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Links - 4th October 2026 (2 - Covid-19 & Fauci Diary)

2026-10-04T17:04:00.000+08:00

Merritt Thomas on X - "Diary of a Mad White Doctor
The main accusations against Dr. Anthony Fauci center on the origins of COVID-19, federal research funding, and allegedly misleading statements: covering up the lab-leak theory, funding risky gain-of-function research in Wuhan, and lying to Congress.
Origins of COVID-19 and Lab Leak Cover-Up:
•Suppression of alternative theories: Critics, led by Senator Rand Paul, accuse Fauci of publicly dismissing the possibility that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology while privately acknowledging or discussing lab-leak scenarios.
•Contradictory private notes: Accusers claim that personal diary entries and notes written by Fauci during the early weeks of the pandemic show a disconnect between his private caution regarding the virus's emergence and his definitive public statements supporting natural animal spillover.
Gain-of-Function Research Funding:
•Financing risky science: Lawmakers allege that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under Fauci's leadership, improperly funneled American tax dollars through organizations like EcoHealth Alliance to support dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab.
•Perjury and misleading Congress: Critics contend that Fauci lied under oath during congressional hearings by denying that his agency funded gain-of-function experiments in China. Fauci has consistently maintained that the work funded did not meet the formal federal regulatory definition of gain-of-function and that it was molecularly impossible for those specific bat viruses to have caused the pandemic.
Pandemic Policy and Mandates:
•Flawed public health directives: Republican congressional panels have accused Fauci of supporting or enforcing mandates, school closures, and physical distancing rules that lacked robust scientific backing or caused unnecessary societal harm.
Note: Dr. Fauci has repeatedly denied all allegations of wrongdoing, dishonesty, and cover-ups, characterizing the accusations as politically motivated attacks. He invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on July 29, 2026, citing an unhinged and obsessive campaign by Senator Paul aimed at his prosecution.
The country and the world will wait and see how this all plays out. Some people want him in prison without knowing the facts and the law in order to gain social media followers. Some maintain his innocence for the same reasons. Some have political vendettas in mind. Bottom line is to look at the facts and the law and see what the real answer and outcome should be."

Greg Price on X - "🚨 Dr. Fauci just invoked the 5th amendment and says he will refuse to answer any and all questions today."

Brandon Gill on X - "Fauci ruined countless lives, stole a proper education from an entire generation of children, and forced people to watch their relatives die alone-- while making himself rich, famous, and powerful. He will be remembered as one of history's worst megalomaniacs."

TMZ on X - "🚨🎥 TMZ's Harvey Levin calls the attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci "one of the most heartbreaking things" he’s witnessed in government, comparing the push to jail him to the fear and persecution of the McCarthy era."
Greg Price on X - "What may be even worse than Fauci's evil transgressions are the journalists, politicians, and other members of the professional class who are so ideologically dug in on their narrative about covid that they can't bring themselves to admit that Fauci may been wrong about a couple things."

Thread by @KristenWaggoner on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "If we take away just one lesson from the rise and fall of Dr. Fauci, let it be this: Never, ever budge on free speech. It is the linchpin of every other freedom because those in power are just as prone to error and falsehood as anyone else.
And if you thought COVID censorship was over, think again. @ADFLegal is fighting the same machinery as it spreads worldwide via the EU’s Digital Services Act. Dr. Fauci as the arbiter of “science” was bad. Faceless EU bureaucrats as the arbiters of “truth” will be even worse."

Hans Mahncke on X - "We are living through a massive information crisis in which at least half the population is being systematically misinformed, making any sane national debate increasingly difficult. Without a shared factual foundation, there is nothing to discuss. People are not merely drawing different conclusions from the same evidence. They are living in entirely different realities. That is what makes the Fauci story so tragic. He caused untold harm, yet millions of people know almost nothing about it. We can debate precisely how large a role Fauci played in the creation of Covid, but half the country does not even know that Covid came from a lab. We are therefore several steps removed from the basic conditions required to have an intelligent discussion. Other facts are even more black and white. Fauci’s private diary contradicts what he told the public. His own words reveal a man of almost limitless narcissism. These are not matters of interpretation. They are documented facts. Yet we still cannot have a national conversation about them because the media either refuses to report them or actively lies about them. Anyone who is not on Twitter, which is most people, may never encounter the underlying evidence at all. The result is that I increasingly find it almost impossible to discuss any of this with ordinary people, whether family members, acquaintances, or people at events or birthday parties. Unless someone has followed the evidence closely, there is no common starting point. Before you can debate what happened, you first have to dismantle at least ten years of falsehoods and omissions. I do not know how this ends, but it is not sustainable. A country cannot function indefinitely when its people are no longer capable of discussing almost anything beyond sports on the basis of shared factual knowledge."
Left wingers, when confronted with the facts, just deny them, so it's not like facts convince everyone

Hans Mahncke on X - "Fauci's diary entry for May 21, 2020 is one of the most grotesque documents you will ever read. It opens with the mounting Covid death toll and people dying across the country, then abruptly pivots into an extended exercise in self-congratulation about his newfound fame. How was someone so profoundly narcissistic ever allowed to accumulate so much power and rise so high? Completely unreal."
This is why left wingers are shooting the messengers

Cynical Publius on X - "Everyone should read this to understand just how we put the health of our nation into the hands of a deranged, toxic narcissist, Dr. Anthony Fauci. His meanderings on his own fame just beneath the death toll numbers his experiments likely created are perhaps the most nauseating thing I've seen lately. Here is the thing to realize though--the high ranks of our unelected federal bureaucracy are chock-a-block full of lesser and greater Faucis--people who hide behind the veneer of being a "public servant" while all the time actually thinking that YOU serve THEM. Why? Because they are smarter and better than those grubby little voters and they cling to their unelected bureaucratic power because they are ENTITLED TO IT (or so they believe). The cure is not to eliminate such people from government--that won't work because narcissists will always be drawn to the seat of power. No, the trick is to eliminate not the people, but the POSITIONS--eliminate the power that the vast, unelected federal Leviathan has over our daily lives, and the Faucis of the world will find other, less harmful, avenues to exercise their God complexes. It's the only way."

Fauci Starting To Think That Maybe Keeping A Daily Perjury Diary Was A Bad Idea | Babylon Bee - "Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Fauci kept meticulous notes in his diary about every lie he told under oath, which in retrospect had begun to seem unwise."

Kevin Bass on X - "Emails show leading officials at NIH, including Fauci, knew the best data indicated no benefit from masks. Why did they proclaim great benefits of masks then? Because these officials were not managing a virus using science. They were managing a population using psychology."

Sean Malone | Facebook - "Anyone paying attention to the Fauci Diary stuff? Cause, boy is it frustrating while also being depressing vindication for a lot of criticism I made at the time. Turns out Fauci and everyone else thought the virus was likely man made and did not originate at a wet market from the outset. There's also lots of him puffing up his own ego (in his own private diary... weird), working directly with "journalists" like Dana Bash to shape public opinion, and there are major differences between public and private statements. Not that any of this should be surprising. He lied incessantly during the AIDS scare (which he severely exacerbated), and we already know that he lied repeatedly from previous FOIAs of his government emails. It's just kinda maddening that the lunatics who lapped up everything he said and treated him as a god (something Fauci clearly loved, BTW) will never admit how badly they screwed up."

Video Resurfaces of Fauci Warning ‘Household Contact’ with AIDS Patients Could Put Kids at Risk - "An old video circulating on social media shows Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warning that even just "close contact" with those already afflicted with AIDS could result in infection. In the context of a conversation about childhood infections, Fauci speculates that "if the close contact of a child is a household contact, perhaps there will be a certain number of cases of individuals who are just living with and in close contact with someone with AIDS, or at risk of AIDS, who does not necessarily have to have intimate sexual contact or share a needle, but just the ordinary close contact that one sees in normal interpersonal relations."... The clip was posted in response to Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, who was himself rebuking right-wing radio commentator Dennis Prager. Prager, during an appearance on Newsmax, had wondered aloud: "During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users . . . had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are?" Buttigieg replied by writing, "AIDS patients died because people feared simply touching them would lead to infection. Families abandoned their own children to be buried in unmarked graves. Let us know where we can send the books Dennis, God forbid you read one." Prior to receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his efforts to curb the AIDS crisis in Africa, and acclaim for his public-facing role during the coronavirus pandemic, Fauci had been criticized for his approach to addressing the spread of HIV in the United States. His speculation about close contact being infectious, as well as his stubborn focus on producing a vaccine rather than therapeutics, were of particular frustration to activists and other scientists."
The cope is that at the time, the mechanism of transmission was unclear. But we were told during Covid that the science was "clear" (when it was anything but) and anyone who disagreed got censored and accused of spreading dangerous misinformation. Ironic. Left wing hypocrisy is such a constant

KanekoaTheGreat on X - "🚨Fauci’s own diary just dropped.
Feb 1, 2020. The secret call that produced "Proximal Origin." 12 scientists on the line. Only 2 thought the virus was natural. The other 10 — per Fauci's own notes — "felt that deliberate insertion was possible." They flagged Shi Zhengli's gain-of-function work on coronaviruses in Wuhan by name. 8 days later, Fauci went on Newt Gingrich's podcast: "I've heard these conspiracy theories. And like all conspiracy theories, Newt, they're just conspiracy theories." Then Facebook and Twitter banned you for saying the same thing his own scientists were telling him privately."

April Silverman on X - "Remember the movie “The Dallas Buyers Club” about a group of AIDS patients fighting for the right to use cheap, effective drugs against government bureaucrats in the pocket of Big Pharma? The villain was Dr. Anthony Fauci. 🎬👹 Fauci spent the 80s convincing an entire generation that shaking hands might kill them over AIDS. Then he came back decades later and did the exact same fear tour with COVID. Two pandemics, same script, zero social media the first time to call BS. The man really said “hold my Anthony.” 🦠😷😂 Reminder that almost 35 years ago Tony Fauci was being attacked by AIDS protesters. 📢 This heinous, lying monster should have been in prison a very, very long time ago. 🔒"

Meme - "WE GO FROM TRUST THE SCIENCE
TO THE SCIENCE PLEADS THE FIFTH"

Meme - The Resistance's Post: ""FAUCI WAS CARING FOR AIDS PATIENTS WHEN OTHERS WOULDN'T EVEN TOUCH THEM. HE FOUGHT HARMFUL MISINFORMATION. HE WARNED ABOUT THE RISK OF A PANDEMIC FOR YEARS. YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO CONVINCE ME HE'S A TERRIBLE PERSON!""
Phil Herin: "Now do his beagle labs"
Left wingers are very open about the fact that no facts will ever make them change their mind because it's all about the narrative, not the truth. But of course, it's their enemies who are in a "cult"

Meme - *Gru's plan with excited Gru*
"Disobey President Obama's 2014 Moratorium against Gain-of-Function Research by moving it to a leaky offshore lab in Wuhan. Oops. It leaks, causing a Global Pandemic. Deflect any questions or criticisms by proclaiming "I AM SCIENCE! Do you doubt Science?" Procure a worshipful Cult of Personality who actually buy into it!"
This is why left wingers accuse Trump of heading a cult, because they always project

Meme - "FAUCI DIARIES: PRIVATE vs PUBLIC. 5 BIGGEST CONTRADICTIONS
PRIVATE DIARY ENTRY. PUBLIC STATEMENT
1. WUHAN LAB LEAK THEORY.
"I no longer believe that the market was the origin of the outbreak. It now appears that a lab leak is a likely scenario." - April 3, 2020
"There is no credible evidence to suggest that COVID-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan." - May 11, 2021
2. MASKS FOR THE PUBLIC.
"Masks are not really effective in preventing infection of the public." - Feb 28, 2020
"Everyone should be wearing masks. Masks are an important tool in our public health arsenal." - April 3, 2020
3. COVID FATALITY RATE
"The case fatality rate (CFR) more like 0.2-0.3% rather than 2.0% - Feb. 1, 2020
"The mortality rate is likely around 2%." - March 3, 2020
4. SCHOOL CLOSURES
"Keeping children out of school is a mistake. The negative impact is enormous." - Aug 10, 2020
"There's no doubt that closing schools the right thing is to do." - Aug 19, 2020
5. NATURAL IMMUNITY
"Natural immunity is real. It's very difficult to ignore." - Sept. 15, 2021
"I do not think natural immunity is reliable." - Dec 1, 2021
"ONE MAN. TWO MESSAGES. MILLIONS MISLED. ACCOUNTABILITY MATTERS."

RazörFist on X - "2020: The Science™ is settled
2021: Trust the Science™
2022: Sorry you lost your job for not trusting The Science™
2023: We have recalled The Science™ from the market
2026: The Science™ pleads the 5th"

What we learned from Fauci’s Covid hearing – and the concerning question it raised - "There is a fair chance that Covid-19 leaked from a lab in China, where experiments to make bat viruses more infectious to humans were being conducted at inadequate biosecurity levels. So it is alarming to hear that similar experiments may still be going on in the murky world of the US intelligence community, despite a ban on such risky research. At a Senate hearing called to question Dr Anthony Fauci, who led the US Covid-19 response, Republican Senator Rand Paul asked whether the doctor had worked with the CIA or the office of the director of national intelligence on gain-of-function research. Gain-of-function involves enhancing viruses or bacteria to make them more potent, and, in the past, Dr Fauci has been a strong advocate of such research. At Wednesday’s hearing, Dr Fauci took the Fifth Amendment, refusing to answer, but the fact Mr Paul brought the issue up suggests he could have evidence that it may be happening, even though Donald Trump banned it in 2025. Mr Trump’s 2025 executive order does not prohibit all gain-of-function research but studies which meet the government’s definition of “dangerous gain-of-function research”. “There is still a question whether or not the intelligence community is adhering to that order,” said Mr Paul. “There’s a question of whether or not gain-of-function research is still ongoing.” Whether or not it is still continuing in the US, Mr Paul was right to draw attention to Dr Fauci’s record on it. He has always been a strong supporter of such work, and even suggested in an article in the Washington Post in 2011 that if a scientist accidentally became infected and started a pandemic, it was still worth the risk. Laboratory leaks are fairly common, with smallpox, swine flu, anthrax, and foot-and-mouth disease all known to have escaped from facilities in recent decades... under Dr Fauci’s watch, funding for biodefence jumped from roughly $42m (£31m) in 2001 to nearly $1.7bn (£1.3bn) and dubious experiments to increase the virulence of viruses were approved, despite concerns about what would happen if they leaked... Dr Ralph Baric, of the University of North Carolina, also received a grant to create a chimeric virus capable of infecting humans by inserting a spike protein from a bat virus into the genetic template of Sars. In 2015, he published work showing it could infect human airway cells. Critically, Dr Baric was working closely with Dr Zhengli Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), and in the coming years, WIV carried on the work at less-than-ideal safety levels. By 2018, the pair had applied to the US for a grant to insert a furin cleavage site into bat coronaviruses – the very feature that made Covid-19 so infectious to humans – although it was turned down for being too dangerous. But in April, Dr Baric told Mr Paul’s staff that he believed WIV could have gone ahead with the work anyway, while it was receiving funding from the US. There are fears that Wuhan completed the work and the virus leaked from their lab, or else researchers collected a bat that contained the virus and did not keep it safe. Covid-19 emerged just eight miles from where the team had been carrying out such research, seemingly already perfectly adapted to infect humans. Although many scientists claim the virus leapt from an animal, no missing link has ever been found despite six years of hunting... intriguingly, when WIV and Dr Baric applied for funding, they went to the US defence advanced research projects agency suggesting they also thought it had a military or intelligence benefit. The grant proposal even contained silhouettes of soldiers. In 2025, the CIA concluded that the pandemic was “more likely” the result of a laboratory leak in China than a natural animal-to-human transmission."

Fauci did not believe Covid originated from Wuhan market, his diaries reveal - "Among the hundreds of pages of diary entries made public is one entry from Jan 26, 2020, nearly two months before the World Health Organisation declared that Covid-19 was a pandemic. Dr Fauci wrote: “It now appears using epi data and genomic data that the first infection was in early December [2019] and was not connected to the (wet) market. “Early on, the Chinese were saying that there is no human-to-human transmission and all the original 27 cases were from the market. “Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier.” Despite this, during a briefing at the White House in mid April 2020, Dr Fauci said that the science at the time was “totally consistent with a jump of a species from animal to human”. Dr Fauci’s apparent contradiction led Republicans to accuse him of suppressing the “lab leak” theory that the virus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory and escaped."

Meme - Melissa Chen @MsMelChen: ""Harassment" is a curious way to describe holding a longtime public official accountable under oath. Wasn't oversight of powerful government officials supposed to be the media's main job"
"Trump administration needs to stop 'public harassment' of Fauci and scientists, open letter says"
A good reminder that to left wingers, holding people they love and want to shield from scrutiny is "harassment". Meanwhile, leftists are giddy with delight over how they will persecute Trump and those who worked for him after he leaves office

Senator Rand Paul on X - "I don’t see anywhere in this reporting: “Fauci blatantly lied to Congress”
“Fauci deleted records”
“Fauci kept what he knows hidden from the public and lied about it.”
The legacy media still won’t own up to anything."
Matt Ridley on X - "And yesterday the BBC made the whole thing out to be about party politics adding in a single sentence that "Republicans think Fauci knew it came from a lab, for which there is no evidence", ie, inaccurate and editorialising. It would be more accurate to have said: "Republicans have shown that Fauci thought it might have come from a lab, a theory supported by a huge amount of evidence".

End Wokeness on X - "Fauci texted on January 25, 2021 that the COVID vaccines could kill a 1st trimester unborn baby. 82% miscarried in an April 2021 study. Then he went on TV over the next few months, urging pregnant women to immediately get vaccinated"

Bill Melugin on X - "More texts reveal that Biden era US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy responded to Fauci’s concern about the COVID vaccine in pregnant women by adding “I’ve been hearing concern about the mRNA causing mutations in the developing fetus as well.” None of these concerns were ever made public."

Ben Falk | Facebook - "Remember when Fauci's emails were FOIA redacted so we could read how the Nature Medicine's "Proximal Origin" Paper was pushed into publication by Andersen and crew at the behest of Francis Collins, Fauci and Jeremy Farrar to try to get ahead of the building consensus that the pandemic was lab-produced - by a lab funded by the US govt? Yeah, that was wild. Well, turns out the evidence they were trying to disprove has only gotten more significant since and the converse has also become stronger - that the GOF research Fauci's agency NAIAD funded, caused the virus. If you don't understand the significance of the paper: The stated goal was predetermined. The goal of Proximal Origin was to "disprove" a lab theory. On February 8, 2020, Andersen stated: "Our main work over the last couple of weeks has been focused on disproving any type of lab theory" — directly contradicting later claims that the authors objectively weighed all evidence. The authors privately believed the opposite of what they published. On the February 1 conference call, Andersen and Holmes presented their concerns about the furin cleavage site and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. After discounting engineering, Andersen and Garry said they leaned toward a lab origin through serial passage — considering it the most likely explanation for the unusual features of SARS-CoV-2. The paper published weeks later ruled this out. Conflicted reviewers pressured the authors. Fouchier and Drosten — who have both conducted gain-of-function experiments and were considered "conflicted" — pushed back forcefully on the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered, delivering their rebuke in the presence of the virologists' funders Farrar, Fauci, and Collins. The presence of Fauci and Collins was particularly sensitive given their history of support for the riskiest gain-of-function research. Farrar edited the manuscript minutes before publication. "Sorry to micro-manage/microedit!" — Farrar made a last edit to the manuscript minutes before the preprint published, despite not being a listed author. The paper was explicitly designed to control the narrative, not find the truth. Farrar articulated his goal: "The aim of this was to bring a neutral, respected, scientific group together to look at the data and in a neutral, considered way provide an opinion and we hoped to focus the discussion on the science, not on any conspiracy or other theory and to lay down a respected statement to frame whatever debate goes on — before that debate gets out of hand with potentially hugely damaging ramifications." Andersen invoked the names of powerful funders to get it published quickly. Andersen invoked the names of Jeremy Farrar, Tony Fauci, and Francis Collins in an email to Nature, in an apparent effort to impress the journal and underscore the urgency. He introduced the article as rebutting "speculation, fear mongering, and conspiracies." One co-author explicitly opposed publication without stronger evidence. Without more credible evidence against engineering in hand, nothing should be published — "As to publishing this document in a journal, I am currently not in favor of doing so. I believe that publishing something that is open-ended could backfire at this stage." It was used to suppress legitimate scientific debate. Reporters and public officials cited the paper as evidence to dismiss lab-origin theories, making its wording consequential far beyond the typical reach of a short correspondence. Critics allege the paper downplayed or prematurely dismissed a laboratory-related origin through undisclosed influence, ghost or hidden contributions, and editorial changes that strengthened its dismissal of a lab origin. The paper was not a neutral scientific assessment — it was a coordinated effort by the world's most powerful public health funders to establish a narrative before the scientific evidence could be properly evaluated. The authors' own private emails show they privately leaned toward lab origin while publicly dismissing it. That gap between private assessment and public publication — in a paper that then shaped global policy and media coverage for years — is the core documented problem."

Meme - Jack @jackunheard: "Stop calling Fauci a doctor. He's the opposite."
John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz: "You know who isn't a doctor? Rand Paul isn't, and RFK Jr isn't, you stuporous dope."
Readers added context: "Rand Paul holds an MD from Duke University School of Medicine and practiced as an ophthalmologist."
Senator Rand Paul @Sen....: "I'm literally an MD. I operate on eyeballs."

Meme - "me watching Covidians who supported mask and jab mandates now posting about 'Resisting Tyranny'"

Ex-Fauci adviser pleads guilty to plotting to conceal COVID-19 research records - "A former senior adviser to infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded guilty Tuesday to plotting to conceal federal records related to research on the origins of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. David Morens is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 12 by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Greenbelt, Maryland. Morens pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the U.S. government, a felony punishable by a maximum prison sentence of five years... Morens is accused of using his private email account to intentionally circumvent public records laws while employed at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The Justice Department alleges that he concealed or destroyed records of discussions related to COVID-19 research grants, including an effort to revive a controversial coronavirus grant. The indictment follows a probe by House Republicans into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic that scrutinized Morens’ email communications and accused him of intentionally concealing records. In congressional testimony, Morens denied attempting to evade federal transparency laws by using his personal email."
Damn attacks on the science! The court is corrupt and needs to be disbanded!

Michael Shermer on X - "“now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier” —Anthony Fauci, January 26, 2020 For years I gave the benefit of the doubt to Fauci & others that they erred on the side of caution (Precautionary Principle) rather than they lied to us. I'm sorry to say that the latter is true on masks, school/business closures, social distancing & even what, exactly, the vaccine can and cannot do. We will be paying the price for these lies for decades to come, especially when the next pandemic hits and no one believes what scientists and medical experts recommend. @geraldposner analysis nails it:"

Reborn Baby Doll / Powerbank and Phones

2026-10-04T13:01:00.000+08:00

"18.5" Full Silicone Reborn Baby Doll Blue Solid Platium Liquid Silicone Boby Doll Avatar Bald Girl 000"

It comes with a vagina too.

*Shady-looking smartphone with innocent-looking pink powerbank that's fully charged at 100%*
*Shady-looking smartphone leads innocent-looking pink powerbank to room with 5 other phones*
*USB cable plugs into powerbank, draining it to 99%, as other phones are around*
*Powerbank cries as shady-looking smartphone sits on chair and smiles*
*Powerbank cries and is shocked*
*Powerbank has 8 USB cables in it and is at 0%*

Links - 4th October 2026 (1 - Cornell "Rape")

2026-10-04T09:58:00.000+08:00

District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape' - "Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the investigation of an alleged "gang rape" at a Cornell University fraternity in 2024 after a civil lawsuit filed earlier this month sparked outrage about the incident. Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said in a statement that his office is considering whether to bring criminal charges related to the incident, though he said the allegations in the civil complaint are "dramatically different" than the woman's statement to police two years ago... The reopening of the case comes less than two weeks after a former Cornell student filed a civil lawsuit alleging that she was drugged, assaulted and gang raped by seven former and current members of the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell. Cornell's Chi Phi chapter was barred from campus after the alleged Oct. 19, 2024, incident, though none of the individuals allegedly involved faced criminal charges, according to the DA. Van Houten said his office did not bring charges in 2024 because the woman's statement to authorities did not allege she was drugged without her knowledge or that she did not consent to engage in sexual activities. "She never says that she was drugged without her knowledge. She admits to taking drugs and alcohol voluntarily and with knowledge. She does not allege that she was forced to engage in any acts. She does not say that she was physically helpless or unconscious or incapacitated at any point during the time at the fraternity house," Van Houten said. Van Houten said that he considered Jane Doe, the alleged victim, credible. He also said neither Jane Doe nor her attorneys ever contacted his office to ask for reconsideration of her case or to suggest that her sworn statement was inaccurate... According to a summary of the six-page typewritten statement Van Houten said Jane Doe provided to the Cornell University Police Department in November 2024, Jane Doe told police that she agreed to have a threesome with two Chi Phi fraternity brothers in part "due to how attracted [she] was" to one of them and in part because of her "drunken curiousness." The statement goes on to say that Jane Doe and the two fraternity brothers then "engaged in a 'threesome'" involving sexual activity. Another man then entered the room and shook her hand, according to the document. "When [Jane Doe] made contact with [Male Number 3's] hand, [Male Number 3] pulled [Jane Doe] into him and [they] began making out. While [Male Number 3] was kissing [her], [Male Number 2] began groping [her]. Eventually, [Male Number 2, Male Number 3, and Jane Doe] would end up on the bed next to where [Male Number 1] was sleeping and [they] began to have a threesome," the document said. Other men were also in and out of the room, according to the document. "Jane Doe had difficulty remembering parts of what happened next. She remembered '[Male Number 7] said something very rude and mean to [her].' Male Number 7 apologized and 'grabbed [her] face and started kissing [her].' Jane Doe 'quickly backed away to stop [Male Number 7] from kissing [her],' according to the document. The summary then said some of the fraternity brothers began complimenting Jane Doe's looks and asked if they could ingest drugs off of her body. "While the men were doing drugs off of her body, [Male Number 3] and [another male] entered the room and said something like, 'Ok we're shutting down whatever the [expletive] this is,'" the document said. "While the behavior of certain Chi Phi fraternity members was without question disgusting and morally reprehensible, the foundation of the criminal justice system is that criminal prosecutions must be based upon evidence and not emotion," Van Houten said."
If a man takes drugs and engages in group sex, that is without question disgusting and morally reprehensible. If a woman takes drugs and engages in group sex, criticising her is without question disgusting and morally reprehensible.
Despite their protestations about sexual liberation (for women), at some level, feminists think what is conventionally considered sexual degeneracy is wrong, since they take it as evidence that Jane Doe was raped. But of course, if you come out and say that, you are slut-shaming, are anti-feminist and are a misogynist and hate women

Ricky Vaughn on X - "Get's invited to a 3-some but is too drunk, pukes and passes out. Wakes up to chick getting spit-roasted, asks if he can join, but she says, no, I don't do anal. Leaves. 2 years later get's called a rapist."

T.J. Moe on X - "Confusing day for the “believe all women” crowd. Do they believe the Cornell 7 woman in 2024, when her sworn statement described the night as “voluntary, conscious and consensual”? Or do they believe her now, two years later, when the lawsuit calls the same night a gang rape?"
When feminists proclaim that consent can be withdrawn at any time, they mean after the act too

MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 on X - "TRUE STORY: There are more Cornell frat boys raping women than there are trans athletes in college sports."
Meghan Murphy on X - "“Men rape women so we should let men into the girls’ changeroom”"

Rikki Schlott on X - "Why isn’t anyone talking about how the Cornell story is also a part of the pornification of our culture? It’s not actually normal for college kids to throw bukake parties, consensual or not. Growing up with porn has warped their sense of what’s sexually normal."

Jenin Younes on X - "I’ve held my tongue for a while, but being from Ithaca, a Cornell alum and a former criminal defense attorney, and seeing how out of hand this story has gotten, I am compelled to comment on the lawsuit alleging a gang rape at Cornell. I cannot purport to know what happened one night at a frat house in October 2024—any more than you can. However, here are a few basic principles much of the public appears not to understand. A lawsuit is a series of allegations made by the plaintiff. It is not proof. Allegations made in lawsuit turn out to be untrue all the time, either due to mistake, intentional misrepresentation, or flat-out lies. Unfortunately, people often misrepresent the truth in lawsuits due to monetary and other incentives. In the past, there have been instances of fabricated rape allegations. About a decade ago, Rolling Stone published a piece about an allegedly horrendous rape that occurred on the UVA campus that garnered similiar outrage to this incident and turned out to be entirely fabricated. I have read the DA’s press release and the lawsuit itself. According to the cited portions of Jane Doe’s statements to police shortly after the incident, crediting it as entirely true, there was simply no basis to charge the alleged perpetrators. Everyone involved was apparently extremely intoxicated. Jane Doe gave consent to the encounter at the beginning and does not explicitly recall any activity occurring after consent was withdrawn. It is possible that, due to her inability to recall, she had not given consent for some of the activity towards the end, but possible is not a basis for a district attorney to file criminal charges. Her current lawsuit is fairly consistent with her initial statement—except it omits the portions where she told the police she gave consent. Is she lying? Did she later remember something she didn’t initially? Is she mistaken? I do not know—and again, neither do you. What I do know is that if we are to live in a society of laws, going after the jobs and reputations young men who may have participated in an entirely consensual incident, and the DA who made the correct decision not to charge, is mindless mob justice. We actually want prosecutors to decline to seek indictments when there’s insufficient evidence of criminal wrongdoing. None of this is to say I approve of what happened as reported in the initial statement to police. That’s a cultural and parenting issue, though, not a matter for law enforcement. I encourage people to let the DA’s office handle the case going forward, and not to participate in the witch hunt against either the prosecutors involved or the young men who, as of now, have not been charged or shown to have committed any crime."

Dr. Sherifa Zuhur on X - "Omg - this is your response? What about standing with women and acknowledging Cornell’s dismal record (not ‘alleged’) in addressing fraternities acts of misogyny for years?"
Jenin Younes on X - "yes, I like to think, read as much pertinent information as I can, analyze it in accordance with applicable legal standards as well as general due process ideals that should underpin enlightened societies, not succumb to mindless mob calls for people's heads, and then reach conclusions--always caveated with the understanding I may not have all the information. Good for you, I guess, if you'd rather just join the massses and participate in a return to the electronic era version of the Salem Witch Trials"
Dr. Sherifa Zuhur on X - "I guess you didn’t read the excerpts from the victim’s testimony, nor see the video of the fraternity’s group chat offering her to anyone who wanted - for “free”"
If you believe in not immediately proclaiming accused rapists are guilty, you are part of the problem, perpetuate rape culture, and if you are a male, you are a rapist too
Apparently if a woman decides to engage in group sex without putting up token resistance or being paid for it (i.e. "free pussy"), that is rape. Of course, if she puts up token resistance, that is rape too. Yet many feminists are against prostitution despite their implicit position that you need to pay women for sex (in some way)

Jenin Younes on X - "UPDATE on the Cornell incident: As reported by ABC, newly released texts between Jane Doe and Male #1 from 4 days after the incident (several weeks before police report) demonstrate that she told him "everyone needs to grow up cause sexuality and sex and s---is changing and stuff like this is going to become more common, I'm also really open minded tho, I love you king." A couple weeks later, but still before she made a police report, the young man told her that he was concerned he'd been "labeled an assaulter" and she responded "I haven't said anything but I do know people are changing the narrative because like in any sexual scenario w one woman and many men the woman was probably the victim." While these texts do not conclusively prove she was not legally raped, they substantially strengthen the supposition that Jane Doe changed her story, and possibly genuinely changed her perception of what happened, as a result of being publicly shamed for having sex with many men or whatever was happening in her relationship with Male #1. The most important point though, is that destroying people's lives based on allegations to police, in a lawsuit, or elsewhere is extremely dangerous. It is exactly why civilized societies should not engage in the modern equivalent of witch trials, and people should decline to rush to judgment. The way this story has changed over mere days is a near perfect lesson in why we shouldn't call for people's heads simply because disturbing accusations have been made. Of course, no one will actually learn anything and nothing will change, regardless of how many times this sort of thing happens, because apparently as a nation, we are incapable of actual progress. I intend not to comment on this case again absent extraordinary developments, because my primary interest is not in determining one way or the other what happened, but in urging people to resist the temptation to engage in mob justice to the point law enforcement officers are acting at the public's direction. I believe that point has been made, although of course it won't satisfy the bloodthirsty."
People haven't learnt from the Duke Lacrosse rape hoax and the Rolling Stone UVA fraternity case

Jenin Younes on X - "OK, one more comment then I'm really done. There's a lot of talk about the "voluntary intoxication loophole" in the law that prevents a finding of non-consent based on intoxication absent physical incapacitation or involuntary ingestion of intoxicants. This claim is getting tiresome, so I'd like to put it for rest. New York's current law, as written, is actually the only way for the system to operate logically. I'll show that by asking a series of questions to those who want to "close the voluntary intoxication loophole."
1) if physical incapacitation isn't the standard for lack of consent, what is?
2) is it "drunk?" "too drunk to consent"? how do we define those terms?
3) How is the alleged perpetrator supposed to know, subjectively, how drunk the alleged victim is? A person can be quite drunk and/or high and appear relatively sober and state that they are consenting (as actually happened here).
4) what if both parties (or, as in the Cornell case, multiple parties) are intoxicated? are they all raping each other? Should prosecutors seek indictments against all of them?
5) are we prepared for a system in which anyone who has consumed any alcohol can make a rape allegation?
Have the "loophole" people thought this through? Because we're now looking at a world where anytime one party has a drink (or the number of drinks needed to constitute whatever definition of rape we end up with in answer to questions (2) and (3)) and is angry at their sexual partner, regretful, or jealous, s/he can make a rape allegation and presumably get their current former sexual partner behind bars. Looking forward to the answers from the "hang the Cornell 7" people."

End Wokeness on X - "AOC claims 7 frat boys "lured a woman into a frat house, drugged, and gang raped her" Turns out… NONE OF THIS HAPPENED:
> Jane willingly went to the frat house
> willingly had sex, drugs and alcohol
> told police it was 100% consensual
> 2 YEARS LATER, changes her mind"

Glenn Greenwald on X - "What AOC did here is despicable and pathetic even for her. it's a joke to think you posture as some sort of a national leader while you go around definitively, publicly proclaiming individuals guilty of horrific crimes before they've ever been charged with, let alone convicted of, those crimes, especially when most evidence is unknown and, of what is known, there's so much evidence casting doubt on the accusations. AOC never heard of these 7 Cornell students until like 6 seconds ago, but now definitively decree they're ALL "gang rapists." But worse is that AOC lies here repeatedly, making claims that even the alleged victim denies. Nobody "lured her" into the frat house. She went there voluntarily and showed up drunk. She voluntarily used drugs and had sex with at least the first three men if not all. She wrote one of those students an email afterward saying how nothing they did was criminal and how much fun she had having sex with the two of them and hoped to do it again. She then asked for an invitation to another party at this same frat house 8 days later, and became enraged for the first time when the frat president said it was best if she didn't come. Nobody in the group chat said she was "incapacitated" as AOC alleged. None of this means that there was no rape. It means that minimally responsible, ethical people refrain from pronouncing guilt (or innocence) until they know what they're fucking talking about and there are at least charges filed. None of that applies to AOC."

Collin Rugg on X - "NEW: One of the fraternity brothers involved in the 'Cornell 7' incident says 'Jane Doe' told them their orgy "was normal in the medieval times." Another frat member says *she* was the aggressor and didn't ask for his consent. "I remember the girl in specific saying something along the lines of, 'This was normal in the medieval times,'" said Diego Sarabia, according to the New York Times. Another fraternity member, Gillio Lopes, says Jane Doe initiated s*xual contact with him without asking for his consent. Lopes says he went to get McDonald's after becoming "uncomfortable" with what allegedly happened to him. Another frat member, Winston Lee, also said Jane Doe initiated s*xual contact with him without asking for his consent. "I kind of took a step back because I didn’t want to engage in anything like s*x. I thought it wasn’t the time for that," Lee said. Lee later engaged in s*xual contact with Doe. He asked her if she was comfortable with what was happening, and she allegedly told him, "We’re all consenting adults here," according to the New York Times."

Matt Walsh on X - "You can perfectly understand the case of the Cornell 7, and the reaction to it, once you understand that feminists fundamentally reject the idea that women can ever be truly responsible for any wrong doing of any kind. Which is why, when there’s a disgusting drug and alcohol fueled orgy where everyone involved is inebriated, the woman is somehow automatically the victim and the men are somehow automatically responsible. On normal logic, that makes no sense. If alcohol removes consent, then the drunk men have just as valid a claim to being raped as the drunk woman. But feminists aren’t using normal logic. They’re using feminist logic. Which, again, starts with the presupposition that women by definition cannot truly be at fault at all for anything ever. That is simply a brute fact of the universe, in their view. They don’t have to defend it, and don’t, and can’t."

'The View' Host Sunny Hostin Stands Up for Accused Cornell Gang Rape Defendants - "I, I actually have the statement, um, that, um, Jane Doe wrote at that time... under current New York state law voluntary intoxication or drug use, and she voluntarily drank a lot. She voluntarily took, uh, snorted ketamine off of one of the boys' body parts... she allowed other boys and consented to other boys, uh, snorting ketamine off of her body. Um, and under New York law, voluntary intoxication or drug use that merely impairs judgment does not legally constitute an inability to consent to sexual activity, right? So that means if you voluntarily ingest drugs, you voluntarily take alcohol, you can agree to have threesomes which in her statement she agreed to have two separate threesomes. One boy did walk in. One young man did walk in and say, Everybody out. So there was one person that did that, and according to her statement, 3 of the young men did not touch her... the pictures of these young men who have not been charged, not been adjudicated, are being plastered all over the Internet. I think people are reporting this story inaccurately. I think they're reporting it unfairly. And while this is something that we have to take very seriously, there is no way, according to her statement in 2024, that any prosecutor would have brought... According to her statement, she says she did they did not attack her. Her statement in 2024, she, um, she, she consented to the sexual activity. She consented to it according to her own statement in 2024. Now I prosecuted sex crimes for 10 years. I believe women. I am not saying that we shouldn't believe her, but in 2024 she said some one thing and now in 2026 she's saying another thing."
Clearly, despite being a female prosector who prosecuted sex crimes for 10 years and got a Special Achievement Award from then-Attorney General Janet Reno for her prosecution of child sexual predators and work with child sex abuse and saying she was "too woke", Sunny Hostin believes "rape myths"

Richard Hanania on X - "Incredible reporting from the NYT. The woman at Cornell did not consider herself a rape victim until she saw people making fun of her for being a slut. She went to her "big sister" in her sorority and confessed that she had been a slut. Then while texting one of the men she reassured him that she enjoyed the first part of it and nothing illegal had happened. Later, she texted him that she was traumatized. Not by the sex, but because everyone was laughing at her. One week after her "rape," she was mad that she got disinvited from a party at the frathouse of her "rapists"!!!!!!! Only a few days later, she decided that she was a "rape victim." Nobody would laugh at her anymore! She went from an object of ridicule and shame to a hero. Once again, we need to have a serious conversation about how women are being lied to. People do not respect sluts. Even at woke Ivy League universities. Human nature is what it is. The lesson is women should protect their reputations by not doing things like this."

Alleged Cornell Gang Rape Victim Told Accused Frat Bro Sex Wasn't Illegal, He Apologized - "The woman who claims she was drugged and gang-raped by seven Cornell students inside a frat house texted with one of the men she named in her lawsuit two days after the alleged encounter ... he apologized, and she told him the "sexual stuff" wasn't illegal... he apologized for "how things went down." The frat bro says he should have "shut it down and kick people out before it got way out of hand." The woman told him her memory was "super clouded too" and said, "non[e] of the sexual stuff was illegal."... Tompkins County DA Matthew Van Houten paints a different picture, saying she described the sex and drug use as "voluntary, conscious, and consensual." Van Houten insists that she never informed police that she was drugged against her will or gang raped. In addition, Van Houten says her attorney never reached out to him about inaccuracies in the original police report, nor did the lawyer ask to meet with him to talk about the case. In fact, Van Houten says he reached out to her attorney after the lawsuit was filed to try to understand the discrepancies in her original statement."

Justin DeBerry on X - "The “Cornell 7” (unintentionally cool name) consists of:
- 3 guys who didn’t touch her
- 3 guys who had 2 consensual threesomes
- 1 guy who walked in and told them to “shut down whatever the fuck this is.”
And this 7 hour long “gang rape” just ends when she says she’s tired and wants to go home. After she decides she’s done the guys leave her alone. And, as all rape victims do, she texts two of the guys the next day saying she enjoyed it and wants to do it again. Notice how the guy who was falling asleep while having sex, who arguably has a better case than “Jane Doe”, isn’t making a peep because he knows he was drunk and high out of his mind with other drunk and high people. She was a willing participant in all of this. The real conversation here isn’t about rape, but about the deviant cesspool these whores gleefully jump into. You aren’t “free pussy” because they wanted to rape you, you’re free because you open your legs easy for hot frat dudes. Thank you feminism for all the joy you’ve brought to the modern world."

Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 on X - "The thing I find striking about the Cornell discourse (on the "feminist" side so to speak) is that the woman is presumed to be completely passive while everything these drunk and high frat guys do is presumed to be conscious and intentional. They are "plying" the woman with drink & drugs to coerce her into sex, or "advertising" a woman supposedly available for rape to fellow frat members in a group chat. A very drunk guy typing "free pu*** upstairs" in the chat could be making a crude drunken joke. (Or "advertising" what he sees as a willing woman.) The woman, OTOH, is depicted as, at the most, passively and drunkenly acquiescing in what's being done to her -- despite her statement that, for instance, she went along with the threesome because she was excited by the idea of the two guys being gay with each other. Tbh, I read this account and I see a bunch of people being drunken idiots. Also: several people have brought up the fact that "Jane Doe" is underage for alcohol (19 or 20). How old were the guys? (Newell is Class of '27 so probably a sophomore in '24 -- likely also 19 or 20.) And what about the fact that "Jane Doe" had already been drinking alcohol on her own before coming to the party? Why are we suddenly being strict about underage drinking only when it's men offering alcohol to a woman? If the idea is that men need to protect grown women from making bad decisions, gee, how is that different from that fundie creep who thinks husbands should monitor their wives' social media use?"

Benjamin Ryan on X - "In a popular Bluesky post, Phil Lewis relays that one of the seven men accused of rape by the Cornell student has been fired from his banking job. “Good,” says Moira Donegan, a feminist columnist who in 2023 agreed to a six-figure settlement for her role in establishing an online spreadsheet of “Shitty Media Men” that accused a male writer of sexual misconduct. The man sued her for defamation."
Gene Starwind on X - "Where’s this enthusiasm for justice towards the grooming gangs? I saw many fully verified men throw red herrings left and right. Accusations of racism for caring, one man plugged his paid substack of CSA stats “well actually white men in the UK..” Is gang rape graded on a curve?"
JimmyButtz on X - "Well, the US and the UK are different countries."
Gene Starwind on X - "They are, but George Floyd’s death made it overseas, I’m seeing UK based people reference Brock Turner, the French man who dsold his wife for decades made front page Reddit for weeks… I think every extent of the grooming gangs would meet the threshold for international horror"
Caring about what happens in other countries is only important when it pushes the left wing agenda

Thread by @American_Advo on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Just gonna make this easy for everyone to understand what took place here with the Cornell 7 "Jane Doe Rape" situation here.
Part 1: Jane Doe walks 1 mile to the Chi Phi FRATERNITY House in Ithaca, NY on Cornell University. She's already drunk at a level of 5 out of 10, by her own account. She walked there, because she had been exchanging text messages with male number 1 prior to the meet up. When she arrived, she immediately opened an unopened can of beer and drank it, despite being already 5 out of 10 Drunk. After some dancing with Male 1, he led her to a quiet room, and asked for her consent to engage in a threesome with a second male partner (Male 2) She agreed and GAVE CONSENT. She even remembers being EXCITED at the idea of it.
Part 2: After Drinking that additional beer upon immediately entering the Chi Phi FRAT House at Cornell University, Jane Doe reports feeling 6 out of 10 drunk, agreeing to the threesome with Male 1 and Male 2 and in her words she remembers being "Pretty ok with having this threesome." Overtime, from what appears to be excessive alcohol consumption and drug use, Male 1 has a hard time maintaining his erection, and grows tired. Jane Doe recommends to Male 2 that they stop having sex, to make sure Male 1 is ok. Male 1 says essentially: I'm going to take a nap to recover." and makes his way to the bed in the frat house, eventually. While he slept, Male 2 wound up dry heaving, likely because he intoxicated. Jane Doe pats him on the back and tells him if he needs to vomit, he should. She also simultaneously makes sure to wake up Male 1 periodically, to ensure that he's still ok. Male 3 then eventually enters the Frat House. he lives there. He introduces himself to Jane Doe, and begins making out with her. Eventually Male 2 and Male 3, wind up on the bed right next to Male 1 who's napping, and Jane Doe engages in a SECOND Threesome with Male 2 and Male 3, while Male 1 sleeps besides them.
Part 3: Male 1 wakes up during the course of this threesome between Jane Doe, Male 2, and Male 3, and requests to join in and make it a foursome. Jane Doe DECLINES, because it would require anal sex, which she was opposed to. Jane Doe then remembers Male 3, actually disengaging from the threesome, and leaving the room all together. Several more Frat bros, enter the room shortly after. seemingly now Embarrassed, Jane Doe attempts to hide under the covers. Male 2 (One of the original threesome participants) winds up laying next to Jane Doe in the bed, while Male 1 (The man Jane doe walked a mile to the Frat house to see initially at Cornell) sits on the corner of the bed, and begins introducing Jane Doe to the other men. Jane Doe admits that she "Has difficulty remembering what happened next"
Part 4: She DOES, however, Remember Male Number 2 eventually asking her is she wanted to do MORE Ketamine. Jane Doe says at that point she thought to herself: "I've already done Ketamine once so far tonight, why not do it a second time?" She agrees to do more Ketamine. Male 2 pours the Ketamine on his hard cock. Jane Doe Snorts it off his penis. The Other men then begin to all gather around Jane Doe and compliment her. They request to snort ketamine off of her "perfect naked body" She agrees. Shortly after this point, Male 3 re-emerges into the room with some other male and says something to the effect of: "Ok, we're shutting down whatever the fuck this is." Jane Doe reports feeling dizzy, due to previously diagnosed medical conditions, in combination with her drunkeness and EXCESSIVE Ketamine usage. Males 5 and 6 console her, and make it known to her that she can and should stay there and stay seated as long as she needs to, in order to gather herself, before leaving.
Part 5: Shortly after, Male Number 1 (The original male of the Cornell 7 that Jane Doe was there to see) and Male number 4, usher Jane Doe out of the initial room this all took place in, and head upstairs to a more private room. Male 1 then states to Jane: "Let's do More ketamine." Jane Doe agrees, and snorts more Ketamine. Then Male 1 says he wants to have sex again to redeem himself over the fact that he passed out earlier that night. Jane Doe then engages in a threesome with Male 1 and Male 4. The Threesome continues on for a long period time, eventually ending in the early morning hours, around 5:45 am, when Jane Doe informs Male 1 and Male 4 that she is too tired, and needed to turn in. The Men immediately stop the threesome, and the interaction ends entirely.
Anyone who thinks the above here sounds like The Cornell 7 "raped this poor Jane Doe Girl" is seriously retarded. The Truth is, Jane Doe was acting like a Drunk, College Girl slut. She walked a whole ass mile to a FRATERNITY House. The Chi Phi FRATERNITY House on Cornell Campus in Ithaca NY, to meet Male 1, yes. But ALSO knowing FULL Well like we ALL KNOW, what takes place often times at FRAT HOUSES. We all just magically decide to pretend that this seems so out of the blue for this to have taken place. Drinking? Drugs? Threesome Sex? COLOR ME SURPRISED! I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS! Jane Doe admitted originally to being quite ok with the threesomes, she consented to them verbally, she was not "Drugged" but rather OPENLY partook in the usage of the drugs, and continued drinking while there. In fact, by all accounts here of Male 2 Dry Heaving, and Male 1 passing out, The MEN were MORE DRUNK and possibly High on ketamine than SHE WAS! So who took advantage of who, here? Jane Doe sounds like the rapist to me."

Robby Soave on X - "Letitia James said: "What this young woman has been forced to endure is horrific and unacceptable. I'm holding her in my heart and in my prayers. To her, and to all survivors: you're not alone. We stand with you." This is more than just a statement of support or sympathy for a woman speaking out about a troubling experience. James referred to Doe as a "survivor" and said she stands with her. That's not appropriate given that Hochul has tasked James with discovering the truth, regardless of whose account it supports. A truly independent investigator should be open to the possibility that Doe's description of the events in her lawsuit is inaccurate, given that her initial statement to the police and her text messages at the time paint a very different picture. Meanwhile, Kathy Hochul has invented the idea of an "intoxication loophole" that permitted the victim to be raped. But a person who is intoxicated obviously reserves the right to revoke consent at any time. And if a person passes out, then consent is withdrawn. The law does not allow for an intoxicated person to be subjected to sex despite their objections. This situation is rapidly spiraling out of control, and the prospect that actual justice will be served—by James and Hochul—seems vanishingly unlikely."
Ardent Dialectic on X - "Oh yeah, and Hochul thinks she’s finally got the “October surprise” to help her numbers for reelection. Damn the lives of 6 people, this is for her great work No one can define her great work, but she believes it so there is that."

Eddie Scarry on X - "She wildin."
"The next day, on Oct. 21, Jane Doe went to her “big sister” — a woman designated as a mentor — at Cornell’s Tri Delta sorority and told her there were rumors circulating that she was a “slut.” The big sister, a junior at Cornell, told investigators that Jane Doe added with a laugh that “unfortunately they are true.”" NBA YoungGoy on X - "This is like a 90s caricature of women I cannot believe this is even a real conversation between 2 women at an Ivy League university."
Grimm on X - "The case for this shit gets fuckin dumber and dumber. So, EVERYBODY at the school fuckin KNOWS its bullshit, the police know its bullshit, and yet here we are."

E L on X - "Really wildin"
"According to the text messages, which were obtained by ABC News, Jane Doe told the man four days after the alleged incident that "everyone knows" and "my reputation is destroyed and I'm utterly ashamed." In the Oct. 23, 2024, exchange Jane Doe texted the man, later identified by the Tompkins County District Attorney's Office as Male Number 1: "everyone needs to grow up cause sexuality and sex and s--- is changing and stuff like this is going to become more common,, I'm also really open minded tho, I luv you king.""

Habits for Americans in an Age of Disruption

2026-10-03T20:48:08.592+08:00

This speech is very traditionally American in its praise of work, optimism and invocation of civic religion. Whether it fits a lot of modern America, which is the opposite, is another story.

