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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve lived in rural America long enough to know that the entire point was to bankrupt farmers…

We are all about to find out.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 7h

Council of Europe adopts landmark Recommendation on Equal Rights for Intersex Persons www.coe.int/en/web/sogi/...

Council of Europe adopts landmark Recommendation on Equal Rights for Intersex Persons

Strasbourg, 7 October – Today, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has adopted Recommendation CM/Rec(2025)7 to member States on Equal Rights for Intersex Persons, marking a historic...

www.coe.int

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 7h

Reading a book on Auschwitz and Nazis and just came across a bit discussing how the Nazis first planned to ship millions of Jews to Africa and how that idea, in 2004 when the book was written, seems 'far fetched today'.

20 years later, how many people did the Tories want to send to Rwanda?

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14h

They have made it clear that they believe if they make it awful enough to be trans, people will stop being trans. In service of that, the assault of children is a welcome outcome for them.

Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 15h

When politicians like Trump, or Starmer, say & do transphobic things, parents talk about it in front of kids & then the kids bring it to school.

It’s horrific that these kids are being taught to hate & at such an early age.

It is critical we do not import this into Irish politics:

11-year-old trans child allegedly assaulted by fellow student

An 11-year-old trans child was allegedly assaulted by a fellow student over their gender identity, the student's father has claimed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 9h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 8h

Gender clinic waiting list 'far too long' says coroner after teen's death www.mylondon.news/news/health/...

Gender clinic waiting list 'far too long' says coroner after teen's death

Camden's Tavistock Centre has been criticised by a coroner but its specialist clinic for children and young people closed down last year

www.mylondon.news

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 15h

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk A reminder to Kemi Badenoch of the real reason our NHS moved from the best in the world to halfway down the international league tables between 2010 and 2024. Sir Michael Marmot explains below👇

Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · Dec 4

Sir Michael Marmot evidences Tories’ “malicious” 14year disinvestment in the NHS. George Osborne underfunded NHS to claw back the cost of saving banks. Sunak was one of the team who broke those banks. Patients still pay for his profits - with their lives. The obscenely wealthy must make restitution.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 14h

As we watch the growing resistance to Danielle Smith's MAGA agenda in Alberta let's remember the powerful roots of true prairie populism. We have national health care because that generation stood up for a better vision of Canada.
My latest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj4D...

HOW PRAIRIE POPULISTS BUILT PUBLIC HEALTH CARE

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15h

How many women and children is she hurting by forcing the Scottish government to waste so much money on these ridiculous law suits?

When your hate is the only thing that matters...

SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 15h

Her hubris is the ugliest part of her diseased mind.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14h

😂

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 16h

📌 The tide is slowly shifting
Souls are fighting back ⤵️🐥

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

I’m shocked.

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Kate Holterhoff, PhD @kateholterhoff.com · 1d

We are all Dr. Brunkow 😴
“Dr. Brunkow said she did not expect to win a Nobel Prize. ‘My phone rang, and I saw a number from Sweden and thought, well that’s just spam of some sort, so I disabled the phone and went back to sleep,’“ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

www.nytimes.com

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

"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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GEORGE project @george-project.bsky.social · 1d

Hello from the GEORGE Technical Forum at
@vliz.be! 👋 🚢 Day 2 kicked off with hands-on practical sessions. Over the next days, participants will explore the latest technologies and engage directly with experts from #4HJena, ClearWater Sensors, @noc.ac.uk, @exeter.ac.uk & @icos-ri.eu

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering when Venice Allen proudly posted a video of herself haranguing the WOMEN at the Kenwood Pond meeting because they DIDN’T agree with her transphobia, and voted down the trans-exclusionary motion.

‘Gender critical’ transphobes resort to legal bullying when they don’t get their own way! 😖

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 14h

I always find it encouraging when the antis attack me for something I have written rather than the substance of what I have written.

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jamieanguswhiteoak.bsky.social @jamieanguswhiteoak.bsky.social · 14h

Hmm… WHat happened for most of those 15 years? 🤔

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 20h

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

“It wasn’t really a debate; it was curated hatred. There were no voices from trans people on stage”

“It’s not just trans people, it’s immigrants, it’s asylum seekers, it looks like they’re going through a list of the most vulnerable people and blaming them for the problems of the world.” 😖

Conservative conference gender session ‘curated hatred’ – Tory politician

Andrew Boff claimed the gender identity session featuring former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies was ‘one sided’ and said it was ‘not a…

www.edp24.co.uk

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

“It is extraordinary that the UK Supreme Court’s recent decision on the rights of trans people in For Women Scotland completely ignores the impact of human rights law... as a result of the court’s determination that the gender they thought they had left behind should be reimposed by legal diktat.”

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act

The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

“They may also probe a patient’s past to determine whether an underlying issues like unprocessed trauma, abuse, mental illness or autism could have led to gender-nonconforming feelings”

… Sounds a lot like how NHS trans youth clinics in the UK work! 😣

A discredited therapy for gay and trans youth is at the center of a Supreme Court case. Here’s what to know | CNN

The US Supreme Court will hear a case Tuesday that will determine whether a Colorado law that prohibits licensed mental health professionals from providing conversion “therapy” to minors is constituti...

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jamieanguswhiteoak.bsky.social @jamieanguswhiteoak.bsky.social · 15h

Andrew Boff Public protested at the session in the main meeting not at the fringe meeting.

“It wasn’t really a debate; it was curated hatred. There were no voices from trans people on stage, there were no voices from the other side of the argument, …"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Conservative conference gender session ‘curated hatred’ – Tory politician

Andrew Boff claimed the gender identity session featuring former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies was ‘one sided’ and said it was ‘not a debate’.

www.independent.co.uk

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 1d

Gender critical activists accused of ‘hateful’ remarks about trans women 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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jamieanguswhiteoak.bsky.social @jamieanguswhiteoak.bsky.social · 15h

They are going for the trans people because nobody will care enough about them to fight back.
That way they get to practice their final solutions before they move on to bigger targets…
In the 1930s it was disabled people… 😢
www.ushmm.org/online-calen...

People with Disabilities: The Nazis’ First Victims of Mass Murder - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

By the time the Nazis targeted Jews in the "Final Solution," they had mastered killing on an industrial scale. People with disabilities were the first victims

www.ushmm.org