UPDATE II: In new filing, BBC opposes Trump's bid to amend the complaint, also argues it won't narrow discovery because his "financial records are directly relevant to assessing his purported reputational damages." Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

BBCTrumpOppAmend080626.PDF

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Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 10h ago

UPDATE: BBC says there's no emergency and they're not engaged in any political attack on Trump. Also, it looks like Trump's attorneys have offered up a date (unspecified) for him to sit for a deposition in the suit, assuming it isn't thrown out by then www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

I’d recommend everyone watch this - it’s rather cheering to watch our media discover that an incompetent crank runs our national equality regulator

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 12h ago

EHRC chair challenged on how to enforce single-sex toilet rules www.channel4.com/news/ehrc-ch...

wow really

Pubic Service Announcement The Vagina Museum is trans inclusive. Always has been, always will be. Today the new EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect. Let us be clear, the guidance changes nothing about how we operate.

Israeli forces used small aircraft to cross the border and spray high concentrations of the herbicide glyphosate over farmland in southern Syria and Lebanon, a new report has revealed. According to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the spraying halted the growth of several crops

Ex-PM Starmer said, in response to Raise the Colours terrorising people, ‘I am supporter of flags’, ‘I’m very encouraging of flags. I think they’re patriotic and I think they’re a great symbol of our nation’ and his family had ‘got St George’s flag in our flat’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Cllr Dr Alex Powell@apowelllaw.bsky.social · 2d ago

The campaign of harassment and intimidation Raise the Colours have undertaken against council staff, contractors, and members of the public as reported by the Clarion today is shocking if not surprising. Excellent reporting. oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...

I await my thank you email from Jeremy Clarkson since, as a taxpayer, I have been subsidising his Diddly Squat farm. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2353306...

Diddly Squat Farm earns subsidies worth £250K, reports say

Jeremy Clarkson has owned Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire since 2008.

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Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP A former neo-Nazi activist with convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP has been selected as a Conservative candidate for a local election in Somerset. Joshua Bonehill-Paine, the creator of the viral Crewkerne Gazette series of AI clips, is due to stand for election to Somerset council next year in a new Crewkerne South district. He told the Guardian he was an executive member of the Tories’ Yeovil branch, working as an events organiser. Continue reading...

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the onion ass headline

Israeli court halts crocodile transfer to Palestinian prison over animal welfare concerns

LONDON: An Israeli court on Sunday temporarily blocked plans by the national security minister to install crocodile-filled moats around Ketziot Prison, following a legal challenge centered on the rept...

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The first of the analyses of July’s new car registrations has been posted and it’s looking very like June’s. Hybrids are the biggest proportion (45%) with EVs second (27%), non-hybrid petrol 23% and diesels barely visible at 5%. This is a non-Tesla month and […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

BBC News reporting on concerns about food security and water security We can all see the food and water crisis unfolding, why isn't our government doing everything possible to protect these two precious resources, our food and water supply?

Canadian researchers found that 97 percent of youth who seek treatment for gender dysphoria still identify as trans years later.

New study finds Canadian trans youth rarely detransition | Xtra Magazine

A group of Canadian researchers found that 97 percent of youth who seek treatment for gender dysphoria still identify as trans years later

xtramagazine.com

The fact the UK government has pushed through legislation that doesn't just stop trans kids using bathrooms but ACTIVELY discourages staff from supporting transition breaks my heart. Section 28 reborn. We live in suppression again. Thanks @andyburnham.bsky.social You just killed those kids.

Nazism is a widely understood, reprehensible ideology, condemned by everyone but Nazi-adjacent Reform councillors.

Nazi-linked Reform councillor linked to vigilante street group

Nazism is a widely understood, reprehensible ideology, condemned by everyone but Nazi-adjacent Reform councillors

thecanary.co

An anti-trans activist lied about a trans athlete injuring cis women. Now she has to pay the price. www.lgbtqnation.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

An anti-trans activist lied about a trans athlete injuring cis women. Now she has to pay the price.

Kirralie Smith admitted in court she didn't have any evidence to back up her claim about a trans woman injuring two cis women.

lgbtqnation.com

Féile an Phobail’s solicitor has a press release about the settlement. nitter.net/omuirighsols...

Trans women being banned from Labour's Women's Conference is one of those things that just makes your head spin if you stop for a second and think about it. Imagine finding out this would be the case in, say, 2018. You'd think we'd all gone mad. Maybe we have! metro.co.uk/2026/07/29/m...

Powerful unions boycott Labour Women's Conference over trans ban

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An update on the WRN v Feile case Am waiting on details.

tinyurl.com/4vhh2hcd It gets worse: "Cottrell’s Reform UK Network in Montenegro Is Tied to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs. Nigel Farage’s criminal funder runs a Montenegro company whose corporate advisors work for a Belgrade Russian-arms dealer and individuals tied to Russian state-linked enterprises"

How George Cottrell’s Reform UK Network in Montenegro Is Tied to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs

Nigel Farage's criminal funder runs a Montenegro company whose corporate advisors work for a Belgrade Russian-arms dealer and individuals tied to Russian state-linked enterprises

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Whilst in Glasgow this weekend, a Reform councillor gave a speech to a group of men wearing images of a noose and gallows with text implying they were going to start lynching parties. To zero concerns from the centre. Or anyone else, except us.

The UK media has been so captured by privileged, powerful, and well-funded ‘gender critical’ transphobes, that it’s quite a shock when an article is published so clearly exposing their bullying, gaslighting, and hypocrisy!.. Read 👉🏻 archive.ph/oQ2Cs

Keir Starmer did more to eviscerate trans rights and stoke the fires of hate against us than any prime minister in modern history. Now he’s gone, let’s take a look at the horrors he’s unleashed, and why what’s coming may, in fact, be even worse

Keir Starmer Eviscerated Trans Rights... and it Destroyed Him

YouTube video by Brigitte Empire

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cw: Endocrinology whine.. So... I've had one appointment repeatedly rescheduled since June 2024, now pushed back to July 2027... June 2024 - appointment Sept 2025 Apr 2025 - appointment rearranged Feb 2026 Oct 2025 - appointment rearranged Aug 2026 Jul 2026 - appointment rearranged Jul 2027

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups

The article is, in fact, available now: removepaywalls.com/https://www....

BASH BACK@bashback.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tomorrow, Lord Walney, who was responsible in part for the proscription of Palestine Action, will publish an article in The Times arguing that BASH BACK be proscribed as a terrorist organisation. We will not be intimidated. Neither should you. xoxo BASH BACK

PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.

Another report that essentially rubbishes the Cass report www.erininthemorning.com/p/landmark-o...

Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment

The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.

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