LeoCrusher

Post from a person: The intent of Title IX: ensure equal athletic opportunity based on biological difference. Male puberty creates immutable physical advantages—bone density, muscle mass, lung capacity. NCAA D-1 is scholarship $. Without Title IX, what would stop mediocre males from switching in HS to get those spots?

Real question for my cis male homies: when you were in high school, would you sacrifice the ability to have regular erections and have your dick get smaller for the sole purpose of getting a college scholarship?

New NHS England Review Excluded 97% Of All Trans Studies To Say Care Doesn't Work The new review has led to a ban for HRT through the NHS England system under the age of 18.

If you've watched how NHS England - stuffed, as Kemi Badenoch explicitly told us, with her handpicked transphobes - does trans* healthcare you can't be surprised by this from @erininthemorning.com.

But still, it's an important service to see her lay it all out.

“Re: your last message Peter, I’ve just informed our lawyer you’ve asked for half a million pounds for dismissal relating to your undisclosed links to a convicted paedophile and he said he’s never laughed so much in his life; wanted me to thank you for brightening an otherwise dreary day”

Can't help but think the actual issue is the range of jobs which go unremarked upon, (lobbyist for weapons companies, utility firms, gambling, PR for dictatorial regimes etc etc) compared to what is considered irredeemably compromised.

The writer won an award for this story, which was received in more or less total silence on publication www.theguardian.com/news/2022/ju...

They should just keep the lords spiritual and their input be like that scene in Hail Caesar...

See also: Greek Cypriot opinions of historical NATO activities in Greece!

The people responsible weren't even Jewish were they? I can obviously only speak for myself, but if my community had been utilized in a factional struggle by cynical outside parties I'd be beyond furious.

The multiplier effect of public investment is literally doing nice things

And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide. And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", and they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly. On the other side of them, we have people who are saying in full fucking voice, "No, we have the resources to save everybody, to give everybody a decent and worthwhile existence, and that is what we want." And that is the fucking real difference between these two, and you can tell that to the next asshole who tells you that they're actually two sides of the same coin."

And it’s not like the guy from Chapo Trap House was wrong about what this always was, considered broadly.

It's the sign of someone serious about politics when they explain that things can't be as good as they were 30 years ago

Sienna Rodgers @siennama... • 51m NEW: My interview with Green leader Zack Polanski X • He's been speaking to a "handful" of Labour MPs about defecting to the Greens • There is a "sensitive and nuanced conversation" around Zionism - but he won't disavow the "Zionism is racism" motion • Explains why he criticised Corbyn for Labour antisemitism but doesn't now: "I believed what I was reading" • Blames bots for the online abuse targeted at him • How his upbringing shaped his politics • Will run for a parliamentary seat - nothing outside London, and not the mayoralty - and confirms one plan is to succeed, not beat, Diane Abbott

“I believed what I was reading” is IMO perfectly reasonable for a whole hell of a lot of absolutely insane fraudulent shit in the late-Brexit era. Surely our political/media class wouldn’t unite in cynicism and/or idiocy to just foghorn drivel at the public, as if it was all real. That’s crazy!

I'd be shocked if there are enough people in the charities commission to take up any new powers etc.

increasingly difficult for your public life to survive the boundaries of extremist thought being pushed to include just nodding along with medecins sans frontieres or miss rachel

Objectively correct today, and it was true at the turn of the century. If believed people in e.g. Lebanon, Syria or Iraq were real people whose lives matter, we would’ve stopped doing this stuff decades ago.

Surely those things happened because the singles market imploded and you could get to number one selling 1000 copies?

Wes Streeting isn’t doing this for the Reform vote he’s doing it because he’s a deeply revolting right-wing piece of shit and questions should be asked about the role of his religion in it if we want to be real

Just get one already

Could have done with more of these critiques of austerity at the time, it has to be said

Christopher Harborne has cemented Reform’s status as a mo... New political donation rules won’t stop him giving as much as he likes

In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand.

Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules.
observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...

That's the good bit!

Steve-O was on Joe Rogan's show trying to defend trans people and Rogan went off, he called trans people "fucking perverts" and "mass shooters" who have done the majority of school shootings.

Completely unhinged bigotry paid for by your Spotify subscriptions.

Shoot these guys eh?

Something, something, Society of the Spectacle, something...

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

Kermit the Frog Sing Along | Rainbow Connection | The Muppets YouTube video by The Muppets

I was 10, and saved money from babysitting and mowing neighbors' yards so I could buy my first vinyl. I have no regrets.
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Telling that these people aren't described as working class here, when he's talking about people who actually work for a living - obviously we saw the same in 2019-24 when labour attracted the majority of people who worked for a living, just not reactionary pensioners...

Embarrassing error here by Lammy

This isn't punching left?

'People who can’t see a war without hoping that the wrong people win it.'

This US govt's dehumanisation of whole categories of people on a racist whim will not remain confined to war or people abroad.