Robert Hood @FromZeroToLess

Sure, maybe these students are protesting because they want "to uphold that sacred principle that every life is worthy and the murder of none shall pass in silence". Maybe they care about that principle a lot and that's why they're protesting. Or maybe the fact that these same…

Norman Finkelstein @normfinkelstein

18 hours ago

Today marks a historic occasion. By seizing control of Hamilton Hall, students at Columbia University have anchored in historical memory the nexus between the horrors inflicted in Vietnam that was the hallmark of my generation with the horrors inflicted in Gaza that is the…

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UCSF child psychiatrist Dr. Jack Turban, whose own published studies were deemed low quality by the systematic literature reviews on which the Cass Review was based, comes out swinging against both. Dr. Turban has staked his career on promoting youth gender medicine. See the🧵

A few words about the protests/encampments at Columbia: Back in December 2018, when I was a junior, a white student named Julian Von Abele was filmed going on an ethno-centric rant about how much he loved white people. He said things like: “White people are the best thing that…

It was shocking at first and Democrats used to ignore or equivocate about this. But through continual repetition they are slowly boiling the lobster and enacting this semantic assault on reality in the language of law x.com/wesyang/status…

Ellen Daehnick @edaehnick

a day ago

On the CO House agenda for tomorrow. A bill about “birthing persons.” Not pregnant women. Not mothers. “Birthing persons.” Women don’t exist. Mothers don’t exist. Thanks to @TheDemocrats. #WomenTweet #TERFsWereRight

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Periodically you get a salvo from an octogenarian Dem like James Carville scolding the party for using weird language that only applies to "elites" that will alienate the typical salt of the earth voter. The purpose of these salvoes is to create a mirage of internal dissent as if…

The European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP) published a policy statement on child and adolescent gender dysphoria, calling on healthcare providers to "not to promote experimental and unnecessarily invasive treatments with unproven psycho-social effects and,…

@alexandrosM I'm often reminded of 'whom the gods wish to destroy they first drive mad'. Like an unseen power has blinded the current elite of the consequences of their actions.

NEW: One of the most outspoken supporters of the Columbia encampment, classics professor Joseph Howley, is leading a review of the required humanities curriculum for all undergraduates. Every student at Columbia will have to read the texts he assigns.🧵

So if a car is stolen and speeding 100 miles an hour down the road, are cops supposed to sit back and watch while the criminals endanger the lives of everyone on the road for as long as they like? What happens if they crash into a minivan and kill a whole family while the cops…

Daily Mail Online @MailOnline

a day ago

Four teenagers including high school football star aged 14 to 16 are killed in horror crash after cop cruiser used PIT maneuver to stop them speeding at 111mph - as horrifying photos show their mangled wreckage trib.al/OWHoobc

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Dear @BBCNews You are way down the gender rabbit hole. You write as if 'gender identity' is not only real but an uncontested reality. Neither is true. 'Gender identity' is a highly contested construct, and your uncritical reporting stains your reputation. bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

Absolutely wild that it’s the exact same people saying that we need kids to go through routine drills to prepare for school shooters who will insist that, “crime in the city isn’t that bad, stuff like that could happen anywhere”

Carl @HistoryBoomer

2 days ago

I think school shooter drills cause more harm (expense, freaking kids out) than benefit (saving lives). Your thoughts? School shooter drills are…

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Now that prominent European medical groups have accepted the Cass Review's assertion that pediatric gender-transition treatment is based on "remarkably weak evidence," we need to discuss @glaad. Specifically when GLAAD falsely claimed in 2023: "The science is settled."

The answer is fairly straightforward: the Aztecs were one of the most evil civilizations in history and the other tribes that lived there were thrilled to help someone overthrow them.

@MarkaaWalters Taking aspects of a personality and conceptualising it as a “gender” is an ideological position. Demanding that public policy be organised according to this principle is an ideological approach to public policy. This is pseudo religious akin to the belief in a sexed soul

I am once again reminding us that in order to know whether these surgeries affirm someone's "gender," we'd have to first know what a gender is. And, embarrassingly, nobody seems to know that.

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Roz Kaveney @RozKaveney

3 days ago

There is no excuse for referring to gender affirming surgeries as amputation, chopping etc. What is actually done is easily researched so misrepresentation is always offensive. I no longer argue but instablock.

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@TomasBogardus The closer you get to the medical field, the more frequently you'll see phrases such as "female/male gender", "transitioning to female", "female gender ID", etc. The obfuscatory "Gender" terminology is often stealthily abandoned there.

I am flabbergasted by @SamSeder and @EmmaVigeland's treatment of @jessesingal on @majorityfm. They were belligerent, talked over and interrupted him, didn't listen to him, moved the goal posts and engaged in all manner of bad-faith debate tactics. 6/ youtube.com/watch?v=ZSiDvY…

I argue that journalists are not activists or PR argents. Our job is to report the truth and to do so dispassionately. And as @jessesingal has done, when our words are manipulated and twisted by political actors, we should fight to correct the record. 3/

@SamSeder makes the same argument that people made last summer when they excoriated me for accurately reporting that monkeypox transmission was overwhelmingly occurring via sex between men. Activists said I should massage the truth so it would land more gently, not cause stigma.

@majorityfm hosts @EmmaVigeland & @SamSeder have @jessesingal on following their attacks on his reporting on trans-youth medicine. (Start @ 1:51) Seder says Singal should not report the minutiae of such science because of how the right-wing weaponizes it. youtube.com/watch?v=ZSiDvY…