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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Links - 11th March 2026 (2 - Migrants: UK [including Amelia, Prevent Goth Girl])

Prevent video game treats all teenagers like far-Right extremists - "A state-funded computer game is warning teenagers that they risk being referred to a counter-terrorism programme if they question mass migration. Pathways is an interactive game designed for 11- to 18-year-old pupils and funded by Prevent, a Home Office programme for tackling extremism. Young players are directed to help their in-game characters – a white teenage boy and girl – to avoid being reported for “extreme Right-wing ideology” after discussing migration online. Characters can face extremism referrals if they choose to engage with groups that spread “harmful ideological messages”, or join protests against the “erosion of British values”. Even researching online immigration statistics is portrayed negatively. Other in-game pitfalls include sharing a video that claims Muslim men, rather than homeless veterans, are being given emergency accommodation. An in-game meter monitors how extreme the character’s behaviour is. Those who “lose” may be given counselling to deal with “ideological thoughts” or referred to an anti-terrorism expert. The game was developed with government backing by councils in East Yorkshire over growing concerns about immigration and tensions about migrant accommodation in their communities... The Pathways game was designed for use in schools. It was originally developed in 2023 for East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull city councils to tackle any risk of “extreme Right-wing narratives”... The project was funded by the Home Office’s Preventing Radicalisation Fund, which supports the Prevent anti-extremism programme. According to 2024 Home Office figures, Prevent received more referrals for Right-wing radicalisation (19 per cent) than Islamist (13 per cent). MI5 stated in 2024 that the threat of Islamist attacks accounted for 75 per cent of its counter-terror workload. The game, designed by Shout Out UK (SOUK), as a “media literacy” organisation, has been shared beyond Yorkshire to help other local authorities try to tackle extremism... The effectiveness of Prevent has been questioned in recent years. In an official review, Sir William Shawcross, its independent reviewer, said it had become too focused on Right-wing extremism. This focus was criticised in 2025, when it emerged that Prevent saw concern about mass migration as a terrorist ideology requiring intervention. The Telegraph revealed that an online training course listed “cultural nationalism” as a belief that could lead to a Prevent referral. This included the belief that “Western culture is under threat from mass migration and a lack of integration by certain ethnic and cultural groups”. State concern over Right-wing beliefs has led to civil servants being told to monitor social media posts that spread concerns about migrants, including objections to new arrivals being given housing. The advice was issued to the 6,000-strong Government Communications Service in October during protests outside migrant hotels following the sexual assault of a 14-year-old schoolgirl from Epping, Essex, by Hadush Kebatu, an Ethiopian migrant being housed at a local hotel."
Clearly, the fact that MI5 spends 75% of their time dealing with Islamist attacks even though there're more referrals for right wing radicalisation shows that MI5 is racist and Islamophobic, and they need to be sent for diversity training

Know Your Meme on X - "The UK’s government-backed Pathways game, designed to teach teens about extremism, has been disabled. Amelia, one of the game’s characters, went viral online with memes and fan art, but her storyline is now reported as inaccessible."

Meme - *Amelia smoking a cigarette and lighting a photo of Keir Starma on fire, with Big Ben in the background*

UK Women’s Rights Group Protests Migrant Violence Dressed Up as Viral Amelia Meme - "Activists of the UK-based Women’s Safety Initiative (WSI) protested abuse against women committed by migrants, dressing up as the viral right-wing meme Amelia on Saturday, 7 February, in London. ‘We’re fed up with the safety of women and girls being sacrificed for the comfort of migrant men,’ the advocacy movement wrote in a post on X, sharing a photo of the protest in front of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, Westminster. ‘WE ARE ALL AMELIA!’ they declared, adding that ‘the movement has just begun.’ In photos and videos shared by the organization, nine women can be seen dressed as the purple-haired goth e-girl Amelia, who became a viral meme within right-wing internet culture at the beginning of 2026. The participants held signs highlighting crime data related to migrants in the United Kingdom and advocating deportations. ‘Foreign citizens are 3.5x more likely to be arrested for sex crimes,’ one sign reads, while another states ‘mass migration = mass risk for women’. ‘AMELIA SAYS NO TO MASS MIGRATION,’ WSI wrote in another post on X. Amelia is the main antagonist of a so-called ‘extremist prevention’ online game launched by Hull City Council as part of a broader attempt by the British Labour government to portray basic right-wing talking points on immigration as radical and dangerous. However, the game’s creators made a significant miscalculation by designing Amelia as an archetype widely popular in global meme culture among young people: the goth girl. As soon as the game escaped its intended ‘educational’ environment, right-wing social media adopted the character. Timelines quickly filled with Amelia fan art, edits, and screenshots. Rather than being perceived as a ‘dangerous nationalist extremist’, as intended by the creators, she became an ironic hero—a mascot for resistance to the very ideas the game sought to promote. Now, barely a month after her emergence, Amelia has become one of the most widely discussed memes in both the United Kingdom and the broader Western online sphere. It has grown so powerful that even the mainstream media cannot ignore it anymore, prompting The Guardian to publish an absurd smear article about an online, non-existent character. The protest organized by WSI is the first instance of Amelia ‘escaping’ virtual reality and increasingly becoming a symbol of right-wing resistance in the United Kingdom, where Keir Starmer’s government has placed significant effort into silencing and censoring anti-immigration and patriotic voices online. The initiative itself is a recently founded grassroots advocacy movement launched in mid-April 2025, focusing on the direct consequences of immigration for the safety of women and girls. WSI rapidly gained visibility through appearances on right-leaning outlets such as GB News and through viral social media mobilization, as demonstrated by the Amelia protest. Its stated mission is to ‘expose the dangers of uncontrolled immigration, put women and girls first, advocate for victims, and demand real solutions.’"

Meme - "Prevent's attempt at brainwashing the youth
Boromir: She is a gift. Give the Right the propaganda of the enemy, let us use it against them!"

