Links - 25th October 2025 (2 - Being Black in the US)

Artist Says Vans Stole His Design For Cow Print Sneakers - "While Vans pointed to its 2018 print for, it later corrected itself by highlighting that Vans had featured cow print shoes as far back as 1991.  “Hey there Ment,” Vans wrote. “We just had to fact check ourselves on this one and we apologize we made a mistake in our last response. We dipped way back into the archives, our new customs and the 2018 shoe were inspired by this 1991 cow print.”"

The Case for Black Optimism - "When was the last time you heard good news about the state of black America? Given the way the topic is reported in the media, you could be forgiven for not remembering. Most will be familiar with the standard portrayal: black people are disproportionately poor, incarcerated, born into single-parent homes, and harassed by cops. There’s the test score gap, which places black kids at a disadvantage when applying to college; the school-to-prison pipeline, which prepares black boys for prison by punishing them disproportionately in school; and the racial wealth gap, which won’t close for several centuries if current trends continue.  In an era when bipartisan agreement is scarce, the Left and the Right seem to be united in their somber assessment of black America, though they locate the blame in different places... The narrative of doom and gloom, however, is misleading. Though it has gone largely unnoticed, black Americans have been making rapid progress along most important dimensions of well-being since the turn of the millennium... From 2001 to 2017, the incarceration rate for black men declined by 34 percent... the black prison population will not only continue to shrink, but will shrink at an accelerating rate... The great incarceration decline for black youth has been matched by a decline in teenage motherhood. Between 2001 and 2017, the birth rate for black women aged 15–19 declined by 63 percent. In fact, the black teenage birth rate in 2017 was lower than the white teenage rate as recently as 2002. Nor has progress been confined to the younger generation. Between 1999 and 2015, the mortality rate for black Americans aged 65 and over shrank by 29 percent for cancer, 31 percent for diabetes, and 43 percent for heart disease. What’s more, all of those percentage drops were larger than the drops experienced by comparable whites over the same period. As deaths from disease have plummeted, black lives have extended. In 2017, black female life expectancy was 78.5 years, up from 75.1 years in 2000. Life expectancy for black men increased from 68.2 to 71.9 years over the same timespan.  Not only are black Americans healthier and longer-lived than they were two decades ago, they’re also more educated. Between the 1999–2000 and 2016–2017 school years, the number of black students who earned bachelor’s degrees increased by 82 percent, from 108,018 to 196,300. Over the same period, the number of associate’s and master’s degrees awarded to black students more than doubled, rising from 60,208 to 129,874, and 36,606 to 89,577, respectively (population growth accounts for some, but not all or even most, of this growth). 2018 census data showed that 37 percent of black Americans aged 25–34 had some kind of college degree. If black America were its own country, that would place it in between Germany (31 percent) and Spain (43 percent) in terms of educational attainment. What’s more, the economist Raj Chetty has found that black women, though less likely to attend college than white women, are now more likely to attend college than white men from similar socioeconomic backgrounds. Along with more education has come more upward mobility. The Federal Reserve recently reported that over 60 percent of blacks at every level of educational attainment say they’re doing better financially than their parents—a higher percentage than either whites or Hispanics. And although black men still lag behind white men in terms of upward mobility, Chetty has found that black women now go on to earn slightly higher incomes than white women from similar socioeconomic backgrounds... the same data that justify this optimism can appear to justify pessimism if you look at it differently... In 2001, black men aged 18–19 were nine times more likely to be behind bars than comparable white men. By 2017, they were twelve times more likely to be behind bars. Framed as such, it looks like regress.  This particular framing effect is just one example in a larger pattern: The evidence against racial progress tends to compare black-white gaps today to black-white gaps in the past. Here, white metrics are used as benchmarks against which to measure black progress. By contrast, the evidence in favor of progress tends to compare black metrics today against black metrics in the past. White metrics do not enter the equation. Crucially, the same data can often be made to look like either progress or regress depending on which framework is chosen... Imagine we had a button that doubled the amount of everything good for each racial group and halved the rate of everything bad—so, black wealth doubles, white wealth doubles, black incarceration is halved, white incarceration is halved, and so on. As we pressed the button repeatedly, America would increasingly approach utopia. Yet the racial gaps—that is, the ratios between black and white outcomes—would remain unchanged. Therefore, viewed through the gap-lens, we will have made no progress at all. Indeed, any amount of black progress can become invisible when viewed through the gap-lens, given sufficient white progress. That’s a problem... The gap-lens also relies on the dubious presumption that white outcomes are the best benchmark against which to measure black outcomes. One reason this presumption fails is that the median white American is a full decade older than the median black American. Thus, comparing all blacks to all whites on any outcome that varies with age—for instance, incarceration or wealth—is comparing apples to oranges. More importantly, when we compare black outcomes to white outcomes and blame all of the gaps on institutional racism, we treat American society as if it were a simple 8th-grade science experiment... But reality is more complex. Black Americans and white Americans are unique groups of people with different histories, different demographics, and different sociological characteristics. Such confounding variables make it overly simplistic to pin all racial gaps on institutional racism...  a group of people can be doing quite well but can nevertheless be made to believe the opposite—so long as they are habitually compared to other groups in the media. It’s a truism that a single person suffers when he measures himself by the yardstick of another... A complete conversation about race and racial inequality must involve not just identifying what goes wrong, but also what goes right—for if we fail to learn from the triumphs of our own recent past, we are doomed not to repeat them."
Left wingers level down to make everyone worse off, so they focus on the gaps with whites

Larry Elder on X - "Alaysha “Lay” Johnson (@ImJustLaylay), congrats on making the Olympics. But why the, “This is for everybody who looks like me” crap? There was but ONE non-black runner—and she finished next to last. Can we quit this “we shall overcome” BS? For crying out loud, this is 2024!"
There will never be enough "representation"

Cori Bush on X - "The far-right justices occupying the Supreme Court have never been an unhoused single mother living out of their car while working a full-time job. I know that struggle firsthand. So let me be clear: Being unhoused is not a crime. Taking bribes as a SCOTUS justice is."
Sunny on X - "Clarence Thomas speaks English as a second language. He grew up in poverty in the Jim Crow south, born to direct descendants of slaves. You went to a private prep school in the 1990s and your dad was a mayor."

Meme - Paul Hundred, GED @paul_hundred: "Black twitter is funny because this will get 28k likes but then tomorrow the same person will complain about white ppl AVOIDING them in the hallway and it’ll get the exact same 28k likes and replies like “whypipo racist as hell”, “we finna kill ALL they cracka asses”, “das rite”."
@briehive: "i don't move out of white pp! way when i'm walking. i'll take your shoulder down the hallway with me. idrgaf.
yall are responding to this tweet like white people are incapable of moving.. making it my responsibility to clear the path way. and i won't do that.. intentionally or otherwise. to summarize: if you move, we don't bump.. if you don't.. we will."

Meme - *Black men swarming car, with 2 on top of it*
*Monkeys swarming car*

Meme - Richard Hanania @RichardHanania: "Asians and Hispanic children of immigrants earn more than their parents. That's to be expected.  But second generation black immigrants end up earning less. This may be because they assimilate to American black norms, which wipes out the advantage of being born here."
Clearly, this is due to racism, even though immigrant blacks earn more than immigrant hispanics, but it's the reverse in the second generation

Unlimited L's on X - "NEW: Black activists in Jackson, Miss., are calling for a Texaco gas station to shut down because of the growing murders and crime in the area  Someone said “The owner should have the integrity of a human being for [himself] to say, we need to shut this down”  Councilman Kenneth Stokes says he will bring a vote of no confidence against the city's legal department for not shutting down the gas station sooner  “Where people suffer harm or injury, it’s got to be considered a nuisance. How many people have to die here before they realize it’s harmful?” Councilman Stokes said"
Zod on X - "Then they’ll complain that there are no gas stations around."
Darth Crypto null af on X- "A man has to shut down his business because criminals are able to loiter and rob and murder people with impunity? How about the police patrol the area and arrest and/or shoot the armed criminals tormenting the community? Na. Let’s force a business to close instead. 🤯"
Staying Sane on X - "Councilman Brian Grizzell, Ward 4, said they have started the process with collecting the history of code violations and violent crimes around that gas station. He hopes to have enough evidence that the Council can declare the gas station a safety hazard.  As the owner does not want them to shut down his business, they have found w2ays to force shut his business.  The council hopes that when there is no gas station, their community will have nothing to loot, and crime will go down.  This is democrat thinking 101."
howy on X - "So the answer is not to address the people who commit the crimes, it is to get rid of gas stations? 🤔😳"

Meme - Legendary Tweeter @MyTweetsRealAF: "If Black dudes didn't think gymnastics was gay, we would dominate. I seen a nigga flip over a fence with no hands, running from the cops."
Kim Balasanyan: "Damn now imagine the success you guys would have if black dudes thought crime was gay"

Thread by @UsingLyft on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Black Americans are the most privileged black humans to ever walk the face of this earth. I’m tired of hearing the insane excuses for why the crime rates amongst our group are so high. People pointing to gas stations and food deserts and magical invisible systems like the school to prison pipelines and shit instead of just accepting that niggas misbehave and fuck themselves up. I have never in my life met an intelligent black person who possessed self control and morals who struggled in life because of any evil white supremacist systems. Every single smart goal oriented hard working black person I know is living a great life. Seriously like point me to a black person you know who makes the right sacrifices and tries hard but white ppl are getting in their way and forcing them into a life of crime. Like what? Nobody actually believes such a person exists but it’s easy to pretend they must when you look at the size of group differences"

Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "Young black American males are in a league of their own in everything from murderiness to academic underperformance to narcissism to excellence in fast-twitch-muscle-centric sports.   It's quite a demographic, unlike almost any other in the world."

Crémieux on X - "Mortality for children aged 1-19 has mostly fallen in recent decades. Despite overall improvements, by 2020, the top cause of mortality in this group had somehow become firearms: But this is not true for Whites, Asians, or Hispanics, just for Blacks:"
Clear proof of systemic racism

Meme - "On May 6, 1886, inventor M.A. Cherry patented the tricycle."
Katherine Coty: "Thank you for sharing this!"
Malik Kimari Kibe: "'The first version

of the tricycle was invented in 1680 by a German man named Stephan Farffler. This version was operated, not by pedaling the feet, but by a series of gears and hand cranks. The tricycle as we know it today (operated by pedaling) was invented by two Frenchmen Blanchard and Maguier in 1789.' So, he stole a bike..."

Wocc𖤐 on X - "what’s the “blackest” name you have ever heard??"
i/o on X - "When I was a grad student I briefly worked a temporary job in my university's HR department organizing employee personnel files. I've never forgotten the name of an employee in the maintenance department: Cellophane D'Prince Watkins."

Meme - Nemo @thecaptain_nemo: "had no idea this trend was a thing  we used to solve 95% of murders and now we barely solve 50%"
Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil: "A weird detail about this is that it's a race-specific trend."
We are told that if there're 12 bad police officers and 1300 good police officers, there're 1300 bad police officers, because the latter don't expose the former. So snitch culture means...