Habits for Americans in an Age of Disruption

"Virtue has always been at the heart of what it takes to keep a republic...

The state’s job isn’t to define that, but it’s to secure the preconditions, the silver frame that enable all the little platoons and communities to pursue the golden apples. That’s what needs to be protected...

We are in the midst of a civilization-warping crisis of institutional decline.

The consequences are all around us. We’re lonely. The share of Americans who tell pollsters that they have no close friends, none, has quadrupled since 1990... We don’t trust our institutions. Over the past 50 years, decade over decade, and regardless of which political party controls Congress or the White House, Americans have lost faith in our mediating institutions. Pew data show it most pointedly around the federal government, where trust has dropped from 77 percent in the mid-1960s to 17 percent last year.

But it’s not just Washington. With the exception of the military, it’s every institution in American public life. Pew and Gallup have measured ten different institutions every year for about 50 years. Nine of the ten sectors, the military being the only outlier, have experienced a declining level of public trust for consecutive decades—business, religion, law, media, medicine, et cetera. Every sector of our economy and our cultural life, with the exception of the military, has seen these precipitous declines.

We also don’t trust each other individually. Only one in three Americans tell Pew that they think they can trust most people—down significantly from previous decades. Conspiracy theories are metastasizing across the internet, and more and more of our neighbors are falling prey to these echo chambers. We’re isolated and distrustful. How did we get here?

If you ask people who frequent policy conferences, we often talk like policy and politics are at the center of it. Do any of us actually believe this? Come on. Politics, the source of these problems? No. Politics are a symptom of these larger problems. There is no simple, straight-line answer to explain our challenges, but we should understand that the economic and chiefly the technological moment we’re in is far more fundamental for what we’re tackling right now than anything in politics. One hundred years from now, when historians look back at our moment, they are not going to tell a story about our divided politics. Most of our political actors today are far too small to merit even a footnote in the history books.

A century from now, historians are going to tell a different story. They’re going to talk about the fact that we were living through an era of technological revolution that was driving rapid economic change. That’s the backdrop for the challenges we face at this moment...

What is it? The knowledge economy? Sociologists call it the post-industrial economy, which is a way of saying we don’t even know what it is. It’s the after-the-last-thing-thing. The reality is we are living in an information economy that is put on speed, thanks to the advancement of artificial intelligence and there’s a lot to be thankful for in this. There are massive positives and incredible opportunities to unlock some of our biggest quantitative challenges. When the cost of quantification falls to zero or so close to zero that we cease even to meter it, amazing new opportunities are unlocked.

We should be clear about this. This is not a Luddite argument that I’m making, but we should be aware that lifelong work is a thing of the past. Our fellow citizens don’t know exactly how to articulate it, but they know how to feel it, and it feels scary...

Think about how our identity is wrapped up in our work... Many times our work even gave us our names—Smith, Miller, Carter, Mason, Weaver, Brewer, Baker, Cook, Porter. These are nouns, they’re trades, but they’re also families. They’re identities, and they’re still with us...

Emotional intelligence and character are going to matter more than they’ve mattered in the past because the hardest things to automate are the things that depend on relationships. But if the future of work is relational, the nature of relationships matters. Does anyone really believe that replacing any one job with another job is always morally indifferent, morally equivalent? When the AI enthusiasts talk, there’s sometimes a scorn about those who worry about the dignity of work versus merely a GDP analysis of humans as cogs.

The qualitative matters in addition to the quantitative, though we’re living through a fascinating quantitative revolution. Job A and Job B might be equal on a spreadsheet, but there’s a profound difference in the hearts and in the lives and in the emotions of our neighbors. A really good coach, that’s a relational job. You can motivate young men. You can help people get fit. That’s an important relationship and the work matters. An OnlyFans model selling pictures of her feet to lonely men? That’s also a relationship, but it’s pretty damn bleak. Not all relationships are socially productive and certainly not equally socially productive. There’s nothing redeeming in an OnlyFans economy that commodifies human sexuality. It’s depressing, and our daughters and our sons deserve better.

All of this that we’re living through and that our neighbors feel is so much bigger than whatever clickbait outrage is driving the cable news cycle today and will be forgotten by Thursday. A technological revolution is driving an economic revolution in our time, and the changes in the economy will have more profound spiritual, cultural, educational, and even political implications, though the political is arguably the least important. To be clear, this is an incredibly exciting moment to live. This is not a Neo-Luddite argument. Who could have thought that we could launch rockets to space and then catch them as they plummet back to Earth?

We should all stand in awe of this. It is a breathtaking tribute to human imagination, ingenuity, innovation, and entrepreneurial creation. As someone who’s being kept alive this very month by incredible advances in biotechnology, I am a zealous proponent for disruptive innovation. The challenge now, though, is how to live with virtue and technology when technology, left to its own trajectory, would often erode virtue and place and human texture.

So what is our response to these tectonic challenges? It must be habits and community and a revivification of place.

The biggest divide, I submit to you, in America is not going to be race or class or income, regardless of what the political addicts and the culture war intersectionality proponents tell us. The biggest divide is going to be between people who figure out how to harness the tools of technology and the near-limitless information of AI versus those who outsource their affections and their habits to these tools and algorithms. The future will be awe-inspiring for the first group. Life will be miserable for the second group. Lots of us grew up fearing the dystopian future of George Orwell, but it turns out the dystopian future of Aldous Huxley was much more likely.

The immediate danger is not the brutal authoritarianism of 1984, but the soft despotism of Brave New World. We face a tyranny of ubiquitous pleasure, of easy comfort. Our choice is this: master the tools or be mastered by them...

Was it Martin Luther who said, “If I knew that tomorrow the world would end, I would still today plant my apple tree”?

Friends, that’s why I’m here tonight. I want to encourage you to be builders and investors, to plant trees for your kids and grandkids. And selfishly, I want to encourage you to plant trees for my kids and grandkids...

The family is the source of the habits that we’re going to need to cultivate the next generation. This work is pre-political.

Many of you have done tremendous work in public policy, but the era that we’re entering is going to require even more energy, even more creativity around something more textured. Housing affordability cannot tackle our challenges. Tax policy will not solve this. Even something as essential as educational choice will not ultimately love your kids and create habits. All of these are important, but they are not aimed at creating the habits of ensouled humans because the challenges that matter most are questions of love, and love is local, and that’s why it starts with the family.

What I’m suggesting tonight requires us to reject the relatively new but culturally pervasive assumption we have that school is the primary institution of character formation. If there’s a villain in my story, it’s John Dewey. As Americans, we have sleepwalked into a culture now defined by one man’s bureaucratic thinking. We don’t have time to unpack the fact that Dewey’s anti-Catholic bigotry was explicitly aimed at making sure that schools instead of parishes were forming the morality of the next generation.

For now, we can simply acknowledge that too much of childhood today is defined by Dewey’s vision of an institutionalized childhood. Just because the economy had gone from agrarian to industrial, he told us that we should industrialize childhood. And today, for the vast majority of four- to 18-year-olds’ waking hours, children are indoors, sitting still, passive, in receive mode, entirely disconnected from productive labor and surrounded by people that merely have the accident of the same birth year.

There is no pedagogy that’s written on stone tablets from heaven insisting that this is the way that children must learn. Education and school are not synonyms. School is an important tool many times for parents, but today, it is usually an ineffective tool that stifles the kinds of learning that our kids most desperately need in the disruptive era that we’re now entering. Despite receiving nearly a trillion dollars per year, public K-12 education in America produces abysmal results. Seventy percent of eighth-graders are not proficient in reading and more than 70 percent can’t do basic math.

We have led the next generation on a path to more soul-deadening complacency, and this is the institution we’ve decided to outsource habit formation to? Modern schooling is systematically terrible at forming well-adjusted, curious, intellectually creative, entrepreneurial adults. Schools, even much better schools, cannot solve this. Here’s the truth. Nobody loves your kids as much as you do.

I never had the chance to serve in the Senate with Phil Gramm, but I think often of the time when he was cross-examining some bureaucrat and he made the case that the local community where he lived was best able to help form the kids of their community. And the bureaucrat kept pushing back at him saying no, that she loved his kids every bit as much as he did. And he was just flabbergasted that someone would even claim this, and she kept insisting, and she used the word love—that she loved his kids just as much as he did. And he said, “Really? What are their names?”...

Parenting has always been inconvenient. It’s the ultimate inconvenience.

There’s nothing convenient about the work of raising children, teaching them delayed gratification, working late nights, and putting their needs before your own. In an age that is designed now around instant, endless convenience, the work of parenting is countercultural.

The great promise of technology that you can be disembodied from the table or from your culture or from the world also has an escapism about it that we have to learn how to manage. There’s always the temptation, the claim that there’s a better conversation somewhere else. There’s a better sexual partner somewhere else. There’s a better option out there somewhere. It’s the conceit of selfishness and it leads us to profound isolation. Human nature has a voracious appetite for self-indulgence, but America doesn’t work if we sit and scroll. America doesn’t work if we decide that comfort is the greatest virtue.

I think of Mike Rowe’s old joke, “Safety first is the stupidest possible sign you could post at a workplace,” because you could always set the speed limit at 1 mile an hour. You could have no car accidents, but safety isn’t first. It’s one of the inputs into the algorithm at the workplace, but you’re there to do something. In the same way, comfort can’t be our Number One goal. We didn’t go to the moon because it was easy. We went because it was hard, and being an American requires grit, resilience, and wisdom. We want technology and virtue.

So let’s flag four starter habits for tonight. Fewer than half of Americans read a book last year. That is a national crisis. We have to develop the intentional habit of reading.

A nation that does not read will not thrive. Shorter attention spans are killing our imagination. Before our kids even learn their alphabet, we now hand them tablets, and we know from neurological imagery that it is rotting their brains. Families need to read aloud together again to build children’s affection for books and to build a shared library. This kind of reading is far more formative than the kind of isolated reading-compliance culture that is engaged in by so many schools. C. S. Lewis talked about how we all suffer from chronological snobbery. The idea that because we are in the here and now, everything before us must be outdated and wrong and irrelevant.

In reality, every era has mistakes and blind spots, and the only way to scrutinize our current moment and to gain a perspective of wisdom—because we can’t go to the future—is through history or literature. Contrast this with the digital casino in our pockets that pulls us out of our place and breeds constant dissatisfaction and covetousness. We are unable to stand on the shoulders of giants if we don’t know what they have to say—and we do that by reading. We need to build family canons that inform the character of our homes; and like every debate about the canon, there are going to be fights about what is in and what is out. There is no definitive answer to the canon because the intellectual journey is central to the point.

We need to teach our kids to fall in love with reading and show them that the endless dialogue between ideas is more rewarding than the endless scrolling of social media.

Habit two: we need to develop the intentional habit of hard work. Like reading, hard work is preparation for life. Our kids need to learn to work hard and to love the fact that their identity is as a worker, even if it might not be the same kind of work—porter, weaver, smith, baker. Work can start at an early age. Sure, it’s easier to load and unload the dishwasher and to put away the laundry ourselves, but we miss the opportunity if we don’t bring the next generation into the labor...

Young men especially need work. As they grow, they need work that isn’t their main work as well. There’s a reason that dad hobbies are all chores. Woodworking, yard work, grilling, tinkering. It’s work that engages your body when so much of our work has merely engaged our mind.

There is a reason that, when Winston Churchill needed a break, he laid bricks for hours at a time as rest. We need to encourage side hustles and we need to create agency and foster competence. Right now, we are insulating our children on average from work until they’re in their mid-twenties and lots of them turn out not to be able to learn how to do it then.

Habit number three: we need to develop the intentional habit of tech Sabbaths. We can go too far and worship our work. I love work, but worshiping our work is something I’m guilty of, and we need to be able to set it aside, recognizing that our storehouses are not permanent. We should love work, but we should also learn that we need rest...

Habit number four: we need to develop intentional travel. In the same way that learning another language teaches us how to master our own, the fish can explain water to you because he’s never not been in it. Travel forms character through lived experience, but don’t hear this as “vacation.” Travel actually has the same roots as travail etymologically. To travel should be a kind of work. It takes work to leave your comfort zone, to set aside the things you thought you needed and to work at something new together. If you live in a city, you need to experience the country. If you live in the country, you need to know how to navigate the city...

Friends, we live in the richest time and place in all of human history, and yet we have grievance peddlers everywhere on social media who have persuaded our kids something false. This is the first generation since we’ve had polling that has thought the future is going to be worse than the past. They also believe that they live through more economic hardship than any of the previous three generations. This is economically verifiable nonsense, and yet they believe it and the fault is ours...

Too often, we think of our Founding Fathers as graybeards, but that’s wrong. They were young. We’re celebrating Alexander Hamilton tonight. Hamilton was 21 in 1776. James Madison was 25. Thomas Jefferson was 33. The old man was John Adams at 40. They were alive. They were full of energy. They were imperfect to be sure, but they understood virtue and they understood that the nation they were building would depend on virtue. Today, these are the things that technology, though it can be great, left to its own devices would take from our kids."

Links - 3rd October 2026 (Abdul El Sayed, Nuclear Energy, Vegans)

2026-10-03T13:31:00.000+08:00

Libs of TikTok on X - "HOLY SH*T Remember when Abdul El Sayed claimed he WASN'T a socialist? Well, here is the Detroit Democratic Socialists of America (@detroitdsa) WELCOMING him as their newest "comrade" in 2019. Any comment, @AbdulElSayed?"

Neil Stone on X - "Hasan Piker: “I have no problem with the Houthis... If you think I’m a terrorism supporter for that reason, then I’m a terrorism supporter.” This..isn't subtle Over to you, Democratic Party About now would be a good time to completely reject this guy"
AG on X - "A reminder the Houthi official slogan is: “God is the greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, A curse upon the Jews, Victory to Islam" Apparently Abdul El-Sayed and other Dems promoting Hasan have no issue with that message."
Left wingers are still pretending that there's nothing wrong with him, of course

Abdul El-Sayed accepted $115K from CAIR-affiliated donors, records show - "Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed's campaign has collected more than $115,000 from individuals who work for or have held leadership roles with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates and formally designated or labeled as such in Florida and Texas... One donor, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, listed in FEC records under the name Nehad Hammad, drew national condemnation after saying he was "happy" to see Hamas break out of Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023, and arguing Israel "does not have the right to self-defense" as an occupying power... El-Sayed has repeatedly drawn criticism from Republicans and pro-Israel advocates over his associations and comments related to the Middle East, including campaigning with far-left streamer Hasan Piker, his response to an attack targeting a Detroit synagogue, and declining to comment on the death of Iran's supreme leader, citing constituents in Dearborn who were mourning. El-Sayed defeated Dem. Rep. Haley Stevens in the Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday night in a race that was much closer than most pundits expected. El-Sayed will face off against Republican Mike Rogers, a former congressman, in November."
This is why left wingers love him

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: An Abdul El-Sayed supporter said voters are “stupid” and the best way to win is to hide the truth. Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker nodded in agreement. “The encouraging thing is that people are stupid.”"

Fallen Cambridge Star Jason Arday’s Memoir Appears To Poach Life Events From His Favorite Soap Operas - "Most Americans love bacon, fireworks, and football. Abdul El-Sayed is not like most Americans. The Michigan Democratic Senate nominee laced into bacon in a since-deleted YouTube video, comparing its health risks to “plutonium” and arguing that both the beloved breakfast meat and “the stuff we make nuclear weapons out of” cause cancer, the Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman and Collin Anderson report. In the July 2023 video, which has since been made private, El-Sayed describes bacon and other cured meats as “class 1” carcinogens, saying, “You know what else is a class 1 carcinogen? Plutonium. That’s right. The stuff that we make nuclear weapons out of. Yeah, that’s also a carcinogen,” according to a transcript of the video reviewed by the Free Beacon. “Now, how come bacon and plutonium are in the same class? Well, because it just comes down to the quality of evidence. Research has demonstrated that both of these things, bacon and plutonium, are definitively linked in well-designed, well-executed population studies with cancer.” “The unearthed transcript provides the latest example of El-Sayed criticizing popular American pastimes, something that now extends to food,” Goodman and Anderson write. “In other since-removed YouTube videos, El-Sayed declared that ‘fireworks suck’ and ‘just aren’t worth it’ due to air quality concerns, CNN reported. He also questioned whether football could be ‘ethical,’ arguing that narratives justifying slavery and other evils were ‘echoed in the ethos of football.’ “Bacon is ‘an all-time favorite food,’ according to Meat+Poultry magazine, which cited a report from food and beverage market research firm Datassential showing that 80 percent of consumers reported ‘liking or loving’ the meat. Fireworks are nearly as popular—75 percent of U.S. adults said they either ‘like a lot’ or ‘somewhat like’ fireworks, according to a 2021 YouGov poll. Football, meanwhile, ‘has been the top sport in Gallup polling since 1972,’ the pollster reported in 2024. Forty-one percent of adults identified football as their favorite sport to watch that year, giving it a 31-point lead over baseball.”"

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on X - "We're living in an era with fewer people in unions, while our economy is spitting out billionaires at a crazy rate. That's not a coincidence. I want more unions, more union members, and fewer billionaires."
This is very telling. Fewer people in unions means the economy is stronger, which means more billionaires. Left wingers want to destroy the economy just because they hurt rich people

Benny Johnson on X - "Meet Abdul El-Sayed's Sister.
-Hates the 4th of July and Fireworks
-Hates Thanksgiving
-Wishes for the downfall or the “US empire”
-Describes America as an “evil place”
These people just straight up hate this country, our traditions and the people who live here. Michigan must reject El-Sayed."
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries

Meme - The Jewish Idea: "There are no words to describe the depravity. On October 7th, as Hamas livestreamed their attrocities. This was Abdul El-Sayed sister's reaction. Horrific."
Sen. Bernie Sanders: "I absolutely condemn the horrifying attack on Israel by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. There is no justification for this violence, and innocent people on both sides will suffer hugely because of it. It must end now."
Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi: "What a disappointment. If you can't stand with a ppl that have been held in an open prison for 16 years finally fighting their oppressors, how can you claim to stand for justice?"

Chuck Ross on X - "REVEALED: Abdul El-Sayed proclaimed "obligation" to follow Sharia law until the day he dies story from @AndrewKerrNC @jessicaschwalb7"
Byron York on X - "This is from the 2009 NYT article about Islamic banking in which El-Sayed talked about his obligation to follow Shariah law, in this case with a Shariah-compliant home purchase."
Weird. We're told that there's no shariah law in the West. Why is he so ignorant?

Meme - Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: "My family's roots in mid-Michigan trace back to the early 1800s. I lived with Grandma and Grandpa during my time at Michigan. And they've always had my back. They mean the world to me <3 I'm honored to introduce them to you, too, in our new ad:"
Bonchie @bonchieredstate: "Just crazy how often this guy misleads people. On being a licensed doctor, on his radical views, and now this. His parents were both born in Egypt. These people are his stepmother's parents. Fine, but it's obvious he's trying to paint a false picture about his family ties.
But if he's gonna do non-biological family, here's another one."
"Abdul El-Sayed's Father-in-Law, a Top Donor to an El-Sayed Super PAC, Is Among Top Leaders of Muslim Brotherhood Organization Linked to Terror Funding" Batya Ungar-Sargon on X - "Abdul El Sayed won ZERO of the 15 counties with the lowest share of college degrees in his Michigan primary. ZERO."
Josh Howerton on X - "CS Lewis on why “dumb blue collar people” usually do not fall for the same terrible ideas that the “educated elite class” so often does:
“Why, you fool, it’s the educated readers who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they’re all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem: we have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the highbrow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe anything.” – CS Lewis, That Hideous Strength
… Or Romans 1: “Claiming to be wise, they became fools.”"
Left wingers hate the working class and poorly educated, after all

Greg Price on X - "Watters: "Do you think it's okay for a parent to slash his kid's ding-a-ling off?"
El-Sayed: "Are you circumcised?"
Watters: "Circumcision is different than castration.""
Melissa Chen on X - "Btw this is not a brain fart: El-Sayed obviously knows the difference between circumcision and castration. He just can’t say it out loud without pissing off the trans activists who make up his base now. This is pure queers for palestine brain rot and it’s hilarious watching Muslim DSA types get caught out in non-Euclidean moral geometries that collapse the moment anyone measures them. Because he is locked into defending every absurd piece of gender ideology, he can’t actually answer Jesse Waters’ simple question of whether he supports gender-affirming care for under 18 year olds. So his pivoting to “what about circumcision” is just a tactic to appear as gender-affirming as he possibly can"
TRA logic: there's nothing wrong with castrating kids

Meme - Johan Christian Sollid @sollidnuclear: "Everyone dunking on French nuclear this week while the big red rectangle just sits there doing its job"
"Public net electricity generation in France in week 26 2026
Solar *highly variable*
Nuclear *very constant with barely a blip*
Wind offshore *highly variable*
Wind onshore *highly variable*"
AtomicAstrid @AtomicAstrid: "Just an insane amount of headlines due to a tiny tiny dip - people want nuclear to be intermittent, they like it when they get this confirmation"
Keywords: jellyfish, nuclear provides stable energy

Alex Hollings on X - "Doing a deep dive into the Virginia class, and the more I read about stuffing a 30 megawatt nuclear reactor into a metal tube packed with 140 people that’s underwater for 90 days at a time, the more annoyed I get at the nuclear power naysayers here on land."
PoIiMath on X - "If I were to become obsessed with pushing one single issue, I think it would be around nuclear power. Nuclear power is such a tremendous good in so many ways and, if the industry thought there was a real future to this tech, we would see an explosion in innovation around both scale and safety. We could be at 90% clean energy in 30 years if we had the political will to do so"
Andrew Follett on X - "Nuclear is so unbelievably important because it would make energy so cheap that you could literally suck carbon out of air to make gasoline as a primary power source. Imagine how much we could do for humanity if all the hundreds of billions pumped into pointless wind and solar annually were put into nuclear fission/fusion. This is a power source that eliminates almost all environmental problems, allows interplanetary space travel, and let's you easily build space colonies. The skepticism towards fission/fusion is ridiculous....whereas there's no skepticism at ALL towards wind and solar! The last year has been an amazing one for nuclear, easily the best of my life. But that really shows just how much of a "fix everything easily" button nuclear power is."

Meme - Yellowbull @Yellowbull11: ""Nuclear power plants take too long to build" Once in operation they can produce clean energy for 80+ years at ~90% capacity factor. In those 80+ years, you would need to replace equivalent solar and wind capacity up to 3-4 times "But they're too expensive" No they're not"
"Figure 31: LCOE fails to capture the full benefit of 80-year clean firm operating assets. LCOE during capital recovery period (~30 years). During a nuclear plant's first ~30 years of operations, paying back debt and equlty investments is reflected in a higher initial LCOE
Generating costs after capital repayment ~50 years). However, once nuciear plants are paid off they generate power for the remainder of their lifetime with low and predictable operating costs"

Meme - Phil Labonte @philthatremains: "the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution"
Zack Kanter @zackkanter: "One huge drawback of nuclear power is that it doesn't dismantle systems of oppression - it only produces clean energy. This makes it unsuitable for solving the climate crisis, which isn't just about the environment."
The left wing agenda is all connected

Meme - The Future Is Nuclear: "Buffy The Job Slayer, round 2: Jobs that can be destroyed by an energy source that uses ten times less raw materials, 1000 times less land area, is three times more reliable and has three times the service life, deserve to be destroyed."
"New Swiss nuclear plants could put thousands of renewables jobs at risk. If nuclear power stations were to be authorised again in Switzerland, this would have a negative impact on employment in the construction and renewable energy sectors."
Left wingers believe in featherbedding after all

Yishan on X - "A key stat that every environmentalist who is serious about solving climate change should know: The US Navy has put into operation over 400 nuclear reactors without a single failure that resulted in any radioactive release. That is equivalent to the entire total number of civilian reactors deployed worldwide, but the Navy’s reactors are literally deployed in BOATS IN THE WATER, that continually move, rock, get shot at, etc. There are non-trivial engineering challenges, but the core reality is that safe, clean, abundant nuclear is a matter of political will, intelligence, and organizational culture."

Meme - Kilian Loser: Translated from German - "Anti-nuclear power folks tell the fairy tale of "not usable in summer" But then get salty when one shares the graphic here."
"I will never forgive the Greens, the Greens, and the violence-ready green milieu."
"Tagliche Stromproduktion, Mitte Juni bis Anfang Juli 2026
*high and relatively stable nuclear energy* *low and very unstable wind energy*"

Meme - Isabelle @isabelleboemeke: "People when fossil fuel waste is stored in the air they breath" *sleeping*
"People when nuclear waste is stored in indestructible sealed caskets, underground in seismologically inactive rock" *waking up and upset*

Facebook - ""The costs are a joke." That's not a nuclear critic talking. That's David Keith — a physicist and one of the hosts of Energy vs. Climate — describing what the Western world has done to nuclear construction costs. Reactors that used to be built for around $2,500 per kilowatt (in today's dollars) now routinely come in at $20,000 per kilowatt or more. The physics hasn't changed. The technology hasn't gotten fundamentally harder. But somewhere along the way — through regulatory changes, lost institutional knowledge, one-off rather than serial construction, and the stop-start political cycles that drive up financing costs — we forgot how to build them cheaply. "We've unlearned," David says. That gap is the central problem for nuclear in Canada and the rest of the Western world. The latest episode of Energy vs. Climate — The Nuclear Option: A Canadian Reality Check — digs into it directly. Link: https://www.energyvsclimate.com/nuclear-option-canadian-reality-check/"
Left wing logic: make nuclear energy prohibitively expensive with endless regulation, then proclaim that nuclear energy is too expensive and should not be used

Oat milk is killing the planet - "“Milk Pour” might also like to consider, before their next student farce on the shop floor, the UN Environment Programme’s conclusion that “pastoralism is increasingly recognised as one of the most sustainable production systems on the planet and plays a major role in safeguarding ecosystems and biodiversity in natural grasslands and rangelands”. Extolling “plant-based” as a worldwide cure is senseless. It is nothing but Western cultural imperialism, missionary veganism... While the media obligingly laps up the Milk Pour stunts, the heads of the alt-milk firms must feel like fat cats who have got all the synthetic cream. The protests are a convenient diversion from the crass environmental profile of their own products, now drunk by one in three Britons, and worth £400 million a year. Take almond milk. Or maybe not, if you value biodiversity — hell, even if you even fancy a drink of water. Industrialised almond agriculture requires five litres of the blue stuff to produce a single nut. A litre of almond milk drink requires 158 litres of water, or 20 times as much as dairy. Such has been the millennial demand — almond milk is the most popular alt-milk — that California, which produces 80% of the world’s almonds in its arid Central Valley, saw land planted with almond trees grow from 1,958 square kilometres to 6,475 square kilometres over the last 20 years. The result? Drought, desertification, and almond-growers having to grub up their trees due to lack of water. It gets worse... Animal Rebellion? When vegans drink almond milk, they are complicit in Animal Extinction. What about uber-trendy coconut milk? Well, coconut trees only grow in tropical climates. Western demand is causing the exploitation of workers in poorer nations: just ask a small farmer in the Philippines or Indonesia on $2 a day for back-breaking work. And, er, what about the food miles? Or the destruction of rainforests? It’s not just coconut milk that’s guilty on this front. Large swathes of the Amazon have been burned to make way for soy farms, and the soy goes into alt-milk as well as the cattle feed. But don’t be fooled into thinking the solution is to start growing them closer to home, in the northern hemisphere. Of the soybeans grown in the US, 94% are genetically engineered... A study published in the Journal of Applied Animal Nutrition suggests that cow milk is far more sustainable for the planet than “milk alternatives”, especially soya-based ones, and especially if the cows are in UK systems based on grass. According to the lead author, Professor Mike Wilkinson: if you’re a British consumer, “drinking milk from cows in the UK uses 11 times less soya than consuming drinks made directly from soya”. But maybe oat milk, most famously purveyed by Swedish company Oatly, is the great white hope of vegan faux dairy? Oats are grown in cooler climes such as the northern US, Canada and Scotland — and are therefore not associated with deforestation in developing countries. Alas, the negative of this would-be guilt-free option is that most oats come from highly industrialised operations in which they are sprayed with none other than Roundup. A study by the Environmental Working Group, an American public health organisation, found glyphosate in 43 of 45 foods it tested containing conventionally grown oats — while the Pesticide Action Network reported in 2019 that 94% of oats tested contained residues of more than one pesticide. Oatly insist that their alt-milk products are glyphosate free. You would hope so at the price. Oatly Whole Drink costs £2.00 per litre. As they sloshed dairy milk about the floor of Waitrose, complaining about “the cost of living crisis”, Animal Rebellion might have considered real milk rather than quaffing alt-milk? I mean, Waitrose’s top-end Duchy organic dairy milk is 99p a litre — a 50% saving right there. And surely, any halfway-credible protestors against conspicuous consumption would have targeted the cartons of Rude Health Chilled Organic Almond Drink at £2.40 litre? Oh truly, for those of us who believe that sustainable livestock farming is a boon for nature, human health and cutting CO2, vegan alt-milk is the comedy gift that just keeps giving. That Rude Health drink contains 1% almonds and is essentially rice and water. Frankly, it has close to zero nutritional value, and is essentially sugary flavoured water. For £2.40 litre. And it ain’t doing much for the environment. Early Oatly adverts also suggested that by drinking oat milk instead of dairy you personally can save a whopping 73% of your total greenhouse emissions. No, you cannot. The claim is based on Oatly’s estimate that their milk generates 0.44kg of CO2 per litre compared to dairy milk’s 1.58kg. This figure is based on methane metrics that have been shown to be biased against animal foods, ignore the fact that dairy cows also end up in the human food chain as meat (reducing other CO2 food demands), and do not account for livestock pasture’s carbon sequestration. Then you have the overwhelming problem in standard calculations of how much greenhouse gas food emits: the sums are based on gas per food kilos or food calories. Calculations based on food quality, rather than quantity, make for very different answers. As Jayne Buxton notes in her comprehensive survey of vegan food, The Great Plant-Based Con (2022), when the metric used is CO2 per micronutrient content, the footprint of dairy milk is less than a third of that of oat milk... in the case of Oatly, the “milk” comes with added rape seed oil, phosphates (linked to kidney disease) and sugar. After being called out by Campbell Soup, of all people, Oatly deftly decided to stop marketing its oat milks as containing “no added sugars”, because its convoluted ultra-production process — in that inhuman machine — breaks down oat starch into simple sugars, primarily maltose. So you get 7g of sugar with a single serving of Oatly Original. Hence US blogger Nat Eliason’s famous assertion that Oatly is “The New Coke”. People are getting rich off the faux white stuff. "

The hidden cost of almond milk: ‘Exploited and disrespected’ bees are dying by the billions | National Post - "Used with a heavier hand on almond orchards than any other Californian crop, researchers have found that pesticides — such as glyphosate (an active ingredient in Roundup) — are the leading cause of colony collapse disorder, but they’re not the only threat facing the pollinators."
International Study Reveals Glyphosate Weed Killers Cause Multiple Types of Cancer

Milk vs Oat Milk - "One of the biggest and most important differences between oat milk’s nutrition and dairy milk is the nutrient profile. Oat milk provides fewer nutrients than dairy milk, and most of the nutrients it provides are fortified. That means they’re added during manufacturing, as opposed to occurring naturally. Specifically, dairy milk provides 13 essential nutrients in each 8-ounce glass (protein, calcium, vitamin D, vitamin A, phosphorus, vitamin B 12, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, niacin, zinc, iodine, selenium, and potassium); a glass of original oat milk has five (calcium, vitamin D, vitamin A, riboflavin and iron). Apart from iron, all of the nutrients in oat milk are fortified. While dairy milk is fortified with vitamins A and D, the rest of its nutrients occur naturally, making it a naturally nutrient-rich choice. Apart from providing more nutrients overall, dairy milk also has about twice the protein as oat milk"

There's no such thing as a green vegan - "Plants draw nitrogen from the ground as they grow, and, in the wild, when the plants die, then back this nitrogen is returned to the ground. Without enough nitrogen, a crop will be weak and the harvest poor. This poses a challenge for farmers: how do we replenish the soil to keep crops healthy year after year? In the medieval system of farming, fields were left “fallow” — that is, left to rest — every third year. This mimicked the natural process of plant matter rotting back into the soil, which thus recovered enough nitrogen to support crops in subsequent years. Then, some centuries ago, European farmers discovered that digging in animal manure and planting nitrogen-fixing “cover crops” such as clover over the winter had the same effect as leaving land fallow. Farming productivity boomed: over the century to 1770 agricultural output grew faster than the population. Then, after the Second World War, an even swifter way of adding nitrogen to soil was discovered. In an invention that revolutionised farming worldwide, Fritz Haber found a way to synthesise nitrogen fertiliser by using heat and pressure to create ammonia from air. Without the need to keep livestock for manure, or to mix crops in order to refresh the soil, farms increasingly specialised and consolidated — with steadily climbing yields — over much of the twentieth century. Fritz Haber described his method as a way of creating “bread from air” — but the move to inorganic fertiliser has not been cost-free. The consolidation of farms into single-crop production has had a catastrophic effect on biodiversity both large and small, while nitrogen fertiliser has also degraded the soil. Without the annual addition of nitrogen-fixing cover crop roots and soil-nourishing animal manure, topsoil fertilised with inorganic compounds gradually loses structure, health and microbial diversity and begins to erode. An inch of topsoil takes 500 years to accrue by natural processes. But since the advent of nitrogen fertiliser, according to the University of Sheffield, a third of the world’s arable land has been lost to pollution or erosion. All that nitrogen-heavy topsoil, running out to sea via the rivers, in turn affects the oceans: there is now a 6,000 square mile “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, created by runoff from industrial farming practices. Returning to the green credentials of alt-meat, then: if we are to replace meat with a plant-based alt-meat, we still need to grow those plants. Whether to make the sugar syrup used to grow Quorn mushrooms in vats or the soy and potato proteins that form the basis of an Impossible Burger, those plants need to grow in fields somewhere. If we abolish livestock farming altogether and rewild the hillsides, we remove livestock from the farming equation. That means no manure for the fields. How are we to fertilise all the soya, pea, grain and potato crops that form the raw inputs for alt-meat? It is not at all clear that swapping industrial beef feedlots for nitrogen-fertilised plant monocultures will do much to ensure long-term soil and ocean health and biodiversity. The champions of alt-meat have no conclusive answer to this, suggesting only that governments should fund research into less destructive animal-free fertilisers than inorganic nitrogen compounds. Could human “manure” fill the gap? It might not be enough: the Sustainable Food Trust indicates that some 75% of sewage sludge is already recycled in this way in Britain, but nitrogen fertiliser use is still rising... If soil health is included in the picture, animals and their manure are not a barrier to sustainable farming but rather an integral part of food security. But fixating on carbon emissions and alt-meat is an appealing distraction from intractable questions around species loss, topsoil degradation and nitrate pollution in monoculture farming."

What vegan propaganda ignores - "lower case veganism. Sensible, and sensitive. The problem comes with majuscule Veganism, which rages beyond animal ethics, diet and environmental concerns into a fundamentalist crusade untroubled by science, untouched by rationality. When humans killed God, they needed a replacement for religion. Upper-case Veganism is the latest faith for the lost middle classes. A certain proof is offered by THIS IS VEGAN PROPAGANDA (& OTHER LIES THE MEAT INDUSTRY TELLS YOU) by animal rights activist Ed Winters, published by Vermillion this salutary month. A cursory glance down the contents list is sufficient taster of Veganism’s salvationism: “Veganism is the Moral Baseline,” “Our Past Shows Us Why Veganism Must Be Our Future,” “There’s No Such Thing as a Happy Farm Animal” (if you go to the website of Veganuary, there is a photograph of a woman petting a cute cow; if the cow is not contented, then Veganuary is exploiting the cow. ) “Veganism Could Save Your Life,” “A Vegan World Would Be Better for Everyone.”... Veganism, in rejecting our animal essential, elevates us above the creatures of the earth. It is speciesism disguised as correct-thinking. Ironically, we would not be the verbal, intelligent humans of Vegan perfectibility without meat. Harvard University evolutionary biologists Katherine Zink and Daniel Lieberman, nailed that truth in their paper “Impact of meat and Lower Paleolithic food processing techniques on chewing in humans,” Nature, 2016: “Whatever selection pressures favored these shifts [the bigging of the brain, development of speech], they would not have been possible without increased meat consumption combined with food processing technology.” As with any half-decent religion, Veganism has an end-of-Eden story. “Huge amounts of the forests of the UK have,” Winters writes, “over time, been cleared and replaced with grass pastures to feed artificially produced, selectively bred animals, all so we can produce what is an absurdly damaging product.” (He means meat.) But are grass pastures intrinsically ecologically evil? Hardly. A traditional hay meadow can boast 40 different plant species per square metre — one of the most botanically rich habitats you are ever likely to find. Grazing by livestock is essential to their biodiversity; without grazing, the trees and the most vigorous grasses take over. Just don’t expect a Vegan to tell you this... a cow produces, via its poo, a fifth of its own body weight in insects annually. In the British countryside an upwards chain of wild creatures feed on said insects, culminating in the apex predator, the fox (a determined scavenger of beetles in dung.) There are dung beetles which actually specialise in types of farmyard manure, such as Onthophagus joannae, which favours sheep poo. Get rid of the poo, and you get rid of the dung beetles. Why the decline in swallows in arable East Anglia where bovines are a rare sight? Not enough cow shit, in all likelihood. What you can expect from a Vegan is the catechism that meat and dairy take up 83% of global agricultural land and provide only 18% of global calories. But there is good reason for the planetary extent of livestock. About two thirds of farmland is “marginal,” meaning little apart from grass and scrub will grow there because it is too dry, too steep, too rocky, too wet, too wind-blown. As a Masai cattle-herder and a Shetland shepherd will delight in explaining, livestock are extremely efficient when it comes to transforming stuff humans cannot eat into tasty stuff they can. Veganism knows the cost of livestock farming, but not its value; it knows the value of plant-based food, but not its cost. Not all the soya for which Brazilian rainforest is felled goes into cattle feed, it goes into “meat free” burgers too. The intensively farmed arable lands of East Anglia — which grow the Vegan’s daily bread — suffer soil erosion to the tune of tonnes per acre annually. A recent study in the Environmental Science & Policy journal calculated that about 3.07 tonnes of soil are lost per hectare of agricultural land per annum in Europe, with the vast bulk coming off crop-land. At that rate Vegans will die of hunger before they drown in the rising sea of climate change. Ah, climate change. Will Veganism save the planet by killing off methane-emitting farm animals? Ruminants do indeed produce methane, but then so does rice; methane from rice farming causes 3% of anthropogenic global warming. Ruminant methane from grazing cows, however, is virtuously recycled into the soil by being broken down into CO2 and absorbed by new grass. Unlike the methane produced by water-logged paddies. If the Vegan dire prophecies scare you, it’s worth mentioning that seaweed additives for cattle may reduce emissions by 82%. We cannot eat our way out of climate change by going Vegan. Professor Frank Mitloehner of the University of California, a world expert on air quality, calculates that if the entirety of the US were to go vegan for one year, the overall reduction of greenhouse gas emissions would amount to 2%. Something. But not the salvation of the planet. And again, will no one consider the costs? Consider this: when did the West start getting ill? In the Seventies, when Western governments issued nutritional advice that demonised the saturated fats in meat, dairy and eggs and promoted carbohydrates as healthy food. The consequence is an epidemic of obesity. Winters talks about the “meat industry” as a monolith that puts profits before people, but what about the Vegan industry? Investors are pouring billions into alt-meat and dairy brands... If they really do care about the environment, they should celebrate January by ditching the trainers in favour of a pair of leather shoes; synthetic trainers cause 1.4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Then cancel the flight to Amsterdam; two years of Veganism would be required to offset the trip. Hell, buy a woollen jumper too, instead of a nylon one; nylon manufacture creates nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 310 times more potent than carbon dioxide. And then put back the supermarket’s Jasmine rice from Thailand, and tuck into a slice of local organic beef"

Sama Hoole on X - "The crime they see: 15,415 litres of water to produce one kilogram of beef. Every campaign, every documentary, every leaflet through the door since about 2012.
The crime they do: not reading the paper.
The figure is real. It comes from Mekonnen and Hoekstra at the University of Twente, and it is careful, peer-reviewed work. What the campaigns strip out is that the same authors split that number into three parts, because the three parts are not the same thing at all. Green water is rain. It falls on the grass. The cow eats the grass. For beef, green water is about 94 per cent of that headline. Blue water is the stuff that matters. Rivers, lakes, aquifers. The stuff that gets pumped, metered, fought over in court, and does not come back. So here is the blue water, in litres per kilogram, from the same authors, same method, same units.
- Pistachios: 7,602
- Almonds: 3,816
- Walnuts: 2,451
- Dates: 1,250
- Cashews: 921
- Beef: 550
Read that last line again, then go and look at what is in your granola. The 15,415 counts rain that fell on a Welsh hillside as a cost, against an animal that was standing in it, on land where nothing else grows, in a country where rain is the one thing we have never once been short of. The pistachio is drinking fourteen times more of the water that actually runs out. She is outside in the rain right now, getting blamed for it."
Jari Sulkimo on X - The cows tend to urinate also so the "water" goes back into circulation and nature's filtration system. It's a strange idea that somehow 15000 liters would accumulate in the cows bladder."

Arguing Online

2026-10-03T09:53:00.000+08:00

Guy: "YOUR DESIGN WILL NEVER WORK BECAUSE SCIENCE HAS PROVEN THAT PLASTIC WILL EXPLODE AT ROOM TEMPERATURE."

Dilbert: "I ... DON'T BELIEVE THAT IS TRUE."

Guy: "GOOD GOLLY, MAN! DO YOU EVER READ A BOOK ?!!"

Dilbert: "WELL, YES, BUT I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING ABOUT EXPLODING PLASTIC."

MAYBE YOU COULD SEND ME A LINK TO A RELEVANT STUDY."

Guy: "DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH! I DON'T WORK FOR YOU!"

Dilbert: "WHEN I DON'T FIND IT, WILL YOU CLAIM THE PROBLEM IS MY RESEARCH SKILLS?"

Dilbert: "WELL, WILL YOU?"

Guy thinking: "HE'S ONTO ME"

Links - 2nd October 2026 (2 - More Births/Fertility)

2026-10-02T21:52:05.665+08:00

Rapid Fertility Decline Is an Existential Crisis - "Few countries remain above replacement—except for those in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia. Furthermore, fertility rates are declining more significantly and, importantly, at a faster pace than anyone anticipated a few years ago. This trend is evident in both wealthy and poor nations, in religious and secular states, in countries with right-wing governments, as well as those with left-wing governments, and in nations with free abortion access and those with restrictive abortion laws. Pick any country at random from a world map, and the chances are high that its fertility rate is falling rapidly. In the Americas, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, only Haiti, Honduras, Bolivia, Paraguay, and a handful of small Caribbean nations are on pace to exceed replacement levels in 2025—and only slightly. The region’s demographic giants—the US, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Canada—are already significantly below replacement. Notably, as of early 2025, the US has a higher fertility rate than Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Canada... Between 1991 and 2019, Japan’s GDP grew at an annual rate of 0.83%, significantly lower than the US rate of 2.53%. The main driver of their weak economic performance? Japan’s dramatic demographic collapse... The consequences of significantly slower output growth will be severe for the US economy. While we consider output growth per capita when assessing welfare (and output per capita growth will not decline as sharply as total output growth), total output growth is crucial for addressing the funding of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, servicing our public debt, and financing our armed forces in the face of increasing international competition. Once we begin to contemplate the fiscal implications of a declining population, it becomes difficult to focus on anything else. When I reach this point in seminars, lectures, or media interviews, I invariably receive three questions: climate change, immigration, and artificial intelligence... A stable or slowly declining population can help ease pressure on the environment and facilitate the transition to net-zero CO2 emissions. However, a collapsing population, like the ones we are likely to encounter given current fertility rates, will generate so many fiscal problems that there will be no room left in government budgets for environmental concerns... The US has a welfare state. This means that those individuals who are below 60th percentile or so of the income distribution are net receivers of funds from the government during their lifetime (i.e., the net present value of what they contribute less than what they receive later in life, like Social Security and Medicare), those between the 60th and 90th percentile are approximately net zero contributors, and only at the top 10th percentiles are net contributors. In other words, all immigrants that come to the US are below the 90th percentile and won’t help solve the fiscal woes created by low fertility. European countries that have the detailed databases required to compute these numbers carefully have found that not even the second-generation (i.e., the sons of immigrants born in the country) is a net contributor to the welfare state. We need to assess immigration policy based on various factors in addition to its fiscal implications. My argument is more modest: “If you think that raising the number of low- and middle-skill immigrants will solve the long-term fiscal issues facing the US, you are mistaken.”... This is Moravec’s Paradox: programming computers to perform tasks that most humans consider very difficult (e.g., advanced math) is much easier than programming them to carry out tasks that most humans find trivial (e.g., making a bed). Unfortunately, the problems we will face due to the falling population, such as the need for old-age care, require skills like making a bed and not doing advanced math. So, what can the US do to address the fertility crisis? This is the one-quadrillion-dollar question (yes, tackling fertility has an impact measured in discounted terms of quadrillions of dollars, not just small change like a miserly trillion dollars here or there)... Returning to the topic of climate change, many young people are deeply concerned that we face extinction due to this issue. While I share the concern about climate change, it’s not at the level of urgency of our fertility crisis: we have already developed the technologies needed to transition to net zero emissions. The current challenge lies mainly in political implementation. This will require effort and may lead to more damage to the planet than what an ideal policy would have caused, but I believe we will achieve this goal. The true economic challenge of our time, for humanity overall and the US specifically, is the fertility crisis. Let’s get to work on it—as soon as possible."

Thread by @MoreBirths on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "A recent study found that giving men a pay raise led them to have more children, while giving women a pay raise led them to have fewer children. 🧵.
For women, the effect of a pay raise was significantly reduced future fertility. A pay increase at 25 was associated with a large decrease in fertility at age 30, regardless of the skill level. For men, a pay increase was associated with persistently higher fertility. Why? The authors argue that "the substitution effect between children and labor supply is dominating for women while the income effect is dominating for men." Since childcare falls more on women, the competition between work and family is greater for women than for men. Policies which set out to combat pay disparities between men and women may therefore be inadvertently pushing fertility downward."
Nate Schlomann on X - "Civilization literally lives when you give men more money and dies when you give women more money. Literally. That's the Natural Law. And it is screaming at us."
Another disadvantage of equal pay

Thread by @cremieuxrecueil on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Wow! Across basically all of Europe, people at higher income levels are now *more likely* to become parents! This is a stunning shift! Among men, this relationship goes a while back now, and in several places, the income gradient has gotten more extreme. Among women, there are some recent crossover events, where the low-income used to be more likely parents than the rich, but now it's different. The authors' preferred explanation for this is that the cost to start childbearing has increased. That's unfortunate, but knowing that means it is at least addressable!"

'We Can’t Even Afford to Have Sex': China’s New Condom Tax Draws Ire | TIME - "The Chinese government is testing out a new solution to falling birth rates: making sex more expensive. Consumers will pay a 13% value-added tax on contraceptive drugs and products, including condoms, beginning Jan. 1, as part of China’s newly revised Value-Added Tax Law. Those products have been exempted from tax since 1993 as part of China’s one-child policy, which heavily penalized families for having more than one child from 1980 to 2015. As the country’s birth rate has fallen in recent years, the government has turned to seeking to boost birth rates with a range of incentives and subsidies... China remains one of the most expensive countries in the world to raise children relative to household income. A 2024 report from the YuWa Population Research Institute in Beijing found that the cost of raising a child until the age of 18 is more than 538,000 yuan ($76,000)... China has also introduced measures to curb the number of abortions not deemed “medically necessary,” as part of guidelines announced in 2021"

Meme - Way of the World @wayotworld: "While the West is dying out, its huge aid programmes are fuelling massive population growth in a continent that cannot even feed itself."
Civixplorer @civixplorer: "Nigeria currently has more births per year than all blue countries combined.
6.3 million births per year *Europe including Asian Russia*
7.5 million births per year *Nigeria*"

Thread by @cremieuxrecueil on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "About a decade ago, a theory emerged: If men do more of the housework and child care, fertility rates will rise! Men have been doing increasingly large shares of the housework and child care. Fertility is lower than ever. In fact, they're doing more in each generation, but fertility has continued to fall. The original claim, that men's household work would buoy fertility, was based on cross-sectional data that was inappropriately given a causal interpretation. The updated cross-sectional data is as useful, and it affords no assurances about the original idea. We should move on. Source:"

James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ on X - "Since 2006, South Korea's government has spent $270bn, or just over 1% of GDP a year, on babymaking incentives. Here's the dismal result:"
ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 on X - "Lee Kuan Yew on why Government Policies aimed at increasing the birth rate which pay people money to have children will fail “If I were in charge of Singapore today, I would introduce a baby bonus equal to two years' worth of the average Singaporean's salary. The sum would be enough to see the child through to the start of primary school at least. Would I expect the number of babies to increase substantially? No. I am convinced that even super-size monetary inducements would only have a marginal effect on fertility rates. But I would still go ahead and offer the bonus, for at least a year, just to prove beyond any doubt that our low birth rates have nothing to do with economic or financial factors, such as high cost of living or lack of government help for parents. They are instead the result of changed lifestyles and mindsets. … Once women are educated and have equal job opportunities, they no longer see their primary role as bearing children or taking care of the household. They want to be able to pursue their careers fully just as men have always been able to. They have very different expectations about whether or whom they should marry because they are financially independent. There is no turning back the clock, unless we want to stop educating women.”"
Clearly, they just didn't spend enough money

More Births on X - "An extraordinary relationship: The lower the share of households in a metro area that live in an apartment, the higher the birthrate will tend to be!"
Why left wingers want to force everyone to live in an apartment with a land tax

Thread by @lefineder on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - ""In 2007, Patriarch Ilia II of the Georgian Orthodox Church made a decision: facing a country with a declining population...the church leader announced that he would personally baptize and become godfather to any third-or-high Orthodox child born to a married couple in Georgia" This shifted the Country of Georgia to above-replacement fertility. The effect is concentrated on third or higher births."

Carl on X - "My big problem with this argument (that people don't have kids because kids are too expensive) is: On average, poor people have MORE kids than rich people! Explain that Mustache Man!"

More Births on X - "A stunning visual by demographer Philip Cohen. Nearly all countries that fell below replacement fertility are still stuck below 2.1 today. The only exceptions are Mongolia and Kazakhstan. What is it about 🇲🇳 and 🇰🇿? Both are purposefully pronatal and honor mothers of many kids."

Wilfred Reilly on X - "This is an obvious but rarely made point. It's not cost alone, or primarily, that is causing the fertility crisis: people had far more kids when incomes were much lower. The proximate cause is the use of "onanist alternatives" to having procreative sex - birth control, Plan B, for that matter pornography. But, a big reason for THAT is that motherhood is often considered low-status in developed countries: in an odd twist, both feminists and aggressive male executives CONSTANTLY attack housewives and good moms as "do nothings." Changing this, with an ~10 year campaign to emphasize the social value of motherhood, the fact that home management is a 40-50 hour a week job, the idea of the guys being involved fathers (!!!), etc would raise birth rates. This isn't theoretical - one of probably a dozen national examples appears below."

