Links - 31st August 2026 (1 - Covid-19)

Vaccine passports: Threat to liberty or the only way out of lockdown? - "“If you look at some of the language used even during the convoy, it was ethics language. It was informed consent; it was around freedom and liberty and coercion,” said co-author Maxwell Smith, director of Western University’s Centre for Bioethics.  “These are profoundly ethical ideas. We need to confront that these are the sorts of concerns that people have and motivate things like the convoy. We need to get ahead of them to actually ask: were these measures coercive? Do they infringe on freedom in a way that we think is unethical or unjust?”... Smith and his colleagues propose that as three factors increase  — pathogenicity, meaning the ability of the virus to harm the person infected, the prevalence of the virus itself and the protective effects of any vaccine — so, too, do the justifications for considering vaccine certificates. Lower levels, they said, diminish the justification. In addition, “we then need to determine when we, collectively, think a pathogen is ‘sufficiently’ severe, prevalent, etc to. justify the use of vaccine certificates,” Smith said...  “If we don’t try to answer those questions and maybe try to socialize those answers with the Canadian public, we’ll be facing the exact same protests or confusion or contention with a future threat that we faced during COVID,” Smith said... Critics have called them “scientifically questionable,” polarizing and stigmatizing —  part of far-reaching policies that imposed “the largest infringement on civil rights and liberties in living memory.”  They were originally based on several objectives: prevent transmission and make dining indoors and other gatherings safer, and reduce the burden of illness, disease and death. While the shots reduce the risk of severe outcomes, it became clear they weren’t providing “sterilizing” immunity, meaning complete protection. Vaccinated people could still get infected, and infect others. Immunity wanes over months.  An absence of sterilizing immunity — a vaccine that completely interrupts transmission of the virus — weakens the case for vaccine certificates, the paper says.... How much impact vaccine certificates had during COVID is hard to disentangle, said University of Toronto medical microbiologist and infectious diseases specialist Dr. Allison McGeer...  One study estimated that 290,168 additional people in Canada received their first dose in the seven weeks after provinces announced proof-of-vaccination polices, “a 17.5 per cent increase over the number of vaccinations estimated in the absence of these policies.” But it was short lived: Uptake returned to “preannouncement levels,” or lower, within six weeks. The mandates remained in place for at least four months... they said it isn’t enough to satisfy the three conditions set out in their paper alone. Other considerations  include whether the use of vaccine certificates “represents a tolerable approach to balancing public health aims with individual liberty and autonomy.”  “Questions such as this cannot be answered by science alone,” the paper reads. “Determining the point at which benefits are sufficient to justify proof-of-vaccination requirements requires making value judgments about what outcomes matter most (and for whom), what measures are necessary (and for whom) and whether those measures are proportionate or legitimate.”"
Covid vaccines didn't reduce transmission, so.

Covid vaccines may have helped fuel rise in excess deaths - "Covid vaccines could be partly to blame for the rise in excess deaths since the pandemic, scientists have suggested.  Researchers from The Netherlands analysed data from 47 Western countries and discovered there had been more than three million excess deaths since 2020, with the trend continuing despite the rollout of vaccines and containment measures.  They said the “unprecedented” figures “raised serious concerns” and called on governments to fully investigate the underlying causes, including possible vaccine harms.  Writing in the BMJ Public Health, the authors from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, said: “Although Covid-19 vaccines were provided to guard civilians from suffering morbidity and mortality by the Covid-19 virus, suspected adverse events have been documented as well.  “Both medical professionals and citizens have reported serious injuries and deaths following vaccination to various official databases in the Western World.”  They added: “During the pandemic, it was emphasised by politicians and the media on a daily basis that every Covid-19 death mattered and every life deserved protection through containment measures and Covid-19 vaccines. In the aftermath of the pandemic, the same moral should apply.”   The study found that across Europe, the US and Australia there had been more than one million excess deaths in 2020, at the height of the pandemic, but also 1.2 million in 2021 and 800,000 and 2022 after measures were implemented.  Researchers said the figure included deaths from Covid-19, but also the “indirect effects of the health strategies to address the virus spread and infection”.  They warned that side effects linked to the Covid vaccine had included ischaemic stroke, acute coronary syndrome and brain haemorrhage, cardiovascular diseases, coagulation, haemorrhages, gastrointestinal events and blood clotting. German researchers have pointed out that the onset of excess mortality in early 2021 in the country coincided with the rollout of vaccines, which the team said “warranted further investigation”... Researchers said that it was “likely” that the impact of containment measures, restricted healthcare and socioeconomic upheaval during the pandemic had contributed to deaths, although accepted that was difficult to prove.  Gordon Wishart, chief medical officer at Check4Cancer, and visiting professor of cancer surgery at Anglia Ruskin University, warned repeatedly that delaying cancer diagnosis would lead to deaths.  “It was predicted early in the lockdown period that limited access to healthcare for non-Covid conditions would lead to delays in the diagnosis and treatment of time-critical conditions such as cancer, cardiac disease, diabetes and dementia and that this would lead to excess deaths from these conditions,” he said.  NHS England data shows that per 100,000 people the cancer incidence was 521 in the pre-lockdown year, then fell to 456 in 2020-2021, suggesting around 45,000 cancers were missed in the first pandemic year.  The incidence rate rose to 540 per 100,000 the following year suggesting many cancers were diagnosed late, when treatment would be less effective.  Speaking about the potential for vaccine harm, Mr Wishart added: “The authors are correct to point out that many vaccine-related serious adverse events may have been unreported, and point to the fact that the simultaneous onset of excess mortality and Covid vaccination in Germany is worthy of further investigation on its own."

Primary school teacher, 50, pretended she had COVID after killing cheating boyfriend during sex game - and used 10 day isolation from 'illness' to bury him in the backyard, court hears - "Fiona Beal, 50, lured builder Nick Billingham into the bedroom for sex then knifed him in the neck when he was tied to the bed on November 1, 2021... His mummified body was found four months later wrapped in sheeting in a makeshift grave after Beal's journals - where she plotted the killing as her alter ego 'Tulip22' - were found by police, it was said.  Beal then spent months using her partner's phone to message his friends and relatives pretending he was still alive and had moved in with another woman"

Hospital exhausted blood supply trying to save wellness influencer’s life after free birth, Victorian coroner hears - "A hospital exhausted its supply of a wellness influencer’s blood type in an unsuccessful attempt to save her life as she bled uncontrollably after a free birth at home, a court has been told. Stacey Warnecke, 30, was with her husband, Nathan Warnecke, and unregulated doula Emily Lal when she delivered her son at her Melbourne home... Warnecke’s death was reported to police and Nathan Warnecke provided a statement to detectives, but Lal refused. When officers went to examine Warnecke’s home the next day, they also found the house had been extensively cleaned by Lal. Warnecke elected not to receive any health care during her pregnancy, including declining ultra sounds and appointments with a midwife or obstetrician. She wanted to give birth at home and contacted Lal, who also promoted herself as a free birth “keeper” on social media... Warnecke’s interactions with Lal will form part of the coroner’s investigation into her death, Ellyard said. The 30-year-old’s thoughts on the healthcare system, the decisions around her birth plan and broader attitudes following the Covid-19 pandemic will also be examined in a future inquest. The court was told Warnecke was a qualified nutritionist who promoted a healthy and “chemical-free” lifestyle on social media. It appeared she was profoundly affected by the Covid mandates and those concerns influenced her decision-making during pregnancy and birth, Ellyard said. Victoria’s health complaints commissioner announced in October it was investigating Lal over allegations she was facilitating or participating in home births that could put mothers and babies at risk."
Time to mock her for being alienated from the healthcare system by the politicization of covid at the same time as ritual flagellation about how structural racism alienates minorities from the same system

Meme - "Screw ur rights" "Force vaxx now" "Kill unvaxed" "Take their kids" "Comply or die"
"5 minutes later
AT NO POINT IN HISTORY HAVE THE PEOPLE FORCING OTHERS INTO COMPLIANCE BEEN THE GOOD GUYS."

Meme - Skeletor: "The same people that said just wear the mask and follow the rules. Are now calling people bootlickers
Untill we meet again."

Simon Maechling on X - "The collapse of trust in science is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre, and destructive social contagions of modern times. We cured diseases, fed billions, and powered nations - and people ran toward conspiracies instead."
Sunny on X - "One of the chief turning points will have been when leading scientists were explaining why it was too dangerous for grandma to have a funeral but not too dangerous for thousands of BLM protesters to gather at a protest."
Amy Curtis on X - "My dad couldn’t have a funeral. That summer, George Floyd had three. If anyone doesn’t think that fundamentally changed how I see everything, they’re sorely mistaken."

Meme - Lars McMurtry @larsmcmurtry: "The CDC should roll out a new program: Get the shot or get shot. The unvaccinated need to be rounded up and lined up in front of open trenches. Their choice is simple. America has had enough of their virus. We need to get back to normal life. With or without them."

Meme - Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter: "In his new book, Summer of Our Discontent, Thomas Chatterton Williams argues that a major turning point in 2020 that catalyzed mistrust among many Americans toward public health experts was when many such experts said that social distancing was vital except for BLM protests. The argument they made, that racism was a public health crisis that superseded the imperative to fight the spread of Covid, rang hollow for many people, Williams argues, and helped catalyze a backlash that has given rise to such scientific iconoclasts as RFK Jr."
Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill: "How can the Bluesky bubble be this airtight?"
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social: "I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters.  The latter understand what's going on.  The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health."

