Facts Central

Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.

Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

And yet we live in a world insisting on thinking that tech bros have to be bros - “it’s a bro thing you know”
lol

Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"

My guess is China will just sit around doing nothing (but a bit posturing) looking at Russia and Amerussia wrecking both heir giant armies while quietly buying the world

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

Quick note, Trump's quote is "some of you *will* die"

AG Letitia James is a hero of our times

For this, and more. Also for holding Trump accountable no matter what. For investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, the Blind Rohingya refugee killed by ICE. For standing fearlessly against fascism. For not being afraid to do good. What a woman.

Amerussia is an imperialist Oiligarchy

Hallucinated plagiarism
AI isn’t just stealing your work anymore: It’s perverting it into slop branded with your name
Totally worth burning down the planet in the name of trendy apparently

Oh no, I can't believe all those slurs forced themselves into that defenseless group chat!

Camels at beauty pageant disqualified after using hump-plumping injectables Camel owners had used injections to enhance the camel’s lips, dermal fillers around their noses and silicone wax to enlarge the humps

Indulging into torture for money latest

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/c...

Florida Call to Action on the horrible bill dubbed Outlawing Activism. This bill creates a new designation of “domestic terrorist organization”. Vague enough so that anything or anyone that does not fit the State Narrative could be at risk.

Action links to flood legislators' inboxes in the thread.

Yeah sure Russia is devastated it got an oil&gas war budget/blackmail opportunity again

Only reason they’re not giving Trump a medal Nobel price is that it would be too obvious (and they are not Norwegians)

Illiteracy will kill us all

While not changing anything that matters

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Quick note, yes, I do keep a healthy therapeutic distance with hot shrink despite the nickname
Tbh I’m used to guys I’m attracted to being unavailable anyway for whatever reason - preferably because they are deliriously happy otherwise
Taking comfort in not being a complete Trumps *sshole like my ex

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Kids know better, we have a great relationship but still, it’s good to hear from hot shrink that I’m not hysterical or annoying or overreacting and that the situation sucks, not me - and still somehow i manage to make the best of it

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I’m in charge of all the boring, conflicting, important stuff and all he does is fun, “rebel” stuff with the money he’s not supposed to have
While i work 2 to 4 jobs to make ends meet
And social workers criticise all I do while praising him as the messiah
(Oh yes we are many in such situation)

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Today with hot shrink we concluded it’s not easy to be the only parent around, especially when the other parent is the kind of pathetic wreck of a human being fitting right into Trump’s crew, trying to teach our kids that being a manipulative, lawless and hateful *sshole is the way to go

Dubai influencers share near-identical videos with footage of Dubai crown prince | LBC Videos featuring the caption ‘I know who protects us’ have been circulating on social media

I had no idea until this all started that the UAE licences and pays many influencers to live there and write positively about the regime.

That puts a whole new spin on things.

Propagandists in pocket of regime.

It's why all the messaging is the same.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/duba...

All of this
(It’s three posts - worth reading)

Can she name a country - where things were so bad asylum was granted - that got safer in the past decades?

Are they in the room with us?

Crazy man surrounded by crazy people telling us bad things happen when crazy people have nuclear weapons is so comforting

Family photos
Means of contacting your loved ones
Documentation that supports your asylum claim
Medical documents
Contact details of people who might support you

And you arrive in the UK, and your phone is seized and never returned to you

That happened to hundreds of people

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Sun headline about £500k compensation for migrants, discussing human rights, and public outcry over payouts.

Did you see this headline?

Did you feel the requisite anger and rage at asylum seekers that The Sun was asking of you?

Did you maybe blame Starmer because.... um... it was probably his fault🤷‍♀️

Would you like to know the reality behind the headline?

Course you would!😜

Let's take a look

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This more than anything demonstrates that this is not a serious company striving for success. It is a deliberately funded mouthpiece for the far right Those involved are happy to keep funding what would be a failing company fotr the presence it gives their policies.

"resolving existing problems is not a requirement."

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]