Meme - "Invented everything! *pyramids with thrusters and dogs as Egyptians*"
"Whitey stole it! *sailing ships*"
"Cant invent again :( *mud huts* *dogs*"

Letter ‘N’ under race - "Maybe it was a typo. Maybe it meant “Negro.”  But Chris says police can look at her drivers license and see her face, which convinced her it was intentional.  Christine Hall: “It says ‘N’. That means (expletive). But they should have put black.”  Chris is so aggravated she used the word she despises and wants to make sure she never see that letter “N” under race again.  Christine Hall: “So somebody thought I was not going to see it. But they dumb because I seen it. That’s why I call Help Me Howard.”... Alan Chin handles red light camera violations for the department.  He showed us what happens when he writes NA for “not applicable” under race.  Alan Chin: “It prints a single digit. So, instead of “NA,” it will read “N”. When I put gender, obviously it’s ‘M’ for male, ‘F’ for female.”  A company in Colorado prints the tickets changing “NA” to “N,” and Chris wanted to make sure the department knew how much that computer printing one letter affected her.  Wayne Jones?: “Some people get hurt because of this. It hurt me bad.”  The police chief, Wayne Jones, had met with his staff to fix the problem.  Wayne Jones: “I so appreciate you reaching out to Patrick Fraser on this because, quite frankly, we don’t want to have this happen again. We don’t want anybody to feel what you felt.”  Instead of “NA,” which the computer turns to the letter “N,” under race and sex, the department will type “UK” for unknown, which will print out as “U” under both race and sex."
So much for "white fragility"

Meme - "Birth of Tragedy- Nietzsche Summarized and Explained
Brianca Jay
@incelcoreisart: "Smoke alarm beeps:
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Meme - @samesizeshoe: "is this a slur"
"You have received a refund from Popeyes
Hey, Chicken Lover:"

LEPRNCY. on X - "as a black man how tf can you feel remotely comfortable with this being your friendship group like it’s beyond me"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "The alt right is a different thing, but regular Black dudes are way more racist than regular Anglo white guys. #prove_me_wrong This below - with 60,000 likes and 6,000 heavily positive comments - is the reaction to one Black man posing with a group of sports-or-whatever buddies"

DonofOne🔴🔱⚫️ on X - "A black man was found hanging from a tree in Henderson North Carolina recently, all my black truck drivers be careful when passing through these predominantly white areas and always research the town you in"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Totally made-up panic may literally be the biggest problem in our society today. The last lynching on record took place in 1968 (UMKC archive). Inter-racial crime between Blacks and whites is 3% of serious crime and 80% B-on-W."
Javion Magee death: Henderson NC investigation 'not a lynching' Vance County Sheriff says despite reports of hanging - "Magee's family, who lives in Chicago, is upset and demanding answers. They are calling for transparency and more answers from the Vance County Sheriff's Office about what happened... Magee went to a nearby Walmart shortly before he died. That is where he is believed to have bought the rope found around his neck... "There's been information put out there that there's a lynching in Vance County. There is not a lynching in Vance County. The young man was not dangling from a tree. He was not swinging from a tree. The rope was wrapped around his neck. It was not a noose. There was not a knot in the rope, so therefore, it was not a lynching here in Vance County."... Khalil Gay, who lives in Henderson, said, "I mean, honestly, I think we have to acknowledge that, No. 1, we do live in the South, and there's a deep history of racism and racist acts. And so people are obviously concerned about that."... There were no obvious signs of defensive wounds or scars on his limbs including arms and legs"
Clearly, he either lynched himself or was forced by white supremacists to buy the rope they hanged him with

i/o on X - "White elites treat black people like children. They listen to their tall tales and fibs without objection. They lift and put them in high chairs to make it easier for them to access what's on the table. They patiently watch their tantrums, making excuses. Everyone ends up losing."

Meme - "When an Afrocentric is confronted with facts , logic and exposing tampered artifacts, he always uses that card"
*Racism card*
"Egyptians having a civilized debate about their ancient heritage."

Into the Memory Hole on X - ">be black
>do anything
>anything at all
>never your fault"
Relatives mourn Brooklyn woman killed by backhoe - "The home health aide who was killed by a backhoe driver in Brooklyn Friday was remembered as “generous and loving” by her distraught loved ones on Sunday.  Heartbreaking video obtained by The Post showed a yellow construction vehicle striking 61-year-old Estelle Davis with its shovel before running her over and dragging her along the corner of New Lots and Van Sinderen avenues in East New York."

Inquisitive Bird on X - "While whites were once most affected by drug overdoses in the U.S., this is no longer the case. Drug overdose deaths have dramatically increased among black people, and they now have substantially higher drug overdose death rate than white people."
Time to blame the usual scapegoats

Meme - My Mixtapez @mymixtapez: "Diddy's mother Janice Combs releases a statement regarding her son's legal troubles, "My son is not the monster they have painted him to be""
The Impatient Tourist @ImpatienTourist: "Behind every terrible man, is a boy mom supporting him all the way through."

Meme - *Is this a butterfly*
Leonarda Jonie @leonardaisfunE: "Black People"
"The Consequences of their actions"
"Is this racism?"
Dane @UltraDane: "The black community is shocked over the announcement that 7-11 is closing 400 stores in predominately black areas. "The move to close stores in Black communities is Jim Crow racism, and we won't stand for it", said Jamarius Washington, a Houston, Texas native. The chain has"

Meme - "ONLY IN AMERICA CAN AN ETHNIC GROUP HAVE BLACK AWARENESS MONTH, BLACK HOLIDAY, BLACK ORLY COLLEGES, BLACK ONLY DATING SITES. BLACK ONLY BARS AND CLUBS- AND TURN AROUND AND CALL EVERVONE ELSE RACISTS"

Meme -Hux “Man Of The People🤝🏻” @GrugAllman: "Blacks are 13% of the population, pay 6% of the taxes while collecting 26% of the welfare. We pay reparations every year..."
Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan: "Black America is owed #REPARATIONS. White America deserves RETRIBUTION."

Meme - Coddled affluent professional @feelsdesperate: "One of funniest things on this site is how often libs will do a racial inspection of Tyler and find him insufficiently black to have written something."
The Atlantic: "There's a widening mismatch between the worldview of many Black men and that of the Democratic Party, @Tyler_A_Harper writes:"
"Why Black Male Voters Are Drifting Toward Trump"
Norma Loquendi @nloqueni: "Please have a Black male writer tackle this. Sincerely, a subscriber"

Meme - Black Woman: "Jesus wasn't white."
White Christian Guy: "Ok."
Black Woman: "Hey whitey, didn't you hear me? I said Jesus wasn't white. LOL"
White Christian Guy: "Yeah. Jesus wasn't black either."
Black Woman: "WHY DO YOU CARE WHAT COLOR JESUS WUZ?!"
White Christian Guy: "LOL"

Six Chicks vs Sydney Sweeney / Sydney Sweeney as Nazi Propaganda

thebrokedoc: "Bruhhhh ... GAP really brought every race possible to compete with 1 Sydney Sweeney"
islandboi_1: "Took 6 chicks to compete with 1, I think that says more about Sweeney than the other chicks"

*Be Honest meme*
"The Sydney Sweeney ad is racist"
"Be honest"
"It's clearly Nazi propaganda"
"Be honest"
"Ok, I hate her because she's white, blonde, and pretty"
"Thank you"

Links - 25th October 2025 (1 - Abortion)

Mary is Exhausted on X - "My daughter had an ectopic pregnancy after the Dobbs decision I Kentucky where we have a ban after 6 weeks. She was 11 weeks when they found it. She was immediately scheduled for surgery. They know they are lying and it's a scare tactic. They are shameless"

Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 on X - "I’m not dating a guy who would let me die from a routine pregnancy complication, and neither should you."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "The thing about moral appeals from the left is that none of them are...real. Leaving aside the fact that any normally aggressive guy would just get HIS doctor's network involved in this case, or drive 56 miles across a state line...abortion is not illegal in her state. And,  miscarriage care is not illegal anywhere.  Total number of deaths even plausibly linked to the legal change is like 4. It's all made up."
Mankosmash on X - "Feminists talk like pregnancy is Russian roulette. 🙄 It's 0.022% and only 1/3 of that is actually childbirth. The rest is within 42 days of it. And it's lower for white women - who screech about it."

The White House on X - "In states where abortion is restricted, doctors live in fear of being thrown in jail for simply doing their job. Dr. Zahedi-Spung shares her story as we call on Congress to protect reproductive freedom for the people of America."
Emily Zanotti 🦝 on X - "I had a ruptured ectopic pregnancy in the state of Tennessee one month ago. At no time was I refused care and at no time was anyone restricted from saving my life, even though my baby did die. This is misinformation that could prevent women from seeking help."
Terrifying women and possibly leading some to die is chump change in the context of the bigger mission

Misleading Statements About “Life of the Mother” Exceptions in Pro-life Laws Require Correction - "Misleading statements in a recent Obstetrics & Gynecology article require correction. No state has an abortion law that is a total ban on abortion. Every state law permits abortion when necessary to save a mother’s life. Texas law does not require an “imminent” risk and allows a doctor to use his “reasonable medical judgment” to determine if an abortion is necessary to prevent a “risk” of maternal death. Similarly, Idaho allows a doctor to use his “good faith medical judgment” to determine when to intervene, without need for “immediacy”."
The pro-choice cope is that with any restrictions at all, doctors will be scared of performing abortions, therefore we can't have any restrictions on abortion. By that logic, we can never regulate medicine in any form

Are Pro-Life Laws Leading to Preventable Deaths? - "As the reporter presents it, Thurman’s death was the inevitable result of a Georgia state law that protects unborn life after the sixth week of pregnancy. But nothing could be further from the truth.    As written, the law does not deny any care to pregnant women who are facing a medical emergency, a “spontaneous abortion” (a miscarriage), or a stillbirth... there are no states whose laws deny health care to pregnant women or criminally charge them for abortion. In a recent Congressional hearing, Senator James Lankford interviewed lawyer Heather G. Hacker to clear up any confusion about states’ laws on abortion. Here’s a clip from the hearing:
Lankford: Ms. Hacker, just to clarify on this, are there any states where women face prosecution for having an abortion?
Hacker: No.
Lankford: Are there any states that criminalize miscarriage?
Hacker: No.
Lankford: Or the care for any for a miscarriage?
Hacker: No.
Lankford: Are there any states that criminalize removing an ectopic pregnancy?
Hacker: No.
Lankford: Are there any states that prohibit lifesaving care for the mother?
Hacker: No.
Lankford: Are there any states where women have to be actively dying for a doctor to be able to act for her care?
Hacker: No.
 The problem isn’t pro-life laws. The problem is poor medical care and misinformation. According to the Georgia state committee that reviewed Thurman’s case, the hospital responsible for Thurman’s care had a “lack of policies/procedures in place to evacuate the uterus immediately.” The author even admits that, based on the medical documents, it was not clear why doctors delayed providing care.   A recent AP News piece found that even in states where abortion is permitted, pregnant women have experienced otherwise preventable loss. Hospitals scrutinized here were understaffed, ill-equipped, and often operating with undertrained support teams.   A bigger part of the problem is simply the intrinsic dangers of chemical abortion. Contrary to what the Thurman piece claims, the abortion pill is far from safe. Research has found that “one in five women experienced an adverse event following a chemical abortion, and rates of complication were four times higher in chemical abortions compared to surgical abortions.” In fact, the FDA’s own label warns that one in 25 women who take abortion drugs will end up in the emergency room."
Misinformation is good when it helps the left wing agenda

