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I've written about yesterday's Supreme Court judgment, full of anger and sorrow about the way our institutions are knowingly harming trans+ people. You can read the blog here: medium.com/@nancymirand...

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

In the year ending June 2024, UK police recorded 69,184 rapes. (It’s likely this represents c. 1 in 6 of the rapes actually committed.) In 2023/24 there were 2,283 prosecutions for rape, and 1,220 convictions. And c. 11,900 rape cases are currently waiting to go to court, many for more than 2 years.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Newsletter: Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it. www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...

submitted 7 hours ago • 25 comments

Planned action! Protest planned at parliament square on Saturday at 1pm to protest supreme court ruling.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

@whatthetrans.com are keeping a dynamic list of the protests on their website. We will still share them individually but keep an eye on their link whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Bond denied under the guise that she is a “danger to the community.” What was Ozturks crime? Co-authoring an op-ed on Gaza. Republicans can’t claim to be the party of free speech while actively cheering on the silencing of students who disagree with the policies of Israel.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Meanwhile, in the district court, the Trump administration continues to refuse to provide any information to Judge Xinis. For the last two days, they've even refused to provide the required daily updates confirming Mr. Abrego is in El Salvador. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 8 hours ago • 53 comments

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submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 11 hours ago • 77 comments

Advocating on trans people's behalf is literally Baroness Falkner's job. Categorically. She's chief of the government QUANGO in charge of fighting to improve our rights in the UK. Saying "you should use your powers of advocacy" is abandonment.

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

1. A major bill protecting trans people just passed in Washington. It makes insurers cover 12-month supplies of HRT which can be obtained at pharmacies, allowing trans people to stockpile medication to outlast supply disruptions. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 14 hours ago • 54 comments

The fight for the rights and dignities of trans people is a fight against the thin edge of fascism. It's a hill we are willing to fight and die on. If you'd like to support us with a donation dedicated to trans rights, you can do so here. I am donating £1,000. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

Bears repeating (originally tweeted in 2020): Claiming that we can't fight sexism without a precise definition of "woman" is like claiming that: - we can't fight racism without a precise classification of "races" - we can't fight ageism without a precise delineation of "old" ...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

It got identified as the next wedge issue after gay marriage and the American right started covertly funneling money to the tiny minority of UK bigots in order to help mainstream their position. They picked up some famous converts and now they're reaping the rewards. It's entirely manufactured.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner" www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

submitted 15 hours ago • 178 comments

Would be really fun if at the end of RFK Jr.'s Autism Fact Finding Mission (he will find the cause of all autism personally in six months) he blames something very different than vaccines. JPEG files cause autism, we gotta get rid of the JPEGs.

submitted 1 day ago • 636 comments

the autistic curse of seeing the iceberg coming, being called hyperbolic and having everyone get mad at you when you point it out, and then watching them be shocked! when we crash into it. who could possibly have seen this coming?! no one predicted it except those people we don’t take seriously

submitted 14 hours ago • 74 comments

When Clive Barker was working on the MUMMY remake for Universal in the early '90s, he had a trans character in the script, and when the studio vetoed it, he basically said "I really can't stress how much I don't need to fucking make THE MUMMY" and left.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

GUYS HOLY SHIT THIS IS THE REAL DEAL This is genuinely strong evidence for life, to the point where it's hard to posit any alternative explanation for the observations - and I'm usually the kind of person to pooh-pooh these hypotheses www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

“Fuck your single-sex spaces and fuck your Supreme Court. If I see you calling the police on a trans person in a public restroom I will personally flush your phone down the bog whilst pretending it’s Wes Streeting’s head.”

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

Another rat? Here? No, haven't seen anyone...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

She wrote an article in the student newspaper. That’s all she did. The U.S. can’t call itself a free country if that gets you sent to jail.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

I've been reflecting some more overnight on the For Some Women Scotland case. 🧵

submitted 21 hours ago • 37 comments

Do not read this unless you are feeling strong... www.normalisland.co.uk/p/devastatin...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

the rare triple "let them fight"

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments