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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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It comes with a vagina too.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Habits for Americans in an Age of Disruption

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

Habits for Americans in an Age of Disruption

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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