Allie Beth Stuckey on X - "I know many, many women who have received quick and compassionate miscarriage care in red states over the past two years. I also know women who have not received the miscarriage care they needed in states like California.   The problem is clearly that we have a huge competency crisis among doctors and hospitals, not pro-life laws.  Left-wing media is highlighting malpractice in red states to try to make it seem like abortion restrictions are killing women. They’re not.  Many of these stories—like the recent one in Texas—don’t even have to do with abortion or miscarriage at all. Just a pregnant woman who didn’t get the IV antibiotics she needed. Other stories exclude or bury relevant details.   No state law prohibits miscarriage care—including a D&C for a miscarriage—in any way. Every pro-life law defines abortion as the purposeful termination of the life of an unborn child. Every pro-life law has an exception for ectopic pregnancy and to save the life of the mother.  If women are dying, the doctors and medical staff responsible need to be held to account. Babies shouldn’t be robbed of their legal right to life because of their negligence.   Don’t vote for Kamala based on lies"
Every State With an Abortion Ban Allows Treatment for Miscarriage and Ectopic Pregnancies - "In the 23 states with one or more strong abortion bans that were unenforceable before the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, state officials are now either enforcing a ban or are working towards beginning enforcement.  Each of these states permits abortion in those rare and heartbreaking circumstances when it is necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman. Physicians can make this determination based on their “reasonable medical judgment,” a standard very common in the medical profession and used for any case involving medical malpractice litigation.   Physicians are trained to use their best judgment to care for patients; however, it would be prudent for state medical boards, state medical societies, state boards of pharmacy, hospital quality committees, and hospital attorneys to provide more detailed guidance to doctors on how to reach a determination that abortion is necessary. Tragically, this type of guidance appears slow in coming.  Meanwhile, abortion advocates are spreading the dangerous lie that life-saving care is not or may not be permitted in these states, leading to provider confusion and poor outcomes for women."
Left wing misinformation is nothing new, sadly

Meme - Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof: "A struggling Nevada mom suffers a miscarriage. Then the police show up and arrest her for manslaughter, and she's sentenced to 2.5-8 years in prison. Only when a pro bono lawyer steps up and appeals does a judge reverse the conviction and set her free to return to her children. This is family values? Think about that as you vote."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "1. She smoked Meth while pregnant; (two crimes.)
2. Her baby was well past viability; autopsy said 28-32 weeks.
3. She admitted she did it to kill her baby.
4. Law enforcement believes that the baby was born alive and then killed.
5. THIS WAS IN 2018 before Roe was overturned"
Pro-abortion people keep bringing up infanticide cases to support unlimited abortion. It's really telling

Nevaeh Crain Died During a Miscarriage After Trying to Get Care in Texas Hospitals (aka "A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms") - "The first hospital diagnosed her with strep throat without investigating her sharp abdominal cramps. At the second, she screened positive for sepsis, a life-threatening and fast-moving reaction to an infection, medical records show. But doctors said her six-month fetus had a heartbeat and that Crain was fine to leave.  Now on Crain’s third hospital visit, an obstetrician insisted on two ultrasounds to “confirm fetal demise,” a nurse wrote, before moving her to intensive care...     ProPublica condensed more than 800 pages of Crain’s medical records into a four-page timeline in consultation with two maternal-fetal medicine specialists; reporters reviewed it with nine doctors, including researchers at prestigious universities, OB-GYNs who regularly handle miscarriages, and experts in emergency medicine and maternal health. Some said the first ER missed warning signs of infection that deserved attention. All said that the doctor at the second hospital should never have sent Crain home when her signs of sepsis hadn’t improved. And when she returned for the third time, all said there was no medical reason to make her wait for two ultrasounds before taking aggressive action to save her...   While they were not certain from looking at the records provided that Crain’s death could have been prevented, they said it may have been possible to save both the teenager and her fetus if she had been admitted earlier for close monitoring and continuous treatment. There was a chance Crain could have remained pregnant, they said. If she had needed an early delivery, the hospital was well-equipped to care for a baby on the edge of viability."  
This is clickbait as usual, but of course left wingers fell for it

Thread by @lymanstoneky on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "It's clear that @propublica 's strategy is to spam stories of alleged deaths due to abortion bans, and never actually engage with any of the arguments about how they're actually running a cover operation for medical negligence. From the latest one.  They want to blame Texas' abortion ban for a hospital sending away an actively miscarrying women WHO ALREADY TESTED POSITIVE FOR SEPSIS.
everybody agrees this was a case of the hospital failing to provide basic, obvious standard of care.  nobody has evidence this failure was caused by the abortion law.  and yet you get quotes like this: it's just insane. on what planet can this death be linked to Dobbs? this is clearly just a hospital killing a teenager through the usual tragic negligence. at this point @propublica is literally defending a repeatedly-negligent OB who has failed to treat maternal infections and been censured for it in the past.  "it's not just bad doctors!" @propublica continues to assert until slowly shrinking into a corncob.  folks among the millions of women who become pregnant every year in America there will always be cases of horrible negligence, terrible standards of care, and awful outcomes. this is a tragedy-- but none of these cases is clearly linkable to the actual law! she wasn't even denied an abortion! she hadn't even requested one!  this case is a horrible tragedy, but it's all right there people: it's the usual gross medical malpractice tragedy, not related to abortion at all."

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 on X - "Oh hey look the Texas hospital with the sepsis death blamed on Dobbs, where one of the involved doctors had a prior malpractice case? Turns out the hospital had ANOTHER malpractice case in 2020... for ignoring sepsis! Almost like it maybe wasn't Dobbs, eh?"

Dr. Calum Miller on X - "Malta has far stricter laws than the US and has had no maternal deaths in 12 years. The reason America can’t figure this out is because it doesn’t want to. Dead women are the best possible political tool for the abortion industry."
Or there're just a lot of incompetent American doctors

Literally Chad on X - "Keep in mind miscarriage care is unambiguously legal and doctors are murdering patients to own the cons"

Meme - "THE SUPREME COURT DID SOMETHING WE DON'T UNDERSTAND. LET'S GET OUR KETCHUP BOTTLE COSTUMES ON AND PRETEND FICTION IS REALITY AND SCARE OURSELVES"

Meme - RAMZPAUL: "For young men, the most important issue is to be able to get a job to support a family. For young women, the most important issue is to be able to kill their baby."
"TOP ISSUES FOR YOUNG VOTERS. ECONOMY DEMOCRACY IMMIGRATION INFLATION *men care more*
ABORTION ANTI-RIGHT-WING IDEOLOGY *women care more*"

Meme - Yerba Mate Girl: "I don't care about the economy, crime, immigration or foreign policy. I just want to be able to kill my kids!"

Meme - "When you have the right to vote, work, study, drive, free association, free speech, free movement and literally every single right except for infanticide *Handmaid's Tale protest*"

Meme - Ralph Wiggum: "I'M A HANDMAID'S TALE"

Meme - Crying Doge Handmaid: "I CAN KILL MY CHILDREN IN ONLY 47 STATES. THIS IS LITERALLY LIKE THE TV SHOW "THE HANDHOE'S TALE""

Meme - "I don't understand, Pete. You're so right wing; so how can you be pro-choice?"
"Simple, I looked up which race has the most abortions."

Meme - *Tuxedo Winnie the Pooh*
"Abortion
Fetus Deletus
*Chemical symbols* HAsTa La VISTa BaBY"

Meme - Magills @magills_: ""Yeah, WW3 sounds bad but not as bad as losing access to abortion. Still With Her.""

Meme - Woman sitting in burning room: "yeah but abortion..."

Meme - allyah: "I'm pregnant! having a scan soon to find out if it's a girl or an abortion
I don't have the stomach to read all these negative comments. Here's your update. Some people have convinced me to look into raising my child as a girl even if it is a boy, and trying to get treatment as early as seven years old. I've been reading a lot about that."

Meme - Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630: "Technically speaking, didn't this woman have a baby, "potentially" break its neck, and then leave it in a toilet to die?  You don't hate journalists enough, etc, etc."
Camry @theliamnissan: "This is only the beginning folks"
"Woman Charged with Murder After Losing Her Pregnancy. A South Carolina woman had a miscarriage and was charged with murder, a direct consequence of the Republican abortion ban in the state, CNN reports."
FACT CHECK: Are pro-life laws to blame for arrest of SC woman who delivered baby in a toilet? - "CNN is sharing the story of a woman who faced charges following the death of her newborn baby in March of 2023 in South Carolina. This week, a grand jury in Orangeburg, South Carolina, declined to indict Amari Marsh on murder charges. Questions remain about the case; however, the media is attempting to place blame for Marsh’s arrest on the state’s pro-life laws — which weren’t in effect at the time... Amari Marsh, 21, was arrested and charged with homicide in March of 2023 after she gave birth on a toilet at home after leaving a hospital hours earlier of her own accord, without being discharged by medical personnel, according to an article from the Times-Democrat published at the time of Marsh’s arrest. The article says she left because “the energy in the room was off and she felt uncomfortable.” She went into labor at 3 am the next morning in her bathroom, and called 911 shortly thereafter. When EMS arrived, the baby was in the toilet, covered with used toilet tissue...   Following a three-month long investigation, Marsh was arrested on June 2, 2023. According to KFF Health News and CNN, the arrest warrant noted that not removing the baby girl from the toilet despite the dispatcher’s instructions was “a proximate cause of her daughter’s death” — the primary cause...   It wasn’t until a few weeks after Marsh gave birth that the state again passed the ‘heartbeat law,’ which still stands today.  Notably, the law does not allow women to be prosecuted for obtaining an abortion, even after six weeks.  Yet Dana Sussman, senior vice president of the nonprofit Pregnancy Justice, claimed Marsh’s case is a “prime example of how pregnancy loss can become a criminal investigation very quickly.” She added, “The Dobbs decision unleashed and empowered prosecutors to look at pregnant people as a suspect class and at pregnancy loss as a suspicious event.”  Likewise, U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, claimed Marsh’s case is an example of how pregnancy loss is being criminalized following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022.  But the terminology used here by pro-abortion groups and politicians is dishonest and inaccurate, because Marsh did not experience a “pregnancy loss” and abortion was not prohibited in South Carolina at the time. She gave birth to a premature, but living, baby, likely at or after five months, according to the timeline. The investigation found that the baby died as a result of being left in the toilet and from respiratory complications due to preterm birth.   In fact, Solicitor David Pascoe, a Democrat elected to South Carolina’s 1st Judicial Circuit, and whose office handled Marsh’s prosecution, said abortion laws were not relevant in Marsh’s case.  “It had nothing to do with that,” he said."
Weird. We're kept being told pro-choicers don't support infanticide

She was accused of murder after losing her pregnancy. SC woman now tells her story - "According to the sheriff’s department report, hospital staffers told Marsh that she was pregnant and that a fetal heartbeat could be detected. Freaked out and confused, she chose to leave the hospital a second time, she said, and her pain had subsided. In the middle of the night, she said, the pain started again. She woke up, she recalled, feeling an intense urge to use the bathroom. “And when I did, the child came,” she said. “I screamed because I was scared, because I didn’t know what was going on.” "
chas_swim_mom on X - "Either she was extremely stupid or a liar, or both."

