Defiantly Alice
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Glasgow based lover of worldbuilding, and anything that tells a story. Can often be found several wiki pages deep in lore creation. 🏳️⚧️ 🏴 (she/her)
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This level of depravity is monstrous.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 14, 2026 at 3:10 AM
This level of depravity is monstrous.
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The EHRC are seeking legal costs of £300,000 for good law projects failed judicial review where GLPs point that the guidance encouraged things that are illegal was broadly accepted by the courts.
We have to fund GLP and through our taxes the bastards resisting GLP's obviously correct point.
We have to fund GLP and through our taxes the bastards resisting GLP's obviously correct point.
February 13, 2026 at 11:31 AM
The EHRC are seeking legal costs of £300,000 for good law projects failed judicial review where GLPs point that the guidance encouraged things that are illegal was broadly accepted by the courts.
We have to fund GLP and through our taxes the bastards resisting GLP's obviously correct point.
We have to fund GLP and through our taxes the bastards resisting GLP's obviously correct point.
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The amount of money that is spent on needless cruelty by our government is staggering.
It's devastating to me how much public money is being wasted in the British legal system purely on maintaining maximally destructive stances on human rights in service to the political ideology of the regime.
February 13, 2026 at 11:53 AM
The amount of money that is spent on needless cruelty by our government is staggering.
It is darkly amusing, for all its seriousness, that this is maybe the one time Sarwar has been right about anything, and he's been shanked for it so hard that Labour are going to lose in Holyrood even more than they already were.
ANAS COULDN'T EVEN GET IAN MURRAY - THE MAN WHO WAS SACKED UNCEREMONIOUSLY IN THE MANDELSON RESHUFFLE - TO TAKE HIS SIDE?
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And Alexander's predecessor:
February 9, 2026 at 4:13 PM
It is darkly amusing, for all its seriousness, that this is maybe the one time Sarwar has been right about anything, and he's been shanked for it so hard that Labour are going to lose in Holyrood even more than they already were.
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The thing that's the most egregious about this cover up is that before all this happened, there was evidence from similar policy changes in the United States of rises in suicidality amongst trans youth (and also significant drops in youth LGBT suicide with pro LGBT policies).
One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
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February 7, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The thing that's the most egregious about this cover up is that before all this happened, there was evidence from similar policy changes in the United States of rises in suicidality amongst trans youth (and also significant drops in youth LGBT suicide with pro LGBT policies).
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This is grim-Labour MPs saying they prefer a Reform win in Gorton & Denton than The Greens: Reform is worse for the country, but the Greens are be worse for their careers. They want Reform to do well so they can use them as a threat to force folk to vote Labour www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
February 1, 2026 at 12:18 PM
This is grim-Labour MPs saying they prefer a Reform win in Gorton & Denton than The Greens: Reform is worse for the country, but the Greens are be worse for their careers. They want Reform to do well so they can use them as a threat to force folk to vote Labour www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
To the diehard Starmerites - when Labour gets absolutely destroyed in May, where they're looking at losing 1,000 or more councillors in a single hit if they perform anything like last year, who will you blame for it? Will it be Andy Burnham, or will you concede the project isn't working?
January 25, 2026 at 7:54 PM
To the diehard Starmerites - when Labour gets absolutely destroyed in May, where they're looking at losing 1,000 or more councillors in a single hit if they perform anything like last year, who will you blame for it? Will it be Andy Burnham, or will you concede the project isn't working?
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something I haven’t seen discussed here enough is how a secondary message of this ruling is that trans patients will be discriminated against if they try to use the nhs services in darlington and durham
An employment tribunal has exonerated a trans woman, who faced accusations of harassment and discrimination for using a women's changing room at the County Durham and Darlington Trust 👇
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Darlington Nurses not harassed by trans colleague but trans women in single-sex spaces "violates dignity", court rules
The court ruled the NHS trust did indirectly discriminate against and harass the nurses by allowing Trans+ people to use single sex spaces
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January 20, 2026 at 4:06 PM
something I haven’t seen discussed here enough is how a secondary message of this ruling is that trans patients will be discriminated against if they try to use the nhs services in darlington and durham
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according to their own website, the *FREE SPEECH* Union got an injunction against BASH BACK to try and stop this data from spreading and being talked about. so please make sure NOT to download this because the FREE SPEECH Union really doesn't want you to talk badly about them.
Free Speech Union donor data (402 KB)
A leaked list of donor information for Free Speech Union (FSU), a group associated with far-right activist and eugenicist Toby Young.
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A leaked list of donor information for Free Speech Union (FSU), a group associated with far-right activist and eugenicist Toby Young.
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January 10, 2026 at 1:20 PM
according to their own website, the *FREE SPEECH* Union got an injunction against BASH BACK to try and stop this data from spreading and being talked about. so please make sure NOT to download this because the FREE SPEECH Union really doesn't want you to talk badly about them.
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It sounds like comically specific hyperbole but it is verifiably true that in the same year Elon Musk predicted fully autonomous taxis serving half the nation, what actually happened was his chatbot became a pedophile
January 2, 2026 at 1:21 AM
It sounds like comically specific hyperbole but it is verifiably true that in the same year Elon Musk predicted fully autonomous taxis serving half the nation, what actually happened was his chatbot became a pedophile
I understand that the reason for this decision, as with Guides, is because terfs are dedicated, resource-rich activists who will bury these groups in legal cases.
But real solidarity would be to let them do it. Show the world how terfs will burn us all rather than let trans people experience joy.
But real solidarity would be to let them do it. Show the world how terfs will burn us all rather than let trans people experience joy.
“I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”
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Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
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December 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I understand that the reason for this decision, as with Guides, is because terfs are dedicated, resource-rich activists who will bury these groups in legal cases.
But real solidarity would be to let them do it. Show the world how terfs will burn us all rather than let trans people experience joy.
But real solidarity would be to let them do it. Show the world how terfs will burn us all rather than let trans people experience joy.
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The miserable bigots that made this stuff a reality are so sheltered that they will never know consequences. The only way they're getting blowback is if you pull them up on this every time they show their faces in public.
This part is *infuriating*. This cis woman heard an 80 year old trans woman say, 'This is the only place I've been respected as a woman IN MY LIFE.'
And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'
Absolutely pathetic.
And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'
Absolutely pathetic.
December 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The miserable bigots that made this stuff a reality are so sheltered that they will never know consequences. The only way they're getting blowback is if you pull them up on this every time they show their faces in public.
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So there we have it.
This may sound beyond the realms of reality but: the NHS puberty blockers trial is being run by a cabal of transphobic cranks.
SEGM has been publicly spurned by multiple medical authorities as outside the mainstream, and as not a credible scientific organisation.
This may sound beyond the realms of reality but: the NHS puberty blockers trial is being run by a cabal of transphobic cranks.
SEGM has been publicly spurned by multiple medical authorities as outside the mainstream, and as not a credible scientific organisation.
The puberty blocker trial is about to start according to the BBC, led by Dr Emily Simonoff. The same Dr who spoke at a symposium organised by Segm, a group designated an anti trans hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Centre /1
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November 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
So there we have it.
This may sound beyond the realms of reality but: the NHS puberty blockers trial is being run by a cabal of transphobic cranks.
SEGM has been publicly spurned by multiple medical authorities as outside the mainstream, and as not a credible scientific organisation.
This may sound beyond the realms of reality but: the NHS puberty blockers trial is being run by a cabal of transphobic cranks.
SEGM has been publicly spurned by multiple medical authorities as outside the mainstream, and as not a credible scientific organisation.
Could do with a bit of clarity here - is he saying it isn't a breach to deny a trans person the use of a (particular) toilet, or to deny a trans person the use of a toilet (at all)?
23/ Cross turns to human rights. He says there is no authority for the proposition that it will be a breach of a trans persons’ human rights not to permit them to use a toilet.
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Could do with a bit of clarity here - is he saying it isn't a breach to deny a trans person the use of a (particular) toilet, or to deny a trans person the use of a toilet (at all)?
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writing a piece on this tomorrow but I think the bland truth is that a lot of people just don't care! saw it in Westminster too, fundamentally a lot of men - and some women - simply don't really give a shit if a man is said to be a sexual abuser, as long as they don't have to see if they don't care
One of the more upsetting things in this is that he wasn't blackmailing them: These men were part of this and protecting him not out of obligation or even particularly out of access, but out of solidarity.
