Links - 4th October 2025 (General Wokeness)

Old Salty Marine on X - "Personally, I never cared what Race you were until you started blaming MY Race for YOUR problems.  I never cared about your Political Views until you started to condemn ME for MY Political Views.  I never cared where you were Born until you tried to Erase MY History and Blame MY Ancestors for YOUR current problems.  Now I care.   Now my patience and tolerance are gone. And I'm not alone.  Millions of us feel this way, and we have had ENOUGH."

Meet the Eureka Fellows building a more sustainable future - "Sylvia Okonofua was inspired to become a catalyst for change after learning just how dire the odds are for Black patients in need of stem cell transplants. In Canada, Black patients of all ethnic backgrounds only have a 16 per cent chance of finding a matched donor compared to 75 per cent for Caucasian patients of European descent... Driven by the systemic inequity she witnessed, Okonofua founded Black Donors Save Lives (BDSL), a non-profit to engage Black communities across Canada about the importance of blood, organ, tissue and stem cell donations."
Weird. We keep being told that there's no biological basis for race. This must be due to systemic racism, and racism among those doing the stem cell matching

Controversial Berlin street renamed over racist connotations - "Activists have long sought to rename Mohrenstrasse in the Mitte district, as the term "Mohr" was historically used in German to describe people of African descent in a derogatory manner. The word stems from the Latin "Maurus" ("Moor"), and it became associated with colonialism, slavery, and racist caricatures. The street is now set to be called Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Strasse, after Anton Wilhelm Amo, the first known African philosopher and lawyer to obtain a doctorate at a German university in the 18th century."

Governments have 'failed white working-class students,' Bridget Phillipson claims - "It comes as a study from the Institute for Government (IfG) suggests ethnicity may be a factor in how badly poverty impacts on educational attainment. The think tank said disadvantaged white pupils have 'particularly poor educational outcomes' in terms of attainment in Year 6 Sats. Official data showed only 3 per cent of British white pupils from low income families attend a top university – one of the least successful groups."
How ignorant. She needs to be educated about white privilege

Jussie Smollett says he felt ‘emasculated’ by public’s reaction to alleged hate crime - "“I believe he wanted to be the poster boy of activism for Black people, for gay people, for marginalized people,” says Bola in the new documentary. Ola adds: “I thought it was crazy, but at the same time, I’m like, ‘It’s Hollywood.’ This is how it goes.”... a jury convicted him of five counts of disorderly conduct in 2021. He was sentenced to 150 days in jail — six of which he served before being freed pending appeal — 30 months of probation, and was ordered to pay approximately $130,000 in restitution. The Illinois Supreme Court overturned his conviction in 2024 because of a non-prosecution agreement he had entered into with the Cook County attorney’s office."

Performative virtue-signaling has become a threat to higher ed - "Between 2023 and 2025, we conducted 1,452 confidential interviews with undergraduates at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. We were not studying politics — we were studying development. Our question was clinical, not political: “What happens to identity formation when belief is replaced by adherence to orthodoxy?” We asked: Have you ever pretended to hold more progressive views than you truly endorse to succeed socially or academically? An astounding 88 percent said yes. These students were not cynical, but adaptive. In a campus environment where grades, leadership, and peer belonging often hinge on fluency in performative morality, young adults quickly learn to rehearse what is safe. The result is not conviction but compliance. And beneath that compliance, something vital is lost. Late adolescence and early adulthood represent a narrow and non-replicable developmental window. It is during this stage that individuals begin the lifelong work of integrating personal experience with inherited values, forming the foundations of moral reasoning, internal coherence, and emotional resilience. But when belief is prescriptive, and ideological divergence is treated as social risk, the integrative process stalls. Rather than forging a durable sense of self through trial, error, and reflection, students learn to compartmentalize. Publicly, they conform; privately, they question — often in isolation. This split between outer presentation and inner conviction not only fragments identity but arrests its development. This dissonance shows up everywhere. Seventy-eight percent of students told us they self-censor on their beliefs surrounding gender identity; 72 percent on politics; 68 percent on family values. More than 80 percent said they had submitted classwork that misrepresented their views in order to align with professors. For many, this has become second nature — an instinct for academic and professional self-preservation. To test the gap between expression and belief, we used gender discourse — a contentious topic both highly visible and ideologically loaded. In public, students echoed expected progressive narratives. In private, however, their views were more complex. Eighty-seven percent identified as exclusively heterosexual and supported a binary model of gender. Nine percent expressed partial openness to gender fluidity. Just seven percent embraced the idea of gender as a broad spectrum, and most of these belonged to activist circles. Perhaps most telling: 77 percent said they disagreed with the idea that gender identity should override biological sex in such domains as sports, healthcare, or public data — but would never voice that disagreement aloud. Thirty-eight percent described themselves as “morally confused,” uncertain whether honesty was still ethical if it meant exclusion. Authenticity, once considered a psychological good, has become a social liability. And this fragmentation doesn’t end at the classroom door. Seventy-three percent of students reported mistrust in conversations about these values with close friends. Nearly half said they routinely conceal beliefs in intimate relationships for fear of ideological fallout. This is not simply peer pressure — it is identity regulation at scale, and it is being institutionalized. Universities often justify these dynamics in the name of inclusion. But inclusion that demands dishonesty is not ensuring psychological safety — it is sanctioning self-abandonment. In attempting to engineer moral unity, higher education has mistaken consensus for growth and compliance for care. Students know something is wrong. When given permission to speak freely, many described the experience of participating in our survey not as liberating, but as clarifying. They weren’t escaping responsibility — they were reclaiming it. For students trained to perform, the act of telling the truth felt radical. We do not fault students for perpetuating a climate that is hostile to intellectual integrity. We fault the faculty, administrators, and institutional leaders who built a system that rewards moral theater while punishing inquiry. In shielding students from discomfort, they have also shielded them from discovery. The result is a generation confident in self-righteousness, but uncertain in self. This is not sustainable. If higher education is to fulfill its promise as a site of intellectual and moral development, it must relearn the difference between support and supervision. It must re-center truth — not consensus — as its animating value. And it must give back to students what it has taken from them: the right to believe, and the space to become."
Preference falsification strikes again, because if you disagree with the left wing agenda you are a terrible person and an irredeemable bigot
Weird. We're told that there's no indoctrination in college and that young people are just being exposed to new ideas and new people and having their minds and perspectives widened. Clearly over 80 percent of students are just awful people and Nazis, which is why they need to lie to align with their professors

Nearly half of Canadian university students hide real beliefs: survey - "Nearly half of all Canadian university students are actively concealing their real opinions for fear of sanction or mistreatment, according to a comprehensive new survey published Wednesday by the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy.  Of 760 university students surveyed, 48.1 per cent expressed reluctance to reveal their opinions on a “controversial political issue.” The survey found that 27.5 per cent of students were somewhat reluctant and 20.6 per cent were very reluctant.  And this wasn’t because the students were particularly reserved or shy in class discussions. When respondents were asked about giving their views on a “non-controversial” issue, 93.4 per cent said it was no problem. “Inescapable from our study is the recognition that classroom discussions on controversial topics on university campuses fail to reflect the actual cross-section of opinions of students in the classroom,” wrote researchers for the Calgary-based think tank.  And fear of speaking out changed drastically based on a student’s identity. Some groups described campus environments in which virtually all of their opinions or views could be expressed without consequence.  While others said campuses had become places where a failure to exercise proper self-censorship could risk lower grades, the opprobrium of peers or even investigation by campus authorities. “Liberals basically feel free to say anything they want on any subject, regardless of consequences — that’s not an overstatement — while moderates and conservatives and libertarians feel like they have to radically self-censor, if they want to avoid consequences for their beliefs,” wrote David Hunt, research director for the Aristotle Foundation, in an email to the National Post.   He added, “we knew students were self-censoring and that some students felt their views weren’t welcome in class discussions … but the data was even more damning than expected.” This was particularly true when the Aristotle results were broken down by a respondent’s self-identified gender.  Respondents who identified themselves as either “non-binary” or a non-specified third gender expressed the most confidence of any other cohort in airing their views without fear of reprimand or sanction.  In one survey question, respondents were asked to imagine a scenario in which they’re discussing a “controversial gender issue” in class, and they hold back on their views for fear that they’ll get reported to campus authorities for an alleged act of hate or discrimination.  Of the non-binary and third gender respondents, 87.1 per cent expressed confidence this would never apply to them.  Male and female respondents were much more guarded. Only 31.4 per cent of men and 47.7 per cent of women said they could expect to tell the truth without risking getting into trouble...  Self-censorship also varied wildly between racial groups.  The ethnicities who expressed the most comfort with “speaking up in a class discussion” were students who identified as Middle Eastern or Indigenous. Only 27 per cent of Middle Eastern students indicated any reluctance to air their views on a controversial issue, with 31 per cent of Indigenous students saying the same. On the other side of the spectrum were white and Hispanic students. Fifty per cent of Hispanic students and 46 per cent of white students said they preferred to stay out of class discussions on hot button issues.  The Aristotle survey is also one of several recent Canadian polls to reveal campus environments that have become increasingly unwelcoming for Jewish students.  If a “controversial religious issue” was discussed in class, 69 per cent of Jewish respondents said they would be reluctant to speak up.  At the opposite end of the spectrum were Muslim students, only 36 per cent of whom said the same.  Jewish students also emerged as the largest cohort by far who reported suffering ill treatment “every day” because of their religion. Of Jewish respondents, 15.2 per cent of respondents reported daily incidents of discrimination, against 3.5 per cent of Catholic students, and 3.1 per cent of Muslim students. Only 15 per cent of Jewish students said they are never targeted...  Surprisingly, however, the Aristotle survey revealed that moderate or conservative opinions now represent the plurality of student’s political views on Canadian campuses.  Of respondents, 38.7 per cent reported having either “moderate,” “conservative” or “libertarian” opinions. This was against 37 per cent who reported their views as being on the liberal side of the spectrum. The other 24.2 said they either didn’t think about politics or didn’t want to answer.  And this was despite the fact that the Aristotle survey respondents were disproportionately non-white and female; two groups that have historically leaned left in their political views. Just 47.8 per cent of respondents were white, and only 28.9 per cent were male (63.2 per cent were female).  Despite moderates and conservatives now representing a plurality of the nation’s university students, the Aristotle survey found that they felt most besieged for their political views. For students identifying as “very conservative,” 85 per cent said they suspected they risked lower grades if they ever revealed what they believed.  Among the “very liberal” cohort, meanwhile, three quarters said they were “not at all” concerned that the free expression of their opinions would land them in trouble. Just 17 per cent of moderates said they are not concerned.  The survey found that 46.2 per cent of students said they were treated badly or unfairly because of their political views and 6.6 per cent said they are targeted more than once a week."

Opinion: Our universities need viewpoint diversity - "83 per cent of right-leaning students believe that professors advocate a left-of-centre view — and 45 per cent of left-leaning students agree with them. Forty-two per cent of right-leaning students say they experienced a classroom environment that limited questions and discussion on controversial topics to only one side of the argument. Only 29 per cent of left-leaning students felt the same way. To make matters worse, 50 per cent of right-leaning students said they sometimes felt uncomfortable expressing their opinions due to the views of the professors leading the class. Only 36 per cent of left-leaning students reported the same experience. When asked whether there was a “safe” point of view on controversial topics in university classes, a majority from both groups answered “yes” — with little difference between right-leaning students (58 per cent) and left-leaning students (51 per cent). When both sides agree there’s a “safe” side to the argument, and students holding minority views feel less safe, that’s worrying. A significant number of right-leaning students (37 per cent) also said they feared formal consequences for expressing honest thoughts or opinions or even asking questions in their classes. Among right-leaning students who expressed this concern, 74 per cent feared their professors would lower their grades for expressing the “wrong” opinion in class. When students feel their grades are at risk, they’re far less likely to express their genuine opinions or even ask questions during class discussions. Not only does this make classes less interesting, it also undermines the entire purpose of a university education. Other studies have also revealed the politically one-sided nature of university campuses. For example, a 2022 survey published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute found that 88 per cent of Canadian university professors vote for parties of the left, while only nine per cent support parties on the right. No wonder students feel their classroom discussions are consistently one-sided. A 2024 survey published by Heterodox Academy and College Plus found that more than half of students were reluctant to discuss issues such as transgender identity or the current Israel/Hamas conflict, while almost half were reluctant to even broach the subject of politics. More alarmingly, a majority of students favoured limiting free expression on campus. While many university professors are quick to describe themselves as strong supporters of diversity, their support seems not to extend to diversity of thought."
University indoctrination is a myth. If "minorities" fear being penalised, that's proof of discrimination, but if conservatives fear being penalised, they're just deluded, or that's "accountability" and is good
If 88% of Canadian university professors are white, that's proof of structural racism and they will definitely discriminate against "minorities", and we need affirmative action

Students demand 'free speech' for themselves, censorship for the rest - "Pro-Palestinian protests have been erupting on college campuses across North America for the past few weeks, led, rather prolifically, by Columbia University, followed closely by others such as New York University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale. Some demonstrators have not only set up tent encampments, but have clashed with police and other students, resulting in violence, rule violations, vandalism and ultimately arrests in the U.S. In Canada, tents have been set up in schools like the University of Toronto, McGill in Montreal, and the University of British Columbia.  The protests have tested the boundaries of free expression, since many have taken place on private property against the rules of the institutions. While many protesters have participated peacefully, there have also been reports of harassment, intimidation, calls for violence and support for Hamas, which is a designated terror organization in Canada. In response, many schools have attempted to balance free speech rights with safety concerns and significant academic disruptions — with a number of schools moving to remote learning or cancelling exams. Columbia has even cancelled its commencement ceremony. On the one hand, where shouldn’t the free exchange of ideas thrive more than on a university campus? Yet, it’s been well-documented for some time now that numerous colleges have abdicated their commitment to free expression.  In my recently published book, No Apologies: How to Find and Free Your Voice in the Age of Outrage, I cite a 2022 survey conducted by the Buckley Institute at Yale University, which reveals that 41 per cent of college students admitted that they favour using violence to stop “hateful” speech, and nearly half agree that some speech can be so offensive that it merits the death penalty. Contrast that with the scenes of clashes between protesters on campuses with police officers. Although the police action isn’t over speech, but rather illegal acts like trespassing, violence and vandalism, a number of people would argue — rightly or wrongly — that the protesters, too, are engaging in “hate speech.” Would violence be justified to stop their speech?  Many of the protesters wear masks to protect their identities because they fear retaliation by those who find their views and actions abhorrent. They register complaints about the “cancel culture” that has come for some, after they were caught on camera uttering words that others found repugnant — at times even advocating for the murder of certain people, or justifying violence as “resistance.” There’s a terrific sense of irony here because not so long ago, the same people equated “cancel culture” with “accountability culture” and supported censoring certain speech they didn’t like. When researching this phenomenon, I discovered that a survey conducted in 2023 by the Institute for Global Innovation and Growth at North Dakota State University found that 74 per cent of students would report a professor for saying something offensive.  Similarly, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which tracks speech tolerance on campuses in the United States, has ranked Harvard, Yale, Portland State, Columbia and New York University towards the bottom for free speech and open inquiry. Yet, these schools have been among the major sites for recent protests. The same students who actively shut down discourse, bred a culture of academic intolerance, targeted professors and campaigned to cancel guest speakers with whom they disagree … are now lobbying for their right to free speech...  Unfortunately, on all sides, “free speech for me, but not for thee” seems to be the prevailing orthodoxy. And if we follow that creed, then we’re not at all for free speech — we’re just for free speech for he who can get the power to take it."
Free speech is to push the left wing agenda, not to be a "Nazi"

Meme - Adam Zivo @ZivoAdam: "Normal people: "Blinding women with acid and executing gays is barbaric."
Rachel: "Omg guyz that's such a racist and genocidal thing to say"
Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore: "Creating a dichotomy of the "civilized" and the "barbaric" is an act of racist dehumanization that can be a precursor to genocide and other mass atrocity. Read a fucking book"
Left wingers keep telling others to "read a book". But if you cite them content from books they disagree with, they'll block you

EXCLUSIVE: Legacy media silent as pro-Sharia imam kicks off Canadian tour - "While legacy media and progressive politicians have loudly condemned Christian musician Sean Feucht for his Biblical beliefs on gender and sexuality as he tours Canada, establishment figures have been completely silent about the Canadian tour of a Salafi preacher who touts an extreme anti-Western ideology to his followers.  Imam Ustadh Abu Tamiyyah will begin a national tour on July 31 with support from Islamic Relief Canada, whose parent organization has been accused of alleged links to terrorism.  Abu Tamiyyah preaches a fundamentalist Salafi interpretation of Islam that promotes Sharia, demonizes Western ideals and Christianity. The radical imam’s “End of Times” tour will hit major cities including Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver and elsewhere."

Saskatoon to review policy on use of public spaces after controversial MAGA concert
Left wingers are violent, so we need to censor people they disagree with to reduce the risk that left wingers will riot

English Heritage labels Enid Blyton’s work ‘racist and xenophobic’ - "Enid Blyton's books have been linked to "racism and xenophobia" in updated blue plaque information produced by English Heritage...   English Heritage vowed to review all plaques for links to “contested” figures following Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, stating that objects “associated with Britain’s colonial past are offensive to many”...   Information on the plaque provided online and on an English Heritage app states Blyton’s work has been criticised “for its racism, xenophobia and lack of literary merit”.  Visitors using the official app to learn about blue plaques they encounter in London will be told about the charges against Blyton’s work.  These include the 1966 book The Little Black Doll, with its main character "Sambo", having racist elements because the eponymous doll is only accepted by his owner “once his ‘ugly black face’ is washed ‘clean’ by rain”.   English Heritage’s updated information also cites the occasion her publisher Macmillan refused to publish her story The Mystery That Never Was over its “faint but unattractive touch of old-fashioned xenophobia”, as foreign characters were framed as bad in the book.  Claims that Blyton was “not a very well-regarded writer”, as suggested by the Royal Mint committee for a commemorative coin in 2016, have also been added to the information...   The vast bulk of her hundreds of publications was produced before 1960 and certain features such as the “Golliwogs” in Noddy have been changed in later editions to become “Goblins”."