Walz's False Project 2025 Pregnancy Monitoring Claims - FactCheck.org - "Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz falsely claimed that Project 2025 calls for the tracking of “all pregnancies” and would require people “to register with a new federal agency” upon getting pregnant. The conservative playbook advocates the reporting of all miscarriages and abortions but does not stipulate the monitoring of all pregnancies...   Walz’s inaccurate claims come after a series of similar statements by Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, over the summer.  At the Democratic National Convention, on Aug. 22, Harris said Trump “plans to create a national anti-abortion coordinator and force states to report on women’s miscarriages and abortions.” As we wrote at the time, Trump hasn’t proposed that, but some of it matches what’s in Project 2025. Days later, on X, she went further, falsely saying that “Trump’s Project 2025” included “monitoring pregnancies and prosecuting women if they have an abortion.”... The Project 2025 spokesperson directed us to a Sept. 10 X post by Roger Severino, a Heritage Foundation vice president who authored the relevant section on abortion and who led the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights under Trump.  Claims that Project 2025 “would establish a ‘national abortion monitor’” are “[f]alse,” Severino said in the post. The plan “merely recommends CDC restore the decades-long practice of compiling *anonymous* abortion statistics for all states,” he wrote, adding that the Harris-Walz campaign claims were “hypocritical” and “misleading” since Minnesota already collects such data...   Isaac Maddow-Zimet, a data scientist with the Guttmacher Institute, told us abortion reporting should remain voluntary. Even though having data on abortion is important, the reporting has often been used with political reasons, according to the Guttmacher Institute’s research. For example, asking for the patient’s reason for a procedure, as Project 2025 suggests, can provide data that could be useful to push certain agendas... “A common anti-abortion tactic is to claim that most abortions are not for health-related reasons but for personal preference or even convenience, and therefore do not constitute necessary health care,” he told us"
Weird. Why don't left wingers want more data to be collected? Like the popular meme which claims that all the reasons women have abortions are none of your business
Ironically, the Guttmacher Institute itself says most abortions are not for health-related reasons

Lawsuit: Doctors to blame for Amber Thurman's death - "High-profile civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump held a news conference accusing doctors at Piedmont Henry Hospital in Stockbridge, Georgia, of not acting quickly enough to save Amber Thurman’s life in 2022.  According to Thurman’s family and a report last month by ProPublica, Thurman — a 28-year-old mother of one — was experiencing a rare complication from abortion pills that did not expel all of the fetal tissue from her body. She visited a hospital in need of a routine procedure called a dilation and curettage, or D&C, but doctors allegedly waited nearly a full day before operating. Thurman died in surgery... Crump blamed doctors, not the law, for Thurman’s death.  “Even under Georgia law, the doctors had a duty to act to save Amber,” he said. “She had taken the abortion pills and there were tissues left. There was no viable fetus or anything that would have prevented them from saving her life while she suffered.  “You have a duty to stabilize her and then give her the option to go to another hospital facility,” Crump said. “But you cannot let her suffer and die on your hospital bed when the death is preventable.”... Thurman’s family said doctors kept them in the dark about her condition as they waited at the hospital. Her mother, Shanette Williams, said she would have sought medical care elsewhere if she had known doctors were waiting to perform a D&C."
Oops. So much for that claim. But I guess her lawyer is a right wing fundamentalist who hates women

Links - 24th October 2025 (2 - Homelessness)

Sweden's proposal to ban begging draws global criticism - "The Christian organization Stockholms Stadsmission, which cares for people in a crisis of homelessness, unequivocally condemned the idea of implementing a ban on begging. The organization's spokesperson, Fanny Siltberg, said in an interview with "The Guardian": "To ban begging, or to require permission to beg, is just shifting the problem in a futile attempt to outlaw poverty. Instead, we believe that this group’s vulnerability can be reduced through structural poverty reduction and work against discrimination – both in home countries and within the EU. It is long-term work. In the meantime, society needs to take responsibility, for example offering paths into the workplace and housing market and in that way reduce the social vulnerability of these people" Aida Samani, deputy legal director of the human rights organization Civil Rights Defenders, expressed a similar opinion. "It is remarkable that the government is prioritising this in a situation that they themselves describe as a crisis of organised and violent crime.Then there is the question of the lawfulness of a ban. As far as I can see a national ban on begging would most likely not be lawful," she emphasized in an interview with "The Guardian." According to Samani, the ban would violate the right to privacy and freedom of expression as outlined in the European Convention on Human Rights."
Weird. Usually left wingers say you can do more than one thing at once
Of course, the assumption is that everyone who begs needs the money and cannot be served by social services. Clearly everyone is honest and no one is harassed by begging and crime syndicates are never involved
If criminalising begging violates rights, how come Sweden can criminalise prostitution?

Meme - memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus: "Homelessness is not about money."
Angela Lee @angelaljsutton: "Note to self: never let anyone stay in ur house no matter how sad the story is *ruined house*"

Thread by @wanyeburkett on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The primary cause of homelessness is not a lack of money, it’s a lack of functioning relationships. You become homeless when you’ve burned through everybody in a position to have once cared about you.
Like a lot of poor people, when I was deep in poverty I survived because I had a mother I could move in with for a while, a friend with an air mattress who let me stay with them when I had overstayed my mom’s welcome. When my drug addicted uncle was on the verge of homelessness, he came and stayed with us. When my mother later was kicked out of her boyfriend’s house, she stayed with me for a couple of days, and then with a friend for a while until I could help her get set up with a place. These stories will be familiar to anybody who has ever had any experience with poverty. This is how people with resources actually survive. My other uncle, who had a bit of a checkered legal history, earlier issues with drugs, and lifelong struggles with mental illness lived his entire life with his parents, my grandparents. When they died he had multiple people who helped him stay in that home. When my mom had a stroke and was unable to care for herself, my brother and I made sure that she was looked after and ultimately I did the work to get her set up with long-term care.
Money can sure make things easier, but the final backstop, the thing that makes the difference between living on the street and not living on the street isn’t money, it’s relationships."

Meme - memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus: "Say you had a spare bedroom and a family member just lost his job. He has no savings and no where else to go. You offer to let him into your house until he gets back on his feet. This dynamic can go on for quite some time, but there are some implicit agreements that must be met.  The most important is that he try to disrupt your life as little as possible. The odd TV too loud or empty hot water tank is to be expected but as long as he’s trying to be considerate you can make things work. There’s also an expectation he attempt to get his life back on track. He needs to be looking for work.   Now imagine this house guest ignored these tacit agreements. Imagine when asked to place his dirty dishes in the sink he protested by shattering them on the floor. When asked to seek employment he returned a volley of personal insults. In fact his social media post is filled with hateful comments about your life, your character, your home, bordering on violent obsessions. He’s actually started talking on podcasts about how terrible a person you are.   At some point you’d say enough, I’m cutting you off."
francis kafka @pachabelcanon: "there is a growing proportion of the online Right which makes the argument, basically: "We're competent and civilized and actually matter, and there's a proportion of the population which is totally irredeemable, I can't take it anymore, they can go to hell""

Alex Nuttall: Municipalities need the power to clean up public parks - "Injections sites, “safe supply” of drugs, unregulated encampments, tolerance of broken laws, lack of prosecution, a revolving-door justice system and a liberal interpretation of drug laws by the courts have all led to where we are today, a society that is lawless and biased toward those who break the law. We’ve reached a very sad day in North American society when we are putting the priorities of traumatized adults over the innocence of children. Places designed for kids to play are being taken over by homeless encampments, with many being home to unruly behaviour, open drug use and, in some cases, violence. When did the focus shift from creating spaces that are safe for kids to play, to creating places that are dedicated and “safe” for using hard drugs?... our municipalities are shackled by court decisions, and we are lacking the power to enforce our own laws. Numerous court cases have undermined the ability of municipalities to maintain clean and safe environments. Threats of charges under human rights laws are being felt by municipal leaders. Inaction on encampments has resulted in the proliferation of encampments. Not just in Barrie, Ont., where I serve as mayor, or in Canada, but throughout North America... Police need the ability to police our neighbourhoods. Prosecutors need to be able to prosecute. Judges need to be given the proper direction and tools to enforce the laws... Governments cannot sit on the sidelines while the courts write legislation"

Ontario judge declares a right to build homeless camps on public land - "our guess is that Waterloo v. Persons Unknown is likely to be a beachhead for hobo charter rights, as the Adams case has been in B.C. Judge Valente, for example, noted that the availability of free shelter isn’t just a matter of counting: he accepted the argument from the unlawful nomads (represented by an appointed amicus curiae) that in order to be able to evict campers, the municipality has to show that “truly accessible” shelter space must be available locally. One expert witness estimated that 95 per cent of the Kitchener tent-dwellers are drug addicts — and stop us if this shocks you, but most shelters forbid drug use on the premises, and drug abusers are among the most likely persons to get kicked out or banned. As Judge Valente summarizes, one of the named respondents testified that, “As a drug user, (he) found it difficult to be around other people in the shelter who were very judgmental.” The duty that the Waterloo Region will have to meet is not just to find a few warm cubic feet, but to give its homeless shelter that suits their circumstances, lifestyle and, from the sound of it, their mood. The vibes will have to be just right. In the hearing, the municipality tried to play one last trump card: isn’t the judge really just giving the tent-dwellers a right to enclose a public property for their own use? Property rights were, notoriously, left clean out of the charter by its draughtsmen. Pshaw, says Justice Valente. Why would anyone think the homeless were claiming a property right? They’re just claiming a right … not to be ejected … from a particular space … that they have exclusively demarcated for themselves. If that sounds a lot like a property right, the error is entirely within your tormented imagination"