Meme - "The Home Office Prevent counter-terrorism programme watching the chuds fall in love with Amelia from that new anti-right-wing game they just funded: *upset Homelander*"
"It's funny how the so-called "bad" ending leaves you with a group of friends and a hot girlfriend."
">lets make a female representative for the things we define as bad.
>make her hot."
"I love how the alt girl that love her country is supposed to be the antagonist"
"Let's male the "far right" choices involve doing personal research instead of blindly listening to your teacher and getting an attractive alt GF along with a solid friend group.""
"I like how even in the governments propaganda, the government are still the bad guys"

Migration Watch on X - "Surging net migration to Britain correlates with rising private rents just 12 months later. High housing costs are immensely damaging to our economy. Young people are forced to pay high rents for substandard homes, crushing savings and fertility."
Weird how migration increases "greed"

Guardian Opinion on X - "The hill I will die on: Britons love saying thank you – I think we should ban the phrase | Sangeeta Pillai"
Ben Cooper on X - "Everyone saying “thanks driver” as they get off the bus is unironically one of the best things the British do - this is the hill I will die on. “I’m not thanking someone who’s being paid to help me” is such a transactional, elitist view of things."
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Unless you're moving from the Third World to the West, then you can demand they change to suit you

Asylum system turning into 'conveyor belt' to life on benefits, critics warn as number of migrants and refugees getting hand-outs doubles in 3 years - "Britain’s ‘broken’ asylum system is creating a ‘conveyor belt’ to a life on benefits, critics warned today. It came as new figures revealed that despite pledges of a crackdown by ministers, the number of migrants and refugees claiming universal credit has more than doubled since 2022. A total of 124,833 claimants with refugee status were receiving the payments – which average just over £1,000 a month – according to latest Government figures from last October. That was on top of another 53,240 people classed as unable to be returned to their home countries because they alleged they would suffer human rights abuses. In comparison, when the data was first collected in April 2022, there were 64,423 refugees and 3,221 people with humanitarian status receiving the benefit. The number of refugees with indefinite leave to remain – a status which can be claimed after five years – soared from 95,612 to 218,944 in the same period. Meanwhile those given limited leave to remain – to live, work or study for six months to five years – also rose, from 68,883 to 76,898. According to the Department for Work and Pensions data, three-quarters of refugees and two-thirds with leave to remain were not in work, along with 60 per cent of those with humanitarian status."

Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio on X - "British justice: 31 months for a naughty tweet, but 0 months for assaulting a 12 year old girl. "The court heard the girl lost friends in her community after she came forward to make the allegation" The "community" always sides with its own. When the "community" is large enough, this won't even be a crime."
Migrant, 70, who told girl, 12, to 'cover her head' before sexually assaulting her on way home from school is spared jail - "A 70-year-old migrant has been spared jail for sexually assaulting a young girl 'while encouraging her to cover her head'. Chaudhry Zaman had forcibly held the 12-year-old girl's hand while she was walking home from school in Slough, Berkshire, then kissed her. He told jurors he had been encouraging the girl to cover her head and telling her how she could do so."

Meme - Jack Hadfield: "Earlier this week, a female hotel cleaner posted to Reddit that it wasn't safe to clean a hotel "that isn't open to the public." Yesterday, she and a coworker was fired for refusing to turn up to a shift despite letting her boss know they were both terrified. She previously worked with Rhiannon Whyte, a hotel worker who was stabbed to death by a South Sudanese asylum seeker last year. The fact that we're in a situation now where women have to work around dangerous migrants is absolutely disgusting. Everyone involved in housing them needs to answer for what they've done"
"r/LegalAdviceUK
I'm cleaner. Do I have to attend work if the site is unsafe?
Been employed as an agency staff cleaner at a hotel chain between 2015 and 2019. From 2019 to 2025 I have worked as a full time member of staff for this hotel. I sometimes do supervisor too for extra pay. I move between three hotels in my area depending on where they need me. Two of them are open to the public and one isn't. The one that isn't open to the public isn't safe to work in. Me and some other girls refused to clean it in the past, but two of them were agency and got fired. Now it's just me and one other who got a written warning. We have to always be partnered up in groups of 2 when cleaning it so it takes us a lot longer to clean everything too. Instead of us splitting up to do 2 separate rooms, we have to stick together. What happens if we just refuse? Can we be fired for that?"
Jack Hadfield @JackHadders: "She further mentioned that her employer has given specific instructions to not say "why" the hotel is so unsafe publicly. People are being frightened and bullied into silence just to protect hoards of dangerous foreign men"
"I don't want to say. I'm worried I'll get into trouble."
"Why? With whom? As established, if you have a legitimate reason for believing the workplace is actually unsafe then it would be unlawful for your employer to fire you over it. If you don't have a legitimate reason then I suppose the matter is moot."
"My employer told me I'm not allowed to publicly discuss anything about the hotel or why it is unsafe. Me and other girls are scared when we're cleaning it. Please beleive us when we say it isn't safe. We're risking our safety every time we go in."
Time to expose and jail this racist for inflaming community tensions!

'Why is nobody helping me?': How schoolgirl, 15, dragged from a park and raped by two Afghan asylum seekers cried out to 'so many people' to be saved - but they just walked right past her - "A 15-year-old schoolgirl begged a female passerby to intervene as she was dragged away to be raped by two Afghan asylum seekers, but 'no one came to her aid'. Horrific details of the victim's ordeal were revealed in court as Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both 17, were jailed for the attack in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire... Phone footage captured by the victim was so appalling that one of the boy's own barristers warned it would lead to 'disorder' if 'the general public were exposed' to it. In the distressing three-minute clip, the girl could be heard crying, 'you're going to rape me', as she was led away from where she had been drinking with friends and taken to a secluded 'den-type' area in nearby parkland. The footage, played at Warwick Crown Court yesterday, also showed her weeping, screaming 'help me, someone help me' and begging not to be taken by the pair. She was forced to perform a sex act on the boys in a secluded area, before she escaped and filmed more clips describing her ordeal. At one point in the initial three-minute clip, a woman can be heard stopping and asking in urgent tones if the girl is alright. The girl cries that she is not alright, before yelling 'help!' repeatedly. Yet, for reasons that remain unclear, there was no further effort by the witness to intervene... The judge told the defendants: 'I accept that you come from a place which has significant cultural differences from the UK - however, I don't accept that either of you does not understand the concept of consent."
Ben Sixsmith on X - "The only time it's politically acceptable to raise those differences, it seems, is in mitigation in court."
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on X - ""Remember, it’s not about race, it’s about whether the immigrants share our values and our culture."
"Ok so if they don’t share our values and our culture, we’ll deport them?"
"No that would be racist.""
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on X - ""If they don’t share our values or culture we’ll just give them a free rape pass.""
If you think migrants don't share the culture of their host nation, you're racist and xenophobic. But if you ignore the fact that migrants don't share the culture of their host nation and give them the same punishment as locals, that's also racist and xenophobic