We cannot reduce Enid Blyton to her prejudices alone - "She was not only prejudiced but couldn't write, apparently. Try telling that to the millions of children who gobble down her stories each year, furtively reading after lights out her tales of magic trees and midnight feasts, and islands full of buried treasure.  Blyton was undeniably racist. There's no trying to hide that fact under a picnic blanket. Nor does the argument that “things were different back then” wash in her case, since a book she wrote in 1960, The Mystery That Never Was, was deemed so racist Macmillan refused to publish it. She's not too hot on class and gender, either.    But should Blyton's views on race in particular – which in themselves are hard to excuse – diminish her significance as a writer?... if we are uneasy with writers whose books don't reflect affirmative values (and English Heritage's qualification on Blyton suggests we increasingly are) then Blyton deserves to be celebrated from the rooftops. Her books overflow with moral positivity.  The Naughtiest Girl in the School is a text book tale about a spoiled, conceited little girl learning to overcome her flaws. The Famous Five and the Secret Seven glorify childhood independence. The Malory Towers series is full of stories about young girls working out how to become women.   As a culture we ought to be sophisticated enough to celebrate a writer without having to simultaneously reckon with their flaws. (Flaws that have long since been eradicated from her work, too: the racist elements in Blyton's stories were removed from standard editions decades ago.)  It becomes a terribly worthy exercise and I'm not sure it achieves much, either. Most readers are wise enough to understand that authors are complicated people. What matters is the stories. In Blyton's case, it's a no brainer."

Catholic sex-ed textbooks discontinued following accusations of 'homophobic,' 'transphobic' content - "The Canadian arm of an international textbook publishing company will discontinue some sex education books used by Catholic school boards in Ontario by March this year. The move follows accusations they contain homophobic and transphobic content, though the publisher has not indicated the reason it has stopped printing the books.   Fully Alive, a series of textbooks and accompanying teachers' resources published by Pearson Canada, is aimed at teaching students in Grades 1 through 8 about sexuality, marriage and family through the lens of the Catholic faith.   But Kyle Iannuzzi, a 2SLGBTQ advisory committee member and former student trustee at the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), told CBC Toronto Fully Alive is not inclusive of anyone who doesn't identify as heterosexual and cisgender... The content deemed problematic by advocates occurs in Theme 3 of the Fully Alive books, a sexual education unit titled Created Sexual.   Students are taught in Theme 3 "that sexual love should only occur in a male-female marriage (in which children should only be born or adopted) and that persons should identify by gender with the gender (male or female) attributed to them at birth," says a website run by Paolo de Buono, a TCDSB teacher. De Buono, who advocates for students outside of school hours, told CBC Toronto he stopped using Fully Alive in his lessons last year.   "No Catholic teacher should be teaching this type of content to students," he said. Ian McCombe is a representative of Halton Parents for Change, a group formed in response to the Halton Catholic School Board's decision not to fly the Rainbow flag for Pride month in 2021 — a decision that was reversed in 2022.  "We've heard from people who've graduated from the program that [Fully Alive] caused lasting harms," he told CBC Toronto.  The books are potentially traumatizing for vulnerable young people who are still figuring out their identities or who may have family members who identify as LGBTQ+, McCombe said.   They present a, "very narrow view of the Catholic faith," he added... Before discontinuing Fully Alive, Pearson Canada was accused by advocates of "pink-washing," the practice in which a corporation appears to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community publicly while profiting from the sale of products that promote anti-LGBTQ+ messaging."
This doesn't stop left wingers hating Catholic school system just for existing, even though they don't even push Catholic ideology
Weird. I thought book bans were wrong and evil

Links - 3rd October 2025 (2 - Migrants: UK)

The Windrush generation are the true losers of mass migration - "A quick survey of iconic London high streets from Brixton to Hackney, from Peckham to Notting Hill, reveals that the Caribbean legacy is disappearing. All the primary schools in these areas would once have had black children with British surnames, now they are a tiny minority. It has been a changing of the guard: rice and peas has had to give way to Jollof rice, as Nigerians have the ascendancy. Talking to those Caribbean pioneers of the 1950s, there is a bitter resentment that their homeland (Brixton and Hackney) has been taken over by white hipsters, asylum seekers and west Africans. Shut your eyes and they sound no different than white folk in parts of West Yorkshire or Tower Hamlets reminding us of the good old days... mOf all the peoples that have come to Britain since the war, Caribbeans were always the most aligned to England. Yes, they had some crazy leaders who tried to make them into fake Jamaicans or even fake ancient Egyptians but really, they were black Britons who had made the journey home to London... You would have thought that those Caribbean elders would be homesick for their ancestral homes in Jamaica or Trinidad, but their good times were in the old Britain, which has now changed and left them behind. The nostalgia for the old country is even stronger with those who decided to leave Britain and return to the Caribbean. Only in their ancestral lands did they realise how English they have become. I met one lady who had a wall covered with DVDs of Coronation Street, Crossroads and The Benny Hill Show. I told her that some of her DVDs would be banned in the new Woke Britain. I asked them what the thing was they missed most about Britain. Strangely enough they said “politeness” and “good manners”. Here was a generation that was supposed to have been savaged by British racism, yet they still had a fondness for our civility."

Migrant who sexually assaulted teenager thanks Britain for looking after him - "Moffat Konofilia, 48, has avoided prison for telling a 17-year-old girl he had “never been so close to a white woman” before kissing her twice on the lips... he begged magistrates in Poole, Dorset, not to send him to jail as he needed to support his wife and children. He also thanked the UK for “looking after me” and said he was a good citizen. He said: “The British are looking after me, accommodation, food, I can give the whole lot [benefit]. Thank you, I appreciate Great Britain for looking after me.”"

Man at centre of Dundee schoolgirl 'blade' video claims innocence after social media rumours : r/europe_sub - "He's literally a "gypsy gangster". Innocent my arse."
Meme - ali.dumana.5: "Gypsy. gangster man"

Meme - Leo Kearse - on YouTube & GB News: "This tweet from Labour MP Cat Eccles shows how Labour feel about British people:"
Cat Eccles MP: "Degenerate native men are the biggest threat to women."
Sam Ashworth-Hayes on X - "So we can distinguish between people who are native to this country and those who received papers a few years ago? How fascinating. Care to elaborate further?"

Mike Jones on X - "A Labour MP says native men are a bigger danger to women than immigrants. So why not publish the stats? Per capita, by nationality, including second- and third-generation immigrants. If you’re so sure, PUBLISH the numbers."

Turkish trans drag queens among foreign ‘talent’ handed British visas - "The “Global Talent visa” permits recipients to stay in the UK for five years along with their dependents, and is intended to bring the very best creatives to the country. Applicants must have their claimed artist merit endorsed by the Arts Council before visas are ultimately signed off by the Home Office. The Telegraph has learned that transgender drag queens are among the talents welcomed to Britain, along with Nigerian rappers and poets who now have platforms offering advice on how to obtain UK visas. Singers in African evangelical churches have been granted global talent visas to come to Britain, where they now sing in local African evangelical churches. Examples of the global talents who have come to the UK have emerged amid growing debate about the visa route for creatives, and a 178 per cent increase in annual applications since 2019... Nigerians have dominated the literature category of the Global Talent visa for the past five years, putting in 125 applications, more than double those received from the USA, 61, and far more than other Anglophone nations Australia, Canada and New Zealand combined. The number of Global Talent visa applications being submitted from Nigeria has risen by 2,225 per cent since 2019. Musical talent has made its way to the UK during this time and The Telegraph is aware of individuals being granted a talent visa – according to their own account – on the strength of their singing in church... “The idea that drag artists represent global talent is frankly laughable. These visas should be for research scientists, IT professionals, medics, people working at the cutting edge of finance or others who will add value to the economy. “Allowing these visas to be used for drag queens is patently ridiculous and the government should urgently get a grip.”... Scepticism about the Global Talent route comes after The Telegraph revealed that the Government intended to protect skilled worker visa routes for diversity and inclusion experts, despite a promised immigration crackdown. The Home Office has safeguarded visa application routes for those with specific skills, creating a temporary list of “shortage” occupations. This list safeguards the positions of “poet” and “blogger”, roles that come under the visa route for the broad category of “authors, writers and translators”."

The small boats crisis is out of control. This plan could solve it - "In December 2018, Sajid Javid, then home secretary, cut short his holiday and declared a “major incident” after 78 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats in four days. Since then six more home secretaries, and four prime ministers, have struggled with the same problem: how to stop the boats. All have failed. A record 17,000 have crossed so far this year. More than 900 crossed in a single day this month. There are some who argue that this proves, once again, that irregular migration can’t be stopped and there is no point trying. This is wrong: the premise is false and the counsel unwise. Irregular migration can be controlled. There are plenty of examples of countries stopping or significantly reducing it. Australia has reduced it to almost zero: not once, but twice. It did so in 2001, and again in 2013, by shipping “boat people” off to Nauru, a tiny Pacific island. Israel did the same in 2012 by building a fence and pushing migrants from Africa back across its border with Egypt. And, in the United States, President Trump is making a pretty good fist of it now: by strengthening border patrols and denying asylum applications at America’s southern border, he has reduced encounters with irregular migrants to 12,000 in April this year, compared with 240,000 in April 2023. All these policies have three things in common: they are cruel and they violate people’s rights. But they are also popular; or voters are at least prepared to put up with them if nothing else appears to work. In Australia, the “Pacific solution” is now backed by both main parties. Trump is polling steadily on migration, even if the expansion of his deportation policy has dented support in recent weeks. None of this is lost on Nigel Farage, or his equivalents on the Continent. Seeing all else fail, voters are warming to Reform’s promise to leave the European Convention on Human Rights and turn boats back at sea, using the navy if necessary. It is doubtful whether this very dangerous policy could work: you still need a place to push boats back to, and France is unlikely to be obliging. But it sounds simple and radical enough to tempt both voters and, it seems, the Conservative Party."
The proposed solution is to push them to European countries and hope European countries find other countries to push them to. Brilliant - if you can find suckers to agree to both steps

Immigration removal centre hire staff to teach balloon craft to migrants - "An immigration removal centre has advertised for staff to teach balloon craft and floristry to migrants facing deportation. Painting and hairdressing tutors and a gym boss are also being hired for detainees at the Heathrow immigration removal centre, which is run by contractor Mitie... Adverts for the jobs, first reported by the Sun newspaper, included a “hospitality and floristry tutor”, who was to teach skills including cake decorating and balloon craft. Other roles advertised at the facility included a “gym manager” with an advertised annual salary of £38,873. Tasks included promoting “meaningful gym activities within the sports halls, gym areas and courtyards”. A “hospitality and floristry tutor” would be responsible for promoting and delivering “workshops in relevant creative skills including floristry, cake decorating, balloon craft”. The position has an advertised annual salary of £31,585."

