we all know I have no life, so:

The right wing media ecosystem on X is going all in on attacking gay parents and adoption. They're pulling the worst tropes straight from the 80's.

And it was all so predictable after they felt they'd "won" on trans issues and needed the engagement.

Yeah and it's her job to know that. She failed a very very basic test in a really stupid way here.

MENU 100% LGBTQ+ Owned CRIME & JUSTICE Anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA pastor called Pride flags "disgusting" He just pled guilty to child sex offenses. He tried to get LGBTQ+ books banned from his daughter's school. Now he's paying for his ugly secret. Daniel Villarreal (he/him) April 21, 2026, 8:00 am EDT

Neither Drag Queen nor Trans.

Funny that.

I had the opportunity to confront Pete Hegseth's bigoted spiritual mentor, Pastor Doug Wilson, and call him out on his history of hate, his misreading of the Bible, his hijacking of Jesus, and his cosplay Crusading.

It was worth it.

I heard some interesting tea yesterday that Hegseth asked the guys at RTB if they can just revoke every ranger tab issued since they supposedly lowered standards for women. Apparently he was shocked to learn this would affect thousands of soldiers including 75th boys.

@SecWar: The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately. 21 Apr 26

Washington ordered smallpox inoculations for the Continental Army beginning in 1777.

Hegseth, therefore, is taking a mid-18th century, pre-Industrial Age approach to medicine and warfare.

Mahmood is simply unable to defend her policies or ideas on their merits. Because they have no merits.

Is the Home Secretary's hypothesis that Yvette Cooper wouldn't be criticised if tabled the same asylum/settlement reforms?!

The personal characteristics of Nigel Farage/Zia Yusuf, Chris Philp/Kemi Badenoch, Shabana Mahmood/Starmer seem v marginal to who supports/opposes their immigration plans!

Beth worked as a doctor for years until a transphobe turned up. Now, she's had to leave her job, leave her home, move to the other side of the world and is still being hounded and harassed by the media and cult.

She did nothing but exist as trans in the orbit of Sandie Peggie.

A Michael Jackson movie that doesn’t even ALLUDE to him being accused of raping children is such a strange big budget project. It’s weird that it even exists. It would be like making Titanic and cutting before the iceberg. What a ridiculous display.

Wow. They’re so thick it’s almost impossible to credit.

Are there, perhaps, any recent examples of dubious characters with obvious security risks being appointed to the House of Lords?

Why did BBC Breakfast give Reform UK a special graphic? A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

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WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC?

A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

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"We're going to ban smartphones in schools."

"Okay, I guess you want kids to engage with the lesson and not resort to whatever slop chatGPT spits out"

"Exactly, now let me explain how we're planning to intergrate AI into the classroom."

#Maddow

Reality Check Break

I would hope they allow them to and fro.
Here they were handed in to teacher at start of school and given back at lunch/hometime, as the kids that needed to take the bus had their tickets on an app. Payment apps too.
Step 1. Make life impossible without a smart phone.
Step 2. Take away smart phone.

My son had a friend at school whose parents banned him from having a phone. Pretty much every afternoon the mum would ring me wondering where my son was and asking me if I'd call him to ask him where her son was and there's your problem.

This is the 2020s not the 1980s.

If it's a total ban they're after and kids can't even take phones to school then I'd say that was completely irresponsible.

When I was a kid we had payphones - which we used to call our parents in an emergency. No such network exists any more and nobody seems to acknowledge it.

Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans Education minister Jacqui Smith said the move would create

This is such bollocks.

All primaries and over 90% of secondaries already impose bans.

This is policy to placate GB News viewers and completely unnecessary.

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A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek), with the handle @magyarpeterMP. The post reads: "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." At the bottom, the timestamp reads "3:04 AM • Apr 21, 2026" alongside "19.9K Views".

Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.

Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal. Since July 2024, when he was elect...

“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves”

It’s so obvious, it hurts.
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The idea that being *a member of the House of Lords* in any way means you can be trusted with Top Secret/STRAP material without proper vetting is so beyond absurd that this must surely be a joke?

I wonder what they'll do when the school smartphone ban doesn't solve all the issues they're ascribing to social media

I'm just an ally. Hopefully a good one. But this appointment has left me gobsmacked. For anyone to be praising JKR from such a position is unbefuckinglievable. I'm speechless tbh. (Apart from cursing!)

It's appalling.

The idea this crusty twat thinks we should stop at being tolerated tells you how insular her view is.

I tolerate a stone in my shoe when I’m rushing to catch a train. We are not to be tolerated, nor are trans people.

We are people with the right to exist free of other people’s dumb hated.

Such a wonderful story. You can buy a Live Departures Board for £300, but British Rail can't afford one for Barton-on-Humber Lincolnshire, so there's now one in The White Swan opposite

A poster with a colorful stack of books on the left and this text on the right: “Hey, Teenagers: Pay close attention to the books people try to ban. Then, make a beeline to read those books, if you can. Find out for yourself why those people want that book banned. Find out for yourself if they can be trusted to know what’s best for you.” ~ Jeff Zentner

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

"Hey, Teenagers: Pay close attention to the books people try to ban. Then, make a beeline to read those books, if you can. Find out for yourself why those people want that book banned. Find out for yourself if they can be trusted to know what’s best for you.”
~ Jeff Zentner