Lots of people say: that’s because he’s blackmailing them, but I don’t think he’s blackmailing Kathy Ruemmler! I don’t think that’s what explains it.
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
writing a piece on this tomorrow but I think the bland truth is that a lot of people just don't care! saw it in Westminster too, fundamentally a lot of men - and some women - simply don't really give a shit if a man is said to be a sexual abuser, as long as they don't have to see if they don't care
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The same dudes who whine about men being the "protectors"...
"Who cares about protecting women and children if I can't be rac_ist!"
"Who cares about protecting women and children if I can't be rac_ist!"
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The same dudes who whine about men being the "protectors"...
"Who cares about protecting women and children if I can't be rac_ist!"
"Who cares about protecting women and children if I can't be rac_ist!"
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"the only thing preventing several of your neighbours from murdering you is their fear of getting caught"
in this thread the New Right discovers what the average immigrant feels at any given time
in this thread the New Right discovers what the average immigrant feels at any given time
There's so many of these btw, NoVa right wingers realizing that their neighbors genuinely hate them
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"the only thing preventing several of your neighbours from murdering you is their fear of getting caught"
in this thread the New Right discovers what the average immigrant feels at any given time
in this thread the New Right discovers what the average immigrant feels at any given time
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The fuckers got away with it.
The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them.
They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬
The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them.
They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬
*US DISMISSES BOEING CRIMINAL CHARGE OVER 737 MAX JET CRASHES
November 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The fuckers got away with it.
The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them.
They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬
The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them.
They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬
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"Tuesday’s election night was a resounding repudiation of those who insist that Democrats must cut their trans constituents loose in order to win elections."
For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus.
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Opinion | Democrats’ election wins showed they don't need to hide their support for trans rights
Republicans repeated Trump's anti-trans strategy from 2024 and lost big. This should be instructive for Democrats.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Tuesday’s election night was a resounding repudiation of those who insist that Democrats must cut their trans constituents loose in order to win elections."
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genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died
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Also there is no CRLGBT because too much of the world is still too homophobic and transphobic for one to be credibly brought forward, which is imo leading to that perverse attempt to weaponise CEDAW: "well here's the women's treaty I don't see one for the queers so hard luck" is real nasty stuff!
Where treaties (not just CEDAW but also CRPD and CERD) exist that have a specific group focus, that focus is not to grant additional, special rights to those groups that others are not granted, but to recognise the specific need to address barriers to rights realisation that others do not face
October 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Also there is no CRLGBT because too much of the world is still too homophobic and transphobic for one to be credibly brought forward, which is imo leading to that perverse attempt to weaponise CEDAW: "well here's the women's treaty I don't see one for the queers so hard luck" is real nasty stuff!
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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
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this will probably get the least attention but "being in work" is an unhinged requirement, maybe even more so than the forced labour
(though the 10 year change is by far the worst)
(though the 10 year change is by far the worst)
Mahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain:
Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering
Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering
September 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
this will probably get the least attention but "being in work" is an unhinged requirement, maybe even more so than the forced labour
(though the 10 year change is by far the worst)
(though the 10 year change is by far the worst)
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Question one from any journalist present should be "why has Downing Street withdrawn the press credentials of ABC?"
Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press
September 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Question one from any journalist present should be "why has Downing Street withdrawn the press credentials of ABC?"
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Remember: If it turns out he’s a leftist, that indicates a pervasive problem of violence on the left. If it turns out he’s a groyper, that means nothing whatsoever and he will disappear from the news cycle immediately.
the suspected Charlie Kirk shooter has been identified as 22 year old Tyler Robinson from Utah
very little in his family socials other than that Tyler was very online and dressed up on Halloween specifically to emulate this meme
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very little in his family socials other than that Tyler was very online and dressed up on Halloween specifically to emulate this meme
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September 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Remember: If it turns out he’s a leftist, that indicates a pervasive problem of violence on the left. If it turns out he’s a groyper, that means nothing whatsoever and he will disappear from the news cycle immediately.