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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 1h

I handed a physical copy of my EHRC submission to my MP's office, followed up with an email a month later, complete silence. I guess that confirms their position.

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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 1h

Better than the silence from my MP to two queries about the EHRC guidance. Generally I think there is a fear to back trans people existing now. The UK is in a limited-rights spiral.

Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonld.bsky.social · 2h

The Council of Europe has warned that the UK gov’s treatment of trans people may breach human rights law.

This must be a wake up call.

We’ve seen an increase in hostility towards trans in recent years.

Everyone deserves dignity, safety, & respect - that includes trans people.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1h

Yes. We know. That's the point of what's happened over the last decade and you helped us get here.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1h

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

European Council commissioner voices concerns following April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman Transgender people risk being excluded from many public spaces as a result of the recent UK supreme court judgment and must be protected from discrimination, a human rights expert has said. Michael O’Flaherty, the European Council commissioner for human rights, said he had concerns about the climate for transgender people in the UK following April’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2h

🏮 He's very concerned about measures which oblige trans people to out themselves publicly and significantly increase their vulnerability to harassment, abuse and even violence

🏮 And he asks for an evidence-based approach. This ought to be common sense but sadly none of this is evidence based.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2h

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 3h

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
This is great news. We've hired the classicist Spencer Klavan to teach at New College of Florida. Goodbye gender studies; hello, Greek literature.
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Spencer A. Klavan
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Aug 19, 2024
Truly excited to be teaching an online survey course in Greek literature this fall semester @NewCollegeofFL. Even more excited that it's open to the public. Please join in here! We'll be reading Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and lots more.

https://ncf.edu/youngheretics/
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NPR @npr.org · 2h

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

n.pr

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9h

Rest in peace, Miss Major.

We will carry the bricks forward.

ACLU @aclu.org · 10h

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 3h

What was British Athletics' focus again? Excluding trans athletes?

Vicente Modahl: Ex-Olympic athletics coach accused of child sex offences

Former British Olympic athletics coach Jose Vicente Leiva-Modahl will appear in court on Tuesday accused of child sex offences.

www.bbc.co.uk

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

me after attending a protest

Jeff Goldblum running out of a store with a bunch of shopping bags in his hand. He's dressed fashionably in a tan jacket, black shirt, gray trousers, and black loafers.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 23h

For Du Bois, the anti-immigrant violence of the Jim Crow state—which would *accelerate* under the Second Klan & its regime of white nationalist immigration policies—represented an existential threat against targeted groups & the prospect of democracy itself.

Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 6d

We really need to be thinking abt the current regime through the lens of the Second Klan, which helped to nationalize systems of Jim Crow state & vigilante violence & exploitation while creating an explicitly white nationalist immigration system. They even paraded down Pennsylvania Ave.

A 1926 klan parade marching down Pennsylvania Ave. The front of the column holds banners that read Connecticut & Rhode Island. Original available via the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001706338/

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Some of these are real jobs (though possibly sometimes the respondent has been trying to make them posher?) Others make you suspect the respondent may have been taking the mickey, which is always a risk when polling the British public…

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 1d

I post this without comment.

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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 1d

It's ok, we're home, don't worry ❤️

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 1d

To the people who don’t clean out the lint after using a dryer in a public laundromat - WTeverlovingF is wrong with you.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 2d

Black people held their own constitutional conventions before the Civil War and the Black Panthers held their own constitutional conventions in the 1970s; the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 started the march to the Equal Rights Convention; and the Abolitionist movement petitioned Congress.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

Important piece by Prof. Kate Andrias. This is why treating SCOTUS as the only word on the Constitution gives away our power as citizens.

As I frequently say “we are founders and framers” of the next iteration of democracy in this country.
GIFT LINK
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court

www.nytimes.com

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 1d

I supported the first shutdown in March b/c I knew Russell Vought yet to be appointed and he would be way, way worse than DOGE. He holds much of the populace in contempt for needing any governmental support and for reasons unknown to me, hates the modern innovative state. Like who hates patents?

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Russell Vought embodies the radicalization of the conservative movement; his example captures how far removed from democratic politics the Trumpist Right is. Vought is convinced to be fighting a noble war against a vast leftist conspiracy that has supposedly taken over the country.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 1d

This is why President Trump is obsessed with cultural takeover: the Kennedy Center, the Garden of Heroes, the weird architecture obsession. But I mean if you want to takeover culture, again, it has to be appealing. The one thing they did right in 2024 was to build on the manosphere culture.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday! Have a great one!

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 2d

Provoke and Publicise was originally used as a strategy by the racist segregationists about Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957 to try and enforce a different, but equally invalid form of apartheid. It involves provoking a response from the victims of oppression and then…

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 2d

We also wrote over 4 months ago to the Brighton Centre and begged them to cancel hosting a de facto genocidal hate movement that wraps itself in the camouflage of feminism.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

Trans people are so important they had to mention us twice in one headline.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 1d

Hands up who's surprised by this? The BBC is just a government propaganda arm.
www.scenemag.co.uk/bbc-pauses-t...

BBC pauses training programmes on LGBTQ+ and trans inclusion after Supreme Court ruling

The BBC has temporarily suspended two of its internal diversity training programmes focused on transgender and LGBTQ+ inclusion, following a landmark ruling by the UK Supreme Court that redefined the ...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 1d

Back from visiting civilisation in Canada and I didn't miss Scottish transphobia. It is so glaring when you see inclusive signs on shops, rainbow crosswalks, or news that quotes trans people not solely those looking to exclude them. (More important, spoke to parents of 2 thriving trans young adults)

Sunday Post: 'Baffling rules over trans pupils risk legal action'

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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so glad my studying era is long over lol. Good luck!

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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 2d

The UK is back united with Europe!

heepst @heepst.bsky.social · 2d

Largest political parties in Europe according to polls

⚫ Far-right
🔵 Center-right
🟡 Center-liberal
🔴 Left

Antti Metsänkylä @antmetsa.bsky.social · 3d

Ei hyvältä näytä.

yle.fi/a/74-20186913