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Man, people will soon be begging for the days when we had egg, food inspectors, and free transgender.

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#Caturday

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let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

submitted 15 hours ago • 127 comments

A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 15 hours ago • 77 comments

I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.

submitted 21 hours ago • 20 comments

And it would be Labour that revokes it... probably Scottish Labour first.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

This was always going to happen. And it could just as easily happen over here - the US is hardly an exception I hope Stock and her mates have their paperwork in place

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 473 comments

Sorry for making you look at him but yet again, as with Peterson, Musk, Montgomerie and so many others, the turn to the hard/far right begins with obsessive transphobia. It might be the primary driver of rightwing radicalisation over the last decade. They always bring it up.

submitted 19 hours ago • 38 comments

Yesterday a teenager was convicted of wanting to do a school shooting but only one Scottish paper splashes with that. Three go for the gender row/threat/crisis/Christmas special. I guess Vance was right? The biggest threat is from within? That's what the papers are telling me...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

As entertaining as it is when the rich lost some money, on paper, because Republicans think they're great at the economy, we pin FAR too much value in what a bunch of (mostly) men do with stocks. MAYBE there's a world beyond the stock market? Maybe?

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"Protecting women"

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“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

submitted 1 day ago • 150 comments

I've been hooked on eggs since the 80s 🍳

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Kash Patel after his swearing in: "I know the media is in here ... you've written everything you possibly can about me that's fake, malicious, slanderous, and defamatory. Keep it coming. Bring it on."

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The guy who used to run social media for the NRA is now creating the same violent rhetoric for the White House.

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

Ah yes, the “bigotry is good actually” lawsuit. Trying to strong-arm people into hatred may be one of the more disturbing legal trends of our time.

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NEW: Elon Musk, leading Trump’s haphazard effort to cut government overspending, is among the largest beneficiaries of federal government support. His empire was built on it. In the past 15 years, Tesla and SpaceX have sucked in $30 billion in public dollars #doge www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

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The facts of the transgender discrimination cases that the Trump EEOC wants to drop are stomach-turning. They are doing this because they want to empower the abuse of trans people, which they don't think should ever have been illegal in the first place ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

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NEW: A regional FEMA chief of staff took Elon Musk's Fork in the Road offer. He has proof of receipt. But they didn't honor it. Instead, they fired him 13 days later. Now, this retired Navy captain is speaking out. www.thebulwark.com/p/musk-doge-...

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"And he said the party would introduce "our own Department of Government Efficiency" to streamline government operations, referencing Elon Musk's controversial agency in America." I'm sorry, who is Labour trying to appeal to here exactly? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Seen on a friend's FB. . .Not quite sure why there is a war zone behind him but at least they're still playing hockey in the wreckage I guess?

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Scottish Labour conference have voted to reject a motion to back the Cass Review and scrap Scottish Government guidance on supporting young trans people. Whatever anti-trans route the leadership is on, the membership do not agree.

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I once had an angry reaction from friends when I said I could understand the faith of Catholics. I was told the church had no sympathy for me as a bi man. One of them is an active transphobe so I'll take faith over that ex friend thanks.

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Kristie Higgs said that all LGBT+ people want to sexually assault children and Jan Moir wants to know "Are you thinking what she's thinking?"

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Sweet Baby Jesus, Why did you take our brains from us? Was it the Trump bibles? Was it worshiping a golden oaf? How can we make amends?

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Republicans seem surprised that Trump victim-blames Ukraine for the war. Feminists aren't surprised. This is how Trump has always talked about sexual violence. Rape and fascism are related phenomena. Both are how weak, pathetic men feel powerful. www.salon.com/2025/02/21/s...

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Neighbours has been cancelled again by Amazon. . . which gave a record $40m to Melania Trump to do a documentary on her return to the White House. So there's where financial muscle goes.

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Again the mistake they're making here is taking the political right at face value when they say what they want, rather than assessing the actual impacts of the things they want. The right say they want to protect children, but actually they want to harm children who won't do as they want, for e.g.

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This could be one way that the Trump administration attacks abortion access, which in red states is now largely conducted by sending pills through the mail.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

The Daily Mail protecting women again. Rubiales was found guilty of sexual assault. Not kissing.

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So they would support foreign aid to Uganda, provided they still executive LGBT people? And that's common ground?

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We will likely lose our independence, but at least we beat them at hockey. Again.

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there is nothing they won't normalize

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How many taxpayer dollars will be provided to school districts to cover these costs? Will library books have to be removed for referencing the Gulf of Mexico? It doesn’t look like we did this in 2006/2007 when Pluto became a dwarf planet.

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The National Park Service just took down Marsha P. Johnson's page. www.nps.gov/people/marsh...

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Wallace Shawn Emerges As Frontrunner To Replace Daniel Craig As James Bond

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Watch this clip, folks 👇 Does Bannon sound like he's joking about Trump becoming dictator for life? Because he isn't.

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He is one of the worst people to ever live but I’m sorry this is very funny www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...

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We will always stand by and support Scotland's trans community! 🏳️‍⚧️

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So we spent a ton of money to move 170+ Venezuelans from inside the United States to #GTMO, where we spent a ton of money to hold them for less than a month, before we spent a ton of money to bring one of them back stateside and repatriate the rest. Talk about wasteful government spending…

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

i think it is cool that de facto first consul of the united states is a drug-addled maniac and deadbeat dad with a breeding fetish

submitted 2 days ago • 545 comments