flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.
surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters
Malcolm Tucker was intelligent, focused, and strategic, but he was also rude, overconfident and relentlessly unprofessional.
That's the kind of thing you can get away with in a TV show when the writers ensure you really are the smartest guy in every room.
In real life it leads to shit like this.
“The EU’s highest court has found Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law to be discriminatory, stigmatising and in breach of basic democratic values…”
This is a crucial decision. The court rejected the political claim that LGBTQ+ representation is “propaganda.” We must keep fighting politics that dehumanise us.
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"Clean energy is now scaling fast enough to absorb rising global electricity demand, keeping fossil generation flat before its inevitable decline."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
You could not make this up.
Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…" quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman
This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.
It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.
Write to Stonewall.
• Tell them you supported them in the past.
• Tell them why you won’t be supporting transphobia.
Cut direct debts.
Don’t by the merch.
Tell your direct contacts.
Biggest battery manufacturer in the world. Chinese of course.
Good lord
*CATL UNVEILS BATTERIES CHARGED UP TO 98% IN SIX MINS
🇪🇺🏳️🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.
AOC: In some ways, you kind of want this guy on a golf course more than you want him in the Oval Office. But that also calls into question the 25th Amendment, because if the determination is that Trump cannot be trusted in the Situation Room, then he's not fit to be president.
Got our solar panels installed this AM. They came at 8:30am and we're gone by 1:30pm. 13 panels and 10kwh battery.
We can't export to the grid yet (the network operator has been flooded with new requests) but we charged our car with the sun this afternoon. Great feeling, strongly recommend.
You may disagree, but if the heads of our military don’t trust Trump to be in the Situation Room because he’s erratic, unfit, or dangerous…HE SHOULD NOT BE PRESIDENT!
For those attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, a small question:
When you're sitting there at your table, do you think it'll cross your mind that the guest of honor is actively covering up his role in a massive child sex trafficking operation?
"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere."
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Assuming Kash's lawsuit gets past the motion to dismiss stage, the DISCOVERY in this case is going to be WILD.
When For Women Scotland, Sex Matters/Maya Forstarter, Kathleen Stock and other very anti trans (and often anti LGB+) people are praising #Stonewall for comments made by the new chair, you know there’s a problem.
And they're off.
Extraordinary testimony from Olly Robbins to foreign affairs committee:
- he was subject to “constant pressure” from No 10 when at foreign office to get Peter Mandelson in post asap.
- fcdo was urged to allow Mandelson’s appointment as ambo *without* usual vetting process - but dept pushed back
When I lived in an inner city terraced street I never once managed to park in front of my own house, frequently I had to park around the corner. If you run the cable under the pavement can you reserve the space outside your door? And how would you enforce that?
While it's good to see any progress on the government supporting to switch to EVs there's a practical problem with this particular idea. For this to work you need to be sure you can park outside your own house.
Maybe we don’t call it a ‘singer’ if it doesn’t have vocal cords.Making a synthesizer reproduce violin sounds does not make it a violin.
Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) * ... @magyarpeterMP Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then - on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office.
Hungary’s Péter Magyar issues an ultimatum.
Praising JK Rowling when asked a question on trans rights is akin to praising Anita Bryant when asked a question gay rights. No money to Stonewall. No Stonewall at Pride. They are already experiencing a funding crisis, and this chairwoman appointment should be their last. Traitors.
"borderline". Hmmm.
This Kurdish woman is 95 years old, has had a stroke and has heart and respiratory problems, and possibly has dementia. She's been in Sweden 20 years and has no network back in Iraq, but Sweden's racist government is going to expel her anyway.
Palme's "people's home" has become a racist kip.
Can Stonewall Mark II put trans wars behind it? New chair talks of consensus but she’ll have a tough job unpicking charity’s bullying stance Kathleen Stock In the history of gay rights, there have always been fearless souls willing to face down mobs of pitchfork-wielding fanatics, but perhaps none so brave as Kezia Dugdale, incoming chair of trustees at Stonewall. In an interview with The Guardian this weekend, the former Scottish Labour leader did the unthinkable and praised JK Rowling.
If you had any doubts that Stonewall is a danger to trans people, here is Kathleen Stock praisng them in the Times.
"When the gay rights cause first got going, the ideal was toleration"
This highly technical dancing-around-whether-I’m-lying-or-just-being-economical-with-the-truth thing *is* Starmerism, isn’t it?
I suppose that’s what you get for making a lawyer the PM, but if trust in politics was already a crisis, someone like that being in place is the worst possible thing.
