Here is a starter pack of people and organizations working for trans rights in the UK, plus people who regularly post on the topic. The UK press is hopelessly anti-trans, so give these folks a boost: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Today the UK is putting into practice aggressive restrictions on trans people using toilets and changing rooms. This follows a complex legal/political mess over two years. The UK was among the best countries in Europe on LGBTQ rights; now it's among the worst. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse

It's never just one minority.

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andrew tate's lawyer: he's being sent to the uk for execution

so, if you operated on a trans-inclusive basis (which some people are doing) you risk anti-trans orgs suing you & the code will make that much easier, that's the enforcement mechanism here

fraac@fraac.bsky.social · 4h ago

Can't places make things officially open to everyone but without changing anything? Get a notarised statement that they keep in a drawer.

i've found many cis people either: ▪️ don't know anything about this at all ▪️ or imagine it *allows* service providers to be trans-exclusionary, rather than *mandates* that & are only now catching up

Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 5h ago

This is what we need to hear more of. And we need to forgive people when they say this. Better late than never - we need more people to speak up and speak louder however late they join the fight.

Recommended for everyone. This is about more than trans people. It's about the collapse of liberal rights and democratic norms much more broadly

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 7h ago

here's a full breakdown of what's going on & where we're at www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇

We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project

The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back

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wild way to frame one of the most aggressively anti-trans bathroom bans in the developed world

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 8h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

i require all of you to look at the veg i grew

saffron breads & potato curry made with potatoes & onions i grew myself

maga will accept as leaders rapists, pedophiles, white supremasicsts, wife beaters, con artists, conspiracy theorists, absolute morons, paid foreign agents, & people who are *all* of those things but you can't be even slightly pro-immigration, that's the line newrepublic.com/article/2138...

MAGA Erupts at Trump DHS Chief—and Accidentally Exposes Big MAGA Scam

Markwayne Mullin just said the unsayable: that immigration can sometimes help the economy and the country. Now MAGA wants his head.

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i require all of you to look at the veg i grew

ok, but those *are* the two teams

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · yesterday

Musk has managed to poison the well to such an extent that we can now only think of platforms as "The Woke Factory" or "you will receive abuse from misogynists, racists and fascists and you will like it", and that's not great - hopefully Bsky does manage to create something in the middle!

listen

Sophie@sophies.games · 2d ago

realising now that a significant proportion of your mind is just dawkins tweets

Rod Liddle was a piece of shit in both his private and public life, and it speaks to the state of British media that they're praising the man. He presaged the steep downward decline of British broadsheet print columnists into increasingly open racism, misogyny, and hatred of queer people.

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/abolish-ice

Abolishing ICE isn't enough. They must be held accountable.

What comes after the murder in Minneapolis.

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Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 2d ago

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

Reminder that the Nazi Party was founded in 1920 and the Gestapo was formed in 1933.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 4d ago

isn't it a bit late at that point?

isn't it a bit late at that point?

As @polphilpod.bsky.social says www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

We Need to Get Off the Defensive About Immigration

Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.

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Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 4d ago

Democrats would be even further ahead if they gave up on “gop lite” with immigration and read some emma lazarus

so you really just can't say anything against the anti-trans movement in the uk anymore

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 5d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

comparing non-white migrants to zombies

An analysis from @gregsargent.bsky.social and @polphilpod.bsky.social that is a great companion to Jamelle’s column:

The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” Kids

In his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · last wk.

Jamelle asks the question that, in retrospect, is the obvious and pressing one: why do we tolerate this? And it’s clearly not because we need his cars or even his rockets, which makes any plausible answer all the more disturbing.

"people always have the idea that the question is "how do we get people thinking in a hopeful way again? how do we run on optimism? How do we reestablish common ground?"" And we're not going to do any of those things. We run on fear. And we run on hate."

The end of free enterprise rhetoric? with Larry Glickman

From the right's ultimate ethical appeal, to hardly mentioned.

politicalphilosophypodcast.com

4% of americans view trump as far left

fascism sees civilisation as contingent on (white) racial purity hilter (left) & musk (right)

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.

Agreed. On Monday @polphilpod.bsky.social and I explicitly tied Musk USAID cuts to his "belief" that white civilization is embattled and white nations must be saved from invasion to preserve the "West." We argued Musk's "zero died" claim is code to global far right: newrepublic.com/article/2135...