Meme - Paul Vanitas @Dr_Vanitas_: "Germans stopped having kids and are getting cats and dogs instead. Dogs now outnumber children < 10 years of age in Germany. I'm not judging; everyone should be free to choose the lifestyle they want for themselves, But my personal opinion is that this outcome is sad."
"Dogs now outnumber children < 10 years in Germany"

Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA on X - "Your ancestors lived in mud huts, and still had children."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "This is the basic problem with "kids are too relatively expensive." The claim doesn't even make sense. People aren't having kids because they get married at 33, and gibberish theories like "gentle parenting" make it an annoying pain in the ass."
Plus, poor people have more kids. But of course, expanding the state in terms of regulations and spending pushes the left wing agenda, so

'No-kids' holiday venue? Think again, says France - "While Paris is considered one of the most child-friendly cities in the world, more and more venues in France have been shunning children in an effort to shield customers from kids' unpredictable behaviour and noise. The government on Tuesday held a roundtable meeting with key industry players to discuss a trend that France's high commissioner for childhood, Sarah El Hairy, has said should end. Socialist senator Laurence Rossignol has introduced a bill that would make it illegal to ban children from venues in France. "Children are not a nuisance," said Rossignol, adding that the bill is aimed at promoting "a society that is open to children"... El Hairy said excluding children was infringing on their rights, putting pressure on their parents and dividing society. "There is a growing intolerance, and we must not allow it to take hold," El Hairy told broadcaster RTL. "We are pushing children and families out, and in a way, this is real violence," she added... In France, adult-only services are currently limited. According to estimates from a travel industry union, they represented around three percent of the market in 2024... the government's High Council for Family, Children and Age (HCFEA) warned about the lack of spaces for children, pointing to the "harmful consequences for their physical and mental health"."

John B. Holbein on X - "Do people who belong to right-wing political parties have more babies? This paper takes a look at this important question in Western Europe. In some places--like Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, and Spain, right-leaning people do have more babies than left-leaning. But in many other places, this pattern isn't present! Right and left-leaning people have similar number of babies. Fascinating!"

Felix Helberg on X - ""More than half the drop in America’s total fertility rate is explained by women under the age of 19 now having next to no children.""

‘One and done’: How Britain became a single-child nation - "having just one child is increasingly seen as an enviable choice rather than a consolation prize – and perhaps the best chance women today have of achieving that old adage of “having it all.” In a study of 35,000 Danes, parents of only children were found to be happier than anyone else, while European data showed that only 17 per cent of women moved to part-time work after one child, compared with more than 30 per cent of those with two. Indeed, many millennials are looking for a way to have children while retaining their social lives and careers – along with the time, money and freedom to travel, go to concerts, the theatre and out to dinner. Of course, this often also means staying in hugely expensive cities like London, where upgrading to a bigger home is all but impossible... A lack of grandparents living nearby also contributed to their decision. Millennials, more than any previous generation, are likely to live in a different part of the country from their parents. This not only means a lack of childcare support but can also make those first few destabilising months with a newborn feel incredibly isolating. Without the support networks older generations took for granted, the thought of a second child can feel impossible... For Stuart Gietel-Basten, a professor of social science at Hong Kong University who studies family size, this shift is also happening because couples are doing something relatively novel – asking themselves exactly why they are having children. “If the answer is about passing on genes or loving someone deeply, then these evolutionary or anthropological needs can easily be met by one child,” he says. “And nowadays, it is very rare for that child to die, so you can be confident you will have them for the rest of your life.”... “Most people I spoke to said they have the first baby for themselves and the subsequent baby for their existing child,” says Sandler. “But that premise is flawed, as there is no evidence that a child with siblings is better off.”"

The chart that shows Europe is doomed - "Clearly the rise of the smartphone and the transformation of social norms are part of the answer, but what is also apparent is that desired fertility in most European democracies is higher than the current fertility rate. In the UK, for example, surveys indicate the existence of a strong “birth gap” with women wanting on average 2.35 children rather than the 1.41 fertility rate reported in 2024. This massive gap, found in most European countries, should be at the heart of European politics. The countless debates this continent has had on Brexit, immigration or even the war in Ukraine will be deemed to be largely secondary by future historians relative to the demographic question we have been avoiding. And yet few politicians in Western Europe had taken this existential issue seriously. For decades talking about fertility was once deemed to be slightly paternalistic in polite society, or irrelevant when not outrightly compared with fascist regimes of the past. The tone has shifted somewhat in the last five years. In 2024, French president Emmanuel Macron stated that “demographic rearmament” was a national priority. Prime minister Giorgia Meloni created a minister in charge of birth rates and said in 2023: “we want to give Italians back a nation in which being a father is not out of fashion and being a mother is not a private choice but a socially recognised value.”... For all the economic and political implications, it is important to remember that a childless continent will not just be smaller, poorer, and older; it will also be lonelier and sadder."

hyper(bolic) disco(unting) girl on X - "this is going to sound terminally authority-brained but at some level i find it amazing that you can just get pregnant and create a new human being without any government regulation of the process"

ZUBY: on X - "I have never seen or heard a publicly proposed solution to this that would actually work. Not once. The truth is, you can't have widespread feminism AND high birth rates. And people have chosen implicitly that feminism is more important. Very few modern men or women have the appetite or will to cut back on these 'gains'. Including conservatives. There are other contributing factors, but this is the uncomfortable crux of the issue. You cannot have mass feminism (both in policy and culture) and high birth rates. They are opposing forces."
Andy Ujku-Dardania | Facebook - "And quite ironically, the biggest feminists out there and their so called “male allies” are the biggest proponents of both unfettered access to abortion and a wide encompassing welfare state. They just can’t or won’t put two and two together. You can’t have a generous welfare state by killing off or not reproducing the next generation that is needed to pay for it. These people are simply nihilistic hedonists who don’t care about the long term. They got the worst traits of their boomer or early Gen X parents. They want instant gratification and not have to worry about how it is paid for or any consequences thereafter. The post 1945 liberal democratic order is a house built on sand. It’s a highly unsustainable system propped up by massive debt/money printing… And the blessings of a high tech version of bread and circuses. Eventually it’ll run out of road. And the reckoning that will come with it will make life literally unbearable for a significant number of people. Stay strapped and batten down the hatches friends."

Meme - Andrew Torba @BasedTorba: "They always use the White people stock photos for antinatalist articles"
"Having children DOESN'T make you happy: Becoming a parent provides no boost to wellbeing, study claims - but it does ruin your relationship"

James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ on X - "'Being around babies makes people want babies. ... As fertility declines and infant exposure falls, the conditions that sustain the desire for children weaken, and the decline can become self-reinforcing.' @nberpubs"

To Improve U.S. Birth Rate, Give Parents Money and Time - The Atlantic
Amazingly, this doesn't even mention that poor people have more children, or that the US has higher fertility rate than other developed countries despite not giving parents time. Curious how the "solution" is pushing the left wing agenda

Liam Out Loud on X - "The Gender Gap No One Is Talking About:
- Young men and women are 30 points apart ideologically. 5x wider than 2000.
- Only 31% of young adults are dating. Less than a third.
- 0.6 liberal men for every liberal woman. 0.5 conservative women for every conservative man. Neither side can find what it's looking for.
- 60% of liberal women rank political alignment above a stable job in a partner.
- 63% of Americans say they'd struggle to date someone who voted differently.
- US fertility: 1.7. UK: 1.4. Italy: 1.1. Every Western nation below replacement.
- 62% of countries tried baby bonuses and tax incentives. Minimal effect.
They don't disagree about tax rates. They disagree about what this is all for."

With a record-low 1.25 children per Canadian woman, stop dismissing falling fertility rates as a choice - "A 2023 Cardus study found that Canadian women without kids wanted an average of 2.2 children, and expected to have 1.9. The reality is that they’re having far fewer than that, with Canada’s fertility rate hitting a record low of 1.25 as of 2024, putting it into the “ultra-low” category, a category that includes countries like South Korea and Japan. One reason researchers have found for the decrease in fertility rates is the rising prerequisite of parenthood, specifically, what would-be parents feel they need to be ready to have kids. That bar has risen drastically over the past few decades, and it correlates with all the costs we’ve been burdening young people with: high costs of education, expensive housing costs, and a shortage of family-sized rentals. Credential inflation is also to blame, stretching education well into the mid-20s. You’re much less likely to feel established enough in your career to have a child if you’re only just starting that career at 25. A 2025 Brookings study put data behind what a lot of parents already feel: that child-rearing has become an arms race of educational investment. Social media plays a huge role here, offering constant glimpses into the successes of your peers’ kids and the lives of parenting influencers, who all seem to have perfect Montessori-inspired nurseries, screen-free playrooms, and organic meals made from scratch every night. The message viewers take away is that anything less is falling short. The result is a feeling that having children is a project that requires perfect conditions to begin, and we know that the later people begin having kids, the harder it is to have them. That delay has been getting steadily worse for decades. The average age of a first-time mother has risen from 23.5 years in 1965 to 29.4 years in 2019, and even higher in B.C. and Ontario, home to Canada’s most expensive housing markets. Saskatchewan, with comparatively lower housing costs, still had the youngest first-time mothers in the country, at 27.3 years. The geography of delayed parenthood tracks almost perfectly with the geography of unaffordability. And since those numbers are now seven years old, with the cost of living only rising since, the delay has likely grown further. Anecdotally, we’ve noticed that society now treats having kids in your 20s as young, even though biologically, it isn’t. Part of what’s driving the shift is how dramatically the expectations of parenting have changed. A generation ago, eight-year-olds walked home to empty houses and made their own peanut butter sandwiches. Today, children are expected to be constantly supervised and enrolled in structured activities. That’s a significant increase in both the time and financial cost of raising kids, and it starts before they’re even born. One of the most meaningful policy-driven changes to the cost of parenting has been the introduction of universal childcare. It’s too early to measure its full impact on fertility rates, but we can get a sense of how it might play out from Quebec’s experience. In 1997, Quebec introduced $5-a-day subsidized childcare. A 2024 study looked at the results and found that for younger women aged 20 to 24, the reform increased the likelihood of having a first or second child by 7 percentage points. However, for women in their 30s, subsidized childcare actually decreased the probability of having more, by 5 to 7 percentage points. The theory is that affordable childcare made returning to work easier, and once women were back in the workforce, the opportunity cost of another pregnancy rose substantially. Policies can simultaneously decrease the cost of having children for some, while raising it for others. There’s a parallel here to the impact of home prices on fertility rates, where increased home values simultaneously made homeowners feel wealthy enough to have more children, while pricing out younger would-be parents who felt anything but secure... The 2026 World Happiness Report ranked Canadians 58th in the world for the freedom to make life choices, a dramatic drop from just a decade ago when the country was in 12th place. That’s an area worth taking seriously and fighting for improvement"

More Births on X - ""I don't know why people say the policies in Hungary didn't work. The trends are relatively healthy." -R.H. Efforts to raise birth rates (both in culture and in policy) do work! But there is no magic bullet, and you have work hard at it because many forces push fertility down."

Thread by @MoreBirths on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Elevating the Status of Motherhood Solves Low Birthrates: The Extraordinary Case of Mongolia For 68 years, Mongolian leaders have given the Order of Maternal Glory to mothers. This raised the status of motherhood and helped forge a remarkably pronatal culture. 🧵, please share!
Mongolia's pro-motherhood culture stands out on a fertility map. Fertility in Mongolia has consistently been 2-3 times(!) higher than neighboring areas in recent years and it has been increasing over the past 20 years, even as its neighbors have seen birthrates plunge!Mongolia's incomes are comparable its neighbors. It is urbanized. This is also not a case of religiously driven fertility: 🇲🇳 is primarily Buddhist and non-religious. This is about the status of motherhood. In 🇲🇳, the president himself gives an award to every mother of four! Mongolian mothers of six are presented with the Order of Glorious Motherhood, First Class. Second Class if you have four. Here celebrated mothers descend the steps of the State Palace in Ulaanbaatar on a red and gold carpet, the statue of Genghis Khan directly behind them.The Mongolian president holds separate ceremonies by district, in order to be able to give more personal attention to recipients. There is a cash award too, but it is just $60 for a mother of six. Clearly, this a story motherhood and status in Mongolian society.So important is this award that Mongolia's consulates are even tasked with conferring the award to Mongolian mothers abroad. Here, Mongolia's ambassador to the United Nations presents the award to a mother in Geneva.
Status around motherhood is a crucial and under-appreciated driver of birthrates. We have seen this elsewhere! By honoring parents, Patriarch Ilia of Georgia created a baby boom, something generous financial incentives elsewhere could not achieve.Status is incredibly important for most people, and we strive for status perhaps more than anything else. Status helps explain the paradox that as societies become richer, fertility usually drops. Even though absolute well-being has risen, living in a wealthy society offers no increase in relative status. In fact, the status competitions of modern life, like education and career, directly compete with family life. This also tracks with how in cultures where parenthood is elevated to high status, such as among religious subgroups like the Amish, Haredi Jews and traditionalist Catholics, fertility can be much, much higher. As well, this helps explain the remarkable fertility of England and Wales during Victorian Times. Queen Victoria, the personification of the era, both inherited and carried forward a culture that conferred high-status on motherhood in raising nine children.
In Korea meanwhile, the highest status people are childless, and culture is filled with every status competition but one around parenthood. The message is that we have to find a way to honor motherhood like our civilization depends on it. Mongolia helps show the way!"

The truth about population decline - "In general, the more prosperous the place or the people, the fewer the births. This is not just true across countries. Within India, the state of Tamil Nadu has the eighth highest GDP per head and a fertility rate of 1.8, while Bihar, with the 34th highest GDP per head, has a fertility rate of 3. Again, graduate women tend to have fewer children than non-graduates. Prosperity is the most powerful contraceptive of all. The explanation I addressed last week was the transformation in the role of women. But even that is part of a broader set of changes. Two others — urbanisation and mass education — also matter. The former moves people to places where land is relatively expensive. The latter transforms children from productive assets in the quite short term into costly long-term investments. Grown children may also now move far away from their parents. Modernity also creates capital markets, pensions and welfare states, all of which are a substitute for children’s financial support. Finally, it creates new pleasures, which compete with those of having children. We can see the effects of all these changes in the fertility data... should we be worried about the possibility of population falls in many places, perhaps ultimately for humanity as a whole? No, argues the British economist Lord Adair Turner. A favourite argument why the declining fertility rates are potentially catastrophic is that “dependency ratios” will soar. Measured in the normal way, as ratios of people over 65 to those aged 15-64, this is true. But this ignores the fall in the proportion of the young, many of whom are now dependent until their twenties. Overall dependency ratios will rise far less, except in the more extreme cases of low fertility. It also ignores the potential for people to work longer. In South Korea, 38 per cent of people over 65 were working in 2024, against a ludicrous 4 per cent in France. Furthermore, adds Turner, rising productivity, possibly accelerated by artificial intelligence, offers a way out. Note that people work far fewer hours than they did two centuries ago, because they are so vastly more productive than they used to be in, say, 1800. Thus, notes Turner, the share of available hours spent working after the age of 15 in high-income countries has fallen by at least 60 per cent since then. But real output per head has increased 15-fold. If this continues, as is likely, a modest increase in the dependency ratio would be extremely manageable. Some also argue that there will be “too few innovators”. Nonsense! The global population is not even set to fall before 2100. Moreover, we now have a far better educated labour force, the inclusion of women and the gains from AI. Moreover, radical innovation has always been driven by the few. Not least, today’s population is a multiple of what it was a century or two ago, when innovation was doing just fine. What matters far more is providing the environment for innovation, not least support for science. Again, there has been much chatter about the “demographic dividends” that supposedly come from youthful populations. In fact, notes Turner, “there is no evidence that economies with sustained high fertility rates grow faster. On the contrary, persistently high fertility often leads to a demographic disaster of sluggish income growth and widespread unemployment.” India is a sobering example... India’s swelling population has, alas, created a sea of chronic underemployment around an island of prosperity. In much of Africa, this situation is worse. Finally, growing populations impose costs — not just the global environmental ones, but local ones as well. These include the soaring prices of urban land and so of housing in many countries (themselves an explanation for low birth rates). Indeed, the competition for intrinsically scarce “positional goods” is exacerbated by rising populations and so would be ameliorated by the reverse."
This assumes that people are all identical and that it doesn't matter which populations have kids

The unspoken truth about the baby bust - "All theories for the baby bust, other than choice, get undeserved shrift. One is that practical barriers — such as lack of childcare — stops people having the kids they tell surveys they want. So, Chad has a 6.1 birth rate because of subsidised crèches, does it? Shared child-rearing duties and free IVF explain Afghanistan’s 4.8? Finland (1.3) should send a research delegation to Mali (5.6)? The United Nations, an activist group with a sideline in diplomacy, published a report last month that blamed a “toxic” mix of economic and gender rigidities for low birth rates. All we learn from this is that the use of the T-word outside a strictly chemical context has become an excellent warning of impending bullshit. And this isn’t even the silliest explanation for demographic decline that does the rounds. What is? That people can’t in good conscience “bring a child into this world of ours”. Well, the birth rate was high during the cold war. Parents were knowingly bringing kids into an open-ended nuclear stand-off. Today, the most fertile countries are those most stalked by climate change and violence. Meanwhile, the havens that are Switzerland and New Zealand are well below the replacement rate. If dystopian dread was the issue here, the numbers would be the other way round. Why kid ourselves like this? Why go through contortions to avoid the obvious?Some of it is just academic confusion. To clear up one thing: asking people whether they want more children is close to pointless. The question is whether they want them above other things. Stated desires are not useful information unless ranked. I want to be more successful, but not as much as I want to sleep until 10am. People want larger families, but not as much as they want leisure and surplus cash. The rest is politics. The notion of voluntarily small families is too awkward for either left or right to accept. For the left, there is no social problem whose answer isn’t government action. If that problem exists out of choice, that leaves them with nowhere to go. For conservatives, the family stands between the individual (liberalism) and the state (socialism). If people are choosing to minimise or avoid the domestic realm, that cuts to the quick of an entire worldview. And so we have a winner, as it were. Liberalism has had a bad electoral decade. In the “discourse”, too, it is on the back foot. But in the one way that counts — how life is lived — its triumph is total. From Ireland to South Korea, the evidence suggests that once people are rich and free enough to choose, they choose individualism. Many do so with a pang, of course. They really do want more kids. But not as much as they want to live in the city of their choice or hold out for a relationship that is fun and not just stable. Consumption, selfhood, the pursuit of happiness: all the things that are said to be not enough, seem to be enough. How telling that even the most widely heard argument for pronatalism — that we need more workers to support the old — is itself materialist."

Women and Mass Hysteria (Woke Women)

2026-10-02T13:46:00.000+08:00

Ceb K. on X

"Women are very good at mass democracy: suddenly agree & amplify an ingroup, no matter what it says, in ways that emphasize shared vulnerability"

AI generated list:

"Mass psychogenic illness refers to the rapid spread of physical symptoms-such as fainting, tremors, or convulsions-through a group without any underlying organic or environmental cause. Psychological and sociological research recognizes these outbreaks as overwhelmingly concentrated among women and adolescent girls, with male-centric mass delusions typically manifesting quite differently through anxieties about external physical threats or bodily harm rather than shared physical illness.

Event & Year. Estimated Female Range. Specific Setting & Context

The Nuns Meowing and Biting Manias (Middle Ages). 100%. Occurred entirely within isolated European Catholic convents under strict religious and behavioral discipline.

St. Theresa's Eregi Girls" School Outbreak (2023). 100%. Struck students residing and studying at a Kenyan all-girls secondary school, leading to leg paralysis right before exam season.

1973 Singapore Factory Psychosis. 100%. Swept an electronics manufacturing facility staffed entirely by young female workers operating on high-pressure assembly lines.

Malaysian Factory Spirit Possession (1970s-80s). 100%. Massive waves of collective trances and screaming that repeatedly shut down electronics and textile factories staffed by young, newly urbanized women.

The Tabora Exam Fainting Spells (1984). Almost Entirely Female. Cascading fainting episodes highly concentrated within the female cohorts and girl dormitories of a school under strict testing pressures in Tanzania.

The Meldingen Tremor Outbreak (1892). 100%. Struck schoolgirls in a localized classroom setting, manifesting as sudden hand tremors that completely halted their ability to write.

Chalmeicac Sleep Contagion (2007). 100%. Affected hundreds of students living under highly disciplined, cloistered conditions at a massive Catholic girls' boarding school in Mexico.

Herat Province Convulsion Epidemic (2013). 100%. Swept exclusively through localized girls' schools in Afghanistan following rumors of toxic environmental poisonings.

El Carmen de Bolivar Vaccine Panic (2014). 100%. Hospitalized hundreds of pre-teen and teenage girls following a collective fear of an HPV vaccine roll-out at a local school.

The Groß Tinz Writing Tremors (1892). 100%. A localized motor epidemic that exclusively struck young schoolgirls in Germany, causing violent hand shaking when holding pens.

Dhankuta Secondary School Collapse (2016). 100%. Began during a class in Nepal when a small group of adolescent girls hyperventilated, wept, and collapsed in sequence.

Starehe Girls' Centre Epidemic (2019). 100%. Forced the complete closure of a high-profile all-girls school in Kenya when a localized group developed a high-pitched, collective barking cough.

The Redondo Beach School Faint (1989). 100%. Occurred at a California school where a localized squad of female cheerleaders fainted simultaneously after smelling a rumored "toxic leak" from a paper spirit poster.

The Chinki Seizure Outbreak (2014). 100%. Dozens of adolescent girls living inside a tribal residential school dormitory in India fell into synchronized convulsive fits, claiming spirits were choking them.

The Leiria Tremor Outbreak (1947). 100%. Struck a tight social network of young female lace-makers and textile apprentices inside a workshop following an aggressive administrative crackdown on breaks.

The Lille Witchcraft Panic (1639). 100%. Took place inside a French religious charity orphanage and school for girls, where fifty young girls collectively claimed to be surrounded by flying devils.

The Moruga Spirit Possession Outbreak (Trinidad, 2010). 100%. A cluster of high school girls in Trinidad collapsed into wild, violent fits and trance states while in their classrooms.

The Diriamba "Crazy Sickness" (Nicaragua, 2003). 100%. An outbreak of grisi siknis (crazy sickness) that swept a cohort of schoolgirls in Nicaragua, causing them to hallucinate and flee into nearby brush.

The Amagasaki Tremor Cluster (Japan, 1971). 100%. A tight-knit social group of junior high school girls in Japan developed synchronized muscle spasms right before major grade placements.

The Maharashtra Hostel Panic (India, 2026). 100%. Swept an all-girls residential hostel where a small group began uncontrollably crying and laughing, prompting hundreds of students to flee the building over fears of supernatural activity.

The Odisha Boarding School Faint (India, 2024). 100%. Began with an index case of a 12-year-old girl at a girls' boarding school before rapidly spreading physical fainting and shaking to nearly 100 other students.

The Kuantan Dormitory Monks (Malaysia, 1976). Almost Entirely Female. Triggered during a campus competition when a student screamed over a rumored apparition on top of a girl's dormitory, setting off mass screaming fits across the campus.

Bellevue Twitching Leg Outbreak (1939). Vast Majority (over 95%). Concentrated heavily within a localized group of high school girls in Louisiana who developed synchronized leg twitching.

West Bank Fainting Epidemic (1983). Vast Majority (over 95%). Close to 1,000 adolescent schoolgirls fainted across multiple girls' schools over groundless rumors of airborne chemical deployment.

stag on X - " I wonder if this phenomenon could be modeled as a phase transition of a far-from-equilibrium system, where a small perturbation can grow enough to change the whole structure “small interventions can be either ineffective or explosively effective depending on the system's position within the hysteresis loop”"

Ceb K. on X - "imo the best way to think of it is as “recursive/transitive endorsement/prestige” games, where you’re trying to eg endorse people/ideas who are endorsed by people/ideas who are endorsed (eg PageRank type algorithms). Sudden large phase transitions: “we all think all-X now honey!”"

Budman on X - "I explain it this way: Women made babies. They were included in the tribe by default. Men had to provide value. They were rejected by default. Men need Strength, Courage, Honor, and Mastery to make it into the tribe. Women need to follow consensus to not get kicked out."

abc on X - "ou can add every woman claiming to have ‘long covid’ and so many of them saying they’re nonbinary to the list"

Links - 2nd October 2026 (1 - Jason Arday [including Peter Jukes])

2026-10-02T09:36:00.000+08:00

Peter Jukes on X - "Intent is key. The ubiquitous “fraud” allegations against Arday — deliberately stealing other people’s ideas, faking charity marathons etc — don’t stand up. All the remaining charges are trivial: an early book pitch, a paranoid reaction to a three year campaign against him."
Thread by @AstroMikeMerri on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Just to correct this nonsense, the level of plagiarism in Arday’s thesis was clearly not accidental. There is the possibility that he was unaware that it was unacceptable, which would bring into question his supervision, but at PhD level even that is a stretch.More problematic are the cases where interview responses from other people’s studies were mis-attributed to his own work. This is simply fraud, and occurred when he was fully qualified as a researcher. I really don’t care about marathon claims."

Meme - "Whomst among us hasn't hired an elite law firm to harass journalists and reported our colleagues to the cops?"
Peter Jukes @peterjukes: "Arday's remaining egregious offences seem to be
A) he employed Carter Ruck to write a milquetoast holding letter
B) he felt persecuted and reported one academic to the police, and then a journalist who followed up
Not things I would do, but also things people do all the time"

Kathryn Paisner on X - ""I'm faithful to my spouse over 99% of the time. How can you possibly call me an adulterer?""
Of course, Peter Jukes blocked her too

Meme - Peter Jukes: "On the Arday is a 'plagiarist/a fraud'. Just done a survey of the small percentage of questioned attribution around two of his 33 peer reviewed papers: over 99% remains intact and unchallenged. How can anyone be called a plagiarist or fraud in that basis?"
Jesse Singal @jessesingal: "We are witnessing something very, very psychologically interesting, even if it's bad for society and for our hing prospects of shared conceptions of reality" "This post is unavailable."
Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel: "Francesca Gino only found to have engaged in fraud in 1-2% of her studies. By this logic, Harvard should not have fired her."
Jesse Singal @jessesingal: "i mean that whole thing was a witch hunt too"
"ITS ANTI ITALIAN DISCRIMINATION"

Neil Thin on X - "Persistent truth-deniers like Peter Jukes seem hellbent on not learning lessons from the Jason Arday tragedy. Who knows what recovery he could have made if people surrounding him had chosen honesty instead of flattery and truth-denial."

Frederick Guy on X - "It used to be part of my job to read Turnitin reports on student work (probably obsolete now, with AI, but Arday’s thesis is from that period). I know what I would have told a student whose work showed up like Arday’s. Idiot @peterjukes is telling me I shouldn’t believe my eyes."

Meme - john sturgis: "So it transpires that the self-appointed defender of Jason Arday - who has been freely accusing other journalists of failing to undertake basic research before publication - is himself not conversant with widely-reported and important details of the case against him. Astonishing:"
Sarah Ditum @sarahditum: "Don't worry Peter I'm very sure Sonia has never claimed to have testicular cancer"
Peter Jukes @peterjukes: "I'm sure this is some kind of in joke, but I don't know whether I should be mortified or reassured that columnists continue with their professional banter over a dead man who can no longer defend himself."
Sarah Ditum @sarahditum: "In Arday's book proposal, he claimed to have survived testicular cancer - a claim that, in the finished version, had vanished and been replaced with a story about surviving a brain tumor (twice). As you are going out to bat for his veracity, I assumed you would know this."

Meme - Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter: "Here @PeterJukes makes the same mistake @carolecadwalla made: not acknowledging that Jason Arday was not just accused of plagiarism in his PhD thesis. He was also credibly accused of plagiarism and data theft that between them spanned multiple papers at multiple other universities. I provide this reasonable reply knowing he won't see it because he blocked me when I previously pointed out his faulty logic about Arday. It is very clear he doesn't know enough about this subject to pass judgement on other reporters who have covered it."
Peter Jukes @peterjukes: "I ask these questions not hoping for any kind of reasonable reply, because they mainly come from mendacious anonymous accounts who spent 99% of their time spreading malicious falsehoods. But it's always worth publicising the facts
Let's be accurate here: 3% of his thesis was questioned. The governing university found that this was a citation problem. His literature review amply cited the main methodological source, but failed in those instances. That is not plagiarism"
No surprise he blocked Jesse Singal too

Thread by @d08890 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "even stipulating to the ``tiny vanishing fraction'' claim, this does not matter, and i cannot stress this enough. the fact that 99% of a police officer's time on the job was above board in no way can rebut or outweigh 1% consisting of perjury or evidence-tampering, for example. the ``theft of ideas'' dodge is cute but everyone knows plagiarism extends beyond that, and i am getting quite cranky about the people who are lying about this and expecting the rest of us to get gaslit. i'm in the final stages of getting a book manuscript to press with cambridge university press. the cup ethics guidelines specify that the press follows cambridge's own policy, which they give in their own words like so:
here is the university's own website, with the definition:
i'm seeing increasing numbers of ai plagiarism cases in my classes; if we as academics are not going to hold ourselves to the standards to which we hold our alstudents, we are the worst sort of frauds and hypocrites to punish them when they copy and paste from claude. arguably, this public degradation of the standards of academic integrity really rolled into full gear with cornell's craven decision not to revoke kevin kruse's phd. then, as now, the motive was quite obviously and purely political. i hope you guys are happy with yourselves. and i was quite adamant about this at the time, lest some tiresome pea-brain wants to natter on about me being a racist or some similar babble
RhythmDoc on X - "As far as I can tell, lots of them aren’t lying — they appear to believe that all academic writing is like this, and is in some sense fake, and why can’t you just get with the program."

Russell T. Warne 🇺🇸🇨🇱 on X - "A new Substack article by @Cartrarian provides very convincing evidence that Jason Arday never had autism. The article shows that:
➡️Arday never mentioned he had autism until 2018. Even in his 2015 dissertation, he merely says he had "learning difficulties."
➡️The diagnostic history Arday reported was contradictory and anachronistic. Some of the labels he claims he had as a child were rare or nonexistent at the time. Other diagnoses he claims to have had are contradictory and cannot be present in the same person.
➡️Arday also contradicted himself in discussing when he learned about his diagnosis. Sometimes he says he knew at age 3, but he also claimed to have not been told until his mid-30s.
➡️Arday didn't seem to understand what autism is. Sometimes he said it's a "hybrid" diagnosis, and at other times Arday said it was a type of other disabilities. Hhe even said it was "a kind of intellectual disability," which is absurdly wrong.
This article exposes (and refutes) new lies from Arday that were previously unnoticed (or perhaps less publicized):
➡️Arday claimed to have been in a longitudinal study that does not exist.
➡️Arday said he attended a special needs school, but it is now documented fact that he attended the mainstream Heathbrook Primary School.
➡️New discrepancies in Arday's vita.
It's a long read, but that's because Arday told a lot of lies, and Cartrarian is careful to document and debunk them. It's definitely worth reading."

Sam Browfan on X - "How did @sbaroncohen, one of the world's foremost autism researchers, fail to realise that Arday was not autistic."
Trust the 'Experts'! Because they push the left wing agenda

Benjamin Ryan on X - "NEWS: Jason Arday Lied About Having a Masters From Birkbeck University
I filed a freedom of information request to Birkbeck University to check the claim Jason Arday made in the video below in 2022 that he had a masters in psychodynamic practice from the university. Birkbeck told me today they had no records of Arday ever being a student there. What's more, the university didn't even offer a masters in psychodynamic practice. There is no mention in Arday's memoir of his having received such a masters. The clear conclusion is that Arday was lying when he claimed to have earned a degree from the university... Also, someone pointed out that the @guardian reached this same conclusion. I hadn’t seen this article:"

i/o on X - "What exactly is the "discredited pseudoscience" that Nathan Cofnas argues for? Here are the main claims he's made that have offended people:
(1) Cofnas believes there are differences in average measured intelligence between population groups: Mainstream science fully agrees with him.
(2) Cofnas believes that recent human evolution outside Africa has increased human intelligence: Mainstream population genetics now mostly agrees with him.
(3) Cofnas believes that the measured differences in intelligence between population groups are at least partially due to genetic differences between those groups: Although this claim remains scientifically disputed and unresolved, the most recent published survey of intelligence scientists found that most agree with him.
The research that has been most often used to support a genetic explanation — and which has been published in established peer-reviewed scientific journals — is hardly pseudoscientific. You may not believe that it's convincing, but that's quite another thing than saying it's "pseudoscientific." The people writing about Cofnas either know this or do not care to know it. The vast majority of the public reading about Cofnas has no idea of the current status of intelligence research because its "dangerous" findings are rarely reported in the non-scientific media, and most people treat the subject as too icky to take the time to investigate."

Meme - Helen Lovejoy from the Simpsons: "WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE FRAUDSTER?"

Thread by @epkaufm on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "OUR NEW REPORT: EQUITY REDUCES EXCELLENCE. Jason Arday was not an aberration. He was a feature, not a bug, of a system that replaced merit with identity. Our new study of nearly 2,000 prestigious Canada Research Chairs provides the hard numbers. 🧵
Canada imposed hard DEI quotas on its most prestigious academic appointments after 2017. The result? White men fell from around 80% of new chairs in 2000 to 25% in 2025. Women rose from 30% to 60% in just eight years.This is not a vague diversity aspiration. Canada Research Chair ads openly tell straight white men they need not apply. In Canada, race and sex discrimination is allowed and routine.The effect on research impact is stark. Average h-index: White or Asian men, 38. Women, 28. Black or Indigenous chairs, 18. DEI hires widened representation by appointing weaker candidates to positions they didn’t deserve.The usual excuses don’t explain the gap. It persists after controlling for career length, appointment year, chair tier, research council, and 178 academic disciplines. Each female or black/indigenous chair imposes a 12-15% research impact penalty.
This is not a uniquely Canadian result. Independent US data on hiring and promotion reveal the same race and sex gaps in academic output. Different country. Different institutions. Same equity-excellence trade-off. And the damage goes beyond hiring. Scholar-activist research - ideology imposed on facts rather than conclusions drawn from them - consumes an estimated further $18m of the CRC budget. DEI language in chair descriptions has doubled since 2016.
Ideological capture is concentrated in the social sciences and humanities. The average SSHRC chair description contains two DEI terms. SSHRC chairs are 17 times more likely than science (NSERC) or medical (CIHR) chairs to use far-left activist language.
Trump has slashed scholar activism in American NSF grants. In Canada, it just keeps on soaring. Same for UKRI grants in Britain, which funded Arday into the millions.
Science and medicine meet their nonwhite targets by appointing high-performing Asian scholars. Social sciencs and humanities (SSHRC) absorbs indigenous chairs, many lower performing or doing activist work, to meet the CRC target.
Total DEI bill: $36m a year. That's 12% of the $300m Canada Research Chairs budget.Taxpayers fund discrimination against whites and men while impairing research output and funding political activism. It’s a national scandal."
Left wingers hate excellence, after all
Clearly, this is proof that people who are not white men or Asian men are discriminated against in academia (since their h-index is lower), and precisely why DEI is needed

Andrew Dunn on X - "Massive scandal at Cambridge University in which Jason Arday was treated more favourably due to his skin colour, and they've employed race activist Nazir Afzal, of all people, to preside over an investigation into the LACK OF help Cambridge gave Arday!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂"

Steve McGuire on X - "Cambridge is no longer planning to investigate Jason Arday’s academic record or the university’s decision to hire or cover for him. Instead, the investigation will focus on “his welfare, his care, his well-being” and “whether the school offered him sufficient support amid accusations that he plagiarized.”"
In death, he did them the biggest favour possible to enable their coverup

Benjamin Ryan on X - "Cambridge Said Jason Arday Was an ‘Aberration.’ So Why Was the Shaky PhD Thesis He Approved Sealed Until 2031?... The thesis, which we have obtained and which we review in this Substack, raises important questions about whether the Faculty of Education, including Dr. Arday’s own contributions, let down the basic standards of higher education. The lengthy embargo raises further questions about what Cambridge, which is among the most elite universities in the world, and the paper’s author might have to hide where her scholarship is concerned. Written by Damilola Folayan, the thesis is entitled Of, but not in: A poetic exploration of how Black women students respond to the coloniality of Oxbridge—referring to the portmanteau of Oxford and Cambridge. It garnered her a coveted Cambridge PhD in 2025. Following what’s known as an autoethnographic style, it is in essence an epic poetry-slam interpretation of the plight of Dr. Folayan and three other black women at Oxbridge and their experiences navigating, with considerable ambivalence, these historically, and still overwhelmingly, white elite institutions. The sprawling thesis unabashedly thumbs its nose at the rigors and demands of academia even as it demands in return an elite PhD and all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto."
Cathy Devine on X - "Absolutely enough now. Take any issues you have to Cambridge. Stop harranging students/academics in disciplines you know nothing about. Bullying & harassment doesn't begin to cover it."
Darrell (Daz) Croston on X - "Why would this qualify as harrasment of a student when it's merely critiquing someone's thesis and thereby academic rigour?"
Cathy Devine on X - "Neither Ben nor Colin are qualified to critique this student's thesis. They know nothing about the discipline. They should not expose this student to ridicule & harassment on SM. Not behave like vigilantes. Genuine concerns should be sent to the universities involved."
Colin the Barbarian @OXSOC@sciences.social on X - "In your opinion what disciplinary background does one need paper qualifications in to comment publicly on an autoethnographic style, epic poetry-slam interpretation of the Oxbridge experience of three women? English literature? Media Studies? Or what?"
Cathy Devine on X - "Not developmental biology or journalism. And not this despicable public shaming of a named student. It's abhorrent."
Colin the Barbarian @OXSOC@sciences.social on X - "With the greatest of respect, that avoids the question. You *chose* to frame it in terms of qualifications to speak, so surely you must have some positive idea about who is qualified to criticise the work. Only members of an education department? Only auto-ethnographers? And they are no longer a student. They now have PhD after their name. Surely the whole point of scholarship is that it is open to public scrutiny. That is the bargain you make when you enter the field."
Prof Ian Pace on X - "And in much of continental Europe, PhDs have to be published, and so can be subject to wider scrutiny."
Colin the Barbarian @OXSOC@sciences.social on X - "And the writers of them are not students but employees with a salary & pension entitlement."
More proof that left wingers see scrutiny and criticism of people they support as harassment and bullying
As usual, left wingers rely on credentialism rather than engaging with the argument. Because it's easier to intimidate and/or capture a smaller group
Insisting people who find problems with the thesis need to take it up with the university, which can then cover it up, is awfully convenience

Colin Wright on X - "Jason Arday reviewed and approved this student's PhD thesis, which portrays black women taking trips to London and attending potlucks as forms of "marronage"—the historical practice of Africans fleeing enslavement. The 70K-word thesis is based on conversations with just 3 black women, which were converted into poems and then, after being infused with the author's own subjective experiences, analyzed via "Critical Poetic Inquiry." The thesis can only be described as a tribute to black women such as herself, channeled through an amalgam of slam poetry and activism. She describes her research project in bizarre terms such as: "a lament, a war cry, a chant and a belly laugh" and "a joyful, painful rupture, a disruption, a deliberate transgression, a riff, and a drum beat… a prayer for all we have lost and for all that we can be." She is also openly hostile to academic rigor, quoting other scholars when admitting that her project "does not align with notions of 'neutral' research or 'objective' researchers." Academic standards, such as "marking criteria, rubrics and journal requirements that favour written knowledge over that which is communicated creatively (i.e. through painting or performance)" and also "notions that knowledge must be scientifically tested and proven to meet coloniality's contorted standards of fact" are deemed by her to be forms of colonial oppression. This raises the question: Why is Cambridge awarding its highest academic credential to a project whose author openly presents accepted academic standards as oppressive constraints to be undermined and resisted? It's clear the problem of academic standards at Cambridge wasn't isolated to the case of Jason Arday, but appears to be a form of systemic rot. Because the thesis was suddenly embargoed for the next 5 years immediately when the Arday scandal broke, we are legally unable to share it in its entirety. So we have performed a very long and thorough exegesis of it, which you can read at the link below."

Carole Cadwalladr on X - "NEW: French researcher Stephanie Lamy exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey, and the media who fell into his trap. If it seems like the news cycle has “moved on” from this story, ask yourself why? 🔗 below"
Colin the Barbarian @OXSOC@sciences.social on X - "This is a thoroughly nasty article and the smearing of Martyn Hammersley is beyond the pale. Hammersley is a scholar of unimpeachable reputation; disagreement with standpoint epistemology or with activist conceptions of social research is not remotely equivalent to race science"

Thread by @ComAcFreedom on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Something very worrying has been happening since controversy erupted over the open letter signed by more than 950 academics raising academic-freedom concerns about disciplinary proceedings against Dr Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University. Cofnas, a philosopher who describes himself as a “race realist”, was among those who publicly scrutinised the academic work of Cambridge University’s youngest ever black professor, Dr Jason Arday. The letter argues that academics must remain free to raise evidence of alleged research misconduct without being punished for doing so. CAF has since been contacted by a growing number of signatories worried about professional repercussions and ostracism within their departments for having put their names to it. They have shown us ideologically charged abuse from colleagues and peers, outlandish accusations of being funded by billionaire right-wing political figures in the US, and complaints denouncing them as racists or supporters of race eugenics. Some complaints have been sent to senior university administrators and institutional bodies with which the academics are affiliated, in some cases explicitly calling for disciplinary action. In one case seen by CAF, a senior academic manager wrote directly to a signatory to tell them they were wrong to sign, before reminding them that, under university policy, academic freedom and freedom of speech are qualified rights. CAF is taking up some of these cases directly with the universities concerned, reminding them of their legal duties to secure freedom of speech within the law and protect academic freedom. The wider chilling effect should not be underestimated. Academics who experience this themselves, or simply hear about it through departmental gossip, will inevitably think twice before adding their voice to the next important but contentious public debate. If you signed the letter and are now facing pressure from colleagues or your institution, please get in touch. CAF can advise, intervene with universities, and arrange specialist legal assistance where necessary. Email manager@afcomm.org.uk.
CAF is also taking action over press reporting which has helped erase what we had rather hoped was the elementary distinction between defending someone’s academic freedom and endorsing their substantive views. The National, for instance, named eight Scottish academics and described them as “defending” and being “in support of” Cofnas, whom it described as the researcher who “sparked the pile-on which preceded the death of Jason Arday”. It then named their universities and reported that those institutions had been “approached for comment”. Our complaint is not simply that this recasts a limited intervention about academic freedom as support for Cofnas in the wider Arday controversy. It also draws the signatories’ universities into that framing, inviting the question of what view their employers might now take. Needless to say, once an employer is brought into a controversy framed in those terms, the possibility of disciplinary attention is placed squarely on the table. Nor is this merely our interpretation. It is precisely the framing now being put before university managers in complaints about individual signatories. We have asked for the headline and article to be corrected, with a correction acknowledging that the signatories were misrepresented both in what they endorsed and in the capacity in which they signed, so that academics facing complaints can point to an accurate public record of both."

"I Am Lindsay Clancy" — What the Women in Pink Actually Believe

2026-10-01T17:29:00.000+08:00

"I Am Lindsay Clancy" — What the Women in Pink Actually Believe
Hundreds gathered outside a courthouse for a mother who strangled her three children. The slogan on their shirts explains more than the trial does.

On August 20th, hundreds of women stood outside a Massachusetts courthouse in pink shirts and prayed for a mother who strangled her three children. Countless more showed their support online. What follows is my attempt to work out what a person has to already believe before they can absolve a murderous mother of moral culpability.

"Madness is rare in individuals — but in groups it is the rule."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Crowd That Chose the Killer

What happens when a society’s institutions adopt an ideology that portrays one sex as inherently flawed and “toxic,” while casting the other as unquestionably virtuous?

The reaction to Lindsay Clancy’s trial for the murder of her three children gives us some disturbing insights.

At first, feminist TikTok questioned her guilt, hypothesizing that the husband was the real killer — based on “forensic astrology,” one reading of which “basically states that he did it… & drugged her.” Nearly two thousand readers gave the comment a thumbs up. The hypothesis being that “Leo’s don’t kill. Geminis do.” Thousands more found this to be compelling. Another argues this is evident beyond doubt: “oh he’s a GEMINI? jail for him, that’s all i need to know.”

An entire movement grew out of these TikTok and Facebook posts. Users live-streamed the trial and dissected testimony — through their rigorous process of baseless speculation — posting about "Justice for Lindsay Clancy," how they "Stand With Lindsay," and even identifying with the murderous mother by stating "I Am Lindsay Clancy." This led to a trend of mothers posting videos with their children captioned "Same, Lindsay."

While you’d be justified in chalking these responses up to astrology induced retardation, I think there is a more plausible explanation. If you have accepted the presupposition that women and virtue are inextricably linked — which so much of our political and academic class has — then all arguments downstream have to fortify that belief. Information that reinforces the belief is accepted without questioning, while anything that contradicts it is ignored or viciously attacked.

Although, there's just one problem: these delusional hypotheses have hit a brick wall, considering Clancy admits to the killings. So while the astrological readings must be dispensed with, the underlying belief that created them remains. Hence why the movement now focuses on bolstering Clancy's legal argument that she experienced a psychotic break induced by postpartum psychiatric disease aggravated by overmedication. Perhaps true, but as we can tell by the appeal to astrology, truth isn't what is being selected for. Instead, the selection mechanism is whether the argument absolves Clancy of moral culpability.

The mob psychology around this case became visible on August 20th when hundreds of supporters, many in pink, gathered outside the courthouse. Shirts read “Believe,” “She Needed Help,” and “Peace for Lindsay.” Supporters made heart shaped hands, prayed, and claimed it could have been any one of them.

The sympathy and support is not merely emotional. Tens of thousands of people have resonated with Clancy deeply enough to send over $1 million to her parents — nearly 31,000 donations in roughly a week. The campaign explicitly disclaims any position on the criminal case, stating its purpose is to help her parents rebuild the financial stability they sacrificed over the past three years. It was created by a TikTok mother with her father’s permission.

I — like those practicing “forensic astrology” — have little interest in the granular details of the trial. The reaction and debates that have followed the case are what I find far more important.

One (female) X user claimed that “after watching the trial play out, not only am I convinced we should repeal the 19th Amendment, but we should also limit women’s interactions online.” To which another woman replied, “imagine applying this logic to men. Every time a man commits an act of violence, should we reconsider men’s voting rights? Restrict their internet access? Of course not because we understand that one individual’s actions do not justify stripping civil liberties from an entire sex.”

Except there are many problems with this counter-reasoning. First, not all acts of violence are equal in nature. If a man kills a home intruder threatening his family, he’s rightfully declared a hero. If a man kills his family, he’s rightfully declared a monster. Second, the act of violence committed by Clancy may have been individual, but the support is collective. The mass sympathy for the individual’s monstrous actions cannot be ignored.

Let’s reframe the scenario. Imagine an ex-NFL player suffering from CTE brutally murdered his three children. One could understand his legal team leaning on the violence inducing brain trauma as a defence. Except it’s inconceivable that hundreds of men would show up in person, backed by thousands — if not millions — online, to paint him as the primary victim to be empathized with.

Even if one was to empathize with the CTE sufferer, it’d likely come in a similar manner to Of Mice and Men. Lennie Small is an enormous, physically powerful man with the mind and emotional understanding of a young child. He starts stroking the hair of Curley’s wife, who then panics and screams, causing Lennie to become frightened. This oversized man-child responds by shaking her too forcefully and accidentally breaking her neck. George — Lennie’s closest companion — realizes that Lennie cannot understand or control his own strength and that similar tragedies will keep happening. He also knows that an angry mob led by Curley will seek revenge for the dead woman in a brutal fashion. To spare him from torture or capture, George comforts him by describing their dream farm, especially the rabbits Lennie hopes to tend to, and while imagining that happy future, George shoots him in the back of the head.

That is about all the sympathy I have for someone who murders the innocent and defenceless — much less children who look to you as their primary source of love and protection. As the book depicts, the collective response to such a murder — even if the murderer is truly mentally incapable of understanding such actions — is likely to be death or confinement until death. If Of Mice and Men instead depicted a mob declaring “We’re just like Lennie” or “Stand With Lennie,” the reader would not only question whether the townspeople went randomly insane but whether they should face the same fate as Lennie.

This is not even a men vs. women issue. Rather, it is yet another litmus test for sane vs. insane. A society which affords more sympathy to murderers than their victims — even gifting their family a million dollars — is undeniably morally corrupt.

When the unthinkable becomes debatable — whether it be the Lindsay Clancy support, the celebrations of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, or downplaying the institutional failures behind Iryna Zarutska’s murder — a civilization’s immune system is surely suppressed to a deadly degree.

The Women in Pink

The online and in-person support of Lindsay Clancy is best viewed as a mob — or what Gustave Le Bon would call a crowd. What defines a mob is not its physical assembly but a shared psychological state. The women supporting the child murderer say themselves that this stems from identification with Clancy. They do not see a woman separate from themselves but a reflection — “I Am Lindsay Clancy.”

What can explain such a horrid statement? The current feminist explanation is that mothers commonly face intrusive thoughts in the postpartum period. This may be true, and frequent, but whether someone experiences intrusive thoughts does not absolve them of the moral responsibility for acting on them.

A classic Bill Burr bit illustrates this perfectly: “I have a lot of f**ked up thoughts. You ever drive down the street and see thirty people and you just think [to run them over]?” The crowd erupts in laughter and applause, signalling they too have had similar intrusive thoughts. Burr continues: “You don’t do it, you just think it. That’s what separates the psychos from the functioning psychos.”

Every single person who is being honest with themselves will admit they've had unconscionable intrusive thoughts. Yet am I now expected to extend sympathy to someone who acts on the thought of mowing down a sidewalk full of people with their car? Of course not. Deciding whether to act on those thoughts is the defining difference between a monster and everyone else. We are only expected to elicit sympathy because Clancy is a woman. Not one of these feminists would return the moral leeway if it were a man.

Now I want you to consider the possibility of a feedback loop being created in the fallout of this issue. Social status is very important to humans. It is one of our fundamental drives. We first want to fit into a group and then to be held in high regard by that group. What do you think happens when the price of admission to a group is admitting to or vocalizing your intrusive thoughts? Even further, what happens when that group awards attention and status to those who have the worst thoughts — up to and including murdering their children? Do you think this will lead to fewer or more people within that group having those thoughts? Do you think this will increase or decrease the likelihood of someone acting on those thoughts? Now consider those in the group seeing a seemingly endless supply of emotional and financial support flowing to those who do act.

This is not to say we are going to see COVID-level mass hysteria of otherwise normal mothers now murdering their children, but I would argue that this creates a social environment where the small share of demented mothers now see an opportunity to remove their mask of sanity and get rewarded for it.