Channel migrant who sexually assaulted teenage girl with special needs in broad daylight is jailed for 14 months - "Aron Hadsh, 27, from Eritrea, who was living at a taxpayer-funded Holiday Inn near Heathrow, attacked the 19-year-old in June last year after she had been sent by her mother to pick up fruit from a food bank."
Jonatan Pallesen on X - "This story has a large number of the elements that makes the current mass immigration to Europe a disaster.
• He arrived in UK illegally. Instead of throwing him out, they put him in a hotel paid by taxpayers.
• As most of these arrivals he is a military age male. Military age males are far more dangerous than other people. And it is weird to use so many resources on helping military age males only.
• He sexually assaulted a stranger. The propensity of sexual assault of strangers from migrants is absurdly large. This makes public spaces unsafe for women.
• He only received 1 year detention and was released again after this.
• This was even though he showed no remorse and denied having done anything wrong, and the judge rightly estimated that he had a high risk of reoffending.
• If he doesn't think he did anything wrong, of course he will do it again. And now he is free to do so, still living on UK soil, that he has no right to be on even without the sexual assault.
• This assault was not solved by the police. There is a large number of offences by foreigners that go unsolved, even though they are often committed in an obvious, low IQ way. We do not have the resources to deal with all these extremely criminal third-worlders.
• Instead, the victim identified him, and members of the public succeeded in detaining him and handing him over to the police.
Notice how in all this its the state vs the people. The state let him in and forced the people to pay for his stay. The people caught him without help from the state. The state then released him again, so he can commit more sexual assault."

‘Serious problems’ with UK’s reliance on migration, warns OBR official - "Immigration is creating “serious problems” for public services and living standards, a senior official at the Government’s fiscal watchdog has warned. David Miles, an executive at the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), said Labour must prioritise getting Britons back to work instead of relying on overseas workers to grow the economy. Only by achieving this will Sir Keir Starmer be able to slash the welfare bill and tackle the country’s “explosive” debt pile. The economics professor, who has also served on the Bank of England’s interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee, said the UK was already on course to become the most populous country in Europe by the middle of this century. He added that depending on an increasing population to expand the economy “could not be sustained”, as migrants themselves use schools, hospitals and other public services as they get older, have children and become eligible to claim benefits... Almost the entire rise in economic inactivity since Covid has been driven by people born in the UK, many of whom are also claiming sickness benefits that do not require them to look for work... the OBR has faced scrutiny for overstating the economic benefits of migration, with Morgan McSweeney, Sir Keir’s chief of staff, reportedly concerned that the watchdog does not properly account for the burden on public services. The watchdog has previously admitted that low-paid migrant workers are a drain on the public purse – costing taxpayers more than £150,000 each by the time they hit state pension age... “The fiscal benefits of helping people, especially young people who potentially have many years of work ahead of them, back into employment are substantial. “There is a great deal of evidence that mental health in particular is typically improved by being in work. And mental health problems have been a very significant factor behind the recent rise in illness-related inactivity.”"
Far right xenophobe! He needs to Trust the Experts who tell us that migration is good for the economy
One cope is that net migration numbers are absolutely inaccurate because they are estimates

Albert Edwards on X - "Exploding a myth... Prof Miles at the UK OBR says that it is wrong to think that low wage immigration will alleviate the fiscal time-bomb as they cost the public purse way more than they will ever contribute in taxes. Get youngsters back to work instead."
Adam Wren on X - "When you consider that our industrial policy for nearly 30 years has been mass importing people that are net negative it’s actually a real testament to the people & character of the UK that we’ve managed to maintain the living standards & economic output we have, insanely bullish"
Time to increase benefits, as that's the decent, humane thing to do. And pay for it by 'taxing the 'rich'' so they produce even less. It's literally fascism to force people to work

Patriotic 🇬🇧 Nation 🟣 on X - "Police support officer approaches citizen journalists at migrant hotel and asks, what are you discussing? Incredible."
Freedom of speech is for terrorist supporters to attack RAF bases and damage military assets, not for normal citizens to talk near migrant hotels. Challenging journalists is only bad when the journalists push the left wing agenda

David Atherton on X - "Citizen journalist @Migrant_Auditor went to an illegal migrant hotel & ate a bowl of chicken pasta. The Greater Manchester @gmpolice raided his home he shares with his disabled mother. Ten turned up, 5 in riot gear. Arrested he was taken into custody & charged with burglary."

Commonwealth migrants understood Britain. Can we say the same for new arrivals? - " It was September 1972, and I was heading as a one-year-old refugee to Stansted, wearing a cloth nappy and the bare essentials that the Ugandan soldiers had allowed my family to leave the country with. Soldiers even took the last 5 Ugandan Schillings that my father had, leaving us homeless, penniless and stateless. We had lost all we had, but there was one thread that attached us to some form of an ongoing identity; we were British Commonwealth citizens. This umbilical cord to the United Kingdom and the history of Britain shaped many migrants of my generation, and continues to influence my life today. Within six months of arriving in the country, my father took us to live in Kenya, where I was educated in British schools. The only language that I grew up consistently speaking was English. Under the heat of equatorial summers, I memorised a range of Shakespeare’s plays, learnt about the heroic victories of Britain on the high seas and fantasised about the adventures of explorers like Livingstone and the hardened Presbyterian Scottish evangelists who traversed through Africa. I was soaked in British history, the courage of its explorers and in the rationality of a nation that became the cornerstone of my thinking. So, when my family left Kenya in 1983 after a military coup against the then President, Daniel Arap Moi, we came to a Britain which felt like a place where we had connections, where personal responsibility meant something, and where the rule of law, institutions and systems were a shining and guiding light to the rest of the world. In other words, we had a deep connection and care for Britain. Britain was within us, and we had a duty of care to it. The world was ever changing. During the late 1980s and 90s, wars in Iraq and Somalia and the military persecution of civilians in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon led many, including some key Islamist leaders, to seek asylum in the UK. Some genuinely sought a place of sanctuary, while others – like the Muslim Brotherhood activists who abused the safety of our country to set up propaganda centres that were later to amplify narratives of Al-Qaeda – sought eternal war against the ideas and concepts of the West. Residents from these countries had no strong Commonwealth links to the UK. In fact, the narrative in some of these countries was that Britain was the enemy that needed to be mistrusted and fought at every step. How many today who arrive on small boats realise we expect them to be open and respectful to our national practices and our history? How many value the Christian roots and secular institutions that guide our nation?"

The tide is finally turning on the outdated ECHR – even the Left admit it - "Is the dam about to burst? For the best part of a year, Downing Street’s genius strategy for dealing with the small boats crisis was to keep repeating the same phrase about “smashing the gangs,” all the while muttering about the evils of the “far-Right”. The Prime Minister and his Home Secretary trotted out these platitudes with such regularity that, after bringing only a handful of people smugglers to task, even they realised they had to stop. As pressure mounted to show they were doing something, “smashing the gangs” was replaced with the laughable “one in, one out” deal with France’s Emmanuel Macron. Just one problem: thousands of Channel migrants continued to pour in, and only a handful were kicked out. Having promised to provide “regular updates” on deportations, Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, has gone suspiciously quiet. Desperate for something to say as Reform’s Nigel Farage made all the running, Sir Keir Starmer’s next hopelessly feeble announcement involved legalistic tinkering around the edges of asylum appeals. Quite who persuaded the Prime Minister that this was a goer is anyone’s guess. It is impossible to imagine any focus group telling Labour strategists that it would cut the mustard. So here we are, with hardly any gangs smashed, a “one in, one out” policy that’s yet to get going, and Farage promising mass deportations while riding high in the polls. Finally, there are signs that something is beginning to crack. While Starmer continues to demonstrate absolutely zero understanding of the mutinous public mood, the first Labour grandee has broken ranks, to venture that it might, just might, be time to consider a temporary suspension of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In what may come to be seen as a watershed moment, last week, the former home secretary David Blunkett suggested that such a move could be required to “get a grip”. His intervention is highly significant, providing Labour backbenchers who privately agree with him the cover they need to speak out. One such veteran MP, Graham Stringer – the MP for Blackley and Middleton South – has already stuck his neck out, adding his voice to such calls. And it’s not just the ECHR – Left-leaning commentators have also started talking about a suspension of the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention. What exactly do those who are still clinging to what they see as the moral high ground think will happen if the UK declares a national emergency and announces that it will no longer put outdated treaties ahead of our security? Do they really think we will instantly become a pariah state, morphing into Iran or North Korea? It takes just a glance at the text of the various international treaties that supposedly stand in the way of turning back the boats to see that they are relics of a bygone era. The UN Refugee Convention, which obliges signatories to give sanctuary for anyone with a “well-founded fear of being persecuted”, was borne out of the chaos of the Second World War and has been overtaken by the 21st century. Written for a Europe of ration books and steamships, rather than a world of mass migration across continents – and instant communication – it might as well be inked on papyrus. When Left-leaning media commentators begin openly musing about the merits of temporarily pulling out, you know something’s up."
One cope is that small boats migrants are a small proportion of total migration, so it's discrimination to be worried about them. But besides breaking the rules, they also have an outsize impact, so

Britain has extreme interpretation of ECHR, says Justice Secretary - "Shabana Mahmood said other European countries saw the UK as taking a “maximalist” approach in the way courts complied with the ECHR as she set out how the Government could reform the convention’s application in UK courts... Former Labour home secretaries Lord Blunkett and Jack Straw have called for the Government to consider suspending the ECHR or decoupling UK human rights laws from it, in order to enable ministers to deport more illegal migrants."

