Over the course of my grandfather's lifetime, he gifted and "loaned" Donald $413 million. And Donald still declared bankruptcy 6 times. He failed so badly that the banks needed to put him on a $425,000-a-month allowance.

At least I will be able to hold my head high and say I fought for women’s sport unlike the thousands of ex sporting cowards.

When you see what this kid came from, his attitude, his achievements already, his infectious enthusiasm and ability to influence his peers.. You realise you nor I have any excuses. Ever. The Paralympics. Tomorrow.

@oasis as part of your tour on cardiff, perhaps you could support our wonderful charity @OasisCDF who have hit hard times again this weekend. They do amazing work and don't deserve to be vandalised yet Again!!

If you don’t get the hype, that’s fine. There are bands that write better, play better, perform better. That are more inventive, more creative, more reflective. But for working class kids in the mid-90s, #Oasis were ours. And possession is nine tenths of the lore. #oasisreunion

the UK if oasis reunite:

I don't care when, where our how much, I'm going to see #Oasis 😂💪❤️🔥

Everyone has the right to believe anything they want. And everyone else has the right to believe that those beliefs are fucking ridiculous. Cheers.

It had to be done 💃 #breakdance #breakdancing #olympics #OlympicChampion

Interview with a women on #C4News who’s concerned because her son can’t get a council house but Asylum seekers get homes etc. it’s pointed out Asylum seekers can’t apply for council housing. Her response ‘I didn’t know that’ - thats the problem! Media & Gov must educate!!

I used to think communication was the key until i realized comprehension is. You can communicate all you want with someone but if they don't understand you, it's silent chaos

I returned from holiday to find parts of Britain on fire. Violence fuelled and fanned by racist troll farms, and the likes of Farage Fox and Robinson. Who handed them the matches? The previous government. Braveman, Boris, et al. The fish rots from the head.

#OlympicBoxing 🧵 cultural context and the role of the IOC (and whether Khalif “knows he’s a man”) First off, I am hesitant to analyze someone else’s life in this forum, but on the public world stage of the Olympics, Iman Khalif’s status has become a point of debate so I’ll say tentatively a few things… I’ve been watching Arabic interviews (and translating with help from my tutor) for the last few days to try and understand the context around Iman Khalif. Khalif has clearly been raised as a girl. Photos of her childhood show her in typical female attire. In interviews, in fact, great sympathy is extended to her because she came from a poor family with separated parents and as a child, she took on a lot of responsibility to help her mother. This is seen as a hardship not appropriate to place on girls so it’s a point of sympathy in those conversations. And Hijab is NOT required for women in Algeria, so images of Khalif in adulthood with short hair and no Hijab are not at all proof that she lives “as a man.” Then again I’m sure strangers looking at Khalif have perceived her as a man because she is clearly masculinized. But to people who know her and in all interviews I’ve seen, she’s a woman. Gender nonconformity (though looked down upon in the ME) does happen. But known cross-sex dressing in the Arab world does not imply trans or cross-sex identity. It’s just not a concept there as it is in the west. And Iman wearing men’s clothes does not mean she saw herself as a man or that anyone else intimately in her life saw her that way either. In a conservative, Islamic Middle Eastern countries, genital anatomy is the foundation for understanding biological sex. If she does have ARD5 (which has been suggested as a hypothesis by knowledgeable scientists and other individuals), then she was likely born with pretty typical-looking female genitalia. Even after discovering the anomalies of the DSD around puberty (becoming extremely masculinized) intersex conditions are highly taboo and not well understood. There is no concept of an “intersex person” - Iman likely perceives herself as a woman with a strange condition It’s culturally impossible for her family to say at her puberty, “oops we guess Iman is really a guy”. People in the West cannot fully grasp the cultural context and social consequences of such a declaration. Interestingly, my teacher (a highly educated woman in Cairo in her 30s) suspected that upon discovering their daughter would be much more masculine than other girls, perhaps her parents thought it would be best to put her in a sport which might house other masculine girls and women: boxing. Just a guess of course, as we have no idea why Khalif chose the sport, but remember that in the Middle East helping your child to blend in naturally with their own birth-sex is among the most important things you can do for them. So my point here is yes, biologically Khalif is actually male, but even after learning about the DSD, is still conceptualizing herself as female. This context does NOT alter the answer in the question of ethics: Is it wrong for the IOC to have standards which allow DSD males (regardless of their social or legal identity) to compete against biological women? @hoovlet @SwipeWright @FondOfBeetles @widerlenspod

What is happening in the UK is entirely the result of allowing the Daily Mail, GB News, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Andrew Tate, and all the others to spew their bile to hundeds of thousands every single day.

Going to a gender reveal party later.

I've been on Twitter for 15 years, and I have never seen an AVALANCHE of toxic stupidity anything like the one in the last 48 hours from idiots trying to defend men punching women in the face. The sheer scale of it is jawdropping. Our species is doomed.

1/ This is a summary of my take on the controversy surrounding Olympic boxing. If any facts are wrong, please help me correct them. Sorry for the long thread.