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Sofie Löwenmark wrote that the debate in Scotland about biological men in women's prisons had been ongoing after several controversial placements, and that the case of Adam Graham, who later used the name Isla Bryson, was decisive. She stated that Graham had raped two women on two occasions and began identifying as a woman during the legal process. After a conviction, he was placed in a women's prison, but was moved to a men's prison after two days due to strong reactions, she wrote. Löwenmark wrote that already granted transfers to women's prisons were then stopped, new applications were paused, and the rules were tightened. According to her, people she described as biological men with a history of violent or sexual crimes against women were effectively excluded from women's prisons. She also referred to the fact that the UK Supreme Court ruled in 2025 that the term woman in the Equality Act referred to biological women. Bryson was sentenced to eight years in prison and three years of supervision after serving the sentence, Löwenmark wrote. She stated that the judge assessed the risk of reoffending as high, that Bryson was registered for life in the register of violent and sexual offenders, and that he was still serving the sentence in a men's facility. #Kvinnoanstalt #BiologiskaMän #Rättssystemet (translated)

Daniel Schatz wrote that the Moderate Party's Member of Parliament Louise Meijer had proposed that anyone elected to the parliament should have been a Swedish citizen for at least ten years, and he called the proposal excellent. He also believed that Members of Parliament should undergo security checks. Schatz stated that he fundamentally supported personal elections but argued that the rules should be reviewed if personal elections risked being used for ethnic vote mobilization and electoral fraud. #svpol #riksdagen #medborgarskap (translated)

The Musonge questioned the transition of a former president, who had previously led the army and embodied the state, to armed struggle against the institutions. He asked whether this decision stemmed from violated convictions, an injustice, or a difficulty in accepting that power was held by others. The author also questioned the responsibility of this former leader in the system he had helped to construct, as well as the consequences of violence for civilians. He asked whether an injustice could justify a war and invited his readers to debate what should underlie their judgment: convictions or a refusal to lose power. #RDC #LeMusonge #PolitiqueCongolaise #PaixEnRDC #ProtectionDesCivils #ResponsabilitéPolitique #UDPS #PPRD #UNC #MLC #EnsemblePourLaRépublique #ECiDé #LGD #Leadership #Justice #DébatCitoyen #RDC #PolitiqueCongolaise #PaixEnRDC (translated)

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon recalled that four years ago, when the Parti Québécois had only three elected members at the swearing-in ceremony, he had told his friend Pascal Bérubé that one day the lily would bloom again. He indicated that 59 party members had now taken an oath to the Constitution of Quebec. He stated that the elected officials would serve all Quebecers, whether they voted for the Parti Québécois or for another party, and that they would focus on their interests, needs, and priorities rather than on the next election. He acknowledged that a government could make mistakes while promising to demonstrate authenticity and transparency. Plamondon said he wanted to gradually reduce the cost of living, regain control of public finances by addressing waste and bureaucracy, and freeze the salaries of elected officials and leaders of state-owned enterprises until a return to budgetary balance. He also promised to refocus the state on healthcare, education, the protection of the population, and culture, as well as to halve homelessness in Quebec. He presented these measures as a way to restore trust in the state and government before resuming the debate on Quebec's national future. He defended the idea that Quebec should adopt all its laws, negotiate on its behalf with its international partners, and manage its entire budget independently, and then concluded with a call for freedom and a free Quebec. #Québec #Politique #PartiQuébécois (translated)

A new collective agreement has been signed to improve the conditions for authorities and employees to carry out joint total defense and crisis exercises, which strengthens Sweden's preparedness and clarifies rules for working hours and compensation. #totalförsvar #krisberedskap #kollektivavtal (translated)

Joachim H wrote that according to him it was possible to be denied a leave application, yet still be on leave and receive full compensation. He believed that ordinary people would call it refusal to work, while in the parliament it seemed to function as an extra benefit, and wrote that taxpayers thus got yet another example of different rules applying to different people. #arbetspolitik #ledighet #skatter (translated)