With their sneering TikTok videos, the people smugglers are laughing at all of us - "Even insufficient funds are not a dealbreaker. Advertising in Arabic, one TikTok account suggests customers can pay their way by “working for us” in France for two months. Quite what penniless potential customers are expected to do in exchange for safe passage to England is not spelt out. What is clear from the plethora of online promotional material for small boat crossings is that those behind this booming business have become so cocky that they now barely bother to cover their tracks... One particularly brazen TikTok account features a middle-aged woman with a lanyard demonstrating how to forge a passport. No attempt has been made to hide her face. Such information is a gift for the police, which begs the question why investigators are not following the big fat fingerprints Instead of targeting the adverts, why not use them to tackle the business itself? When the first bedraggled migrants began appearing on the beaches of Kent almost a decade ago, the then Conservative government should instantly have recognised the colossal implications. The then Australian prime minister Tony Abbott had just shown how to stop the flow of unwanted arrivals from Indonesia with “Operation Sovereign Borders”, a highly effective approach based on turning back all boats. Yet 170,000 Channel migrants later, British voters are being fobbed off with lame talk about banning adverts. As ministers flounder around trying to come up with solutions that do not involve leaving the European Convention on Human Rights or making the UK any less attractive as a destination for illegals, they appear to be getting desperate... Why would people who have crossed continents to reach this country be remotely deterred by the fractional possibility of being escorted back to France – where they will very likely be able to try again? Cooper’s excuse for refusing to say how many individuals are expected to be sent packing tells us everything we need to know. What on earth is the point, if the answer is not a resounding “every single one”? No wonder those who are taking advantage of all this crashing incompetence are laughing at us – quite literally, in the case of some asylum seekers recently captured on camera. Hanging out of the window of their expensive hotel, a group of Channel migrants openly mocked and jeered at British protesters on the street below. It was a shameless display of contempt towards the hard-working people on whose generosity they rely for their comfortable new existence. Such manifest disrespect ought to be an instant disqualification for any asylum application. However, when worse behaviour is no barrier to the right to remain, what hope is there of the long-suffering British taxpayer being shown any gratitude? Of course, the jesters here are our craven, idiotic leaders, who continue to force us all to pay for their farce. As such, the joke is very much on us."

Migrant crisis: 'Asylum seekers' entitled to free prescriptions, eye tests, dental care and wigs on NHS - "One local, retired machine worker Paul Davies, 67, said: "They're getting more benefits than we do. "I have to pay for my own dental treatment and prescriptions." ONS figures from October found that 97 per cent of people who do not have a dentist and who tried to access NHS dental care were unsuccessful."

Young Brits 'squeezed out of jobs by migrants' as 1m left idle while number of non-EU workers soars - "Nearly one million young Brits have been left idle while the number of non-EU workers has soared by 315 per cent, a new study has found. The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) said under-25s were being 'squeezed out of the job market' by a combination of mass migration, rising payroll taxes and surging benefit awards. A total of 987,000 16-24 year-olds - equivalent to more than one in eight - were categorised as NEETs (not in education, employment or training) in the year to December, an increase of 877,000 on the previous year... The CSJ report, Wasted Youth, claimed that the widening gulf in employment patterns is partly explained by UK employers opting for immigrants, while thousands of British young people claim out of work benefits for conditions such as anxiety and depression. The number of NEETs citing ill-health has increased by half since 2019... The report follows warnings from David Miles, an executive at the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), that immigration is creating 'serious problems' for public services and living standards."
How ignorant. Don't they know that social justice means helping foreign minorities? Or that migrants create jobs. It must be young Brits' faults for not getting jobs

Hotel migrant who spat at police officer escapes punishment - "A Somali asylum seeker who drunkenly spat at a police officer has escaped punishment.  Shafi Momad was staying at the Roundhouse migrant hotel in Bournemouth, Dorset, despite arriving in the UK five years earlier... He pleaded guilty to the offence at Poole magistrates’ court, which heard he was already serving a six week suspended prison sentence for a religiously aggravated assault on a member of the public."

It’s Time to Get Off the Gravy Train – A Call for Accountability and Self-Reliance

I can't find this off Facebook:

It’s Time to Get Off the Gravy Train – A Call for Accountability and Self-Reliance
By Marshall Van Fleet | ScalingLocal.com | The Local AI 4 Pillar Catalyst™ | Victoria, BC, Canada

I say this not as an outsider—but as someone with Native blood myself. What I’m about to say might upset some, but truth often does.

 

It’s time to stop milking the North American taxpayer.

 

Yes, Indigenous people have endured horrific injustice. Yes, land was taken. Yes, treaties were broken. But at what point do we stop living in the past and start standing on our own two feet?

 

What I see today isn’t resilience—it’s dependency. It’s billions in payouts, government subsidies, and welfare programs while chiefs and band councils line their pockets, and communities remain broken, impoverished, and addicted. That’s not sovereignty. That’s systemic failure dressed in traditional regalia.

 

Let’s be clear: Indigenous tribes fought wars—brutal, violent wars—against each other long before Europeans ever arrived. Lands were taken, treaties ignored, and power shifted based on strength. That’s history. And when the settlers came, the tribes lost. Just like many peoples throughout history who’ve been conquered, displaced, and changed forever.

 

But here’s the difference: most others didn’t make victimhood their identity.

 

Instead of building back stronger, some Indigenous leaders today are more focused on leveraging guilt, rewriting history, and extracting endless “reparations” from taxpayers who had nothing to do with what happened hundreds of years ago.

 

That’s not reconciliation. That’s entitlement.

 

I’m calling for a new era—not of blame, but of bold action.

 

Let’s teach entrepreneurship, not dependency. Let’s build businesses, not bureaucracy. Let’s stand tall, not beg for more.

 

If you want sovereignty, prove it. Don’t just demand land. Build something on it. Don’t just block roads. Build roads. Don’t just cry foul. Compete. Innovate. Win.

 

We can honor our ancestors not by crying over what was lost—but by fighting for what can still be built.

 

True respect isn’t given—it’s earned.

 

Let’s earn it.

—

Marshall Van Fleet

Victoria, BC | ScalingLocal.com | The Local AI 4 Pillar Catalyst™

Contact: marshall@scalinglocal.com | 236-562-7345

Links - 3rd October 2025 (1 - Pro-Crime Policies)

The uniquely pernicious Canadian crime trend sweeping the country - "These organized thefts have helped make shoplifting one of the fastest growing categories of Canadian crime. A July data release by Statistics Canada found that shoplifting had increased 66 per cent between 2014 and 2024... And those are just the incidents getting reported. Save Our Streets, a newly formed B.C. group pushing for reduced civic disorder, has often made the case that businesses are so demoralized by high crime that many have stopped reporting incidents... As to why organized shoplifting is so pernicious in Canada, one factor is that the vast majority of shoplifters get away with it. B.C., for instance, charted 36,851 police-reported shoplifting incidents, but only 4,040 people charged. And even if caught, the penalties for shoplifting – even of the organized high-value variety – are extraordinarily light. Earlier this year, a serial shoplifter in Prince George, B.C., was handed 30 days of house arrest, with allowances to leave for work or medical appointments. Brampton, Ont. man Satnampal Chawla was found to be the ringleader of a multi-million dollar shoplifting ring targeting major retailers and reselling the stolen goods on Amazon. He was ultimately handed six months of house arrest, with the judge wishing Chawla well in his new career as a real estate agent. After an RCMP anti-shoplifting blitz in Langford, B.C., arrested 27 people, one third of those were immediately spared any criminal consequences. A police statement said they “met the criteria for Restorative Justice and were deferred away from the criminal justice system.” In March, even a man who charged into a Vancouver London Drugs with a pipe and threatened to kill staff was given just a 60-day sentence. “Perpetrators see little consequence for their actions within the justice system,” John Graham with the Retail Council of Canada told CTV in May. The council has estimated that $9.1 billion was lost to shoplifting in 2024. For context, in that same year, the combined cost of running every police agency in the country was about $20 billion. However, an unofficial response to the organized shoplifting trend has started to emerge: Security guards or members of the public taking the initiative to tackle and restrain organized shoplifting gangs before they can get away."
How awful. All those violent thugs attacking poor defenseless criminals need to be charged for assault and wrongful confinement!