Alberta’s top doctor is misleading public about COVID with irresponsible tweets - "Dr. Hinshaw tweeted that "there are currently 760 people in hospital with 149 people in ICU" but she omits the highly relevant facts that Alberta has over 8,300 hospital beds, and that Alberta's total ICU capacity is more than 1,000... Dr. Hinshaw's tweets suggest that it's unusual for hospitals to be overrun by patients, when in fact "hallway medicine" has been a sad-but-common feature of Canadian health care for many years. Politicians have refused for decades to address the gross mismanagement of health care dollars by an unresponsive and utterly unaccountable government monopoly. Pretending that hospital over-crowding is a new phenomenon caused by COVID-19 is misleading.  Government officials like Dr. Hinshaw now tell us that hospital overcrowding is the fault of those who protect their human dignity by exercising their Charter freedoms to do things like having Christmas dinner with family and friends, worshipping together with fellow believers, and playing outdoor hockey.  Dr. Hinshaw offers no explanation as to why hospital capacity was not increased in the past eight months, even though government officials have been warning about a "second wave" for many months. Dr. Hinshaw misleads Albertans by blaming a potential shortage of hospital capacity on good citizens who preserve their mental health by socializing with each other, rather than placing blame on government officials, where it belongs.  On December 18, Dr. Hinshaw tweeted about "1,286 new cases of COVID-19" but failed to mention that the vast majority of these "cases" concern healthy people who simply had a positive PCR test, the reliability of which is in dispute, with the number of false positives as high as 90 percent... Dr. Hinshaw fails to explain that her so-called "active" cases consist almost entirely of healthy people without symptoms. Dr. Hinshaw fails to point out that, until our Charter rights and freedoms were taken away from us in March of 2020, a "case" of something referred to a person who was actually sick. This is still how most people interpret the word "case." Daily reporting on "cases" of healthy people, based on unreliable testing of asymptomatic Albertans, is simply fearmongering, and is highly misleading.  On December 17, Dr. Hinshaw tweeted that 790 Albertans had died "as a result of COVID-19" but her tweet fails to mention that 97 percent of these people had comorbidities like diabetes, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cancer, stroke, liver cirrhosis, chronic kidney disease, immune-deficiency, congestive heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases.   Dr. Hinshaw's tweets fail to mention that more than three quarters of the alleged "COVID-19 deaths" are amongst people who had three or more of these serious underlying illnesses. Amongst the more than 20,000 Albertans who have died in the past nine months, 20 of them (one tenth of one percent) died of the virus alone, while 99.9 percent died of one or more other causes. To claim that elderly people who are dying of cancer, COPD, and various liver, kidney and heart diseases are dying "as a result of COVID-19" is misleading.  On December 20, Dr. Hinshaw tweeted that she was "sad to report an additional 10 deaths" from COVID-19, but makes no reference to the other 490 Albertans who also died in the preceding week, or to the more than 2,000 Albertans who died in the preceding month, or to the more than 27,000 Albertans who have died in the past year. Every death is sad.   Why not mention the more than 26,000 Albertans who died of other causes in the past year, including those who died because Dr. Hinshaw cancelled their medically necessary surgeries, or because she delayed their cancer diagnosis until it was too late? Dr. Hinshaw speaks as though nobody ever dies. Failing to place deaths from one virus into their relevant context is misleading.  On December 15, Dr. Hinshaw reported on 11 new deaths but failed to mention that there were zero deaths amongst children, teenagers and adults under 23.   Dr. Hinshaw's tweets don't mention that 86 percent of the alleged "COVID-19 deaths" are amongst those 70 and older. In her tweets, Dr. Hinshaw completely ignores Years of Life Lost which is the relevant factor used by doctors and scientists to assess how serious a disease actually is.  The impact of COVID-19 on Years of Life Lost is negligible. In contrast, cancer has a huge impact on Years of Life Lost because it impacts large numbers of people in their 30s, 40s and 50s. But cancer now often goes undiagnosed because governments have cancelled MRIs and CT scans by lockdown measures.  Worse yet, the Alberta government is making no attempt to track how many Albertans have died or suffered permanent health damage after lockdown measures cancelled more than 20,000 surgeries in March and April. Suicides and drug overdoses, both on the rise because of lockdown measures, have a far greater impact on Years of Life Lost than any virus.  In spite of these facts, Dr. Hinshaw appears to be shocked when people in their 80s and 90s die from their numerous, pre-existing, fatal diseases and chronic conditions. Further, Dr. Hinshaw says nothing about the deaths resulting from her lockdown measures, and this silence is misleading."
From 2020. A good illustration of how out of context numbers were used to fan covid hysteria

Nicolas Hulscher, MPH on X - "🚨BREAKING: Our CENSORED Study Showing mRNA Injections Induce SEVERE Genetic Disruption Linked to Cancer and Chronic Disease Is Now Peer-Reviewed and Published We declare a MAJOR victory against the Academic Journal Cartel and their PubPeer Mob enforcement apparatus..."
Synthetic messenger RNA vaccines and transcriptomic dysregulation: Evidence from new-onset adverse events and cancers post-vaccination - "Shared and distinct molecular signatures in both cohorts demonstrate underlying mechanisms contributing to post-vaccine symptomatology and complications, including oncogenesis and or progression of malignant disease. These findings underscore the need for a deeper investigation into the long-term safety of mRNA vaccines and host response variability. "

Conor Friedersdorf on X - "A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers."
Daniel Friedman on X - "The most radicalizing moment for most people was when the same officials who had kept children out of school for three months, destroyed millions of American businesses, closed all the churches and even banned outdoor funerals suddenly endorsed mass gatherings for George Floyd, and said that people had to weigh the public health dangers of Covid against the public health dangers of racism.  But public health officials have done a number of other things over the last few years that damaged their professional reputations and eroded the public trust in and authority of their institutions.    Here are several:
1.) They went all in on transgender ideology: In less than a decade, the number of clinics offering transgender treatment to children increased more than 100 fold.    These treatments have never been demonstrated effective for resolving symptoms of any medical condition to a level that would allow them to be approved for these uses by the FDA.  All of these treatments are off-label and untested.  Public health authorities endorsed and even insisted upon their spread, with disastrous results for many vulnerable people.  Leaders of medical and public health organizations were all over the media claiming there was no medically discernible difference between men and women, that there was no biological reason men shouldn’t play in women’s sports and that men could become women — all things ordinary people could easily perceive were false.  Putting the imprimatur of “the science” on these claims didn’t legitimize transgenderism, it undermined trust in science.
2.) Racial rationing of medical care: Since many conservatives turned against Covid vaccines in their entirety, a lot of people don’t remember their controversial rollout, but the way they handled this is a big part of the reason why I personally believe that our public health system is worse than total chaos or nothing at all and support RFK Jr. wreaking havoc and gutting these agencies.  By the time the vaccines were ready for distribution, we knew who was at greatest risk from Covid: The sick, people with chronic conditions and especially the elderly.  The CDC’s problem was that the most vulnerable Americans were disproportionately white.  So instead of prioritizing the old, public health officials at the CDC opted to give the vaccine to “essential workers.”  Which workers did the CDC say were essential? Those in fields with a lot of black people.  In New York, for the first few weeks the vaccine was available, it was only for people who lived in certain zip codes.  Guess which ones. Similar policies were in place in a number of other cities  This woke decisionmaking process killed thousands of people. CDC officials don’t just deserve to be fired; a lot of them should be in prison.
3.) Monkeypox: Monkeypox is a contagious disease that is painful, disfiguring and in some cases deadly.  It is mostly seen in Africa, but in 2022-23, there was a major outbreak in the US with nearly 35,000 cases.   This virus is spread through contact with bodily fluids. Specifically: 99% of monkeypox cases are reported in men and 94% of them occur in men who have had recent male-to-male sexual contact.  The CDC declared monkeypox a public health emergency. What they wouldn’t declare was who was getting it or how it was transmitted. Their messaging was extremely obtuse on this, because they did not want to associate the disease with gay sex for fear of causing stigma.  So Americans who were not at risk were wondering if they should keep their kids home and avoid public toilets while gay sex parties that were superspreader events continued to occur without objection from public health authorities. The CDC would not even advise sexually active gay men to get a vaccine, and many did not.  Instead, they changed the name of the disease to “mpox” because “monkeypox” sounded racist."

Black Lives Matter Union Boss Dismisses Children Failing to Learn ‘Times Tables’ - "United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) President Cecily Myart-Cruz told Los Angeles Magazine (LAmag) children did not experience “learning loss” during the pandemic school closures, because they learned the words “insurrection” and “coup.”... '“There is no such thing as learning loss,” she responds when asked how her insistence on keeping L.A.’s schools mostly locked down over the last year and a half may have impacted the city’s 600,000 kindergarten through 12th-grade students. “Our kids didn’t lose anything. It’s OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables. They learned resilience. They learned survival. They learned critical-thinking skills. They know the difference between a riot and a protest. They know the words insurrection and coup.” She even went so far as to suggest darkly that “learning loss” is a fake crisis marketed by shadowy purveyors of clinical and classroom assessments.'
Under Myart-Cruz, LAmag reported, teachers’ salaries and working conditions are no longer the sole focus of UTLA.  Since she assumed her post in 2020, “that purview has been expanded to include a breathtaking range of far-flung progressive issues: racial justice, Medicare for all, the millionaire tax, financial support for undocumented families, rental and eviction relief—over the last 15 months, UTLA has championed them all.”  Additionally, in June, UTLA announced its members will vote in September on a declaration to call for an end of the United States government’s aid to Israel... UTLA also called for Los Angeles to defund police in order to free up funds to reopen schools safely...   “Education is political,” she told LAmag. “People don’t want to say that, but it is.”"
From 2021

Deaths “due to” COVID-19 and deaths “with” COVID-19 during the Omicron variant surge, among hospitalized patients in seven tertiary-care hospitals, Athens, Greece | Scientific Reports - "In Greek hospitals, all deaths with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test are counted as COVID-19 deaths. Our aim was to investigate whether COVID-19 was the primary cause of death, a contributing cause of death or not-related to death amongst patients who died in hospitals during the Omicron surge and were registered as COVID-19 deaths. Additionally, we aimed to analyze the factors associated with the classification of these deaths. We retrospectively re-viewed all in-hospital deaths, that were reported as COVID-19 deaths, in 7 hospitals, serving Athens, Greece, from January 1, 2022, until August 31, 2022. We retrieved clinical and laboratory data from patient records. Each death reported as COVID-19 death was characterized as: (A) death “due to” COVID-19, or (B) death “with” COVID-19. We reviewed 530 in-hospital deaths, classified as COVID-19 deaths (52.4% males; mean age 81.7 ± 11.1 years). We categorized 290 (54.7%) deaths as attributable or related to COVID-19 and in 240 (45.3%) deaths unrelated to COVID-19 In multivariable analysis The two groups differed significantly in age (83.6 ± 9.8 vs. 79.9 ± 11.8, p = 0.016), immunosuppression history (11% vs. 18.8%, p = 0.027), history of liver disease (1.4% vs. 8.4%, p = 0.047) and the presence of COVID-19 symptoms (p < 0.001). Hospital stay was greater in persons dying from non-COVID-19 related causes. Among 530 in-hospital deaths, registered as COVID-19 deaths, in seven hospitals in Athens during the Omicron wave, 240 (45.28%) were reassessed as not directly attributable to COVID-19. Accuracy in defining the cause of death during the COVID-19 pandemic is of paramount importance for surveillance and intervention purposes."
Weird. We were told that it was a conspiracy theory to claim that covid deaths were overcounted and that deaths with covid were not the same as deaths of covid. Time to ban the journal Scientific Reports for spreading dangerous misinformation that will lead to deaths and to censure Nature for publishing it

Michael Shermer on X - "Jay puts the Lab Leak hypothesis at a Bayesian ~90:10 whereas I put it ~80:20 (can't trust Chinese information) but why was the possibility censored in the first place? Gain of function research has been ongoing for decades. If it's a bad idea then lesson learned. Censorship bad!"

Links - 30th August 2026 (2 - General Wokeness)

The Pleb 🇨🇦 on X - "The Edmonton Police are completely OUT OF CONTROL. They are now promoting their "report hate" snitch lines on the side of city busses. They are encouraging residents to report anyone that posts "Canada needs DEPORTATIONS" Mark Carney's Canada is legitimately insane"

Mario Zelaya on X - "EXCLUSIVE: it wasn’t just a post on X. The Edmonton Police is running a large scale marketing campaign. In different languages. So Canadians can rat out their neighbours, for hurting other people’s feelings, online. Canada is slowly following the UKs path, thanks to Carney"

Roman Baber on X - "No @edmontonpolice, you have no jurisdiction to limit online speech unless a criminal law is broken. The criminal offence of "Hate Speech" is limited to the definition articulated by the Supreme Court almost 40 years ago. Not what others find offensive!"