Adam Zivo: Canadians see what governments and activists won't admit — homeless crime is a real threat - "A new poll shows that many Canadians feel less safe because of homeless violence and believe that the government is not effectively addressing homelessness. For years, soft-on-crime activists and their allies have tried to bury this issue, but it is clear based on public sentiment that this needs to change. The poll, conducted by Leger in partnership with Postmedia, shows that: 58 per cent of Canadians believe that homelessness is an issue in their community; 46 per cent feel less safe in their community because of homelessness; and 39 per cent believe that homelessness has led to more violence in their community. These numbers strikingly rebuke the “everything is fine and crime at homeless encampments isn’t serious” propaganda that some activists, bureaucrats and media figures have spent years championing. As I’ve reported previously, pro-encampment activists have viciously harassed and physically threatened victims of homeless violence who dare speak up about their experiences. Meanwhile, bleeding-heart journalists have done all sorts of mental gymnastics to minimize crime. Politicians and government bureaucrats have been no better. Toronto hired an ombudsman to investigate the 2021 eviction of several violent homeless encampments where guns, drugs and assaults were constant issues. The ombudsman subsequently released an outrageous 41-page interim report that largely ignored the criminal activity at the sites. Similarly, in Vancouver, Mayor Kennedy Stewart told Chinatown residents that crime wasn’t an issue — despite Chinese seniors being terrified of leaving their homes due to frequent stabbings... Thirty-five per cent say that government actions are not making an impact, while 31 per cent are unaware that the government is doing anything about homelessness at all. Over twice as many people believe that the government is actually making things worse than better (16 per cent versus seven per cent). It’s clear, though, that Canadians want common-sense solutions. Overwhelming majorities support increased policing to address homeless violence (69 per cent), while also bolstering social supports to get vulnerable people back on their feet. Almost everyone wants more funding for mental health (88 per cent), shelters (85 per cent) and homeless-targeted employment programs (84 per cent). That makes sense. There’s nothing inconsistent about simultaneously addressing the root causes of homelessness (i.e. mental health and insufficient housing), while also protecting neighbourhoods from violence. Robust policing and social assistance can, and should, go hand in hand — which is why it’s frustrating when pro-encampment activists portray them as mutually exclusive in an effort to derail conversations about crime. As of now, all levels of government seem committed to doing the bare minimum. From the 1960s to the 2000s, Canada shut down most of its mental health institutions due to legitimate concerns about inhumane treatment. But the mentally ill were subsequently just dumped outside, where they could hurt themselves and others. More recently, there has been scarce leadership on addressing Canada’s housing shortage, especially regarding affordable housing... Only 25 per cent of Canadians believe that individuals have the right to set up tents in public spaces (i.e., empty lots, parks and ravines). However, if respondents had been asked that question twice and been forced to differentiate between encampments that respect their surroundings and those that don’t, I suspect we would’ve seen important variations based on encampment behaviour."
From 2022

Adam Zivo: Crime at homeless encampments is becoming a national problem - "the City of Toronto filed a 29-page court submission that cited numerous safety concerns at such encampments, including “frequent” violent incidents, problems with human trafficking, as well as threats of violence against city workers and park visitors. The city noted that visitors, particularly seniors and families, were afraid to enter some parks. As encampments tended to pop up in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, the burden of this crime was disproportionately felt by the poor, as well as by individuals who lack the ability to physically defend themselves, such as children, seniors and the disabled. A former encampment in Toronto’s Alexandra Park neighbourhood is an example of this. As I reported last summer, before being evicted, that encampment was a hotbed of fighting, sexual assaults, gun threats and drug dealing. Surrounding residents were primarily low-income and racialized, with a large refugee population. Encampment violence meant that refugee children had no access to safe green space or outdoor programming, while children in wealthier neighbourhoods could safely play outside. Low-income elderly and disabled residents were essentially confined to their apartments, oftentimes without air conditioning, despite the sweltering heat. In Vancouver, consequence-free homeless violence has also disproportionately impacted the poor. After a worker at a pizzeria was threatened with a knife because she refused to give a man an entire pizza for free, some Vancouverites astutely noted that harassment and threats disproportionately affect minimum wage service workers, who directly deal with the public while having little control over their own working conditions. But this crime doesn’t just impact the poor. In Victoria, encampment-related violence in Beacon Hill Park was so bad in 2020 that some city staff, whose offices were nearby, were quietly relocated for their safety. City staff were also advised to work in pairs or groups when in high risk areas, and it was later revealed that an encampment dweller was breaking and entering into nearby homes while armed with an axe. As all of this was happening, the City of Victoria claimed that there was no safety issue. These accounts of homeless violence align with my own experiences living next to an encampment in Toronto’s gay village. Personally, I got tired of hearing addicts screaming derogatory slurs, such as “fa–ot,” and threatening each other, as well as the general public, with violence. It wasn’t great when a local addict assaulted my ex, either, or when another addict threatened to smash the doorway to my lobby with a plantar as I held it shut to keep him out. Encampment crime is a serious issue, but there has been a concerted effort in some circles to pretend it isn’t happening. The CBC even re-branded an encampment chop shop as people “repairing bicycles.” Throughout my reporting on encampments, I frequently spoke with people who witnessed or experienced harassment, but were afraid to speak out because, when they did, they were condemned for “stigmatizing” encampment dwellers. From my experiences, those who shut down conversations about encampment violence were disproportionately well-off and insulated from crime. Hell hath no fury like indignant hipsters who shriek about “stigmatizing” criminals while living and working in safe neighbourhoods. Unfortunately, many political and bureaucratic elites tend to also fall into this camp — bleeding hearts who are comfortable with crime because it doesn’t affect them. Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart, for example, continues to claim that his city is perfectly safe, despite constant issues with violent crime. How many more people need to get stabbed before he acknowledges what everyone else can see? In contrast, Toronto Mayor John Tory did the right thing last summer and supported the eviction of three particularly violent encampments... When the ombudsman’s report was mentioned in a recent city council meeting, Tory and his allies doubled down and commended city staff for following through with the evictions, despite being followed home by pro-encampment activists and spat on."
From 2022

Encampment resident blocks exit, closes rec centre - "The refusal of a man from an encampment to cease blocking an emergency exit at Central Memorial Recreation Centre intermittently over several days led to closing the building and suspending programs."
This won't stop the pro-homeless people virtue signalling

Two charged after Calgary encampment search leads to stolen goods - "Calgary police have charged two individuals after a search of an encampment uncovered stolen goods and a prohibited firearm.  On Oct. 5, members of the Calgary Police Service’s Community Engagement Response Team (CERT) attended an encampment in the 5000 block of 24 Street S.E. There were multiple tents and structures set up in a fielded area. Upon arrival, officers discovered stolen items, including bicycles, tools and a gas generator... Approximately $40,000 worth of stolen property was seized from the encampment, of which an estimated $15,000 was returned to break-and-enter victims. One returned item was a high-value guitar. Officers received a hand-written note from the child of the victim expressing gratitude for returning the item."

Denver Spent $150 Million in Untracked Expenses for Homeless Shelters, Audit Reveals - "Denver’s Department of Housing Stability has been unable to provide a comprehensive breakdown of an estimated $149.6 million in taxpayer funds spent in the two-year time frame, according to a 51-page audit published Thursday by the Denver Auditor’s Office... The expenses were paid through 1,599 invoices. Of the 40 invoices that Denver auditor Timothy O’Brien reviewed, 55 percent were submitted late for expenses and 30 percent were submitted past the deadline for reimbursement requests."
Clearly the problem is they don't get enough money and if you don't think that, you're cruel and "the cruelty is the point"

Thorolf Butter on X - "NGOs for homelessness or addiction generally have little incentive to solve either. The presence of social services programs will also attract homeless people from outside the region. Most of the visible homeless have smartphones and will relocate for access to welfare programs"
Elon Musk on X - "The “save the homeless” NGOs are often paid according to how many homeless people are on the streets, thus creating a strong financial incentive for them to maximize the number of homeless people and never actually solve the problem! Incentives explain outcomes."
Tim Pool on X - "I worked at a shelter network. They lied to people saying they were full and needed more space. Truth was homeless hate being in shelters and they were empty"
Fancy on X - "A family member is an alcoholic. She would rather sleep in the streets than sleep in our family home where she can’t feel comfortable getting fall down drunk. They are all like this. They want to be free to live the way they want. It has nothing to do with no options."

Meme - Elon Musk @elonmusk: "This illustrates why the term “homeless” is misleading. The vast majority of those on the streets are there due to severe drug addiction and/or mental illness.   The issue not that they got a little behind in their mortgage payments and would be back on their feet if someone just offered them a job."
Tiffany Caban: "Jordan Neely deserved better than the violence of being denied access to stable housing and health care, and then dehumanized for it. Jordan Neely deserved better than the systems that allow for, and justify, extrajudicial white supremacist violence against Black people."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "As part of a plea agreement with prosecutors after he punched a 67- year old woman in the street in 2021, Jordan Neely was given free access to stable housing and health care at a treatment facility in the Bronx. He abandoned the facility after 13 days."

Philadelphia is a nice city and you should visit🔔 on X - "So something I think needs to be addressed about the "homeless on the subway" situation is what do we do about people who are *NOT* physically disruptive but do things like take up entire corners of the train or smell so bad that entire cars empty out. I don't think we should kick people off trains for smelling bad but it is a real problem when during the winter basically every other car you get into smells like literal shit."
Dr Ally Louks on X - "This is likely to be one of my more controversial takes, but ultimately the smell produced by a homeless person taking shelter from the cold on public transport is *harmless*. It might be unpleasant, but it can be tolerated (or avoided) in the name of compassion."
TracingWoodgrains on X - "I don't want subways to turn into homeless shelters in the name of compassion, I want subways to turn into subways in the name of functionality.   If you try to route a problem into a domain not designed for it in the name of compassion, you're left with two problems."
Left wingers want to destroy public transit by letting the homeless, drug users etc menace riders, but also want to force people to use public transport at the same time. The cruelty is the point

Hunter Ash on X - "I told you. The reason the smell PhD is not just silly but evil is because it leads directly to policy proposals that require us all to tolerate stink. “Your discomfort only counts if I decide it’s legitimate”"