Geoff Russ: Carney already eroding Canadians' trust in government - "Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2023, a survey found that 64 per cent of respondents reported feeling that crime and violence had worsened. In January, another survey found that one-third of newcomers to Ontario, such as Ukrainians and Indians, felt safer in their countries of origin than in Canada. Canada now experiences higher property crime rates than many of its developed-world peers, particularly in recent years, with notable increases compared to countries like the United States. Car theft has become so widespread that some have dubbed Canada as “ground zero” for the crime, with instances rising an eye-popping 561 per cent in Toronto between 2018 and 2023. In 2024, reported shootings in Toronto rose to 461 , up 34 per cent from the previous year. In that same timespan, documented violent assaults stretched to a high of 25,819 instances... Retail theft has become commonplace, leading to increased costs for small business owners and endangering employees with losses of $9.1 billion in 2024. Workers at Loblaws are being issued body cameras to ward off aggressive and potentially violent behaviour from would-be thieves or other assailants, much good it may do them. Failed government policies around bail, sentencing, and safer supply are largely to blame. Safer supply, endorsed by the Liberals, and deployed by provincial governments like the B.C. NDP, has been a disaster . Attempts to gaslight the public into believing that giving narcotics to addicts is a good idea have been insulting to the intelligence of everyday people who saw the effects in real-time. A recent damning study found that, unsurprisingly, the B.C. government’s policy of distributing free narcotics to drug addicts as well as decriminalization policies have failed to mitigate the opioid crisis. The report found that the safe supply program resulted in no net decrease in deaths and overdoses. To make matters worse, earlier reports discovered that safe supply opioids were being diverted for tracking on the black market. If the federal or provincial government simply asked people who live in proximity to Vancouver’s downtown eastside they could have gotten the same conclusion for free. In Canada today, it’s become unsurprising to see addicts cleaning crack pipes or improperly disposed of drug paraphernalia with government labelling in the local Tim Hortons. Canada’s most iconic coffee chain now doubles as a makeshift drug den. Notably, the same federal survey that found such low trust in parliament also found that the police were the most trusted public institution, with 65 per cent having high confidence in the officers. Even if Ottawa and the provinces became fully committed to getting tough on drugs, crime, and disorder, the courts would still stand in the way. If bad public policy is one branch of the decaying tree sucking the trust out of Canadian life, the judiciary is another. In 2019, a van was stopped on the highway by police in British Columbia. A sniffer dog detected drugs being transported on board, which turned out to be 27,500 pills of fentanyl, the opioid that has contributed to the deaths of over 50,000 Canadians since 2016. A judge let the suspect off the hook because the dog improperly sat down, their trained signal to indicate they can smell hidden illegal substances. Apparently, this was a violation of the suspect’s Charter rights because the “partial sit-down” did not warrant a search of his vehicle. Judges’ creative Charter uses aside, increased policing appears to help and might restore trust in institutions. Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim fulfilled one of his signature election promises from 2022 by hiring 100 police officers to bolster the ranks of the Vancouver Police Department. Unsurprisingly, crime rates fell , with violent crime down 6.6 per cent, and property crime declining by almost 11 per cent. The mere presence of more police is an effective way to deter crime, let alone using their powers to combat it." Time to be even more compassionate and empathetic, because those are virtues
Trust the Experts!

Two-thirds of B.C. businesses say crime and street disorder getting worse

Meme - "Violent crime rate in Canada from 2002 to 2023 (per 100,000 residents) *falling slightly under Cretien (sic) and Martin, then falling much more under Harper, then rising under Trudeau back to where it started from*"

Police union speaks out as suspect in downtown stabbings previously let out on bail - "The suspect was taken into custody on Sunday and charged with 17 offences, including three counts of failing to comply with a release order.  Police have alleged that the suspect is responsible for three “unprovoked” stabbings that took place over the course of the previous week... A suspect, 23-year-old Duncan MacKenzie, of no fixed address, was scheduled to appear in court on Monday to answer to the charges."

Man stabbed multiple times in random attack outside Niagara Falls City Hall - "Luizao Miguel Castro, 35, of no fixed address has been charged with aggravated assault, failure to comply with a release order and failure to comply with probation."

Stéphane Sérafin: The Charter is for mass murderers, not the rest of us "Although the text of the Charter certainly guarantees rights to everyone, judicial interpretation has over time undermined its universal character, transforming it from a traditional rights instrument that guarantees equal rights to all persons, into an instrument of rights distribution that rewards decidedly unaverage litigants at the expense of virtually everyone else. Consider the following cases. The average Canadian, regardless of sex, race or creed, is likely not going to consume drugs in public parks, nor is the average Canadian likely to erect a tent, let alone a tent city, in such a park. But judges have interpreted the Charter in a way that at least presumptively guarantees the “right” to do both of these things , at the expense of the ability of everyone else to make use of these public spaces. Likewise, the average Canadian, regardless of sex, race or creed, is unlikely to commit multiple violent offenses, or for that matter to commit a sexual offense such as sexual interference with a minor. Yet the Supreme Court has concluded that multiple murderers can’t be subjected to “stacked” parole ineligibility periods — precisely the issue that Poilievre’s proposed use of section 33 would seek to address — and held that imposing a mandatory six month minimum sentence on someone who lures and has sexual intercourse with a minor amounts to “cruel and unusual punishment.” Decidedly unaverage defendants benefit in both cases, while everyone else must contend with the resulting degradation of public order. Conversely, the average Canadian is increasingly less likely to be protected by the Charter in the things that he or she actually does. Let’s assume, for instance, that the average Canadian is a parent. Some older decisions suggest that the average Canadian’s parental rights will be protected under the Charter . Yet the Charter is now being weaponized against parents, including for the purpose of denying them access to information necessary to properly discharge their duties to act in the best interests of their children. This is occurring most notably in the ongoing challenge to Saskatchewan’s law requiring parental notification and consent to a change in their child’s recorded name or pronouns. Perhaps the Courts will resist the conclusions being urged upon them by activist litigants in these cases. But that is far from a foregone conclusion. What if we assume that the average Canadian is female? Surely one might think that if the Charter benefits someone, it is women. But unrestricted access to abortion, if one considers this desirable, has never been mandated by the Charter. Meanwhile, the Charter has to date been of little assistance to women who have dared to express their views on the importance of sex-segregated spaces . More broadly, there are serious reasons to doubt that the Charter will offer much protection to anyone, male or female, who expresses a political opinion at odds with prevailing left-liberal orthodoxies, even as those who hold such adverse opinions may include upwards of 70 per cent of the Canadian population. This concern is particularly salient, given that Liberal Leader Mark Carney has suggested that he would revive Bill C-63, also known as the “Online Harms Act,” if elected. This Bill would impose potential life imprisonment for “hate speech,” in addition to allowing private actors to bring human rights complaints against anyone they believe to have engaged in such speech... The result is a problem not just for the legitimacy of the Charter, but also for the broader rule of law. Fortunately, the framers of the 1982 Constitution foresaw this possibility, as they had at their disposal the precedent of the Lochner-era U.S. Supreme Court, which routinely invalidated legislation promulgated in the common good for the benefit of entrenched economic interests. It is for this reason that the framers of the 1982 Constitution included section 33 in the Charter. We should not be concerned when it is used for its intended purpose."

Mercy to the guilty became cruelty to the innocent in Canada - "Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s election promise to use the constitution’s notwithstanding clause to give judges the option of imposing consecutive life sentences on those who commit multiple murders has prompted predictable outrage from Canada’s chattering classes. Ditto his promise of a “three-strikes-and-you’re-out law,” which would deny criminals convicted of three serious offences bail, probation, parole or house arrest.  Proposals to seriously toughen Canada’s criminal justice system are always greeted with opposition from “progressive” politicians, criminologists, criminal lawyers and the liberal media, all of whom ignore, have forgotten or never knew Adam Smith’s famous warning that “mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”  The inevitable result has been Canada’s kid-glove treatment of criminals – easy bail, soft sentencing, statutory release, early parole that makes a mockery of sentences pronounced in court, special treatment for members of some minority groups, keeping the identities of young offenders secret even when they commit murder, and on and on. Parole for many criminals comes as early as one-third of their sentence while unescorted temporary absences can begin when as little as one-sixth of the sentence has been served.  Our current Liberal government has re-enforced this philosophy – for example, in 2019 when it passed legislation requiring the courts to grant bail to people accused of crimes at the earliest opportunity, with the least onerous conditions.  Or in 2022 when it passed legislation removing mandatory minimum sentences for numerous gun crimes, arguing they unfairly impacted Black and Indigenous offenders. The origin of the federal government’s obsession with protecting the rights of criminals over victims goes back more than half a century to the government of then-Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau.  On Oct. 7, 1971, Canada’s then-solicitor general, Jean-Pierre Goyer, rose in Parliament to announce a new approach for dealing with criminals “to stress the rehabilitation of individuals rather than the protection of society” that would have profound implications for the justice system for decades to come... The Charter of Rights, passed in 1982 during the Trudeau government, further expanded the rights of criminals.  When the Harper Conservative government of 2006 to 2015 attempted to toughen legislation to combat crime, it was met with a wave of entrenched opposition by “progressive” politicians, academics, criminal lawyers, liberal media and, in many cases, the courts, which continues to this day."