I'm a secondary teacher in England. I've messed up and offended a whole bunch of parents. There's complaints made about me. : r/LegalAdviceUK - "Throwaway account because I post on TeachingUK under my real account sometimes. I'm having to be vague to protect my identity. I've screwed up big time. I've got one particular class that's mostly male. A lot of them are approaching the age where you're starting to see them begin to associate with gang and roadmen culture. I've been trying to reach out to them and I've always had a passion for debating and chess. So I started running a debating club after school which has proven very popular. I'd discussed doing a chess club, but no firm decision was made. In the run up to Christmas break lessons tend to wind down a bit. Some teachers put on movies. I decided to bring in my collection of chess boards I've acquired over the years. About 8 of them. I then taught the class how to play chess. Most didn't know. We did this for 3 lessons and everyone seemed to get into it. What I didn't realise and I didn't know was that chess is forbidden for about a 1/3 of my class. I've got 6 parents angrily complaining to the Headmaster/Headmistress for teaching and encouraging them to play it. I don't know yet what is going on or what is going to happen. The Headmaster/Headmistress is furious with me. They have already shouted at me for causing this issue. There's going to be a formal disciplinary meeting organised in the coming days. I have been employed with this school since mid-2023. I am not a member of the trade union. They refused to help me back in 2018 with a separate harassment case because my harasser was a prominent member of their trade union. I resigned back then and never looked back. Can I please, please, please get some advice on what I need to do now? I've never had a single blemish on my record before. I'm exceeding all expectations in my reviews. Should I be organising my own employment solicitor to accompany me to this disciplinary meeting? I'm 99.9% sure the Headmaster/Headmistress is planning to turn me into a sacrificial lamb to appease the angry parents."

Rothmus 🏴 on X - "“It’s not England now anymore, it’s some South Asian country.”
“I still like the old England as it was. It was safe. You could wear anything, put as much jewelry as you want. No robbing, no thieving.”
“But now you can’t trust anyone. It’s just the same as Pakistan.”"
Time to arrest this racist xenophobe self-hating South Asian for hate speech!

Afghan migrant accused of murdering dog walker in Uxbridge triple stabbing 'may never be fit to stand trial' - " An Afghan man who allegedly stabbed three people including his landlord while facing eviction may never be fit enough to stand trial for murder, a court heard Safi Dawood, 22, is accused of murdering council worker Wayne Broadhurst, who was out walking his dog at the time of the assault... Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC told the court the suspect had been assessed by a psychiatrist, who concluded Dawood 'is not fit to plead or stand trial' as things stand. She said: '(The psychiatrist) has not in his served report indicated any time frame as to how long the defendant may remain unfit for, if he's likely to recover, and matters of that nature."
Jonatan Pallesen on X - "We see this kind of news item regularly. Many of the Muslim / African immigrants are so violent and so retarded that the European mind cannot comprehend it, literally."
Dries Van Langenhove on X - "Systematically marking people with exceptionally low IQ as “unfit to stand trial” creates a de facto secondary judicial system when you import massive amounts of said people. I’m actually in favour of such a secondary system, on the condition that we execute these people instead of letting them off the hook with some ‘therapy’. Culling the most antisocial and violent elements is what our ancestors have sensibly done for millennia, by the way. Everything eventually regresses to the mean."
Benedict Spence on X - "How did he get to Britain if he’s so “mentally unfit” he can’t stand trial?"

Lewis.B.Rendell Official on X - "This is the sort of grotesque inversion that defines modern Britain: a 97-year-old Englishwoman, Babette Burge from the Isle of Wight, lies dying on her own floor in agony from a broken hip, told by our crumbling NHS that she must wait ten days for an ambulance. She never made it. Pneumonia set in, immobility from the fracture killed her, our own elderly native citizen discarded like refuse while the system shrugs. Meanwhile, NHS Highland is staring down a £1.3 million bill to pamper the “wellbeing” of around 300 asylum seekers dumped into Cameron Barracks in Inverness. Monthly sexual health clinics (complete with free condoms, naturally), vaccinations, mental health support, the lot. Cash-strapped doctors and nurses stretched to breaking point must now prioritise the medical whims of illegal entrants and economic migrants over our own pensioners who built this country. This isn’t mismanagement. This is deliberate national sabotage. We let in hundreds of thousands every year, mostly young men from cultures that despise ours, house them in barracks, hotels, barges, then force the taxpayer to fund their every need while our grandmothers rot on the carpet waiting for help that never comes. The coroner hears one tragic case; the rest of us live it daily. Elderly Brits die in corridors, on trolleys, at home alone. Foreign arrivals get priority beds, interpreters, halal meals, and now dedicated wellbeing budgets. Why? Because the ruling class, Labour, Tories, the blob, hates the native British and loves the optics of “compassion” to outsiders. Britain is for the British first, last, and always. Anything less is treason against our own people. Rest in peace, Mrs Burge. You deserved better from the country you spent a century in. The rest of us will make damn sure the next generation doesn’t suffer the same betrayal."