It’s truly terrifying that we’ve reached a state where this needs to be said, but if we cannot make clear moral distinctions between the universal experience of having intrusive thoughts and the very particular experience of acting on those thoughts then we are doomed.

Feminist Doublethink

The proclivity for TikTok feminists to argue that Lindsay Clancy cannot be held criminally responsible because her postpartum intrusive thoughts amounted to psychosis not only directly undercuts their entire movement but is also an example of doublethink. Orwell defines doublethink as the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs as true, signalling the erosion of critical thought.

The same movement that insisted the husband was the real killer and Lindsay could not have done this because of her astrology chart, pivoted to insisting she cannot be held responsible for having done it. The belief that women are inherently innocent remains, the argument required to protect it is what changes.

Let’s consider the following propositions:

Women are just as rational, competent, and emotionally stable as men. Therefore, they deserve equal social and political representation.
What Clancy experienced is a normal and relatable part of motherhood — "Same, Lindsay," "I Am Lindsay Clancy" — and that experience is sufficient to remove her legal responsibility for killing her three children.

These two beliefs cannot coexist. I’m not here to tell you whether one or neither of these beliefs is true, but to point out that they can’t both be true.

Note that the second proposition also contradicts the defence it claims to support. Clancy’s lawyers argue particularity by alleging this happened to a single woman, with a rare disorder, and a cascade of medication issues. The movement argues universality, claiming it could have been any one of them. The crowd is taking the the argument of a rare-disease in a specific case to make a claim about all women.

Schrödinger’s feminist is a term popularized by meme culture, but it maps onto the Lindsay Clancy story quite well. The movement portrays women as simultaneously empowered and victimized, choosing whichever state best suits their immediate advantage or argument.

Vying for political power or career opportunities? Women are strong, independent, and capable. Giving in to intrusive thoughts and murdering your children? Women are victims of postpartum depression and cannot be held morally liable for their actions.

AOC recently referred to Woke 1.0 as “crazy.” Well, if this is Woke 2.0, it’s genuinely psychotic, and it will continue to get worse unless we muster the courage to stop giving in to the emotional blackmail.

If women want equality of representation, then they need to exhibit equality of responsibility. If society is to return to sanity it must accept that men and women have both success and failure modes, and stop pretending one sex is toxic by default while the other innocent by nature.

Links - 1st October 2026 (Jason Arday)

2026-10-01T13:32:00.000+08:00

Meme - Melissa Chen @MsMelChen: "The meltdown from the British left after Jason Arday is pure derangement. Even American leftists refuse to defend the plagiarist. They learned the hard way to keep their most unhinged woke ideas private after watching them deliver Trump 2.0
The bio of the person who shared it. Honestly thought it was a parody account
"Queer disabled gender-fluid vegan antiwork Marxist ecofeminist (any pronouns)""
"Where is the line Ill: Microfascism and Fascism. The billionaire-funded squadrisimo came for Jason Arday. We didn't do enough to stop it. Now he is dead.
SEAN JOHNSON ANDREWS
I don't know how many of you outside of academia have been following the horrific hounding of the Black British Cambridge Scholar Jason Arday, his resignation from his post at the university, or his tragic death - apparently by suicide - last week. But from"

Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 on X - "Appreciation post for the folks staying on the necks of journalists media outlets, racist scholars & a moronic public that led to the death of Prof Arday. No stopping until his family gets justice. He deserved justice."
Donna-Louise on X - "Anyone else have issue with this post about “staying on the necks” of those who outed the lies of Jason Arday?! Wow. 😮 George Floyd, anyone?"

Donna-Louise on X - "The Rot in the Faculty at Cambridge
A professor whose claims collapsed under scrutiny. A colleague who called Western education a threat. A panel that prioritised ideology. And a leadership that treated questions as the problem. The first four pieces set out the claims, the evidence against them, the resignation, and the immediate defence that followed — the solidarity letter, the Guardian framing, the quiet withdrawal of signatures, and the insistence that scrutiny itself was the problem. This fifth piece is about what the institution that employed him knew, what it did, and what it is only now being forced to examine."

Sander Sassen on X (Translated from Dutch) - "You'd expect a university professor to be able to reason well. Is Tijl De Bie then the exception to the rule? He proclaims that anyone who defends Cofnas but dropped Pettit is the gravedigger of academic freedom. As if an academic who posts on X that it's time "to finish what the Palestinians started on October 7" and that Israel "must be destroyed once and for all" is actually doing the same thing as a researcher who publishes studies on heredity and IQ. Be honest for once, @TijlDeBie . Isn't that just a clumsy attempt to equate a pro-Palestine activist who incited students, contributed to an atmosphere of intimidation and violence on campus, and constantly targeted Israel and the Jews, with the man who dares to name uncomfortable data? That's not remotely comparable. Pettit crossed the boundaries of free speech by cheering on and encouraging violence and terror. Cofnas crossed an entirely different line: that of the woke ideology that reigns on campus. Of course you don't want to see that difference, because then you'd have to critically examine your own moral self-image—or worse, start questioning the woke ideology. One thing, however, is not up for debate, Tijl. You can't use academic freedom as a shield for those who express support for violence and terror. For those who call to "finish what began on October 7": a massacre of Jews. Anyone who does that isn't concerned with academic freedom at all, but with promoting an ideology. And those two things are not compatible. Clear now, Tijl?"

The Jason Arday vigil was everything psychologists warn against - spiked - "We have known for centuries that suicide can be contagious. After Goethe published The Sorrows of Young Werther in 1774, reports emerged of young men imitating his suicidal hero. It became known as the Werther effect. The removal of the shame and secrecy that once surrounded suicide was welcome. But it created another problem: how do you talk openly and compassionately about suicide without encouraging contagion? That is why, back in 1989, suicidologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, public-health officials and journalists gathered in the United States to establish recommendations to reduce suicide contagion. Their conclusions were explicit. They warned against glorifying people who died by suicide and against presenting suicide as a means of accomplishing an end. They also cautioned against public eulogies and memorials that might give vulnerable people the impression that society was honouring the suicide, rather than mourning the death. For these reasons, the vigil for Jason Arday in Trafalgar Square last week should never have taken place. Stand Up To Racism organised this vigil in order to remember Arday and, presumably, to highlight the dangers of racism. But in doing so, it risked encouraging copycat suicides. Thousands of people gathered beneath Nelson’s Column for the Arday vigil. There were flowers, speeches and placards reading ‘Rest in Power Professor Jason Arday’. Speakers presented Arday not simply as a man whose death was desperately sad, but as a victim and even a martyr. A villain was identified – Nathan Cofnas, one of the researchers who drew attention to Arday’s plagiarism – and he was booed by the crowd.The irresponsibility of this is almost impossible to overstate. People who are suicidal fantasise about exactly this kind of overblown romanticisation of how they will be mourned, appreciated and valorised after death. They imagine everyone crying their eyes out at their funeral... In 1994, five years after the release of the media guidelines on suicide, Kurt Cobain killed himself. There were enormous fears about what would happen. Cobain was almost the perfect candidate for romanticisation – young, beautiful, troubled, world-famous and an icon of alienated youth. Yet the response was remarkably restrained. Researchers subsequently found that the expected rise in suicides did not occur, although calls to crisis lines increased substantially, especially in Seattle, where he died. It is believed that the unusually responsible media and public-health response may have helped. The response deliberately worked against making his suicide heroic. Twenty years later, when Robin Williams died by suicide in 2014, the media environment had changed. Social media had ridden roughshod over the old media guidelines. Researchers subsequently found 1,841 more suicides in the United States between August and December 2014 than their statistical model predicted, an increase of almost 10 per cent... Arday’s treatment was not unique. Others have come through similar public maulings. James Frey endured an onslaught after parts of his supposedly autobiographical A Million Little Pieces were exposed as invented. Rachel Dolezal and Belle Gibson became international objects of ridicule when their fabrications came to light. More recently, The Salt Path controversy had many of us glued to our screens as another inspirational life story was ripped apart... The response to Arday’s death was depressingly predictable. The academics went to war against the journalists. The journalists retaliated and turned on academia. The right blamed DEI while the left blamed the right... people choose suicide for a whole raft of reasons – typically, many different issues have converged. It is therefore not only dangerous but also inaccurate to reduce his death to a simple morality tale in which journalists criticised him and he died as a consequence... we should never turn his suicide into his apotheosis. We should never give suicidal people reason to believe that death is the moment when the world will finally love them."

Jason Arday and the Merciless Lie - "Arday laid claim to athletic as well as intellectual greatness, including the clearly ludicrous alleged feat of running six hundred miles in six days. Yet he wasn’t without athletic ability. Schoolmates remember him as a talented football goalkeeper. Before setting his sights on higher education, he worked as a PE teacher. What might his future have been, had he been content with the little life he was given? What fulfillment might he have found, had he believed that even our modest talents bear a divine stamp, and that we can offer them up to the Creator who delights over us as we are, not as we imagine ourselves in our daydreams?"

What Ghent University Just Taught Every Academic Whistleblower - "Ghent is instead suspending Cofnas because his expressed public views are misaligned with the university’s values and therefore “creates a reputational risk”. This is not how academic freedom should work. At this point, the timeline of events over the past month is clear... The statement by Ghent on their suspension of Cofnas is bizarre for anyone who cares about academic freedom. It’s framed as a statement on the university’s values rather than anything specific to Cofnas’ writings or any alleged misconduct that would warrant a disciplinary investigation. The statement then goes on to specify that Ghent University’s view of academic freedom is predicated on specific values... It is true that academic freedom is not unlimited. Yet, it should alarm every academic who holds any potentially contentious view on any subject that a university such as Ghent is openly declaring that academic freedom is only protected insofar as one’s publicly expressed values are aligned with the university’s. Ghent is suspending Cofnas because they don’t like his views. In a leaked letter that appeared online the day after the public statement, university officials detail the reasons for his suspension by citing (among many disputable things) “offenses committed in private life” that argue his views on race and intelligence “may be interpreted” as racism, which is against the university’s values. This is despite Cofnas being hired in the spring with years of published writing on group differences in intelligence. His hiring at Ghent this past spring drew a petition with more than 2,000 signatures within weeks (with a new petition now appearing for him to be dismissed, along with a counter letter to keep him). Ghent defended the hire anyway, with Ghent rector Petra De Sutter (now ironically) stating at the time that “Dissenting opinions are allowed to exist and debate must take place at a university. It is primarily up to experts and fellow researchers to test ideas, criticise them and, where necessary, contradict them.” The only thing that has changed since March is that Cofnas’s views are now too big a liability to the university’s reputation for them to defend, and therefore now he must go. Now with Ghent’s decision to suspend Cofnas, academia should be alert to the precedent such an event leaves for scholars who criticize the work of other scholars. First, if you express views that are unpopular, could cause “tension,” or “may be interpreted” in any type of way, keep your mouth shut. Second, such unpopular views are subject to the heckler’s veto via public pressure campaigns, so again, keep your mouth shut. The suspension of Cofnas only serves to entrench academic self-censorship and erodes trust in the academy’s ability to reform itself. If academics cannot trust that alleging academic misconduct about another scholar won’t cost them their job, then who is going to risk sticking their neck out to criticize scholarship when warranted? Criticism of scholarship comes with the job, and in today’s environment, that is certainly going to play out online, especially when the scholar being criticised is a publicly lauded academic at a nation’s top university. To academics who think public criticism of a lauded scholar at a prestigious university is too harsh, consider how this situation could have played out differently. Had the original Times Higher Education story run, backed by an even more extensive dossier of alleged plagiarism, the scandal would likely have broken anyway, just under a different byline. Outlets like Retraction Watch exist specifically to call out academic misconduct — as they should. Scholars, no matter their background, personal characteristics, or public standing, are subject to scholarly standards and peer criticism. That is what happened here: at root, this is a case of one scholar exposing another’s misconduct. Academics need to police our own scholarship and take the lead on intentional reform to build back public trust in scholarship. And if we don’t, we’re handing the reins over to legislators and politicians eager to regulate campuses themselves. For the scholarly record and the institutions that safeguard it to be trustworthy, they must be seen as places that uphold scholarly standards to generate knowledge that can be trusted."

‘Frankly, He Has Been Killed’: Angry Scholars From UK’s Top Academics’ Union Blame Jason Arday’s Death on Racist Mob, as ‘Race Realist’ Who Ignited the Firestorm Is Suspended - "As anger grows among the left over the apparent suicide last week of former Cambridge professor Jason Arday, an influential band of activists within Great Britain’s largest academics’ union is moving to fuel that raw sentiment into action. These academics—from the University and College Union—want to shield other black academics from scrutiny from what they view as a racist, right-wing conspiracy... the UCU Solidarity Movement, an activist caucus within the academics’ union, held a virtual organizing meeting... the angry scholars repeatedly denounced the attacks on Arday as the product of a racist, right-wing mob seeking to drive blacks out of the academy. The meeting’s organizer, Sean Wallis, a principal research fellow in English at University College London, or UCL, suggested time was of the essence. He already knew, he said, of one black British academic facing scrutiny for alleged plagiarism. The central purposes of the meeting were to draft a public statement on the Arday tragedy and develop a toolkit to help the union respond if black academics are targeted with attacks on their credibility. Wallis further proposed a UCU hotline for members "who have been threatened."... "I think there is a campaign going on" against black academics in Britain. He said there is a conspiracy to "target black colleagues because politically that is what they want to do. They want to hound out our black brothers and sisters." He further said, "I am convinced that’s already happening"—in Britain—"because I’ve seen it with my own eyes." "Jason is not the only person who is being targeted right now," Wallis said, claiming that a purported Substacker had put an unnamed academic’s thesis through plagiarism-detection software. This, Wallis said, evidently "found some overlap with some other PhD’s, which had been written a few years previously."... attendees appeared primed to regard scrutiny of black academics as illegitimate almost by default. Wallis said the group challenges racism "even when it’s disguised as concern for standards."... Eva Hartmann, a university associate professor in Cambridge’s education department, where Arday served until resigning August 5, smiled and gave a thumbs up in response... Lyes Kahouadji, a chemical engineering researcher at Imperial College London, who is non-white and whom Wallis appointed to chair the meeting, later replied to Wallis that "it’s really important what you mentioned about textual overlap and plagiarism." Kahouadji insisted that plagiarism is "completely different, and academics are supposed to come forward and say, ‘No, this is not plagiarism.’" Regarding Arday, he continued: "It’s really a shame that people who are supposed to protect from this plagiarism fantasy didn’t speak up." All of the academic institutions where Wallis, Kahouadji, and Hartmann work, as well as Liverpool John Moores University, from which Arday received his Ph.D., clearly and explicitly define plagiarism as including the lifting of text without clear attribution... Arday himself did not dispute that he had lifted text, blaming his autism, but attributed the plagiarism accusations to a cynical racist plot against black academics... the meeting’s attendees appeared to overlook the fact that Arday has more recently been credibly accused of plagiarism and academic fraud involving multiple academic papers—written at multiple institutions—in addition to his thesis... [it is] alleged he stole another academic’s research and fabricated data... extra-academic issues were never mentioned at the UCU meeting. Jeffrey Vernon, a principal teaching fellow in postgraduate medicine at Imperial College, was an outlier in his skepticism of Liverpool John Moores’s findings. He wrote in the meeting’s chat that it was "clear" that the university "did not supervise him properly." He said, "They were anxious to find ‘no problem’ and move on." No one responded to this counterpoint... "The agenda of far-right ideologues who attacked Jason Arday while openly boasting that their goal is to create a ‘meritocracy’ in Higher Education by chasing Black scholars out of academia should be confronted, challenged and exposed, instead it was amplified by the right wing and liberal press." The academic-activists’ statement also points to the "common struggle against institutional racism and management failure in Cambridge and beyond." It commits the group to defending "colleagues and students from racist harassment and victimization and building an anti-racist movement on our campuses and in the streets." Vernon was also among a minority who noted that not all media coverage was so deserving of fierce condemnation. Pointing to Retraction Watch, which was one of the first to publish an article on Jason Arday after Cofnas last month, Vernon wrote in the chat, "I don’t think that can be called right wing, non-academic, or unscientific." He continued, "I don’t want us to go overboard on the ‘right wing racist’ argument." At least one of the meeting’s attendees envisioned a counteroffensive against James Orr, who is an associate professor of philosophy of religion at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge and the head of policy for Reform UK. Orr has been accused of racism, including for expressing negative attitudes toward Palestinians. Talat Ahmed, a senior lecturer in South Asian history at the University of Edinburgh, said if she were a student at Cambridge, she would want "a mass student insurgent campaign to get rid of that racist fucker from my institution." Decrying those who endorse race science in particular, Wallis compared them to climate denialists and said of scholarship that validates such a theory: "Academic freedom is not the freedom to publish garbage." The meeting’s attendees also argued that Arday was egregiously held to a higher standard because of his race. Megan Povey, a professor of food physics at the University of Leeds, said that, by comparison, "you see these white academics getting away with murder, literally." Povey, who is transgender, further drew a parallel to the darkening climate surrounding trans issues in Britain. "You know the right is going for trans because it’s a wedge issue," Povey said. "They’re trying to pull back gains that have been made over the years by Black Lives Matter and so on." Petra De Sutter, the Ghent rector who, according to Cofnas, suspended him, is also transgender. De Sutter was also found to have drafted an inaugural address with the aid of generative AI, which inserted multiple "hallucinated" quotes, the Brussels Times reported in January. In the speech, De Sutter had warned to "not blindly trust" AI. The activist-academic group was especially angry at journalists. Hartmann called for academia to assert its authority and preempt reporters’ efforts to use their own "crude text comparison" to examine plagiarism accusations (as Cofnas and multiple news outlets did with Arday’s texts). Wallis noted that one member "rightly said" in the chat that journalists themselves plagiarize. "They all do," Wallis said emphatically. "They all—yes!" Kahouadji replied. Sardonically quoting reporters, Wallis said, "It’s kind of like, ‘How dare you do plagiarism? That’s our thing!’" The Free Beacon could find no examples of accusations, credible or otherwise, of plagiarism levied against any of 34 identified journalists who covered the story in Britain."

Why Are Academics Falsely Claiming Plagiarism Can’t Be the ‘Mere Overlap Of Sentences’ In the Wake of Jason Arday’s Death? - "When I was in the 7th grade in 1991, my terrific social studies teacher, Mr. Corkran, taught us what plagiarism was and why it was to be avoided at all costs. And importantly, he taught us strategies—which I still use today—for how to avoid even inadvertently plagiarizing, such as taking notes from another text only in paraphrase. That way you don’t later forget that what you jotted down was someone else’s verbatim text. I wish everybody had had Mr. Corkran as a teacher. It would’ve saved, perhaps, left-wing pundit Ross Barkan from getting fired from New York magazine after they found 67 columns of his had citation problems, and also from having Penguin announce this week, per the Washington Post, it was shelving his upcoming book about his longtime friend Zohran Mamdani. When Mr. Barkan was first found out in the spring, he tried to make out like it didn’t matter if he had clearly lifted verbatim passages from another writer absent quotation marks around the text, so long, he said, as he cited them explicitly or hyperlinked to them. Mr. Corkran would tell him that is not a loophole in the plagiarism rules! The Jason Arday affair is much more complicated and ethically fraught, given, in part, that I find it hard to believe any of the sweeping overlap in the text between his work and other scholars’ papers was ever inadvertent—Liverpool John Moores University’s baffling decision to clear him of plagiarism charges on his 2015 PhD thesis notwithstanding... it seems that multiple academics in good standing have missed the message that plagiarism, by definition, can include, absent the stealing of ideas, the mere lifting of someone else’s words if that verbatim text is not put within quotation marks. Take Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto... You know who disagrees with Dr. Stanley? His employer, the University of Toronto. The university defines plagiarism in its Code of Behavior for Academic Matters like this... I obtained a video recording of a fraught and impassioned planning meeting, held Tuesday, of the UCU Solidarity Movement—an activist collective of the University and College Union, the largest higher-education union in Britain—in which two professors claimed a similarly narrow definition of plagiarism that excluded the mere overlap of text. And yet none of the other dozens of academics on this Zoom meeting objected to this narrow definition. Instead, one Cambridge professor seemed delighted that they were at least moving the plagiarism conversation away from textual overlap and recentering it on the stealing of ideas. (Dr. Arday stood credibly accused of stealing both the words and the research of other academics, mind you, per a devastating investigation by The Times. No one in the meeting specifically acknowledged that his accused offenses were this broad in scale.)... Sean Wallis, who organized the meeting, is a principal research fellow in the University College London’s English department, the UCL branch secretary of the UCU, and sits on the union’s national executive committee. So he is no slouch. The most astonishing single thing Dr. Wallis said about plagiarism during Tuesday’s planning meeting was: “Plagiarism is not using the same phrase that somebody else has used in a previous article.”"

Academic Activists Said The Telegraph and The Times Led a ‘Lynch Mob’ Against Jason Arday—Papers They Said They Don’t Read - "The central thrust of the meeting was that these academics, who were predominantly white, but who also included a substantial cohort of South Asians, was that there was a racist right-wing conspiracy to hound black academics out of their jobs in the United Kingdom. This notion was short on specifics. The only person they clearly identified as behind this conspiracy was Nathan Cofnas... Sean Wallis, a principal research fellow in English at University College London, said at the meeting that the goal in this conspiracy was to make cynical and bad-faith use plagiarism-detection software. He said that “it’s leveraging existing algorithmic tools, and of course you could do it in a targeted way. You target black colleagues because politically that is what they want to do. They want to hound out our black brothers and sisters, and I think we have to recognize the nature of what’s going on right now.” Led by Wallis, who is a major UCU organizer (and who, on Oct. 7, 2023, retweeted an approving post about the attacks of Oct. 7, 2023), the group sought to lay the groundwork for an action plan that could leap to the defense of any black academics who were targeted in Britain with accusations of academic misconduct... Lyes Kahouadji, a chemical engineering researcher at Imperial College London, was among those at the meeting who falsely asserted that Arday had been cleared of all accusations of plagiarism. Liverpool John Moores University did investigate Arday’s 2015 PhD thesis and, despite substantial textual overlap between the thesis and the work of another scholar, they cleared him of the charges in March. However, an Aug. 5 investigation in The Times found considerable evidence that Arday had committed plagiarism and data theft in multiple papers he published while at multiple other universities. The members of the UCU meeting seemed overwhelmingly unaware of this. Eva Hartmann, a university associate professor in Cambridge’s education department, where Arday held his prestigious professorship, was especially eager to hear Wallis shift the focus of the definition plagiarism away from textual overlap and toward the stealing of ideas (as if this would exonerate Arday, who was accused of that too). She gave Wallis an enthusiastic thumbs up when he did that... Wallis was especially keen to lambast right-leaning Telegraph and the more centrist Times as culpable of targeting Arday with harassing coverage. But he admitted that he did not read either publication. This could perhaps explain why he and others in the meeting seemed unaware of the accusations against Arday that were more serious than mere textual overlap. Wallis wondered aloud why in the world the British press even considered Arday a news story. It was one only because they said so, he said."

Wesley Yang on X - "Some media organs (NYT and Atlantic) are fitfully trying to extricate themselves from the morass of extreme wokeness, while some of the dominant peer-reviewed scientific publications of the Western world have no capacity to self-correct. A civilizational danger that nothing is contesting."
BH on X - "Arday wasn't a physician, his fabrications and plagiarism had nothing to do with the medical system or medicine, so what is NEJM even doing?"
Genetics Realist on X - "This is the gender-medicine pattern with different stationery. York/Cass reviewed 50 puberty-blocker studies and found one high-quality paper. No reliable conclusion on dysphoria, mental health, or cognition. Bone and height risks were the clearer signal. Meanwhile the Endocrine Society and WPATH guidelines cited each other and treated dissent as harm. That is not peer review. It is a closed loop. A journal that will print “I don’t care whether the allegations were true” has already left the scientific method. Cass is what self-correction looks like. Those specialty societies are what capture looks like."
Trust the "Science" that doesn't care what is true or not

Singapore's Bottle/Can Deposit Scheme

2026-10-01T09:50:00.000+08:00

When you waste money (the vending machines alone might cost almost $100 million, not to mention operational costs) for questionable benefit (Singapore already could recover metal from cans at the waste plant). But virtue signalling is "free" because left wingers don't see the costs:

Fergus Tan | Facebook

Singapore's BCRS has an uncomfortable question nobody seems to be asking

What happens when environmental regulation accidentally becomes protection for the biggest companies in the market?

On 1 October 2026, Singapore's Beverage Container Return Scheme enters full implementation.

After that date, regulated canned and bottled drinks sold here generally have to comply with the BCRS system, including the Singapore deposit mark and an approved barcode. Consumers pay a 10-cent deposit and can recover it by returning the empty bottle or can.

The idea sounds almost impossible to disagree with.

Recycle more. Waste less. Save the environment.

But environmental policy should still pass a basic test:

Are the environmental benefits proportionate to the economic costs and unintended consequences we are creating?

I think BCRS deserves much more scrutiny on that question.

Deposit-return schemes are used around the world, especially in Europe.

And there is evidence that they work.

OECD research finds that jurisdictions with deposit systems can achieve collection rates above 90%, while separately collected bottles can produce cleaner recycling streams than mixed household recycling.

Singapore's domestic recycling rate was only 11% in 2025. NEA estimates that Singapore uses more than one billion beverage containers a year, representing more than 16,000 tonnes of material.

So there is a legitimate environmental problem here.

But that is only half the policy equation.

Singapore already had recycling companies, waste collectors and material recovery systems before BCRS.

Now we are building a separate nationwide infrastructure of reverse-vending machines, specialised logistics, barcode verification, payment systems and administration to recover bottles and cans.

BCRS started with more than 1,000 reverse-vending machines and intends to expand to around 2,000 return points.

That infrastructure is not free.

For Year 1, producers pay approximately 3.1 cents for every metal container and 3.7 cents for every plastic container, on top of the refundable 10-cent deposit. There is also producer registration, individual SKU registration and packaging compliance.

Those numbers become much more interesting when you look at who bears the compliance burden.

BCRS Ltd is Singapore's sole licensed scheme operator until 2033.

It is a not-for-profit company.

And who established it?

Coca-Cola Singapore Beverages, F&N Foods and Pokka.

Its board also includes representatives from smaller producers Wanin Industries and Chia Khim Lee Food Industries.

There is nothing inherently improper about an industry-led environmental scheme.

In fact, CCCS reviewed the arrangement and concluded that the establishment and operation of BCRS Ltd was unlikely to infringe Singapore's Competition Act.

But something else in the CCCS record deserves considerably more public attention.

Back in 2021, when NEA was developing the scheme, Singapore's competition regulator specifically advised NEA to regularly review the framework so that it "does not unnecessarily restrict competition", to review compliance costs as market conditions change, and to put safeguards around commercially sensitive information.

That tells us something important.

Competition concerns are not some conspiracy theory invented by unhappy importers. They were foreseeable enough for Singapore's own competition regulator to raise them before the system was built.

Imagine Coca-Cola or another multinational selling millions of units of a mainstream drink in Singapore.

Changing packaging artwork for Singapore is relatively straightforward when the production run is large enough.

The Government itself has said that producers accounting for around 80% of beverage containers should be able to incorporate BCRS requirements directly into their packaging.

Their continuing compliance cost would therefore be relatively close to the 3 to 4 cent producer fee.

Now consider a Singapore SME importing a few thousand cans of an obscure Japanese soda, Thai coffee, Korean energy drink or Australian craft beer.

The overseas manufacturer may have absolutely no interest in printing Singapore-specific packaging for such a tiny market.

So the importer has another option.

Sticker every single bottle or can.

And these cannot simply be labels printed on an office printer.

BCRS requires scheme stickers to be ordered through its portal from appointed printing companies. BCRS documentation says printing lead times can range from two to six weeks.

Government officials acknowledged in Parliament that small quantities stickered locally will cost more than mass-scale stickering overseas.

CNA interviewed importers who said stickers could cost roughly 4 to 18 cents each depending on volume, before manpower and other compliance costs are considered. Some importers warned that retail prices could rise considerably for affected products.

Then there is the barcode issue.

BCRS strongly encourages Singapore-specific barcodes. Using an international barcode can trigger a refundable security fee based on BCRS's fraud assessment.

BCRS itself gives an example where an importer putting 100,000 units into the market could face a S$28,000 security fee.

Yes, it is refundable.

But refundable capital still has to come from somewhere.

For Coca-Cola, this may be an administrative problem.

For a tiny importer, S$28,000 of tied-up working capital can be a commercial decision about whether the product is worth importing at all.

The biggest danger may not be that Coke becomes 10 cents more expensive.

The bigger effect could happen quietly.

That weird Japanese Pepsi disappears.

That seasonal Australian craft beer never arrives.

That cheap Indonesian canned drink in a neighbourhood discount shop is no longer worth importing.

The niche Korean drink selling 3,000 units a year gets dropped because registration, approval, stickering and administration make the economics ridiculous.

Nobody announces that competition has fallen.

Products simply stop appearing.

This matters particularly because Singapore is a tiny consumer market.

A regulation that costs five cents per unit may be trivial at ten million units and commercially significant at ten thousand units.

That is basic economies of scale.

And regulation can therefore be formally equal while having very unequal economic effects.

Parallel importers create an unusual form of competition.

They can source identical or alternative products from Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Europe or elsewhere when the economics make sense.

That puts competitive pressure on official supply channels.

CNA found exactly this price dynamic in January.

Some imported canned drinks sold for around 70 cents, while locally supplied alternatives were closer to S$1. Importers interviewed by CNA worried BCRS compliance costs would narrow that gap.

There is therefore a legitimate public-policy question:

Could an environmental regulation unintentionally reduce the competitive pressure that parallel imports place on large incumbent beverage suppliers?

That is a much more serious question than whether carrying bottles to a vending machine is inconvenient.

What happens when consumers don't bother returning their bottles?

They lose their 10 cents.

Those unredeemed deposits can be used by BCRS Ltd to fund the operation of the scheme. The Government confirmed this in Parliament in August.

BCRS is a not-for-profit organisation, so describing this simply as Coca-Cola, F&N or Pokka "pocketing the deposits" would be inaccurate.

In fact, BCRS's published fee formula explicitly uses unclaimed deposits and revenue from the sale of recyclables to offset operating costs.

But this creates an interesting economic structure.

The consumer who doesn't return a bottle effectively contributes towards funding the system.

Meanwhile every producer, including a tiny importer, has to participate in the infrastructure created to administer that system.

That structure deserves transparent scrutiny.

Supporters will understandably point towards Germany, Norway, Denmark and Lithuania.

Their return rates are impressive.

But copying an instrument does not automatically mean copying the circumstances that made it appropriate.

Singapore has different geography, different waste infrastructure, a much smaller domestic market, enormous dependence on imported consumer goods and an unusually dense retail environment.

There is also a social side to deposit schemes that receives surprisingly little discussion.

Germany has developed an entire informal culture of Pfandsammler, people who collect discarded deposit-bearing bottles from streets, events and rubbish bins for income.

A 2025 German study estimated more than one million people engaged in deposit-bottle collection.

One can view that positively because discarded bottles get collected.

One can also ask whether designing a system where discarded packaging acquires cash value changes how people interact with public rubbish bins and public spaces.

Again, environmental policy has consequences beyond the headline recycling percentage.

There is evidence that Singaporeans are using BCRS.

MSE reported on 8 September that more than 20 million beverage containers had been collected during the first five months.

That sounds impressive until we remember that Singapore consumes more than one billion beverage containers annually and that we are still in the transition period, when many bottles do not yet carry BCRS markings.

It is therefore too early to draw either conclusion.

We cannot honestly say today that BCRS has failed environmentally.

We also cannot point to "20 million bottles collected" and conclude that the whole system represents good public policy.

The meaningful evaluation comes later:

How many of those containers would otherwise have been recycled?

How much additional material was genuinely diverted from incineration?

What is the full carbon footprint of manufacturing, operating and servicing thousands of reverse-vending machines and transporting the collected material?

How much has the scheme cost producers and consumers?

How many SKUs disappeared from Singapore because complying was no longer economically worthwhile?

How have prices of imported beverages changed relative to locally distributed alternatives?

How much working capital has been tied up in international-barcode security deposits?

And has market concentration in beverage distribution increased?

Those figures would tell us far more than the number flashing on a reverse-vending machine.

The choice does not have to be between "abolish BCRS" and "change nothing".

Regulators can examine whether a minimum threshold makes sense for very small-volume importers.

They can study whether small annual volumes justify simplified registration or alternative compliance mechanisms.

They can evaluate whether international barcodes really require security deposits at the present scale.

They can publish the effective compliance cost per container broken down by large, medium and small producers.

They can monitor how many beverage SKUs and importers leave the Singapore market after full implementation.

And CCCS can continue doing exactly what it recommended years ago: periodically reviewing whether the framework imposes unnecessary restrictions on competition and whether compliance costs remain justified.

Most importantly, environmental performance should eventually be reported as more than "X million bottles collected."

Singapore should be able to measure the incremental recycling created by BCRS against its financial cost, carbon footprint, consumer inconvenience and impact on competition.

Singapore has always depended on being an unusually easy place to trade.

We are a small market.

That makes regulatory fixed costs particularly dangerous because every additional licence, registration process, approved vendor, specialised label and compliance system has to be amortised over a relatively small customer base.

Large corporations can absorb those costs far more easily than small companies.

BCRS may ultimately prove environmentally worthwhile.

But if it improves recycling while quietly reducing product diversity, raising barriers to parallel imports and favouring businesses with enormous production volumes, Singapore deserves to know.

Green policy should be measured by environmental outcomes, competition outcomes and its total cost to society.

The hardest question surrounding BCRS therefore isn't:

"Does recycling sound like a good idea?"

Of course it does.

The harder question is:

Did we design the most proportionate recycling system for a tiny, open, import-dependent economy like Singapore?

That is the question worth answering.

Links - 30th September 2026 (2 - Mark Carney)

2026-09-30T17:02:00.000+08:00

Meme - Carney as clown putting on makeup: "WE WILL GET AN EVEN BETTER TRADE DEAL WITH THE US"
"CANADA ALREADY HAS THE BEST TRADE DEAL WITH THE US"
"CUSMA BEING TERMINATED WILL HAVE MINIMAL ECONOMIC IMPACTS ON CANADA"
"THE NEW DEAL WE NEGOTIATED IS BAD, THIS IS PIERRE POILIEVRE'S FAULT"

Michael Higgins: Trade war was never about sovereignty | National Post - "It is unfortunate that the Liberal government is still refusing to reveal exactly what the U.S. was asking and why Canada felt unable to accept. Article content What we do know is that of the three examples that Carney cited on that Saturday as being a threat to our sovereignty one has been settled, and may never have been an issue, and we largely appear to agree on a second. Article content The third issue, tariff levels on medium and heavy-duty trucks is an outstanding irritant and a large one. The potential economic harm to Ontario especially is such that it is likely to have always been a red line for Canada. Article content Article content But tariffs on trucks isn’t a sovereignty issue, it’s a trade one and best dealt with at the negotiating table. Carney told Canadians, “We are masters of our destiny.” Fine, but we are not masters of the U.S. and if they want to impose tariffs, it may be unreasonable, unfair, uneconomic and ultimately disastrous, but that’s what a sovereign nation can do. Article content However, framing tariffs on trucks as an existential threat to Canada was never going to be enough for Liberals. Arguing over 25 per cent tariffs on medium and heavy trucks is a legitimate aim for trade negotiators but lacks the drama needed by a fiery prime minister to fire up Canada. Article content A week ago, a steadfast Carney warned that “America was trying to break us so they can own us and I promised that would never, never happen.” Article content If the backdrop to that was tariffs on trucks, then Carney might have been accused of being less Churchillian and more Shakespearean. Article content Hence, Carney introduced two other factors: the risk to our language and culture as well as our ability to make trade deals with other countries. Article content These are things to rile up the masses... Article content The risk to “our language, our culture, our sovereignty” was about discoverability rules, it was about whether streaming services should have to be subject to the abysmal CanCon requirements. The U.S. wasn’t particularly happy with discoverability but was never going to war over it, said U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. Article content Whatever the U.S.’s previous position, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc appeared delighted it was now a non-issue. Article content So, the danger to our “language and culture” is not an issue now and wasn’t much of one before. More a storm in a teacup, really. Article content As for trading with other nations, it appears the U.S. — as part of a Canadian desire for Fortress North America — wanted to align tariffs in certain sectors like steel and aluminum. The purpose was to prevent a third country dumping cheap steel/aluminum in one country — say Canada — which would then make its way to the U.S. Article content Article content It’s a position Carney appears to agrees with as long as it’s part of a “comprehensive deal.” Article content It’s the kind of issue that is hammered out between trade negotiators, is detailed on page 143 of the trade agreement, is read by trade lawyers in trade magazines and never actually worries the average Canadian. Article content In light of these revelations, why aren’t we back at the bargaining table? Article content Janice Charette, Canada’s chief U.S. trade negotiator, told the CBC that “pens are down, but the door is open.” Article content It was Carney’s decision to call off the trade talks and presumably he could push for them to restart. That he isn’t making that call speaks to other political motives: is he burnishing his tough guy credentials? Awaiting to see the outcome of the U.S. midterm elections? Gambling on the anger of U.S. states to convince Donald Trump of the error of his ways? Article content Whatever Carney’s motives, he is playing a bold, dangerous and ambitious game."

Meme - Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov: "Canadian Hardwood Plywood and Veneer Association: Chinese plywood is being dumped in Canada.
Liberals: it isn't happening, America's tariffs are unfair.
CBSA: Our investigation confirms it is correct.
America: we told you"
Canada Border Services A...: "Update: our early findings confirm that imports of this product are being sold in the Canadian market at unfair prices (dumped) and subsidized. Temporary duties will now apply as investigations continue."
Canada Border Services Agency: "Fair trade matters. The CBSA launches investigations to see whether decorative and non-structural plywood from China is being sold at unfair prices (dumped) in Canada, subsidized, or both:"

Melissa Chen on X - "One of the most toxic fallouts from the Trump years is this reflexive need a lot of people have to automatically side with anyone going up against him. Mark Carney is banking on that and exploiting it hard. He knows the press will paint Trump as the irresponsible, blustery provocateur in the collapsing Canada-US trade talks, so by going all-out against Trump he scores easy political points. The truth of the matter is that the playing field has been uneven and unfair between Canada and the US for decades. Canada imposes lofty tariffs - sometimes nearly 300% - on American cheese and milk once a tiny quota is filled, and they even give the Europeans better access than they give the Americans. Provinces yanked American wine and spirits off the shelves in government liquor stores. They hit US cars with extra tariffs and quotas. Softwood lumber has been a long-running game too. But the biggest problem is the Chinese back-door scam: steel, auto parts, and EVs from China get lightly processed or just relabeled in Canada, then shipped into America under USMCA rules so they dodge the tariffs Trump put on Beijing. That lets China keep flooding the North American market, undercutting American (and Canadian) workers, and basically laundering its way around the sanctions and trade barriers meant to stop its cheating. The Trump admin wants to end the free ride and make Canada shut down the transshipment loophole that China is exploiting. Carney walking away from a near-done deal and playing the victim just keeps Canada in bed with Beijing while American (and Canadian) workers pay the price. And he’s hoping you don’t look beyond the headlines and find out the truth"

Cecile Shaw on X - "One reason the Canada-US trade deal collapsed: Canada could not promise / would not stop Chinese steel being transshipped into auto parts & then into the U.S. market. The U.S. requires a strict “melt and pour” rule. Steel must be melted and poured in North America to qualify for preferential treatment. This stops Chinese steel from entering Canada, getting light processing, and crossing the border as “North American” content to evade tariffs. Recall The Canadian Steel Producers Association and Aluminium Association of Canada have both publicly confirmed Chinese dumping is happening, warning Canada risks becoming a dumping ground for China’s excess steel and aluminum. A recent White House report on the “transshipment scam” also listed Canada as a problem country in China’s shadow network for evading U.S. tariffs. Canada failed to deliver enforceable guarantees. Mexico accepted the melt-and-pour requirements, raised tariffs on Chinese steel and auto parts, and closed the back door. Canada left it open and the deal fell apart."
Sammy on X - "Evidently, Canada thinks that "free trade" should only be free for Canada. Crooks! Ripping off Americans/American business like this deserves for Canada to be crushed with far more than 50% tariffs. Canadian government is lying about the REAL bad guy is. Canadian tariffs for years have also included:
45% tariffs on American HVACs
245% on American cheese
298% on American butter
69% on American sausage
238% on American chicken
57.8% on American Barley seed
26.5% on American meat
35% on American vaccumns
35% on American cable boxes
45% on American TVs
25% on American steel
45% on American aluminum
48% on American copper
Evidently, Canada thinks that "free trade" should only be free for Canada. Crooks!"
Cecile Shaw on X - "Canada doesn’t even practice free trade within its own borders. It maintains interprovincial tariffs and regulations on a wide range of products and services. Even maple syrup cannot move freely across the country. Major industries including banking, liquor, telecommunications, dairy, and lumber are largely controlled by massive oligopoly cartels. So when you hear Carney or any Cdn politician lecture the United States about “free trade,” it is one of the most hypocritical statements imaginable."
Sammy on X - "And ... they smear & blame Trump/US to hide their own shady deeds."

cbcwatcher on X - "The Globe’s editorial board has discovered Canadian sovereignty is non-negotiable—conveniently, when the pressure comes from Washington demanding Canada limit other trade deals. Where was this spine in January when Mark Carney flew to Beijing, inked MoUs on energy, food safety, wood products, culture, and RCMP–Chinese Ministry of Public Security crime-fighting cooperation, and declared a “new strategic partnership”? Those weren’t just canola tariff relief and a capped EV quota. They expanded institutional ties with a party-state that interferes in Canadian democracy, targets diaspora communities, and treats economic leverage as political coercion. Crucially, key parts remain secret. The precise terms of the RCMP–MPS arrangement (and fuller details of several other MoUs) have never been publicly released. Canadians are expected to trust non-binding summaries and joint statements while the operational fine print on intelligence/evidence sharing with China’s security apparatus stays undisclosed. Sovereignty apparently only becomes sacred when American negotiators try to constrain Canada’s options. Deeper process architecture, security dialogue, and opaque “mutual support” language with Beijing? That’s diversification and resilience. The selective alarm is the tell: principle when it fits the preferred narrative, flexibility (and secrecy) when the counterparty is the CCP. If sovereignty is never negotiable, apply the standard evenly—or stop pretending the concern is pure @PatrickBrethour @globeandmail"

Meme - Gina Unititered: "Hey @grok, is there any realistic scenario where Canada could actually win a trade war with the United States? Short answer. No sugarcoating."
Grok @grok: "No. Canada's economy is roughly 1/12 the size of the US. About 70-75% of Canadian goods exports go south, equal to ~16-20% of Canadian GDP. US exposure is a fraction of that. Tariffs inflict far larger relative GDP and job losses on Canada. Energy leverage exists but cutting it would crater Canadian revenues first. Diversification is too slow to change the math."
The same people who mock Trump for imposing tariffs, saying they are always bad for the country imposing them, want to impose tariffs on the US

The Real Mr Bench on X - "Mark Carney says Canada was “attacked.” “You’re at war when you get attacked.” Then listen to what comes next. Carney says Ottawa is looking at the tax system and how to “shift the burden to those who are most able to pay.” Trade talks collapse. Declare Canada under attack. Start talking about who should surrender more of their money. Is Carney selling socialism to Canadians under the cover of a trade war?"

Yuan Yi Zhu on X - "This is a great letter. There is no reason why Mr Carney can't release the draft agreement that he walked away from. The Americans know what is in it, the Canadian government knows what is in it, and the Canadian people deserve to know as well."

Christo Aivalis | Facebook - "Carney needs to realize we aren't gonna capitalism our way out of this. The economic effects will be devastating as we prepare to fight Trump. Only World War 2 style economic planning and taxation upon the rich will see us win this fight. Socialism or MAGAism"
Left wing logic - you need to destroy the economy and the country to spite Trump. If you don't you're a traitor

James E. Thorne on X - "Canada’s Trade-War Denial
Canada does not need “time to adjust.” It needs a political class willing to stop confusing indignation with economic policy. And it needs access to the US market. President Trump is focused on economic sovereignty, this is not personal this is business. I assumed Mark Carney understood that. He has spent enough time around markets and capital to know that a country cannot posture its way out of a competitiveness crisis. Yet Ottawa’s turn toward symbolism and performative retaliation suggests that faith was misplaced. Canada does not need another era of Pierre Elliott Trudeau-style progressive theatre: moral signalling, state direction, and lofty ambition detached from the hard work of building productive capacity. It needs an adult willing to confront vested interests, make trade-offs, and put economic strength ahead of political performance. The last adult, it seems, has just left the room. The elbows-up strategy is embarrassing and hurts Canada long term, like a teenager emotional response to the reality of the world. Carney’s use of it helps neither negotiation nor leverage, and it wounds Canada more than the U.S. The central strategic objective is obvious: preserve access to the United States, the world’s largest and most dynamic market, Canada’s neighbour, and the foundation of its export economy. That access is not a talking point. It supports Canadian jobs, investment, supply chains, and growth. Canada focus on China is an own goal. China cannot replace it. China is distant, strategically uncertain, and separated from Canada by geography, institutions, and infrastructure. It cannot reproduce continental integration: shared energy systems, cross-border capital, integrated factories, common standards, and decades of commercial interdependence. Canada does not get to trade on sentiment while depending on geography. Nor can it “win” a trade war with its largest customer. Ottawa can impose targeted costs where it has genuine leverage. It can negotiate firmly. But broad retaliation is not a strategy. It is emotional performance masquerading as economic policy. Too many in the political and economic elite appear to believe retaliation can force the structural adjustment Canada has avoided for years. It cannot. Tariffs do not raise productivity. They do not attract investment, reduce regulatory costs, or make Canadian businesses more competitive. They raise prices for households, increase costs for manufacturers, and encourage mobile capital to locate elsewhere. Retaliation for its own sake is an expensive expression of national frustration. Canadians pay the bill. The deeper problem is not merely American pressure. It is Canadian failure: weak business investment, poor productivity growth, regulatory paralysis, provincial trade barriers, slow approvals, inadequate infrastructure, and a subsidy culture that protects incumbents rather than rewards builders. Canada is rich in assets and poor in execution. It has energy, minerals, capital, skilled people, and privileged proximity to America. Yet it has made investment too slow, too risky, and too expensive. The answer is not submission. It is reform: deregulate, accelerate approvals, remove barriers to capital and internal trade, and lower the cost of building. Canada may need time to adjust. But first it needs to end its denial."

Hans Mahncke on X - "99% of U.S. natural gas imports, 85% of electricity imports, and 60% of crude oil imports sounds impressive, but it is totally misleading. Those are percentages of imports, not of total U.S. energy supply. America produces most of its own energy, so the Canadian share of actual U.S. supply is dramatically smaller. In electricity, for example, it is about 1%."

Meme - IQ 589 I Cody Penn-Dent I Effluencer @codypd: "Picture of how Canada gets oil from Alberta to Ontario and Quebec. Canadians are talking about "cutting off" the US from Canadian petroleum and natural gas. What they will end up doing is cutting Canada off from Alberta's petroleum and natural gas"
aaahhhchew @aaahhhchew: "Canadians will starve, suffer and live in complete poverty just so they can say "It's Trumps fault". Once Canada is destroyed all these TDS lib commies are all just going to move back to the Euro. Canada has been hijacked as a tool to be used as a thorn in President Trumps shoe"
Meanwhile left wingers are still opposing new pipelines

Peter McCaffrey on X - "SHOCKING: The NY Times reveals that the US were keen to move ahead with the Keystone XL pipeline, but the Liberals used it as a bargaining chip to try to change the deal in the last hours. Side note: Why can’t we get this kind of information from our own government and media?"
TIme to blame Trump again

Dan Knight on X - "Donald Trump has just damned Canada to four more years of David Eby and Mark Carney. Elections are coming, and these grifters will seize the opportunity to wrap themselves in the flag and cash in on the anti-Trump wave."

Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "The average Canadian has never looked at a map of their own country. Line 9, which supplies nearly all of Ontario and Quebec with their oil, runs through the United States before re-entering Canada through Southern Ontario. Years ago, the Canadians had an opportunity to build a new pipeline named Energy East that would have supplied Eastern Canada and the Maritimes with Albertan oil without entering the US. The Liberals killed the project. Shutting off Canadian energy to America means shutting off energy to Ontario and Quebec too. So congratulations on destroying your own country and ruining whatever leverage you had. I'm sure it made you all feel morally superior at the time though, so maybe it was worth it."
Canadian patriotism is about destroying the company to spite the US and Donald Trump

Jason Pugh 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "WATCH: Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe asked what it would take to put oil and potash on the table in the Canada-U.S. trade war. “It’s not possible.” He says it would be a flawed policy that would put Canadians out of work. @PremierScottMoe @MarkJCarney @realDonaldTrump"

Scott Robertson on X - "Scott Moe rules out applying export tariffs on potash as leverage against the U.S."
Jiggly News on X - "It would be nice if Moe and Smith were on Team Canada"
Randy Walsh on X - "If Moe and Smith follow through on what you want them to do, it would mean throwing 10s of thousands of Canadians out of work. I’m not sure why you have a problem with their decision to protect people’s incomes."
Left wing Canadians will destroy the country just to spite Trump

Meme - "Ok so let me get this straight... Canadians are losing their minds because ol Donny boy just doubled down on the East tariffs on Steel and aluminum which will most definitely limit access of their goods going south, losing them billions....imagine that, how thing horrific. Meanwhile the East has been limiting access for Alberta oil with refusal of pipelines for fking Decades!!! Won't buy Alberta oil, would rather get it tankerred in from Foreign countries... So Alberta is Forced to sell it south at a discount and then Alberta is still forced to send the East money...So wheres been the Canadian outrage?? Honestly this country Is so ridiculous, you cant even make this shit up, it's no wonder Albertans want to Exit Canada."

cbcwatcher on X - "For the first time, Canadians hear the US side of the collapsed trade talks. In a CBC interview with Rosemary Barton, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said America felt “very, very confident in the deal we had struck late Tuesday night.” They believed they had offered “the best deal available to any country on the planet with respect to Canada.”Then Ottawa returned with more demands. “They had some additional requests… that were too much for the United States,” Greer said. “Giving them the best deal in the world would have been enough.”He rejected claims of last-minute U.S. additions: the president’s comment was “off the cuff.” The core rates (autos toward 15%, steel and aluminum cuts) were agreed Tuesday and did not change. On the president’s comment that last-minute U.S. additions “sound like me,” Greer pushed back: the remarks were “off the cuff.” The last conversation between Trump and Prime Minister Carney was Tuesday night, with “some meeting of the minds” on specific rates and percentages. “Hard to change those things after a given time.”On specific Canadian flashpoints:* Medium- and heavy-duty trucks fell under a separate national-security measure, not the auto deal.* “Fortress North America” coordination was about preventing Canada from becoming a backdoor for third-country steel and aluminum—not dictating Ottawa’s future deals.* French-language discoverability was “the farthest thing from a red line”Greer repeated that Canada has been the only country (besides a settled China dispute) to retaliate with bans and caps. Channels are currently closed. “We have a trade policy. It’s global in nature. We’re proceeding with it.”That’s the American account of why the talks fell apart @jamiesongreer @RosieBarton"

Meme - Pierre Pollievre: "Why is the Liberal media so madly in love with Mark Carney? Because, when Trudeau/ Freeland debtonate the economy, they can say, "here is a NEW Liberal saviour to rescue us from the crisis created by the previous Liberal saviours." #Debtonation" - 2021-03-20

Bradshaw on X - "Elbows Up 🤷‍♀️ Carney again chooses Europe over Canada to Vacation. His assets are The US and every chance he gets he’s off to Europe,again why how did anyone fall for this goof.."

wealthmoose on X - "🚨 WHAT ARE THE ODDS? 🇨🇦🇮🇹 In just months:
🇮🇹 Brookfield completes a ~$900M acquisition of Italy’s Fosber.
📡 Brookfield is reported exploring a takeover of Italian telecom giant INWIT.
⚽ Brookfield completes its takeover of Oaktree — whose funds control Inter Milan, tied to the massive San Siro redevelopment.
Meanwhile… 🇨🇦 Mark Carney — Brookfield’s former Chair — is rapidly deepening Canada’s relationship with Italy across energy, critical minerals, defence, investment and supply chains. Proof of wrongdoing? No. One hell of a coincidence? Absolutely. When public policy and the expanding interests of a PM’s former company keep landing on the same map… Canadians should be asking questions. 👀"

L. Wayne Mathison on X - "Canada has just committed roughly $2.3 billion to Telesat for Arctic military communications. That comes on top of a $2.14 billion federal loan already supporting its Lightspeed satellite project. This is a company whose creditors are now suing over disputed asset transfers and looming debt maturities. Telesat denies the allegations, but taxpayers deserve far more scrutiny than they’re getting. The CEO is also described in parliamentary testimony as a close personal friend of Mark Carney. Friendship does not prove corruption. But when billions of public dollars are involved, that relationship demands full disclosure, transparent procurement and a clear explanation of why this was the best deal available. SpaceX already operates a large, functioning low-Earth-orbit network. Telesat’s full global service is not expected until late 2027. Yet Ottawa keeps acting as though spending enough money can somehow buy Canada an instant place at the front of the technological race. There may be legitimate military reasons for Canada to want sovereign communications rather than depending entirely on an American company. OK. Make that case openly. Show the competing bids, the security requirements, the delivery schedule and the cost comparison. What Ottawa should not do is use “Canadian innovation” as a magic phrase that ends all questioning. We are trying to catch a company that is already far ahead by placing another enormous government bet on an unfinished system tied to a financially troubled parent company. That is industrial policy by political confidence rather than proven performance. Canada is not falling behind because taxpayers refuse to spend enough. We are falling behind because government repeatedly rewards connections, announcements and promises while other countries build, launch and deliver."

Nick Leaf on X - "You can’t make this stuff up. Doug Ford cancels $100 million deal with Starlink and pays huge penalty. Mark Carney, gives $2.3 Billion to his buddy at Telesat to provide internet for Northern Canada. Telesat hires Space X to launch Telesat satellites to cover Northern Canada."

Carney’s climate policy is splitting the Left. Here’s what it means for the Liberals, Conservatives, and the NDP - " Steven Guilbeault, longtime high-profile Greenpeace activist turned Liberal MP, former environment and climate change minister, and driving force behind the Trudeau government’s divisive green policies, is resigning over Carney’s climate policies. This follows news from last week that 14 Liberal MPs had sent a letter to the prime minister at the end of April, objecting to the Ottawa-Alberta energy agreement and raising concerns that the Liberals were backsliding on the environment. Can climate be the seam that tears the Liberals’ ever-broadening tent?... Though cost-of-living pressures have weighed on its salience, Canadians still broadly support climate action. At the height of Trudeau’s unpopularity in 2024, 62 percent of Canadians reported feeling concerned about climate change, including half of Conservative voters. One in four Canadians thought the Carney-Smith MOU was a “betrayal,” including 22 percent of Liberal voters. Last week, La Presse accused Carney of “environmental treason.” The Conservative Party stands to be the main beneficiary of this fracture."

Meme - Shuv Majumdar: "Mark Carney made a bad deal, then lied to Canadians about it. Now Liberal MPs are shutting down scrutiny rather than voting for transparency."
"Liberals adjourn committee without voting on Conservative motion to look into Gordie Howe bridge deal"

Marc Nixon on X - "I just spoke to a socialist boomer who was thrilled that Mark Carney won the last election. I asked one question: “If Canada is such a great investment, why is roughly 91% of Carney’s reported net worth tied to U.S. assets, while only about 0.5% is in Canada? Shouldn’t someone who truly believes Canada be investing here? He was stunned. Most Canadians have no idea Mark Carney is ALL in on 🇺🇸"

Meme - "WORST TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKER EVER"

Mark Carney might be used to being the smartest guy in the room. That’s no guarantee of success in politics - The Globe and Mail - "If you are always the smartest guy in any discussion, if you can always run rings around the people you’re dealing with, it can impair your judgment – a very different thing from intelligence. Smart people win arguments. Wise people learn from them. Getting your intellectual ass handed to you from time to time induces a needed humility, an understanding that there may be points of view you haven’t encountered, facts you aren’t aware of, angles you haven’t considered. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that intelligence is necessarily an obstacle to judgment, but it can be. Judgment is as much or more a matter of temperament, and experience, as it is processing speed. Jean Chrétien was, like Mr. Trudeau but not Mr. Harper, no intellectual, but he had more political judgment than the two of them put together. Worse, being top dog can also blind you to what the other dogs are thinking. People who think the boss is contemptuous of them will one day return the favour. Mr. Carney is riding high at the moment. The public is rightly frightened by the course of world events, notably the sudden “heel turn” of the United States under Donald Trump. Mr. Carney’s technocratic sheen, the bespoke suits and cool, appraising demeanour, suits their current tastes in leaders. But that is in part because he has not had to do a great deal other than look the part, unflappable and steely eyed. At some point James Bond has to actually kill someone. At some point Mr. Carney is going to have to make some fundamental decisions, win a big fight, deliver on his lofty promises. At that point the wry wink and the easy grin won’t be enough. He’s going to need allies. And at that point the people he’s been bossing about and dressing down are going to make a calculation: Are my interests still served by sticking with this guy? It won’t be love or loyalty that moves them. It will be percentage points... Everything about Mr. Carney screams “I am a Goldman Sachs alum.” And yet his every word or deed seems to say, “I know. Isn’t it great?” That is not a quality that is likely to endear you to people over time. Maybe in business it does, or in senior bureaucratic roles, though I doubt it does even there. But in politics it is lethal. Or at least, it can be. Again, what people want varies with the circumstances... Certainly he has proved himself to be a much more adept political animal than many people might have supposed when he started, in the sense of a willingness to drop long-held principles on the spot if that was what was necessary to win and keep power... he is having to learn all this on the job – a job with frankly dizzying powers. Prime ministers in any Westminster system are immensely powerful. Prime ministers in Canada have always been especially powerful. But the powers of a Canadian prime minister have of late grown to levels that have neither precedent nor parallel... A 2007 survey of 250 experts in 22 countries, scoring prime ministers around the world over last two decades of the 20th century on a number of variables, found widespread agreement that the Prime Minister of Canada was the most powerful of the bunch, and by a wide margin. So in Mr. Carney we have an unusual combination of attributes: extraordinary self-confidence, utter lack of political experience, and enormous power. Is it entirely surprising to find that his conduct in office reveals a certain, shall we say, authoritarian streak? It isn’t just the willingness to ride roughshod over important civil liberties, from the rights of asylum claimants to an independent hearing to the rights of internet users not to have the police snooping into their data to the manifest privacy violations implied by Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, and Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act. It’s also the high-handed treatment of Parliament involved in passing these bills, whether by means of omnibus legislation combining bills with comically disparate purposes, which MPs are obliged to pass at one go; or by arbitrary limits on how long each bill might be debated, or what sorts of amendments might be entertained. It’s Mr. Carney’s refusal to attend more than a handful of Question Periods, even when he is in Ottawa, as if the raucous, rancorous daily hazing of government ministers were beneath him, and not an integral part of his job: the basic requirement of accountability, without which power has no legitimacy. And it’s the lordly way in which he treats his own caucus, not only forcing them to stand and support, over and over again, the very opposite policies to those they stood for little more than a year ago... no prime minister has displayed quite such an obvious personal taste for autocracy, so early in his tenure, with so little evident concern for how this might come back to haunt him. What’s that old show biz saying? Take care how you treat people on the way up. You’ll meet them on the way down."
The "qualifications" crowd have great copes to explain away his lack of political experience

Thread by @TrendPolCa on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "PM @MarkJCarney just handed day-to-day control of his office to an American political operative who worked for Hillary Clinton and Michael Bloomberg. Her title didn't exist until this week, and even the Globe and Mail can't fully explain how she got here. 🧵👇
Her name is Maia Johnson. She surfaced in Canadian politics last year, coming in from New York City to volunteer on Carney's leadership campaign. By this year she was inside the PMO as his senior adviser on Canada-U.S. relations. Now Carney has made her chief operating officer, a corporate title never before used in the Prime Minister's Office. The chief of staff runs the political agenda. Johnson runs the machine itself, making sure the day-to-day work of the government happens as desired. The Globe pieced together what it could about her. She is cited in news stories as running political strategy and logistics for Democrats, including Clinton, and is connected to Bloomberg's now-defunct strategy firm, Hawkfish. Bloomberg co-chaired Carney's UN climate finance alliance, which sources say is where the two connected. In June, the ethics commissioner fined her for filing her required public disclosures late. Her disclosure statement is still listed as in progress. The Globe asked Johnson directly how she came to work in Canadian politics. She did not reply, and the PMO declined to comment. Her promotion comes as Carney enters year two, under pressure to land a U.S. trade deal and steady a shaky economy.
The person now keeping his government running is one whose path to the job nobody in Ottawa can fully explain — The Globe and Mail"
Tamara Lich 🇨🇦 on X - "Canada already has a Chief Operating Officer. He’s called the Prime Minister. The role of Prime Minister entails day-to-day duties associated with overseeing operations necessary to run a country. Our Prime Minister is too important to waste his time on governing so he’s it off to an American Democrat. Canada, eh? Elbows up!"

Jamil Jivani on X - "Wait, the media wants me to apologize for being friends with VP Vance and going to the White House to establish better dialogue between our countries. Hundreds of thousands of jobs depend on the Canada-US relationship. But Carney chooses to fill his office with Democrat operatives, and that's no big deal? Does he actually want a good relationship with our biggest trading partner? Does he care about Canadian jobs?"

Meme *Liberal Carney stomping on Canada*
*Food* *Immigration* *Housing Price*
*Trump throws tariff slap at Carney*
Bloodied Carney to Canada: "He's bullying us!"

Ryan Gerritsen on X - "Carney is using a tactic called the illusory truth effect on Canadians. He repeats the same statements over and over again in order to make them feel believable and familiar. Facts eventually mean nothing to the people who keep seeing, hearing or reading them because of this repeated familiarity. Here I highlight the endless usage of “deepening”. Carney uses it almost weekly."

Jason Arday and the Corruption of Science

2026-09-30T13:44:00.000+08:00

nature @Nature: "Editorial: The death of Jason Arday must prompt deep reflection"
Readers added context to the link: "Arday was an academic fraud whose life story was fake. Editorial falsely treats former as unproven allegation, omits mention of latter, defames those who covered the scandal as racist. Calls him "autistic Black scholar" despite no proven autism diagnosis."

Jason Arday and the Corruption of Science
An editorial in ‘Nature’ chooses progressive ideology over basic honesty.

One of the more distressing changes in science is its infection by politics and ideology, a change visible in what I call “journal creep.” Until recently, the primary function of scientific journals was to disseminate research. Now, however, many journals have adopted an additional mission: promoting ideological, moral, or political positions. This newer mission, which endangers not only the reputation but also the practice of science, is seen clearly in a recent editorial in one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals, Nature.

The Nature editorial centers on the tragic story of Jason Arday, a sociologist who at 37 became the youngest Black full professor ever appointed at the University of Cambridge. In July, it was revealed that Arday had plagiarized significant portions of his Ph.D. thesis at Liverpool John Moores University. This in turn prompted extensive investigations by the press. What they found was not pretty: more evidence of plagiarism, falsified research, fabricated claims on his curriculum vitae, and, most striking, a breathtaking record of biographical fabulism.

Arday claimed he appeared on TV shows he was not on, ran multiple marathons he did not run, and had extreme autism that has not been substantiated. (Arday said he did not speak until he was 11 and couldn’t read or write until he was 18.) Arday also said he received racist threats that couldn’t be verified and suffered multiple bouts of cancer (also not verified). The Times of London reported that Arday stole another researcher’s data (as well as quotes that the researcher obtained in interviews), publishing them as his own. If true, this is wholesale academic fraud.

In response to the growing attention to Arday, Cambridge announced that it was launching an investigation. Arday resigned the same day. Nine days later, on August 14, he was found dead in his flat, an apparent suicide.

Nature’s editorial is titled “The Death of Jason Arday Must Prompt Deep Reflection.” Unfortunately, the reflection Nature demands does not involve asking how someone with such a thin academic record and a history of exaggeration and lying managed to secure such a prestigious position. Rather, Nature is concerned with assigning blame for Arday’s downfall and death, and the blame falls on everyone but Arday himself.

Most at fault, says Nature, was “persistent media attention” largely fostered by racism. Cambridge also deserves blame both for participating in the “systemic racism in academia” that supposedly made Arday’s life intolerable, and for announcing that they would investigate him, which, says Nature, was a violation of “confidentiality.” But all Cambridge announced was that it was investigating Arday’s “academic qualifications and honorary appointments” as well as allegations of “academic misconduct”— nothing more. Since the media was already intensively focused on Arday, announcing an investigation without giving details doesn’t seem out of line. American universities do it all the time, saying things like: “We are not commenting pending an investigation of these accusations.”

Oddly absent from Nature’s editorial is any serious acknowledgement of Arday’s apparent fabulism, plagiarism, errors, and lies. Nor is there any attempt to grapple with the fact that Arday’s decision to publish a memoir with a major commercial publisher further drew the media’s spotlight.

It’s tragic that Arday killed himself. But the frenzy to blame every person and institution for Arday’s death save Arday himself is bizarre. That Nature should join this frenzy lays bare the extent to which even the most prestigious journals have prioritized political sloganeering over truth seeking.

Disparaging merit in favor of equity, shifting research funding towards progressive topics, misrepresenting science by skewing citations towards researchers having approved backgrounds, censoring papers, controlling language, and distorting accepted science so that it conforms to certain narratives while proscribing research on topics considered taboo — such symptoms of ideological pollution are present in journals across the sciences. Here are three examples, all involving Nature journals.

In 2023, a group of climate scientists published a paper in Nature making the strong claim that the increase of wildfires in California resulted almost entirely from anthropogenic climate change — a claim instantly picked up by the media. But right after publication, Patrick T. Brown, the paper’s first author, confessed that he deliberately ignored other causes of wildfires because climate change was the narrative that Nature preferred and it would therefore enhance the odds that his paper would be accepted. As Brown wrote:

I knew not to try to quantify key aspects other than climate change in my research because it would dilute the story that prestigious journals like Nature and its rival, Science, want to tell.
This matters because it is critically important for scientists to be published in high-profile journals; in many ways, they are the gatekeepers for career success in academia. And the editors of these journals have made it abundantly clear, both by what they publish and what they reject, that they want climate papers that support certain preapproved narratives — even when those narratives come at the expense of broader knowledge for society.

When journals hew to ideological positions in this way, it impedes the emergence of scientific truth.

In 2022, Nature Human Behavior published a manifesto asserting that “Although academic freedom is fundamental, it is not unbounded.” The bounds of that freedom should exclude “content that undermines — or could reasonably be perceived to undermine — the rights and dignities of an individual or human group on the basis of socially constructed or socially relevant human groupings.”

As Jesse Singal commented:

There isn’t much concern here about the truth of a claim; rather, the focus is almost entirely on subjective questions like what constitutes “indirect disparagement” or whether or not a perspective is ‘singular’ or ‘privileged.’” ... the goal will be to exert greater influence on the types of knowledge that are allowed to be produced.”

Finally, there’s the effect of politicization on the perceived credibility of science. In 2008, Nature began endorsing candidates for president, beginning with Barack Obama (this endorsement was repeated in 2012), and continuing with Hillary Clinton in 2016, Joe Biden in 2020, and Kamala Harris in 2024.

Whatever you think of those politicians, the decision to endorse presidential candidates has been corrosive to Nature’s reputation for scientific objectivity. We know this because of a study published in, of all places, Nature Human Behavior showing that readers informed about the journal’s endorsement of Biden lost trust not only in the journal but in science more generally.

A scientific journal, like a university, should remain ideologically and politically neutral, with the possible exception of matters that directly affect the mission of the journal itself. Pinning blame for the death of Jason Arday on the press and on the University of Cambridge, and flippantly characterizing science as ridden with “structural racism,” are not issues within the remit of Nature. Although Arday was the author of his own tragedy, Nature asks all of us to search our souls for traces of the racism that, they claim, make us coauthors:

It is incumbent on all of us in the media and academia to reflect on our roles and responsibilities. Both research and media organizations have an obligation to communicate information fairly and accurately — and to avoid causing harm to the people they employ or report on. We can and must learn from this tragedy.

Sadly, Nature has learned the wrong lessons.

Thread by @cremieuxrecueil on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

Wokeness didn't end

Nature just put out an editorial praising Jason Arday, affirming the lie he was autistic & arguing he had an unmet right to see the evidence against him and respond accordingly

They argued that didn't happen, even though we all saw it

These people are liars

This editorial is so malicious, so incendiary, and such a distortion of facts, it seems like a strong reason never to trust Nature until everyone involved with it is out.

This sort of lying from a prestigious scientific institution is unfathomably bad.

They don't deserve trust.

And yes, if you read the editorial, you'll notice that they DID try to make it all about race.

These people are sick. If you just want to do away with fraud, they'll smear you as a racist if you catch a fraudster from one of their favored groups.

Anything to avoid a reckoning!

Thread by @WKCosmo on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

This is just astonishing. It's an editorial, no byline, which means that it represents the editorial position of the journal itself. At no point does it even entertain the question of whether the allegations against Arday had basis in fact, which they clearly did.

That's ... not how journalism works. They don't just stop asking questions because you tell them to. Let's remember that Arday (possibly with the involvement of Cambridge, but this is not yet clear) used the threat of lawsuits to suppress reporting on Arday's academic misconduct for YEARS before the story finally broke.

I wonder if @Nature advocates for similar media restraints for faculty who are accused of sexual misconduct. I bet not.

I wonder if @Nature takes the position that Nathan Cofnas should have similar protections. I bet not.

Links - 30th September 2026 (1 - California)

2026-09-30T09:32:00.000+08:00

Meme - Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice: "Nick Shirley, right now"
Ugly guy with lots of cameras at daycare door: "Hey, can I see your kids?"
Mandy @MarindaVannoy1: "Going after Nick Shirley instead of the waste and fraud he is exposing tells us everything we need to know about you."

Meme - "NASA ARTEMIS Il
$4 BILLION
PLANNING BEGAN 2017
PASSENGERS: 4
MILES TRAVELED: 695,000
CA BULLET TRAIN
$126 BILLION
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Thread by @avidseries on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Sonoma County declared racism a "public health crisis" because, it claims, its black residents (1% of the population) live to a mean of 71 years. But the county's own website and other sources state they live to a mean of 82 years — one year more than whites. An advocate for the resolution said, "These [racist] outcomes are the result of centuries of laws, policies, and systems that disadvantage people of color." Here are the average lifespans of Sonoma County residents by race:
Asians, 88 years
Hispanic, 86
Black, 82
White, 81
So, if there's a racism-fueled "pubic health crisis" — and of course there isn't — it looks like whites are the victims of it.
If you're one of the least-black and most-liberal counties in California, there are only going to be so many opportunities available to morally grandstand, and you gotta grab anything that comes your way."

Nick shirley on X - "California is trying to pass a bill that would criminalize investigative journalism with misdemeanors, $10,000 fines, imprisonment, and content takedown. The proposed bill is titled AB 2624 and was made after I exposed mass fraud by immigrant groups in America. Under AB 2624, government-funded entities like the Somali “Learing” Daycare centers would be protected from being exposed if they operated inside California. The enemy truly is within. When our politicians would rather protect fraudsters and illegal migrants, it’s time for us to stand up or face mass oppression from the traitors who “rule” over us."
Elon Musk on X - "California legislators are trying to make investigating fraud illegal"

Robert Garcia on X - "In 2028, Californians should get rid of the jungle primary. It has not worked out as intended, and it’s time to get back to real primaries."
Buzz Patterson on X - "This is absolutely hysterical! Democrats have used the jungle primary in California for 14 years requiring the top 2 candidates, regardless of party, to move forward to the general election. It has served them well. So well, in fact, that if a Republican even wins a primary, it’s been considered a “win.” Now, Republicans have gained the upper hand and have THE top 2 candidates for governor. As it stands, 2 Republicans will advance to the general and shut out the Dems. How do Democrats react? They demand an end to the jungle primary. So predictable."

Collin Rugg on X - "NEW: California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter says she would "fight" the Trump admin after she was asked if truck drivers should be able to read English.
Question: Do you believe that English language proficiency should be strictly enforced for truck drivers?
Porter: I would absolutely fight the Trump administration...
What a wild predicament the left is in. They have to oppose Trump, so they are advocating for truck drivers who can't read road signs."
Gad Saad on X - "Moderator: Do you have a funding program to fight cancer?
Democrats: We must defeat @realDonaldTrump.
Moderator: What about the rise in recidivist criminality?
Democrats: Trump must be defeated. He is dangerous.
Moderator: How will you handle the open border policies?
Democrats: I have a lock on my front door to keep Donald Trump out.
Moderator: I hear that your child suffers from autism. How will you support funding for autism?
Democrats: Trump is the ultimate autistic child.
Moderator: Your daughter was raped by illegal migrants. How will you institute policies to ensure that no woman ever faces this again?
Democrats: Trump is the real rapist. And Kavanaugh."
Of course, if truck drivers who can't read road signs cause car crashes, it's Trump's fault because if ICE wasn't trying to deport illegal immigrants, "minorities" would learn English

Marke B. on X - "Truly cannot fucking believe we have an austerity mayor at this crucial moment."
Kane 謝凱堯 on X - "For the millionth time San Francisco county budget is $16B for <900k people. We are better funded than Copenhagen. If you halved SF budget we’d still be almost 200% per capita budget of Denver county. Services are bad bc of corruption and incompetence. There is no austerity."

California Provides Sex-Change Procedures to Homeless Illegal Aliens - "we received a report from a whistleblower who claimed that illegal aliens were staying in San Francisco’s homeless shelters. Following up on the tip, we visited numerous publicly funded shelters in San Francisco, and spoke to employees and residents about their policies, sometimes through a translator. We discovered not only that the shelters were housing illegal immigrants but also that they were apparently housing a population of male-to-female “transgender” illegal aliens, who had hoped to obtain “gender-affirming care.” And, to our shock, state and local governments apparently are providing it... When most Californians think about “homeless services,” they imagine that their tax dollars are going to support veterans, families, and those who have fallen on hard times. But in San Francisco, the reality is that some homeless shelters have apparently turned into havens for transgender-identifying illegal aliens, who can receive “gender-affirming care” on taxpayers’ dime. (The California Department of Health Care Services, which administers the Medi-Cal program, did not respond to our request for comment.) Sometimes, these policies are hidden under euphemisms; other times, however, they are more explicit. At the end of our trip, we visited a third government-funded shelter, the Taimon Booton Navigation Center, which is focused on “transgender, gender non-conforming & intersex people.” (The center does not post its address publicly and displays a sign referring to what appears to be its former name, the “Bryant Street Navigation Center.”) Outside the facility, which did not respond to our request for comment, we met a group of male-to-female transgender illegal aliens, who told us that they wanted to receive transgender medical treatment. Apparently, word has traveled down the continent to the transgender communities in Mexico, Honduras, and elsewhere: if you make it all the way to California, the government will pay for your shelter, hormones, and surgeries—no questions asked."
Weird. We were told this wasn't happening and anyone who suggested it was was spreading misinformation

Gavin Newsom PAC Bought Thousands of Books to Boost Sales - "Want a copy of Gavin Newsom’s book? Turns out all it took was a donation -- and a PAC with deep pockets! Here’s how it played out ... The New York Times reports Newsom’s political action committee shelled out more than $1.5M to scoop up copies of his memoir, "Young Man in a Hurry," and hand them out to supporters who chipped in -- any amount got you in the door. And plenty of people took the bait. About 67,000 books were sent out through the donation deal -- accounting for roughly two-thirds of all print copies sold. Yeah … that bestseller run didn’t exactly happen the old-fashioned way. Newsom himself leaned into the pitch ... blasting emails to supporters calling the book “very personal” and urging them to help bring more cash into the PAC after a pricey push to pass a redistricting measure designed to help Democrats grab more House seats. To be clear, this move isn’t unheard of in political circles. Groups tied to Donald Trump Jr. have done similar promos ... and even Kamala Harris’ political arm dangled her memoir for donations. But Newsom’s numbers? Way bigger -- and way more expensive. Federal filings show his PAC made two payments totaling $1,561,875 to a book distributor, listed as “books at cost” -- easily its largest expense of early 2026. Team Newsom says don’t get it twisted … they claim the strategy actually made money, bringing in more from donations than the cost of the books -- and insist the governor didn’t pocket royalties on those copies. The memoir landed on the NYT bestseller list … but this wasn’t just a book launch -- it was a fundraising strategy with a glossy cover."

Meme - "CALIFORNIA V.S. ARIZONA GAS PRICES. NEEDLES, CA $7.29/gal. TOPOCK, AZ $4.03/gal *cities on the border between the states, right beside each other*"
Clearly, this is proof that gas station owners in Needles are super greedy and need to be forced to sell petrol at lower prices

Meme - Hot Takes Nobody Asked For: "governor gavin newsom of california is claiming that healthcare will be slashed for ten million americans if a tax on silencers is eliminated."
Gavin Newsom: "Mike Johnson is hoping you won't notice what he snuck into his "big beautiful" bill - the elimination of a 100-year-old tax on gun silencers. How will he pay for it? By slashing healthcare for 10 million Americans."
"US Republican budget proposal has removal of gun silencer tax in its sights"

Matthew Seedorff on X - "NEW: Los Angeles Police Department’s “Heavy Metal Task Force” says it continues arresting suspects accused of stealing copper wire from street lights and other infrastructure. Investigators say organized theft crews are using fortified abandoned buildings and encampments to store stolen goods, guns, and narcotics — and warn problem sites have worsened as the unit currently lacks funding for weekly suppression details."
Kane 謝凱堯 on X - "Copper theft is uniquely zero-sum. The cost to taxpayers in infrastructure repairs and social decay is orders of magnitude more than the scrap value of copper. These thieves should be in prison for a long long time. Of course, California generally releases them without prison."
California is such a third world place

Exclusive | Inventor creates ingenious simple device to keep LA's lights on. The city immediately shot it down - "End Metal Theft spokesman Mark James revealed to the California Post it had created a hardened cover that secures streetlights and would stop neighborhoods being plunged into darkness. The device, which fastens over the lid to the wires, would make it harder, louder and far riskier for criminals to try to gain access. They would cost about $300 to install, are easily maintained and would save the tens of thousands of dollars it costs to repair vandalized streetlamps. But James revealed City Hall chiefs shot it down, instead wanting to focus on converting to solar lamps that will cost up to $6,000 each. He told The Post: “The most cost-effective theft deterrent isn’t replacing what thieves are after, it’s making it not worth their time to try.” He continued: “A locking cover does that for a fraction of what any alternative infrastructure decision costs.” Copper wire theft has sparked havoc across the city and left neighborhoods in darkness while a backlog of repairs are carried out. Meanwhile Los Angeles started sending ballots out to residents to try to get them to stack up the funds to pay for ones outside their homes. James said: “A lot of these thefts happen in plain sight, guys in vests, middle of the day, looking like they belong there... “In Glendale, contractors repulled wire and within 48 hours it was stolen again, taxpayers paid twice for the same repair. “After installing locking covers, theft at that park stopped. What’s telling is copper wire theft started showing up in nearby unprotected areas. They’re choosing the easiest target.” Despite this, LA is weighing bringing in solar streetlights that will not need the wiring that will cost between $3,000 and $6,000 per unit and more for maintenance and battery replacements... The initiative comes from the same LA City Council that spent $300 million on hotel rooms for homeless people — only to see 40% of those people return to the streets... Varga says people who work hard are now being asked to clean up the city’s crime mess. “A third of LA’s City Council are democratic socialists of America. They don’t care about crime.” he said."
Kane 謝凱堯 on X - "Incredible story about progressive politics: Criminals keep stealing copper and destroying lights. @LACityCouncil does nothing. Man comes up with way to stop theft. LA bans it. Meanwhile, LA is trying to raise taxes for continuous repair instead of punishing criminals."
Clearly, the only solution is to tackle the "root cause" of crime - by giving out even more free money

John Loeber on X - "I can’t stop thinking about the LA copper wire thefts.
For background: in LA, thieves have been stripping streetlights of their electrical wiring and selling it for scrap. It is amazingly destructive: for every $1 of wire they sell, the city has to spend $100-$1000 on repairs. Literally, the thief might make a couple hundred bucks, and the city has to spend six figures. (Oh and the streetlights are out, which may lead to traffic accidents or other problems.) It’s an extremely antisocial crime. Astoundingly, the city seems unwilling to do something about this. A guy invented a better way to lock down streetlights — they didn’t want it. The idea of “look for the thieves and put them in jail” has been unpopular for reasons unclear to me. Proposed solutions, like making scrap yards record who sold them copper wiring, seem ineffective. The most cynical explanation for this is that the incentives lead to crime: the money spent on repairs is primarily spent on local union labor. For them, this is great. There’s a whole industry for servicing these problems. And the city gets to say that it is working on fixing the issues. Up to some limit, the more of these issues, the better. Everybody wins: the thieves win, the laborers win, the repair industry wins, certain politicians and candidates win. Well, the actual resident, the taxpayer — they lose, but what are you gonna do? Live with the lights off? Vote for the tough-on-crime candidate? Unthinkable. You can look at this as a system that has degenerated into being a recursive loop that drains the resources of its citizens"

Christina Buttons on X - "Now happening in California K-12 public schools: Students can receive therapy on campus during school hours, billable to insurance at $90 per 52-minute session. Psychiatric diagnostic evaluations are reimbursed at $163. A new law says “mature” minors 12 and older can consent to treatment, and “parents are not to be contacted.” In districts enrolled in the CYBHI Fee Schedule, schools identify students through universal screenings, collect data on their scores, sort them into tiers, and refer them for services. According to the state, anxiety about college admissions or missing several days of school can be deemed “medically necessary” and qualify students for diagnostic evaluations, case management, neuropsychological testing, therapy, medication support, and more."

City Council limits LAPD 'pretextual' stops blamed for discrimination - "The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday voted in favor of new restrictions on so-called “pretextual” traffic stops, signaling a growing impatience with the Police Commission’s failure to rein in a controversial LAPD tactic that critics say enables racial discrimination. The vote requests that the department’s all-civilian watchdog adopt new guidelines similar to San Francisco, which bars police officers from pulling people over for broken taillights and other minor equipment violations unless there is a safety threat... McDonnell has publicly defended the stops as an essential law enforcement tool in the department’s fight against guns, gangs and drugs. He and some transportation safety advocates have argued that persistent traffic deaths — road fatalities have in recent years outpaced the number of homicides — indicate the city needs to crack down harder on reckless driving."

Lauren Chen on X - "My favorite piece of California lore is the fact that the state could have a budget surplus if it just stopped paying for Healthcare for illegal immigrants. But they won't. So instead they have one of the worst deficits in the country"
California to Spend $8.4 Billion This Year on Health Care for Illegal Aliens - "According to the California Department of Finance, the State of California will spend more than $8.4 billion on taxpayer-funded Medicaid health benefits for illegal aliens this fiscal year, over $5 billion more than initially estimated. Last year, California became the first state to offer free, taxpayer-funded health care through Medicaid to all illegal aliens in the state. This expansion is proving far costlier than originally projected and is already straining the Medi-Cal program that vulnerable Californians rely on for health care... California is one of eight states that has expanded their Medicaid programs to provide taxpayer-funded health care to illegal aliens. While federal law currently prohibits federal Medicaid funding from going to illegal aliens, with the exception of emergency services, recent watchdog reports expose how federal taxpayers pick up the tab for these state expansions of Medicaid. For instance, California is financing its expansion of Medicaid to illegal aliens by implementing a budget gimmick to draw down increased federal funding, placing American taxpayers on the hook for the free health care California is giving to illegal aliens."
The 2026-27 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget - "The administration projects the budget faces a roughly $3 billion deficit."
Weird. Left wingers keep telling us that illegal immigrants don't get government healthcare and that only ignorant MAGATs believe the contrary. One cope is that federal dollars don't go to that, so it's none of the business of anyone outside California, but that's another lie (as above)

Maria Davidson on X - "5 of the 10 cities that spend the most per homeless person are in California. SF alone spends more per homeless person than NY and Portland combined."
Maria Davidson on X - "SF spends $102k a year per homeless person. It spends $20k a year per resident. SF spends more per homeless person than the 10 largest US cities combined spend per resident."
Clearly, the problem is they didn't spend enough money and they could end homelessness by "taxing the 'rich'"

Nithya Raman on X - "Donald Trump is about to endorse Spencer. Tonight is the fundraising deadline, and we need to raise more to prove that LA doesn't want a MAGA Republican mayor who lives in the Bel Air hotel."
Comment: "Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman lives in her $2 million house while mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt switches between his trailer and hotels because his house in the Pacific Palisades burned to the ground due to a preventable fire. It'll take years for him to rebuild due to Democratic NIMBY and environmentalist policies that cause enormous unnecessary red tape and bureaucracy. He has a wife and two young children, and staying in that airstream isn't the best situation full-time."
The cruelty is the point

New York Post on X - "Palisades Fire survivors furious after getting brush clearance fines from city: 'Insulting and cruel'"
Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) on X - "Somebody pull the clip of Trump telling Karen Bass it'll take at least 18 months due to regulations & Bass denying it while folks in the media say those concerned are just racist"

California Globe on X - "LA City Charter Commission moves to abolish City Controller's office amid MASSIVE fraud scandals. The move would eliminate the City watchdog and appoint a CFO overseen by Mayor Karen Bass. Seems a wee-bit sketchy... @CaliforniaGlobe link "
Garry Tan on X - "When a patient has a fever, you don’t ban the use of thermometers What is LA Mayor Karen Bass doing here?"

Kamala Harris endorses Karen Bass for LA mayor - "Harris pointed to her record on homelessness and crime... In the City of Los Angeles, unsheltered homelessness decreased by just 7.9%, while sheltered homelessness increased by 4.7%, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority."
Too bad a lot of gullible people will just believe Harris despite the evidence

Joseph Kahn on X - "The problem with LA is the "Everything's Fine" people. These are people that came to LA after its heyday and during its decline after the financial crash of 2008. The more recent the transplant, the less they are aware of what Los Angeles used to be. They have no idea all the areas that used to be lively, or that there was a world class music and night life scene. If you mention there weren't homeless people shitting on the streets everywhere, they call you a MAGA fascist because unhoused people have rights too and Everything's Fine. If you mention entire neighborhoods like the Pacific Palisades did not burn down, they say you should not be blaming the mayor for the weather (which is controlled by global warming Republicans) and Everything's Fine. You can say it's really not normal for so many shops to be closed all over Los Angeles with empty storefronts, and they'll say something about equity and that Everything's Fine. The street vendors on sidewalks in front of KoreaTown restaurants that are shutting down? That's totally fine because that's LA culture (no it fucking isn't newbie). Crime? Everything's Fine. These theater kid transplants from Michigan say why are you complaining, move somewhere else. They don't know what they don't know. Then they drink a $20 Erewhon smoothie thinking that's the height of LA culture. Everything's Fine."

Laura Powell on X - "When asked about the possibility of ending up with two Republican candidates for governor and no Democrats, Gavin Newsom responded: “We all have agencies. We can shape the future… I don’t anticipate this need to be the case, but there is a ‘break the glass scenario.’ There’s many people that have a deep understanding of what it would look like if Democrats were locked out, and we’re going to do everything to make sure that doesn’t happen. I’ll leave it there.” It would be nice if he gave a hint about what lengths he intends to go to in order to ensure a Democrat wins. "
Kostas Moros on X - "So as I've been saying, even if two Republicans finished top 2, Dems would change the rules of the jungle primary they created to make sure a Dem is the next Governor. Newsom says this openly and proudly. They have no true respect for norms or democracy. They are the authoritarians they claim Trump is."

Governor Newsom Press Office on X - "Student funding in California is now a RECORD HIGH! Since Governor Newsom took office, it’s increased 66%— reaching $28,282 per student as the state makes historic investments in public education."
Thread by @avidseries on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Reading proficiency of black students in California in the year before Newsom took office: 32% In the most recent year: 32% So, a 66% increase in spending led to a 0% increase in reading proficiency.
As is usually the case, the reading proficiency of Hispanic students (for whom Spanish is often their first language and who often have parents who barely speak English) is higher (at 39%) than that of blacks. That percentage had also not changed since Newsom took office. The reason I mentioned black students in the first tweet is because much of the increase in school spending occurred after the 2020 "racial reckoning" when extremely low black academic performance was often mentioned as an example of "systemic" racism. (In San Francisco, for example, black proficiency was in the single digit percentages.)"
Clearly, they need to spend even more money

Keith Humphreys on X - "Very important lesson for Blue Cities here: Every change Lurie has made has been opposed by screaming, bullying activists -- ignoring them has been the path to policy success and extremely high popularity."
SF voters thrilled with Daniel Lurie, which could help his agenda

Wall Street Apes on X - "WOAH Gavin Newsom launched a program that spend $23 million dollars on hearing aids for kids. 5 years later only 300 hearing aids have been given out. That’s a cost of $76,666 per hearing aid. Retail costs for these same hearing aids is roughly $1,400. Gavin Newsom pushed lawmakers toward a state-run program instead of requiring private insurers to cover the pediatric hearing aids. If the retail cost is $1,400 and the state only provided 300, then that’s a cost of $420,000. Yet Gavin Newsom spent $23,000,000. I actually looked into where this money allegedly went, and officially it went to “administrative and overhead costs” instead of providing hearing aids. In other words, money laundering"
Clearly, they need to spend even more money. The private sector is evil and wasteful because of profit, so the government should take charge

Nithya Raman goes ballistic over staged homeless encampment outside her home (aka "Brutal karma for Nithya Raman as she goes ballistic over staged homeless encampment outside her home") - "Socialist LA mayoral candidate Nithya Raman is getting hammered online after appearing visibly rattled by a staged homeless encampment protest outside her own home. “I’m glad my kids didn’t have to see that,” Raman told comedian Adam Conover on his podcast released Wednesday before adding, “I thought this campaign was going to be about bike lanes and transportation.”... Raman has spent years defending homeless encampments near schools, parks and neighborhoods across Los Angeles while opposing tougher enforcement restrictions. Critics immediately accused the Democratic Socialist councilmember of showing a stunning lack of self-awareness as families across Los Angeles continue dealing with encampments outside homes, playgrounds and schools... Raman has repeatedly opposed expanding Los Angeles’ anti-camping law, which restricts homeless encampments near schools, daycare centers, parks and libraries... Raman also stated on the podcast that she thought the mayoral race would focus more on “bike lanes and transportation,” two issues that polling consistently shows rank far below homelessness, crime and public safety among voter concerns in Los Angeles"

Karen Bass on X - "300 unions. 800,000 workers. One unified message: Karen Bass for Mayor. The LA County Federation of Labor is mobilizing, door by door, for a city where everybody can have a good job that pays a livable wage."
Hot Takes Nobody Asked For | Facebook - "Imagine having to join a union and pay dues as a condition of your employment, just for that union to go on and endorse a mayor who you feel is largely responsible for your house burning down and your city going into further decline."
This is why left wingers love unions. They're easy to hijack to push the left wing agenda and get left wingers elected

Meme - Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPr...: "LIKE this post if you think Donald Trump is the worst president in American history - a walking dumpster fire of corruption who betrayed his oath, divided the country for profit, ripped healthcare away, and turned the White House into a family grift operation."
Retard Finder @lfindRetards: "Like this comment is Gavin Newsom is retarded"
Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPr...: "960 SAT score and still smarter than your mom"
Retard Finder @lfindRetards: "Your wife fucked Harvey Weinstein, enough said."
Comment (elsewhere): "Just ask “Where’s all the FireAid money?” Followed by “Why did $1M get paid to CalVolunteers, the non-profit that your wife is chair of, and yet none of that money has gone to fire victims ?”"

Meme - "ICE rescued 10 minors who were being forced into child labor at an illegal weed farm in Gavin Newsom's California. The California Democratic Party's response: "ICE has no place in California. Period.""

Christopher F. Rufo on X - "SCOOP: California is pressuring public utilities to award $633 million in special contracts to "LGBT-owned" firms. To qualify, residents must go through the state's official gay-certification program—and face up to a year in jail if they're not gay enough."
Rothmus on X - "They went from “born gay” to “feel gay” to “identify as gay”, and now the government’s telling you whether you’re gay or not. “State-run gay certification program”. Peak statism achieved. But I’ll bite for entertainment:
>How gay is gay enough?
>How do I prove it?
>And who died and made them the queens of the gays?"

Overton on X - "SPENCER PRATT: “Ready for the best part?” “60% of the people in Los Angeles that are ‘experiencing homelessness’ — they’re not from California.” “They’ve been brought here by NGOs that profit off of this homeless industrial complex, Medicaid...”
BILL MAHER: “Wait, wait, wait...” “They’ve been brought here?”
SPENCER PRATT: “They’ve been brought here.”
BILL MAHER: “Who did that?”
SPENCER PRATT: “Body brokers bring these people here.”
BILL MAHER: “From where?”
SPENCER PRATT: “All across the country.” “If you’re an addict, you can come to LA and get these rehabs and use your Medicaid, you have a social security...”"
Amy Reichert on X - "Fact check TRUE “Body brokers” literally recruit drug addicts from other states, buy them a plane ticket to California, and get paid for delivering them to rehab centers and sober living homes. This isn’t some wild conspiracy theory. Federal prosecutors have repeatedly busted these schemes. In Orange County alone, operators have been prosecuted for paying hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks. After they get kicked out of drug treatment and discarded when they are no longer profitable they are stuck in California and go straight to Skid Row where more homeless non profits can monetize them."

A Funding Deal Is Hollowing Out California's Public Ivies - "A 2022 state funding deal has quietly forced California’s elite research universities to chase graduation quotas at the expense of academic rigor, turning Nobel-minting institutions into remedial classrooms."
La Défense YIMBY on X - "Democrats destroyed the finest public university system in the world in <5 years"
Daniel Friedman on X - "Gavin Newsom is the leading Democratic candidate for president, and if he is elected, he will do to America what he has done to California. Destroyed the schools. Destroyed the most productive industries. Emptied the prisons and opened the borders. Literally watched it burn to the ground."

I'd like to believe California can be saved from the Left. But it may be too late - "California’s demographic profile is increasingly bad for Republicans. The state has been consistently losing its Anglo population, as well as the middle class, particularly families of all ethnicities, to Texas, Arizona, and Nevada. Those most likely to stay, notes the Public Policy Institute, tend to be young and often underpaid professionals, the very class that elected New York mayor Mamdani, public workers and their wards. Long gone are the days when California was a job-producing machine in everything from manufacturing to logistics as well as tech. These constituencies were the ones who cared most about brutal income taxes, the nation’s highest unemployment (as well as youth unemployment), unaffordable housing, poor roads, mediocre schools and ever fewer good jobs. Increasingly, these constituencies and the companies they work for are just choosing to leave. In the governor’s race, Hilton will also be up against the full power of current governor Gavin Newsom’s political machine, largely financed by public unions and Left-leaning oligarchs. Shawn Steel, the state’s irrepressible GOP National Committeeman, told me that Hilton’s financial resources are paltry compared to what his thoroughly mediocre opponent, former Biden cabinet member Xavier Becerra, will be able to draw on... There is a widespread sense of decline. The Quality of Life Index, a metric compiled by UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, has hit the lowest point in a decade. The reasons are numerous: an economy that ranks among the worst in urban America, with the highest level of poverty among the biggest American cities. And this in a city that suffers America’s highest housing costs... In the future, the state’s Department of Finance predicts no population growth in sight, with a reduction of 1.7 million people by 2060... The last Republican mayor of LA, the highly effective Richard Riordan, elected in 1993 and re-elected by a wide margin four years later, was backed by a still effective civic and business establishment. That establishment has largely disintegrated. “We have no business leaders anymore, just special interests,” suggests Nick Patsaouras, a long-time architect of infrastructure improvements made in the 1980s and 1990s. “Our city is in a coma.”"

The Archbishop is complicit in Britain’s civilisational capitulation

2026-09-29T17:44:00.000+08:00

Re: Church of England ‘condoning oppression of women’ with niqab photo

"The Archbishop of Canterbury has been accused of condoning the repression of Muslim women after she gave an award to an Islamic cleric who honoured Osama Bin Laden.

Dame Sarah Mullally was pictured with Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi, an Islamic scholar, and his wife, who was wearing a niqab so that only her eyes were visible, when he received his award on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that Bin Laden orchestrated...

“The Church of England teaches the equal dignity and worth of men and women. Yet you presented the award alongside Mr Ashrafi’s wife, whose face was concealed by a niqab so that only her eyes were visible and Lambeth Palace subsequently published that image”...

The cleric praised Bin Laden, whose al Qaeda terror group killed 2,977 people in the 9/11 attacks, for targeting British people. The award honoured him as a “Muslim warrior”.

Mr Ashrafi has also said suicide bombings in Afghanistan were lawful, supported Islamic blasphemy laws, which carry the death penalty, and claimed that Jews and Christians were using the war in Iran to target Iran’s nuclear weapons.

A spokesman for Mr Ashrafi and his council said his remarks had been taken “out of context”.

Ms Paul and Mr Timothy said in their letter: “These were not obscure allegations that could only have been uncovered through extensive investigation."

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Archbishop is complicit in Britain’s civilisational capitulation
Western elites insist on pretending that all cultural frameworks are moral equals. Dame Sarah Mullally should know better

In his seminal essay After Ten Years, written at the turn of 1942-1943, the German theologian and anti-Nazi resister Dietrich Bonhoeffer diagnosed a profound psychological pathology that regularly overtakes captured elites. He noted that in the face of systemic institutional pressures, individuals do not merely lose their judgment; they surrender their intellectual independence to a collective condition. In such states, Bonhoeffer warned: “The stupid person… is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.” Reason falls on deaf ears, and facts that contradict the prevailing group-think are simply pushed aside as inconsequential.

The modern Western establishment is currently held captive by just such a powerful institutional spell: a persistent conviction that the complex frictions of a morally and ethically splintering society can be permanently smoothed over through the mechanics of public relations, bureaucratic deference and administrative compliance. When faced with deep civilisational or theological contradictions, the modern reflex of our elite is rarely to engage in critical thinking. Instead, it is to retreat into a defensive, self-righteous insulation.

Leaders entrench themselves behind boilerplate statements and tactical retractions, hoping to survive the immediate news cycle by staying on the rehearsed message and then fleeing back to the safety of the elite bubble.

Rarely is this institutional pattern more vividly illustrated than in a single, striking photograph from Lambeth Palace that was recently released. The image caught Archbishop Sarah Mullally presenting a Lambeth Award to Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi, the chairman of the Pakistan Ulema Council. Standing just three feet away was Ashrafi’s wife, wrapped tightly from head to wrist, with only her eyes visible to the assembled crowd.

The subsequent public backlash followed a predictable contemporary script. When it emerged that Ashrafi had a documented history of praising militant figures, Lambeth Palace scrambled to rescind the honour, issuing a defensive statement citing the cleric’s “past comments”. Yet, in characteristic fashion, the Church establishment said absolutely nothing about the underlying theological implications or the profound asymmetry of the ceremony itself. They treated a civilisational capitulation as a mere administrative oversight. In keeping with the prevailing institutional group-think, the Archbishop has avoided placing herself in front of television cameras or taking live, unscripted questions from journalists. It is the familiar playbook: Go woke, get caught, fake regret, lie low.

It is easy to condemn Dame Sarah for this display of moral incoherence, to treat her as an isolated offender and demand her immediate resignation. I confess that was my first, impulsive reaction. But such a demand misses a fundamental truth: Dame Sarah is, above all, a product of her time. The prevailing norm across Britain’s leadership class, indeed across the elite institutions of the wider West, is one of institutional appeasement, historical atonement and systematic abasement.

For decades, Western elites have insisted on a rapid transition toward absolute multiculturalism, operating on the unexamined hope that diversity would somehow, against all historical odds, work out so long as they kept insisting it would. A core tenet of the modern establishment is that all cultural frameworks are equally good or equally bad. Dame Sarah, as the most senior cleric of the established Church of England, should know better.

What do the sacred texts and classical commentaries of Islam actually say about why a woman is veiled, and what obligations are placed upon the man? The classical Sunni tradition, constructed through the authoritative Koranic commentaries (tafsir) of Al-Tabari and Ibn Kathir, alongside the philosophical treatises of Al-Ghazali and Ibn Taymiyya, establishes a synchronised social architecture built around four clear rationales for the mandatory veiling of women:

Modesty (Iffah): Rooted in Sura Nur (24:31), women are instructed to guard their private parts and draw their head-coverings over their bosoms, treating the female body as a locus of inherent vulnerability that must be shielded from the male eye.

Obedience (Ta’ah): Derived from Sura Ahzab, classical jurists systematically transformed a localised rule originally meant for the household of the Prophet into a universal mandate of female seclusion and spatial partitioning.

Social distinction (Tamyiz): Sura Ahzab (33:59) commands women to draw their cloaks tightly “so that they may be recognised and not molested”. In his authoritative commentary, Ibn Kathir explicitly says that this covering distinguishes the “free” woman from slave-girls and the women of the Jahiliyya (the pre-Islamic era of ignorance), “so that it will be known that they are free, and that they are not servants or whores”.

The prevention of temptation (Fitna): The underlying assumption is that the mere sight of an uncovered woman triggers an uncontrollable sexual temptation in the male, requiring the door of public female interaction to be closed because the man cannot be trusted to draw the moral line himself. A failure to regulate male sexual impulses is viewed as a threat to social cohesion and communal order.

Crucially, this system imposes a parallel set of commandments that men must follow. They must lower their gaze and continuously police their external environments to avoid visual temptation. When this synchronised system of norms is translated into live practice, it inevitably produces an externalised model of social management. By making the woman’s physical covering and spatial isolation the primary guarantor of social order, the responsibility for male purity is offloaded on to the female body. Men are treated as predatory, reactive actors stripped of internal moral agency, driven entirely by external visual triggers. Women, conversely, are reduced to guarded commodities whose basic human freedom of movement and public visibility must be permanently sacrificed to maintain social stability. “Free” they most certainly are not.

Dame Sarah should also be aware of the concrete consequences of these norms for women in the countries where Shariah is the law of the land. Where this externalised policing system runs as the dominant legal framework, it divides women into three distinct categories:

The Elevated Woman: The upper-class wife, safely veiled and secluded within the domestic sphere, protected by her family’s social status but legally subordinate under strict male guardianship laws.

The Servant Girl: See, for example, the millions of vulnerable foreign domestic workers migrating from Southeast Asia and Africa under the structural restrictions of the kafala (sponsorship) system. Deprived of basic legal protections and isolated inside private residences, these women are routinely exposed to severe exploitation, wage withholding and physical abuse.

The Loose Woman or Whore: The label applied to any woman outside these structural boundaries, rendering her a legitimate object of public harassment.

According to a landmark UN Women’s survey, 99.3 per cent of Egyptian women reported having been sexually harassed, demonstrating that external concealment does not guarantee public safety, but instead treats female visibility as a provocation that legitimises abuse. Across major metropolitan transit networks, such as the metros of Dubai, Riyadh, Cairo, and Tehran, authorities run dedicated women-and-children carriages. Public space is literally partitioned, structurally redesigned around the inability of the system to guarantee public safety through internal self-restraint.

Finally, the Archbishop of Canterbury must by now be aware of the impact on women in Britain and the rest of the West of the influx into our societies of millions of men raised to view women in these ways.

In the United Kingdom, the independent Jay Report found that at least 1,400 children had been sexually abused in Rotherham alone, noting that authorities were slow to intervene from an institutional fear of stoking community tensions. Rape-gang perpetrators were disproportionately of Pakistani and South Asian background – “overwhelmingly so” according to Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary.

More recently, Baroness Casey’s national audit of group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse presented clear evidence of over-representation among suspects of Asian and Pakistani-heritage men in the data compiled by multiple British police forces. Data from the Government’s Forced Marriage Unit recorded hundreds of cases where honour-based coercion was used to enforce parallel cultural frameworks within isolated communities.

What is to be done? In continental Europe, nations including France, Belgium, Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands have all enacted legislation forbidding the concealment of the face in public. Yet such measures treat the veil merely as a functional security loophole rather than a deep manifestation of an asymmetric social theology. By reducing a profound civilisational difference to a routine policing measure, secular states miss the opportunity to defend the positive, foundational virtues of an open society – namely, the internal moral governance of the individual and the mutual public accountability between men and women.

This is precisely where religious leaders are called to step forward. Instead of pressing on with the one-way accommodation of militant Islam, Dame Sarah could use her platform to defend the core moral genius of the theological tradition of which she is supposed to be the custodian.

In the Christian framework, the ethical responsibility for sexual purity and social order is placed squarely on the individual conscience. Moral rectitude is defined as an internal victory of self-control, exercised within a society of shared public freedom. Christianity presumes that, though sinful, men are morally accountable beings fully capable of respecting the bodily autonomy of women, regardless of how those women are dressed or where they walk. This approach builds a culture of reciprocal respect: men are commanded to honour women as fellow image-bearers of God, and women are empowered to occupy public spaces uncovered, without their human dignity being diminished. The Christian model is in this and many other respects quite different from a system of spatial partitioning and external enforcement.

As Bonhoeffer pointed out later in After Ten Years, structural stupidity is not a permanent congenital defect, but a particular psychological impact of historical circumstances. Because it is an induced state of group-think rather than an absence of intellect, it can be broken. But “only an act of liberation, not instruction, can overcome it”, Bonhoeffer wrote.

True liberation of our institutions begins the moment a leader finds the moral courage to step outside the consensus, replace passive appeasement with courageous defence and confidently assert the ethical superiority of the Christian inheritance.

Related (translated from Spanish):

Krupskaya on X - "The more I learn about this photo, the more outraged I become. The medal was for the husband, but to avoid the archbishop touching him during the imposition ceremony, she did it vicariously on the neck of the wife, shrouded in life. She left home to serve as a passive mannequin."
Mariví63 🇪🇦🇮 on X - "It seems to me that Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury, forgot one of the principles of the Anglican Church by which the image of woman is grounded in baptismal equality, created in the image of God. Will it only be for the Anglicans, and to hell with the rest?"
Krupskaya on X - "It is the consequence of the perverse claim that all religions respect human dignity and lead to God and blah blah blah."

Links - 29th September 2026 (Pro-Crime Policies)

2026-09-29T13:41:00.000+08:00

Meme - "Family of murdered Nashville college student from NJ outraged over killer's sentencing: 'It should have been life'"
">Shoot at car with kids init
>Judge says you're too mentally disabled
>Get sent to mental institution instead of jail
>Mental institution says you're not too mentally disabled
>Get instantly released
>Kill a young college girl
Pure Evil"
"Com'on people, the progressive left HATES you."
"More HATE crimes! Its now everyday that these surface and still no one calling them out for why they are. Imagine if the rolls were reversed."

Meme - "r/news
Atlanta doctor survives home invasion, torture, throat slit
'when will society stop releasing criminals with multiple offenses ... specially violent offenses?'
'Not till after it stops electing convicted felons who are waiting for their 57 other felony charge trials to start es president I am afraid.'
Left wingers throwing out red herrings again. This is like when they kept going on about Kyle Rittenhouse crossing state lines, as if that were illegal - except worse, because of the ridiculous example given. Plus it's not like before Trump got his "felony" convictions, left wingers weren't pro-crime
Comment (elsewhere): "Oh, so it's Trump's fault and not the Leftist judges and DAs letting violent criminals back out onto the streets. Fucking clowns."

Apple Lamps on X - "Two thugs in Seattle attack a 77-year-old man walking down the street for no reason.. one of the thugs claimed to work for Seattle’s socialist mayor Katie Wilson. The victim suffered a broken arm, broken knee, facial injuries, and trauma. Arrested, released in two days, skipped court, now missing."
UncRodzIsBackVII on X - "Good kids. Just turning their lives around. Will be a shame when their mom is on the news crying because it was their turn."

Khan accused of calling victims of crime liars - "Sir Sadiq Khan has been accused of calling victims of London crime liars. The mayor of London said the city had been subjected to a “relentless and unprecedented attack of lies and hatred” on social media, describing online disinformation as a “global scourge”. A host of celebrities have spoken out about their fears of rising theft in the capital in recent years. There were nearly 100,000 thefts or attempted thefts in the capital last year, compared with around 45,000 in 2019, according to Home Office data. However, Sir Sadiq blamed social media “misinformation” for putting off tourists. Laila Cunningham, Reform UK’s candidate for London mayor, responded: “If the Mayor of London wants to encourage more tourism, he should deal with the crime he has allowed to spiral out of control instead of suggesting that victims of crime are liars.” Announcing a £7m campaign to showcase London to the world and tackle online “disinformation”, Sir Sadiq added: “We are facing a relentless and unprecedented attack of lies and hatred from those wanting to damage our capital’s standing and our hugely important tourism industry... Susan Hall, the leader of the City Hall Conservatives, said that Sir Sadiq “should spend more time trying to fix things as opposed to saying ‘la la la la la, I’m not listening, everything’s fine’.”... Melissa Odabash said this week she is too scared to wear jewellery in public in London after several close calls with thieves on bicycles. “They’ve tried – they’ve flown past me. I’ve now got straps on my phone, and I don’t wear jewellery,” said the 56-year-old. The designer, who lives in central London with her husband and two daughters, said she was so angered by a surge in crime under Sir Sadiq that she had considered standing against him in the next mayoral election in 2028. “I should be Mayor of London. This is the best city in the world, but there are things we need to change. It offers everything – pubs, installations, art, museums, culture,” she said. “But thieves on bikes are scary. We need to make London great again.”... Rochelle Humes, the singer and television presenter, said it was “too scary” to wear a Rolex in London amid the soaring rates of theft in the capital."
"Victim blaming" is only bad when it hurts the left wing agenda, "misinformation" is anything that hurts the left wing agenda and criticising your country is only the highest form of patriotism when it pushes the left wing agenda

Capital getting more dangerous, say Londoners - "Londoners have said they feel increasingly unsafe in the city, in a blow to Sir Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London. In a London School of Economics survey, 2,022 adults were asked whether living in the capital had become more or less safe generally. Some 54 per cent of respondents, made up of 61 per cent of women and 46 per cent of men, said they felt less safe than previously... Around 5,180 luxury watches, each worth more than £3,000, were stolen in London between January 2022 and July 2025, of which only 59 were recovered, according to Metropolitan Police data released under a freedom of information request. There were nearly 100,000 thefts or attempted thefts in the capital in 2025, compared with about 45,000 in 2019, Home Office data showed."
Clearly, they're all victims of misinformation, and need to be reeducated

Austin Justice on X - "AUSTIN MAN climbed onto a sleeping woman's bed, claimed he had a gun, and strangled her until she nearly blacked out. She gouged his eye and beat him with a fan to get him off her. It was the third West Campus apartment Octavius Brown broke into that morning. In the other two, residents woke to find him exposing himself and masturbating inside their apartments. Octavius Brown has roughly 30 cases since 2013. Of the 14 charges filed since 2021, 9 were dismissed or rejected. Last time I covered this man he was getting arrested for robbing a gas station while out on bond for exposing himself and masturbating in public for the tenth time."
Clearly putting criminals in jail is expensive and doesn't stop crime

Do we really need truncheons and pepper spray to fight off London’s ‘feral’ teenage shoplifters? | Zoe Williams | The Guardian
John McM on X - "The class war is alive and well, particularly in the trenches where privately educated middle class journos dismiss the genuine concerns of shop workers who have to face this behaviour regularly."

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ on X - "This is outrageous: We requested surveillance video of four recent homicides on the LA Metro. The authorities are now denying our lawful FOIA—because they are scared the truth will get out. Hey @MetroLosAngeles, preserve your documents. We're not going to stop."
The Marina Times ⛵️ 🗞️ on X - "And guess who @lapdmetro has for their chief @christopherrufo ? San Francisco’s former police chief Bill Scott. You know, the one who made release of mugshots illegal."

James Lindsay | Facebook - "A particularly nasty Critical America Theory propaganda line now is to show how much cleaner and nicer foreign cities are and to make the comparison obvious. The fact is Democrats are destroying American cities and keeping them filthy and dangerous on purpose, and then this line. It's important to understand that this is likely part of a sophisticated demoralization campaign meant to make Americans become down on their country and to believe it's failing, and worse-off than others. That makes it seem like the American system is failing. The failure is being intentionally misplaced, though. The Democrats are intentionally failing our cities, usually while blaming Republicans for it in bizarre ways, or just laying the blame at the feet of America, freedom, or capitalism. We need to break this spell and get the blame to fall where it belongs."

Floridap8triot on X - "This video shows an entire New York City subway car descending into widespread violence as passengers beat one another. Scenes like this are not isolated incidents—they reflect a daily reality of disorder that has left our transit system out of control. New Yorkers deserve safe commutes."
Hon. Vickie Paladino on X - "You have to understand that public disorder crimes like this happen every day, and don't make it into the crime stats anymore. Brawls on the subway and in the street, including outright assault, robbery, drug use, harassment, and general disorder rarely if ever end up with a police report or arrest. This stuff happens every single day. All of those videos we saw over the last week of rioters climbing on police cars and destroying property should have ended up with mass arrests. They didn't. Progressives have decided that public order crimes simply don't matter anymore, and have ordered the NYPD to remain as hands-off as possible in most of these situations. That means minor interventions at most, and no arrests unless absolutely necessary. And of course this has the added benefit of artificially lowering crime stats -- if you don't take a report or make an arrest, there's no crime. Which allows the progressive leadership to claim 'crime is down' even though everyone with two eyes knows things are NOT getting better here. They credulously brag about how only a handful of arrests were made during the Knicks riots over the last week. Reality is the NYPD probably could have (and should have) made 1000+ arrests. But they're not allowed to do that anymore. So no, crime is generally not 'down' here in NYC in any meaningful way. Crime stats are down. Arrests are down. The NYPD's authority is down. But crime most certainly is NOT down."

Adam Friended on X - "Woke activist: “longer prison sentences don’t deter criminals.”
Normal person: “no shit. No one is trying to socially engineer the behavior of criminals. Longer sentences keep these thieves and murders off the streets.”"

Omar on X - "Why do South American societies have a much higher crime and homicide rate than sometimes poorer North African, Middle Eastern societies? Why is economically more developed Brazil less safe than somewhere like Lebanon or even Egypt or Tunisia?"
𝑪𝑨𝑼𝑫𝑰𝑳𝑯𝑶 ᛟ on X - "What most foreigners don’t know is that in 1988, Brazil established the most progressive constitution in world history. They think Brazil became a narco-state because crime simply overpowered the state—being stronger and controlling more regions or people by thriving financially. Which is a huge lie. The police can easily enter any favela and arrest any criminal. The real key issue stopping Brazil from becoming safe is the Justice system. Once a criminal is jailed, they are granted all kinds of protections and aid through international NGOs and their lobby with the Brazilian left and the judiciary. Today's Brazil faces problems deeply correlated with the exact same ones affecting Europe and North America."

Jarvis on X - "Alex Soros is interesting because he’s a billionaire heir who dedicates his life to making cities less safe. He’s like a Reverse Batman."
Jarvis on X - "Everyone was mad at me for this joke but then the next day the Pennsylvania Supreme Court politely asked their Soros DA to stop lying to courts in his ongoing effort to free as many convicted murderers as possible."
Thread by @EWess92 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - ""When relief is not dictated by the record and law but merely advocated for personal, political, ideological, policy, or other non-legal reasons, a prosecutor’s concession does not minister justice; it facilitates injustic." The PA Supreme Court bat signals @DaveSunday_
This is pretty crazy: The 5-2 Democrat Court finds Larry Krasner is so quick to falsely concede error in murder cases (to try to free convicted murderers) that it has tasked the Pennsylvania Attorney General with checking to make sure he's not lying. I've *never* seen this. This is a split decision, but shows that the presumption of regulatory for Soros-funded radical leftwing DA Krasner is gone. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has had enough. It needs someone to "enhance the reliability" of proceedings. Yikes!"

Cassie Pritchard on X - "One rhetorical move I dislike from police/prison abolitionists is that they’ll establish examples where *marginal investment in policing/prisons* did not yield a corresponding *marginal increase in safety*, and then argue from this “therefore going to ZERO policing and prisons will have no effect on safety.” I think this is absurd, because there are absolutely threshold effects for incentives (or, in the case of punishment, disincentives). You could probably cut police budget/headcount by large margins in many (most?) cities without seeing a meaningful rise in crime. But going to *zero* would obviously have a very different effect—there’s usually a gigantic threshold effect whenever you move from zero to *any* degree of incentive/disincentive. I don’t know if abolitionists are generally sincere in believing there are no threshold effects along the spectrum of punishment, or if they’re just eliding this as a rhetorical strategy, but it does bug me either way."

Apple Lamps on X - "Look at LA, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Philly, NYC, and every other city progressives have had decades to run. They are case studies in failure. Homelessness exploded. Poverty persists. Crime rises. Housing becomes unaffordable. Businesses leave. Investment dries up. Working families get crushed. Progressives cannot point to one major city where their policies produced safety, affordability, prosperity, and order. Not one. They do not govern. They decay."
Estaban Daniels on X - "#Democrats want crime, decay, chaos and failure in their cities to fuel their future communist revolution with them being the communist dictators. They are doing this on purpose and following the plan. The #DemocraticParty is widely succeeding with their plan."

yuki on X - "how is it EVEN remotely possible for the bottom 2% to oppress society. that doesnt make sense. how are they oppressing us? what is this horrible take. i hate asmongold dick riders."
Meme - Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1: "Ever notice how everything except sunscreen is locked up at CVS in "urban" locales? Ever notice how certain subway routes aren't recommended at all, and certainly not after dark? Ever notice how zip codes with "good schools" are extortionately expensive? That is how the underclass oppresses normal, law abiding people"

End Wokeness on X - "BREAKING: Cambridge Council votes 5-2 to disable gunshot detectors to protect black residents and migrants"
End Wokeness on X - "UPDATE: Xavier Bautista just died from this. He was shot and police didn't get called for SIXTY minutes. Detectors were shut off in the area."

Man free to sexually assault children, rules Alberta's top court | National Post - "Alberta’s top court ruled that a deaf man who never learned to communicate can’t be tried for sex crimes, or even assessed for mental fitness to stand trial, because it would violate his Charter rights. This means the man is functionally exempt from the Criminal Code, and is thus free to rape and even murder if he so wishes. At very least, the average Albertan isn’t likely to run into Kendall Longclaws. He grew up on an isolated farm with seven siblings and continues to live there, in his 30s, with his parents. He doesn’t leave the property without them. He’s deaf. He can’t read, understand a calendar, or use a phone. The only word he can speak is “brother”; he can also write his name, play video games, and use grunts and rudimentary gestures that relate to his daily life, like “yes,” “sorry,” and riding horses. Beyond that, his family never taught him how to communicate. Brief attempts at school and tutoring when he was a child went nowhere. He knows what “mom” means, but he lacks the ability to understand society’s institutions, including courts and justice. So, when Longclaws was charged with eight sexual offences against three complainants in 2021, he had no idea what was going on... Yungwirth’s ruling was perhaps the most absurd thing to come out of a Canadian court that year. She gave Longclaws a total exemption from criminal liability while also completely ruling out the possibility of removing him from society. She judged him as if he were an escaped gorilla enabled by unwatchful keepers, not a man; a beast outside the jurisdiction of human laws... Now that he’s inspired our judges to create a completely unaccountable class of adults in society, prepare for more defence lawyers to seek this excuse for their linguistically challenged clients — in Alberta and beyond."

PeterSweden on X - "Help me understand this. 57% of Swedish women say a man supporting the right-wing Swedish Democrat is a "red flag". Almost 66% of young Swedish women support the Socialists, Communist and Green parties. But 1 in 3 Swedish women say they are afraid of going out in their neighborhood at night alone."

Toronto Crime Watch on X - "12 people were shot in 48 hours in Toronto this weekend and we get a influencer style tiktok from the Prime Minister. How about explaining how one of the shooting suspects was charged with an armed home invasion in 2024 and with smuggling 100 firearms into Canada in 2025, yet was somehow released back into society shooting people in 2026."

Freeing killers is Labour’s idea of justice - "During the passage of their Sentencing Act, the sentencing minister promised: “Those convicted of the most serious crimes will be unaffected and will remain in prison for as long as they do now.” As Pc Harper’s family and other victims can attest, this was a lie. The Government has refused to answer even basic questions, such as how many criminals will be released, or how many of them are sex offenders. The former prisons minister Lord Timpson said it was “impossible for us to say exactly who will be released, where and when”. When we crunched the numbers ourselves, we worked out that 2,500 rapists and paedophiles alone are eligible. The victims’ commissioner and the domestic abuse commissioner have both warned that the Government has failed to put in place key safeguards to keep victims safe. A hotline for victims that was promised months ago is still not operational. From the limited information released by the Government, following our pressure, we know 8,700 victims have been warned that the perpetrators of crimes against them might be released... Labour’s true attitude was exposed when Wes Streeting, the new Defence Secretary, was caught joking that the new Justice Secretary “wants to let them all out”."

Rethinking Mass Incarceration - The Atlantic - "Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Starting in the 1970s, U.S. policymakers embraced draconian criminal-justice policies as part of the war on drugs. Tough-on-crime politicians rose to power by pledging longer mandatory-minimum sentences and more intense policing practices. The American legal system became the primary tool for addressing the nation’s social ills. And as incarceration grew rapidly in the following decades, so, too, did the coffers of an emerging prison-industrial complex. That’s what John Pfaff, a law professor at Fordham University in New York, calls the “standard story” of mass incarceration. But in his new book Locked In, Pfaff offers a different account of the phenomenon’s origins. Instead of the war on drugs, he points to violent crime as the key factor that fueled America’s exceptional incarceration rate. Public-employee unions and rural politicians, not just the private-prison industry, trumpeted the boost in jobs and help to small-town economies that large penitentiaries can provide. And prosecutors, not judges or legislators, made the crucial decisions that gave the United States the world’s largest population behind bars...
What a majority of people are in prison for are for crimes of violence, so at some point we have to start confronting how we punish people for violent crimes."
From 2017. This didn't age well. Ironically, he acknowledged that violent crime had been increasing for 2 years

Non-citizen violent offender Medhani Yohans breaches again in Guelph | Toronto Sun - "Within hours of high-risk offender Medhani Yohans being sprung from the Maplehurst Correctional Complex, he was back behind bars. The violent 37-year-old courthouse frequent flier allegedly breached the primo condition on his release: Stay out of downtown Guelph... Yohans is not a Canadian citizen, struggles with the language, has a lengthy criminal record, and “major mental illness.” A Canada Border Services Agency source told the Sun he was smuggled into Canada via Europe. And, there is a deportation order for Yohans. “There is more than enough blame to go around on this guy,” the CBSA source told the Sun. “First, he originally came here as a sponsored refugee from Eritrea. So even though there is a Deportation Order against him, he can’t be removed because he’s a ‘Protected Person.’ The only thing that overrides that is a ‘Danger Opinion.’ “We tried getting one and … surprise, surprise … were shot down by headquarters. Apparently, his sexual assault convictions aren’t enough to label him a Danger.” Yohans has been in and out of the slammer since at least 2023. He had been initially ordered to stay away from certain addresses. He violated those orders multiple times. And there are other matters: He has a history of violence that includes two sexual assaults involving strangers... Yohans has become the poster boy for revolving door justice and doesn’t appear bothered about breaching bail or probation. The Eritrean refugee has done it countless times with little apparent impact and no sign of him being booted from the country."
Matt Strauss on X - "If your neighbour is fleeing a catastrophe, it is kind and admirable to let them stay at your house. If that person then sexually assaults your family, they have to go. It is not kind or admirable to keep them. It is insane and abusive to the victims."

Man accused of wife’s murder was charged with her assault - "Martin Ly was arrested on July 14 on the charge that he assaulted his wife, Thi Nguyen, in December 2020. Ly was then released with conditions that meant he avoided going to jail ahead of his next court date. Four days later, police found Nguyen, 29, with stab wounds on one of the upper floors of a residential building in North York. She was pronounced dead at the scene."
Naturally someone got called racist for talking about this. Left wingers can't help but deflect

Barbara Bal on X - "🤯 Hamed Khogyani, 38 at the time, pimped out an 18-year-old and later impregnated her. He then influenced her to keep selling sex while she was pregnant and after she gave birth. His lawyer said “his client turned his life around after his daughter was born in 2017.” My definition of “turning your life around” doesn’t include continuing to pimp out the mother of your child. 🤦‍♀️ He got one more day in jail. Women lose again. @nationalpost"

The police didn’t do anything about my parcel thief so I took matters into my own hands - "The pair of us followed in his wake and spotted the thief on a bike around the back of the building. He looked glum – no more freebies for you, sir. I had caught him red-handed, and he knew it. Yet when I confronted him, he had an excuse: “I’m a crackhead, mate.” I blinked. Unless I’m mistaken, that’s not an excuse to commit crime. I told him as much and asked him to stop pilfering and learn some bloody manners. He replied “F--- off, have some of these,” grabbing his genitals and shaking them at me. Jumping on his bike, he then threatened to “shiv” me – prison slang for stabbing someone with a makeshift blade. At this point, I decided it was best to retreat. I wasn’t convinced he actually had a knife, but I wasn’t taking any chances... Ready to share my information and photographs, I returned to the police to give them an update and also report the threat to stab me. I have a great deal of respect for the police – I count current officers among my friends and the majority I’ve met are good, hard-working people. They have one of the toughest jobs out there, and there is little thanks for what they do. But the response demonstrated that traditional policing has pretty much died. Instead of doing some digging and setting up a very simple sting (I managed it, after all), the police told me it was too hard to catch a thief unless he told them who he was. I shouldn’t raise my hopes, I was told. Even if I had a photograph of the thief’s face – which I did – there was little hope of catching him unless he had tattooed his own name on his forehead. The man may have been a crackhead but he was not that stupid. When I called to check on the force’s progress again, I was told the case had been passed to my local team and an officer might look at it. They said they would let me know whether an investigation was launched. They never replied to me. Naively, I had assumed that the thief’s threat to stab me might have piqued their interest, but apparently not. After another month of silence, I rang again. I was told the case had still not been allocated to an officer. The call handler added “this is a low priority,” although he admitted: “I don’t know why it has taken so long.” After that, I heard nothing, until, that is, the Metropolitan Police Service found out I was writing this article in the past few days. Suddenly, an officer was appointed to the case and, for the first time, I was asked to hand over my photographs. She apologised for the delay and, after reviewing the facts, told me: “You’ve done the hard work for us.” Well, when the police don’t bother trying to catch criminals in the first place, is it such a surprise?... I still like to think police officers spend the majority of their time doing useful work. But my experience makes you wonder what exactly police chiefs are asking their staff to do. So maybe the fool isn’t the crook. Maybe it’s me, for still having faith in the existence of a decent Metropolitan Police Service. After all, the facts seem overwhelmingly to suggest otherwise."
Time to increase the policing of hate crimes and hate speech, especially online

Defiant L’s on X - "New York socialist says nobody should be jailed for stealing https://x.com/EmilyAssembly/ status/2088015972619710694/video/1 She goes off on people and "right wingers" who call for thieves to be jailed for stealing and vandalizing stores saying they are just fear-mongering She argues that nobody should be in jail over 'stealing soap and toothpaste' because it's something they need, and we shouldn't stand by major stores because they are billion dollar companies According to her the "true crime" that's happening is "the wealth disparity in the city" https://x.com/EmilyAssembly/"
Commies want high crime, because then they get to blame the rich and push their Revolution

Will Tanner on X - "What is it that creates civilization? As Lee Kuan Yew put it, stomping out Third World behavior: “[We told them] stop spitting, stop littering … you can’t go around peeing everywhere as you did in the old squatter villages” Rigorously imposing those rules and expectations turned Singapore from a muddy village into one of the most prosperous city-states on Earth. We have done the opposite of that. Instead of establishing and enforcing standards of civilized behavior, we have given in to the delusion that tolerating (and, in some areas, even encouraging) all sorts of terrible behavior--namely vagrancy, slovenliness, drug use, and crime--that blights the West at present And so we have chosen to go from First World to Third at the same time as Singapore went from Third World to First That must be reversed. It can be reversed. And what it takes is willpower, the steel spine necessary to establish and maintain order. Nothing more, or less"

Phil Gurski on X - "Man accused of shooting at U.S. Consulate in Toronto will remain on bail, judge rules - um, he and his accomplice shot and killed a Toronto police officer so why is he out on bail?"
Thread by @d_white_rabbit on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "In other words, in Canada, one can shoot at another country’s consulate with a real gun, get arrested, kill a police offer while getting arrested, be charged with 6 offences, and still be out on bail. What should people exactly do in this country to be kept in prison? Just wondering as someone who constantly receives death threats. This country was supposed to keep us safe. In case you’re wondering why I don’t feel safe: he’s part of an” IRGC Islamic linked guns for hire network” here in Canada."

Ari Hoffman on X - "DEVELOPING: The man convicted of a deadly 2020 mass shooting in downtown Seattle has been released from custody after serving only 4 years in prison Willia Tolliver was sentenced June 16, 2023, to 4 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree manslaughter, third-degree assault, and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm after the Jan. 22, 2020, shooting outside a McDonald's at Third Avenue and Pine Street. A 50-year-old woman was killed & seven others were injured, including a 9-year-old boy who was walking with his family after a trip to the Pacific Science Center."
Lee Kuan Yimby on X - "4 years for shooting a stranger to death, wounded multiple others...4 years. We have to listen to Bukele and get rid of these judges."

Martin Austermuhle on X - "The Public Defender Service is challenging the constitutionality of a D.C. law prohibiting anyone with a felony conviction from having a gun. Its client, Lorenzo Redman, was convicted of being a felon in possession in 2025. (His original felony: carrying a gun without a license.)"
Matthew Yglesias on X - "I think the public defender community has lost the plot somewhere."

Meme - memetic sisyphus @memeticsisyphus: "I can't imagine a better justification for the die hard resist tyranny side, than liberals who are against guns but not for the people who commit the majority of gun crimes. Stopping crime isn't the motivation here it's something else"
Alyssa Leader @alittleleader: "On a personal level, I am about as anti-gun as you can get. But I have clients who face years of mandatory minimum time in prison because they possessed (not even used!) a gun after having stolen $1001 dollars worth of stuff from Target. often years before-
The ways in which we criminalize some gun possession and not others, the severity of consequences for some gun-related behavior and not others, a lot of it is absolute nonsense. And of course a lot of it disproportionately impacts poor people and people of color."

Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ on X - "Martyna Ogonowska has lost her appeal. This is atrocious. Martyna was just 18 when she was sexually assaulted by a man named Filip Jaskiewicz. A rape survivor, she was carrying a knife, and she stabbed Jaskiewicz once, killing him. At her trial, the judge accepted that Martyna had been violently and sexually assaulted, but because she was carrying a knife, her actions were considered unlawful, and she was sentenced to 17 years in prison. Worse, she’s still behind bars, while Banaras Hussein, leader of the Rotherham rape gang, is already free on licence. This is the UK in 2026: a country where a man who doused a little girl in gasoline and threatened to set her on fire spends less time in prison than a woman who killed in admitted self defense."
Ben Siepel on X - "So it seems it is the position of the UK legal system (or at least this judge) that if you are being raped, you are to just take it quietly, bc if you have a means of defense and actually use it, you will be punished worse than any rapist. How has the nation that practically invented civilization lost its claim to being civilized?"

Uubzu v4 on X - "It is now been over a year since Iryna was murdered. Her killer is currently in a four month treatment program to “restore his mental capacity” This nation’s idea of justice is deeply, deeply warped"
Cernovich on X - "There were no TikToks from moms empathizing with Iryna Zarutska. No tribute videos saying, "This could have been me." Empathy is not what's going on. Forces are much darker and anti-child. Moloch has returned."

Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 on X - "LABOR’S toughest new “adult time for adult crime laws” have FAILED on day 1. The first teenager sentenced under Victoria’s “adult time for violent crime” laws after holding a knife to a taxi driver’s throat has WALKED FREE from court without spending a day behind bars, with a judge wishing her good luck as he handed her an 18-month youth supervision order. The biggest danger to Australians is our own Government."

Ontario man who sexually assaulted 12-year-old sister avoids jail | National Post - "An Ontario judge has sentenced a man to house arrest for sexually assaulting his biological sister, ruling that the mandatory minimum five-year sentence for incest with someone under 16 is unconstitutional and “grossly disproportionate” for offenders with intellectual disabilities. The 26-year-old man, identified only as D.C. in the decision from Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice, was charged in 2022 for having sex with his sister for four years starting when she was 12 years old. Although he’s an adult, a defence expert testified that D.C. has an intellectual disability such that his cognitive age equivalency would be nine to 12 years old. “Five years in a penitentiary is a tough sentence in any circumstances, and even more so for a first-time offender. When a developmental disability is added to that mix, in my view it becomes cruel and unusual,” Justice Anne Molloy wrote in a recent decision. The judge convicted D.C. on two counts of incest and one charge of sexual assault. She handed him a conditional sentence of two years less a day and three years of probation. It’s “extremely rare” for judges to bypass mandatory minimums, said Wayne MacKay, a professor emeritus at Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law. “The gap between a five-year minimum and house arrest is so large that that’s kind of striking,” MacKay said in a recent interview. It could make the case ripe for appeal, he said... In May 2022, D.C.’s sister, who also has intellectual disabilities, told her high school guidance counsellor “that her brother had been sexually assaulting her for years”... While D.C. may function as an adult (he graduated high school, got his driver’s licence, is employed in a warehouse and does not receive government assistance), “his intellectual skills, including his capacity for moral reasoning, are substantially below the level of an adult,” Molloy said. “Because of his disability, he falls squarely within the concept of ‘diminished moral blameworthiness.’”... During his conditional sentence, D.C., who drives a forklift for work, must live with his grandmother. He’ll be on house arrest for the first year and will be allowed to attend work and approved appointments, then a curfew for the second."
Looks like mandatory minimums aren't mandatory after all
Seems we need to let 12 year olds drive and drive forklifts

Why Women Need a Husband

2026-09-29T09:24:00.000+08:00

A woman goes to a psychiatrist and complains:

“I don't want to marry. I am educated, independent, and self-sufficient. I don't need a husband.

But my parents are asking me to marry. What do I do?"

The psychiatrist replied:

“You, undoubtedly will achieve great things in life.

But sometimes inevitably will not go the way you want.

Some things will go wrong.

Sometimes you will fail.

Sometimes your plans won't work.

Sometimes your wishes will not be fulfilled.

Then who will you blame?

Will you blame yourself?"

Woman: “NO!!!”

Psychiatrist: “Yes... That's why you need a Husband”

Links - 28th September 2026 (2 - Palestine/Middle East Peace)

2026-09-28T17:35:00.000+08:00

Meme - Kermit the Frog on scooter going from right to left: "ME ABOUT TO BOYCOTT PALESTINIAN PRODUCTS"
Kermit the Frog on scooter going from left to right: "FINDING OUT THEY DON'T PRODUCE ANYTHING"

Meme - "Lara Logan in 2024
Lara Logan @laralogan: NOTE: Iran is NOT the real threat - that is a FALSE narrative designed to drag us into another war - this time with Iran.
Lara Logan in 2026
Lara Logan @laralogan: Remember when they said Iran was not a terrorist threat? Ha! What a joke."

Adam Mossoff on X - "Always remember that "antizionism" was coined by the Soviet Union to rebrand its vile antisemitism in both its domestic and international policies. In America, the "zio" slur was popularized by David Duke, the Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan from 1974-1980, as a way to express his Jew hatred while denying that he was antisemitic, claiming he is just "antizionist." So it's unsurprising that the woke left and woke right have fully embraced both these terms, and they have even become commonplace among some mainstream Democrats. They are both expressions of political collectivism and vile collectivist bigotry. For the Democrats, they are truly returning to their roots as the party of racism and the KKK."

Leviathan on X - "“Dr.” Abbas Hamze is a Master Sessional & Master of Data Analytics Instructor with University of Niagara Falls @unfcan , a Faculty Lecturer at @georgiancollege , and a College Lecturer for @ConestogaC . When not teaching impressionable minds at universities, Abbas Hamze can be seen driving over to the Jewish neighborhood of Bathurst & Sheppard on Sundays to harass & intimidate Jews including protesting outside of Jewish schools & synagogues. Abbas Hamze also calls for the kidnapping of Israeli hostages stating that “Hamas has the right to take hostages in October 7th 2023” while also claiming “Hezbollah has the right to assist Hamas in October 8th.” Despite being an advocate for Hamas kidnapping Jews, the @TorontoPolice provide an armed escort for Abbas Hamze as he protests at Jewish neighborhoods, schools, and synagogues. Abbas Hamze has also been pictured holding up flags of the Islamic Republic of Iran in this Jewish neighborhood while also writing “we will continue the path of Imam Khamenei, no matter how many sacrifices are, and his pure blood will bear the inevitable victory.” Abbas Hamze came to Canada from France in August of 2022 & is not believed to be a Canadian citizen. Why was he let into Canada with these radical beliefs? @CitImmCanada This is a Notice of Public Interest to the Jewish community of Toronto regarding this radical supporter of foreign designated terrorist groups who targets Jewish neighborhoods, schools, and syagogues while supporting kidnappings. All materials provided were obtained via publicly available sources & does not contain any forms of private media."
Leviathan on X - "University instructor “Dr.” Abbas Hamze decided to take time from his busy schedule to make a speech at the Jewish neighborhood of Bathurst & Sheppard where he talked about Jews being kicked out of every country, their “black magic”, and how they rape, kill & eat children under approval & armed protection of @TorontoPolice @TPSOperations"
Clearly, this is just "anti-Zionism" and criticising him is trying to suppress "pro-Palestinian speech"

Rawan Osman | Facebook - "I posted a picture of a hummus brand named after Jerusalem, spotted at a supermarket in Sydney. As usual, the comments filled up with people accusing the Jews of "stealing" hummus from the Palestinians. So here's a question for those who hate me because I stand with the Jews: Are you saying the Jews stole their diet from the locals, or their recipes from the Arabs? Either way, before you comment on my posts and broadcast your ignorance, do this first: look up Sahih al-Bukhari 5686. Then come back and explain to me why those sick men were advised by the Prophet Muhammad to drink camel milk and camel urine. Hint: the Arabian Peninsula was mostly desert. Hummus literally means "chickpeas" in Arabic. Did the Jews learn to eat chickpeas from the Arabs? Google says: Chickpeas are among the oldest domesticated foods in human history, first cultivated around 10,000–11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent — especially present-day southeastern Turkey and northern Syria. They were part of the first agricultural revolution, alongside wheat, barley, and lentils. From there they spread across the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and eventually to India, where they became a staple. The Greeks and Romans ate them too — the Latin *cicer* gave rise to several European names for the chickpea. In Arabic, chickpea is *ḥummuṣ* (حمص); the dish we call hummus is more precisely *ḥummuṣ bi-taḥīna* — chickpeas with tahini. So long before Islam existed (and Islam is 1,400 years old) my ancestors in the so-called Middle East were already eating chickpeas. In the Levant, the Fertile Crescent, and Mesopotamia — where the alphabet and the wheel were literally invented — agriculture provided this staple food for millennia. Hummus is not Palestinian. There are modern Palestinian recipes. Lebanese. Turkish. Israeli. Iraqi. Syrian. And within each of these countries, geography adds even more variation, from Mount Lebanon to Aleppo, Izmir to Akko, Mosul to Baghdad to Adana. What's called "Israeli" today is a basket of flavors gathered from around the world, including the Mediterranean tradition. And need I remind you that over 850,000 Jews were uprooted from Arab countries? You don't get to forbid them from eating the food of their own ancestors too. Before making silly comments, go look up Jewish history in what is now Iraq or Syria. Jewish communities lived in our region long before the Arabs ever conquered it."
Clearly, this is just anti-Zionism

Meme - "JEWS DON'T FLY PLANES INTO BUILDINGS. JEWS DON'T BLOW UP STADIUMS. JEWS DON'T BURN DOWN MOSQUES. JEWS DONT HAVE A PAY-TO-SLAY PROGRAM. JEWS DON'T PREACH HATE. JEWS DON'T TAKE HOSTAGES.*EXCEPT FOR NAZIS. JEWS DON'T DRIVE CARS INTO PRESCHOOLS. JEWS DON'T GATHER OUTSIDE OTHER PEOPLE'S PLACES OF WORSHIP AND SCREAM AT THEM."

Tamas Vajda | Facebook - "Israel is discussed endlessly as an abstraction, usually by people with something to gain from presenting the ugliest possible version of it. Yet when Israelis cross an ocean to search for strangers beneath the rubble, the same political world becomes strangely quiet. Rescue work begins in silence. Apparently, so does the coverage. Four days after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake devastated western Colombia, rescue crews in Cali were still calling for silence around collapsed buildings. Engines stopped, voices fell quiet and everyone listened for the faintest sign of life beneath the concrete. By then, at least 287 people were dead, nearly 4,000 injured and around 400 still missing. Israel offered help on the day the earthquake struck. By Friday, its 80-member Brit Re’im, or “Covenant of Friends”, delegation had arrived from Nevatim Airbase, bringing Home Front Command rescuers, engineers and emergency specialists. Their task: find survivors and reach them before time runs out. These are among Israel’s finest emergency units. The country’s field hospital was the first to receive the WHO’s highest Type 3 classification. Much of that expertise was developed rescuing Israeli civilians from buildings struck by enemy missiles. It is now being used to save Colombians. Colombia’s new president, Abelardo de la Espriella, is openly friendly towards Israel and requested the assistance. Yet he entered office only three days before the earthquake, replacing Gustavo Petro, who had turned hostility towards Israel into his political trademark. After the 7 October massacre, Petro repeatedly reached for Nazi analogies instead of squarely confronting Hamas’s atrocities. His government joined the legal campaign against Israel, halted coal exports and severed diplomatic relations. Israel is now helping the people of a country whose government was demonising it until the previous week. A Colombian child beneath the rubble is not Gustavo Petro and bears no responsibility for his rhetoric. Meanwhile, a thriving political and financial industry continues to sell Israel as the world’s resident villain. Politicians buy applause, regimes distract from their failures, campaign groups collect donations and media platforms harvest outrage. Israel often struggles to explain itself effectively abroad. But when Colombia asked for help, it responded with action, sending rescuers rather than launching another public-relations campaign. Nor is this an exception. Over the past twenty years, Israeli teams have operated after the earthquakes in Haiti, Nepal, Mexico, Albania, Turkey, Thailand and Venezuela; the Japanese tsunami; Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines; the Brumadinho dam collapse in Brazil; hurricanes in Honduras; the Equatorial Guinea explosions and the Surfside disaster. Israel also sent 50 tons of aid to Colombia after the catastrophic floods of 2010. Many of those governments were friendly, but the real test came when Israel helped countries whose governments were not. In 2011, Israel sent emergency housing to Turkey only weeks after Ankara expelled its ambassador. In 2023, despite Erdogan’s long record of anti-Israel incitement, 450 Israeli doctors, nurses and rescuers arrived with more than 150 tons of equipment. They pulled 19 people alive from the ruins and treated hundreds more. Under Operation Good Neighbor, Israel provided medical care and supplies to thousands of Syrians living under an enemy regime. Only weeks ago, an Israeli delegation spent three weeks in Venezuela, which had broken relations with Israel in 2009 and spent years among its loudest enemies. The Israelis assessed damaged buildings and helped prepare a national reconstruction plan. Venezuela’s acting president asked them to extend their stay, then publicly thanked them. These rescue missions do not settle every argument about Israel. But reveal how much inconvenient evidence must be ignored to preserve the familiar caricature. Governments can break relations, suspend trade and spend years trading accusations. None of that changes the value of a life beneath the rubble."

Uri Kurlianchik | Facebook - "I'm surprised that people who are willing to do everything to destroy Israel are surprised Israel is willing to do everything not to be destroyed."

Liza Rosen on X - "In a viral video spreading across social media, Palestinian Muslims in the West Bank explain that all they want is to murder all the Jews in Islam’s name. That’s all. No land dispute. No “occupation.” No “resistance.” Just pure, unfiltered Islamic hatred and the desire for Jewish genocide. They say it openly, without shame, on camera. Killing Jews is not a side effect, it is the goal. This is Islam."

Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 on X - "The most honest video about Palestinian culture was recorded by a woman raised as a Palestinian Muslim."

The Patriots Voice 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 on X - "🚨Shocking Footage: Palestinian Kindergarten Class Performs Full Military Raid Drill With Replica Weapons. People keep asking “why not let more Palestinian families in?” Watch the kindergarten graduation video. Four- and five-year-olds already drilled to act like Hamas fighters. Brainwashed before they can even read. When those kids grow up, the problem doesn’t stay in Gaza. It travels with them. Think about that. Some borders exist for a reason."

Liza Rosen on X - "This viral footage perfectly explains why Israel maintains such strict security checks, security fences, checkpoints and walls at its borders. The Muslim terrorist is Fatma Amarna, a Palestinian Muslim woman in her 40s. She illegally infiltrated Israel from Jenin, reached the Old City of Jerusalem with a knife under her full Islamic veil, and according to her own interrogation, wanted to sacrifice her soul for Allah by carrying out jihad against non-Muslims — hoping to reach paradise through her death. The Israeli police officer reacted instantly. He used his body to push the terrorist to the ground and neutralized her with physical force. He deliberately chose not to shoot her with his weapon because he feared that innocent bystanders in the area could be harmed. This is the daily reality Israel faces: Muslim terrorists who see the murder of others as a holy act of worship to Allah. Without the security barriers, thousands more innocent Israelis would be slaughtered in the streets. The world loves to condemn Israel’s security measures as “apartheid” or “oppression.” The truth is simple: Israel builds walls and fences because the other side keeps sending terrorists who want to kill people as human sacrifices for the sake of Allah. Share this video. The world must see the constant threat Israel lives with — and the incredible restraint its security forces show every single day."

Meme - *Busty Israeli girl*
abdelazizsabalbal: "Palestine can wait"

Meme - "AMERICAN LEAGUE FOR A FREE PALESTINE presents A Flag by Ben Hecht *Star of David Flag i.e. Israeli Flag*"
"HELP FREE PALESTINE. ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA. $1,000,000 EXPANSION FUND"
"FOR THE FREEDOM OF PALESTINE. JEWS OF AMERICA ORGANIZE. REGISTER As a Member of the Zionist Organization of America"
Hilariously, I saw a terrorism supporter post at least one of these as evidence (with the "Zionist" term) that "Palestine" was a historic state, that modern "Palestinians" belonged to it and that Zionists were hypocrites

Meme - "Who stole your aid?"
"Hamas."
"Who started the war?"
"Hamas."
"Who uses you as shields?"
"Hamas."
"Who do you blame?"
"Israel!"

Meme - Eve Barlow @Eve_Barlow: "We've been trying to tell you"
"CODEPINK Cofounder's $51 Million Foundation Ordered to Shut Down After Years of Tax Delinquency, Exposing Terror Linked Funding Trail"

Meme - *Distracted boyfriend*
*Lebanon as Man*
*Iran-Hezbollah as girlfriend*
*Israel as new woman*

The antisemitism report that erases a century of Jewish debate - The Globe and Mail - "Jews have never agreed about how to be Jewish. Yet these disagreements are increasingly treated as evidence of hatred. Last week, the federal government released the Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences (CASE) report... The report treats opposition to Zionism as evidence of antisemitism... The report defines “anti-Zionism” as a movement that calls for the “erasure” or “annihilation” of Israel. This is incorrect, and it attempts to turn a legitimate political position into a synonym for hatred before a single survey question is even asked. Anti-Zionism is a 100-year-old, well-documented current of Jewish thought that has never called for erasing or annihilating anyone"
Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences (CASE) - Canada.ca - "Antisemitism: This report uses the IHRA’s working definition of antisemitism including its illustrative examples, which was adopted by the Government of Canada in 2019:
Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred towards Jews, the rhetorical and physical manifestations of which are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities...
Antizionism: Antizionism refers to a movement that calls for the erasure of Israel and denies the Jewish people the right to self-determination in part of their ancestral homeland."
Why would left wingers lie about something so easily disproven? Actually, we know why.
Clearly, we should ignore what antizionism means today and pretend it's a 100 year old tradition

China ‘funding pro-Palestine marches in UK’ - "US politicians investigating alleged secret Chinese backing of Code Pink, a far-Left feminist protest group established in the US, are examining its activities in Britain as part of an inquiry into foreign interference. Code Pink has organised protests in the UK against Britain’s involvement in “the genocide in Gaza”, encouraged its activists to demonstrate outside RAF bases, and issued statements claiming that Britain’s leaders have been “bought by Zionism”. The investigation comes amid concern that Beijing is seeking to exploit divisive causes in the West to deepen social tensions and wage what critics describe as “political warfare” against its adversaries... the US investigation is examining £250,000 in alleged payments to a company linked to Code Pink in the UK from firms connected to Neville Roy Singham, a tech tycoon accused of financing Chinese propaganda around the world... “The committee is well aware that Singham’s funding is supporting pro-Hamas and pro-communist causes not only in the United States, but also overseas, including in the United Kingdom.” A congressional source told The Telegraph that investigators were aware of alleged Chinese funding of groups in Britain and that it formed part of their inquiry. “We are aware that China is funding pro-Hamas and leftists in the UK and the US,” the source said. “That is why we are investigating it and will continue to do so.” Code Pink in the US has received millions of dollars from Mr Singham, who is facing multiple investigations over allegations that his network has produced pro-China propaganda on behalf of the communist regime in Beijing. A congressional committee has claimed that Code Pink – which was founded by Jodie Evans, Mr Singham’s wife – appeared to have been “funded and influenced by Mr Singham and the communist Chinese government”... a UK company with links to Code Pink received more than $250,000 (£190,000) from organisations alleged to be part of Mr Singham’s network in 2020 and 2021. In 2024, the company received a further $94,950 (£70,000) from the People’s Support Foundation, another organisation suspected of being in Mr Singham’s network, for “consulting services”. Code Pink encourages activists to join mass pro-Palestinian marches and has organised demonstrations at the Ministry of Defence and the London office of an arms company. It describes itself as a feminist grassroots organisation working to end warfare and imperialism, and support peace and human rights. One of the movement’s senior campaign organisers in the UK is Suzie Gilbert, who has been described as its “contact in Britain”. Her work with the group has included campaigning for peace with Iran, demonstrations calling for the removal of British military bases in Cyprus, and visiting China under the theme that it “is not our enemy”... Campaign supporters have included Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour leader. In May last year, the organisation condemned the Government’s support for Israel. Responding to comments by Israeli ministers that the “world won’t stop” their military action in Gaza, Code Pink said: “Our leaders bought by Zionism will certainly not, but the people will.” The organisation has attracted scrutiny in Washington over its funding and supportive stance towards Beijing. A US state department official told The Telegraph: “Code Pink agitates against the interests of the United States and our allies alike. “The far-Left organisation has repeatedly called for the dissolution of Nato as its coffers are filled with cash from a donor network linked to the Chinese Communist Party. “The United States stands with its allies and will pursue complete transparency for the donor and NGO networks that lobby for the interests of our adversaries.” Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, has also raised concerns about Code Pink with the department of justice. In an official statement last year, he said: “Evidence suggests that The People’s Forum and Code Pink have been funded and influenced by Mr Singham and the communist Chinese government.” The ways and means committee has separately accused Mr Singham of “actively fuelling CCP [Chinese Communist Party] propaganda and financing indoctrination efforts abroad by providing hundreds of millions of dollars to groups that mix progressive advocacy with CCP talking points”. Mr Singham is also being pursued by the department of justice, which has launched a federal grand jury investigation into his links to China... Code Pink also runs a campaign called “China is not our enemy”. Its position on China has changed significantly as its financial links to Mr Singham’s network have grown. Ms Evans previously criticised Beijing, writing on Twitter in 2015 that: “We demand China stop brutal repression of their women’s human rights defenders.” The organisation now argues that the US is “heading towards a dangerous confrontation with China” and claims Washington continues to “manipulate the minds of US citizens to support [this] war”. Mr Singham has close links to China. He shares a Shanghai office with a Chinese state-linked company whose goal is to educate foreigners about “the miracles that China has created on the world stage”. In 2023, he attended a CCP workshop about promoting the party internationally, according to a New York Times investigation. The scrutiny of his network comes amid broader fears that Beijing is seeking to exploit political divisions inside Western democracies rather than simply promote favourable views of China. China has previously been accused of using covert social media campaigns to inflame existing tensions in the West. In 2021, a Cardiff University report found that social media accounts linked to China had spread calls for violence in the run-up to the US Capitol riots. Researchers said the activity represented a shift from traditional state propaganda towards attempts to amplify divisions and encourage unrest in rival countries... “We know that, during the Cold War, Russia funded sympathetic political movements in the West. If people connected in any way to the Chinese Communist Party are doing the same now, there is a real risk to our democracy that must not be ignored by the authorities.”"
Time to condemn "Zionist" influence!