Disgrace on the Bench: How Canadian Judges Betray Public Safety - "Canada’s courts have been on a downward spiral for years, routinely siding with criminals over victims, gutting deterrence, and turning sentencing into a complete farce. Consider just these few examples:
R. v. Gladue (1999) – Established a two-tier justice system with special sentencing considerations for Indigenous offenders.
R. v. Nur (2015) – The Supreme Court struck down mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes, enabling lenient rulings.
R. v. Lavallee (2017) – Citing the offender’s Indigenous background and difficult upbringing, a Manitoba judge imposed no jail time for a severe assault that left a victim permanently injured.
R. v. Vader (2017) – Travis Vader was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder in the deaths of elderly couple Lyle and Marie McCann. He received a life sentence but with parole eligibility after just 7 years.
R. v. McClintic (2018) – Terri-Lynne McClintic, convicted in the murder of 8-year-old Tori Stafford, was transferred from prison to an Indigenous healing lodge. Public outrage eventually forced her return to maximum security.
R. v. Husbands (2019) – Christopher Husbands, who opened fire in Toronto’s Eaton Centre food court killing two and injuring several others, had his murder conviction reduced to manslaughter. He is allowed to apply for parole after 16 years.
R. v. Bissonnette (2022) – The Supreme Court ruled that even mass murderers deserve a chance at parole after 25 years.
R. v. Khill (2021) – A homeowner who shot an armed intruder was put through legal hell while real criminals walk free.
R. v. Sharma (2022) – The Supreme Court further weakened sentencing for serious crimes under the guise of “systemic discrimination.”
Canada’s judges have betrayed their duty to the public. They treat criminals as victims and law-abiding citizens as the real offenders. Their moral compass is so broken they can’t tell justice from absurdity – or right from wrong...   Meanwhile, law-abiding citizens who dare to protect themselves are relentlessly prosecuted. If you store your legally owned firearm incorrectly, expect jail time. If you defend your home against an armed intruder, expect to be charged."

Liberal MP Sean Fraser sent RCMP officers to my house after disagreeing that Canadians should not be able to defend themselves : r/CanadianConservative

Police seek info after 9 speed cameras in Vaughan damaged : r/Vaughan - "High rise in crime : I sleep
Going 10 over the speed limit : Real shit"

IYO, what ruined Dundas Sq? : r/askTO - ""An Ontario family is calling for changes to the criminal justice system to keep repeat offenders behind bars after one of its members was allegedly shot and injured by a 12-year-old boy who was out on bail last month."
"Police have said the suspect was out on bail for unrelated violent offences at the time of the incident, and they confirmed he was released on bail again Wednesday "
So he was out on bail. Took a gun into a neighborhood. Shot someone. WHILE ON BAIL. Then is out on bail again. You cant make that up. You get what you voted for. period."

Raquel Dancho on X - "Shocking: Two arrests for violent assaults—in the same night—only to be released right back into the community. This is Canada’s justice system under the Liberals’ catch-and-release policies. Disgraceful."
Man given bail twice in one night after violent assaults - "An Alberta resident arrested twice in one night is accused of forcibly confining a teenager at a hotel, where police say they later tried to suffocate their intimate partner. The accused was also released from police custody twice after separate bail hearings for each of the alleged violent incidents."

Day parole reinstated for convicted B.C. killer and rapist - "A man who violently sexually assaulted two women, killing one and leaving the other for dead four decades ago has had his day parole reinstated.  Kelly James Toop, 64, was granted day parole in June but had his release privileges suspended in October after a halfway house staffer accused him of following and photographing a woman and allegations he made sexual comments to women in a class he was taking.  His case managers subsequently found pornography websites open on his phone, a violation of his release conditions. Toop is serving a life sentence for the 1980 first-degree murder of Suzanne Seto, a 29-year-old real estate worker. Toop broke into her Duncan hotel room, sexually assaulted her for hours, then took her to a wooded area where he dropped a cement block on her head.  He is also serving a concurrent life sentence for sexual assault and attempted murder of another woman in Williams Lake who had given him a ride in her vehicle. Toop beat her, sexually assaulted her for hours, then hit her in the head with a tire iron and left her for dead. She survived, and during the subsequent investigation, police tied Toop to Seto’s murder as well.  He was granted day parole in June, after officials reported “measurable and observable behavioural changes” that could reduce his risk, and released into a halfway house... With regards to the woman he allegedly photographed, the board concluded, “the photograph seems to be a screen capture of a video” he recorded near the halfway house, which he subsequently deleted because he didn’t remember why he took it.  “You related that you did not follow or photograph a woman who was walking near the (halfway house). You added that you take pictures and as you have bad eyesight, including glaucoma, you do have a  tendency of turning your camera at different angles and positions as a corrective measure,” it stated."

Peel Region's 'Porsche Girl' now faces car theft charges in Toronto - "Three alleged car theft attempts. One man allegedly run over when his stolen Porsche reversed out of his driveway. Bail ordered by two justices of the peace. Police say September has been a busy month for this 18-year-old Brampton woman.  This is Ontario justice where mischief charges can land a woman in jail for 49 days of pre-trial custody for political protest while an accused facing multiple charges — including auto theft and operating an automobile causing bodily harm — serves just three days in jail before receiving bail. In this case, Sarah Badshaw didn’t just get bail once. She got it twice — in just two days.
Another example of anarcho-tyranny, where the regime's political enemies are mercilessly crushed while real criminals are allowed to wreak havoc

Trudeau judge abuses Charter to free man busted with a loaded Glock - "To justify an arrest, an officer must have reasonable grounds to do so, supported by sufficient evidence that causes them to believe an offence has been committed. The basis for Khan’s arrest was the pill bottle, which the officer believed had been tampered with. And, fair enough. Canadian police seize bottles with scratched labels in busts all the time. In Sooke, B.C., in Grande Prairie, Alta., in Barrie, Ont., London, Ont., in Corner Brook, N.L. — to name a few cases. But it turned out the label in this case wasn’t scratched (though it was weathered), and its lidless quality with plastic sticking out the top wasn’t enough to satisfy the judge, who also thought the arresting officer didn’t have the training or experience to identify a suspicious bottle. The cocaine baggie, in the judge’s view, was the only item that, if spotted, would have warranted a lawful arrest — but he didn’t believe that the officer could have seen it inside the bottle from his angle. No reasonable grounds were secured, which meant that all evidence stemming from the arrest — the gun, the drugs — was obtained illegally. This wasn’t necessarily fatal to the case: judges have the option of allowing evidence borne from a Charter violation into trial if society’s interest in the prosecution is great enough. Heck, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2010 that unlawfully beating a non-compliant intoxicated driver to the point of breaking his ribs and puncturing a lung isn’t enough to get evidence tossed out. However, Jugnauth found the police misconduct to be “serious,” and the breach of Khan’s rights to be on the extreme end of the state-intrusion spectrum. These factors were so heavy, in the judge’s view, they outweighed the concealed loaded handgun that posed an objective danger to society — and, in particular, the officers, had the traffic stop gone another way... It’s not a major case, nor a bloody one, but it’s a decent demonstration of just how hard it is to manage public safety in Canada: even if a person is caught with a loaded gun strapped to the chest with illegal drugs semi-visible below the dash, that’s no guarantee they’ll be held to account for it."
Time to regulate legal gun owners even more tightly to keep society safe!

Judge rejects Crown's 'unhinged' 120-day sentence for disarming a cop - "An Ontario judge has more than doubled the “unhinged” recommended sentence for a man whose string of crimes includes trying to disarm a police officer.  Lawyers for both the Crown and Martin Moore recommended in the Ontario Court of Justice that he get 120 days in jail for breaking into a home in Barrie last July, and attempting to take a taser from the police officer who responded. Moore, 34, was being sentenced at the same time for fraud for using someone else’s bank card to buy gift cards on Dec. 29, 2024, and punching a police officer on Jan. 6 who responded to a call of a man standing in the middle of an intersection impeding traffic. “With respect, I find that the joint submission is so ‘unhinged from the circumstances of the offence and the offender that its acceptance would lead reasonable and informed persons, aware of all the relevant circumstances, including the importance of promoting certainty in resolution discussions, to believe that the proper functioning of the justice system had broken down,'” Justice Angela L. McLeod wrote in a recent decision.  “The sentencing submissions were brief and a joint position was proffered,” said the judge. “No case law was submitted in support of the joint position. The primary submission was that the court should accept the joint position, without question.”  Instead, McLeod sentenced Moore to 300 days in jail...  On April 14, 2024, Martin entered into a formal agreement in front of a judge known as a recognizance to resolve a charge of assault with a weapon, said the decision. “The statutory terms including a requirement that he keep the peace and be of good behaviour were in place for 12 months.” Four months later, on July 14, 2024, “a good citizen called his neighbour who was at work in Toronto to advise him that someone had broken into his home next door,” McLeod said in her decision, dated April 7...  “Police arrived and spoke with Mr. Moore who falsely identified himself as Joseph Smith,” said the judge. “After some time, he admitted that he was in fact Martin Moore. Police learned that Martin Moore was wanted on a warrant for an allegation of an assault with a weapon and was on the … recognizance for an offence of assault with a weapon.”  Police told Moore he was under arrest.  “A struggle ensued and Mr. Moore attempted to disarm the officer. The officer was fearful that he would grab his taser and it would be used against him,” McLeod said. “Mr. Moore was eventually taken to the ground.”   Moore’s efforts to disarm the cop “put himself, the officer, the homeowner and the neighbourhood at risk for harm,” said the judge... on Jan. 6, “concerned citizens called to report that a man was standing in the middle of an intersection and impeding traffic. Police arrived on scene and the man told police that his name was Jack. Police identified the man as Mr. Moore and noted that he was wanted on a warrant for aggravated assault,” McLeod said.  “Police attempted to arrest him, but he attempted to run. He then punched the officer in the side of the head with a closed fist. A physical struggle ensued, in the middle of the intersection. Two citizens became involved to assist the officer until back up arrived.”"

