Trump wasn’t always so linguistically challenged. What could explain the change? STAT asked experts to compare Trump's speech from decades ago to that in 2017. All noticed deterioration, which may signal changes in Trump's brain health.

has anyone done any analysis on Trump's speech patterns recently? Because this article from 2017 suggests he was already showing signs of cognitive decline www.statnews.com/2017/05/23/d...

I'm not a Labour supporter but I'm finding it VERY hypocritical of the Tories and right wing press to set up hue and cry for Starmer's blood given Johnson failed his vetting but got appointed anyway - and he met with suspected Russian agents!

I think the word "male" might be relevant too...

what the heck is a "woke handmaid"?

Bluesky doesn't seem to be working correctly? Server issues?

so Vance is either monumentally stupid or monumentally arrogant. Or conceivably both.

"what is conversion therapy"????? You seriously expect me to believe that is an honest question, given your views?

Initial response to the Green Party’s Welsh manifesto | Institute for Fiscal Studies A manifesto with a vision for a bigger state but no detail on how to pay for it.

The IFS is scathing about the Green Party manifesto in Wales.

Basically, a lot of spending with no plan to pay for it.

This is a shame because for progressives to succeed we need plans that will work.

ifs.org.uk/articles/ini...

and do you have anything about the mental health of those who wanted to transition but had care withheld? Or those who have been forced to undergo conversion therapy?

A little noticed sign of the Trump effect: about 80 of the 195 US ambassadorships are vacant. Many of the others are filled by Trump's mates, not diplomats. The US's links with other countries are being willfully weakened. Vance is not the only isolationist. Short-sighted mistake.

husband cooking roast lamb. Smells wonderful

None of that explains it

Reports in the press today that Trump has suggested he might go in with Iran to collect tolls on shipping in the Stait of Hormuz. So maybe he really does think he has a victory: in the form of a way of making money he didn't have before.

It's hard to tell from here in the UK, so can someone in the US please say whether Mike Johnson has seen anything of what's been happening?

explain what you think the difference is between sex and gender in that sentence?

Who's with me that people from the Carolinas should be called Carolingians?

I'm going to say it one more time but in a way maybe even you can grasp: treating all the individuals who have a particular thing in common as being exactly the same is discrimination. By your logic, no women should be allowed near other women because of Rosemary West

That's the nub of the problem I have with you right there. You focus all your efforts on the (pretty well non-existant) threat to women from trans women and none of your efforts on the very real threat to women from cis men. Why do you do that?

Culture wars continuing in my timeline. GCs deciding I am beyond the pale for supporting trans people.

GCs are out in force in my timeline. Their inability to see beyond "there are only 2 sexes" is quite remarkable. They want to retrofit science and society to fit their own prejudices and can't even see they are doing it.

What you are saying when it boils down to it is that you think all trans women are men - regardless even of whether they have a GRC - and likely to rape and attack women. Oh and that biology has to determine everything. Treating all members of a group as if they are the same is discriminatory

You know what? I don't care if Kristi Noem's husband cross-dresses. It looks like he only interacted with consenting adults. Seems much preferable to protecting paedophiles, terrorizing US citizens, using $$$$ of tax payer's money to advantage yourself and all the other stuff his wife did

Oh dear oh dear oh dear. So society has to be set up to treat people solely according to their biology? Really? (I won't ask you about intersex people - past experience suggests GCs think they have to fit in to one of your two boxes).

what Prue thinks is that GCs are blinkered. Prue also knows that she is never going to change their minds. The only people who can do that for them are they themselves, if they actually meet trans people and it opens their eyes. Sadly, that rarely happens.

surely even the idiot sycophants around Trump are going to realise at SOME point that he is not mentally capable of being president?

Your type of exclusionary "feminism" is the opposite of actual feminism. Women fought for generations to stop their lives being defined and straitjacketed by their gender and GCs are too dim to see that they are being used to get society row back on women's rights and re-pigeonhole women as weak

I've got a feeling this broke a day earlier. Got to be an April Fool!

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so a trans woman is treated like a man and reacts badly to that, and gets treated even more like a man, and you think that proves your case that they are dangerous to women and that she deserves it?

I rather think that it is you who are making claims not only not based on evidence, but that are directly contrary to evidence. Trans women have been using women's toilets for years. Where is the evidence they have assaulted women? Clue: there isn't any