Marc Nixon on X - "🚨 REMEMBER WHEN ELIZABETH MAY SAID THIS? She warned Bill C-9 could flood the courts with hate-related accusations. Today, Edmonton police are asking Canadians to report certain online speech they believe is hateful. Non of their examples are hateful. They are opinions."

Melanie In Saskatchewan on X - "It’s genuinely #pathetic how the same governments that screech endlessly about “diversity” turn into fragile, trembling wrecks the moment someone refuses to chant their approved slogans. While the rest of the world is busy laughing DEI, Net Zero, ESG, and the whole forced-conformity cult out of the room, Canada’s Liberals are too weak to defend any of it. So instead of debating or arguing their case, they just keep passing legislation so taxpayer funded police services can make social media posts about expanding snitch lines, treating disagreement like a crime and #FreeSpeech like a public health emergency that needs to be reported and managed. A strong democracy doesn’t beg citizens to police each other’s thoughts. It wins the debate. It doesn’t need to criminalize dissent because its ideas are too brittle to survive contact with reality. @MarkJCarney should learn this instead of being a wimp that lies to the people. When a government has to pass laws making it illegal to reject its preferred insanity, that isn’t moral authority. That’s the public admission that their entire ideology is so weak, so incoherent, and so unpersuasive that the only way to keep people in line is to outlaw disagreement itself. Free societies aren’t built by cowards who legislate consensus. They’re built by people who can handle being told their sacred ideas are garbage. #cdnpoli #CivilLiberties #Accountability #Democracy #FuckThisMadness"

Karla Treadway | Host Sovereign Sphere Podcast on X - "Someone needs to show @edmontonpolice the Rape Gang Inquiry. 250,000 girls were raped and trafficked for decades because woke cowards like this wouldn’t acknowledge that the vast majority of crimes were from Pakistani Muslims. Two tier justice allowed the criminals to walk. Obviously attacking a group of people without cause or hating a group of people simply because of their race is wrong. But pointing out obvious facts about crime or poor immigration policy is not hate and it’s certainly not racism. The more people push woke nonsense and DEI policies - the more hate you’re going to see because people are sick of this. Canadas “ministry of truth” needs to sit down. Free speech is necessary and we should always be able to express our concerns about crime and government policy without holding back “inconvenient” facts."

Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 on X - "‼️MAJOR BREAKING -- Now that C-9 is law in Canada Canadian police are ENCOURAGING YOU TO CALL police if someone promotes a boycott of a company based on their views. (Durham Police) ... other police forces are encouraging you call for "name calling""

New Study on Republican, Democrat Tolerance Goes Viral: Science Shows Liberals Aren't So Open-Minded - "Temple University professor Jacob Shell posted a screenshot on X of an article headlined, “There is more diversity of thought on the political Right than on the political Left.” The subtitle declared, “Although they pride themselves on open-mindedness, liberal thinking actually coalesces around a very narrow set of opinion, whereas the Right diverges widely.”... they originate from a study published in the summer of 2023 called “Attitude networks as intergroup realities: Using network-modelling to research attitude-identity relationships in polarized political contexts.” The study noted that “the cluster reflecting the Democrat belief-system almost exclusively contained extreme attitudes as indicated by strong disagreement with each of the eight items,” including abortion, immigration, gun control, and gay marriage. But at the same time “the cluster reflecting the Republican belief-system contained a wider range of attitude responses ranging from mild disagreement to maximum agreement.” “Not only does the presented data suggest that Democrats embrace more extreme viewpoints on the selected issues compared with Republicans, but also that the Republican cluster includes some surprising issue positions that (under interval assumptions) might be assumed to fall into the Democrat cluster,” the study continued. For better or for worse, the researchers found that “normatively acceptable viewpoints for Republicans on gay marriage, abortion rights, and environmental protection through business regulation range from mild agreement to extreme disagreement, hence, providing a potential space for political negotiation.” But such diversity of views was much less prevalent among Democrats."
Time to denounce right wingers as dogmatic far right extremists
The cope is that Democrats have the gospel truth, so this proves that they are right, since they all believe in the truth, and reality has a left wing bias

Kangmin Lee | 이강민 on X - "The Left: "Conform or die."
The Right: "Let's debate what is right and true."
In other words,
The Left: "Water is wet and if you disagree we hate you."
The Right: "Is water wet or not? Let's discuss."
Btw this temperament on the right to flesh out ideas is good but the reason why the left always wins is because they just push their agenda through by force when they have influence and power without apology. Most of society and culture is downstream from whoever is in power & influence. It's almost always top down. Only when the right began to get fed up with the left and began to wield power unapologetically for what we know to be intuitively right & true have we had massive wins. Sometimes you don't really need to have huge debates to know that killing babies and putting children on puberty blockers is wrong. Anyone can try to use studies and evidence to justify moral insanity, so it's ok and a societal good to just need to keep pushing with bold conviction to crush evil and promote the good. But as a good-natured conservative, I will never burn bridges with anyone slightly to the left of me or even proud classical liberals as long as they engage in good faith. Tons of my mutuals are more liberal than me on certain issues but I'm ok with having them as friends :)"

Meme - David Hayward: "If it's safe for Jesus, it's safe for LGBTQIA+ folk. If it's safe for LGBTQIA+ folk, it's safe for Jesus."
Jesus to Trans and Pride flag sheep outside church: "LET ME GO IN FIRST TO SEE IF ITS SAFE FOR US."
"I love the new woke Jesus. You don't have to make any changes in your life! You can continue living the exact same way you always did but now you can feel good about it!"
Comment: "What did he tell the Pharisees after he knocked over there tables again?"

Nick Timothy: ‘Multiculturalism has turned Britain into a country that doesn’t treat people equally’ - "Timothy believes multiculturalism, which has been promoted by the political class for decades, has given rise to communalism. He is not short of examples of it seeping into the wider criminal justice system. He says: “We know that the Crown Prosecution Service has appointed people who are known supporters of Hamas as advisers. “We know that in prisons, governors basically cut deals with so-called ‘emirs’, who are quite often terrorism offenders or serious violent criminals, and control of the prison wing is sometimes effectively handed over to them. “We know that the primacy of the law is being challenged by Sharia courts, and as a result, lots of women are left in highly vulnerable situations. “We know that the director of public prosecutions [DPP] is appealing against the decision to overturn the conviction of Hamit Coskun [who was originally convicted of a public order offence for burning a Koran]. The DPP is using public order legislation to criminalise protest against Islam and saying things that are offensive to Muslims. “We have to expose all of these things. We have to return to what had always been a very widely accepted view of how a country like Britain operates, which is that we’re all equal before the law... Timothy’s insistence on voicing concerns that other politicians shy away from has made him a target – he has been warned by police of a “credible” death threat against him. Its author is still at large. Given that two MPs have been murdered in the last decade, does this give him pause for thought? “People don’t want to say certain things,” he says, “because they think they might be physically attacked, and of course, it’s sobering to receive a death threat like that. “But I’m absolutely not going to back down, because I don’t think there’s any point seeking any kind of public office or leadership position and not having the character to say, ‘No, I’m standing up for what I believe to be right, and for our fundamental freedoms.’”... “The justice job is at the heart of so many of the problems and challenges the country faces. If the missions are a new economic model, restoring our sense of shared identity and radically changing the state, then the justice brief includes things that affect all three of those missions. “A lot of the problems we face as a country are to do with the construction of the Blairite state, and the Human Rights Act and the Equality Act acting as kind of superior level laws, which historically is antithetical to our constitution.”... Badenoch said in the past week that centrist ideas are no longer wanted in the Conservative Party, and Timothy could not agree more. Centrism, he says, “is a very convenient myth” for people who claim to be at the midpoint between the Right and Left, but, “If you understand where mainstream voters are coming from, and if you understand many of the problems that we have as a country, immigration being perhaps the most obvious example, I don’t think the answer is more and more liberalism.”"

They are celebrating the death of Rod Liddle on Bluesky, and it’s even worse than you think - "It was all so predictable. Within moments of the terrible news of Rod Liddle’s untimely death breaking, hot-fingered ghouls were taking to social media to besmirch his reputation and revel in his passing. Why? Because insulting the recently departed now seems to be an entry-level requirement for Left-wing activists. Spend more than a minute on X and there they are. Or, even worse, Bluesky, the social media site beloved by woke types who preach “Be Kind” while spewing nothing but hate. Those whose first response on hearing of Liddle’s death was to reach for a laughing emoji. Those who rushed to post pictures of champagne corks popping and drinks being poured... If the online celebrations are hard to stomach, then the insults are surely far worse. When did the announcement of someone’s death become an opportunity to dredge up their every past wrong? Yet this is what’s happened over the past 24 hours. Rod’s sins – real, exaggerated and entirely imagined – have been taken out and hand-washed in public. They are repeated, twisted and embellished. Rod, his haters insist, was Islamophobic, transphobic, homophobic, ableist, a hypocrite, and a misogynist. The bingo prize goes to one rainbow-flag-adorned Bluesky-er who managed to squeeze all of these labels into one denunciatory post. Most of those serving up the hate feel no need to hide behind a cloak of anonymity; they are proud to join the pile-on and defame the dead man’s legacy... The rage of the keyboard warriors stands in stark contrast to the target of their ire. Rod’s weapon of choice was humour. His satire was biting, yes, but my goodness, it was also funny. And in real life, Rod was kind and generous... Sadly, abusing the dead and taking pleasure in their demise is now a pastime for some. We saw it just a couple of weeks ago when Ann Widdecombe’s horrific murder was similarly celebrated on social media. Among those dishing dirt was Heather Herbert, a transgender University of Aberdeen employee, who described her killing as “good news”, before adding his hope that it had been an “extremely painful death”. Charlie Kirk had not even been declared dead before George Abaraonye, the president-elect of the Oxford Union, took to Instagram to express his utter delight: “Charlie Kirk got shot loool.” (A post for which he later apologised.)... In every instance, those being insulted are on the Right. (Or, in Rod’s case, perceived to be. He was a long-standing member of the Labour Party, before joining the Social Democratic Party in more recent years.) And those dancing on people’s graves are on the Left. They are so stuffed-full with a sense of their own moral superiority that they feel liberated to say the most despicable things. But if hurling abuse at the recently deceased and rejoicing in their death is what it means to be Left-wing today, then their cause is truly ugly indeed."

If the police keep chasing journalists, they don’t deserve more money – or our support - "the villains here are the police chiefs desperate to burnish their progressive credentials, all too aware that being politically on-message is a surer route to advancement and recognition than solving crime. Their own officers regard them as little more than politicians with laurel wreath epaulettes, but the real damage they do is to public confidence in the constabulary... It is no exaggeration to say that the Met’s conduct in this matter was an open assault by the police on the freedom of the press. Had a similar investigation taken place in most other Western democracies, the commissioner would be clearing his desk right now. Britain’s tradition is one of policing by consent, but consent requires trust, and trust is crumbling. While that continues to be ignored, and police continue to err as seriously as they did in this case, policing edges ever closer to a crisis of legitimacy."

