It is just so obvious how transphobia is a direct line to the far right.

insisting on the distinction to murderous fascists that the hotel had refugees in it instead of "illegal immigrants" is dangerous and misguided imo. illegal immigrants don't deserve to get burned alive either, as it happens

This is stomach turning. Zarah Sultana MP forced to defend what should be uncontroversial points about far-right attacks on mosques. At 1.49, a columnist for Daily Mail and former Labour MP snigger as they watch on.

.Bolt I think your support chatbot needs work

Jonathan Chait brings us his only idea for the 700th time

"Why we don’t need more policing – even after the riots" theconversation.com/why-we-dont-ne…

Amer Walid jailed for 20 months for throwing a beer can back at fascists in Plymouth, he don’t drink. What happened to self defence is no offence? “What you should have done was simply rise above their obnoxious racism." Someone give this man a good lawyer plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-…

The University of Portsmouth - this academic's employer, for crying out loud - reported Amira Abdelhamid to Prevent resulting in counter-terrorism officers raiding her home. All charges have now been dropped middleeasteye.net/news/uk-drops-…

Not been a good week from female sports journalists. Alyson Rudd going after disabled trans athletes after Laura Woods was 'just asking questions'. A thousand issues impacting women in sport (football in particular which is Rudd's main beat). None of them are trans people.

My "Dublin is not dying" statement is raising a lot of questions already answered by my statement

This is not the deal Biden put forward on May 31, or the one endorsed by the Security Council in resolution 2735.

Concerned re: the Irish Medical Journal editorial on "Cass Report and Implications for Transgender Youth and Services in ROI". That review is resoundingly discredited, even in the remits of its commissioned service, not least for its agenda. Hope we don't copy their homework.

Israeli tank targets group of reporters in Gaza, killing one and wounding another ifex.org/israeli-tank-t…

One might ask why IMJ_IRL lets Paul Moran (praising polemically in a paper, pic 1), and Donal O'Shea, (single-handed Irish bottleneck for trans healthcare) decry objective research showing methodological irregularities in the Cass Review as "activists on ideological grounds".