Mick Martell (fka I’ve had enough of this b…….)

Ex teacher now lounge lizard and dog walker. NoThankYou!

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

Ultimately the conversion practices bill seeks to smuggle a new concept into criminal law of an undefined 'gender identity' that is defined nowhere else in law and which pulls against the emerging medical consensus that children and young people don't have fixed 'gender identities', their identities are in flux. And make it the basis of a criminal conduct statute that could result in their parents, medical professionals and others going to prison. It's an absolute dog's dinner of a bill, and its proponents should be ashamed of themselves.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Right this moment, across the Gaza Strip, Hamas’s police, intelligence units, and al‑Qassam Brigade militias are fully deployed to crush the June 26 protests planned by civilians who want to voice their opposition to the group’s authoritarian, fascistic rule. In a new escalation, armed operatives from the Iranian‑funded Palestinian Islamic Jihad have joined Hamas, positioning fighters across Gaza to rapidly arrest, shoot, or disperse any gathering that could turn into a demonstration. Even more alarming, a national security source tells me that four days ago, communications were intercepted from Lebanon and the Islamic Republic of Iran advising Hamas on how to deter Gaza’s population and how to confront protesters with a “low visible footprint” once demonstrations begin.

Hamas has also unleashed hundreds of fake “journalists,” tribal figures, social‑media “influencers,” humanitarian “activists,” and other regime‑aligned voices to denounce the June 26 protests as “suspicious” and “Israeli-backed.” Given the scale of this state‑sanctioned terror apparatus, it would be surprising if large numbers of Gazans manage to demonstrate as originally envisioned. Yet a handful of activists with almost no resources have already rattled Hamas’s entire security infrastructure, and the broader “Axis of Resistance” so loudly celebrated by many in the Western “pro‑Palestine” movement. That alone exposes just how many supposed allies of the Palestinian people are, in truth, nowhere to be found when Gazans stand up to their actual oppressors.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Hamas has launched an industrial‑scale campaign of terror, intimidation, interrogation, and blackmail against thousands of Gazans it suspects of planning to join tomorrow’s June 26 demonstrations against its violent, authoritarian rule. Hospitals across Gaza have been turned into makeshift police stations, interrogation sites, and torture centers. Clan elders are being coerced into issuing statements. Hamas operatives are stealing phones and posting fabricated messages to sabotage the protests. Families are being threatened, people placed under house arrest, and Hamas’s al‑Qassam brigades (the same forces responsible for October 7) have been fully mobilized to reinforce police and intelligence units with explicit shoot‑to‑kill orders.

Meanwhile, the mainstream press is largely absent, apparently because Israel is not involved – so no Jews, no news. And the Western “pro‑Palestine” industry is either celebrating the electoral victories of pro‑Hamas, hard‑left candidates or actively smearing Gaza’s protesters as collaborators undermining the “resistance.” As for the UN, NGOs, and major human‑rights organizations: silence. Not a word for Palestinians risking their lives to say they are done with Hamas’s terror and rule.

This is what the abandonment of Palestinians in Gaza looks like. Shame on all who stay silent in the face of jihadi, ISIS‑like violence against the very people they claim to champion.

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

The UN Human Rights Council issued a report claiming that the IDF deliberately targeted Gazan children.

Within hours, it was everywhere. Headlines. Social media. Even Ms. Rachel shared it, calling the report “indisputable evidence.”

But the report doesn’t actually contain any evidence.
Let’s break it down.🧵(1/6)

[Mick Martell (fka I’ve had enough of this b…….) @mickmouse68]

Right and Left Are Seeing Two Different Worlds- Excellent analysis by Dan Williams https://t.co/XEs47xY6Y1

[Nick Wallis @nickwallis]

Good morning. If you missed it, here is a deeper dive into the BBC’s misreporting of the Darren Rigby case, the suspicions it aroused and the questions which should be asked of Merseyside Police.

https://t.co/tupY8yP1Z0

[Laura Trott MP @LauraTrottMP]

Performing irreversible puberty blocker trials on children is wrong.

It’s madness that the Gvt have banned social media for U16s but believe 11 year olds can consent to changes that will affect them forever. This is what happens when you have a Gvt unhinged from any principle.

Sign our petition to protect childhood:
https://t.co/iKy22mBc9B

[Read some Piaget please! @prof_curiosity1]

New post tomorrow🚨
When we find ourselves arguing against social transition, puberty blockers and cross sex hormones for children, it shows we have lost the core argument. We are arguing on their turf.

Instead, we need to move the argument to that of denormalising the term "gender identity" when applied to children. When this has been achieved, all the above arguments will cease.

Tomorrow's post will look at the origins of gender identity and how its application to children is a category error.

[Read some Piaget please! @prof_curiosity1]

Every time a child is taught that they have a gender identity in school, they are suffering conversion practices.