Marc Miller ᐅᑭᒫᐃᐧᐅᓃᐸᐄᐧᐤᐃᔨᐣ Mikotsikaa on X - "On Emancipation Day, we honour the resilience and courage of those who fought for freedom from enslavement and recommit to building a Canada where Black communities—and everyone—can succeed, thrive, and belong."
Jonathan Kay on X - "we have a federal minister who inhabits a bizarro timeline in which Canada was a slaving state"
Headph0n3z on X - "But this is teH mOSt pAtRioTic ParTy tO eVEr exISt and only Cons have a patriotism problem. Meanwhile Libshits are so desperate to be America that they're changing Canada's history into America's, complete with American style slave trade. But it's Cons who want to be American.🙄"

arctotherium on X - "Incredible 2022 thread of mathematician having a breakdown over the fact that when he put his lectures on YouTube, for free with zero barriers to entry, 90% of his audience was male ,"contributing to gender inequality in mathematics.""

Steven Pinker on X - "What Is the Point of Cultural Anthropology? It used to have the indispensable mandate to study the world's cultures and peoples. Now it's ideology and gibberish."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "This is true of a great many fields. Black Studies, for example, could look at almost anything real - how African castellar architecture (below) compared to that of Eastern Europe, say, per a debate yesterday. Instead, the field seems almost totally focused on finding and naming new varietals of fringe racism, as though the whole enterprise were run by mad bird-watchers."

What Is the Point of Anthropology? - by Robert lynch - "I started graduate school in 2006. Like a lot of anthropology departments at the time, Rutgers was split between the biological anthropologists and cultural anthropologists. Although we were all supposedly in the same department and required to take some of the same classes, it was like putting the math and the art departments together—except they hated each other... I was already used to the massive differences between the two wings of anthropology, and familiar with the jargon employed by the cultural wing (embodied subjectivity, intersectionality, structural violence, hegemonic knowledge production), but I was still taken aback when the cultural anthropology students went up one after the other and explained what they were going to find. Not what they were hoping to understand, or learn, or test, or discover, but what they were going to find... There were no questions. No hypotheses. No data to be collected, let alone analysed. There were claims about arguments being “based on the ethnographic evidence”, but no evidence was ever presented. Conclusions were drawn from a series of assertions. It sounded like they weren’t interested in actually learning anything at all. Why, I wondered, were they bothering with this field at all? I had been trained to always ask, “What’s the evidence?” My advisor would never let me get away with vague bullshit about what “the research says” or what “studies show”. If I tried to handwave with that kind of thing, he would immediately interrupt me and ask: “Which studies?” He wouldn’t even give the result of a paper without explaining its methodology. Instead of saying that an Implicit Association Test (IAT) was a measure of unconscious biases, for instance, he would spend eight minutes explaining exactly what was being measured—how quickly people categorise words and pictures associated with black people and white people. This insistence on method and the integrity of data could be exhausting, but it was a discipline I never forgot. He actually wanted to know the answers to questions because he was authentically curious. The idea that people might hold different beliefs, and that data could adjudicate between these beliefs, was as foreign to my cultural anthropology classmates as examining semiotic post-textual theory was to me... that’s what anthropologists did in the 1960s and ’70s. They asked the most interesting questions they could think of about people and their cultures, then they conducted field work in an attempt to answer them. Today, asking those same questions can get you labelled a racist or colonialist, and studying small-scale societies at all is dismissed as cultural voyeurism. What are universities for? They used to be places where humans would search for truth. “It is well worth searching for truth,” the philosopher Karl Popper once remarked; “and we do this chiefly by searching for mistakes, so that we have to correct them.” My cultural anthropology classmates believed that people like Chagnon, Trivers, and Popper had it backwards. Truth is not an empirical matter of correct or incorrect, it is a moral matter of right and wrong. Objective truths cannot be sought, relative truths can only be defended. And those who demand empirical support for assertions are attempting to destabilise moral truths, usually in the interests of some powerful interest or other. Carolyn Rouse is the president of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Earlier this year, a Chronicle of Higher Education reporter offered her the chance to respond to a report that alleged an extreme politicisation of anthropology. The authors of that report found “a widespread deterioration in scholarly standards grounded in a pervasive repudiation of ideals of objectivity together with a toxic intellectual climate in which reasonable dissent on politically charged topics is routinely suppressed and punished.”... Rather than reckon with these findings, Rouse doubled down on the very claims the report had flagged as most absurd. No criticism that I could offer—not this essay, not the report itself—was as damning as simply letting the discipline’s most prominent member speak for herself. In 2023, her organisation cancelled a panel discussion at its annual conference about the importance of biological sex as an analytic category in anthropology on the grounds that it might have harmed members’ “safety and dignity”, and that its premise contradicted “settled science”... Rouse goes on to call the belief that biological sex is binary “nonsensical” while admitting, in the next sentence, that she doesn’t actually know what people mean by the claim, or “why that matters to people so much”. The whole thing, she says, is “very strange”. The field of anthropology was built to understand unfamiliar beliefs and worldviews, but here was its president dismissing one of the most widely held convictions in human history as “nonsensical.”"

Jamie Sarkonak on X - "An American woman was caught with 4.5 kilos of coke at the Toronto airport + was recently sentenced to 6 years. What makes the case interesting is this: the judge said the woman had lower "moral blameworthiness" because of anti-Black racism ... but presented no evidence for it!
In his decision, the judge didn't mention a single instance of the woman experiencing racism. He merely found that she grew up in a rough area (Blood territory in California) and was disadvantaged by that. The cause of all this, he asserted in a logical leap, was racism. In Canadian judicial circles, this is considered intelligent analysis."

Barbara Bal on X - "🤔 A criminal lawyer uncomfortable with Canadians noticing patterns in judicial appointments and the outcomes that follow. 👉 Looking at the public record isn’t “implying political motivations” - it’s basic scrutiny. Courts don’t operate in a vacuum, and neither should public discussion of them."

Australian Jewish Association questions AFP response to alleged firebomb threat | The Australian - "A Jewish group has questioned the Australian Federal Police’s decision to file away and not take further action over a threat it received regarding the firebombing of its office from an unknown sender who called the organisation “filthy f. king jews”. The Australian Jewish Association received an email on Monday last week that said: “Hey whats up. Hope you guys have a wonderful day and i hope mine is as wonderful when your f. king offices get firebombed you filthy f. king jews”. AJA president Robert Gregory reported the email that same day to the AFP, which, in its response two days later, said the comment did not amount to a direct threat and was not offensive enough to reach the threshold for an offence under commonwealth law."... “A strong theme emerging from the royal commission hearings has been that threats should be taken seriously without waiting for them to escalate.”... the AJA said its staff were frequently subject to abuse, intimidation and threats, including death threats. In one example, underneath a social media post announcing Mr Gregory had become a father to a baby girl, a commenter wrote, “until we Aussies inevitably put all your genocidal kind in next gen gas chambers”. The AJA in its submission also said it regularly engaged armed security personnel for its events at significant cost."

Meme - *College student with PC T-shirt and bloodied 'Tolerance' sign with blooded 'Free Speech' person lying on ground*

Meme - Wyatt Claypool @wyatt_claypool: "What is the CBC and Canadian government doing?!? My mother sent me these screenshots after she noticed them hanging over CBC News articles. Carney is spending taxpayer dollars promoting pansexuality"
"Cisgender. It's okay if you don't know. Being an ally means learing as you go"
"Pansexual. It's okay if you don't know. Being an ally means learning as you go."
"Two spirit. It's okay if you don't know. Being an ally means learning as you go."

Meme - "Them: "Defund the police!
Me: "Cool! No one to enforce vaccine mandates, hate speech laws, gun restrictions, environmental laws, tax codes, homeschool laws..."
Vault Boy: "Hol up"

Arday's Death as Rehabilitation and Selective Empathy

Left wing logic - if you didn't care about women's sports till men started getting into it, you don't really care about women's sports and are just a bigot. So since almost all the left wingers talking shit to defend his fraud only knew about him in the weeks before his death... 

Common Sense Heresy | Facebook

Every death is tragic. But that does not mean every death is equally exceptional, equally significant to the public, or deserving of the same degree of collective mourning. According to UN-based estimates, around **63 million people died worldwide in 2025, roughly 173,000 every single day**. Most of them never became international news. Among them were people who spent their lives working, raising children, caring for relatives, contributing quietly to their communities, and enduring circumstances far more brutal than anything the public will ever know about. Their families grieved just as intensely, but no Prime Minister commented on their deaths, no prestigious university issued statements about them, and no international press devoted columns to asking what society had done to them.

 

Jason Arday's death at 41 is tragic in that ordinary human sense. His family lost someone they loved, and there is nothing admirable about celebrating his death. What I reject is the suggestion that his death is somehow **especially** tragic, or that it creates a special obligation to suspend judgment about the life and career that came before it.

 

That distinction matters because something strange is already happening around Arday. Grief is beginning to merge with rehabilitation. His family has described him as the victim of misinformation and harassment; prominent supporters are focusing on the scrutiny he endured; and Britain's Prime Minister has called his death a tragedy "on so many levels" and urged reflection on how events reached this point. Reflection is appropriate, but it cannot mean starting with the fact that a man died and then working backwards until the evidence against him is recast as persecution.

 

We do not publicly know the cause of Arday's death. Police have described it as unexpected but not suspicious. That should put an end to attempts to use his death as evidence either of his innocence or of the supposed guilt of those who investigated him. Whatever happened on August 14 does not alter what was written in his thesis, what appeared in his published papers, what Cambridge was told about those papers, or what Arday himself claimed before any of this became a public scandal.

 

Those claims matter because Arday was not simply a moderately successful academic who later attracted unusually aggressive scrutiny. He became an international inspirational figure on the strength of an almost cinematic personal story. Cambridge's own announcement of his appointment described a child diagnosed with autism who could not speak until 11, could not read or write until 18, overcame predictions that he would require lifelong support, accumulated two master's degrees and a PhD, and ultimately became Cambridge's youngest Black professor at 37. His wider public biography included claims of raising more than **$8 million for charity** and running **30 marathons in 35 days**.

 

Cambridge did not treat those details as incidental. It presented his life experience as part of what made his appointment important, while a Pro-Vice-Chancellor publicly called him an "exceptional scholar" whose experience illustrated the barriers facing underrepresented groups. His story generated enormous symbolic capital, media coverage, prestigious appointments, and institutional support. The overwhelming majority of honest, intelligent, hardworking academics will never receive anything remotely comparable.

 

When someone receives extraordinary rewards partly because society accepts an extraordinary story about him, checking whether that story and the academic record beneath it are true is not cruelty. It is basic due diligence, and in Arday's case much of that scrutiny came far too late.

 

The case against him does not rest on political dislike, vague suspicions, or someone saying that his biography sounded implausible. There is concrete academic evidence. Retraction Watch reported that a **63-page dossier of textual comparisons** had been assembled concerning his work. David Sanders, a Purdue biochemist experienced in examining academic misconduct, reviewed the material and concluded that the plagiarism was extensive. Separately, dozens of passages in Arday's 2015 doctoral dissertation were identified as being nearly verbatim from a 2009 dissertation by another scholar.

