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[Sam @SamCKx]

If Keir Starmer does resign, history will look back on his reign and scratch its head as to why the hell he was so hated.

On paper, he's probably delivered more to working British people in such a short time than any PM for decades.

After inheriting an absolute mess: NHS waiting lists fallen. Worker's rights improved. Rail operators nationalised. Improved relations with EU and improved UK's global reputation. Removed non-dom tax status. Halved childcare costs. Boosted state pensions. Lowest homicide rate in 50 years. Lifted 550k children out of poverty. Immigration vastly reduced.

We are in the age of billionaire funded misinformation, whose sole purpose is to topple democratically elected leaders, and insert leadership that favours the wealthy elites over the working people. Looks like the game plan is working...

[Andy Fitchet @AndyFitchet]

So let me get this straight:

- Inflation lower than predicted
- unemployment falling
- small boat crossings falling
- NHS Waiting lists falling
- Interest rates stable
- Asylum hotel use falling
- net migration down 82%
- school attendance up

And Keir’s doing a really bad job?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Yes, the people who call themselves 'trans' exist and they deserve exactly the same rights as everyone else, which, fortunately, they already have in the UK. It would rightly be considered discrimination if a person was refused employment, housing or the vote because they identified as trans.

'Trans women are women' is a thought-terminating cliché. Men are not women. That doesn't mean they're not allowed to present themselves however they like, call themselves whatever they like and believe whatever they like about themselves. It means they haven't changed sex.

If we replace the objective, observable characteristic of sex with the unfalsifiable concept of gender identify, women and girls lose, among other things, their right to fair and safe sport and women-only spaces, including changing rooms, prison cells and rape crisis services.

Women and girls are provably more vulnerable to forms of abuse including sexual assault, harassment and voyeurism in mixed-sex spaces. There is no evidence that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same rates of criminal offending as all other men.

Trans people exist. I have no desire for them not to exist; indeed, I wish them safety, happiness and health. However, 'existence' does not, and should not, mean the violation of other people's right to privacy, dignity and freedom of speech, or the reconfiguration of society to indulge a fallacy.

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

“They’ve no unfair advantage if they’ve had hormone treatment”

Around a dinner table, we might call this an “assertion.”

In a scientific sense, we might call this a “hypothesis.”

When it’s repeatedly and unquestionably platformed on a news channel, we might call this “propaganda.”

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Absolutely spot on by @suzanne_moore, who eviscerates two men whose classism has never been more in evidence than on this issue. Why listen to Keira Bell, Sandie Peggie or the Darlington nurses when women inside your hyper-privileged bubble agree with you?
https://t.co/OuGoiUOSSC

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

We're sorry you felt let down Laurence. We considered your case carefully and concluded that encouraging people to destroy Ulez cameras -- a criminal offence -- wasn't the kind of 'free speech' we could defend. But since that may not have been clear to you when you signed up, we offered to refund all your subs in full. We think that was more than fair.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

This 🧵says it all.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I understand why men like Oliver, who've consistently mocked anti-science people on the right, sold out initially. They didn't want to blow up their careers. Taking fashionable anti-women's rights positions was the cost of doing business.

But it's time to read the fucking room.

[Jane Symons @JaneSymons1]

Evil transphobe pays millions in tax. What a shocker.

Meanwhile Daniel Radcliffe paid £456k on turnover of £7.3m
https://t.co/JAwSZ4kmu8
Rupert Grint was caught trying to avoid £1.8m in tax
https://t.co/K8OUniL4BG
and Emma Watson hides her £ in Panama
https://t.co/7fkLrPeYQt

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

Yet many politicians and political activists wanted to use the law to silence us. Weaponisation of so-called anti-disinformation legislation to quash free speech in our democracy is something we must resist particularly given this recent experience. 3/3

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

Concerning

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump appears to be unraveling live on stage

“When I say insane asylums, and then I say, Doctor Hannibal Lecter, does anybody know? They go crazy. They say, oh, he brings up these names out of— Well, that's genius. Right. Doctor Hannibal Lecter. There's nobody worse than him. Silence of the Lambs. Who the hell else would even remember that? I have a great memory, but they always hit me. I don't bring it up too much because they have to take such a— he brought up Hannibal Lecter. What does that have to do with this? What is it? It has everything to do with it, right? He was… So I've done something for you for you that I haven't done in 20 speeches. I brought up Doctor Hannibal Lecter and we're allowing him, you watch, you watch these fake people will say again, he brought up Hannibal Lecter has absolutely nothing to do. You know I do the weave, right? The weave. It's genius. You bring up Hannibal Lecter, you mention insane asylum. Hannibal Lecter. You go out, no. There'll be a time in life where the weave won't finish properly at the bottom and then we can talk. But right now it's pure genius. Hey, I have an uncle, my uncle, Uncle John, my father's brother, 41 years at MIT, longest serving professor has so many degrees, he didn't know what the hell to do with them all in the most complicated. I understand a lot of this stuff, you know, I believe in that. Like, I mean, Jack Nicklaus is not gonna produce a bad golfer. Right. You know, that's the way it works. It's just one of those things and it's in the family and it's whatever”

[Mary Kate Danaher @mkdanaher2]

@sturdyAlex Who are you voting for? 😳😳

[Godspeed You Black Tamperer (ft Maya) @twlldun]

The Home Office has used the term in official communications for years. There are only two explanations for this sudden outbreak of “look at this nonsense language” from Tory politicians:
(1) they were not on top of their job and didn’t notice
(2) they are bullshitting hypocrites

[. @jdpoc]

@tomhunt1988 “There will be an exodus of kids with complex needs from the independent sector to the state sector. Most don’t have a SEN plan.”

Context: Your Tory Government closed 37 SEND schools.

(So sit down)

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Hello 9-11, I’d like to report a murder

[Moose Allain Ꙭ @MooseAllain]

He was BIDEN his time!

Can’t believe no one else has come up with this.

[Eoin O'Malley @AnMailleach]

Do you vote to say smoking doesn’t cause cancer? Science isn’t a democracy, you refute evidence with evidence. https://t.co/tokZSDj5sO