"All of the residents of the Gaza Strip, all of them except the beneficiaries and they are very few, are against Hamas and against the Hamas government, and they wish for the removal of Hamas, in all honesty, they wish for the removal of Hamas as soon as possible, and I as a son… pic.twitter.com/c2UdsVKt7W…

John Vachon, October 1942. "Tulsa, Oklahoma. Loading rack at the Mid-Continent refinery, Tulsa station of the Great Lakes pipeline." [Photos: Shorpy/John Vachon for the Office of War Information] Jack Delano, December 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. Locomotive over the ash pit at the roundhouse at a Chicago & North Western railyard." [Photos: Shorpy/Jack Delano for the Office…

Trouble at the University of California San Francisco (U.C.S.F.) hospital, from the NYT: It looked like any other pro-Palestinian encampment at a college campus in the United States. The tents, the flags, the banners calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war. But this was at the University of California, San Francisco, one of the…

I try to remain reasonable in an unreasonable world. But if one more politician resorts to the "both sides… baffled at toxicity… culture war" rhetoric I may go postal. In the last few years I have: – fought through hostile crowd to get to Brighton meeting, been struck on… — Kathleen Stock (@Docstockk) June 25,…

I support the nurses and I’m horrified that they’ve had to resort to legal action. We’ve got to find a better way through this and I’d be happy to meet them. We’ve got to find a way through that treats trans people with respect and respects women’s safe spaces. — Wes Streeting (@wesstreeting) June 24,…

Here we go again. Times headline – Labour will ban conversion therapy despite ‘test case’ fears: Labour will introduce a full ban on conversion “therapy” if it wins the election, despite warnings that doing so may encroach on the freedom of parents and therapists to talk to children about gender identity issues. Sir Keir Starmer…

Clip from the @YasMohammedxx podcast, discussing how western leftists use the term “Islamophobia” to silence Iranians who protest against the Islamic regime. pic.twitter.com/Yn4LcF8L2i — Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن (@elicalebon) June 24, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Julie Bindel in the Telegraph – Labour has chosen trans extremists over JK Rowling: There was a brief moment recently in which it seemed the Labour Party might have seen a little sense on gender ideology. With Shadow Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, conceding he had gone too far in the past by repeating Stonewall’s “trans…

This is what "globalize the intifada" looks like. https://t.co/QNfGY2B5sX — Michael Shurkin (@MichaelShurkin) June 24, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

More on those "you need to be re-educated" nurses, in the Times: Transgender policies at hospitals are putting women “at risk”, four NHS nurses have claimed, after blowing the whistle on the “intimidating” behaviour of a trans colleague. Lawyers for Bethany Hutchison, Lisa Lockey, Annice Grundy, Tracey Hooper and Joanne Bradbury, who work at the…