 

His published research raises even more serious questions. Concerns about a 2018 paper were raised in 2023 after similarities were found with an earlier BMJ Open study. The correction that followed did far more than repair a misplaced citation or tidy up quotation marks. Descriptions of the methodology were changed. Claims involving NVivo analysis and independent coding were removed. Of the paper's original 31 interview quotations, **18 were either reworded or deleted**, with twelve altered and six removed. Retraction Watch reported that some quotations attributed to Arday's own interview subjects appeared to have been assembled from material in the earlier study. A second Arday paper was later corrected for textual overlap with that paper and other publications.

 

These are not ideological complaints about the themes of his research. They are basic questions about authorship, methodology, sourcing, and whether material presented as original actually was.

 

This is also why I find attempts to portray Cambridge mainly as another victim of the affair unconvincing. **Cambridge was warned.** In May 2023, only months after the publicity surrounding Arday's appointment, sociologist Martyn Hammersley contacted senior figures at Cambridge after reviewing the concerns and said he believed there was substantial plagiarism, including possible problems involving quotations attributed to research participants.

 

Cambridge's response matters. In June 2023, the head of the Faculty of Education said Arday had agreed to have the problematic article addressed but nevertheless retained the department's **"full support."** The University's Head of Policy, Governance and Integrity said that because the alleged misconduct predated Arday's arrival at Cambridge, the university did not consider the paper within its remit to investigate.

 

That position is difficult to defend. Arday's previous publications, qualifications, and academic record were obviously relevant to the credentials on which Cambridge appointed him. By December 2023 the paper had required correction, and another paper was corrected the following year. Yet there still appears to have been no comprehensive review of the broader pattern being alleged.

 

The institutional story gets worse from there. In 2025, *Times Higher Education* prepared a story about plagiarism allegations and assembled extensive comparison material. After its journalist approached Arday for comment, his lawyers at Carter-Ruck sent the publication a letter denying the allegations and warning of reputational harm; the story was subsequently dropped.

 

When the allegations finally became public through other channels in July 2026, Cambridge did not initially respond with caution or institutional humility. A university spokesperson described Arday as the victim of a **"vile campaign to undermine his credibility"** and said he had been cleared regarding allegations about his thesis and publications.

 

Within days, that position became impossible to sustain. On August 5, Cambridge announced an investigation prompted by new information concerning his academic qualifications and honorary appointments, while acknowledging that multiple academic-misconduct complaints were being handled under its research-misconduct procedures. Arday resigned that same day.

 

That chronology matters more than the politics or personalities of the people who eventually publicised the allegations. Cambridge had received specific warnings years earlier. It declined to investigate part of the evidence. It continued supporting Arday. It publicly attacked the credibility of the campaign against him. Only after the evidence escaped the institutional channels that had failed to resolve it did the university open a broader investigation.

 

For that reason, reducing the whole story to "a vulnerable Black academic was hounded until his life collapsed" is not a serious account of what happened. It leaves out too much.

 

There was racist abuse directed at Arday, and that deserves condemnation. But the existence of racist people among his critics does not answer a textual comparison. It does not explain why quotations attributed to one's own research participants resemble quotations published elsewhere. It does not explain why a paper's methodology had to be substantially rewritten after questions were raised.

 

The motives of a critic and the truth of the evidence are separate issues. Someone can dislike Arday for ugly reasons and still point to a passage that was copied. Someone can behave badly online and still identify a real discrepancy. Evidence does not become false because the person presenting it is unpleasant, partisan, or morally compromised.

 

That is also where institutional responsibility becomes important. Arday was responsible for his own work and his own public claims. Cambridge and the other institutions that validated, repeated, and amplified his extraordinary personal story were responsible for checking what they were endorsing. If credible warnings were treated as inconvenient, hostile, or reputationally dangerous instead of being properly investigated, that failure belongs to the institutions as well.

 

None of this means that Arday's death should be celebrated. It should not. His family is grieving, and basic human decency requires leaving them out of the spectacle. But his death also does not require the rest of us to pretend that the documented problems surrounding his career disappeared on the day he died.

 

What bothers me most is the hierarchy of compassion that becomes visible in cases like this. Thousands of decent people died yesterday. Thousands more will die tomorrow. Many lived extraordinarily difficult lives without honorary titles, elite appointments, newspaper profiles, political statements, or institutions invested in presenting them as symbols of social progress. They will die almost completely anonymously.

 

Their deaths are not less tragic because they were less useful to journalists, politicians, universities, or activists.

 

Arday received an extraordinary amount of prestige, attention, institutional sponsorship, and public sympathy during his life. If important parts of the record that produced that status were compromised, his death does not create a moral obligation to pretend otherwise.

 

The more useful moral question is why compassion itself has become so selective. Why are some people elevated into symbols while millions of others remain statistics? Why do institutions become so invested in inspirational narratives that questioning the narrative can be treated as an attack on the values the person supposedly represents? And why, once serious evidence finally breaks through, does a tragic ending suddenly make scrutiny itself seem indecent?

 

That, to me, is where virtue signalling becomes particularly ugly. It stops being simple kindness toward the dead and becomes a demand for moral indulgence based on symbolic status.

 

Jason Arday's death is tragic because a human being died young. It does not make the allegations against him false. It does not erase the documented problems surrounding his academic work. It does not absolve the institutions that promoted and protected his public mythology.

 

We can treat his death with basic human decency without rewriting the record of his life.

Links - 30th August 2026 (1 - Migrants: Canada)

Immigration referendum questions racist, says Edmonton mayor - "Mayor Andrew Knack is calling out nine upcoming Oct. 19 referendum questions regarding immigration as racist and is encouraging Edmontonians to vote ‘no’ on all of them... “I feel they are racist questions,” said Knack during the meeting. “I feel those questions are designed to divide and I am strongly opposed to them.”... A spokesperson for the office of the premier said the nine immigration referendum questions were a response to feedback received during last year’s Alberta Next town halls, which were largely held outside of Edmonton and Calgary.  “Any accusation that the referendum questions on sustainable immigration constitute racism is false and inflammatory,” said communications officer Ryan Fournier. “These questions simply address the current unsustainable immigration levels in Canada that are putting real pressures on critical public services. These questions also reflect the feedback we heard from Albertans during the Alberta Next town halls.”"
Left wingers are still using this line. If you're not for open borders and unlimited benefits for migrants, that's racist
Clearly, when left wingers smear people as racist, that's not intended to divide

Toronto Star on X - "His family in India took out a mortgage to fund his tuition in Canada. Why many temporary residents 'can't even think about going back'"a>
Rupa Subramanya on X - "The scam artist in the Indian knows there’s a Canadian audience for his sob story. Don’t fall for it! I too, came to Canada as an international student, and my father moved heaven and earth to pay my tuition. When it became clear there was no way I could fund my graduate program, I left and also my student visa was about to expire. I returned later when I had the money and I still had a spot in the program.  Notice how this sob story is rarely attempted in Gulf countries or elsewhere with large Indian migrant populations. Why? Because everyone understands that temporary residence is temporary. It is only in Canada that disappointment is repackaged as victimhood and a visa is treated as a down payment on citizenship."

Maxime Bernier on X - "The Liberals are importing cheap labour while Canadians struggle.   The Liberals just announced they’re restarting low-wage foreign worker visa processing in eight Canadian cities.   In cities where unemployment has barely fallen below 6%, meaning many Canadians are still looking for work, the government is bringing in low-wage foreign workers to compete with Canadians.   This is not a labour shortage. This is a wage shortage.   If businesses cannot find Canadians to fill positions, they can do one of two things: Raise wages until the job becomes attractive to Canadian workers. Or invest in robotics and automation to improve productivity.   What they shouldn't do is rely on a steady stream of cheap foreign labour that keeps wages depressed and gives employers an excuse to ignore Canadian job seekers.   This program is a subsidy for big business at the expense of Canadian workers.   The People's Party of Canada has been clear from day one: abolish the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.   There is no need to import foreign labour when Canadians are ready, willing, and able to work.   We just need to pay Canadians fairly.   Become a member of the only party that put Canadians first not foreigners, at"
Michael Bator PPC Burlington on X - "I am sick of subsidizing businesses at the expense of the jobless, homeless and struggling Canadians! Why I am paying to price out Canadians out of Jobs?"

JayGen 𝕏 er on X - "This is the kind of immigrant story that actually makes Canada stronger.  A guy who escaped Iran as a kid in 1989 just laid it out plain and simple. He came here and was blown away that parades were about Santa, balloons, and kids having fun — not tanks and missiles. He blended in. He didn’t get offended by pork on the BBQ or rainbow flags. He embraced it.  Now he’s watching newcomers show up and try to bring the exact same poisonous crap they ran from — getting angry at Canadian traditions, shoving religion down everyone’s throat, refusing to participate in something as basic as handing out Halloween candy, and trying to change the rules instead of joining the country that welcomed them.  His message is simple: Canada opens its arms. The least you can do is assimilate and mind your own business. If you’re not here to become Canadian, he’ll personally buy you the plane ticket home.  This is the difference between real immigration that built this country and the current mess that’s fracturing it. One group wanted to join Canada. The other wants to turn Canada into the place they fled.  We need more of the first kind. A lot less of the second.  #cdnpoli #Immigration #Assimilation #CanadaFirst #LiberalFail"
Damn old migrants pulling up the ladder behind them!

Chris Ryan on X - "They Threatened His Kids. Now the CBSA Whistleblower Who Exposed Gang Infiltration Has Gone Silent. A CBSA whistleblower who exposed gang infiltration, illegal passport shredding, and high-risk entries into Canada has now gone silent. Threats against him and his family. Advice from a security professional: drop out of the public eye.  The system protects itself. The officer who tried to protect Canadians is the one forced to hide.  This is Canada in 2026.  #cdnpoli #CBSA #Corruption"

Chris Ryan on X - "House Arrest For Rape… Because Sex Offender Registry Might Get Him Deported
Temporary resident Karandeep Singh from India sexually assaulted a woman in Prince George.   Judge Kevin Loo gave him 170 days house arrest… …and refused to put him on the sex offender registry to avoid “immigration consequences.” This is intolerable in Canada!  Singh works as a hotel security guard FFS! It’s not like he doesn’t know the damn law in Canada!  This is your Liberal/NDP run justice system: Canadian women & victims come last. Foreign criminals get protected and kid glove treatment.  Deport Singh NOW.  FIRE this incompetent activist judge.   Fix this now! @SeanFraserMP  @MarkJCarney  @Dave_Eby  @liberal_party  @BCSupremeCourt   #cdnpoli #CanadaFirst #Deport"

Natasha Montreal on X - "RCMP Called This A Habit. I Call Out The Double Standard. RCMP, "Engaging South Asian media to discuss the dangers of this habit." My reply, "Chewing gum is a habit." This isn't a habit. It's foreigners breaking gun laws in BC with zero consequences. Two-tier policing in action. Full video"

Adam Zivo on X - "Some Ontario bureaucrats have decided, on the basis of a legal technicality, that illegal immigrants are entitled to provincial welfare so long as they: 1) stay in the country long enough to no longer be called a “visitor” (this rule is entirely subjective); and 2) they don’t have a deportation order against them.  Notably, the illegal migrant in this case spent over two decades working under the table and never paid income tax — ergo, he didn’t contribute to the system he is now parasitically mooching from."

