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I was going to say: Next they will be posting Team America clips unironically. 🤷

"The U.S. is being run by
gung-ho nutters like Trump and Hegseth."…….

Former NATO commander and British General Sir Richard Shirreff delivers a stark warning for Britain to avoid being dragged into America's illegal war on Iran.

-Analyst News

Except for this interview I see very little mention of the fact that we are in Ramadan.

Killing a religious leader (who is also a terrible head of state) and bombing the hell out of people during a (rough) equivalent of XMas or Easter, with pubescent videos to celebrate. bsky.app/profile/paul...

Israel is colonial theft of land & an Apartheid state, much like Apartheid South Africa, so ... 🤷

Also it is guilty of war crimes / crimes against humanity & genocide. 🤷

Iran hasn't committed genocide lately.

It may be oppressing it's citizens, but it isn't currently an existential threat to the human race as the US / Israeli pact is.

This nonsense war is just the sort of conflict to escalate to WW. 🤷

Especially the US administration evoking "The Crusades". 🤷

Also Mandelson. 🤷

People always forget the FO comes after the FA. 🤷

More that the people Labour used to fight against, took over the Labour party - the so called "Blue Labour" project. 🤷

Goes back further than that, starting with conspiracy theories from the Catholic Church:
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I should probably have phrased it better, but talking theoretically about shoplifting as a form of direct action isn't "Conspiracy to steal". 🤷

John seems to struggle a bit on the critical thinking bit:
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John: "Healthcare is necessary, so obviously we would pay whatever is necessary to have an adequate supply of care workers. "

John: "Yes the current system for social care is hopelessly underfinanced and inefficient."

Which one is it? 🤷

He's probably one of those "Immigrants are taking all the jobs & also skiving on benefits" types. 🤷🙄

Shoplifting is a arrestable offence, but "planning to shoplift" is not.

This is literally out of 1984 - "thought crimes" 🤷

In other words, just the thought of protesting is now being treated as illegal.

Next step on the fascism pathway. 🤷

Understand the LGBTQIA+ news: A consequential by-election, for the UK's democratic system - and the fight for LGBTQIA+ rights What it would take to reduce the 48,000 people wait list for transgender healthcare in the UK?

“International experts couldn’t be clearer: trans inclusion is a vital human rights standard that the UK must uphold,” @transsolidarity.bsky.social

As UN experts make a stark intervention to government, the EHRC faces fresh scrutiny 🧵

More here: www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...

The submission builds on similar challenges from TransActual UK, Amnesty International UK, and the Trans+ Solidarity Alliance, Trans Advocacy Complaints Collective (TACC) and Scottish Trans in 2025. It makes the fourth time in the last six years that the UK equality watchdog has faced challenges like this, including earlier ones from Stonewall and Mermaids - QueerAF The submission comes just one day after a group of UN experts warned the EHRC’s new code of practice must ensure “transgender people [can] lead safe and dignified lives, while continuing to uphold robust protections for all women and girls against discrimination and violence”, in a stark intervention to the UK government - UN

This builds on similar challenges by @transsolidarity.bsky.social and @transactualuk.bsky.social - marking the fourth time in six years that the EHRC has faced challenges like this.

PBs weren't prescribed because of "TRAs" demanding their use, they were prescribed by (often transphobic) cis doctors because they reduce adverse outcomes (Self harm & SI) & reduced costs. 🤷

A longitudinal trans PB trial ran for 20 years from the early 90s.

We need to expose their unscientific bigotry, & the harm they are causing to kids.

99.99% of kids in the GIDS audit persisted in their trans identity, but only a tiny percentage got access to PBs.

"The trial to quantify long term risks has been halted" - the trial was unnecessary, as we have been using PB for over 50 years.

There are likely grandparents who started out on PBs.

It was a poor excuse to limit access to PBs, & was highly unethical.
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“Sir Chris said he had “deliberately stayed out of this debate, because my view is far too many people have thrown far too many arguments into this where it’s not their area of expertise”.”

Mate, you’re England’s chief medical officer: you’re supposed to get involved.

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"Youtuber" is by far more of a real job than "billionaire". 🤷

Broken clocks & all that. 🤷

Yes, but the problem with “lesser of two evils” us that it’s still evil.

It’s time we start choosing “not evil”. 👍😀

The “joy” of stochastic terrorism, is the plausible deniability. 🤷😡

Email isn’t anonymous. But otherwise agreed. 👍

I don’t think it counts as “cosplaying” if they’re doing real fascism. 🤷

Stochastic terrorism.

(GBNews etc. 🤷😡)