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It's... pretty much what it says on the tin. Some car manufacturers are phasing out AM Radio from their cars so they can replace them with their own streaming services - this bill seeks to make them a mandatory feature.

As somebody whose day job is in radio, I totally agree that the amount of ads and the quality of the ads is ridiculous. Personally, I don't find radio to be an amazing source of political news broadcasting.

But do you know what it is really good at? Providing emergency broadcasts during extreme weather events.

When power and internet is down, radio can be one of the only sources of information, and it's helped provide lifesaving information during these times.

(Plus, at least in my area of the country, emergency weather alerts override and interrupt programming when broadcast - even during pesky ads!)

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Ríhanna Kelver, a bartender and trans rights advocate in Laramie, has been charged with aggravated assault and possession of a deadly weapon with unlawful intent after a 13 September 2025 confrontation outside the Crowbar & Grill, whereshe worked. Kelver could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison if convicted on both charges.

Despite Wyoming’s “Stand Your Ground” statute, which allows people to use reasonable force in moments of self defense, Kelver faces up to 15 years in prison for both charges, as well as up to $11,000 in fines, per Cowboy State Daily. Kelver faces an additional year and $1,000 fine for a charge of interference with a peace officer. [...]

Hope you don't mind me adding to this, i live in laramie and ive known ríhanna personally for several years and this incident has been so difficult for her, and additionally the attack exacerbated health issues for her.

a local reporter posted this article this morning that delves into her attacker's affiliation with the fascist patriot front org and the fact that since he moved to laramie in 2023 there has been a significant uptick in hateful activity and propaganda being spread throughout the town. this man was prevented from walking at his high school graduation by his own admission due to his racist, queerphobic, and antisemetic behavior.

one of the things that has been infuriating to me is that her attacker is not the one pressing charges. not the literal man she pulled a gun on, it is the police who are threatening her with 15 years in prison.

Victims of the Saksakiyeh massacre in southern Lebanon, where an Israeli strike destroyed a building sheltering displaced civilians: Khadija Awada, Hani Fahs, Youssef Fahs, Rola Nasser al-Din, Mohammad Fahs, Ali Fahs, Fatima Fahs, Janna Fahs, and the child Maryam Fahs.

An entire family was wiped out.

In Gaza alone, nearly 7,000 families have been wholly or partially erased by Israel’s war.

In the United Kingdom in order for a Trans person to have their gender fully recognised within the united kingdom legal system you have to apply for and be granted a GRC. These allow you to change your gender listed on your birth certificate, your future death certificate, as well as get married as your current gender (ie a trans man and a woman would be a straight marriage rather than recorded as a lesbian union if the trans man had a GRC, aka he was legally be Husband). You do NOT need a GRC to update your passport, medical records, driving license, employment details or banking details.

In order to get a GRC it is an extremely difficult and rigorous (and transphobic) process. Since 2006 when they where introduced only 9,500-10,00 have been granted. Typically, 450 a year are approved with a 95% approval rate.

In order to get GRC you need to be:

a: diagnosed with gender dysphoria in the UK by a specialist*

b: living as your new gender for at least 2 years (name change documents, gender marker changes, any documents in your new names such as bills or student loans etc. are used for proof of this. In general they want one piece of new data for every 3 months lived in your new gender)

c: prove that you intend to live as this gender for the rest of your life (no guidance is given on how to do this)

d: be 18+

e: a report by two different medical doctors in the UK or 1 doctor and 1 psychologist. these have to include details of all gender affirming treatments you've had or have scheduled (HRT, top surgery, FFS, bottom surgery, phalloplasty etc)

*there are ways around this, but they are very difficult and usually require you having had sex reassignment surgeries (that you cant get in the UK without a gender dysphoria diagnosis) or being married or in a civil partnership in very specific circumstances, or having lived as your new gender for 6 years or more.

These documents are all then sent to the UK's Gender Recognition Panel, this is not a set body but a changing group of Judges, medical practitioners, and psychologists. There is no publicly available roster of these members, but it is headed by Judge Paula Gray. All of these people are undoubtedly Cis gender.

What Scotland sought to do was to reform this system, arguing that it was part of their devolved powers that encompass both legal and medical elements. In December 2022 they moved to remove the need for a gender dysphoria diagnosis and instead move to a process of self identification that was overall much less focused on medicalisation of the process. They also planned to massive reduced the required time living as your new gender (iirc to around 6 months) as well as lower the age requirements to 16 years old.

This bill was blocked by Westminster under Section 35 of the Scotland Act, arguing that it exceeded devolved powers and would come into conflict with the 2010 Equality Act.

The attempt of Hollyrood to change the GRC recognition process in Scotland and their failure is a very imporant prelude to the recent rulings with the Equality act.

In my personal political opinion and reading of the situation, JRK and other TERF groups in the UK took this success and used it as a springboard for their successful changing of the reading of the 2010 Equality act. It is no coincidence that they used it in January 2023 to shut down Scotland's attempts at more trans friendly reforms (as well as arguments around developed power which are still iron hot after the 2014 indy ref and Brexit but i digress) and then moved onto it proper after this victory.

All of that is to say it is very important to get these details right if you want to understand exact how the TERF movement in the UK has moved over the past half a decade and WHY they where able to overturn the previous interpretation of the 2010s equality act so quickly.

sources for further GCR info for thoes intrested:

transmedicalist statements:

being trans is a medical disorder

being trans needs to be diagnosed by a doctor or psychiatrist

not everyone who disagrees with their assignment is really trans, and the fakers make the true transsexuals look bad

you can "fully" transition and then you're not trans anymore. trans only refers to the medical transitioning process. if you find out you are not trans, you can detransition back. the goal is to not be trans, and transition is a middle stage to get through as quickly and privately as possible.

"male" and "female" are real, biological realities and anyone who says they are not one or the other is lying or delusional

not transmedicalist statements:

a lot of trans people need and/or desire access to surgical and/or hormonal healthcare options which are currently restricted on the basis of sex assignment at birth

when healthcare access is denied due to a patient's diagnosis of "gender dysphoria," that denial is specifically targeting trans people for being trans (even though not all trans people have that diagnosis)

sometimes trans people assume they do not want transition care because they have internalized transphobic propaganda about what it is, how it works, and how accessible it is for them. giving them information about it can help them make a more educated choice about what they want.