Community washrooms a potential solution to Canada’s two-tiered system of toilet access - The Globe and Mail - "Toronto now has about 300 public toilets, aside from those in community centres, but most are open only in warmer months. They are often in parks and not necessarily convenient for people walking city streets. Many are also closed overnight. The Toronto Public Space Committee, an advocacy group, is pushing for the city to create a proper network of public toilets.  In Calgary, bureaucrats say that stand-alone public toilets can make patrons feel uneasy – unsure whether the place will be empty and worried about what they might find inside. And they tend to get damaged. A new project in that city packages public toilets with a pickleball court in a bid to prevent vandalism.  Vancouver added temporary toilet facilities in the Downtown Eastside with attendants to monitor and help patrons. However, the province did not renew funding, and the city had to find money internally to keep the program going past this month. In Winnipeg, the full-service offering comes with a higher continuing price than most toilets. Amoowigamig, which means public washroom in Ojibwe, costs about $36,000 a month to keep open 16 hours a day. But it meets people where they’re at.  The toilets are in the heart of what’s known as the local skid row. Next door is a community centre that has been stripped of valuable materials, closed and fenced off. Homeless people cluster nearby and many Winnipeggers speak fearfully of the area... At those moments, it’s not the homeless-person toilet, it’s the community washroom.  That same sense of local ownership is what Calgary is trying to achieve with its planned toilet and pickleball court project... The project began construction last month and is scheduled to open in October. It is pegged to cost a bit more than $1-million, for four universal washroom stalls, the pickleball court and spectator seating. It replaces a pair of self-cleaning automated toilets that ran into maintenance problems and allegations of improper use.  Like many other North American cities, Calgary is generally short of public toilets. And Ms. LePan acknowledged that the money being spent on this facility could go a lot further if spent strictly on toilets. But she argued that could leave them open to the same deterioration as before... Citing the success but high cost of the Amoowigamig facility, Councillor Russ Wyatt argued that toilet access could be provided by opening up government buildings and those housing institutions funded by government. City staff also proposed incentives to encourage local businesses to open their bathrooms to non-patrons, an idea that has worked well in Germany. But Councillor Vivian Santos argued that publicly available toilets without social assistance were worse than none at all. She introduced a motion at a council committee in early March that led to the idea being nixed.  “Yes, we need washrooms,” Ms. Santos said in a subsequent interview. “But without the appropriate wraparound supports to mitigate some of these mental-health issues and overdose issues, unfortunately, it would fail.”"
Besides huge sticker costs, pro-homeless policies also have hidden costs. Pro-crime policies have similar hidden costs
Good luck cleaning up government buildings and housing institutions, and too bad for the normal people in those places who will feel unsafe

Horwath calls on government to step up game on homelessness - "Mayor Andrea Horwath has renewed Hamilton’s call for more upper-level government funding to tackle homelessness in light of a new report that shows the crisis in Ontario will only worsen without substantial action.  Horwath calls the roughly $75 million in additional funding that Premier Doug Ford’s Tory government announced in December “a start,” but not enough for municipalities across the province to respond to the crisis.  “The funding is welcome. The new programs are welcome. But the scale of the problem far outweighs the amount of resources being made available,” she told The Spectator.  But if Hamilton wants more funding from her government, the city should demonstrate how it’s spending $158 million it approved in 2024 to combat the crisis, local Tory MPP Donna Skelly argues... Between 2016 and 2024, funding for housing and homelessness programs in Ontario increased from $1.9 billion to $4.1 billion, with municipalities covering 51.5 per cent of that freight."
Of course, the left wingers were bashing her. Accountability is bad when it hurts the left wing agenda

AITAH for not allowing my daughter to travel to India?

Naturally this was removed by a moderator. But the valuable insights in the comments (including from Indians) remain, even if some have been deleted by mods:

AITAH for not allowing my daughter to travel to India? : r/AITAH

"Indian woman here! Growing up with men constantly leering at you or molesting you, it’s definitely not safe. I’m sure she’ll be able to take care of herself but it’s genuinely not worth it! You should watch Angry Indian Goddesses with her. Beautiful movie, based in Goa, has a message she needs to see. Indian men are absolutely intolerable to be around, they won’t give you a moment to breathe 😭😭" 

"Indian guy here, I'd strongly urge you to stomp your foot down and say no to her. Traveling to India as a white female without any males, that too at the age of 19 is a very bad idea. Goa isn't that safe either. One has to do quite a bit of research before coming to India & also have that wit and presence of mind, which your 19 year old daughter surely lacks. Better to be safe than sorry." 

"I saw a comment last week on a different post about how a friend had admitted that her and her friend had been raped on two separate occasions on their trip in India. People had warned them not to go but they didn't listen. It is just a simple fact that it is not a safe country for women, especially white foreigners. Do not relent on this one." 

"if you search for rape cases involving foreign women in Goa, there are a staggering number of articles from over the years." 

"SIL was assaulted in Goa while jogging. Don’t let her go"  

"I absolutely agree with you. I'm a white woman who was married to an Indian man. When we went i was always swarmed by men the second my ex-husband left my side it was terrible honestly. Unless her father goes with her i would probably not allow her to go either. The problem is that no doesn't mean no there and women are not held in high esteem. My in-laws absolutely believed that white women were easy and they were looked upon as sluts, unfortunately. I may get downvoted for this but this is what I was told." 
"What your in laws believe is a very common association even now and even among the youth. In dharamsala I met a half french half african (I don't remember which french colony) woman who struck up a friendship with her Airbnb hosts son, who took it as a sign of she wants to sleep w me (yay), and his mother the host took it as a sign of this foreigner wants to ruin my son and suddenly kicked her out and this girl had nowhere to go in the middle of the night. It's wild to me because even that excuse of Western porn can't apply anymore but it's all within that fetishisation of whiteness. Justice is also very hard for foreigners when our system is so slow and requires them to spend personal funds to return for multiple court dates. I'm very sorry about your experiences, hope you've managed to have a better visit."

"I'm an Indian man and I'd say no to this as well. India is not a place of spirituality like people think it is. I had the chance to travel around India and...it's just men. It's just groups of men roaming around." 

"I can't speak to the safety of Goa, but my gf grew up in Delhi, where these days if you're a lone woman driving late at night and the police try and pull you over, you officially don't have to stop - because there have been so many incidents of women being raped by the police"
"there are horrific stories of women being attacked and getting sent to the hospital, only to have doctors and staff alike continue the abuse. It’s literally the rape capitol of the world…" 

 

"dude, a Korean travel youtuber said the SAME exact thing your daughter said. All her friends and family were like " yeah don't go, it's very unsafe " and she just brushed it off and said she's going to have a fun week in India.

Second she landed she just kept getting stared at, followed, and talked to. I think she gave a few hugs that lingered a little to long. Guys just walking up to her asking for selfies. At one point she got hit by a moped and the police actually responded by forcing the moped driver to take her to the hospital. Just the constant vigilance and guys walking up asking for s3x and grabbing at her was just too exhausting for her. So she took the next flight out of the country and was just crying as she left.

Oh yeah she would have to run into hotel lobbies and ask the staff to tell the men following her to leave her alone.

Plenty of stories of lone female travelers who STUDY the culture and speak the language getting harassed and assaulted. Even local women who travel randomly get assaulted."

 

"Compared to other places it's safer. But it's like saying rat poison is safer than cyanide. At the end of the day, both are poisonous.

I'm from South of India and my friends have done solo trips to goa, but they were ogled at, catcalled and approached by random strangers. But nothing bad happened.

I had travelled in mixed groups, but never saw any issues with the females in our group. Guess people leave mixed groups alone"

 

"Goa is one of the relatively safer places but keyword being relatively.

I was born and raised in India and I wouldn't recommend going there to anyone (white or not, male or female). I have friends and family there and go back once in a while but even then bringing a friend back there isn't something I would do.

Tell her to pick another beach location, there's a billion places much better than Goa and safer."

 

"Goa is I think geared a bit more for tourists.

Hand on heart I would not allow my young adult child whatever their sex to go to India.

I hate saying it, I have family in India. And it’s not a safe place, especially for women.

And you’ve got to bribe everyone to function.

And if god forbid anything happened, where would your daughter even think of beginning to get help from? Where would you?

If she honestly had wealthy friends with family there it would be fine. But not as two female white western tourists. Teen bravado will not get her far there." 

 

"I am indian (grew up there). Yes, goa is safer than most of India. No, Goa is not safe. It's known for parties and foreigners so while there is a lot of tourists, there are also creepy men who are there specifically to sleep with foreigners. I would also not let her go to India at 19.

It is a difficult stance to take but I absolutely think it's the right one. She can go when she's older and more well travelled.

My friend (white American man who is 6ft tall) had some terrifying experiences while in India. Not in Goa, but enough that he won't go back without a guide he trusts."

 

"Goa isn't proper south though. Lots of tourists from all over India. And most men think White women are characterless and therefore fair game. I'm Indian and believe me, I went to Goa as a ninth grader with family. The stares I got even as a child is kind of disturbing.

South Indian states like Kerala and Tamilnadu are considered quite safer than the Northern States."

 

"I just recently came back from India had to go there due to work. I am "kinda white" petite and young looking. Honestly I plan on never coming back not even if my work says it is mandatory. I was in danger at least 6 times. I highly suggest not to let your daughter go.

Show her videos or testimonials so she can see that it is for her safety."

 

"Indian woman here. I have a 17 yo niece and there's no way she's going to Goa until she's 25 and has a massive group of friends that I've personally vetted.

Controlling makes sense if she wants to go to countries THAT HAVE LAWS AND CULTURES THAT PROTECT THEIR WOMEN.

Forget about who's paying, it's India. Unless the host family can assign bodyguards, NO.

I hope OP sticks to their guns. His daughter can be big mad now but one day she will thank him for standing his ground."

 

"Hi, so I’m an Indian girl and i moved to the UK when I was younger and I’m in South India currently - I would not recommend for your daughter to come here at all because even though the south is considered safer it’s not as safe as she might be thinking. Goa is also known as the party place which in itself is fine but definitely not safe especially if it’s two young girls travelling alone

(For context: when visiting extending family they never let us travel alone even in a taxi, without a male relative)"

 

"I wouldn’t let her. My mom is very high up in the tech world and it’s one of the only countries that they give her a full time security teams when she goes.

She also spends a lot of time in Columbia and they don’t do that. I actually can’t think of another country she currently goes to that they do this."

 

"Im from New Zealand, I'm white and I went to India in 2016 with my sister who is also white. We went to attend an Indian friend of her's wedding. I was 19 at the time and she was 21.

I made sure to be with her 24/7 when we were in public but bad things still happened. On one of our final days there we were going to walk from the place we were staying to the home of her friends family which was about a 10 minute walk. I was still putting on my shoes and she was waiting impatiently before deciding that she would just leave start and I could catch up. So she left a few minutes before me.

This was the only single time I was not with her in public.

I didn't catch up to her, I couldn't find her on the streets to the friends house so I show up there and there is a crowd of people in one of the bedrooms and I hear hysteric crying.

Turns out that while she was walking to the house, some men had approached her and asked her for sex. She said no and they began to chase her and were joined by other men in a van. She sprinted to the house where they zoomed after her and even chased her inside the property and tried to smash down the front door. Fortunately in many Indian homes there is the front door but behind it normally there is a second large steel gate that is much stronger and while they got through the front door the gate was locked and they didn't get past. The house was also filled with people for the wedding and so heaps of the men chased these guys off the property but they just got into their van and left.

This was not the only incident. I went with her to go to dress fittings, but obviously as her brother didn't want to be in the changing room with her, but I had to be because at the first dress fitting she was groped and 'touched' by the man doing the fitting.

In Jaipur we also had men try to break into our hotel room one night.

I would not recommend travelling to India under any circumstances if you area woman."

 

"This might work for a white male but would never work for a female (even if she's indian) it's the men who are the problem, no matter where you travel across India. But as a man, I don't expect you to get it, unfortunately.