Allen Hampton on X - " Immigrant Group with Machetes Attacks Women in Victoria Park
July 3, 2026: Dallas Road near Beacon Hill Park, BC.  A group of ~10-15 men approached women saying, “Let’s go for a walk.” Refused, they pulled knives and a machete. Male friends rushed in, took hits from the machete, and helped detain the attackers until police arrived.  Three injured (deep slashes, wrist damage).
Charged: 20-year-old Hussein Saadedeen (aggravated assault + assault with weapon) and a youth. Both remanded.  This is the reality of unchecked immigration bringing imported violence to our once-safe parks. Thank God for the brave men who stepped up."

Kevin Klein on X - "You have to be kidding. That is the only reaction many Canadians will have when they fully understand what Ottawa has done to our citizenship laws. This is not a technical adjustment buried in legislation. It is a fundamental shift in what it means to be Canadian."

Wiretap Media on X - "REPORT: An all-out brawl breaks out between warring ethnic groups at the Red River Exhibition Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba. According to the organization's website, its objective is to foster growth between ethnocultural groups—which appears to include century-old blood feuds.  Canada is becoming unrecognizable."

Canadians are leaving Canada in record numbers and almost 50% are from one province - "The number of people leaving Canada reached a record high in 2025, with over 120,000 Canadians emigrating over the course of the year, according to the latest Statistics Canada data... According to Statistics Canada's quarterly international migration estimates, 120,640 people emigrated from Canada in 2025, up significantly from the record-setting 118,409 departures in 2024... While B.C. recorded 25,145 emigrants, less than half of Ontario's total, it had the highest per-capita emigration rate in the country at roughly 442 emigrants per 100,000 residents.  That's nearly double the national average of about 290 per 100,000 people and almost 10 times the rate seen in Newfoundland, which had the lowest rate in Canada."
Elbows up!

Sciohn Fhanne on X - "I'll try to be very careful and sensitive with this observation of Canada, because it touches on highly charged questions of ethnicity, immigration, belonging, and public space.  But here goes.  I've walked around Mississauga's Celebration Square on multiple evenings, and one thing I've increasingly noticed is neither hostility, nor tension, nor conflict, but something more subtle and perhaps more concerning.  Public spaces seem to become associated with particular ethnocultural communities to such a degree that many others gradually stop showing up.  The result is not segregation in any formal sense. Nobody is being excluded. Nobody is being told they cannot be there. Yet the effect can be remarkably similar. A space that is nominally shared begins to feel less shared over time.  To be perfectly clear, what troubles me isn't the presence of any particular diasporic community itself per se, but rather the gradual disappearance of the sense that these spaces belong equally to all of us as Canadians.  When a public square begins to be perceived, fairly or unfairly, as belonging primarily to one group, many others instinctively withdraw. Older-stock Canadians withdraw. Other immigrant communities withdraw. East Asians withdraw. Eastern Europeans withdraw. People who have no objection to anyone there nevertheless begin spending their evenings elsewhere.  Human beings are, for better or worse, tribal creatures. We gravitate toward familiarity. We seek places where we feel represented. We retreat when that sense of belonging is lost.  I understand this instinctively as someone from an East Asian diasporic background myself.  The bottom line here is that a healthy Canadian civilization cannot simply consist of parallel communities inhabiting the same geography. It requires common spaces where people from different backgrounds routinely encounter one another and develop some sense of collective belonging within the same civic realm.  What I increasingly worry about in Canada is not "diversity" itself, but the erosion of sharedness.  A country begins to lose something important when its public spaces cease to feel genuinely collective.  And whatever future Canada ultimately chooses for itself, it should never, ever feel like a collection of separate worlds living side by side while gradually forgetting how to inhabit the same one."

All-inclusive migrant health plan will burden Canada for years to come | National Post - "There are thousands of asylum seekers and illegal residents awaiting deportation who get more free health care than regular Canadian citizens. These all-inclusive care packages cost the public treasury $1 billion last year — and a recent attempt by the feds to bring it under control won’t help much... Known as the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), this freebie service provides the following to asylum seekers and rejects: hospital care, free doctor visits, free lab work, free ambulance trips. Before May 1, it also provided free medicine, and free “supplemental coverage”: vision and dental care, counselling, physiotherapy, speech language therapy, home care, medical supplies, etc. Earlier this month, the feds began requiring program users to pay a very modest $4 fee for prescriptions, and a 30 per cent co-pay for supplemental services. The small fees were added to reduce the cost of the program, which was estimated to be $1 billion in 2025-26 by the PBO in February. In 2029-30, without the addition of user fees, that number was expected to rise to $1.5 billion.  This week’s PBO report accounted for the new fees, and, well, it’s not impressive. The IFHP is only expected to reduce the program cost by $162 million this year. By 2029, it’s expected that this reduction will reach $217 million (or $220 million, if you take into account the impact of Bill C-12, which put minor limits on who can claim asylum) — that means the cost of providing health care to unvetted migrants and asylum rejects will be about $1.3 billion, far higher than should be tolerable.  Part of this comes down to the sheer volume of people coming to Canada to seek asylum...  The longer an asylum seeker has to wait for their claim to be assessed, the more time they can take advantage of comprehensive, taxpayer-funded health care. The more asylum seekers there are, the longer the wait. The more appeals and deportation threat assessments asylum seekers make when they’re rejected, the less capacity there will be in the system to deal with them all. It doesn’t help that immigration authorities keep finding new ways to let deportation candidates stay in Canada for longer... Only a fraction of the “removals inventory” — the asylum rejects that are supposed to be escorted out of the country — is deported each year. In 2025, that inventory had nearly 74,000 people, but only 20,000 were removed.  In 2025, 28,000 asylum rejects were listed as “wanted,” meaning they stopped showing up to removal proceedings. Some 23,000 had removals “in progress” (under appeal or undergoing threat assessment). Another 23,000 remained because their removal was listed as not possible. Canada simply doesn’t deport people if their home countries refuse to take them back, or if there are no flights home, among other reasons...  It’s clear from the PBO’s analysis that the IFHP’s new fees won’t do much to help Canadians. This means we’ll continue to feel the consequences: health care capacity will continue to be strained, and we’re still going to be on the hook for the health care of anyone with a pulse who managed to fill out an asylum claim form, even those who’ve been rejected.  What really needs to happen is a complete overhaul of the asylum system. Right now, it’s an immigration pathway for the world’s destitute, a luxury health-care resort for the developing world where you can get your teeth fixed for free. The incentives need to be removed, entire categories of claims need to be mass-denied, and asylum eligibility needs to be narrowed to the point where only a small number can apply each year."

Carney government reverses refugee health care cuts - "The Carney government has quietly walked back some of its cuts to a program providing temporary health-care coverage to refugees and asylum-seekers, months after slashing benefits for some of Canada’s most vulnerable newcomers. Earlier this year, following a budget pledge to lower funding, Ottawa introduced changes to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), which provides health care to resettled refugees and asylum claimants who are waiting to qualify for provincial or territorial insurance. Beginning in May, most people eligible for the program were required to pay 30 per cent of costs for health services, assistive devices and medical supplies that had previously been covered, along with $4 for prescription medication and refills.  But last week, Medavie Blue Cross, the program’s insurance provider, contacted health professionals with an update: items and services like feeding supplies, respiratory devices, implantable hearing aids, nursing homes and hospital-based rehabilitation would be moved to a different coverage tier, where co-payments would be scrapped entirely.  “We welcome any improvements in this situation because these co-payments were posing insurmountable financial barriers to patients who need this care,” said Dr. Vanessa Redditt, a family physician who primarily works with newcomer and low-income patients in Toronto.  “But gaps persist because there are still many essential medical services and medical supplies that are still subject to that 30 per cent co-payment and that are out of reach for individuals.”... The program, which had been scaled back under prime minister Stephen Harper and restored by Justin Trudeau, has been widely slammed by Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives. The opposition leader has argued that some who benefit from the coverage receive better care than Canadian citizens, and says the program’s costs have skyrocketed.  Program spending has ballooned in recent years, growing from $210.6 million in 2020-2021 to $896.4 million in 2024-2025. Those numbers fluctuate depending on the number of asylum-seekers and resettled refugees, and are also tied to backlogs in hearing asylum claims. “We want to uplift care for everyone, not punch down to the most vulnerable. That’s the worst thing we can do for our society, for our health-care system,” said Redditt, on her desire to see even more services and devices fully covered.  “When we ensure that everyone has access to the care that they need, we build healthier communities, and that’s what actually makes Canada strong.”"
The left wing push for unlimited social spending continues Ottawa’s enduring problem of a surge in temporary workers - The Globe and Mail - "The federal Immigration Ministry is touting its progress in returning Canada’s temporary resident numbers to sustainable levels. However, recently released numbers paint a much different picture: the number of foreign nationals holding work permits is actually rising.  In fact, there are more now than in 2024, when the federal government announced it would tighten rules for hiring foreign workers. Unsurprisingly, this is contributing to the government’s slow progress toward its goal of reducing temporary residents to 5 per cent of the population.  This is concerning as it shows Canada isn’t doing enough to wean itself off the use of foreign workers with precarious temporary status and who are often subject to abuse. Employers’ dependence on foreign labour also pushes down wage growth and has contributed to the high youth unemployment rate... The government won’t meet its original 2024 goal of reducing the temporary resident population to less than 5 per cent by the end of 2026, from a peak of 7.6 per cent. The number is dropping, but slowly – as of January, 6.5 per cent of the population were temporary residents. According to a February Parliamentary Budget Officer report, the government is on track to reach the 5 per cent goal by its new deadline, the end of 2027. After that it’s likely to stabilize at just under 5 per cent – still well above the historical norm.  However, that doesn’t mean that the bulk of these temporary workers are heading home. They are being prioritized to stay, and now make up the majority of new permanent residents. While the most qualified temporary residents should certainly be selected for permanent residency, the system is now out of balance, with skilled immigrants from outside the country having slim chances of getting permanent residency, while unskilled workers already here have an edge. IRCC is doing a better job at managing new arrivals, but it needs to do more to reduce the overall number of work permits. The temporary foreign worker program outside of agriculture should be wound down. It’s also time to take a closer look at the International Mobility Program.  Immigration is a key driver of Canada’s prosperity, but more needs to be done to move away from the two-step immigration system of the last decade, and return to selecting the highest-skilled immigrants from abroad for permanent residency. Restoring balance has been too slow. The federal government shouldn’t pretend otherwise."

Feds have spent an "unconscionable" amount of money on TFW program | Toronto Sun - "A Conservative MP says the feds’ Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) is wasteful spending. Michelle Rempel Garner, Shadow Minister for Immigration, says the program has cost the feds, in net terms, more than a $1 billion over the last five years.   “New data released in an Order Paper Question submitted by my colleague, Brad Vis, Shadow Minister for Small Business Recovery and Growth, shows that the Liberals have spent an unconscionable $1.6 billion (net $509 million) in the past five years to run the TFW program,” Rempel Garner said on Monday... “(The program) suppresses wage growth, fosters poor working conditions, stifles productivity, and eliminates entry-level job opportunities for Canadians,” Rempel Garner said. “It has masked structural economic weakness for years, a point that is particularly acute with Canada now firmly in the grip of recession. All of those problems that the program has created have had a massive negative impact on the Canadian economy and come at a high economic price. “These newly released figures show the Liberals have added insult to economic injury: they have spent more than half a billion dollars of taxpayer money to subsidize companies with what amounts to indentured labour in the past five years alone.”... “As of April, there are 442,000 unemployed youth in Canada, further proof that youth unemployment continues to rise well past critical levels,” Rempel Garner said. “Major abuses of the program are rampant. Frankly, it’s immoral that the Liberals would underwrite its operation to the tune of half a billion dollars over the past five years alone. Conservatives would introduce a standalone program for legitimately hard-to-fill seasonal agri-food and fisheries jobs.”"

