs with letters excoriating this pick. Tell them it's unacceptable. Tell them to reject the pick outright as obviously flawed.

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"On Tuesday, a Palantir employee threatened to call the police on a WIRED journalist who was watching software demonstrations at its booth at AI+ Expo." New from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

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Breaking news: The sell-off erased $153bn from Tesla’s value, the biggest one-day drop in the electric-car company’s market capitalisation on record, and comes as Donald Trump threatens he will terminate US government contracts with Musk’s companies. www.ft.com/content/a14f...

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