Edit: enriching experience be damned, safety comes first. I'm saying that as an Indian female btw. 

Edit #2: In a good country no one has to be that street smart and cautious 24x7. People travel to enjoy and relax not be on their fucking guard 24x7. Seeing her daughter is white and 19, India shouldn't even be considered as a tourist spot. Maybe, if the father was travelling with her, but definitely not with another female friend. The OP is not a racist, most people calling him so in the comments are just blind to see the problems with their own country. The latter should pick a newspaper once in a while. 

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-lodged-average-86-rapes-daily-49-offences-against-women-per-hour-in-2021-government-data/article65833488.ece

A simple search will tell you the truth, and these are just the reported cases, there is not even a concrete number for the numerous harassments and cat calls on a daily basis. Not to mention, the cases which go unreported because alas, it's the women's fault if she gets raped in India as she will be blamed constantly one way or the other."

 

"I’m an Indian who was born and raised in a Western country. I come off as Arab, Turkish, Malay, or even White due to my extremely pale complexion and ethnically-ambiguous features. I cover up from head to toe but every time I visit India with my family, it doesn’t stop the stares.

Actually, the men on the streets there stare at any women who pass by. Old, young, literal baby. They don’t discriminate- but it’s 1000000X WORSE when you have fair skin, as an Indian I can say that the people there obsess over it. Men will flock to you unsolicited and ask for photos or hit on you- you can even see this gross behaviour on vlogs where female YouTubers are visiting India.

When I was 14, I got my hair pulled “flirtingly” by a group of men behind me at a random street, this was with my entire family at my side btw.

When I visited this year, a random girl came up to me in broken English and asked me for my number, saying she wants to be friends. I gave her a fake number because I didn’t trust her, she didn’t know that I spoke the language or even assumed I was Indian and had been saying some very odd things in my language under her breath, all of which I understood.

Immediately after giving a fake number, I saw her walk over to this creepy group of guys at a far distance and hand the paper over to them. My mum’s best friend got raped when she was a teenager. I’ve been harassed more times than I can count, leaving me feeling extremely disgusted even now. My little sister almost got kidnapped when she was 2. It’s an extremely scary place there- and no it doesn’t matter what area your daughter travels to. I’ve travelled to all parts of India and they’re all extremely unsafe with men varying in levels of danger. Some take photos, some cat call, some outright harass and some rape.

Keep her out of that country at all costs."

Links - 24th October 2025 (1 - Charlie Kirk Assassination)

Meme - The ArchCast: ""But what about free speech!" Mewls the communist as the boot they have been begging for finally arrives."
Rolling Stone: "People Are Losing Their Jobs for Criticizing Slain ‘Free Speech’ Advocate Charlie Kirk"
Rolling Stone: "Why Cancel Culture Is Good for Democracy"
Weird. Left wingers used to tell us that free speech just meant the government couldn't jail you for what you said, and that private parties exercising their freedom of association to not employ people was good

Meme - Pericles @PerryALPHA: "Leftists aren't getting fired for celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder, they're just "opting to get fired""
"Thousands of workers are opting to get fired, rather than take the vaccine"

Meme - Jo @JoJoFromJerz: "His cult of a party wanted to cancel Disney because they didn't agree with banning the word gay."
Jo @JoJoFromJerz: "Boycott everything affiliated with ABC and Disney. Pass it on."

Meme - *Mental Gymnastics*
"He killed a right-wing activist. He left antifascist slogans as a calling card. The shooter is an antifascist"
"He made a gamer reference! All gamers are right-wing! His parents said he was "political," that could mean groyper! This is a right-wing false flag! "If you're reading this you're gay?" Sounds christofascist to me.... "Bella Ciao" could mean anything. His parents are MAGA! I bet it's O9A"

Meme - Paul Barfoot: *fake photo of Tyler Robinson wearing MAGA shirt*
Reising J Jake: "real photo *original photo*
Liberate-America: "Paul Barfoot wow, you look so stupid now. Do you apologize for being a fool? Come on... show you're a man and Say it"
Adam Lowe: "fake photo"
Even in the second half of October I saw left wingers still spouting the fake news about Tyler Robinson being MAGA, but the narrative is more important than facts anyway

Meme - *Say the line Bart!*
"SAY THE FULL QUOTE"
"BUT IT IS VERY EFFECTIVE WHEN IT COMES TO POLITICS. SYMPATHY. PREFER MORE THAN EMPATHY. THAT'S A SEPARATE TOPIC FOR A DIFFERENT TIME"
*Cheering classroom*

Meme - Leftists: "Charlie Kirk said he can't stand the word empathy, therefore he was a terrible person"
"why don't you read the entire quote where he goes on to say he prefers the word sympathy?"
Leftists: "I don't want the entire quote. I just want to hate Charlie Kirk"

The reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder reveals a terrifying truth about the Left - "The truth is that political murder is not a problem only of the last few years. It’s forgotten now, but in the late 19th century Europe suffered a wave of anarchist and nihilist terrorism, now largely expunged from popular memory. Anarchists killed a president of France (Carnot, 1894), a king of Italy (Umberto I, 1900), and an empress of Austria-Hungary (Elisabeth, 1898). Random bombings in public places in Europe and the US killed many entirely innocent people. These events even inspired a great novel, Conrad’s The Secret Agent, based on the failed attempt by the French anarchist Martial Bourdin to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. But you don’t have to go back that far. We all remember the Kennedy assassinations, but we have largely forgotten the wave of political murder in the late 1960s and 70s. The Weather Underground in the US, that targeted the Capitol, the Pentagon, and the American judiciary. The far-Left Red Brigades in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered Aldo Moro, a former prime minister. The Red Army Faction, the Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany, who killed US servicemen, lawyers, policemen, and prominent business people. And of course here at home we had the gangster IRA, which murdered four MPs and came close to killing the PM herself... It is that it’s on the Left that it seems you find most of those ready to equivocate about Charlie Kirk’s murder, to say that somehow “he had it coming”, or even “I didn’t agree with him but he didn’t deserve to be killed” (as if some lower-level sanction, perhaps a beating or gagging on social media, might have been justified). I’m not saying it never happens, but in general people on the right don’t celebrate the murder of their political opponents. Why should this be? The answer, in my view anyway, is that there’s an intellectual virus of sympathy for violence on the Islamo-gauchiste far-Left that goes back quite a long way, a history of supporting and glorifying so-called revolutionary resistance, via Frantz Fanon from Mao to Che Guevara to the Shining Path to Hamas, a view that has seeped into broader Leftist culture, We all know the consequences in real life. Yes, there are exceptions, but it appears to me that a Left-wing mob has a propensity to violence which a Right-wing demonstration does not. No-one expects American cities to be burned down by the Right in reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder as they were after the killing of George Floyd. You don’t find pro-Israel groups wrecking RAF jets or intimidating opponents on election night. To my belief, no-one is frightened by last week’s anti-abortion March for Life in London, but Antifa, or the fringe to the trans movement, are genuinely scary (and if you doubt the latter, read Kathleen Stock on X this week). Too much of the modern Left plays along with this. It is after all they who say “words are violence” or who talk about the structural violence of colonialism or capitalism, language chosen to help justify a violent response. It is they who casually refer to moderate opponents as far-Right, fascists, or even Nazis. And – see Alastair Campbell’s embarrassing apology for asserting that Charlie Kirk advocated stoning gay people to death – it is they who are quick to think the worst of their opponents. It needs to stop."

Charlie Kirk’s killing proves identitarian Leftism is an explicitly violent ideology - "Humanities students now study the works of the likes of Frantz Fanon, the Algerian post-colonialist who suggested that violence could serve as a “cleansing force” that helps the colonised process their subjugation. From this therapeutic perspective, violence loses its negative connotations. It is reframed as an act of self-care, which, in course, dehumanises its victims. For the Left, capitalism and colonialism are tied together, so Fanon’s advocacy for cathartic and violent expression of Algerian identity against the French is readily adaptable to whoever or whatever they perceive to be oppressing them today. They have internalised the sensibility of victimisation, and from this identitarian perspective the so-called victims of the system are thought thoroughly justified in embracing the politics of violence. Just look at their response to the callous cruelty of Kirk’s murder, and observe how the conservative activist has been cast into the role of a non-person and how others are fair game to be targeted. One TikTok post stated, “We need to find people with better aim”, implying that other conservative figures too should be murdered. Others have actively incited people to have a go at killing prominent Right-wing personalities. The podcaster Joe Rogan, the commentator Ben Shapiro and Harry Potter author JK Rowling were just some of the individuals designated as suitable targets of political violence. Listen to Charlotte Hayes, the progressive TikToker, calling on her two-hundred thousand followers to “kill them all!”. And such statements were not just confined to the online world. Spray-painted graffiti saying “Kill All Charlie Kirks” at Seattle Central College illustrates the febrile celebration of violence the student community, just as rap due Bob Vylan’s mocking of Kirk’s killing on Saturday did for Left-wing music fans. One of the tragic consequences of the politicisation of identity is that it renders differences and disputes very personal. Unlike the traditional ideological arguments about competing policies and visions of the world, the politicisation of identity leads to the projection of negative sentiments and hatred towards people holding opposite views. It is principally directed at individuals who are not like them. Smartly dressed Charlie Kirk, a young father of two children, with strong religious beliefs personified someone that in the eyes of Left-wing activists is OK to hate. When they chant “Kill them all” what they really mean is that it is OK to slaughter those who are on the wrong side of the cultural divide. Their unrestrained hatred seamlessly leads to the dehumanisation of their victims. See, for example, the way sections of the Left reacted to the barbaric murders Hamas committed three years ago in Israel on October 7. Their self-satisfied endorsement of this massacre indicates just how much they have become distanced from the norms of civilised democratic behaviour. Or look at the murder of Brian Thompson, the 50-year-old CEO of UnitedHeathcare... We must wise-up to the fact that reactions such as these are not the actions of a few infantile or radicalised individuals, it is baked into the modern Leftist world-view."