Every time a child is groomed to believe that they have a gender identity on social media, they are suffering conversion practices.

Gender identity is an adult construct (Stoller, Money) dressed up as a "kind" response to childhood trauma. No child has a naturally occurring gender identity.

Telling children they have a gender identity is a reprehensible conversion practice disguised as kindness.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

🧵UN Human Rights Council issued a "report" claiming, without a shred of evidence, that IDF forces by national policy identified, aimed & killed Palestinian children as such, sometimes for target practice. I wrote a rebuttal for @UNWatch summary below. 1/
https://t.co/OIflWPp7tZ

[James J. Marlow @James_J_Marlow]

Former AP journalist Matti Friedman admits that they had no choice but to be complicit with Hamas, and NOT admit that many of their dead were in civilian clothes.

I’m certain that ALL networks had no choice but to do this for fear of Hamas in Gaza.

[Zachary Elliott @zaelefty]

Non-binary reinforces a socially constructed binary because you are claiming that atypical interests or personality makes you neither a man nor woman.

Why not accept the full variation within men and women? Instead, you are simply reinforcing a binary you claim to be against.

[justdad7 @justdad7]

I was a co-author on the critique of the Nature Human Behaviour study on suicidality and "anti-trans" laws. This Substack discusses the study in the context of the ongoing misuse of suicide statistics by transgender activists. Link in next post. ⬇️

[Mick Martell (fka I’ve had enough of this b…….) @mickmouse68]

Rupert Lowe’s rape gangs report is a missed opportunity @UnHerd https://t.co/aCD6Lhui2o

[Chloe Paige @Chloepaige2011]

@glosswitch @soniasodha @Aletheia_70

[Richard Sanderson 🪗🇺🇦🕺 @pequod51]

This is a fascinating interview with @igorpianist, one of the most interesting people in classical at the moment. Of interest to @Freedom_in_Arts I think - connections to be made maybe?
(share token link)
https://t.co/ekp4EZrC3n

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

A large number of people (mostly men, in my experience) who're sympathetic to some of women's opposition to gender identity ideology, nevertheless think it's cruel to point out that a trans-identified man looks like a man, and unkind not to 'respect' his pronouns. They think these are 'compromises' women should be prepared to make. 'What does it matter?' they say. 'How does it hurt you?'

The psychological effects of being coerced, manipulated or pressured into doing something that is against a person's own beliefs or values are well known. 'Moral injury' occurs when a person is forced to betray deep-held convictions, or stand in silence while those convictions are being betrayed. The individual feels transgressed at a core level. The inevitable consequences are stress, anxiety and anger.

Workplaces across the west have imposed a Kafkaesque situation on women. A belief system most people consider nonsensical, but which, in elite circles, has become almost a religion, has been imposed from on high. Women are being persecuted and punished for not pretending they think men can change sex. The policing of pronouns, and the harassment and shaming of women who won't pretend they can't recognise a man when they see one, is merely the tip of genderism's gigantic, threatening iceberg.

Any man who seeks to force women to play along with the fantasy that he's female is engaging in a typically male power play. At worst, he will suffer narcissistic injury from her non-compliance, but that doesn't make him objectively vulnerable. The non-compliant woman, though, suffers lasting moral injury by being forced to participate daily in a lie - a lie, moreover, that constitutes a fundamental threat to her own rights to privacy, dignity and safety.

It has been profoundly illuminating to see how many people - possibly because their own values spring, not from a place of rationality or true conviction, but from fashion and self-interest - see male narcissistic injury as so very much more worthy of compassion than the moral injuries suffered by women.

[Roy K. Altman @RoyKAltman]

One of the driving themes of my new book, Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law, is something I only came to understand after investigating each of the six claims made against Israel.

That theme is this: none of these claims exists ex nihilo. They do not come out of thin air.

Each of the six claims is carefully calibrated to invert the Jewish narrative.

In other words, each claim takes something that has historically been done to the Jews—or is actively being done to the Jews—and turns it upside down. It says: actually, the Jews are not the victims of this crime. They are its perpetrators.

And in that way, each of the claims actually is a very sharp, double-sided sword.

On one side, Jews are accused of the ultimate crime of crimes: genocide. On the other, Jewish suffering, Jewish history, and the Jewish narrative are cheapened. The argument becomes: you should not worry too much about the Holocaust; you should not treat it as uniquely important; you should not teach it as a singular warning to humanity—because the Jews, we are told, have become Holocaust perpetrators themselves.

[Ahmed pak 🇵🇰 @Ahmedpak378456]

In 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus and took possession of 37% of the country, gradually displacing 200,000 Greek Cypriots. There has since been an influx of Turkish settlers from the mainland, with as many as 500,000 Turks displacing the natives.

How many times have we heard people talking about illegal Turkish settlers/colonizers? Almost never. Most people don’t even know about it.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

She's so great at this.