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Sofia, Bulgaria : Transgender woman attacked with a sword in an apparent transphobic attack. The alleged assailant issued threats, saying that "freaks" like her should not exist ,and that he would kill them all. The man left but returned shortly after, visibly angry and armed with a large sword

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It still blows my mind that the New Statesman put Rowling at #25 on its Left Power List last year without being able to name one left-wing thing she had done since 2008

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Paedophile Nicola Murray founded a domestic violence charity, and is a prominent Scottish gender critical campaigner who rose to national attention after her campaign against Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, who's then-head was a transgender woman www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/courts/...

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Tonight's dinner Shredded chicken, with toasted pine nuts, rice and fried vermicelli, seasoned with Lebanese 7 spice (a blend of allspice, fenugreek, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves and black pepper) and cumin

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How anti-racist activist Harry Shukman infiltrated the British far right, over the space of a year, and what he uncovered during that period www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...

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Pope Francis was remarkably liberal for the Vatican, but outside of that specific context, rather less so. Conservatism is baked into Vatican institutions.

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Bridget Phillipson RIDICULOUS squirming over which toilets trans women should be using- “lots of places have gender neutral toilets” & blank refusal to explain what happens when they don’t. Answer: people living & presenting as women forced into male toilets & vice versa. Demented outcome. #r4today

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Can't wait to hear the antiwoke defense of this. Q: Why the actual F does anyone want to drink from a human skull? Acceptable Ans: because stupid cosplay institutional wankery is somehow valued at our most august establishments. Unacceptable Ans: tradition. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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This Lesbian Visibility Week, we stand in solidarity with lesbians everywhere. Visibility isn’t just about being seen it’s about being heard, valued, and safe. At Equality Amplified, we celebrate every identity and fight for a world where no one lives in the margins #LesbianVisibilityWeek #LVW2025

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They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.

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Northern Ireland : Alliance Party councillor Micky Murray is the first out gay Lord Mayor of Belfast www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/belf... #LGBT #LGBTQ

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Ahmed Al Jabali pleaded guilty to the antisemitic slashing attack on Jewish barber Slava Shushakov (an immigrant from Uzbekistan), in Mr Shushakov's shop, in Yonkers, New York, last August westchester.news12.com/yonkers-man-...

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Today's dinner : Beef chorizo, roasted red pepper, butter bean, onion and walnut salad, with coriander, garlic and balsamic vinegar.

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Met Police launch hate crime investigation after a playground in Stoke Newington's Clissold Park is defaced with neo-Nazi graffiti. It is an area with a significant Jewish and LGBTQ population www.standard.co.uk/news/london/... #Hackney

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin : The city's oldest gay bar, This Is It, closes, for good. It had been open since 1968, in what was a very different climate for LGBT people upnorthnewswi.com/2025/04/19/t...

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Massachusetts, USA : Federal judge Julia Kobick issues a preliminary injunction against President Trump's directive ending X gender marker passports #lgbt #lgbtq www.washingtonblade.com/2025/04/19/f...

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Capt. Gordon Herrero is a transgender man, and a serving US army officer, who is joining the elite West Point Military Academy, who has joined legal action against President Trump, for his executive order barring trans people from the armed forces www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley... #LGBT #LGBTQ

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What a bloomin' mess. Mr Osment's life has been chaotic for 20 years, and his once stellar career has plunged into occasional supporting roles. He was under the influence of cocaine when arrested, and used a common antisemitic slur about the arresting officer www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/haley-...

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It seems fairly likely to me that the attack on the home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was antisemitic in nature, as a high profile Jewish politician in the state, and given the alleged specific Israel-related motivation behind the attack www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... #antisemitism #harrisburg

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For many years, Northern Ireland was beset with vicious sectarian graffiti, warning Catholics or Protestants (depending where) that they were unwelcome. Sectarianism is still very present but more recently, graffiti has tended to morph more towards racism www.irishnews.com/news/norther... #Belfast

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Belfast, Northern Ireland : Heavily pregnant woman is targeted with sectarian graffiti www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/heavily... #Catholic #Protestant #Ulster

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Read the full interview with our CEO @ohsarahsavage.bsky.social on the UK’s Supreme Court decision this week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

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Interviewing is a skill, and a good interviewer- often well-versed in the world of journalism - will not only put the subject at ease, but draw out difficult viewpoints, and challenge them . The new world of podcasts does not really provide this. www.commentary.org/articles/set...

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Maybe we should honor the women who were real astronauts. From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.

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RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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FSU shooting latest: Suspected gunman is ‘white supremacist and Trump supporter’ who had tumultuous childhood

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Ruling on ‘woman’ definition at odds with UK Equality Act’s aim, says ex-civil servant

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This hasn't aged well.

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I'm surprised they're not arrested by masked federal agents and deported to El Salvador.

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The Trump administration's ostensible reason for the attack on the independence of universities is a concern about antisemitism. But Trump/MAGA advocates do not make much effort to maintain any sincerity about that - including in the case of attempted arson against a Governor

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In sophistication and maturity, this is highly reminiscent of the Russian embassy accounts on X. Aiming to troll but just sounding completely juvenile.

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Sadistic language from the White House, gleefully revelling in contempt for law, judges & individual rights. This is what incipient fascism looks like.

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A round-up of some of the extreme, antisemitic, Islamophobic, racist and neo Nazi-praising posts from some of Reform UK's Doncaster candidates hopenothate.org.uk/2025/04/17/r... #Yorkshire #Muslim

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Since 2023, Pakistan has deported nearly 900,000 Afghan refugees & migrants (inc. many women and children) back to Afghanistan, and Taliban rule. It wants to expel another 3 million. The silence over this, in much of the world's media, has been extraordinary. apnews.com/article/paki...

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Hungary's leader, Viktor Orbán, can ban LGBTQ Pride events, but that doesn't mean that they won't happen. The community has always found a way around such bans, and always will. www.metroweekly.com/2025/04/gray...

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