Tim Dieppe on X - "Why is Royal Mint paying zakat during Ramadan? Zakat is one of the five pillars of Islam. Muslims are required to give 2.5% of their wealth to charity."
Alan Mendoza on X - "Britain’s bizarre but predictable descent into sectarianism, given our breakneck demographic transformation, is gathering pace. We have the Royal Mint making the astounding decision to donate funds for Ramadan. The Green Party is full out campaigning in Urdu. And you can seemingly commit any crime as long as you claim “Palestine” is the reason as either a judge or a jury may well support you. It is still possible to roll things back to the Britain we used to know but the longer the slippage continues, the more dramatic the prescriptions that will be required."
Time to abolish the Church of England, as otherwise that's Theocracy

Green Party pledges to grant illegal migrants amnesty - "“immigration is not a criminal offence under any circumstances”. Migrants would be allowed to stay in Britain even if they had made failed asylum claims and immigration detention would be abolished if Zack Polanksi’s party wins the next election. New arrivals would also be allowed to use the NHS on day one after arriving in Britain and be paid a wage without being required to work. Anyone with a visa other than a tourist visa would also be allowed to work under the plans. Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s Home Office spokesman, said the proposals were “dangerous”. He told the Daily Mail: “Under the Greens’ open-borders plans, not only is every hoodlum and criminal welcome to our shores but entitled to free housing, healthcare and anything else they might fancy. “My only surprise is Zack Polanski isn’t promising to furnish them all with free heroin and crack cocaine, which he wants to legalise.” The Conservatives said the Greens wanted to “hand out a welcome pack to every illegal arrival”, while a Labour source told the newspaper the public “expect immigration controls that are properly enforced”. The Greens are polling at almost 15 per cent, having more than doubled their share of the vote since Mr Polanski became party leader last September... Mr Polanski said he would “absolutely” vote for a party motion that calls for Zionism to be treated as a form of racism. He signalled his support for a motion put forward by his party’s grassroots activists, which argues the belief that the right of Jewish people to self-determination should be classed as a “racist ideology”. The motion, which will be voted on at the Greens’ spring conference next month, also suggests Israel should not exist and that party policy should be changed to support Palestinian “resistance”... A Green Party spokesman told the newspaper: “We’re proud of this policy, voted on and decided by our members... We know it’s popular as well – Green policy regularly comes out as the most popular in polls.” Later in his interview, Mr Polanski said it was “really problematic” that MPs had to swear allegiance to the King."
Singling out one race that does not have the right of self-determination is anti-racist

GB News on X - "Illegal migrants will be handed FREE house, wage and healthcare under 'reckless' Green Party plans"
Aja ♀️🇬🇧 on X - "There’s a lot to unpick with these absolute bin fire plans. But one thing that really stood out to me is the proposal to house LGBT immigrants separately for “safeguarding” reasons. That raises an obvious question: why would they be unsafe if they shared accommodation with heterosexual immigrants? What exactly is it about these particular immigrants that makes them unsafe to be around gay people? And if the concern is genuine, how does this logic extend beyond the accommodation block? Fine, they can keep LGBT immigrants “safe” by placing them in separate housing. But the heterosexual immigrants they're supposedly protecting them from are still out in the wider community, walking around the country with the same homophobic attitudes they're implicitly acknowledging here."

Bangladeshi migrant cannot be deported because he would be jailed for 20 years on bomb charges if he returned home - "A court has ruled that a migrant from Bangladesh cannot be deported because he would be thrown in jail for 20 years for bomb charges. The migrant won his asylum case and will remain in Britain after successfully arguing that he would be sent to jail for 20 years in his home country on 'bogus' explosives charges. He insisted the allegations were false and 'politically motivated' and that the previous regime in Bangladesh persecuted him because he supported the opposing party. The man has not been named, but seven men were previously charged and convicted for making explosives. Ahsan Habib, Mostafa Kamal, Mehedi Hasan, Rabiul Islam, Monowar Hossain, Jamirul Islam, and Moynul Islam were sentenced to 20 years in prison. The Home Office accepted the bomb charges were probably bogus but said he could be deported without any risk of being imprisoned. However a court ruled in his favour and he was allowed to remain in the UK. According to local reports, the man and his group were part of Islami Chhatra Shibir, a student wing of the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami political party... the Home Office argued that a change in regime in Bangladesh, since Hasina and the Awami League were removed from power, meant that the migrant would no longer face prosecution in his home country... 'He submitted that the Awami League no longer held power and MM had not shown that the authorities were interested in him. MM has also not contacted his party in Bangladesh to see if he could obtain the withdrawal of the charges.' However she concluded that the migrant could still be at risk because the Awami League had not been completely 'wiped out'."

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Links - 11th March 2026 (1 - Trans Mania [including Detransition Lawsuit and AMA/ASPS U-Turn])

Erin Friday, Esq. on X - "BREAKING NEWS - The first Detransitioner case WIN in the country. Minor had her breasts removed. Parent consented because doctors’ threatened that she would commit suicide if she was not “transitioned”. Fox Varian wins $2M. @megynkelly @libsoftiktok @_CryMiaRiver"