Ructionous Recondite on X - "China didn't let hundreds of thousands of retards walk down the streets in the UK waving terrorist flags... The UK government let that happen. The bull-shit occuring in the UK is completely down to the UK 'leaders'."

Charity must not be given to our enemies - "Labour isn’t afraid of being tough on charitable tax breaks when the circumstances suit the party. Last year, the Government dealt a vindictive blow to independent schools by scrapping their mandatory business-rate relief, which remains available to all other charities. Is it prepared to take similarly robust action against charitable organisations found to be promoting extremism? The FBI has claimed that a British Muslim charity, the Al-Khair Foundation, has been used to bankroll Hamas, the terrorist group responsible for the horrendous attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. The charity has received at least £9m in taxpayers’ cash in Gift Aid since 2021. The Met is running a wider investigation into potential terrorism funding allegations while the Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry. The Al-Khair Foundation has sought to distance itself from its “global director”, Mohammad Yousef Hasna, the man the FBI alleges is responsible. These allegations raise inevitable questions about why the charity was not investigated sooner, and how much of British donors’ money might have been funnelled to Hamas. But there is a wider issue than any single charity. In recent months, there have been multiple warnings that British charities have been used to promote extremism and anti-Semitism, and several have been alleged to have links with the Iranian regime."
Terrorism supporters are still upset that they can't attack Jews in the street with sledgehammers

Facebook - "Amnesty and Human Rights Watch released separate reports on the death of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, both reaching essentially the same conclusion: the Israeli strike should be investigated as a war crime. But there was more to the story. Khalil was traveling in a two-vehicle group with two Hezbollah operatives, whom the IDF said were the intended targets of the strike. Then another detail emerged: they had coordinated the release of their reports “for impact.” When NGOs echo one another, media outlets often treat repetition as evidence of confirmation, but it isn't. That's the NGO halo effect: one institution reinforcing another’s authority, even when independent verification is absent."

Dr. Maalouf ‏ on X - "It has been 50 years since this photo was taken. Palestinian terrorists invaded the Lebanese Christian town of Damour and massacred 582 Christian civilians. It was an apocalypse, said a priest who survived the massacre. “They were coming in thousands, shouting ‘Allahu Akbar! Let us attack them for the Arabs, let us offer a holocaust to Mohammad.’ They were slaughtering everyone, men, women and children.” Men were lined up against the walls of their homes and gunned down. Women were tortured and gang-raped. Babies were shot in the back of the head. Pregnant women had their babies cut out of the womb. Just one of the many massacres committed against Christians by Palestinians. This is how Muslims became the majority in Lebanon."

Pro-Palestine protesters brandish ayatollah placards outside synagogue - "Police have made 14 arrests after pro-Palestinian protesters waved placards of Iran’s former supreme leader and made “pro-Hamas” hand gestures outside a synagogue in north-west London. Demonstrators gathered outside Edgware United Synagogue on Sunday, claiming that homes in the West Bank were being illegally sold at an event it hosted... Footage from social media showed pro-Palestine protestors holding placards and photographs of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed by a US strike at the start of the war, while others made a hand gesture identified by onlookers as the “Hamas triangle”... It has been claimed that selling property in the West Bank can amount to trading in stolen property as it is an occupied territory. However, organisers of the synagogue event have denied that any property over the Green Line that separates Israel from the West Bank is up for sale... The Board of Deputies of British Jews said the protesters had been spreading misinformation and claimed the demonstration was being used as “an excuse to harass and intimidate the Jewish community”. A spokesman said: “We are deeply disturbed at the wholly unjustified protest called for this morning outside a synagogue." “The event organisers have publicly refuted claims that the event is marketing real estate over the Green Line. It is very disappointing that MPs and other public figures have not acknowledged this, and instead inflamed tensions through partial and misleading commentary... Mr Khan said: “I share concerns about the Great Israeli Real Estate Event taking place in our city, which I oppose, and I’ve discussed this directly with the Met Police. “I’m informed that any allegations of criminality relating to the potentially unlawful sale of property at the event would be assessed by the Met with a view to investigation.”"
Terrorism supporters see Israel as illegitimate, so it doesn't matter which side of the line the territory is on <

p>Meme - Gad Saad @GadSaad: "My family and I escaped execution in Lebanon because Islam wanted to kill us. My parents were kidnapped by Fatah and were severely mistreated. Our home in Beirut was stolen by Palestinian Muslims. My wife's family escaped Lebanon because Islam wanted to kill them. Her"
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan: "Is Islam in the room with you now?"
@evillarrydavid: "wow what a horribly insensitive colonialist islamist terrorist-supporting response"

Meme - Man sitting on bed to disappointed woman: "It's because of Israel"

Meme - "WARNING! This post is using images of children in pain to exploit western compassion in order to conceal the fact that Islamic societies care nothing for human life and will never hesistate to use a child as a human shield in the wars they start."

Meme - "When Muslims start a war it's called jihad. When they suddenly lose it it's called genocide."

Meme - "In 1970 Black September conflict, when the Palestinians attacked the Jordanian army. "They brought their children forward to (face) the Jordanian army, in order to make the world believe that the army kills their children." Jordan Seikh Ahmad Adwan"

Jesse Brown on X - "The Jerusalem Post: knife-wielding man attacks Israel tent at Edmonton Heritage Festival
Edmonton Journal: Traffic jams at Heritage Fest show the value of bike lanes"

Thoughts and prayers, Canadian style - The Globe and Mail - "There is a moment when tragedy starts to turn to dark farce in a mass shooting in the United States, that moment when a politician utters the phrase “Thoughts and prayers.” Saying that phrase evokes ersatz empathy, but obviates the need to ask any difficult questions. Questions such as, why did this this shooting happen? What could have been done to prevent it? And what action can government take to help to head off the next attack? “Thoughts and prayers” is all that needs to be said, or done. There are Canadian equivalents, sadly, used for each fresh act of violence against Canada’s Jewish community. This is not who we are, political leaders intone. Such acts are unacceptable, they say. Saying those phrases evokes empathy, but also obviates the need to ask any difficult questions. Questions such as, why did this antisemitic attack happen? What could have been done to prevent it? And what action can government take to help to head off the next attack? Those unanswered questions have grown increasingly urgent. From 2014 to 2022, police-reported antisemitic hate crimes rose by 147 per cent, nearly double the increase for religious-motivated hate crimes as a whole, according to Statistics Canada. By 2020, antisemitic hate crimes reported to police accounted for more than half of all such crimes with religion as a motivation. Then came Hamas’ terror attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and then the Israel-Hamas war. Antisemitic hate crimes soared even more, jumping 82 per cent in 2023. There was a slight decline from those red-alarm levels in 2024 and 2025. But so far, 2026 is seeing an unwelcome rebound: Antisemitic hate crimes rose 20 per cent in the first quarter of 2026 compared with 2025, according to Statscan’s preliminary figures. Synagogues targeted with arson and gunfire. An elderly Jewish woman stabbed in an Ottawa grocery store. Jewish-owned businesses attacked. That list is a recounting not just of hate, but of official failure. And that list continues to grow. Two locations of a Jewish-owned restaurant chain in Toronto, Kiva’s Bagel Bakery, were vandalized, one by gunfire, on July 24. Toronto police are investigating those incidents as hate crimes. Over the weekend, a kosher restaurant in Montreal, Nöam, was gutted by fire. No motivation has been established for that incident, being investigated as an arson. But it would be anything but surprising for that crime to be added to the tally of antisemitic hate. So how to turn back this growing tide of hatred? As we have argued before, that effort has to begin with understanding, and speaking, the truth: Antizionism is fuelling the rise in antisemitism. The rejection of Israel, of its very right to exist, has become the growth medium for the contagion of antisemitism. The test of courage for any political leader is whether they are willing to speak this truth. Prime Minister Mark Carney failed that test in June, even as he tried to provide comfort to the Jewish-Canadian community. Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow has failed even more spectacularly. In fairness, Ms. Chow has spoken out against anti-Israel protests being staged in the heart of the Jewish-Canadian neighbourhood near Bathurst and Sheppard in north Toronto. And, of course, she has offered her thoughts and prayers, Canadian style, in condemnation of incidents such as the attack on Kiva’s. But Ms. Chow has, through her actions, shown where her sympathies lie. The mayor refused to attend a flag-raising ceremony for Israel’s national day in May, 2024, saying such an event was “divisive.” She also declined to take part in the annual Walk for Israel in June of this year. Yet, the mayor had no problem with blurting out “Free Palestine” – the rallying slogan of those antizionist rallies – during the Pride Parade in late June. The mayor’s office did not respond when asked last week why the flag-raising event was divisive, but reciting the Free Palestine slogan is not a problem. Ms. Chow owes Torontonians, particularly Jewish Torontonians, an explanation."
Left wingers only obsess over "protecting 'minorities'" when it pushes the left wing agenda
One terrorist supporter cope is to claim that these are all Mossad false flags

Carney's antisemitism council fiddles while Jewish businesses burn | National Post - "Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed two months ago to develop a “whole-of-government approach to antisemitism to ensure federal policies, workplaces, public safety programs and community initiatives are aligned in protecting Jewish Canadians and confronting hate.” Carney appointed an advisory council with what he said was a “clear mission” to combat antisemitism. And what have we heard from the council so far? Crickets. What actions has the council taken? As far as we know, zilch. What results are we seeing? More attacks against Jewish businesses. While Jewish organizations applauded Carney for setting up a council to address hate and the scourge of rising antisemitism, most could not understand why he would appoint individuals such as Omar Alghabra to it. Alghabra, a former Liberal MP, was once the president of the Canadian Arab Federation, which, after his tenure, advocated against listing Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations. Hamas and Hezbollah, of course, terrorize Israel and aim to eliminate the Jewish state and all Jews. CLARITy Coalition Canada circulated a petition shortly after the council was announced, asking Carney to reconsider his choices. The prime minister did not heed the advice... “As we have previously noted, this committee has members with no qualifications in issues of antisemitism and members whose prior associations should have disqualified them.” Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow wrote on X that the attacks on Kiva’s were “vile and unacceptable,” and thanked Toronto police for investigating, but most of the replies to her post blamed her for contributing to the antisemitism in Toronto by failing to support the Jewish community. Replies were subsequently disabled on the thread. “Makes sense,” replied Rebel News founder Ezra Levant. “People would point out that you literally refuse to stand with Toronto’s Jews. You go anywhere with an open bar but you boycott Jewish events. Because you’ve done the math and you realize you need the pro-Hamas vote to win.” Toronto, sadly, has deteriorated into a cesspool of antisemitism and hate. On Monday, Toronto Sun columnist Warren Kinsella cited statistics showing that there were more antisemitic incidents in Canada than anywhere else in the world last year, and that Toronto is the worst city within Canada. Conservative MP Roman Baber shared a video on social media of what he called “Islamist thugs outside” a residence for Jewish seniors in Toronto. “It’s not free speech,” Baber said, “it’s harassment & intimidation, the same day two bakeries are attacked.” Robert Walker of Honest Reporting Canada told me the attacks on the bakeries, if determined to be anti-Jewish hate crimes, “would be the latest in such attempts to harass the Jewish community and would represent an assault on all civilized Canadians.” But he added: “Rather than shine a light on the real threats facing Canada, including Islamic radicalism and the Iranian regime’s tentacles in Canada, much of the news media has instead fixated on regurgitating pro-Palestinian talking points.”"

Ridiculous Zuccs: Swastikas

2026-09-28T13:29:00.000+08:00

Mark Howard @HowardMarkLouis: "Of course, there is nothing scarier than lines painted on an aircraft ..."
World War Aviation: "FOR THE 1 MILLIONTH TIME WE CANNOT POST SWASTIKA'S ON OUR PAGE! Historical or not, we were shut down for an entire year because of it. It is Facebooks policy, NOT OURS."

Links - 28th September 2026 (1 - Trans Mania [including WNBA])

2026-09-28T09:31:00.000+08:00

The cruelty of Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White’s WNBA anti-trans stunt (aka "These former NBA players are cruelly treating trans rights like a game") - "These aren’t merely political stunts mocking the league and the women who play in it, but malicious attempts to demean a marginalized population."
James Lindsay, anti-Communist on X - "As I said, and have said all along, the Woke gender gurus have the secret decoder ring to tell when trans is "real" and when it isn't, which means they're just claiming power over society by forcing it to believe things that aren't so."
One TRA cope is that they can be allowed to play after 2 years on hormones or even surgery... except that the WNBA doesn't need those things
The best part is the original article cites how almost 80% of the population is against transwomen in women's sports, then breezily proclaims that this is about "the cruelty and dehumanization of trans children trying to figure out who they are and where they belong in their family and social structures"

Polymarket on X - "JUST IN: WNBA Commissioner announces the league is meeting to review what a woman is, after multiple former NBA stars announced plans to join the league."99
Wesley Yang on X - "The meeting is happening because under New York City law, where the league is headquartered, these men really can sue if they are excluded. If these exact same men had grown their hair out and begun demanding to be called women two years ago, every trans activist and ally attacking them today would be cheering them on. The law makes no distinction."

Meme - *Royce White on chair with wig and beard and moustache*
Royce White: "To my Black Trans Lesbians, BIPOC Trans and Trans adjacent... Don't let people rain on your parade! These mainstream media outlets and commentators are dead naming me or misgendering me, it's GENOCIDE. People on the left are spewing a lot of nonbinary hate. Silence is violence, where are all the advocates and allies? Who are they to tell me I'm not a Black woman? I'm slayyyyyin, kweeeens stand up! CLOCK IT! 💅🏽 Pronouns: Pay/Me Royce White for President WNBA #LetHerPlay"
Kim Thompson: "This timeline is WILD, yo. This is a reverse Uno move if I've ever seen one"
Becea Arnold: "He is top notch trolling! But also pulling off that wig!"

Meme - "Anti-trans bigots want to stop these brave women from playing in the WNBA. Show them some love."

Meme - "Folks who were upset about Sophie saying no men should play women's sports are now upset that men want to play womens sports."
The cope is that they're not real transwomen, but men. Weird how gender self-identification is good and gatekeeping is bad - unless this hurts the left wing agenda

“They’re Not Giving Black Women a Voice”: Royce White Calls Out CNN After Network Pulls Plug on Interview - "Former NBA player Royce White, who intends to enter the 2027 WNBA draft and has identified as a trans athlete, claimed CNN canceled their interview with him after his declaration. During his appearance on Free People Radio in a video published Tuesday, White accused the major network of “not giving black women a voice.” “Set to do an interview with CNN at 5 p.m,” White said. “Central, and around 2–3 o’clock, they messaged me and said, ‘We’re canceling the interview. We have other news.’ There’s the universal excuse, ‘We have other news,’ and I just, for the life of me, I, again, they’re not giving Black women a voice, sometimes identifying as trans Black women a voice on CNN. It just blows my mind. It’s disappointing. It is. It’s a huge disappointment, especially CNN.” Earlier on Friday, former NBA center Enes Freedom announced his intention to enter next year’s draft and said there’s nothing in the league’s guidelines that would prevent him from participating. Just hours later, White made the same announcement in a Fox News interview. In his announcement, he also threatened legal action if the league forbids him from playing. Enes Freedom and Royce White claim they are fully eligible to enter next year’s draft because the league’s Collective Bargaining Agreement doesn’t clearly define what it means by “woman” in its eligibility guidelines. ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith figures that the league has made a big mistake and exposed itself to potential legal consequences. “How come you didn’t write in your language those born female? How come you didn’t make that clear?” he said on his show. “You can deny them entry, you can refuse to draft them, but you’re going to open yourself up to potential legal action until you clarify what the hell is going on.”"
Left wingers are very upset because they're caught in a no-win situation, of course

Royce White 🇺🇸 on X - "UPDATE: I have not received any official or unofficial communication back from the WNBA regarding my eligibility. I will say as a Black Trans lesbian, the rumors of denial for my multi-spirit existence are concerning. I’d also like to remind everyone there is a Trans genocide taking place right now in America. These kind of casual comments lead to violence and our deaths. If the “sources” are true, I would like to see the league take immediate action to correct anybody who refuses to affirm my identity or use my pronouns pay/me. The WNBA leadership has to show up and 👏🏽 do 👏🏽 the 👏🏽 work. To tell a Black Trans woman she is not a woman or that the Trans experience is a “stunt”, is transphobic, bigoted and racist. It’s literally nazism and white supremacy. I think the commissioner may be demonstrating some white privilege, no? 🧔🏽‍♀️🏳️‍⚧️
Royce White for President
WNBA #LetRoyshaPlay"

Wesley Yang on X - "You see, Enes Kanter and Royce White are bad faith trolls. But this obese man who had a visible erection as he stared at his sisters at the sorority he was permitted to join because he said he is a woman is a stunning and brave Trans Woman."

Polymarket on X - "JUST IN: Megan Rapinoe blasts Enes Kanter Freedom & declares women’s sports “do not need men” to be successful."
Kangmin Lee | 이강민 on X - "Is that why the women's soccer team got half of the men's soccer team's earnings from the World Cup?"

Thread by @RukhsanaSukhan on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "So someone has noticed Fae Johnstone is sucking from the taxpayer teet smugly whilst calling non white female people bigots. Today we’re gonna look at Fae’s consulting business. This is only for people who haven’t blocked me 🙃. Buckle Up. Image Image Here’s what I found. Image A cool million. For what? Image What’s the impact of this program? Will the government extend the contract? A million dollars. For what did we pay a million $? Image Here’s another one. The government paid Fae’s company to lobby for its own authoritarian conversion therapy bill. They paid Fae to produce propaganda to fight Canadians. 100K for propaganda to manipulate and lie to Canadians and misrepresent a law. Image Image Some screenshots from Fae’s website Image Image Fae’s company accessed summer job program money."
Trans activists' war on Canadian parents funded by the federal government - "Fae Johnstone's Wisdom 2 Action organization has received approximately $1 million in federal grants and handouts since 2018 from multiple federal agencies, including the Public Health Agency and the Canada Summer Jobs program. Johnstone founded Wisdom 2 Action with Lisa Lachance, an NDP MLA in Nova Scotia and her party's LGBTQ2S+ critic. On the Wisdom 2 Action website, Lachance can be booked for speaking engagements and receives compensation for those appearances and expense reimbursements despite acting as a legislative critic for LGBTQ issues. Notably, Johnstone's organization has received several thousand dollars in federal funding through the Canada Summer Jobs program, a summer student employment initiative of the federal government which was weaponized against Christian charities. In 2018, the federal government forced applicants to the program to sign an attestation supporting abortion and LGBTQ rights, a move which many Christian non-profits and charities found compromised their religious beliefs. Liberal MP and Trudeau groomsman Seamus O'Regan recently tweeted support for Johnstone's assessment that Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre "owes queer people some answers" without disclosing the millions in federal funding Johnstone has received to advance Liberal sex activism narratives. Johnstone was recently in Saskatchewan to protest against the Parent's Bill of Rights, a law signed in October 2023 to enshrine parental involvement in matters of sexuality in the classroom. Johnstone gained international prominence after Hershey's Chocolate embraced him as a part of their Women's Day campaign."

Angela Rayner faces threat of judicial review over trans bathroom guidance - "Angela Rayner is facing the threat of legal action over new bathroom rules for trans people. The Housing Secretary has been warned she faces a judicial review over guidance issued by the UK equalities watchdog, which forces trans people to use bathrooms corresponding to their biological sex. Campaigners at the Good Law Project, founded by Jolyon Maugham KC, say the code – which came into force on Wednesday – is “transphobic”."
Clearly, the Supreme Court doesn't know what the law is

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie launches blistering attack on former student who name-dropped her in book - "Celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie launched an attack on a former student and protégé who she claims stabbed her in the back over comments she made that the young novelist found transphobic. Adichie said she'd taken fellow Nigerian writer Akwaeke Emezi, who is nonbinary, under her wing after noticing her talent when she joined her writing class in 2015. The Half of a Yellow Sun author said she and Emezi became friends, and Emezi even credited Adichie and her writing class with her landing her first book deal. But the pair fell out in 2017 after Adichie gave an interview where she said 'trans women are trans women' - something Emezi took offense to and publicly slammed her former mentor on social media as a transphobe and even went as far as to claim Adichie supported the 'murder' of trans children. The feud was resurrected again last year when Adichie threw her support behind JK Rowling after she was accused of making transphobic comments - sparking more attacks from Emezi. Yet in private, Emezi was desperately apologetic for insulting Adichie and appeared to be very keen to keep her as an ally, according to emails Adichie shared. Adichie responded by asking Emezi to remove her name from the bio of her debut novel, and on Tuesday, she slammed Emezi in an essay on her website where she criticized an unnamed former student... Emezi responded to Adichie's essay by taking to Instagram, saying, the essay was meant to 'incite hordes of transphobic nigerians to target me.' "
From 2021

HELEN JOYCE argues the gender self-identification lobby is harming children, women and trans people - "Most people are supportive of 'trans rights' – assuming something similar to same-sex marriage and women's franchise is being demanded. That trans people be allowed to live full lives, free from discrimination, harassment and violence and to express themselves as they wish. Such goals are worthy but they are not what mainstream transactivism is about. What 'trans rights' actually refers to is gender self-identification. This means that others are forced to agree someone is the gender they say they are. It requires that everyone else accept trans people's subjective beliefs as objective reality. This is not a human right at all. It is akin to a new state religion, complete with blasphemy laws. Underlying my objections is a scientific fact: that biological sex has an objective basis...As well as serving the interests of trans people very poorly, the ideological focus of this powerful lobby means it seeks to silence anyone who does not support gender self-identification. What's more, I fear, its overreach is likely to provoke a backlash that will harm ordinary trans people who simply want safety and social acceptance. When the public finally realises what is being demanded, the blame may not land with the activists, where it belongs... What finally pushed me to write my book was meeting some of gender-identity ideology's most poignant victims. They are detransitioners: people who took hormonal and sometimes surgical steps towards transition, only to realise that they had made a catastrophic mistake. They speak of trauma from experimental drugs and surgeries and having been manipulated and deceived by adults. I have seen them abused and defamed on social media. Their most obvious wounds are physical: mastectomies; castration; bodies shaped by cross-sex hormones. But the mental wounds go deeper. They bought into an ideology that is incoherent and constantly shifting and where the slightest deviation is ferociously punished. They were led to believe that parents who expressed concern about the impact of powerful drugs on developing minds and bodies were hateful bigots and that the only conceivable alternative to transition was suicide. This new ideology of body-denialism at the heart of gender-identity politics is especially harmful for women, since female bodies make demands in ways that male ones don't. Female bodies bear almost all the burden of reproduction and ignoring that fact doesn't change it. Governments, companies and charities now talk of 'people who menstruate', 'pregnant people', 'abortion seekers' and 'birthing parents', where they would once simply have said 'women'. As such, women are being erased... If the stated reason for such language, to be inclusive of transmen (females who identify as male), were sincere, we would see similar linguistic manoeuvres so as not to exclude transwomen (males who identify as female) when talking about males. There would be articles and advertising campaigns aimed at testicle-havers, semen-producers and the like. 'Anyone with a prostate' would be told to get it checked. But no such language is used. The inconsistency is flagrant. It's not just today's world which gender ideology seeks to change – the past is up for review, too. Any woman who – by force, luck or guile – smashed social stereotypes is at risk of being retroactively transitioned. Boudicca and Joan of Arc are both often described as transmen. So are lesbian icons such as the poet Radclyffe Hall. Fictional characters aren't safe either: George of Enid Blyton's Famous Five books, a girl who hates dresses and long hair, and loves sailing and climbing; Jo of Little Women, who whistles, walks with her hands behind her back and promises her father to be the 'man of the house' while he is away at war, are now said to be trans. These are not harmless reimaginings. They reinforce old-fashioned stereotypes about how men and women are 'supposed' to behave and dress.... Another harm to children concerns safeguarding. As the belief takes hold that biological sex is overwriteable by self-declared gender identity, institutions are abandoning the protocols which it was hoped would prevent a repeat of child-abuse scandals... The history of institutional child abuse has shown how predators can 'groom' people and organisations to accept behaviour that should have raised red warning flags. For example, the Paedophile Information Exchange was tolerated by the Labour Party and the civil rights group now called Liberty. Its followers gained a hearing partly by persuading Leftists that their enemies' enemies were automatically friends – in this case, the enemies were Conservatives and evangelicals who opposed gay activists and paedophiles. That made speaking out about paedophile infiltration on the Left nearly impossible... Of the 125 transgender prisoners in English prisons in late 2017, 60 were transwomen who had committed sexual offences – a share far higher than in the general male prison population, let alone in the female one. So either transwomen are more likely than other males to be sexual predators, or – more probably – gender self-ID provides sexual predators with a marvellous loop-hole. Whichever is true, allowing males to self-identify into women's spaces makes women less safe... In 2018, research by Populus, an independent pollster, crowdfunded by British feminists, found that only 15 per cent of British adults agreed that legal sex change should be possible without a doctor's sign-off."

How British Feminist Grass Roots Turned the Tide on Gender - "To understand why it has taken so long for these policies to be rolled back, it is important to consider the outsized influence of websites such as Pink News, which purport to advance mainstream LGBT news and attitudes, but in fact have been co-opted by a highly motivated faction of (mostly male) trans activists. This vocal minority attracted little opposition when transgender anti-discrimination provisions originally were implemented to protect a few thousand British transsexuals (as many then commonly self-described). But things changed when legions of middle-aged men suddenly began insisting that they were women trapped in the wrong bodies (not to mention a massive surge in adolescent girls laying claim to the opposite path). Women who spoke up about this were systematically pushed out of any public square—the same treatment that some are seeking to impose on Rowling. But thankfully, times are changing... even in Scotland, I’ve observed women organizing at the grassroots level to oppose male encroachment on their spaces—the only option we had before Rowling and other mainstream media figures began speaking out openly on our behalf. Ultimately, what motivated us wasn’t ideology, but safety. It should never be a hate crime for a woman to say, “I just don’t want to share a swimming-pool changing room with men.” Yet that was where things were headed. In late 2019, trans activists protested feminist Meghan Murphy’s appearances at libraries in Vancouver and Toronto, where she discussed how all of these issues are affecting the safety of Canadian women. These confrontations became national news in Canada, and Toronto chief librarian Vickery Bowles was lauded for her principled decision to permit Murphy’s event. What is less known is that something similar played out in February 2020, when the Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) no-platformed a feminist group called For Women Scotland (FWS), whose members wanted to discuss the proposed implementation of self-ID policies. At first, the feminist group was told that the library was cancelling the booking to repair a leaking roof. GWL then denied the group an alternative date on the basis that they were fully booked. Eventually, GWL confirmed publicly that they’d cancelled the booking because FWS’s “values” did not align with those of their institution... Think about that: A “women’s library” tells its supporters that it is refusing to hold an event dedicated to protecting actual women—out of deference to self-identified women whose claim to womanhood is based on filling out a form on a government website. Needless to say, FWS members were appalled. And this is part of a pattern: Whenever women have attempted to meet to discuss the impact of gender ideology-driven public policy on women’s rights, venues are bombarded with tweets, calls, emails, and other forms of pressure from trans activists who claim that giving an audience to the other side of the debate is inherently hateful. Behind the scenes, meanwhile, activists have led a genuinely McCarthy-esque campaign of blacklisting against dissenters. The Scottish Poetry Library deserves credit as one of the first British institutions to take a stand against this bullying... Asif Khan, director of the Scottish Poetry Library, was pointed in his response when Scottish PEN—a group that ostensibly supports freedom of speech—somehow saw fit to slam the library for its pro-free-speech policy... It is telling that Khan is a man. For their own part, many Scottish women speak seldom, or only on condition of anonymity, about the abuse and attacks they continue to face simply for being critical of gender ideology in a country that has enabled trans activists to set the tone in literary life. As one anonymous signatory to an open letter to the Scottish Poetry Library wrote, “I know that if I speak out publicly at my [publisher], then I risk not having my contract renewed.” Another wrote, “My publishing house is currently all about ‘diversity’ and I know that if I speak out publicly then I risk not having my contract renewed which, being the sole earner in my home… a risk I literally cannot afford.” Other authors describe how their professional and personal lives were disrupted and curtailed by aggressive trans activists. It would be wrong to present these trans activists as working together as a single unit, let alone any kind of unified conspiracy. For the most part, this is nothing but a loose network of privileged millennials leveraging their positions within activism, arts, and academia to censor, ostracise, and, where they think necessary, punish women who oppose the idea that a man can become a woman by an act of self-declaration. Like all extremists, they believe their ruthless tactics put them on the side of angels. Unaccustomed to life on the breadline, they believe that any harm to a woman’s livelihood, relationships, professional networks, health, and security to be justifiable collateral damage in what they see as the great struggle of our time—the fight against transphobia. Eager to please this constituency, certain literary businesses, such as Lighthouse bookshop in Edinburgh, now actually boast about excluding Rowling’s books from their shelves. For its part, London’s Second Shelf bookshop didn’t remove Rowling’s books, but announced that every time someone bought one, they’d make a donation to a lobby group that supports paediatric transitioning. Some activists even fantasize about scrubbing Rowling’s name off the entire Harry Potter universe... The novelists, librarians, and booksellers circling the wagons to shut women up have been insisting for years that they are motivated by nothing but love and tolerance. And for a while, people took them at their word—including many policymakers and legislators. But all cults eventually collapse under the weight of their own dogma once its absurdity is exposed. And thanks to the grass-roots efforts of women on both side of the Atlantic, that is what we now see happening."
From 2020

Survey suggests trans activism turning off many, especially minorities | National Post - "A new government report, which analyzes recent survey data gathered on gender-based issues, has indirectly confirmed that Canadian support for transgender rights is falling, and that immigrants and ethnic minorities are comparatively conservative on these matters. Though unsurprising, these insights deal yet another blow against the myths of “intersectional” progressivism and make a strong case for further ethnicity-based social research... The SSPPS also asked respondents whether same-sex couples should have the right to adopt children. It not only found high levels of support among Canadians (79.6 per cent for women, 70.8 per cent for men), but that this support, rather than eroding, had actually increased — ever so slightly — by a single percentage point. So it would therefore seem that the backlash against transgender issues has not fully spilled over to LGB adoption rights. Unfortunately, the report provided only a sliver of the SSPPS’s data, leaving critical gaps that undermine independent analysis. For example, when it comes to same-sex adoption and supporting transgender family members, breakdowns of ethnicity and immigration status were not provided, even though this would have been relevant to Canadians... the authors were capable of ethnic analysis, but seemed to selectively spotlight only the more positive findings. The report’s ideological slant makes itself known in other ways, too. For example, the authors suggest that decreased acceptance of free gender expression was caused by “vocal public discourse which aims to legitimize transphobic perspectives” and provincial policies that “limit the rights of transgender and non-binary people.” The sources cited in support of these claims, of course, are quasi-academic activist papers that demonize Canada’s parental rights movement and warn against “right-wing agendas.” One would imagine that Statistics Canada’s analysts — who are supposed to be non-partisan —  would be a bit more discreet about their political sympathies. In any case, it’s clear that more research needs to be done in this area. Not only should the SSPPS data be made easily available to the public, more surveys of this type should be conducted —  because if Canada truly cares about understanding gender-based issues, then it needs to invest in data collection, even if that invites complicated conversations about immigration and ethnic communities."

B.C. nurse's online behaviour leads to $93K fine, sparking censorship claims - "A B.C. nurse was hit with a hefty fine for a pattern of online behaviour, resulting in a wave of online debate around censorship and gender discrimination. The fine was handed down by the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) on Aug. 14. “A panel of the Discipline Committee (the Panel) of the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) previously found that Ms. Hamm had committed professional misconduct by making discriminatory and derogatory statements towards transgender people across various social media while identifying as a nurse,” BCCNM states in its decision... A panel awarded the college $93,639 to be paid within two years. Her nursing license was also suspended for a month. A 115-page disciplinary hearing shares some of the allegations levelled against Hamm. Referring to the B.C. nurse, the hearing document states, “She does not believe that everyone has a gender identity. She rejects the suggestion that a person’s adherence or non-adherence to stereotypes associated with males and females somehow reflects an internal gender identity or gender soul, referring to it as ‘anti-scientific, metaphysical nonsense.’” The hearing documents also include the fact that Hamm supported Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and believes the author isn’t transphobic."

Jo Bartosch on X - "The Metro has accused JKR of Holocaust denial, a claim about as factual as Imane Khelif’s womanhood. I hope she gets an apology."

Amy Hamm: Father of 'evidence-based medicine' turns his back on science - "Canadian physician Gordon Guyatt coined the term "evidence-based medicine." According to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, into which he was inducted in 2016, he is one of our country's "most cited researchers" and "is considered a world authority in the fields of health-related quality of life research, study design, systematic reviews and guideline development." His work led to the development of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) tool, which allows researchers to determine the quality of a body of evidence. Guyatt is an impressive man. (Perhaps "was" is now the correct verb to use.) He is not, however, immune to the fear of being taken down by a righteous, anti-science mob of gender activists. This month, McMaster University, where Guyatt is a professor in research methods and evidence, published a letter about recent "systematic reviews related to gender-affirming care." According to the university, the letter was written after "members and allies of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities … raised concerns about recent systematic reviews related to gender-affirming care. These concerns centre on the funding source, and specifically on the potential for the research to be misused to harm trans youth and to deny gender-affirming care." Yet the letter, which was signed by Guyatt and four others, is a total abdication of the principles of evidence-based medicine. The authors acknowledged that "only low certainty evidence exists … regarding the benefits of the gender-affirming care interventions addressed in our systematic reviews."... But Guyatt and his colleagues now say they're worried their findings "will be misused" to " justify denying care such as puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy" to trans youth. While the university didn't give any details about which "members and allies of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities" complained, the letter appears to be a response to another — a letter to the editor published in the British Medical Journal, in which one angry person accuses the prestigious journal of "enabling anti-gender ideology" by — wait for it — publishing research conducted by the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), given that the Southern Poverty Law Center accused it (outrageously and without merit) of being "an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group." This is standard stuff from the cancellation mob playbook: attack the person, not the idea, and insist upon guilt by association. On its website, SEGM describes itself as "free from political, ideological, religious or financial influences," and on a "mission to promote evidence-based care for gender-dysphoric children, adolescents and young adults that prioritizes long-term outcomes, is rooted in ethical principles and is based on fully informed consent."... Guyatt and his colleagues at McMaster not only cut ties with SEGM, they paid an appropriate tithe — using their personal money — to an approved gender activist group... While the western world is making an about-face on the medical scandal that is pediatric gender transition, Canada — thanks to people like Guyatt — remains under the spell of radical gender ideologues whose sole remaining currency is intimidation. Do what we say, or we will ruin your reputation, too. What Guyatt and his colleagues are essentially saying is this: forget about the low-quality evidence, and instead allow the "autonomy of patients and their advocates" to overrule the science... The argument blatantly ignores the largest ethical issue in pediatric gender-affirming care: that minors are not capable of providing informed consent for this type of treatment, and their advocates (parents, usually) have been woefully misinformed about its benefits. Parents have been lied to about pediatric gender transitioning being the only thing that can prevent their children from committing suicide. They've been lied to about the safety and permanent side effects of puberty blockers. And anyone with a modicum of reasoning faculties should understand that children and teens are not capable of "choosing" their gender, or deciding if they are OK with never having children."

Attorney General Paxton Finalizes Historic Settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital, Creating First-Ever Detransition Clinic and Securing Nearly $10 Million for Texas
Weird. TRAs keep insisting that minors are never medically transitioned

Trans Green MSP Q Manivannan cannot tell me that rape is a ‘spectrum’ - "Launching impassioned defences of the stigmatised and marginalised is generally going to work out well for Left-wing politicians. And when I say “generally”, it’s hard to imagine how there could ever be a downside. Unless, of course, you’re the trans Green MSP (member of the Scottish Parliament) Q Manivannan, and the poor misunderstood members of society you’ve decided to put in a kind word for – the “little people” in need of our support – are rapists. “There definitely is a demonisation of rape, in the sense of it is a spectrum,” the MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East mused on the Subjective Space podcast. “As much as I don’t seek to lighten [rape], it is a spectrum: none of which is less or more worse, but it is a spectrum of things that constitute that one homogenised word: rape.” As part of the discussion on caring for people and rehabilitation, the Indian-born anthropologist also said that whereas people often thought of a rapist as a “monster” or a “big burly man”, the truth was that “any individual is capable of rape”. Oh, how I loathe the narrative that all men have a rapist within them; that if, as a man, you manage to go about your life not raping people, it’s really only by happy accident. That when it comes to one of the most heinous crimes in existence, maybe you were just a normal person, having a really bad day?"

Sack transgender Green MSP over rape remarks, say Scottish Tories - " The Scottish Tories have called on the Greens to remove the whip from a transgender MSP who claimed that rape exists on a “spectrum”. Meghan Gallacher, the Tory equalities spokesman, described the remarks as appalling and accused Q Manivannan of minimising the seriousness of rape. She is now demanding that Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay, the co-leaders of the Scottish Greens, remove the whip from the Indian-born MSP. Reem Alsalem, the UN’s special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, also intervened, writing on social media that rape should never be spoken about in terms of it being a spectrum. Manivannan made the controversial remarks on the Subjective Space podcast in February last year, more than a year before being elected to Holyrood. However, footage has recently resurfaced, showing Manivannan argued that the “demonisation of rape” led to an overly simplistic idea about what kind of people committed the offence. Manivannan said it existed on a spectrum and was dependent on different contexts, claiming that anyone, including women, could commit the offence. Feminist campaigners said they were disturbed by the remarks, claiming they showed “ignorance of the trauma and violation of rape”."
Damn transphobia!
Proof that we live in a rape culture which excuses and condones rape

'A cavity is not a vagina': Trans woman refused healthcare in France - "The French doctor admitted he didn't have the training or knowledge to treat trans patients - as experts say there's no need for a trans woman to visit a gynaecologist at all. "I only treat real women" - that's what French gynaecologist Victor Acharian told a 26-year-old transgender woman he refused to treat in his clinic in the south-west of the country recently... "I told her that I'm not competent, but I can guide you. I can refer you to services that can take better care of you. But after I said that, things went south," gynaecologist Victor Acharian told Euronews. "I thought I was being honest when I said it wasn't my speciality. I don't know how to treat them and I don't mind being called ignorant," he added. "You're transphobic!" the young woman reportedly shouted as she left the consulting room. According to the gynaecologist, the patient began to insult his secretary, reacting violently to the refusal... "As more and more transgender patients are coming, it is the responsibility of the country's health authorities to be aware of this and to take them into account so that they can deal with this problem," Pernille Ravn, a member of the European Society of Gynaecology and a gynaecologist at Odense University Hospital in Denmark, told Euronews. "There is no recommendation for a transgender woman to have regular gynaecological check-ups, unless she has a surgical problem related to the operation, because she doesn't have a uterus or a cervix," she added."
Amazing how far this charade has to be pushed.

It is not for local councils to decide the law of the land - "The 17th-century English clergyman Thomas Fuller warned every person in England “be ye never so high, the law is above you”. From the mightiest to the lowliest, this has been a key principle of British justice for centuries. Yet, today, a group of Left-wing London council leaders seems to disagree. It has been almost 18 months since the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that sex in equality law refers to biological sex rather than gender identity. As the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) guidance indicates, this means single-sex spaces, such as bathrooms or women’s refuges, are intended only for those of that biological sex. This has brought welcome clarity to a highly contested issue. But the leaders of Hackney, Haringey, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Waltham Forest councils appear to think they can pick and choose which laws they wish to follow. Together they have committed to keeping their services “inclusive”, claiming that the rules were “harmful to the rights of trans people”... Andy Burnham appears to have time to mull over whether disposable barbecues should be banned. What is his position on this? Is he willing to accept Left-wing council leaders riding roughshod over women’s sex-based rights?"
Nobody is above the law - unless that pushes the left wing agenda

Meme - *Green-haired Butcher*
"Remember what I told you?"
Green-haired kid with beard and eyeshadow: "Nobody is grooming me. Especially not you or my teachers. I've always been a girl."
*Proud green-haired Butcher*

Links - 27th September 2026 (2 - Women: Lindsay Clancy)

2026-09-27T17:29:00.000+08:00

Lindsay Clancy's trial has superfans rallying around her - "Dressed in pink, around 300 women gathered outside a Massachusetts courthouse on Thursday wearing shirts emblazoned with slogans such as “Believe”, “She Needed Help”, and “Peace For Lindsay”. The protesters prayed and made heart shapes with their hands. Some held up flags from across the world; others cradled babies. The woman whom they, and scores of others at rallies across the globe, including the UK, Portugal and Peru, had turned out to support? Lindsay Clancy, the mother accused of murdering her three children aged 3, 5 and 8 months. Ms Clancy, a 36-year-old nurse, does not deny killing Cora, Dawson and Callan by strangling them with exercise bands. However, she claims that it was not murder because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time... Ms Clancy’s case has prompted a reckoning by those who think she was failed by the system, with many women throwing their support behind her and holding her up as an example of failing mental health support for new mothers. Ms Clancy has been made into something of a feminist symbol – for her supporters, her story shows how extreme circumstances must become before a conversation about mental health, and particularly new mothers’ mental health, is taken seriously. “Lindsay shouldn’t even be on trial right now; the systems of mental health care should be,” Renee Kimball, the organiser of the Massachusetts protest, said... The case has swept across social media, with 31,000 people contributing more than $1m (£740,000) to a GoFundMe account for Ms Clancy’s parents Mike and Paula Musgrove, and triggered a wave of op-eds, podcasts and TikTok videos of people sharing their “hot takes”... The case has attracted a wave of increasingly outlandish conspiracy theories, with some online convinced it was Mr Clancy who committed the murders. He has not been charged and is not accused of any wrongdoing. His new wife, Rachel Danis, bears a resemblance to his former wife, according to some on social media. Others claim that an apparent change of his shoes, according to CCTV from the night the children died, points to some kind of involvement. A day does not go by without social media sleuths apparently decoding some small detail – a nod of the head in Ms Clancy’s direction by his mother-in-law, or a review left by Mr Clancy for a hiking trail in Costa Rica – as evidence of the father’s involvement."

Meme - Matt Walsh: "Shocking to see the number of women on social media now confessing openly that they understand and can relate to Lindsay Clancy's desire to strangle her children to death. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, given the ubiquity of abortion. But still, this is dark. Very dark."
Paige Hailyn: "This fucking guy has some nerve. So imma just say this LOUD AND MOTHER FUCKING CLEAR UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN THRIUGH PPD OR PPP YOURSELF THEN YOU NEED TO SIT THE FUCK DOWN AND STFU!! RESPECTFULLY! And if you dont understand why I say that than you can stfu too. Disrespectfully 😘"
Joshua Champion: "The woman in question murdered her own children. That's what you're defending."
Paige Hailyn: "i honestly dont think she did. But even if she did it could have been avoided. She was failed by her doctors and her husband"

Matt Walsh on X - "Can even just one of Lindsay Clancy’s defenders point to just one case where they defended a man who murdered his family on the basis that he had mental health problems? Can you give me just one case? No? Not one? Of all the crazy men who’ve killed their families you never shed a single tear of sympathy for any of them? Literally the only time you defend child killers is when they’re women? Oh. Okay. I think we’re all starting to see what’s really going on here. Thanks.
If the dad had done this instead of the mom, not one of these people would be coming to his defense. Not one. They really do think that killing children is excusable when women do it. Words can’t even describe just how depraved that mindset is. But given the 60 million+ abortions in this country since Roe, it’s not surprising."

Matt Walsh on X - "Lindsay Clancy had a "psychotic break." Which is why she planned the murder, researched her plan on Google, sent her husband away from the house, and then methodically executed her children over the course of several minutes. I never knew that you could plan your psychotic break like that. Just pencil it into your calendar. I'm learning so much about "mental health" from the morally bankrupt imbeciles on this site and TikTok. Thank you for this education."

Korobochka (コロボ) 🇦🇺✝️🇷🇺 on X - "AND I WAS RIGHT HAHAHAHA. PPD (Wh*re depression) is entirely due to wh*redom and the modern de-feminisation of young women:
- PPD is negatively correlated with AFS (Age at first sexual intercourse)
- PPD is positively correlated with LNSP (body count)
IT'S OVER FOR ROASTOIDS!"

Tanner Cartwright 🇺🇸 on X - "A man could lose his job, find out his wife has been cheating on him, is leaving with his kids because he has cancer and if he got frustrated and slapped her around, there is not a single woman in America would defend or make excuses for him. But if a woman gets the baby blues and strangles her children to death as they struggle and fight her, women everywhere start talking about how bad postpartum depression is. Mark my words, you are creating the most misogynistic generation of men to ever live and you need to know it is all your fault."
If you don't excuse a mother murdering her children, you're a misogynist

OutspokenSamantha on X - "When men commit crimes - they're guilty. When women commit crimes - men are guilty. That's the message from modern women. Always the victim. Never the problem. It's embarrassing."

Lauren Chen on X - "Patric Clancy supported his family financially so Lindsay could stay home. He hired a nanny. He took months of paternity leave and then worked from home to be more present for his wife and children. These women will blame everyone but Lindsay for the murders she committed."

FRONTLINES TPUSA on X - "HAPPENING NOW: A crowd of female protesters gathered outside Plymouth Superior Court applauded Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, thanking him for his work defending Clancy, who is accused of killing her three children. @Bodittle | @TPUSA"
Auron MacIntyre on X - "“Young men have been radicalized by the internet” Meanwhile hundreds of women gather to cheer for a literal child murderer"

Meme - "a woman just killed her 3 children. Here's why its THE MANS FAULT"
Man hater (brunette) passing you a note: "1. Women were oppressed for centuries
2. The mans DNA was on household items in HIS house
3. She gave birth so her kill count was -3 to begin with so its 0 now
4. Her sign is Leo and "Leos don't kill their cubs""

Lisa Fendragon on X - "We've come full circle to radical feminists arguing that women are driven psychotic by female hormones, and therefore can't be expected to have agency. 100 years of women's rights, up in smoke. Just like that"

Dr. Abby Johnson on X - "“Women just don’t kill their children like that.” I keep hearing women say this while discussing the Lindsay Clancy case. But the rallying of support around a woman who strangled her children should not surprise us. For more than 50 years, our culture has insisted that women should have the right to end the lives of their own children…deliberately, legally, and with the full-throated defense of much of the public. So perhaps the shocking part isn’t that people can find a way to defend a mother who killed her children. Perhaps the shocking part is that we still pretend we haven’t spent decades teaching women that, under the right circumstances, killing your own child can be justified."
There're pro choice people who defend infanticide too, so

Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ on X - "Here is a list of 20 men who murdered family members and were found not guilty by reason of insanity. Funny, but I don’t remember any furor over any of these decisions, not even number 3..."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "This is because crowds of men were not rallying in support of them, waving babies and blaming post-war PTSD or whatever."

Lauren Chen | Facebook - "The support for Lindsay Clancy has honestly radicalized me against modern women. A fundraiser for Clancy has raised over $1 million. Materialism, substance abuse, promiscuity, abortion. Now triple child murder? Is there no sin the feminine hivemind WON'T embrace? Feeling very... dejected? I don't even know how to describe it. I love being a woman and a mom. I know a lot of great women and moms. But there's a specific type of 2026 woman who is so inexcusably selfish, desperate for attention, and lacking in accountability that it honestly makes my head spin. I've previously thought they were a small minority on social media, but seeing the mass psychosis over Lindsay Clancy... I don't think they're that small a minority any more. It's been very blackpilling"

Kali Fontanilla on X - "Liberal women are arguing that Lindsay Clancy shouldn’t be held responsible for killing her children because she was on psychotropic medications, had a hormonal imbalance, was postpartum, and had a husband who “didn’t do enough.” But these same women want a woman-run country. So how does that work? If a hormonal imbalance or common medications can supposedly make a woman incapable of being held responsible for her actions, why would we want women making decisions for an entire country?🤔"
The left want to destroy civilisation, after all

Collin Rugg on X - Licensed therapist defends Lindsay Clancy, who murdered her three children, because “many of us see ourselves in Lindsay.” “Many of us know that we could have been only one step away from [murdering our children]” This woman, and anyone else who thinks like this, belongs in a mental institution."

Meme - "Fellas, would you rather your child be alone in the woods with a TikTok Mom or a Bear?"

New York Post on X - "Video shows evil dad Chad Doerman telling cops he executed his 3 young sons 'for God'"
Matt Walsh on X - "The father in this case, who is now in prison for the rest of his life and as far as I’m concerned should be executed, actually has a MUCH more convincing “insanity” defense. He killed his sons because he believed God wanted him to do it. When the cops arrived he was rambling incoherently and confessed to the crimes on the basis that he was doing what God wanted. He did not magically snap in and out of his psychosis. He was still clearly psychotic when the police questioned him. And yet you’ll notice that not a single woman on TikTok or anywhere else is expressing any sympathy for this guy. And certainly no men are rallying to his defense either. He went to prison, as he should, with no fanfare or fan clubs. That’s because Clancy’s female defenders don’t actually care about mental health or postpartum depression or anything else. They just simply think it’s okay for women (and only women) to kill their kids. That’s all."

Ned Kelly on X - "In the ancient Greek city of Miletus, there was a high-profile suicide by a young woman. And (because depression and suicide are psychogenic illnesses) some other Milesian maiden saw the attention she got, and committed suicide herself, and pretty soon they had a suicide epidemic. How did it end, you ask? Well, they tried everything, but the young women affected by this epidemic of madness seemed immune to reason. And then the leader of the city decreed that the next suicide would be stripped naked and left hanging in the city center to be leered at, and then rot. “How humiliating!”, you say. “How cruel! How inhuman!” But that was the last suicide in Miletus."

Meme - "TikTok Moms with Postpartum Depression fighting the family Pitbull to decide who gets to unalive the children"

Meme - Purple-haired DOGE with horn-rimmed glasses and septum ring: "I can't even murder my kids and blame it on pipipopo depression. This is literally like that movie, the handjob's tale"

Meme - "If this Clancy trial is showing us anything it's ladies PLEASE do not marry a loser. Yes, it is THAT serious."
Luka @LukaLev: "I don't think that's quite what its showing"
C @c27662: "If this Clancy trial has showed us anything, its is that females in the 20th century would rather murder their children and blame everyone around them over taking accountability. Wild. If this doesnt make you want to stay abstinent eh."