Federal immigration officials just said the Liberals are planning a new taxpayer funded international advertising campaign to bring more foreign nationals to Canada to work. They’re doing this the middle of a youth jobs crisis and a recession. : r/CanadianVisaReform

Sciohn Fhanne on X - "Who would have thought, a decade ago, during the initial advent of Trumpism, that support for immigration would be souring far more in Canada than south of the border, where many influential voices remain enthusiastic and supportive?  We're not quite the beacon of the world we imagined ourselves to be during the False Renaissance of the 2010s, are we?  And no, this isn't simply about housing, infrastructure, abuse of pathways, or any of the other familiar explanations. Those are surface-level analyses.  Look south.  Diasporas are helping power world-beating technology firms, AI companies, research institutions, Olympic teams, and more.  I'm already seeing plenty of Mandarin, Tamil, and other immigrant-origin names at the very top.  Can we remotely say the same north of the border?  Do we offer our diasporas anything comparable to rise toward? Any project of sufficient scale, ambition, or consequence to attract and retain the most capable among them?  Before we wring our hands about a huge influx of people of what we consider "less than stellar" calibre arriving from "less than desirable" parts of the world, perhaps we should ask a more uncomfortable question: what if the problem isn't them, but us?"
Sciohn Fhanne on X - "What I'm trying to say, bluntly but without contempt, is this.  100 million Canadians under the Laurentian ethos would be a disaster.  But 400 or even 500 million Canadians under a far more intentional and serious civilizational ethos, one that knows where it is going, what this northern power wants to accomplish for itself and the world, and is willing to undertake the institutional transformations necessary to build housing, transportation, healthcare, education, energy, and food systems at mass scale, would be an absolute powerhouse."

Carney attributes ‘weakness’ in economic data to lower immigration targets - The Globe and Mail - "In a recent research note about Friday’s GDP data, three National Bank economists said immigration policy is a “key variable” weighing on growth.  “Due to the ongoing slowdown in immigration decided by Ottawa, the country’s population was smaller in the first quarter of 2026 than in the fourth quarter of 2025. This means that real GDP per capita growth was largely positive (+0.9 per cent) in the last quarter and has been on an upward trend for two years,” wrote economists Taylor Schleich, Matthieu Arseneau and Alexandra Ducharme."
Weird. We were told that open borders would lead to rising living standards for all

Links - 29th August 2026 (2 - Trans Mania)

PressReader.com | Fury as Amnesty brands JK’s rape charity ‘anti-rights’ over Potter author’s trans views
Agent P on X - "You would think that human rights organisations would be defending vulnerable women, not criticising services created for them. 🤔"

Thread by @MensNetwork1 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Amnesty International chose to libel the Gay Men's Network as an "anti-rights" group along with several LBG organisations. We object to NGOs who espouse gender ideology misusing their formidable funding and influence in this fashion and we are seeking a formal apology. Amnesty has absolutely no right to dictate what political opinions gay men may or may not hold on gender ideology. It has no right to "evidence launder" a list of dissent lesbian and gay groups as targets for opprobrium or public condemnation. Making lists of political enemies is the sort of activity Amnesty used to actively and admirably campaign against, now it does precisely that. Further, the "report" in question counsels unlawful belief discrimination by regulators and funding bodies.  The Charity sector preaches diversity yet is singularly intolerant of Gay Men and Lesbians who correctly analyse gender ideology as deeply homophobic from the denial of same sex attraction to the scandal of high numbers of same-sex attracted youth at gender clinics. For the avoidance of any doubt, we will not allow libels from Amnesty to scare or intimidate us. We are gay men who have faced prejudice and discrimination all of our lives and a captured charity engaging in libel is anaemic by comparison to what most gay men have experienced. We affirm out commitment to fighting the dangerous and draconian Conversion Practices Bill Amnesty supports and we repeat our criticism that it exploits real gay pain in order to terrify parents of children experiencing distress around gender. We are currently in the process of updating our website. When it is complete the letter will also be posted publicly there, just as Amnesty's libels of us and other LGB organisations were made public. We urge the Charity Commission to urgently consider action in this matter. It cannot be right for charities to compile lists of political opponents and public libel them in this way. The gender corruption of the 3rd sector is a huge issue. It is time to act."

Maya Forstater on X - "For years we were told that trans rights and women’s rights could not in any way be in conflict. Amnesty's smearing of Beira's Place makes very clear that women's rights just don't count."
Left wingers still claim that rights are like cake - more for one doesn't mean less for others

John Cleese on X - "I was once a major fund-raiser for Amnesty. But in those days it was about preventing torture. Not about sexual identity. I disown them"

vittorio on X - "it's really sad seeing how they keep parading ellen page around like this little sacrificial object to remind themselves how good and woke they are. everyone can see how she's a sad, broken woman who's been abused and betrayed by everyone around her but no one cares about her enough to have the basic decency to tell her the truth, that she looks ridiculous and has ruined her life. they just keep the parade going so they can feel morally superior while she pays the price.  ironically, all the "bigot transphobes" care more about these people than anyone around them validating their delusions"
Wesley Yang on X - "There are many people who claim in all sincerity to have been saved by giving all their money to Scientology or the Moonies. This may even be true. We look at them and feel pity -- but the cult gave them what they were lacking in life. It gave them community. It gave them a sense of purpose. It gave a structure to their desire and their striving.   That is what cults sell and what its salesmen sell successfully precisely because they are themselves true believers in their product because they did in fact derive many of the benefits they sell to others from their own immersion in the cult.   This is what transgenderism sells to its adherents. It sells a story of magical self-transformation that is also the attainment of an authentic self. It does so through rituals of self-mortification that impose a sunk cost so great on those inflicting them on themselves that escaping the resulting immersion in a fictive, pseudo-reality that would vindicate such a sacrifice -- constructed in the same way that all social realities are constructed, through institutional validation -- becomes nearly impossible. "Death before detransition." It does so by creating intense trauma bonds between those who have undergone the rituals, which are further intensified by the cultivated sense of being oppressed unto death by the cisnormative world that surrounds them.   In a liberal, pluralistic society that honors freedom of speech and freedom of association, we don't ban commercial cults. We allow them to proselytize. What we don't do is give them access to schools to recruit children, we don't brainwash children in the millions to accept their beliefs as the only truth, we don't give their cult rituals the imprimatur of medicine, we don't allow them to use state power to force people to pay obeisance to their cult dogmas. The President doesn't affirm their dogmas or direct his executive agencies to propagate them.   Transgenderism is novel in this way. Sharing aspects of many prior group psychological phenomenon -- the social contagions of eating disorders and Recovered Memory Syndrome, the business model of multi-level marketing schemes, the trauma-bonding of the gang initiation or the hazing ritual -- it melded these elements with institutional capture via two masquerades in which it successfully passed as something it is not: firstly, as a form of medicine, secondly, as a civil rights movement.    Undoing this unbelievable concatenation may actually be beyond the critical and epistemic capacities of the Western world."

J Stewart on X - "🤯 Listen to this extraordinary exchange between Camilla Tominey and Labour’s Health Secretary James Murray. It is genuinely jaw-dropping.
Camilla: “You’re quite pro-trans, aren’t you? Do you think a woman can have a penis? Because you did previously?”
Murray: “No, I don’t.”
Camilla: “So you’ve changed your mind?”
Murray: “Yes.”
Camilla: “Why?”
Murray stumbles. He says he’s been thinking about the issue over recent years and would not now say trans women are women.  Camilla hits back: “You must have known that before. You are very well educated. How on earth can you have previously thought that a woman can have a penis?”  He had no real answer. Because there isn’t one.   This is not some backbench MP. This is the Secretary of State for Health, the man responsible for the entire NHS, puberty blocker policy, women’s health services, and child safeguarding.  He spent years either believing or pretending to believe that biological sex is fluid and that women can have penises. Only now, when the Cass Review, court rulings, and public opinion have made that position politically toxic, has he magically “changed his mind”.   Think about the damage done while he held that view. The eroded women’s rights. The confused children fast-tracked toward hormones and surgery. The female prisoners and athletes forced to share spaces with biological males. All enabled or ignored by senior Labour figures like him.  This level of ideological delusion at the very top of government is not just embarrassing, it is dangerous. Basic biology should never have been up for debate, let alone something a Health Secretary had to “evolve” on."

Canada Sticks With Gender-Affirming Care Despite Cass Review Evidence (aka "How Canada Jumped the Rails on ’Gender-Affirming Care’: A Quillette Investigation") - "The idea that doctors should uncritically heed a patient’s self-diagnosis was an unsettling innovation, and one that is generally alien to other branches of health care. To this day, the Canadian Paediatric Society proselytises the idea of gender identity as a soul-like ether that most children can categorise reliably when they are just three years old. In many cases, old-fashioned conservative stereotypes about what boys and girls are supposed to wear, what colours they should prefer, and what toys they should play with have been transformed into purportedly meaningful indicators that could eventually serve to propel a child down a life path that includes amputated body parts and a lifelong drug regime. Possible evidence of gender identity, the CPS indicates to parents who consult its “Caring for Kids” resources, for instance, includes the fact that she refuses to put on a dress, “even on special occasions.” By the early 2020s, the mania for “affirmation” properly became an object of concern among medical experts, who noted that the underlying theory was based more on slogans than science; and that the studies purporting to support GAC’s efficacy typically were marked by small samples, biased design, and circular reporting. A vocal detransitioner community emerged, with harrowing tales of gender-clinic doctors eagerly expressing their “allyship” with a hastily produced set of drug prescriptions. All of this has been pointed out to the CPS leadership in peer-reviewed form. But the organisation still stands by its original 2023 Position Statement on the subject of GAC—a document that exhorts Canadian doctors to adopt an “affirming approach to routine health care provision for all youth,” and enshrine gender-affirming care as the unquestioned “standard of care for transgender or gender-diverse youth.” The timing of the CPS Position Statement was unfortunate, as it came less than a year before Dr Hilary Cass, a former president of Britain’s Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, released a blockbuster Report that exhaustively analysed the international evidence for and against gender-affirming care. Critics had been picking GAC apart for years by this point. But what Dr Cass achieved was on another level: The Cass Review, as it has come to be called, was the most authoritative analysis of the available literature regarding the treatment of gender dysphoric minors that had ever been published. It still is. Dr Cass concluded that the “potential risks to neurocognitive development, psychosexual development, and longer-term bone health” associated with the use of puberty blockers to treat trans-identified children are substantial.” Her analysis also showed that the widespread claim that “hormone treatment reduces the elevated risk of death by suicide” among trans-identified youth isn’t supported by the available evidence. This latter conclusion was especially important, because the morbid claim that trans-identified children are at imminent risk of suicide without rapid and enthusiastic “affirmation” from all quarters had always been deployed as a propaganda weapon of last (and sometimes first) resort by activists and “gender-affirming” medical personnel. Indeed, many whistleblowing parents who’d expressed scepticism of the GAC provided to their children have reported hearing some version of this ghoulish theme from zealous therapists and doctors. Moreover, the idea that gender affirmation was a form of suicide prevention turned what had once been a medical debate into a contest of moral virtue, as it allowed GAC proponents to present their movement in heroic life-or-death terms—an epic human-rights struggle against heartless (and presumably transphobic) naysayers who were prepared to condemn transgender children to the grave. To this day, in fact, this self-valorizing nature of the GAC movement seems to be one of the main attractions for social-justice minded medical-school graduates. Critics initially tried to dismiss Dr Cass as a stooge of right-wing Bible-thumpers, and confidently predicted that her analysis would collapse under scrutiny. But that didn’t happen. Just the opposite, in fact: The British Medical Union (BMU), the trade union for British doctors, spent two years trying to debunk the Cass Review at the behest of the union’s pro-GAC activist constituency. Yet once this singularly thorough investigation of Dr Cass’s work wrapped up in early 2026, the BMU wound up conceding that Dr Cass’s “robust” analysis had been vindicated. Dr Cass’s report effectively sounded the death knell for the “affirmation” model in the UK, and did much to accelerate the rollback of GAC policies internationally—and not just in conservative jurisdictions such as Republican-controlled U.S. states. Socially progressive nations that have rolled back GAC-style policies in recent years include not only the UK, but also Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, New Zealand, and Italy. Since the Cass Review was published, more primary research has emerged in support of Dr Cass’s conclusions. This includes newly released Finnish data, covering every under-23-year-old individual who’d been referred for gender treatment in Finland between 1996 and 2019—a cohort containing almost 2,100 people. Following gender-clinic referrals, the study found, clinically trans-affirmed patients exhibited greater psychiatric morbidity than members of a control group... I (somewhat earnestly) concluded my May 12 article with a prediction that the CPS would surely (if belatedly) catch up with its international counterparts... the CPS made nonsense of my words with the choice of its new President: an unusually zealous gender-affirmation advocate named Natasha Johnson."

