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Lee Hurley

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Writer. Media critic. He/him. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. DailyCannon.com Co-founder transwrites.world. Subscribe to The Trans Agenda here - transagenda.info Signal leehurley.75 paypal.me/leehurley

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 16d

The Trans Agenda - Wes Streeting wants to be friends with trans people

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Wes Streeting wants to be friends with trans people | The Trans Agenda

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1m

Kemi Badenoch is going to pledge that half the money she gets from cuts will go to paying down the deficit.

Where's the other half going?

What are they doing currently?

Isn't the whole point of cuts meant to be to clear the deficit?

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Bodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social · 5h

“Transgender issues are not the hill to die on” is an easy thing to say if you’re a person apparently happy for trans people to die, on a hill or otherwise.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1h

"A company in Northern Ireland supplied parts for F-35 fighter jets, despite assurances from economy ministers that Invest NI does not support projects that supply arms to Israel." [Belfast Telegraph]

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1h

"As of May, 4,730 local children were living in temporary accommodation — an increase of 75% in the past five years. Over half (52%) of these were aged nine and under." [Belfast Telegraph]

This will be Stormont 'just protecting children' as usual.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1h

"Almost eight in 10 people in Northern Ireland believe too much emphasis is put on religion as a source of identity rather than a source of meaning or purpose, a survey has revealed." [Bel Tel]

Poll conducted by Christian advocacy group the Iona Institute and carried out by Amárach Research

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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 2h

There should be do doubt amongst Northern parties about who they back as president of Ireland. Anything but Catherine Connolly is backing a nod to the far-right.

Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 8h

Not going to share 'grift' but Heather Humphreys has just said that I'm a man and the gender recognition act should be changed. Please do not vote for or give a preference for her. Having someone as president who thinks this way would be absolutely awful for minorities #SpeirGorm

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Marty Davies @smartypantsmarty.com · 3h

Conservative politician defending Trans+ people at their conference.

“What they can’t understand – and what they hate – is that trans people exist. I know it’s inconvenient for their binary view of the world, but trans people have been around for thousands of years and they don’t like it.”

Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 11h

Permitting the Conservative Party conference to be used for the demonisation of trans people shows the Conservatives will be unfit for government for a generation.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Gender critical activists accused of ‘hateful’ remarks about trans women

Labour MP Richard Quigley said he was ‘appalled by the comments, but not surprised’

www.independent.co.uk

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 4h

Myanmar: At least 24 killed as paraglider bombs Buddhist festival

Locals told the BBC the destruction from the motorised paraglider made it hard to identify victims.

www.bbc.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 3h

Because of the unforgivably appalling decisions of the Charity Commission, these hate groups, Sex Matters and LGB Alliance, are funded from your taxes.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 13h

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h

So many of these controversies rely on the company doing crisis pr that fuels the flames of the controversy further. Turns out if you just grey rock it, they get bored and move on. It's difficult to sustain that level of outrage longer than a few days.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h

Libs of Tiktok, Elon Musk, and Robbie Starbuck put everything they had into trying to push a boycott of Netflix over LGBTQ characters in their shows.

Netflix ignored them and the stock is back up. Turns out bots don't actually cancel accounts.

Screenshot of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) stock summary on October 7. The closing price is $1,191.06 USD, up +27.75 (2.39%) for the day. The day’s trading range shows a low of $1,177.46 and a high of $1,201.36. Previous close was $1,163.31. Market cap is $506.11B, P/E ratio is 50.75, with no dividend yield. The 52-week high is $1,341.15 and the 52-week low is $677.88. A line graph shows intraday stock price movement, peaking above $1,190 before settling at the closing price.

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Marty Davies @smartypantsmarty.com · 16h

Help steer Trans+ History Week next year.

This is your chance to let us know what which history stories need more attention next year.

The lessons from our past should help inform our present and our fight for our future.

So which stories need to be told? Tell us 👇

Trans+ History Week @transhistoryweek.com · 16h

Help shape Trans+ History Week!

Please complete our annual story survey and have your say on what kinds of stories we tell next year with @wearequeeraf.com

Shape Trans+ History Week - Have Your Say

What kinds of stories, history and communities should we focus on next year?

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13h

And control the weather.

Keep up.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 13h

Russian scientist close to Putin says West using ‘LGBT agenda’ to reduce human population - buff.ly/aya0SNu

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The TransAdvocate @transadvocate.com · 13h

Notice “transgender” doesn’t appear once. The first Nazi book burning was a Berlin trans Clinics holdings. Look at almost any modern “center” turned right bro and you’ll find transphobia was the gateway drug. I mean, p
Peterson is only a thing due to transphobia. That made him famous.

Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com · 7d

It is Book Launch day for @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and My edited volume "Contemporary Far-Right Culture The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism"

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ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 14h

"Protecting women" is so last year, good of them to admit that they want to kick us out of the public realm entirely: "our task now has to be to strip out the poisonous homophobia of gender identity ideology from public life wherever we can”

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14h

I'm not a member of any party but it seems to me that, should I decide to join one, my energy would be better used inside a party that supports me rather than joining a party and having to fight for them to accept me.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14h

I dunno, maybe instead of begging a party to accept you and your right to be treated like an equal human, you just join a party that has already been clear they will fight for you.

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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 14h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14h

"Gender critical campaigners have been accused of making “hateful” and “extremist” remarks at an event at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester after suggesting those who support trans rights have “broken brains” and that so-called gender ideology is “an evil”."

Pretty tame for them tbf.

Gender critical activists accused of ‘hateful’ remarks about trans women

Labour MP Richard Quigley said he was ‘appalled by the comments, but not surprised’

www.independent.co.uk

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15h

Please don't take this as praise of Badenoch, it was more a dream of what might have been if people had said "fuck off" every time Farage's name came up a decade ago.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15h

Oh i'm not praising her at all, she's a disaster, I was just dreaming of a world where people responded like that 10 years ago

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15h

i should have known there'd be more to it tbf, cheers for the heads up

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 17h

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

You should be able to have a party which says "actually these are reasonable ideas... and the only thing holding it back is people not having faith and confidence that enough other people support those ideas" 👏👏👏

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