This Labour MP just called Ann Widdecombe 'woke' and no, we're not kidding A Labour MP branded right-wing figure Ann Widdecombe as 'woke' for showing the bare minimum of respect towards trans people and we're so tired.

In further proof the UK is spiralling over trans rights, this Labour MP just called Ann Widdecombe 'woke'

this internet was a mistake, but sometimes it’s the best thing ever created

Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events Company says listed holidays were not ‘sustainable’ for its model in latest move to roll back diversity efforts

Insane how quickly the racist regression is happening in this country. Decades of progress being undone in weeks, without even any laws having to be passed. Just sheer intimidation from Trump and the right, and sheer cowardice from the corporations.

How Right-Wing Media Spread the False Claim That One in Twelve Londoners Are 'Illegal Migrants' There is a deliberate attempt to mislead the public, in order to push for Trump-style mass deportations, argues Zoe Gardner

How Right-Wing Media Spread the False Claim That One in Twelve Londoners Are ‘Illegal Migrants’

There is a deliberate attempt to mislead the public, in order to push for Trump-style mass deportations, argues Zoe Gardner
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Politicians - you had the freedom to explore Europe - Why are you depriving our children.
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The Room Next Door - Donald Trump Plane Crash Fact Check YouTube video by Michael Spicer

The Room Next Door - Donald Trump Plane Crash Fact Check

Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.

Let that sink in. nymag.com/intelligence...

Top F.B.I. Agent in New York Vows to ‘Dig In’ After Removals at Agency James E. Dennehy, the highly respected leader of the largest and most important field office in the bureau, said in an email to staff that the F.B.I. was in “a battle of our own.”

The top agent at the FBI’s New York field office vowed in a defiant email to his staff to “dig in” after the Trump administration targeted officials involved in the investigations into the Jan. 6 attack — and praised the bureau’s interim leaders for defending its independence.

Hovis 'Bike' advert 1973 (Britain's favourite TV ad) YouTube video by carltonreid

En Grande Bretagne c’est à cause d’une pub tres célèbre de 1973 pour Hovis bread. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mq5...

GB News Hit by Guest Boycott After Hosts Label LGBT+ People 'Paedos' and 'Deviants' There was a flurry of Ofcom complaints after a series of offensive remarks by presenters on the right-wing channel

We're seeing a toxic surge of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric on GB News. This is what advertisers such as Sky are enabling.

If Ofcom continues failing to enforce its own rules, then MPs need to step in and hold it to account.

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Life would continue and it’s an addiction, but I have a very wide circle of friends around the world, and I want to keep up with their lives. Until I find another way to do that, or until everyone else leaves - which is starting - I’m staying. Where can you do a family group chat if not on WhatsApp?

Wherever you stand on what’s happening in Gaza, it cannot be a good thing that so many MPs are funded by any one country. I may be naive, but I don’t like the idea of any political lobbying groups using money to get their points heard, especially not when lives are at stake.

This is awesome. This is how to fight them, at every turn, with those who can stepping up.

Thanks to The Skimm.

It’s finding somewhere else to keep up with geographically distant friends and family, and where to put all those photos, and have group chats. This place is an easy swap for Twitter but there’s no obvious swap for Facebook or WhatsApp. Recommendations welcome.

I meant for me. I can’t remember which one I did first.

I loved the book. Hated the musical the first time I saw it. Can’t remember which came first.

Former home secretary calls for cap on political donations as govt says it's 'not a priority' The government is under pressure to reveal how it intends to crack down on foreign interference amid reports Elon Musk could give millions to Reform UK.

Former home secretary calls for cap on political donations as govt says it's 'not a priority'

The government is under pressure to reveal how it intends to crack down on foreign interference amid reports Elon Musk could give millions to Reform UK

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People like Janet Petro don’t realise that we won’t forgive and we won’t forget what they are doing

But as said character isn’t actually American (I have not fact-checked this) he’s not allowed a US passport. Swings and roundabouts.

Trump announces US withdrawal from the World Health Organization The global health body stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in funding

Trump announces US withdrawal from the World Health Organization

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It’s the ‘defending women’ line that gets me. Defending us from what exactly?

cis folks, please read this hideous thing. if you didn’t believe it was all one fight before, they snuck in some “fetal personhood” here. we’re in this together.

and remember: if you know a trans person, *no, you don’t.*

*we* get to decide when/if we disclose. don’t put your trans friends at risk.

Trump doing to trans-inclusive orgs what he previously did to Planned Parenthood, which has not crumbled into dust.

Just a reminder that as fucked as this is, we are still surviving.

Jesus Christ (apologies to Christians but I don’t know what else to say). The Daily Mail has truly gone full-on bonkers. Thanks for posting this - I avoid anything DM but it’s good to know what we’re fighting against. Littlejohn was always a prat of the highest order though.

Excellent news. And my former (only because I moved house) very excellent MP, @drrosena.bsky.social

Starmer to be invited to EU leaders meeting in win for his great Brexit ‘reset’ Prime minister has pledged to repair damaged relations with the European Union for the benefit of ‘generations to come’

We need more than just a reset, but this is welcome news.

One of my favourite memories about going to primary school in the 1980s is all the 1940s wartime and cockney songs we learned that would be considered highly inappropriate for 8-year-olds now… All the nice girls love a sailor; What shall we do with the drunken sailor?… There were a lot of sailors

Mine was ‘offspring of a virgin’s womb’. Hilarity.

I briefly wondered who Fin was, before remembering that I did a French degree.