WTF?

A National Health Service (NHS) nurse is taking legal action against her employer—after she was punished for calling a convicted criminal ‘mister,’ in contravention of his preferred (female) pronouns.

Jennifer Melle filed her legal claim against Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust following its pursuit of her in an October 2024 disciplinary action, resulting in a final written warning and a referral to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). The trust also placed her on restricted duties, resulting in a loss of overtime payments.

Speaking the truth is now a risky business in Britain. NHS nurse Jennifer Melle was admonished by the hospital she works at in Surrey for referring to a male paedophile as “Mr”. The man, known only as Patient X, identifies as a woman. He’s also a convicted child sex offender.

And yet it was Ms Melle who found herself in hot water, because when this criminal was brought to her hospital for treatment she called him “Mr”. That sounds perfectly polite to me. Not to mention accurate. But apparently it’s a reprimandable offence to prefer reality to fantasy.

Here’s your daily reminder that the internet is fake and gay and you shouldn’t put too much trust in people who are paid to be outraged about stuff.

h/t Patti Jo

Ricardo Gonzales, a Tren de Aragua gang member, was arrested by ICE in Georgia.

Gonzales was wanted for the alleged kidnapping, murder, and attempted murder of 3 women. He reportedly transported the 3 women to an alley in Chicago where he shot them in the head.

Democrats are… pic.twitter.com/qlxB8zoPOB

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 24, 2025

Please take 42 seconds out of your busy day and help me understand what this is, because I’m confounded. Especially the last several seconds. pic.twitter.com/S3Lfwtnfp2

— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 23, 2025

Millions of people will have their DNA data put up for sale after major at-home testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy.

The company, which has tested more than 15m people’s genetic makeup using post-in saliva kits, including more than 250,000 in the UK, announced that it had entered US bankruptcy protection in an attempt to sell the company.

It said that data privacy would be an “important consideration” but added that it was seeking to “maximise the value of its assets”.

h/t Mauser

Donald Trump has called for a portrait of himself to be taken down from the Colorado state capitol, lashing out at the artist for “truly the worst” attempt to capture his features.

“Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves,” the president wrote, but the Colorado portrait was “purposely distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before”.

The painting depicts the president with a “serious, thoughtful, non-confontational” expression, Sarah Boardman, the British artist, said after it was commissioned in 2018.

Canada healthcare is horrifying

“Today on how f*cked is Canadian healthcare: I need an MRI to see if I have a f*cking brain tumor. Go ahead guess when it is? Go ahead, guess. It's in 2026”

“My MRI to see if I have a brain tumor is in 2026. It's March 2025 right now”

“If you… pic.twitter.com/fX1S0MD9EP

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 23, 2025

h/t Patti Jo

An illegal Iraqi migrant who fled his country over his part in an alleged exam fraud has avoided deportation after claiming a people smuggler threw away his ID and phone.

The man fled Iraq after being threatened with arrest for an alleged exam fraud when he was caught on CCTV delivering test papers to an address a day before students were due to sit for the qualification.

He claimed that an “agent” who facilitated his passage to the UK had not only thrown away his ID documents but also made him get rid of his phone, on which he had his family’s numbers.

Growing up, John Smith knew his grandfather as a serious academic — a bespectacled professor at the University of Maryland who wrote books on pre-Civil War presidents. He also knew E.B. Smith had traveled the world in his younger years.

What he didn’t know until this week is that his grandfather had once been a U.S. government asset, feeding Soviet-era intelligence to the CIA.

The Trump administration’s release of more than 77,000 pages related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy has thus far shed little new light on the killing. But the unmasking of many previously redacted names has revealed the identities of people who worked with the clandestine services, roles that in many cases were hidden for decades even from close family members.

Why is TikTok allowing Trump supporters to post content? And some of them are monetized!

This liberal female displays signs of mid-stage TDS compounded by social media addiction. pic.twitter.com/VjwGPdWdQq

— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 23, 2025