Stingray's Badger Friend

With all the July model runs now in, it is very likely that 2026 will see the largest El Niño event since records began in the late 1800s – and potentially by a truly mind-blowing margin. The median estimate is now 3.6C, roughly 0.8C hotter than the prior record (2.75C). https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-strongest-el-nino-ever

My lecture at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting on trauma in Gaza was canceled after a pressure campaign by pro-Israel groups. Health professionals must be able to speak about Palestinian suffering without fear of punishment. https://mondoweiss.net/2026/05/why-did-the-american-psychiatric-association-cancel-my-humanitarian-award-lecture-on-gaza/

One of the greatest achievements of feminism was teaching the world that women are more than their bodies. Women are not wombs. They are not vaginas. They are not chromosomes, breasts, hips, fertility, or the ability to bear children. Womanhood has never been reducible to anatomy. Feminism fought against exactly that reduction. It challenged the idea that biology determines destiny. It insisted that women should be valued for their humanity, intellect, agency, and lived experience—not for the body parts society assigned significance to. Which is why I find it so bitterly ironic that TERFs, who claim to be feminists, have returned to defining womanhood almost exclusively through reproductive anatomy and assumed physical characteristics. Reduce a woman to her womb? Feminism rejected that. Reduce a woman to her vagina? Feminism rejected that. Tell women their bodies determine who they are? Feminism rejected that too. Whether a woman is infertile, post-menopausal, has had a hysterectomy, was born with differences in sexual development, or is a trans woman, reducing her to a checklist of anatomy is not a feminist act. It is the very essentialism feminism spent generations dismantling. TERFs may call themselves feminists, but defining women by their reproductive organs is not a continuation of feminism, it is a return to the biological essentialism feminism has spent decades fighting against. Equality has always meant seeing the whole person. Not just the body.

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity? https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/as-britain-bakes-ministers-quietly-park-plans-for-solar-carports/