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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.

Knew before I saw the byline it was @jasonaw.bsky.social because few other journalists in mainstream outlets cover this beat, but the Pope’s Catholic and water’s wet; Pinker’s been part of Acceptable Discourse for decades while we’ve been shouting about his open racism

www.inquirer.com/politics/new...

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

For the record:

oh boy

If only the New York Times had made this big of a deal in December 2022 when Trump called for “termination” of the Constitution. (That ran on Page 13. Yes, Page 13.)

The Guardian deleted it, goddamn they suck

“I'm not comfortable supporting any state that has a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis of religion or anything else. I think that, in the way that we have in this country, equality should be enshrined in every country in the world. That's my belief.” - Zohran Mamdani

Republicans have gotten a *lot* more regressive on gender in a very short period of time. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

If you're one of those trans inclusive small businesses which is getting attacked by transphobes, we've drafted this text for your website, or as a standard reply.

The University of Michigan spent $800,000 hiring private investigators--one of whom FAKED A DISABILITY--to surveil anti-genocide protesting students. I'm speechless. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There has never been an instance where Singal demonstrated he's done basic research. This includes a 2019 Atlantic article about a guy 'inventing' a new academic discipline called 'erisology'. And by 'inventing' he meant 'I think academics should study argumentation'.

Akua reindorf an "impartial" commissioner of the EHRC. One who buys merch from anti trans groups. And accepts money to talk to anti trans staff groups... whatthetrans.com/anti-trans-e...

75 days apart

Note: all the terms in Figure 1 are isomorphic to each other in right-wing parlance--they are interchangeable snarl words, 'cultural relativism', 'social constructivism', 'postmodernism' 'PC', 'identity politics', etc.--excluding 'radical feminism', which is an instance of their application!

It betrays such a lack of real solidarity or care for other women if you somehow didn't know about all of these things. Which I don't actually believe, since they only seem to be relevant when being wielded against trans women's rights, and never when actually advocating for womens liberation.

Reflecting historically, this is quite novel. Homophobes repealing anti-discrim laws in the 70s didn't insist gays weren't losing rights. Racists in Redemption didn't tell black people they'd never had the right to vote in the first place. There's an intellectual dishonesty here that's remarkable.

Cannot be emphasised enough. A clique of self-defined "feminist" gatekeepers have actively allied with every misogynist, homophobe and reactionary bully in the UK, licensing them to claim that their bigotry is the "real" feminism, while they actively campaign to drive abortion underground.

Fraser epitomises the audience kf Neo-Schlaflyite transphobia. A reactionary straight man who opposes gay marriage and abortion, a consistent misogynist to female politicians his whole career. But then transphobes come along offering him a pretext to claim to be the *real* defender of women & gays.

One of the most frustrating things about the anti-trans sadism mind-virus is how resistant it is to materialist analysis. Like it really is just a bunch of rich people all developing the same mental illness at once and spreading it person to person by peer pressure and love bombing.

If you're going insist that certain groups are going to have to accept a "reduction in their rights" then you're going to have accept the reaction you get to that may not necessarily come in the form of polite letter writing and debate.

In the whole Oxford Lit Fest debacle I got some up close and personal experience with the GC mind and let me tell you, the velocity with which they reach for "gaslight and deny" when cornered is breathtaking. Leaping on the backs of DARVO tactics like fucking cheetas.

I think what pisses me off is even under that theory of law, it's reserved for courts! When you or I (or an EHRC commissioner) do it, it's an obvious attempt at changing how everyone else behaves by declaring oneself to have the same authority as the court!

It is rare for discussion on here to touch on something I know anything about, but this relates to what is known as 'the declaratory theory' of law. Basically, courts almost always present their decisions as revealing the law as it has always been. This fiction is quite valuable. But...