Steve 🇺🇸 on X - "It’s with a sad heart that I have to post this but every single ICE agent in the country has been diagnosed with postpartum depression. Whatever happens, happens."

Women use therapy to avoid personal accountability / responsibility : r/PurplePillDebate - "In recent years, "therapy" has become a buzzword, especially among women, as a means of self-care, emotional healing, and personal growth. However, a concerning pattern emerges—many women seem to approach therapy with the assumption that they are never the problem, but rather the victims of the men in their lives.
1. The Assumption That Men Are Always the Culprits
Many women advocate for therapy, not as a space for self-reflection but as a tool to "fix" the men in their lives. They encourage boyfriends, husbands, fathers, or brothers to seek therapy under the presumption that these men are the root cause of instability or toxicity. Rarely do they enter therapy with the same level of scrutiny toward their own behavior. Instead, the narrative often focuses on how others have harmed them, reinforcing a cycle of victimhood rather than accountability.
2. Overlooking Their Own Role in Conflict
Interactions are rarely one-sided. Yet, when discussing past relationships, workplace struggles, or family tensions, many women position themselves as the innocent party while labeling men as emotionally unavailable, immature, or manipulative. If their relationships repeatedly end in chaos, or they find themselves constantly surrounded by "toxic" people, at what point should they consider that they might be the common denominator? Therapy should be about recognizing one’s own contribution to dysfunction—not just diagnosing others.
3. Therapy as a Justification Rather Than a Solution
Another issue is the way therapy is sometimes used as a justification for bad behavior rather than a means to correct it. Instead of saying, "I need to work on how I handle conflict," it's often, "My therapist told me I should cut out people who don’t serve me." This mindset can lead to an unwillingness to engage in difficult but necessary conversations, instead opting to label others as "toxic" and walk away, rather than address personal flaws.
4. The "Healing Journey" That Never Ends
While self-improvement is a lifelong process, some women treat their "healing journey" as an indefinite excuse for why they can’t be held accountable. If a man reacts emotionally, he is unstable; if a woman does, she is "processing trauma." If a man struggles with communication, he "needs therapy"; if a woman struggles, she’s just “protecting her peace.” The double standard creates a situation where therapy is used to reaffirm biases rather than challenge them."

Shane Jerominski on X - "What I learned from the Lindsay Clancy trial: everything in life is worse with a terrible spouse. The system failed her, but if she’d had a husband who was advocating, demanding, and refusing to leave until she got the care she needed the world might never have known her name."

Ricky Vaughn on X - "Strange how the voices in a woman's head never seem to say, do the dishes, give your husband a blow job. It's always, 'kill the kids'. So strange."
Naomi Seibt on X - "I fear my voices are saying “Repeal the 19th”"

Meme - "When you tell women they can't murder their kids because they got a case of the sads *upset Inde Navarrette (Nikki Freeman) in Obsession*"

alyssa on X - "All the Lindsay Clancy supporters screaming “Patrick didn’t help her enough” are the same women that preach that they don’t need a man to help or take care of them."

The Lindsay Clancy murder trial exposes MAGA lies - "Having kids is easy, and anyone who says otherwise is an ugly feminist trying to scare other women out of their only true source of joy and fulfillment: This is the narrative that has grown up in the MAGA movement in recent years."
From Amanda Marcotte. No wonder.
It's amazing what feminists will stoop to: weaponising a triple murder to push their agenda

I Am Leah on X - "“Lindsay Clancy didn’t have support!” She had multiple therapists, psychiatrists, her parents, his parents, daily daycare for the older two, and a NANNY that stayed with her for 5 hours A DAY three days a week while her husband was WORKING FROM HOME. How much more support could she have been given?"
Lynne Platt on X - "The amount of help and support she had is outrageous for a grown woman. Her attorney arguing that it wasn’t enough is the most privileged statement ever. She is a spoiled rich woman who wanted to hang out with her husband at night, sleep for 8 hours then spend an hour and half on herself every morning. I have never had that, and it’s crazy I didn’t kill my kids. She is a narcissist who couldn’t handle the responsibility of a family, so she killed them."

Thread by @MattWalshBlog on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The fact that she’s even trying to evade punishment is proof enough that she wasn’t “insane” when she committed the crime. If a loving parent woke up from a psychotic stupor and found out they’d done something like that, they’d beg the state to execute them. They wouldn’t want to be found not guilty. They’d want to be punished to the fullest extent possible. They wouldn’t even ask for a lawyer. “I’m guilty. Either kill me or throw me in the darkest dungeon you have.” That’s all they’d say. And frankly it wouldn’t even get to that point because they would have made sure to commit suicide successfully when they had the chance. There’s no way any good, loving parent would sit through a trial and actually offer a defense for their own actions after strangling their beautiful children to death. Granted, no loving parent would commit that crime in the first place. But I’m saying that even according to the defense’s version of the case — that she was a “good mother” who went insane and had no control — her actions AFTER the crime don’t add up. And the other thing ANY loving parent would do if they suddenly regained sentience and realized they’d done this: CALL THE POLICE YOURSELF. Report what you’ve done. Hold your children close and try desperately to revive them. What you would never do is just leave the kids facedown on the basement floor, make some half assed suicide attempt, leave it to your spouse to call the police, and then wake up in the hospital and ask for a lawyer. This selfish piece of shit hated her kids. If she hated herself half as much, she wouldn’t be alive right now."

Meme - Woman driving car: "And that's why women choose the bear."
Girl at back: "Because men are scary?"
Woman: "Exactly. I'd trust a woman first"
Boy at back to girl: "Unless she has postpartum depression?"

Meme - "THE SLIPPERY SLOPE
You can't kill the unborn *tradwife*
Safe, legal and rare *tradwife in pink top/dress*
16 weeks at the latest *Daddy's girl without the slogan on her top*
Straight up to full term *Daddy's girl*
*Lindsay Clancy* YOU ARE HERE"

Meme - NPCs in Pink Pussy Hats: "BELIEVE ALL WOMEN"
Lindsay Clancy: "I KILLED THEM"
Upset NPCs in Pink Pussy Hats: "IT WAS THE HUSBAND!!"

Meme - "Kids hearing their mom say she supports Lindsay Clancy. *apprehensive kid*"

Meme - Brett Lee @real_brett_lee: "So if Lindsay did what she did to YOUR children you'd excuse the evil because she had PPD, was on tons of meds, and the system failed her? How about all the school sh00ters who were also depressed and heavily medicated? They get a pass too? Or the psychotic homeless man who slits a random woman's throat on a bus? Should we excuse it because he just had a psychotic break and didn't get the help he needed?"

Meme - Jack Napier: "Think about it."
"IF WOMEN REALLY THOUGHT PATRICK CLANCY KILLED HIS KIDS THEY WOULD BE TRYING TO FUCK HIM"

Meme - Jean Gray with Septum Ring: "I don't understand why so many men are obsessed with the fact that some woman 'allegedly' murdered her kids."
Cyclops: "Well instead of it being three children, imagine it was someone you care about... Like a black rapists or something."

Meme - "MOTHER PULLS ALL 6 OF HER CHILDREN OUT OF RAGING HOUSE FIRE, GOING BACK IN THREE TIMES DESPITE BURNS COVERING 93% OF HER BODY.
Money Raised $42,000
MOTHER KILLS ALL 3 OF HER CHILDREN BY STRANGLING THEM TO DEATH WITH EXERCISE BANDS. CLAIMS SHE IS VICTIM.
Money Raised $1,044,318+"

Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA on X - "Brothers, you've GOT to stop appeasing women. Patrick Clancy worked from home, made hundreds of thousands of dollars, told his wife to stay home, got her healthcare and mental health care, hired a nanny, went with her to every doctor's visit, paid tens of thousands of dollars for daycare, took extended paternal leaves, and begged people to forgive his wife right after she murdered his three children... And is STILL being blamed for not doing enough. It's a hole with no bottom. Stop dying trying to fill it"

Christina Aguayo News | Facebook - "#new Lindsay Clancy's ex-husband said she called him from the hospital - a week after she k*lled their kids - and did not mention the kids, or apologize but instead focused only on herself #Massachusetts Clancy used exercise bands to strangle 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan to death. Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead that night; Callan died three days later in the hospital. #newyork Patrick Clancy testified that she called him from the hospital and spent the entire conversation making excuses for herself, saying she heard a man’s voice that told her if she did not act then she would lose her chance. She said nothing about Cora, Dawson, or Callan. She did not apologize, she did not show remorse, she didn't say the kids' names, she didn't even mention the kids. #hospital Patrick divorced the woman who m*rdered his kids. On January 24, 2023, Patrick came home after being sent out on errands by Lindsay. He found her in the yard and called 911. On the recorded call, played for the jury, he can be heard asking where the children were. She told him 'The basement' without saying they were dead. In the call you can hear him howling for minutes when he started finding the kids one by one - then screams of “She killed the kids” filled the courtroom. When he found Dawson in his office, he cried 'my little buddy, my buddy' Officials suspect that Dawson ran to his father's office for protection, not knowing he wasn't there. That's when his mother Lindsay, caught him and strangled him to de*th. Lindsay Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree m*rder. Her defense admits she killed the children but argues she was not criminally responsible because severe postpartum mental illness, medication overload, and claimed auditory hallucinations. Prosecutors say the killings were deliberate and premeditated, pointing to her mapping out how long Patrick would take on the errands. Evidence of online searches including "can you treat a sociopath?" days before the killing. In addition, the State's psychiatrist who treated Lindsay testified that she did not suffer a psychotic break, she did not have post-partum, and she admitted that she was not taking the mixture of medications. Patrick testified that he never once heard Lindsay talk about hearing any voices. She first made those claims about 2 weeks after the m*rders. Many are asking: If Lindsay walked into your home, and strangled your children to death would you excuse the m*rders because she allegedly had postpartum depression and too many meds? #ChristinaAguayoNews"

Briana Theroux | Facebook - "The Lindsay Clancy case has exposed something I find deeply disturbing about the way people talk about women, mental illness, and responsibility. Three children were strangled to death by their mother, and somehow a significant number of women have managed to make her the emotional center of the story. My position on insanity is pretty simple. I do not think insanity fundamentally changes the public safety question. If you are capable of murdering three children because you are psychotic, you are dangerous. If you are capable of murdering three children while completely sane, you are dangerous. The mechanism may be different. The social consequence should not be. Mental illness can explain behavior. It does not erase the behavior, resurrect the victims, or eliminate the danger that person has demonstrated. Explanation is not exoneration. For clarity, I am not in favor of the death penalty for anyone. That is a separate moral philosophy of mine. But I absolutely believe that people who demonstrate that they are profoundly unsafe for a functioning society should be removed from it. And this was not simply someone impulsively snapping. There was organization and forethought surrounding what happened. Methodical, sustained planning is not a hallmark of an acute psychotic break. Planning alone does not rule out psychosis, but organized behavior, concealment, forethought, and apparent awareness of consequences are all highly relevant when evaluating the claim that someone had completely lost contact with reality. Lindsay displayed all of these. You do not get to wave all of that away by saying “postpartum.” And the hormone argument is even worse. Hormones can influence mood, arousal, anxiety, aggression, sexual motivation, and cognition, often through the lens of preexisting beliefs. But influence is not compulsion. Hormones do not mechanically force people to murder. If you genuinely believe they do, apply that logic consistently. A man with high testosterone has biological influences affecting sexual motivation, dominance, and aggression. If he rapes or assaults someone, are you going to say his hormones made him do it? Of course you fucking aren’t. And you shouldn’t. Because biological influence does not eliminate agency. You cannot demand that women be treated as fully autonomous adults while simultaneously resurrecting the oldest argument imaginable about female biology making us irrational and incapable of controlling ourselves whenever accountability becomes uncomfortable. And stop conflating postpartum depression with postpartum psychosis. They are not the same thing. Women experience postpartum depression every day without murdering their children. Using a woman who strangled all three of hers as some kind of martyr for ordinary women struggling postpartum is not compassionate advocacy. It is unbelievably poorly thought out. If anything, you are giving vulnerable women another reason not to seek help. Imagine being scared to admit you are depressed, anxious, having intrusive thoughts, or struggling after birth because social media has rhetorically bundled ordinary postpartum mental health problems together with women murdering their babies. Brilliant advocacy🤡 What disturbs me most is how quickly people can look at three dead children and start constructing a rationale for the adult who killed them. If that is your immediate moral instinct, something is seriously wrong with your priorities and mindset. Seek help yourself. Now. You can advocate for better maternal mental health care. Please do. But that does not require turning the person who brutally killed three children into a martyr. Whether someone is criminally malicious or catastrophically insane, if they have demonstrated that they are profoundly unsafe for other human beings, society has every right to protect itself from them. And let’s remember, the children should be the center of this story. Not the woman who killed them."

Christina Aguayo News | Facebook - "#new The psychiatrist who testified that Lindsay Clancy knew right from wrong when she strangled her three kids to de*th, is no long employed by Nemours Children’s Health in Delaware #massachusetts Nemours’ Delaware Valley division confirmed that Dr. Avram Mack “Is no longer employed by Nemours Children’s Health.” They did not give a reason why he was no longer employed, saying employment decisions are confidential. #delaware Mack was reportedly fired or resigned the same day he finished testifying by Zoom after a combative cross-examination. Patients were later notified that their appointments were being moved to other doctors. His departure from the hospital and his testimony have not officially been confirmed. Mack was called by prosecutors as a rebuttal witness. He evaluated Clancy after she k*lled her kids. After reviewing records and speaking with her directly, he told jurors she suffered a major depressive episode as part of major depressive disorder. He said he found no mania, no hypomania, and no psychosis and concluded that she retained the capacity to know right from wrong when k*lling her kids. Defense lawyer Kevin Reddington spent hours attacking those conclusions. He pressed Mack on the timing of postpartum conditions, challenged his experience treating postpartum psychosis, and accused him of smiling or smirking during questioning. The judge had to intervene. Mack stood by his finding that Clancy was in a serious psychiatric state and suffering, but still criminally responsible. The jury deliberated for 10 hours before being sent home for the weekend. #christinaaguayonews"

Sarah Fields on X - "I cannot believe I’m saying this, but if Lindsay Clancy is found not guilty by a jury with nine women on it, I might actually be radicalized into supporting the repeal of the 19th. I vote often, and I vote consistently. But at this point, it might be a sacrifice I’m willing to make - if I thought it would even make a difference. Liberal women are destroying America. And protecting children is above all else for me."

Kangmin Lee | 이강민 on X - "Women are waking up. The silver lining of the Lindsay Clancy case is that the women who aren't supporting Lindsay are finally realizing men weren't just being edgelords when we suggested repealing the 19th amendment. It's because we care about protecting women from the worst of their impulses and children. Women have their own giftings that men will never have, but it's never oriented towards governance, justice, and the exercise of power (force). Our forebears understood this for thousands of years, it's utter hubris to think human nature doesn't change"
The Disdainful Duke 🇬🇧 on X - "Women vote to dissolve the country and kill civilisation. Men do not. Open borders, two-tier & nanny-state policing, abortion as default, transing kids. That is how women aged 18–50 actually vote. If only they voted, Britain would be a communist one-party state with no border. In 2020, women alone would have handed Biden 462–76. That is the average woman in the age group that now decides elections, not a few mentally ill extremists. Same pattern in court. Men do not treat infant murder as bravery. Enough women do (or excuse it) that a nine-woman jury is a real risk. Running a country (or civilisation) means force, borders, and hard judgment. Female nature is not built for that. Our ancestors knew it. The vote numbers and the Clancy case are the same fact in two rooms. Repeal the 19th or women will successfully end civilisation."

Melissa Chen on X - "I don’t understand. For decades, feminists have argued that women have full control over their minds and that even pointing out mood changes during a cycle is just male misogyny. Now, that entire argument is getting thrown out the window because the Lindsay Clancy defense is literally claiming in open court that hormones can turn someone into a deranged psychopath capable of child murder. It’s wild to watch that narrative completely flip. A not-guilty finding based on hormones and insanity would have crazy implications. For example, if hormonal states can legally erase accountability, why wouldn’t they also affect fitness for jobs, high-pressure decisions, firearms, and parenting? Courts cannot treat a woman as legally insane for the worst possible act and then pretend the same reasoning has no implications anywhere else. Also, Lindsay Clancy is no more insane than Jeffrey Dahmer, who was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, and a psychotic disorder, and yet, he was still declared legally sane at trial. For the sake of those children, and for the sake of all the good that’s in this world, I hope the jury makes the only sensible decision here"

The Left's Idea of "Harassment" / 'Victims' Cheering for Murder

2026-09-27T13:37:00.000+08:00

The Critical Drinker: Josh Downham - "Typical woke logic. They attack people, they tell people f--- you, and they think it's strange to get combative people in the comments section. These people don't live in reality. It's probably why so many have mental problems."
The Salon | A Star Trek Podcast @SalonTrek: "In a surprise to no one the comments proved the point, and we had to turn them off. We're not gonna let hate just sit in our replies. Again, fuck you."
The Salon | A Star Trek Podcast @SalonTrek: "A message for the trolls who will pop out of their trash cans to take credit & delight in today's Star Trek news:
FUCK YOU"

When left wingers complain about "harassment" what they often mean is that they attacked their enemies and then got criticised in return.

This is no surprise, really, since Israel defending itself against jihadist attacks is "genocide".

Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens: "These people will cheer for your murder and then cry about how much of a victim they are."
pastel shark @sharkothrasher: "Oh boo hoo Charlie "headshot" Kirk is dead"
pastel shark 🏳️‍⚧️🦈 @sharkothrasher: "Can black and trans people rest without yall mocking their deaths holy fuck its like the cruelty is y'alls only entertainment"

Links - 27th September 2026 (1 [including Francesca Hong])

2026-09-27T09:37:00.000+08:00

Peter Bernegger on X - "Francesca Hong was diagnosed with 1) bipolar disease, 2) had a mental breakdown, 3) was placed in psychiatric hospitalization, 4) did self-harm by cutting, and 5) experienced a lithium overdose. My source: Francesca Hong in a 2023 interview. Her own words. She is running for Governor in Wisconsin (D). @DavidCCrowley @TomTiffanyWI @joeltbrennan @VickiMcKenna @DanODonnellShow @TiffanyWarRoom @RegJoeShow @JayWeber3 @EricLDaugh @EmeraldRobinson @DanEastman2023 @doranchad @bgalsWI @MattWhitlock @amuse It's always in the eyes...."
Rising serpent 🇺🇸 on X - "Oh, good. Everyone knows the Democrat party could be even more successful if they doubled up on their quota of batshit insane mentally defective women who are also commies and immigrants."

Hon. Vickie Paladino on X - "The left will gladly elevate absolute lunatics to high office, and they think it’s funny. Once again, everything they do is designed to undermine and dismantle our country. Installing comically unqualified mental patients into power is just another tactic to bring about our end."

Meme - Greg Price @greg_price11: "Hilarious."
"When reached for comment, a spokesperson for Hong rejected Tiffany's accusations. "Tom Tiffany is once again telling lies and inventing quotes, because he can't run on his record. Rep. Hong has never called for abolishing the U.S. Senate. Tiffany cannot produce a single statement where she did, because it doesn't exist. She has spoken about police and prison abolition in the past as an aspirational goal,"
Francesca Hong For Governor @FrancescaHongWI: Feb 13, 2021: "Abolish the Senate."

Richard Hanania on X - "Democrats are not only picking socialists as candidates, but general losers in life. Francesca Hong, likely to be the next candidate for governor in Wisconsin, was sued just this year by Capitol One for $30,000 in unpaid bills. Poor, overeducated malcontents are the DSA base."

Meme - Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63: "Not sure if this is Woke 1.0 or Woke 2.0, but "an Asian-American woman who dates or marries a white person is trying to assimilate into the majority" is bonkers and deeply distasteful"
Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy: "I'm sorry what's the issue here? She's talking about how she hasn't always been attuned to the concerns other POC communities faced bc she was focused on assimilation into the white majority, as evidenced by her romantic choices. Presumably, she's glad she has more consciousness now that she stands to represent a diverse cohort. If you object to this, why?"
Greg Price @greg_price11: "Francesca Hong describes having a half white son as "being in proximity to whiteness""
Left wing logic - miscegenation is racist

Meme - Jack Posoblec @JackPosobiec: "The anti-white hate is off the charts"
Francesca Hong for Governor: "White male chefs.... before you sign up for charity gigs and shit that's going give you good press... look around the room and check if there is someone that
1) you haven't shared a meal with
2) doesn't have the same genitals
3) has nicer skin than you"

Meme - KangminLee @kangminlee: "Radical in the streets, colonized in the sheets. Every time with boba libs"

Nintendo of America really did suggest giving Pikachu large feminine breasts at one point, Japanese media confirms

Mosque donation money allegedly spent on escort services - "Vienna is facing a serious scandal after reports that donations collected by a Diyanet mosque were not used for religious purposes, but instead spent on escort services and parties. According to the Turkish newspaper Sözcü, the investigation has been running for five years. Money from pilgrimages, offerings, the sale of religious books, and even funeral services was allegedly redirected to fund parties. Reports claim that at least four women were hired for an orgy... To cover up the expenses, they were reportedly listed under fake categories such as “residence permit fees,” “rent,” or “imam costs.” Inspectors who tried to look into the case were allegedly bribed with trips and leisure offers."

Netflix on X - "DANG!, a new adult animated series, premieres September 8. Starring Andrew Law, Poppy Liu, and Stephanie Hsu. Siblings Andrew and Eunice are living out their fun and messy dreams in New York City. Until their worst nightmare comes true: their high-achieving sister Ruthie wants to hang out..."
Kangmin Lee | 이강민 on X - "Asian-Americans are physically incapable of creating any piece of media that isn't about disappointing/hating their parents, being scared of eating ethnic food during lunchtime at school, or an Oxford study fantasy"
Melissa Chen on X - "Let me guess: they have strict parents who have high expectations. They grew up hating themselves for not being white. They went to Ivy schools. They rebel by getting tattoos and piercings and dyeing their hair blond. At least one of them is queer. How original! We got anime from Japan, K-drama and K-pop from Korea, and video games from China about myths, folklore, class struggle, culture and history. Yet Asian American media keeps recycling the same old boring tropes because of trauma or whatever. It’s pure ethnic narcissism."

Tattoos and piercings, what do they tell you about someone? - "Mental health relates negatively to having tattoos, especially large ones or many of them. This is consistent across many studies across time and place.
Intelligence relates negatively to having tattoos.
Having piercings out of the ordinary relates negatively to intelligence and mental health.
We replicate these findings using the OKCupid sample, which is a very large sample of mostly English speaking young to middle aged adults.
The more interesting sociological question is: if tattoos and piercings signal lower intelligence and worse mental health, how did they become so popular? Why do people get them? The most obvious reason might be that we are becoming dumber and more mentally ill as a civilization. There is some evidence concerning the first, and much regarding the latter. But the cohort changes are massive, so this can’t explain everything, at least not from the perspective of individual-level causation... I will forward a social media copy cat effect, where people copy various generally mentally ill people they see on social media. The population mistakenly uses them as a proxy for what is ‘more elite’ to do, even though statistics tell us that actually smart and mentally healthy people don’t generally modify their bodies so much in these ways. Social media and media in general cause issues with humans’ ancestral adaptation to copy the behaviors of those they perceive to be higher social status since it presents people with an abnormal sample of high social status (or apparent social status) people to copy from"
Women being more likely to have tattos tracks with how they are more prone to social contagion

Musa Kipngeno Rotich | Facebook - "This is an Attack on Allah’s Commands! Hijab is not what they call “human rights,” “women's right” nor is it “my dress, my choice.” It is Allah’s command. And statements like this from Amnesty International are an indirect attempt to convince Muslim women not to obey that command under the pretext of “free choice.” For believing women, this is a command and a matter of obedience to Allah s.w.t,. It does not matter approvals or disapprovals. This command does not change its source. For a Muslim, Allah’s command takes precedence over every other opinion. Concerning this Allah s.w.t. says: يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ قُل لِأَزْوَاجِكَ وَبَنَاتِكَ وَنِسَاءِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يُدْنِينَ عَلَيْهِنَّ مِن جَلَابِيبِهِنَّ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ أَدْنَىٰ أَن يُعْرَفْنَ فَلَا يُؤْذَيْنَ ۗ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ غَفُورًا رَّحِيمًا “O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves [part] of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.” —Surah Al-Ahzab 59 It is also clear that those responsible for them—such as parents, guardians, or husbands—bear responsibility in ensuring it is upheld among Muslim women. In Islam, responsibilities are assigned within the framework of care and accountability. A woman is under the care of her parents until marriage, after which responsibility transitions to her husband, and each will be held accountable for their role in that trust. This is being presented as a defense of Muslim women, while in reality it is an attack on the Islamic rulings. In which should remind us of Allah's words; وَلَنْ تَرْضَىٰ عَنكَ ٱلْيَهُودُ وَلَا ٱلنَّصَارَىٰ حَتَّىٰ تَتَّبِعَ مِلَّتَهُمْ “And never will the Jews nor the Christians be pleased with you until you follow their ways.” —Surah Al-Baqarah 120 It is time for the Ummah to recognize that a continuous challenge to Allah’s commands is taking place, and that the protection of the Deen requires what Rasool Allah ﷺ described as a shield in the Hadith: الإِمَامُ جُنَّةٌ يُقَاتَلُ مِنْ وَرَائِهِ وَيُتَّقَى بِهِ “The Imam is a shield; fighting is done behind him and protection is sought through him.” This is not merely a necessity, but a duty that becomes even more apparent when practicing the Deen faces increasing pressure. The Ummah needs #Khilafah today more than ever before, and we must exert all our efforts towards its establishment. #EstablishKhilafah"
Weird. Non Muslim left wingers who defend Islam tell us that the hijab is optional

World Cup referees given ‘sexual entertainment’ - "South Korea’s football association spent thousands of pounds on “sexual entertainment” for foreign referees, a report has revealed. The Korea Football Association (KFA) used corporate credit cards to pay for services at massage parlours at least eight times before or after games between March 2011 and March 2012, the report said. The services were allegedly bought for 10 referees and match commissioners officiating seven different matches, including three World Cup games and Olympic qualifiers."

Facebook - "Before Christian Bale became Batman, Christopher Nolan screen-tested several actors for Batman Begins, including Cillian Murphy and Eion Bailey. Since Nolan’s new Batsuit hadn’t been created yet, the actors performed their tests wearing Val Kilmer’s suit from Batman Forever. Bale ultimately landed the role, but Murphy’s audition still made a huge impression on Nolan. He didn’t think Murphy was right for Batman, but liked his performance enough to cast him as Jonathan Crane, better known as Scarecrow. Murphy would go on to appear in all three films of The Dark Knight trilogy."

The Rings Of Power Fans | Facebook - "Season 3 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is setting up one of its most complicated character dynamics yet. At San Diego Comic-Con, the show’s producers confirmed that Galadriel, Sauron, and the newly introduced Celeborn will become entangled in what they described as a “bit of a love triangle.” But this doesn’t appear to be a conventional romance. Jamie Campbell Bower joins the series as Celeborn, Galadriel’s long-absent husband, returning after years of separation and war. His arrival naturally forces Galadriel to confront a part of her life that has been missing since the series began. At the same time, Sauron still hasn’t emotionally let go of her. Charlie Vickers has explained that Sauron remains in denial about Galadriel’s rejection and continues to view their psychological connection as something meaningful. That gives him another way to interfere, manipulate, and exploit the emotions surrounding Celeborn’s return. So the real triangle seems to be built on love, obsession, history, and psychological warfare rather than three people simply competing for one another. That could make the reunion between Galadriel and Celeborn far more complicated than fans expected. The Rings of Power Season 3 premieres on November 11, 2026."
Comments: "Before the tower of Barad-Dür, there was an Eiffel Tower"
"The One Ring wasn't meant to wear on your finger"
"🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦 So, how about Gandalf joining, then we have a love square. Oh, and how about Disa ordering from Subway without telling anyone and causing a big scene at a dinner because she won't lift her eyes from her phone?"
"When the blue hairs do tolken."
"Plot Twist: The good orc gets with Galadriel."
"Just like Tolkien always envisioned......"
"Plot twist : Celeborn and Sauron ended up being together and made a sex tape called "Teleporno""
"Galadriel didn't want a threesome, so Sauron became evil and swore to destroy everything. Just one threesome, Galadriel..."
"Will we see how Sauron was teased in high-school? I heard he was stood up at the Minas Morgul formal."
"One threesome to rule them all"
"Middle Earth: Dawson's Creek Edition."
"Good Lord, this is Tolkien, not Love Island."
"One threesome to bring them all and in the darkness bind them"
"When you let Autumn, Crystal and Lilith to "adapt" Tolkien!"
"Galadriel finally remember she's been married for 1000 years?"
"A Sauron-Celeborn love affair would’ve been more interesting 😒"
"I don't know, guys..I don't think Sauron or Celeborn are ready for any tempests."
"They'll also introduce a brand-new character: Antonio Juan García de la Vecchia. His first appearance will be unforgettable—riding in on a horse, wearing a traditional Spanish hat, with a rose in his mouth. And, of course, he'll become the fourth side of this "triangle." 🤣🤣"
"I’m just waiting for all the scholars twisting into a pretzel trying to prove that Tolkien indeed had that in mind, just like he envisioned diverse hobbits and multicultural Middle-Earth."
"Maybe they can adopt baby orc ? 😅"
"Great, so technically the whole third age is Sauron's tantrum era 😏 "

Vigilanteh | Facebook - "Just left Korea for Japan. Actually Korean food quite 1 dimensional except for when grilling meat and eating seafood because they are untouched by the abomination that is Korean cuisine. Yeah sure there are hundreds of banchan but it’s too simple in taste. There’s no depth of flavours. There’s not much thought or intellect that goes into a Korean dish. Simple is good sometimes like for the times when I am hungover but Korean food really isn’t it. What a fucking disappointment. Japan however is on another level especially with their broth. But that’s a story for another post."

New York Post on X - "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s UK move is ‘huge slap in the face’ to William, creates ‘serious risks’ for monarchy"
Nile Gardiner on X - "Harry and Meghan are the two most destructive figures in the modern history of the British Monarchy."
Someone slammed him by talking about Charles II and William the Conqueror. No surprise Meghan supporters are ignorant of history. Of course they support Jason Arday also, because he was another black liar and grifter weaponising the establishment to go after critics

A More Accurate Measure of Calories Burned - "Though it might feel great to finish a workout and see “calories burned” pop up on your smartwatch, that number is often surprisingly inaccurate, with estimated error rates of 30-80%. The watch’s software makes its best guess based on variable factors like heart rate, wrist motion, height and weight, without actually measuring expended energy."

Why exercise doesn’t burn more calories — and why that’s not the point - "Evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer, PhD, thought he knew what he’d find when he traveled to Tanzania to live among the Hadza, one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer communities on Earth. The Hadza walk miles each day across the dry savannah, hunting game and gathering roots, berries, and honey. Surely, Pontzer figured, they must burn more calories than sedentary Americans. He was wrong. After weeks of collecting urine samples and tracking physical activity, the results stunned him: the Hadza burned about the same number of calories per day as people in the United States who spend most of their time sitting. That finding — later confirmed in other hunter-gatherers and industrialized populations — upended conventional wisdom about exercise and energy use. It also launched Pontzer, a faculty member in the Duke Global Health Institute, into the center of a scientific rethink about metabolism, aging, and what it means to be human. Pontzer’s research suggests that the human body operates on a fixed energy budget. When we ramp up physical activity, the body compensates by dialing down energy spent elsewhere — on immune function, reproduction, even stress responses. That’s why exercise doesn’t translate into the calorie-burning bonanza many expect. But that doesn’t mean exercise is unimportant. In fact, those trade-offs may explain why exercise is so good for us. Regular movement lowers chronic inflammation, stabilizes hormones, and reduces risk for diseases from cancer to heart disease. “You have to think about diet and exercise as two different tools for two different jobs,” said Pontzer. “Diet is the tool for managing your weight. Exercise is the tool for everything else related to health — from mental health to cardiometabolic disease.”"

Meme - Admiral Snaccbar @Chris_Mench: "Serving shrimp with the tail still on when it's already mixed into something (pasta, rice, etc) is insane."
Populism Updates @PopulismUpdates: "Tell me your most radical position that cannot be placed on the left-right political spectrum"

The Travel Expert: Airport liquid rules were ‘security theatre’ all along - "Air travel liquid restrictions are little more than “theatre”, according to a renowned security expert. Bruce Schneier, a security technologist and fellow at Harvard University, told The Travel Expert podcast that curbs on flying with liquids in excess of 100ml, introduced exactly 20 years ago and still widespread, are “absurd”. “It’s 100 per cent security theatre,” he said. “They’re not doing it based on security, they are doing it based on a compromise, which would make no sense if it was a security problem. “If I walk through airport security with a gun and they find it… they ruin my day. If I walk through security with a bottle of liquid and they find it, they throw it in the trash and let me through. “Because there’s no penalty for failure, there’s no reason not to try multiple times. Here’s something so dangerous that you can’t take it on an aeroplane, yet so safe that [security officers] will throw it in a bin next to them.”... “The problems with these things is that they defend against the tactics that were used last time, and not the tactics that might be used next time,” Schneier said. “Did it ever stop anything? It’s an unanswerable question.”... Despite being unveiled as a temporary measure, the 100ml liquid rule remains the international standard across most airports. This is changing, however. In 2022, the UK government announced plans to scrap 100ml limits by instructing all airports to install new-generation CT scanners... Today, a handful of airports have scrapped 100ml rules, allowing passengers to carry liquids of up to two litres in their bags. In some instances, at great expense. Heathrow spent more than £1bn to reinforce its terminal floors and create space for the new, bigger scanners. Gatwick, Edinburgh, Belfast City, Belfast International, Bristol, Bournemouth and Birmingham are the airports that have eased the rules so far. Some European airports, including Milan Malpensa (terminal 1 only) and Rome Fiumicino, have also dropped the 100ml rules."

Links - 26th September 2026 (2 - General Wokeness [including Dolly Parton])

2026-09-26T17:28:00.000+08:00

palmer on X - "More people have come out with stories about how Dolly Parton impacted their lives in 3 hours than Charlie Kirk did or ever will. Never pays to he hateful bigot!"
Left wingers are so hateful

Meme - Iconic Weird Guy: "This is so wild, I haven't seen a single person on the right say anything bad about Dolly Parton, only people on the left, interesting"
rosie @tayvseal: "the left really needs to pack up this performative bullshit before 2028 because who the fuck does this benefit?"
More Luigis Needed: "Did Dolly Parton ever say anything about Palestine or was that beyond her reach"
ISRAEL DID IT: "She couldn't see beyond her tits..... like most celebrities"
Of course, left wingers are pretending either that no one is bashing her because she was a good person or that MAGA are bashing her (I've seen more left than right wing criticism of her)

Meme - ultras for sana @sanareplyguy: "an evil, evil woman. that's all i have to say."
"Dolly Parton, Dead at 80, Spent Decades Supporting US Troops and Veterans"
"Dolly Parton's 'all-American heart': How country icon forged special bond with US military"

Meme - Mark Ashton @MarkAshton_7: "The left ladies and gentlemen! This about the sad passing of Dolly Parton who was one of the most generous, kind and happy people ever. They are nothing but unhinged, disrespectful, lowlife maggots."
GenericPerson @7Generic2: "Pretty sure she was a Trumper. Nothing of value was lost."
Weird. Many left wingers claimed that she was universally loved because she wasn't a piece of shit like Charlie Kirk. They couldn't even keep their hatred to themselves for even one day

Meme - night jar @nocturnalbottle: "it doesn't matter if dolly parton was a good person or if she donated $500 million of books for poor kids. She died with $600 million in assets, as a 35% stakeholder in a giant theme park that makes hundreds of millions per yr off the exploitation of the working class"

Meme - More Luigis Needed @LisaA311: "Did Dolly Parton ever say anything about Palestine or was that beyond her reach
I stopped having celebrity heroes a long time ago and it has never been a regret"
Ben Monroe @BenMonroe1: "I asked Al, seems she stayed away from speaking about genocides in general. Only exception is speaking out in favor of Ukraine's right to live. She was pro-LGBT rights and BLM. Also spoke about loving each other and treating people decently."
More Luigis Needed @LisaA311: "Why Ukraine and not Palestine"

Meme - kradd @suspiciouscrane: "Imagine being Palestinian and you log on twitter and everybody's mourning their hero who's biggest accomplishment is giving books to kids in a country that bombs you"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Dolly Parton's Imagination Library operates in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and Republic of Ireland, not Israel."

Meme - Vocal Politics: "Behind the rhinestones, wigs and carefully cultivated image of kindness, Dolly Parton’s public record tells a more complicated story. It includes solidarity with US troops during the w-rs in Iraq and Afghanistan, a patriotic album released as the US invaded Iraq, and financial support for a campaign promoting the Israeli occupation and honoring its soldiers. Yet as Palestinians in G-za endured g-n-cide and d-struction, her public record offered no comparable solidarity. ￭ Meanwhile, questions have been raised about labor record behind Dollywood, where seasonal, low-paid service jobs replaced better-paid industrial work for many in the region, alongside longstanding criticism of Dixie Stampede’s sanitized portrayal of the US Civil War and sl-very. Charity may define part of Parton’s legacy, but it does not erase the politics, power structures and silences that accompanied it. #VPol"

Ranthony on X - "Took Dolly Partons passing for everyone to realize these are performative misanthrope dweebs and not revolutionaries who care about anyone"

Dolly Parton’s co-star Ricky Schroder sparks outrage over tribute - "Schroder shared a photo of himself with the late country music icon, writing in the caption: “I didnt agree with her advocating for Transgender & Covid Vaccine support…but Loved her anyway. Thank you for choosing me Dolly to be your Movie Daddy.”"
😉😘🎉 A on X - "So wait, the left can use Dolly to say the right is awful, but the right can't say she was great, even though we disagreed on some things?"

Peter Shrinks on X - "I read Rob Long's old piece on Dolly today, and it is worth reading: https:// commentary.org/articles/rob-long/the-beauty-parton/ I've been thinking about why her interviewers were so insistent on pinning her to their political positions. It comes down, I think, to tribalism. The left is tribal. The left ghosts people who are not in their tribe, even people who should be loved ones get the no-contact treatment if they aren't of the body, I mean, tribe. The left has to believe crazy things--cultish things--in order to remain in good standing with the tribe. The borders of those necessary beliefs keep shifting further away from rational thought every year. The left believes, as Krauthammer pointed out, that everyone else is evil. This goes beyond Krauthammer's famous: the right thinks the left are ignorant, the left thinks the right are evil. For the left, it is not enough to assign good things to their side (government is another word for things we do together, they are the empathetic and caring ones, they are anti-racist); they also have to assign every evil thing to anyone who disagrees. This is why everyone on the other side must, by definition, be racist fascists. I mean, come on, they're on the other side! So, when something like Sandy Hook happens, if you do not believe in the leftist solution of gun control, then you must not give a ---- that a lot of kids were killed: you are evil. (I had a friend on socials make this exact leap a day or two ago. If you are not in favor of their solution, you don't care that kids die.) If there are homeless everywhere and you don't believe that the solution is to spend $600,000 per person to house a few score of homeless, then you don't care about the homeless: you are evil. If you are critical of the current education system, then you must not want poor black and brown bodies (their nomenclature) to be educated: you are evil. If you don't believe in DEI preferences, you are evil. If you don't believe what the left believes, you must be a racist, sexist, National Socialist from Germany 1940: you are evil. So, getting back to the interviewers, they were trying to find out if Dolly was an acceptable person to like, if she were safely part of the tribe. If she turned out not to be, then they would have to hate her and ghost her. Remember, they are the good people."

N M P K on X - "Although she smartly insisted she was an entertainer and was not interested in making political statements, Dolly appeared to be a supporter of the President. She sent a televised birthday message to Trump in 1990 (long before his political career). She appeared onstage with 9 to 5 co-stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, who referenced the film’s line about a “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” in a way widely interpreted as aimed at Trump. Parton later said she did not want to be “dragged into” politics and was not surprised by her co-stars’ views, emphasizing that their opinions were not necessarily hers. The President's claim about the ballroom? Who knows?"
If you're not with the left, you're against them

Visiting Dolly Parton’s dinner show Dixie Stampede. - "Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede is the Lost Cause of the Confederacy meets Cirque du Soleil. It’s a lily-white kitsch extravaganza that play-acts the Civil War but never once mentions slavery. Instead, it romanticizes the old South, with generous portions of both corn on the cob and Southern belles festooned in Christmas lights."
Dolly Parton refuses to take a stance on many political issues. Should more people follow her lead? - "Parton's own sister, Stella Parton, has criticized Dolly for not calling herself a feminist and declining to speak out in support of the #MeToo movement. "I'm ashamed of my sister for keeping her mouth shut," Stella told the country music podcast Our Stories in February. "She can run it when it is about something else, but speak up about injustice, Dolly Parton. Speak up.""
Affairs? Drugs? You could ask Dolly Parton about anything and get a laugh. Just stay away from politics … | Dolly Parton | The Guardian - "Her apolitical stance seemed, to me, about protecting her career, her money. If you’re political, she said, “you’re gonna lose half your audience. I’ve got as many Democrats, as I do Republicans as fans, and I’m not going to insult any of them because I care about all of them.” It was the same reason she didn’t describe herself as a feminist, she said – she didn’t want to alienate men. I needled her (she remained good-humoured) because it seemed a cop-out – this was 2023, and life had become frightening and intolerable for many people. Tennessee, her home state, had not long banned abortion in almost all cases. At what point does silence, given her platform, start looking like complicity?"
This left winger claimed that random people on Twitter don't count. But even at least somewhat notable left wingers also criticised her

Trades Union Congress on X - "Reminder that Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 is a film about three women taking over an office and introducing free childcare, paid vacation, and flexible hours, resulting in a 20% increase in productivity."
Left wingers can't tell the difference between truth and fiction

Meme - Arty Trolls @ArtyTroll: "The left is LYING about Dolly Parton declining the Presidential Medal of Freedom"
"why did dolly parton decline the presidential medal of freedom twice?
Dolly Parton declined the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice during the Trump administration, according to her own account. She explained the reasons in a February 2021 interview on NBC's Today show. The first time, she said she could not accept because her husband, Carl Dean, was ill. The second time, the administration offered it again and she declined because she would not travel during the COVID-19 pandemic. Parton has long described herself as apolitical and said she avoids taking sides so she does not alienate fans. After the two Trump-era offers, the Biden administration also contacted her about the award. She said accepting it at that point would feel like "doing politics," adding that she does not work for awards and was not sure she even deserved the honor. She never received the medal from either administration. The story originates entirely from Parton's public comments; neither the Trump nor Biden White House issued a detailed public confirmation or contradiction of her account."

Thomas 🌸 on X - "Putting the left and right wing pipelines side by side is funny. You’ll have one person who radicalized bc their family couldn’t afford food and healthcare while the other radicalized bc the female warrior in their video game didn’t look like pornstar."
Thread by @memeticsisyphus on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "During the Ferguson riots, for a kid who attacked a police officer and tried to grab his gun, I was speaking with a white co-worker who lived in Ferguson. She was in tears recounting the mob moving past her families house talking about the flames they could see in fear they would have to escape somehow. As she was talking a black coworker came up looked her straight in the eyes and said “good.”
And let’s also not discount those “cringe” compilations. We called them cringe, we laughed at them, but they were endless examples of college students, professors, members of the media repeating insane conspiracies about how men, specifically white men, were evil. They denounced concepts like free speech and academic freedom, they perpetrated the rape hoaxes and the college campus scares. They’re the ones who say all men are rapists, all white people are racist, and it’s important to hire BIPOC and other marginalized communities (open discrimination). These people ruined lives and promised to do it again and again. Remember trigglypuff? She went viral for screaming at a conservative speaker to “keep your hate speech off our campus.” A horrible retrograde attitude to have as a university student, to denounce without giving a fair hearing. Well she moved on, she changed her name, she’s working on her PhD. She writes about fat phobia and prison abolition. Terrible ideas now being spread by the next generation of college professors. An entire power structure with open race and gender based contempt. You know, the thing you guys pretend to care about."

Meme - conny @BlvckJxsus: "gary indiana has been w/o power for 11 days. gary indiana is 76% Black. yet another example of environmental racism, its so fucking disgusting."
Readers added context: "The power outage was caused by severe storms on August 11, 2026, affecting Northwest Indiana and Northeast Illinois. Restoration in Gary was further delayed after utility crews were shot at on August 14, temporarily pausing work."
Clearly, white supremacists are travelling there to shoot work crews so black people will have no power for longer
Naturally, left wingers were blaming Trump

retard mode ✞ on X - "gary indiana not having power is an amazing story of diversity
>entire city council is black
>every electric company executive is black
>black residents can’t stop shooting at vehicles working to restore power
and they all blame racism for going without power for so long"
One cope to a truncated version of this tweet was that there was no proof, but in the full tweet there're photos of the city council and electric company executives

Threads - "Why do we have National Guard troops still wandering around DC and New Orleans when they can be in Gary, IN helping residents? Where is FEMA? The Federal Government is failing the American people."
Of course, if Trump sent in the National Guard without the Governor's request, they would be screeching about "fascism". Left wingers aren't serious people.

Tim Curry on X - "Ah the ‘is Rocky Horror problematic’ chat. Through a 2024 lens - of course it is. But babies, being gay was *illegal* in England 6 years before Rocky was first staged in ‘73. It was brave, bold & brilliant for its time. Look beyond the end of your own nose, just briefly. Please."

The secrecy surrounding Labour’s anti-Muslim hatred definition is chilling - "Who pressed “delete” on the evidence which led to the definition of “anti-Muslim hostility”? Billed as protecting Muslims from abuse while simultaneously respecting freedom of speech about religion, the credibility of Labour’s anti-Muslim hostility definition now lies in tatters. The definition was adopted in March after research by a five-strong Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobia Definition, appointed by Angela Rayner, and chaired by former Attorney General Dominic Grieve KC. It received evidence from interested parties between June 16 and July 20, 2025. That evidence will have been central to the working group’s deliberations and its ultimate recommendation to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government. Who did they speak to and what did they say? That is now a question we cannot receive an answer to. Nick Timothy MP has been informed that all the submissions to the working group have been destroyed. This is deeply concerning. It opens the possibility that evidence from extremist groups may have influenced the deliberations. Material from organisations linked to divisive Islamist groups overseas, or evidence that was flawed or simply wrong, could also have played a role... For political systems to have credibility, transparency matters... The deletion of working material also appears to be against departmental policy... If Labour feared a definition of anti-Muslim hostility without specific reference to the term “Islamophobia” would provoke a backlash from Muslim groups, there is little sign of such a campaign. This suggests activists may be content to try and make do with the new tools they have been afforded. Indeed as a Policy Exchange report in January entitled “A False Compromise” argued, the vagueness of the term “hostility” may cause even more problems than an Islamophobia definition. There will also be a central figure to tie this work together. Although Canada abandoned its experiment with a Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, Labour intends to name an “Anti-Muslim Hostility Tsar” and has been advertising for support staff. Andy Burnham is yet to show his hand on many of these issues. However, his Government’s direction of travel appears broadly set, not least as it faces continued competition for Muslim votes from both the Greens and the Gaza Independents. What is particularly unsettling, though, is that when it comes to the definition of anti-Muslim hostility, we can all detect where this is headed. But no one can see how we have ended up where we have."

Protesters arrested for ‘f--- Islam’ sign in revival of blasphemy law row - "Free speech campaigners have accused police of reviving blasphemy laws after two protesters were arrested for holding signs reading “f--- Islam”. The Free Speech Union (FSU) and Big Brother Watch have united to back a test case involving two people who were arrested for holding the signs at a Unite the Kingdom march, organised by Tommy Robinson, the far-Right activist, on May 16 in London. They are being investigated for breaches of the Public Order Act 1986, with potential religious aggravation... Ms Carlo claimed that Britain was in the “grips of a free speech crisis” that was “draining police time and squandering taxpayers’ money”. A survey last weekend, published by The Telegraph, found that 51 per cent of Britons believed their rights to free speech had been eroded by Labour in the two years since the election."

Meme - "FIRST THEY REMOVED OUR STATUES, WHATS NEXT? OUR LAWS? OUR BORDERS? OUR FLAG?"
"YES! OBVIOUSLY! DID WE STUTTER? WE SAID DECOLONIZE!"

ripx4nutmeg on X - "A new BBC InDepth feature asks why Pride is not as popular as it once was, and concludes there are nine reasons why. None of them include the at least eight senior Pride officers - one who presented on BBC radio - who have recently been convicted of paedophilia offences."
Alison Golding on X - "It also fails to mention the openly displayed sexual activity and fetishism that in any other public context would be reason for the police to intervene."
ripx4nutmeg on X - "And no mention of the hundreds of pro Pride articles the BBC publishes each year, which don't seem to be working"

Mjמירי🇨🇦🇺🇸 on X - "Okay, so what is the purpose of this incessant race realist discourse? Of course there are population-level differences. Anyone who works with psychometric data knows that. The variance reflects some combination of genetics and environment. None of this is suppressed or hidden. We already know this. What’s wholly unproductive is making this a public discourse. Theres a reason you encounter almost no psychologists engaging with it in public. For those of us with an educational psych background, it’s especially disturbing because group averages tell you remarkably little about the abilities or potential of the person sitting in front of you, and encouraging young people to understand their intelligence through racial stereotypes can itself interfere with performance, confidence and learning. There’s literally no benefit to this discussion. So what exactly do people like Nathan want?"
Thread by @EPoe187 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The point is that if you have no explanation for the cause of racial disparities, people search for one. And progressives offer a toxic answer: pervasive racism. People become hostile to the West and rail against it. In other words, people become woke. Surely candor is better? Also, on questions of broad significance, we should default on honesty. That doesn't me we must be "honesty absolutists." But it does mean that if you are advocating silence, you better have some very strong arguments. To be clear, I do not think we should dunk on this or dismiss the question. It's a very reasonable question. The topic is divisive. But the alternative is not comity. It is progressives claiming the West is racist and thus creating racial hostility."

The Preprint Problem: Fringe, Genetically Informed Studies of Group Differences in Behavior Housed on Open Science Platforms
Emil Kirkegaard on X - "'People whose research I don't like are still posting it online. Since we have already barred them from the academic journals with explicit or implicit censorship, they have resorted to posting them on preprint servers. This is bad bad bad I tell ya! We need more censorship.' Truly the enemies of open science and free inquiry. They prefer closed science and unfree inquiry."
Crémieux on X - "The funniest thing about this paper:
- The author is writing in opposition to open science
- The author is someone who previously committed fraud and we only know it because of open science
lol"

Aly Feels on X - "I love my progressive friends, but it really is crazy how negative they are. They are like recreationally miserable. I really do think it’s socially desirable and encouraged in progressive culture and it’s not all just an organic response to hardship or mental illness"
Left wingers see mental illness as an important part of their identity, but sure, right wingers are just in denial about being crazy and everyone is crazy