The First Verdict Has Landed in the Pediatric Gender Medicine Scandal - "After nearly a decade of reporting on institutional medical failures, I have learned to recognize the moment when a story quietly turns. That moment arrived this past week. A New York jury delivered the first successful malpractice verdict tied to pediatric gender medicine, a legal development that may prove more consequential than any policy statement or regulatory review... A jury awarded two million dollars in damages after finding that the medical professionals involved departed from accepted standards of care when approving and performing a double mastectomy on a sixteen-year-old girl in 2019. What the jury heard over three weeks of testimony exposes how a system designed to protect minors instead accelerated them toward irreversible harm. The plaintiff is now twenty-two. She no longer identifies as transgender. The jury found that the psychological evaluation and surgical decision-making process was deeply flawed, that critical steps were skipped, and that communication between the therapist and surgeon was inadequate. Most of the award was allocated to pain and suffering, with a portion designated for future medical costs... I have written extensively about the lethal opioid epidemic and the role that civil litigation ultimately played in forcing accountability. Criminal prosecutions failed to stop the overprescription of OxyContin and related drugs. Regulatory agencies failed. Medical boards failed. What finally changed the landscape was the sheer weight of private lawsuits and class actions. That avalanche of litigation pushed Purdue Pharma into bankruptcy and forced the Sackler family to commit billions of dollars to settlements. As a non-practicing attorney, I understand how the civil justice system works when regulation collapses. Litigation is a blunt instrument, but it is often the only one left when an industry loses its ethical bearings. Massive verdicts do not simply punish past conduct; they reshape future behavior by making malpractice insurance unavailable or prohibitively expensive. Entire lines of practice disappear not because legislators intervene, but because insurers refuse to underwrite the risk. That is why this verdict matters. For years, critics of pediatric gender medicine have warned that vulnerable minors were being rushed toward irreversible interventions without science-based psychological exploration, without meaningful long-term outcome data, and under an atmosphere of emotional coercion that routinely invoked suicide risk to justify speed. In this case, jurors heard testimony that a parent opposed the surgery but consented out of fear that refusal might lead to self-harm. They heard evidence that clinicians lacked full knowledge of the patient’s doubts and psychological history. They heard that key records were never obtained and that the professionals involved failed to meaningfully consult with one another. In other words, they heard facts that successful trial lawyers understand very well. This verdict is not the end of the story. It is the beginning. As with opioids, asbestos, tobacco, and defective medical devices, once a viable legal theory survives a jury trial, the plaintiffs’ bar takes notice. Many trial lawyers are politically liberal. That is irrelevant. What matters is that there is now blood in the water, a proven pathway to liability, and deep institutional pockets behind these practices. I have long believed that the civil justice system would be one of the key mechanisms that ultimately forces a reckoning in pediatric gender medicine. Regulatory bodies have been captured. Professional associations have abandoned caution. Legacy media scrutiny has been missing in action. In that setting, litigation remains a powerful tool. In my view, the pediatric gender industry represents the most serious medical scandal since the lobotomy era: an entire class of vulnerable patients subjected to irreversible interventions driven by ideology, debunked evidence, and institutional groupthink. Financial accountability will not undo the harm already done. But it may finally slow the machinery that continues to produce it. This verdict is an important marker. It signals that juries are willing to look past slogans and examine facts. It signals that standard-of-care arguments are resonating. And it signals that a litigation storm may be forming. It is long overdue."

Leor Sapir on X - "BREAKING: American Society of Plastic Surgeons issues new position statement opposing "gender-affirming" surgeries in adolescents under the age of 19. ASPS also acknowledges risks of endocrine interventions, poor guidelines, and inappropriate use of "autonomy" principle."

Leor Sapir on X - "The American Medical Association agrees with the ASPS about surgeries. If the AMA was wrong about surgeries, could it also have been wrong about hormones?"

American Society Of Plastic Surgeons Recommends No Longer Doing Those Surgeries That No One Was Doing | Babylon Bee - "Democrats have decried the statement as a blatant attack on trans youth which could lead to their being denied made-up surgeries. "This is nothing but political posturing," declared Senator Elizabeth Warren. "These so-called doctors are trying to limit access to suicide-preventing surgeries for trans youth - surgeries which do not, and have not, ever happened. Physicians simply do not perform gender surgeries on minors, which is what makes this guidance against these vitally needed surgeries so appalling.""

AG on X - "The AMA was among the leading groups opposing laws trying to restrict “gender-affirming” surgeries for minors a few years ago. The press would regularly cite them to create an impression of expert consensus on this issue. The current shift isn’t based on any significant change in the data available.   Speaks volumes about how previous recommendations that affected countless lives were based on politics instead of sound evidence/science."

Benjamin Ryan on X - "People are shocked that all it took for the AMA to change its policy on pediatric gender transition surgeries was for another medical group, the ASPS, to do it. But this phenomenon is  how the unanimity among the medical groups fell into place in the first place. It was only ever based on a few small committees within a couple of medical organizations, putting aside WPATH, which is a quasi-activist-medical organization.   It got started in the 2010s as WPATH and the Endocrine Society, which have a lot of overlap between them and referred to one another's guidelines in their citations, put out guidelines. And then in 2018 a single medical resident wrote the American Academy of Pediatrics' policy statement on the gender-affirming care method. Along the way, other major medical associations took these other groups' lead, including the APA and AMA. And then all the other ones fell in line.   These groups did not conduct major independent analyses of the evidence. Even the AAP never conducted a systematic literature review to support its policy statement. And in August 2023, the AAP said it was going to conduct one. But there is no sign that the organization has even started on that. Because if they ever did, there is only one conclusion that it could have: that the evidence backing providing gender-transition interventions to minors is weak and inconclusive.  All this is to say is that the mantra "all major medical association support gender affirming care for kids" was always a hallow claim. What it really meant is that: "A few small committees at a few organizations decided to support this, in part because of one another, and all the other small committees at all the other organizations followed their lead.""

Roger Severino on X - "Here's what happens next.
1) They will deny they ever "really" recommended sterilizing surgeries on minors and that it was always up to doctor judgment.
2) As docs are hit with millions in judgments for surgeries *and* puberty blockers, they will officially drop their sex-rejecting hormones recommendation too.
3) When pressed on 2 they will answer ala 1.
4) Only when most of the culprits are retired or dead will the medical associations admit that it was an unscientific, immoral, heinous, harm inflicted on children.
5) They will repeat the entire cycle again on some other medical fad while saying "shut up and trust us, we're the experts, we're the science."

Meme - Hazel Appleyard: "This is one of the most unhinged things I've ever read. Her child's friend detransitioned and she's ANNOYED. WHAT"
Transgender Parenting: "One of my child's friends has suddenly and dramatically de-transitioned. I've known them as NB/ boy for years now, and while I can and will fully support her no matter how she identifies, it feels like whiplash and I'm feeling a way about it. My head right now: Was she faking it? Was she just looking for attention? My first reaction was to bristle at her parent's words, that she's done a "hard reset." I don't know, y'all. I need to get myself right because this is a child and she is entitled to being herself. I know this. So why do I feel annoyed/frustrated? It's literally none of my business, and I KNOW that. Help me work through this?"