Links - 2nd October 2025 (2 - Trans Mania: Women's Sports)

Women’s sports face legal action if they don’t ban trans players, says Sharron Davies - "Sharron Davies, the former Olympic swimmer, will say on Tuesday that British sporting groups such as tennis and weightlifting could end up in court if they do not prevent transgender women from competing.  It came as the campaign group Sex Matters announced plans for a £50,000 legal claim against the owners of the Ladies’ Pond at Hampstead, north London, for allowing transwomen to use it.  They say it is a breach of the Supreme Court ruling and could see the case reach the High Court." Meme - "HOUSE VOTES ON THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SPORTS ACT
REPUBLICANS. YEA 216 NAY 0
DEMOCRATS. YEA 2 NAY 206
Sen Neil Anderson: Imagine being the party that accuses the other party of hating women, and then voting against women. The hypocrisy is breathtaking." Thread by @CrunchAlias on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - ""Why is there a man on the women's team?"
"It makes him happy."
"Now he's in the women's changing rooms.
"Just don't look."
"Fully grown men are racing in my daughter's competition!"
"It's only amateur."
"He took her place in the Olympic qualifiers."
"It's only one man."
"Now there's a man in the women's championship!"
"He has no advantage."
"Two men in the women's pool finals!?"
"It's only pool."
"A man gave a girl brain damage!"
"It's a dangerous sport."
"There's 5 men on the women's football team...?"
"The players don't mind."
"Now there's a whole team of males!"
"They have a right to play."
"How can we stop this?"
"Don't be a bigot."
"There'll be no women's sports left."
"Good, it's segregation."
"We can't compete with men!"
"Then start your own league."" Zachary Elliott on X - "To defend males competing in female sports, USA Today writer Nancy Armour @nrarmour  claims that the proposed sex screening policies will discriminate against women with atypical chromosomes or bodies.  She writes, "For those who missed it in biology class, gender is not black and white. There are women with three X chromosomes. There are women missing one of the X chromosomes. There are women who have XY chromosomes but female reproductive systems. There are women who have naturally higher levels of testosterone and androgen."  No, sex screening relies on the objective, universal method of identifying the presence or absence of the SRY gene through polymerase chain reaction (PCR).  Females with one X or three Xs will pass the screen.   Females with higher T levels than other females will also pass the screen.   Females who happen to have XY due to a genetic disorder might fail the initial screen due to presence of SRY. But these atypical cases will be referred to independent medical specialists. These women can return with medical evidence showing they do not have male androgenization.  It is a very clear, objective process. It does not rely on subjective appearance, looking at someone's genitals, or making preferential decisions. All these critics have are lies and emotion that strawman the actual process that has been laid out by scientists, academics, and policymakers." Eldur - The Icelandic Gay Guy on X - "Reykjavík Open in Disc Golf ended yesterday. These two are the champions. Both men. One is the champion in the Women's category and the other in the Men's category. This was an international tournament in Iceland. #SaveWomensSports #HeIsAMan"
Jonathan Kay on X - "The great thing about intersectional feminism is that you don’t need any actual women" Colby Cosh: Malcolm Gladwell awakens from the transgender fog - "South African sports scientist Ross Tucker, had previously met Gladwell in 2022 at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Tucker had appeared on a panel about “the inclusion of transgender athletes in sports,” representing the position that biological-male physical advantages in women’s athletic competitions are fundamental, incorrigible and incompatible with the entire concept of a women’s competition. Gladwell had served as moderator. As soon as Tucker mentioned the panel on the podcast, Gladwell observed that it had clearly been “stacked” against him. “My recollection of it,” said a chuckling Tucker, “was that everything I said was met with deathly silence, and everything the other (panellists) said got cheered.” Gladwell attested that 2022 “was a particular moment, which has passed. If we did a replay of that exact panel at the Sloan Conference this coming March, it runs in exactly the opposite direction. And it would be, I suspect, near-unanimity in the room that trans athletes have no place in the female category. I don’t think there’s any question.” “I’m ashamed of my performance at that panel,” Gladwell added, “because I share your position a hundred per cent , and I was cowed. The idea of saying anything on this issue … I believe, in retrospect, I was objective (as a panel moderator) in a dishonest way. I let a lot of howlers pass.” Gladwell further explained that the discussion itself was a moment of dawning for him: in real time he saw the old trans-inclusion arguments that there is no meaningful male advantage give way suddenly to the attitude that, in the words of a trans athlete on the panel with Tucker, “you have to let us win.” Gladwell — who, remember, was a genuinely elite 1,500-metre and mile track competitor as a teenager — then spent about 10 minutes talking with Tucker about the plain preposterousness of allowing biological men and boys to compete in women’s and girls’ sport. He emphasized his own cowardice in a way that has already infuriated some commentators who upheld the sane position all along. (Tucker, it should be said, is not among the infuriated: he tweeted on Tuesday about his own memory of the 2022 Sloan panel , describing it as a “car crash,” but doesn’t think Gladwell did a bad job.) Asked how he accounts for the great force of the now-receding moral mania surrounding trans athletes, Gladwell said: “I think in retrospect we will look back on the COVID period as a period of profound cultural destabilization. I think we all went crazy. And, I think, for understandable reasons!"... Gladwell adds that “it’s harder and harder and harder to make a naïve argument about trans participation; the evidence is now mounting, so that even the advocates are now having to shift their feet and make a different claim.” I.e., an unconditional demand for inclusion at all costs, rather than contrived reassurance that the innate male athletic advantage can be mitigated. If it needs saying, Malcolm Gladwell is a big deal. He is thought to have sold 23 million books in North America, and is probably one of the top five bestselling Canadian authors who have ever lived. His brand of anecdotal pop social-science has been applauded and condemned, sometimes by the same people at different moments, and he has a gift for making provocative, even radical-sounding utterances without escaping the political boundaries of polite liberal consensus. He is probably well aware of the abuse and threats J.K. Rowling has experienced for having sinful opinions about exclusive social spaces for women and girls. He is bound to know, or will find out by the end of the week, that he is painting a target on himself" Dan Zaksheske on X - "A fourth girls high school volleyball team has forfeited rather than face Jurupa Valley, which has male athlete AB Hernandez on the team. A.B. Miller’s principal told OutKick in a statement that the players made the decision not to play."
Wesley Yang on X - "California's state legislature and the rest of Blue America wants to break these girls because they expose the lie at the heart of the travesty of a civil rights movement they declared was going to define the 21st century.   Not one famous female athlete is willing to stand with them. It isn't because they all agree that boys should be able to dominate girls in their sports and that these stupid brats should be made to sit down and shut up.   It's because they are all afraid.   Even though we know by now that this is an 80-20 issue, with 67 percent of Democrats supporting these girls, they fear the powerful vanguard inflicting absurdities and cruelties on these girls, and all girls, far more than they do the general public.  They know that not one politician from the dominant political party of institutional America will stand with these girls because of the same fear that keeps them paralyzed.   The consensus said that everyone must lie so that more kids can be fed into a cult of medicalized self-harm so that more restrictions on people's freedoms of speech, conscience, association, and religion can be imposed in the name of kindness and inclusion so that more quirky kids can be brainwashed to yearn to be chemically castrated and dismembered so that more middle-aged adult men can choose to live their autogynephilic fetishes full time. The consensus said that anyone who hesitates to clap can be vilified and smeared and sued into oblivion or financially ruined by state sponsored investigative agencies.   The coercive state power bearing down on those who won't falsify reality is strong enough to ensure total compliance in adults. But a growing number of children aren't complying, and the question is whether the adults who want to break them will succeed, or whether the girls will break the phalanx of powerful adults trying to break them." Wesley Yang on X - ""When you get to the issues around sports, trans issues, that's now no longer about celebrating your rights. It's about denying other people theirs." -- Gavin Newsom
Newsom articulates what will in the end prove to be the decisive fact about the trans rights movement: that trans rights and women's rights are zero sum -- to give to the former group is to take from the latter group.
"Marriage equality was about everyone's rights. Your marriage was not diminished because a couple that had been together 30 years got married and happened to be the same sex, but your child may not have that same opportunity to get on the podium if a trans athlete is competing for that limited spot."
Tremendous effort has been expended by the trans rights movement to deny this fundamental antagonism and keep it out of public circulation. Newsom just put it out there."

Lottie Lewis on X - "None of the female athletes are wearing makeup, but he has a thick clown-face full because it’s the only way to indicate to others he should be allowed to compete in and dominate their sport."
Violent protests erupt in California as trans athlete thrashes female rivals in defiance of Trump's executive order - as her glamorous mother hits back at president - "AB Hernandez, 17, sealed her place in three finals yesterday - high jump, long jump and triple jump - after coming out on top in all of her preliminary heats. This included a triple jump of 41 feet - nearly 10 inches further than her closest rival."

Meme - Eli Erlick: "I love winning against cis women in archery competitions just to spite the anti-trans sports police."
The irony is hilarious

Leigh Ann O'Neill on X - "Oregon girls high jump state championships just finished. 2 of the females refused to step on the podium with the male competitor and an adult official relegated them to the sideline for refusing. THIS MUST END."
PoIiMath on X - "If you want to talk about the kids rebelling against authority, watch this fat old man yell at two teen girls for standing up for what they believe in The left thinks that the fat old man is the hero"