Jonathan Kay on X - "One astounding thing that I learned while researching my @Quillette investigation of the Cdn Paediatric Society is that Dr. Daniel Metzger, who co-wrote the CPS "Position Statement" on the claimed merits of "gender-affirming care," thinks the Cass Review is a "pile of garbage""

Meme - Just passing through: "The homophobic London Pride.... Rejects homosexuals who won't bend the knee to the poisonous TQcult. #LGBwithouttheTQ"
Pride in London: ""Same sex attracted" is just another word for Nazis. We don't need you here."
Time to call those who reject trans mania homophobic

bitchuneedsoap on X - "I spent time inside a “trans help” group posing as a minor who needed to hide everything from my parents.  The adults in the group did not pause. They did not redirect me to a doctor. They did not suggest telling a parent. They gave me sourcing instructions, supplier links, and workflows for obtaining DIY hormones discreetly.  Adults, coaching a child on how to medically transition behind their parents’ backs.  I will be exposing this network in the coming days."

Theresa Verity on X - "I first worked out what I was at age 5. What fetish was it that I, as a 5 year old, was experiencing? Please at least try and make a coherent argument"
Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ on X - "Oh, boy, did you get the wrong woman. I’m a homicide investigator with experience working sex crimes, and I am _happy_ to explain why it’s still a fetish - to you, and to anyone else who wants to read along.  See, fetishes/paraphilias often start in prepubescence, long before any sort of sexual awakening. Some start even earlier than five. Jerome Brudos, for example, began his obsession with women’s shoes at the age of 4. He later went on to murder and mutilate multiple women, cutting off their feet so as to model his shoe collection for photographs.   He was an AGP too, by the way - or a transvestitic fetishist, if you prefer the traditional term. Lots of serial killers are; I can name half a dozen off the top of my head: BTK, Ed Gein (who was making himself a woman suit out of real women and is one of the models for Buffalo Bill) Russell Williams, Jacques Coatzee, Beate Schmidt, and Harvey Marcelin, for starters. There are plenty more. But I’m getting sidetracked.   Brudos is hardly the only example of a fetishist who experienced early stirrings, as it were. Enter any online fetish community, and you will find users who had a strong prepubescent affinity for what has now become a full-fledged paraphilia.   Claiming to have “known” since you were 5 in no way precludes your obsession with possessing a female body from being fetishistic. Given your attitude that your self-induced gynecomastia is your most important “womanly” trait, I’d say it’s a certainty that you’re a fetishist. Tell me, do you get euphoria boners like so many other “transwomen” do when they crossdress?"

ripx4nutmeg on X - "Bodycam footage has just been released of police visiting an American campus last year following the report of a car theft. Unfortunately for them, the first person they meet is a cross-dressing student, who throws repeated and aggressive tantrums over his gender identity."
Devon Eriksen on X - "What you are seeing here isn't individual mental illness.   It's a culture clash between a matriarchal and patriarchal system.   Women are evolved to take care of babies. Their notion  of fairness, justice, and the way things "should" be are therefore evolved around the needs of babies.   All babies are important, all babies must be taken care of, and the babies who are the highest priority are the ones most urgently in need. Babies signal need by crying.   So, in a matriarchal system, resources, attention, and influence are steered towards whoever creates the most urgent appearance of need, by crying the loudest.   Men are evolved to hunt wild game, often large and dangerous game, in teams. Their notion of fairness, justice, and the way things "should" be are therefore evolved around the needs of the team.   Teams need men to take risks, and endure hardship, for the sake of accomplishing a goal.   So, in a patriarchal system, resources, attention, and influence are steered towards whoever appears to be contributing the most to, or sacrificing the most for,  the mission or the overall welfare of the team.   This weird guy having a meltdown on camera is, indeed, delusional. He thinks he is a woman. But this delusion is not brought on by normal, individual mental illness.   Instead, it is brought by cultural illness, which is the mental illness of an entire society. He is hyper-adapted to the matriarchal subculture he exists in, where the most effective social strategy is to be the neediest of all the babies.   Then, along comes a patriarchal team... the police. They have a mission... to resolve the complained-of disturbance, so they can get on the the next mission of investigating a stolen car.   Our subject immediately tries to wield social power by signalling distress, as he has been taught to do.   But this does not result in social power over the policeman, because the policeman is patriarchal and doesn't think that way.   Instead, he thinks about his mission. To resolve a "disturbance", which has probably only been vaguely described to him on the radio, and that's all the information he has.   So, to him, the mission is to calm shit down. And the biggest threat, obstacle, or challenge to the mission is whoever is most visibly spazzing out.   So our subject's power strategy, tuned for a matriarchal culture, actually makes him the biggest threat to the mission.   So the policemen engage him, as the primary target, subdue him, control him, and remove him from the scene. Once this is done, peace and tranquility are restored, and they can, presumably, get on with their car theft call.   However, our subject still doesn't understand what he did wrong, or why this is happening to him.   Had he been contacted by agents of a matriarchal power structure, the response to his tantrums would have been increased attention and care, in an attempt to "deescalate" his emotional state.   But the patriarchal solution is not to deescalate just because someone is agitated. It is to apply whatever solution will resolve the immediate problem the most quickly and cheaply.   In this case, that meant escalating to the minimum level of force necessary to remove the source of trouble from the scene.   Which was the result he got.   There are generally no magic words you can say to someone that will undo decades of cultural and institutional programming in a minute or two.   This guy might appear crazy to you, but the important thing to understand is that he is not just individually cracked or bonkers. He is the result of a systematic process that cranks out crackpots like an assembly line.   And that process is inevitable in any culture where female political power outweighs male political power. Instead of competing to play the hardest and best and be the MVP, people compete to cry the loudest and be the neediest baby."

Jenn Pellegrino 🇺🇸 on X - "I can't believe this is real. The Chancellor of UC San Francisco testified under oath that a "vast majority of pregnancies are in women." Implying some pregnancies occur in men. When asked directly whether a non-biological woman has ever had a baby, he refused to answer. This is the head of one of the top medical schools in the country."
Time to condemn Creationists for refusing to recognise biological facts and causing harm

Colorado Principled Physicians on X - "UCSF Chancellor Samuel Hawgood is a neonatologist pediatrician with history of many years of clinical practice being around mothers who have just given birth, being paid to care for their sick babies. What kind of trans industry sellout do you really have to be to say something like this? If a man can lie publicly that men can get pregnant - something so easy to disprove - what will he not lie about? We are not afraid of telling the truth about the very fundamentals of human existence and origins: women, and only women, can get pregnant. Put that in your pipe and try not to inhale the smoke, Dr Samuel Hawgood. We hope you will apologize to the public and act more worthy of your medical license in future."

Wesley Yang on X - "A 70-year white male leader of an important medical institution is humiliating himself before the whole world because he is subject to the same power that now holds millions of elementary schoolchildren in its grips.   The same false dogmas he must parrot and defer to are being taught to millions of schoolchildren as the only truth. If an eminent physician and institutional leader cannot resist the enforced lies, what hope does your 11-year old daughter have?   If the Democrats regain power and pass the Equality Act, the same power that compels him to lie and abase himself will be inflicted onto every American citizen."

Wesley Yang on X - "He didn't answer the question about non-biological women because he doesn't actually know any of the dogmas he is forced to parrot in order to remain in good standing within the university: only biological women have babies; some of those women who have babies pretend to be men, ("Trans men,") and thus "men can have babies" because "Trans Men are Men."   Men who pretend to be women ("trans women") do not have babies because they are men and only women (including women who pretend to be men, whom we are all obliged to call "men" because "Trans Men are Men") can give birth."

Sam Morgan on X - "When you say: "The problem isn't trans women it's cis men." We all hear: "The problem isn't men, it's men." It makes you sound crazy."

Meme - "Alphabet People: "We're oppressed"
Literally everything: *long escalator in subway station with Pride flag on both walls and on central area as far as the eye can see*"

Meme - Non-Passing MTF: "FOR MY FINAL WISH, I WISH TO BE A WOMAN."
Genie: "DONE."
Non-Passing MTF: "NOTHING HAPPENED?"
Genie: "CORRECT! TRANSWOMEN ARE women."
*Puzzled Non-Passing MTF*
*Angry Non-Passing MTF*

The Wall Street Journal on X - "The transgender-rights movement has lost nearly all of its ground in red states, and is on the defensive in blue states. How did it happen?"
Jonathan Kay on X - "i have no idea. it's a complete mystery"
Meme - *Ontario NDP Kristyn Wong Tam photo op*
"Protect 2SLGBTQI+ Communities"
*FTM/Butch at podium*
*Drag queens and/or non-passing trans people around, with one in a mask and one looking like a child*
Meme - *Possible MTF with "Kill the Terf" on T-shirt*
*Probable MTF with "I Punch TERFS" top with fake blood*
*Probable MTF with painted white face, naked except for V underwear with "Kill Da TERFS" written on torso*
*Man with "Feminist As Fuck" mask and "Kill the TERF" T-shirt*
Meme - *Trans march with people in wheelchairs and masks and other non-normal looking people*