Glenna Goldis on X - "Today I was fired by NY Attorney General Letitia James for speaking out against pediatric gender medicine (PGM).  James supports "transitioning" kids with puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery. She sued the federal government to protect the PGM industry from investigations and funding cuts. And she argued (dubiously) that doctors who decline to offer PGM are liable for "discrimination."  I was an attorney in NYAG's consumer frauds bureau, which did not work on anything related to PGM. Since 2024 I'd been raising the alarm publicly and within NYAG that PGM providers may be engaged in a dangerous consumer fraud. James's officials treated me like a pest.  These attorneys struggled to explain why my public statements were problematic, apparently because they weren't engaging with the issue. When the general counsel finally identified an objectionable line in my blog, it was where I stated the holding of US v. Skrmetti (banning PGM isn't discriminatory). She wrote that it contradicted James's legal position. Indeed.  NYAG's ethics chief warned me it was unethical to "take public legal positions that conflict with" James's. The Rule of Professional Conduct that he cited said no such thing. It seemed he was trying to protect James by cowing me into silence.  I'm a lesbian, i.e., a "member of the LGBTQ community" that James purports to champion. I tried to explain to NYAG officials that PGM, by its nature, targets children who defy sexed norms -- whom studies show are more likely to be gay when they grow up. PGM can reportedly leave them with sexual dysfunction, chronic genital pain, and incontinence, among all sorts of other side effects. No one in authority at NYAG showed interest in the concern that PGM may be homophobic.  If Letitia James actually cared about "LGBTQ" youth then she'd research "gender" drugs and learn what they do. Instead she glibly calls the drugs "safe" and fires me for contradicting her.  I've practiced public interest law for my entire 15-year career. My social circles are full of progressive lawyers. Like most Americans, they tend to be leery of PGM. But their leaders on the left treat it like a battle of good vs. evil. That makes ordinary people afraid to voice skepticism. James's behavior toward me illustrates why the public discussion of PGM is often one-sided in places like NYC -- and so strikingly different from what you hear behind closed doors.  James was wrong to treat me like a pest. I was trying to warn her about red flags for fraud that I saw around PGM -- that's what she hired me to do. I was honored to serve in the consumer frauds bureau and thought my colleagues there did great work. I still do. I hope someday they'll investigate PGM providers.  In the end NYAG accused me of engaging in "disruptive public speech." Unfortunately, that's not true. I haven't disrupted the Democratic elite's zombie-like devotion to PGM providers. But I'm just getting started."

Wesley Yang on X - "Glenna Goldis was a lawyer employed by the New York Attorney General's office to prosecute consumer fraud.   She brought to her employer's attention her concerns that pediatric gender medicine was a form of fraud that the office should have been been investigating and prosecuting, rather than the form of safe, lifesaving, and medically necessary care that the office was falsely representing it to have been proven to be.   That is to say that she provided evidence to her superiors that the office was helping to perpetrate a consumer fraud in lieu of prosecuting it.   For this attempt to carry out the job for which she had been hired, the NY attorney general fired her."

Wesley Yang on X - "Thanks to action by Trump's EEOC, women no longer have to shower with men as a condition of their employment   Yes, Biden's EEOC mandated that women had to shower with men as a condition of employment.   Didn't you know that forbidding women from drawing a boundary between themselves and any man who says he is a woman was declared to be "the civil rights movement of the 21st century" and that the Democratic party is pledged to reimpose this prohibition on every school, workplace, public office, and public accommodation in America the instant it reclaim power?   When Democrats say "we can't throw trans people under the bus!" this is what they are referring to."

Asking midwives to record the sexual orientation of newborns is sickening - "It’s the first and most fundamental piece of information to be recorded about us the moment we’re born. Alongside our parentage, our weight, our length and our head circumference – it’s crucial to our identity.   So it’s hard to imagine the bafflement of staff at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust when they discovered – during a recent training session for the trust’s new software system – that there was no option of recording a newborn’s biological sex on the registration forms.  One midwife was brave enough to blow the whistle, saying staff are “worried” by the forms, but don’t want to raise the issue with NHS managers. Because that’s how effective the gender warriors have been with their intimidation tactics. Like the fearful subjects in The Emperor’s New Clothes, nobody wants to be the one to point out the obvious and say, “But the child is either a boy or a girl!”  It gets worse. Whilst there is no obligation to record biological sex on the new American-made software, the default settings do include a form asking for a newborn’s gender identity, pronouns and sexual orientation. You know, alongside the time and date... It would be funny if this were all part of some inconsequential, narcissistic little game that people liked to play in their spare time. Only this new software is being used in at least 10 NHS trusts. Oh, and the “upgrade” cost £450m... On the subject of dignity, you should know that the new patient form on the system also includes an “organ inventory”. This reduces babies to pieces of meat, even if it does mean that one can record whether they have a penis or a vagina.  If only there were a simpler way of describing the human beings in possession of those two things."

Libs of TikTok on X - "BREAKING: Dept of Education has determined that San Jose State University VIOLATED Title IX for retaliating against female athletes who spoke out after they were forced to compete and share a locker room with Blaire Fleming, a MALE pretending to be a woman. The university has 10 days to comply with a series of agreements, which include:
- Implementing Biology-based policies
- Separating facilities based on sex
- Restore titles and records to female athletes who were retaliated against
- Issue apologies to any teams who forfeited due to having a male player
If they do not comply, they risk facing "imminent enforcement action.""

Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن on X - "People who go all-in on Transgenderism do not like detransitioners because their existence presents a very uncomfortable trilemma. Either
• this girl was a boy but now she's a girl again, in which case gender identity is very unstable, less stable than one's sexed body, and making permanent changes to one's child on the basis of something that might be merely a phase is unjustifiable, or
• this girl was never a boy, because she was completely mistaken about her gender identity for years, mistakes about which are supposed to be impossible, since "trans kids know who they are", or
• this girl was never a boy, because gender identity isn't a reality; Transgenderism as a whole is entirely false
The justification for permanent body alteration to conform the sexed by to the gender identity supposes that "gender identity" is REAL, KNOWN WITH CERTAINTY, and STABLE. Detransitioners prove by their very existence that it isn't at least one of those."
The cope is that detransitioners only detransition because of transphobia

Jury awards detransitioner $2 million in historic medical-malpractice lawsuit vs. psychologist and surgeon. (MSN) : r/psychologyofsex - "The number one consistent thing I’ve seen from videos of detransitioners going public is they didn’t tell their doctor because they viewed them as a bad person for doing the surgery, or they tried to talk to their doctor about the problems and were shut down and cut off from communication."
Explaining the supposedly low detrans rate

Gender Identity Disorders Among Young People in Germany: Prevalence and Trends, 2013–2022: An Analysis of Nationwide Routine Insurance Data - "In 72.4% of the persons with an F64 diagnosis in 2022 (n = 24 624), at least one additional psychiatric diagnosis was coded (males: 67.3%; females: 75.6%). The most common diagnoses were depressive disorders (males: 49.3%, females: 57.5%), anxiety disorders (23.5%/34.0%), emotionally unstable personality disorder of the borderline type (12.1%/17.6%), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (12.7%/12.6%), and post-traumatic stress disorders (9.9%/13.6%)..  In the longitudinal cohort (n = 7885, 47.1% in the age group 20–24 years; 37.7% male), only 36.4% still had a confirmed F64 diagnosis after five years and diagnosis persistence was below 50% in all age groups (range 27.3% [15–19-year-old females] to 49.7% [20–24-year-old males])."
Yet more evidence on "trans" people having other mental health conditions, as well as evidence that after 5 years, 64% detransition. But we will still be told that the detransition rate is 1-2% based on a shit study of trans people (i.e. where you wouldn't expect detransitioners)

Sex offender who identifies as transgender exposes himself to kids again at Va. school - "Richard Kenneth Cox, 58, is now facing multiple charges in Arlington County, including several counts of intentionally making an obscene display of his private parts in a public place or in a place where others were present plus loitering within 100 feet of a high school after having been convicted of an offense prohibiting proximity to children."
Lyndsey Fifield on X - "This convicted (violent) repeat pedophile was caught and arrested *at the Planet Fitness location I cancelled my membership from last year because of their refusal to protect women*  But our Soros-backed DA Steve Descano DROPPED THE CHARGES because the pedo is *now* a “woman.”  He was exposing himself to women and children in locker rooms... but it's okay because *he now identifies as transgender!*"

Prof. Gary Francione on X - "It's not rocket science. Trans ideology is misogynistic because it seeks to erase women as a sex class. It is homophobic because it maintains that homosexuality is a matter of same-gender attraction and not same-sex attraction. Don't be confused by postmodernist jargon."

Independent Women’s Law Center and Broad Coalition File Brief to Protect Parents’ Rights Against Secret ‘Transition’ in School - "Independent Women’s Law Center and a coalition of 65 other amici filed an amicus brief in Mirabelli v. Bonta, supporting parental rights and urging the United States Supreme Court to put a stop to a California school district’s secret social gender transition policy.  In this case, parents and teachers challenged a school district policy that required teachers to deceive parents about their child’s gender transition at school. One of the families who brought this challenge did not find out that their daughter was being treated as a boy at school until after their daughter attempted suicide.   The federal district court in San Diego held for the parents and teachers and permanently enjoined the state from imposing secret social transition policies on teachers and parents. Despite the school’s clear violation of parental rights, the Ninth Circuit stayed the district court’s injunction."
Weird. We keep being told that schools aren't transitioning children

Benjamin Ryan on X - "According to Dr. Eithan Haim’s malicious prosecution lawsuit against Texas Children’s, Dr. Kristy Rialon, a pediatric gender surgeon at the hospital, falsely accused him of rape to retaliate against his exposing the hospital as continuing to provide gender-transition treatments after publicly stating it had stopped. @EithanHaim’s suit also alleges Dr. Rialon did this to push for DoJ to prosecute him.  Dr. Rialon, the Daily Wire reports, “posted a number of ‘anonymous defamatory reviews’ on Haim’s public WebMD profile while he was still an anonymous whistleblower and his identity had not been made public. Her reviews, according to the lawsuit, ‘accused him of mutilating and raping his patients.’ In one post, she pretended to be a female patient who had been raped by Haim.  “Her posts, according to the lawsuit, were intended to encourage the government’s prosecution as well as punish Haim for ‘exposing Texas Children’s Hospital’s deception and her complicity in the misconduct.’ Rialon admitted to the FBI that she posted these claims against Haim under fake names, the lawsuit notes.”"

Darren Grimes on X - "The Harry Potter series is a masterclass in why we shouldn’t bow to "easy, polite lies." Rowling didn’t just write about magic; she wrote about the grit required to tell the truth when the Ministry and the media are trying to gaslight you into silence. It’s the ultimate irony. The same people who cheered for Harry standing up to Umbridge are now the ones acting like the High Inquisitor—demanding we ignore our own eyes and ears to keep the peace. They want us to believe that biological reality is a "hateful" inconvenience rather than a fundamental truth.  Bravery isn't found in Hollywood actors following a script to stay in the good books of the liberal elite. It’s found in a woman willing to risk her reputation to say that sex is real and it matters."

