Just came across her case now, when trying to find the article by the guy I mentioned (unable to, and had major difficulty a while ago, so suspect it has been scrubbed).
They like to suppress the existence of these laws too, and to shift them around - easing, tightening, easing, tightening, and changing, so neither activists nor whistleblowers nor journalists nor randomers who stumble across horrors can know how to keep themselves safe, or to have any ability to weigh up the level of risk they are taking on with any action, and so it is considerably harder to challenge the law let alone any conviction.
That journalist wasn't an activist at all at the time or connected to activist circles. He'd been investigating reports about a worsening legislative climate, and had taken care to keep well within the confines of the (publicly known) law.
Remember that journalist who ended up in FlorenceADX in the 2000s without having had access to a lawyer, simply for reporting on the AgGag legislation and being found on a public road taking photographs of an empty feedlot?
He managed to get released, but he was straight up blackholed for a while, potentially indefinitely.
It is very possible, however housing near the better state schools is typically very expensive, so for many families it is considerably cheaper to shell out for private school instead.
Additionally, the high achieving state schools have selective entry, so even if you buy the expensive house within the catchment area, your child isn't necessarily getting in even if they're bright and studious.
Just today a number of my searches had me wondering whether AI slop generators were generating articles and suitably titled websites in response to the searches I was making on my search engine.
I don't know how they'd do that without being able to snatch search terms I make to my search engine (DDG, with its AI features disabled), just don't find it plausible that anyone is bothering to generate hundreds of sites on extremely narrow aspects of obscure topics, even if semi-automated.
Increasingly find that search engines ignore instructions to filter by date or site, which coupled with ignoring all operands will kill off their utility entirely.
Do you think the HRT could be making the feelings you describe in your first comment more intense? Female puberty is often a tumultuous time emotionally until the brain acclimatises, even as it brings great relief and many satisfying changes, and fluctuating levels at any time can have a similar effect.
Be gentle to yourself, and try to do things you find comforting.
From voice messages between them in the days after the felling, having something they did become a news item may have had some allure.
Though why they'd want that so badly, and why they'd opt for destroying an ancient sycamore & damaging part of Hadrian's wall to obtain such attention is another matter.
Land wasn't theirs, they didn't live near it nor on land which people cross to visit the tree. They didn't take the wood. Nothing has emerged to suggest they did it on behalf of someone else.
The pair went out on a stormy winter night, making a special trip to fell the tree, and leaving shortly after. Despite the darkness & lashing rain, one made a very grainy video recording of the other felling the tree with a chainsaw.
So far, they are pleading not guilty, so it'll be interesting to see whether they raise a defence or merely introduce doubts about the reliability of the evidence brought against them.
Idk, I feel it could have been an induction ritual for some group they hope(d) to join, or flagging up their willingness to conduct sabotage operations for hire, but more likely an unfortunate dissociation from reality caused by viewing the world and their own lives through the distorting lens of social media.
Attending the hearing yesterday, one had his face & hair entirely concealed as he passed press photographers waiting outside, which doesn't fit with a craving for fame. The only footage presented by the news of the other man was taken at a court appearance for an unrelated matter a few weeks ago - it isn't clear whether he somehow escaped their attention yesterday, or simply hadn't attended.
Majority view amongst TERFs, and yes, a foot in the door.
Additionally, though the ruling places no onus on toilet* users, it does place obligations on toilet providers, and in any case will be used to harass and bully people who just need to pee in peace. Most of those who'll be persecuted by TERFs & friends will be cis, many will be intersex, a tiny handful may be trans.
In this sense your landlord is spot on, but he himself may find his business targeted for civil action under this new ruling on the interpretation of Equalities Act, should a TERF learn of his approach.
Worse, toilet providers are now prohibited from abandoning gendered toilets in favour of unisex toilets - if they have a unisex toilet, they must also provide a ladies' toilet.
Am wondering how best to help our trans & intersex & gender non-conforming siblings, besides writing to representatives, and protests. Could we agree to use our much greater numbers to swiftly demonstrate through our own toilet selection that the law is an ass which must be amended (and reversed to the previous status quo pending that amendment).
*using "toilet" throughout my reply as a placeholder for many single-sex spaces and not only toilets.
Not wild at all - who better to help with intelligence than defectors?
Founder of the school I went to maybe somewhat similar to your idol, having had to flee himself once he spoke out against the regime he'd previously advised on education, then persuaded parents to send their teenagers to him after. It is said the war memorial is one of the few which has British and German in equal measure, so he wasn't successful beyond keeping his own pupils safe whilst they were still his pupils.
Wake every day overwhelmed with dread, and the clinging stench of death and misery coating my everything.
Tbh, the critical stuff has mostly been sold off to Chinese, Saudi Arabian & Indian companies. No doubt US firms own more than is desirable, but I think the interdependence of defence technologies & intelligence is the bigger issue with regard to the US.
The French State meantime owns quite a bit, but are allies with similar geopolitical needs, and for all that the relationship is often that of squabbling siblings, won't wish matters to sour with such a near neighbour.
Doesn't even need to be perpetrated directly by the Trump regime when he has pardoned Jan 6th extremists who have a great many non-MAGA journalists on their list of targets for summary execution, along with details about their lives.
Just came across her case now, when trying to find the article by the guy I mentioned (unable to, and had major difficulty a while ago, so suspect it has been scrubbed).
They like to suppress the existence of these laws too, and to shift them around - easing, tightening, easing, tightening, and changing, so neither activists nor whistleblowers nor journalists nor randomers who stumble across horrors can know how to keep themselves safe, or to have any ability to weigh up the level of risk they are taking on with any action, and so it is considerably harder to challenge the law let alone any conviction.
That journalist wasn't an activist at all at the time or connected to activist circles. He'd been investigating reports about a worsening legislative climate, and had taken care to keep well within the confines of the (publicly known) law.