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More weaponised language

WALLACE: Why are we at war with Iran?

CHRIS MURPHY: Great question. The simplest explanation might be the one they gave 24 hours in that they've kind of tried to backtrack from since -- that Israel made us do it.

Weaponising language

Lebanese are just dead. Israelis are killed.

Not in my name.

Exactly this. Make sure you blame the right people

Ok...tx

Sorry, what?😱🤬😱🤬😱🤬😱🤬😱🤬

The same playbook.

Wasn't he doing chin ups recently?

Oh.

You want to play games. I don't. Bye.

Men are using the law to gaslight women – we’re fighting back | Good Law Project We’re pushing back against the men who are trying to make weapons out of laws designed to protect women

We're seeing a really horrible new trend of wealthy and powerful men using the law to gaslight women.

And we're going to the High Court to get an anonymity order against one of them discharged.

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Did you read it?

Conservative lawmakers are attempting to take away protections that some local governments have put in place to prevent discrimination against their LGBTQ+ citizens.

https://mrf.lu/dzvj

I was wrong by 65%

Rand Paul: "I think we've gotten overextended. This is our second war in a month, and these wars are very very expensive not only in the lives that are lost, but also in treasure. I'm very very concerned about the debt. Half a trillion dollars for the military budget is fiscally irresponsible."

I don't have any words or feelings left to express.

I am numb.

Sounds very tempting

He’s got a point.

I'm at that age that I can't remember where bruises come from and am comfortable with that.

Don't hesitate.

You lose nothing.

Private clinics must follow NHS and ban child gender drugs The Daily Telegraph10 Mar 2026By Michael Searles DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR Wes Streeting ordered a review into gender hormone treatments last year WES STREETING has been told to ban private prescriptions of cross-sex hormones to children. The NHS said yesterday that it would stop prescribing the drugs to gender-questioning under-18s because the “available evidence does not support the continued use” of them. A group bringing legal action to secure a ban welcomed the NHS decision but said it would be an “abdication of responsibility” if the Health Secretary allowed private clinics to continue providing them. The drugs, also known as gender-affirming hormones, are now mostly obtained by children and their families from private clinics and online, often unregulated, markets. Mr Streeting announced a review of the medication last May, but no details have been published and private clinics continue to supply them. Legal action to ban cross-sex hormones for under-18s was halted last year in order to give time for this review to be undertaken. However, those behind that challenge are set to issue proceedings once again this week, it is understood, almost one year later. Cross-sex hormones include testosterone and oestrogen, which are taken to help someone change their physical appearance to align with their desired gender, such as by growing hair or breasts. They are different to puberty blockers, which suppress the hormones that support a child’s body and brain to develop into an adult. Paul Conrathe, partner at Conrathe Gardner LLP, which is representing the claimants in this case, told The Telegraph the NHS decision was “overdue”. “While protecting teenagers treated in the NHS, it leaves others vulnerable to treatment from gender activists in the private sector. It would now be irrational and an abdication of the Secretary of State’s responsibility for him to allow private providers to continue to prescri

As expected, they are going after private clinics again [Telegraph]

Paul Conrathe.

Important thread providing more of the detail than I could be motivated to add.

The '10 studies' do not merit detailed analysis of everything they get wrong - & thread is just the tip of the iceberg in what they get wrong, but a useful starting point nevertheless.

Thirty-two experts find no evidence ADHD is being overdiagnosed

It’s a bit like how we didn’t ‘overfind’ more stars when telescopes were invented. Why has going after neurodivergent people become a national sport? www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

EVERYBODY should sit up, take notice, and get shouting about this. Everybody. Yes. You!

Nobody is safe in a country that bans life saving healthcare with no evidence, just because some people dislike a demographic.

What Streeting has done is disgusting and murderous. He should be jailed for this.

"Utterly failed"
@rachelmillward.bsky.social lays out the reality of privatised water - explaining why water must be returned to public hands.

If they are going to carp about him, at least make it about something meaningful.

They are still casting around hoping something will stick

Tbf, how much needs to be processed?

I prefer text to podcasts... easier to skip the filler content.