Serge Aurier reflected on the aftermath of the Periscope incident that shook PSG in 2016. He recounted that his phone rang very early in the morning while he was sleeping and that he discovered the situation upon waking up. Aurier said that Ibra asked him why he hadn’t come to apologize in the locker room the next day so that the team could move on. According to him, everyone wanted to resolve the matter quickly among themselves. He added that his teammates could think that they themselves could have found themselves in that situation. Regarding Sirigu, Aurier stated that everyone could judge the other as bad, but that the locker room was not the right place to say it. He was speaking in an interview with Canal+ Foot. https://t.co/kY490LTVM3 #PSG #SergeAurier #Football (translated)

Nadja Natalie Isaksen wrote that Mohamed Abdirahman Kahn came to Denmark from Ethiopia in 2015 as what she described as an alleged refugee, leaving behind his wife and five children. According to Isaksen, volunteers from the Red Cross — among them Birgit Kjølby, Lis Foverskov, and Carl Erik Foverskov — helped with the application for family reunification and raised 15,000 kroner for plane tickets. Allerød Municipality provided the family with a fully furnished home, and according to her, they were reunited on Christmas Eve 2017 after three years of separation. Isaksen wrote that the family decided to return to Ethiopia in 2022 and were granted 1,038,278 kroner for return assistance as well as plane tickets costing 70,184.31 kroner. The first installment of 582,581.50 kroner was paid out, she wrote. The following year, Mohamed reportedly regretted the return and was allowed to return to Denmark on a temporary stay. She claimed that only a small amount had been repaid and that he, as a flex jobber, would not be able to repay the debt. Isaksen criticized Allerød Municipality for allegedly not having included the costs of the plane tickets in the owed amount. She wrote that she would investigate whether municipalities had overlooked similar circumstances in other cases. She also stated that Mohamed had applied for permanent residence and planned to apply for citizenship, and that he might also seek early retirement. According to Isaksen, debt to the Danish state under the applicable rules did not hinder permanent residence or citizenship. Isaksen wrote that she had asked the social democratic minister Morten Bødskov several times whether individuals with debt to the state should be able to obtain permanent residence or citizenship, and that he had sidestepped the question twice. She said she would now raise the issue in the Parliament. The post described Mohamed as an example of what Isaksen believed was wrong in Denmark. #Danmark #Flygtninge #Socialpolitik (translated)

The author relayed a national petition calling for the resignation of Emmanuel Macron and urged to continue the mobilization. He claimed that this slogan united the struggles of farmers, young people, firefighters, and truck drivers. According to him, the resignation would not solve everything, as France also needed to free itself from the European Union, but it would help to get out of the state of unease. https://t.co/eaBvNiceS6 #MacronDémission #France #Lutte #FR #EU (translated)

The author estimated that those responsible for the worsening of the debt could not then claim to resolve it. He argued that it had increased by 1.4 trillion euros in ten years, nearly 1 trillion of which was outside of COVID, and he judged that those responsible for this record had no legitimacy to promise the French to solve the problem. https://t.co/WcKIGUfcfA #Dette #Responsabilité #Économie #FR (translated)

Impact reported that Olivier Truchot opposed the presence of elected officials at demonstrations and questioned why Bally Bagayoko, the mayor of Saint-Denis and not Paris, participated in a Parisian gathering. Truchot believed that elected officials should instead address problems, regardless of their political affiliation. After a speaker asked him if the elected officials who demonstrated against anti-Semitism were also wrong, Truchot responded that the situation was different. #Politique #Manifestation #République (translated)

The Folle Histoire regretted that Mao did not settle the issue of the Kuomintang in 1949, believing that it would have simplified the current situation. According to the author, the party was no more commendable at that time than the Chinese communists, but it no longer ruled Taiwan, and Chiang Kai-shek died at the same time as Mao. The author added that Taiwan has since become a democracy to which its population seems attached and said he finds it hard to understand why some wish for its forced attachment to the People's Republic of China. He felt that this amounts to applying the principle of the right of peoples to self-determination in a variable manner. He also wrote that Taiwan has been a thorn in China's side since the 1950s and that the United States fully plays on this situation, while specifying that the relationships between Washington and Taipei are more complex. #Taïwan #Mao #Kuomintang (translated)