Amy Hamm at Reduxx: A trans-identified male in the Maine-et-Loire region of France has been awarded €7,000 in compensation after a court determined he was the victim of “gender discrimination” by his former employer. Syntia Dersoir, 22, had filed a complaint against the McDonald’s franchise where he worked after management referred to him by his…

A month in a forced labour camp for a North Korean miner wearing jeans. From the Daily NK: A coal mining complex in North Hamgyong Province held a lecture and ideological struggle meeting in mid-June to crack down on “anti-socialist” clothing and appearances. One of the miners was punished for wearing blue jeans. Speaking on…

I’ve heard straight men talk about trans women as though they’re fallen men to whom sympathy ought to be automatically extended, but there’s deeper stuff going on, too. I asked a lefty straight man I know (this is irl) whether he was aware how many penised ‘lesbians’ are… — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 1, 2024…

Incredible that NOT A SINGLE ACT has mentioned that on October 7 400 young people went to a music festival and were murdered or kidnapped. Does this mean that none of them care? Or that they are too afraid that doing anything that humanises Israelis will mean they will… https://t.co/2jDBieAi5A — Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) June…

Kim worship moves up another gear. Richard Lloyd Parry in the Times: Loyal officials of the North Korean communist party are wearing badges bearing the face of Kim Jong-un for the first time, in an indication of the increasingly intense cult of personality that is developing around the supreme leader. Photographs on state media taken…

It's the bottle caps: TRT Arabic TV (Turkey) aired a report on June 21, 2024 on the Pepsi boycott in Lebanon, which came after the local Pepsi representatives changed the bottle caps to blue and white colors, the colors of the Israeli flag. Activists interviewed in the report claimed that the two lines in the…

Helen Joyce at The Critic on how gender theory is built on euphemisms: [O]ne of the core tenets of critical theory is that it’s impossible to be truly liberated from what their high priest, Michel Foucault, dubbed “power-knowledge” — a kind of glorified status quo. All you can do is tinker.  You can wear drag…

October 1907. "New York, N.Y. — Carnegie Hall, West 57th Street and Seventh Avenue." [Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Publishing Company] Unchanged, but now surrounded:

Death Threat on British SoilTo @metpoliceuk:Today, in London, affiliates of the Islamic Republic issued death threats to peaceful protesters in front of the regime’s embassy during an election demonstration, as you can see in the video. They specifically referenced the regime… pic.twitter.com/vCBqWKy0d8 — Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) June 28, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

This is also a shocking wicked lie – every child's life lost is a catastrophe but UN figures on May 8th were 7,900 children – revised down from 14,000. And it's a war begun by Hamas at a music festival https://t.co/RwZGVDnzbx — Simon Schama (@simon_schama) June 30, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js