Do Australian conservative students feel safe? | The Spectator Australia - "The day the news broke, it was all anyone could talk about. In one of my classes that day, a student asked the teacher what they thought about Charlie Kirk being murdered. While there’s no official transcript of the teacher’s exact words, it was essentially along the lines of, ‘I think it’s great. He kind of deserved it.’ Then, another student spoke up – half-joking, half-testing the boundary. ‘What about Trump? Should he be assassinated too?’ Again, the teacher shrugged and said something along the lines of, ‘Yeah, I hope so. The world would be better off.’ This is deeply concerning. It wasn’t just an inappropriate comment. It was a teacher, an adult, a person in power, endorsing violence. They were expressing joy that someone had been murdered and wishing the same fate on another. And in that moment, two issues became clear. Firstly, the teacher should not have made any political statement at all. Classrooms are not platforms for personal ideology. As noted by the Senate Education and Employment Committee, teachers are expected to remain impartial and avoid letting personal beliefs influence students’ learning or treatment. This is a larger issue in itself, as evidenced by other moments I’ve experienced this year – like when one teacher made our class line up in order of whether we preferred Trump or Obama (the teacher later said they aim to have everyone on the Obama side by the end of the year), or when another continuously casually referred to Trump as a ‘Nazi’ (which I found ironic, considering Trump is a strong supporter of Israel)... Secondly, when an adult in authority says a political figure ‘deserved’ to die, or that they ‘hope’ another is killed, the classroom boundary shifts. The comment does not stay theoretical. It normalises violence as a legitimate endpoint of political disagreement. It replaces debate with elimination. One of the first phrases to appear on my school’s website is their declaration of offering an education where students uphold moral values. I can only wonder what morals ‘murdering people you don’t like’ aligns with. Teachers are not just content-delivery systems. They are role models, whether they want to be or not. Their words carry extra weight because grades, references, and daily approval sit behind them. When a teacher signals that murder is an acceptable outcome for the ‘wrong’ politics, students hear two messages:
To those who oppose the targeted figures: your anger has permission to escalate; murder is sometimes okay and a good thing.
To those who share the targeted ideology: you are not safe here. The adult in charge would prefer certain people like you to be dead.
A student in that second group could reasonably think, ‘If my teacher wants someone of my ideology dead, how am I safe in this room? Will my marks suffer if I speak up? Will my classmates pile on because the teacher set the tone?’ Even if no mark is ever changed, the chilling effect is real. Silence becomes self-defence. That is not education. That is intimidation by ambience. Cultures are built from countless moments where adults either raise the standard or lower it. Every time authority figures treat violent talk as witty or righteous, they sand down the taboo. They make extremity feel normal. For a tiny, unstable minority, ‘normal’ becomes action. That is why leaders across politics denounce violence even against opponents they despise: not because they’ve suddenly turned into friends, but because they understand that permission is contagious. Open political discussion is healthy – when done properly. As a politically active student, I’ve found the best teachers are the ones who keep the centre steady, invite competing views, and create a space where disagreement sharpens you, not silences you. But what I experienced in that lesson is different. Hoping someone is assassinated is not ‘joining the debate’. It is the opposite of debate... Schools like mine will claim to prioritise respect, impartiality, and student wellbeing – and on paper, they do. But the evidence clearly does not show this. Politics in the classroom is at higher levels than ever, fuelled by an increasingly radicalised media landscape and online echo chambers. The last thing we need is teachers, the very people meant to model calm, informed behaviour, engaging in lies, hate, and promoting violence. If a classroom cannot keep faith with words over violence, we will keep waking up to headlines that ask, again and again, how a child learned to believe that killing is an answer."
Time to blame the "far right" for violence and to jail them

Martyrs of free speech | The Spectator Australia - "His death silenced a career and destabilised a network built to expand democratic discourse. Authoritarian regimes go after precisely this kind of structure because it sustains the habit of disagreement. Kirk was combative, yet his instinct was engagement rather than annihilation. He thrived on questions from hostile audiences, often letting critics speak at length before responding point by point. He did not expect synthesis, yet he insisted that disagreement could be aired without contempt. His model was to keep adversaries talking, even when consensus was impossible. That discipline of encounter – argumentative without being insulting – is what separates democratic conflict from the endless sneer of partisanship. Kirk understood something many politicians forget: democracies require conflict. Arguments, however heated, reveal where societies strain and where they can bend. His campus debates forced both supporters and opponents to spell out their positions under pressure, producing information no focus group could ever supply. Australia reveals how democracies can suffocate debate without firing a shot. The problem here comes from inside the walls. Dissent is often strangled before it has a chance to be heard. Senator Jacinta Price discovered this when she remarked that high immigration tends to benefit governments in power – an observation well within the mainstream of political science. Like Kirk, Price’s approach was straightforward without being inflammatory, empirical without being accusatory. Instead of counter-argument, she faced censure from her own colleagues: opposition leader Sussan Ley and manager of opposition business Alex Hawke. The claim was treated as taboo-breaking rather than a hypothesis to be tested."

Autism Capital 🧩 on X - "🚨 NEW: Ilhan Omar says Charlie Kirk’s legacy should be “left in the dustbin of history.”"
FischerKing on X - "If some right-wing fanatic shot Greta Thunberg, and some GOP congressman went on TV and said this - it would end his career."

Where is America’s 9/11 spirit? | The Spectator Australia - "There was no “But” in Sanders’s condemnation of Kirk’s assassination, no self-righteous enumeration of his countless – and doubtlessly vehement – disagreements with Kirk, and no attempt to put political points on the board. Only a sincere expression of condolences and articulation of unifying principles. All was as it should be. Sadly, Sanders’s words were made all the more moving by their loneliness... The day after Kirk fell, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) joined Mehdi Hasan for a session in which they – among other indignities – mocked the self-evident truth that Kirk believed in the power of civil debate. Reps. Dave Min (D-CA) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA), meanwhile, glibly attempted to make a political profit off of Kirk’s murder by misleading the public about the perpetrator. “Now that the Charlie Kirk assassin has been identified as MAGA, I’m sure Donald Trump, Elon Musk and all the insane GOP politicians who called for retribution against the ‘RADICAL LEFT’ will now shift their focus to stopping the toxic violence of the RADICAL RIGHT,” mused Min. “It doesn’t matter that Kirk’s killer was a straight white male. Or that he was from a Republican family that voted for Donald Trump. Violence has NEVER been the answer,” submitted Swalwell. Let the reader understand: authorities have identified the alleged shooter as a man “deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology” whose partner was transgender. Kirk was shot while discussing the phenomenon of transgender mass shooters... Twenty-four years ago, Americans came together to face a common enemy. Today, they’re coming together on opposing sides of a battlefield, tragically convinced that their enemies have lived next door all along."
The left wingers who realise that they were spreading misinformation will not acknowledge that Democratic politicians joined in the fun too

Natalie Jean Beisner on X - "Not for nothing, but Charlie Kirk married a woman five years older than he. Mrs. Charlie Kirk will be 37 in November. She also double majored in political science and international relations. She played basketball at the collegiate level. She was Miss Arizona USA and competed for Miss USA. She has a Juris Master degree and a doctorate in Christian leadership. She worked in modeling, acting, and as a casting director. She’s the CEO of Proclaim Streetwear and Bible in 365. She has a podcast, and as of this year, she was apparently working as a real estate agent. All that to say that those spreading the lie that Charlie was some depraved misogynist who believed in denigrating women and needed some mousy wife at home to live under his boot, not only aren’t listening to his words but also aren’t looking at his life and the woman he chose to make a wife. Did he believe in biblical gender roles? Yes, it seems like he did. Did he question whether young women should go to college? Yes, but he also questioned whether young people should go at all. Did he fall in love with and make a wife of a Christian woman who had her own life and degrees and accomplishments and even—gasp—made her own money? Yeah, seems like he did. So can everyone just stop now?"

Larry Elder | Facebook - "The Trump-deranged part of the American left shed more tears for illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia—MS-13 gang member, wife beater, trafficker of illegal aliens and solicitor of nude photographs from a minor—than for Charlie Kirk, a hero to conservatives."

Vance Claims Charlie Kirk Didn't Belittle Black Women: VIDEO - Comic Sands
Left wingers demonstrating their abysmal comprehension skills again (as on George Takei's Facebook - given how often his team spam this site Comic Sands, they must own it). You cannot teach someone who refuses to learn

Meme - Nurses Against Dick Pics.: "Fuck him."
"Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to steal a white person's slot." - Charlie Kirk, July 2023
Readers added context: "He did not say this, he mentioned Specific individuals being DEI hires and them not having the brain power to be taken seriously. His comment was intentionally misconstrued to make him seem racist. Its worth noting the title of this video is not accurate to its contents"
Frank J. Fleming: "The left invent an imaginary version of you in their heads and sometimes get so angry at this imaginary version of you that they murder the real you."

Andy Ngo on X - ""You've been training your whole life for this, guys." The Antifa subreddit on @Reddit has made a post saying why Charlie Kirk and those like him deserve to be killed. To smear him, they reference a Media Matters @mmfa hit piece and tell their comrades to arm themselves with weapons. The post echoes the Antifa belief that if you speak with a "Nazi," you are also one and should be subject to death."
Colin Wright on X - "Groups like Media Matters publish defamatory hit pieces, saturated with extreme rhetoric designed to inflame violent actors. MM currently has 2 articles that label me "anti-trans" and suggest that I'm campaigning to deny mental-health care to suicidal children. These are dangerous lies."

Andy Ngo on X - "The Antifa cell in Corvallis, Ore. has published an after-action report on the fallout from Charlie Kirk’s assassination. They admit fearing the loss of their ability to mark conservatives for death with no pushback — especially as some apolitical institutions, groups and businesses now feel safer expressing sympathy to Kirk’s family and supporters. They also concede that attacks on @seanfeucht ’s Christian worship events have been a PR disaster, with cameras showing masked Antifa militants assaulting families and children at those events. To counter a possible cultural shift away from their dehumanization tactics that are mainstream on the left, Antifa suggest exploiting divisions on the right to divide and conquer. They suggest using Israel as the wedge issue."

Erik on X - "As a lifelong Democrat, I didn’t know what to make of Charlie Kirk. I’ve since spent several lunch breaks watching his debates (FULL videos) and have come away with the impression that we got him all wrong. The reaction from those on my side of the aisle have really made me rethink whether we’re on the right side of history. Well, I’m crossing the aisle—I just registered as a Republican. Anyone else?"

Walter Kirn on X - "No one is going to buy the left's reinvention itself as some libertarian champion of free expression. Not after the decade of woke mania. Not after their misinformation and disinformation crusades. Not after their witch hunts over micro aggressions etc. Not after making campuses and offices zones of fear and intimidation for everyone with the slightest traces of unorthodoxy. They have just chained themselves to an issue on which they have no, even negative, credibility and a record of infinite hypocrisy and bad faith. It's going to go very poorly indeed because in about fifteen minutes they will want to reclaim their old controlling, authoritarian ways."

Rob Jenkins on X - "Remember reading about how Hitler would visit college campuses just to have conversations with young people? He’d tell them things like, “Get married and have kids” and “become the best version of yourself.” Then he’d let them say whatever they wanted and politely debate them."

Hodgetwins on X - "We shouldn’t be surprised that the left thinks the shooter is Conservative They think men are women"

𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐡 on X - "If you believe people deserve to be shot for their opinions don’t cry when you get fired for yours."

HowlingMutant on X - "If you as a leftist want to understand why people are upset about the Charlie Kirk assassination try to picture it happening to someone you empathize with, like a black rapist or something"

Benny Johnson on X - "BREAKING: A family member of Lance Twiggs, who was the transgender “boyfriend” of Charlie Kirk’s assassin, Tyler Robinson says family cut ties with Twiggs due to his “hostility toward anyone supporting conservative or Christian values” and confirm Robinson lived with him."
Clearly, Tyler Robinson was a Conservative