Canada one of the world's last holdouts on transing children - "As democracies around the world pull back on the tenets of youth gender medicine, Canada is emerging as one of the last countries still hewing to the idea that minors should be prescribed hormones and even surgery to affirm a self-described gender identity...  This follows on a November decision by New Zealand to slap strict new controls on hormones prescribed for the “purpose of puberty suppression for children or adolescents.” The country’s Ministry of Health has previously stated that there was a “lack of good quality evidence to back the effectiveness and safety of puberty blockers.”  The Australian state of Queensland similarly banned puberty blockers in January, with the state’s premier framing it as a reaction to “troubling allegations” that a sexual health clinic had been caught distributing unauthorized hormone therapies to 42 children. When an Australian court ordered a freeze on the puberty blocker directive, Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls simply ordered it again.  All the while, countries across Europe have been systematically pulling back on policies that prioritized immediate hormone treatment for children expressing gender dysphoria.  Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, among others, have all tightened the requirements under which a child can be prescribed puberty blockers.  In Italy, for instance, the country’s national bioethics committee recommended in 2024 that puberty blockers only be prescribed after “psychotherapy” or “psychiatric interventions” had failed to alleviate feelings of gender dysphoria.  That same year, the U.K. released the Cass Review, a comprehensive government inquiry into the country’s system of “gender services” care for minors. One of the report’s most influential findings was that the routine prescription of puberty blockers had been pursued based solely on the conclusions of a “single Dutch study.” There was “very limited evidence” the hormones improved mental health, despite plenty of risk that they were imposing “longer-term neuropsychological consequences,” the report found.  Puberty blockers for children have been subject to a blanket British ban ever since, with the country’s Department of Health and Social Care declaring that they are an “unacceptable safety risk for children and young people.”  Even in France, which maintains relatively liberal access to puberty blockers, the official position of the Académie nationale de médecine is that they should only be a last resort.  A 2022 communique by the academy stated that “psychological supports,” not drug treatments, should be the first treatment offered to any child “expressing a desire to transition.”  The statement also urged parents to be wary of trans identities being the product of social contagion. The academy warned that “excessive consultation of social networks” was “responsible, for a very important part, of the growing sense of gender incongruence.”  In Canada, by contrast, virtually every health body and government agency continues to defend a policy of permitting children of any age to obtain hormone therapies with minimal oversight. Often, these therapies are framed as being completely safe and even reversible. The Canadian Paediatric Society, most notably, explicitly dismissed all of the conclusions of the Cass Review, and continues to recommend an “affirming approach” to gender dysphoric youth.  Under the most recent version of their guidelines, published in June 2023, symptoms such as “a strong dislike of one’s sexual anatomy” and “a strong preference for playmates of the other gender” are among a list of markers that may warrant a diagnosis of gender dysphoria requiring a course of “gender-affirming hormone therapy.”  Health Canada’s official guidelines similarly break with conclusions in both Europe and the U.S. that puberty blockers carry both side-effects and long-term consequences. “Puberty suppression is reversible, as puberty restarts when a person stops taking puberty-blocking medications,” reads a Government of Canada website entitled “how to access gender-affirming care.”  The only jurisdiction in Canada that has broken with the “affirmation” approach is Alberta, which in 2024 banned “hormone therapies to minors for the treatment of gender dysphoria or gender incongruence,” as well as “sex reassignment surgery on minors.”  The Canadian Medical Association has not only opposed the action, but has funded litigation to block it...  “When a government bans specific treatments, it interferes with a doctor’s ability to empower patients to choose the best care possible,” said association president Joss Reimer."
Weird how left wingers cheer on the banning of "conversion therapy", female genital cutting and the use of ivermectin for covid

Mia Hughes on X - "The Tale of Two Contagions
In 2019, German psychiatrists observed a sudden surge of adolescent girls presenting to clinics with abrupt-onset Tourette-like tics. This immediately raised alarm bells. Tourette’s typically affects boys and begins in early childhood.   This was an entirely new patient population.  Researchers quickly identified the index case: Jan Zimmermann, a young Tourette sufferer, whose YouTube channel had recently exploded in popularity. The girls displayed the exact same symptoms as Jan: the same outbursts and catchphrases.  The phenomenon soon migrated to TikTok, where it spread like wildfire.  Researchers coined a new term for what they were observing: mass social media–induced illness — a modern iteration of the long-recognized phenomenon of mass sociogenic illness.  Yet, in 2014, when paediatric gender clinics across the Western world began to fill with adolescent girls — another entirely new patient population — “gender-affirming” clinicians didn’t even bother to look for the trigger.  And it wouldn’t have taken much effort to find. All it required was a glance at the cultural messaging of the time.  Because 2014 was the year Time magazine put Laverne Cox on its cover with the headline: The Transgender Tipping Point: America’s Next Civil Rights Frontier.  And with that, the modern trans rights movement launched.  Trans-identified celebrities were everywhere, trans characters appeared in children’s books and television shows, trans influencers proliferated with astonishing speed online, and schools began teaching gender identity ideology as if it were scientific fact.  And in a perfect-storm scenario, smartphones and social media exploded in popularity, creating the ideal super-spreading environment for this seductive idea to go viral.  The message adolescents received was simple: If you hate your body, that could mean you’re trans.  And right on cue, legions of confused adolescents who hated their developing bodies began showing up at gender clinics believing themselves to be trans.  Just like the TikTok tics. A mass social media–induced illness.  Except on this occasion, instead of scrambling to contain the epidemic, doctors picked up their syringes and scalpels and set about permanently medicalising the innocent youth caught up in this powerful cultural storm.  And activists marched in the streets demanding that these young people be allowed to sacrifice their health, fertility, and body parts — while swiftly demonising anyone who dared point out the obvious parallels to social contagions of the past."
Wesley Yang on X - "We have had prior contagions of sociogenic mental illness in the past. But none had the medical, legal, cultural, educational, corporate, and governmental establishments of the Western world propagating them, corrupting science to validate them, deploying coercive power to suppress the speech of those who criticized them and force acquiescence with them, brainwashing children by the millions to affirm them, and by the hundreds of thousands into becoming ensnared in them.  This situation is without precedent and involved a collapse of the moral and epistemic integrity of virtually every system designed to ensure that policy is guided by reason and reality."

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Links - 10th March 2026 (2 - Iran Attack)

Ashley Rindsberg on X - "Wikipedia's article on Khamenei is a master class on narrative framing. The all-important lead section makes no reference to the fact that Khamenei murdered up to 80,000 of his own citizens in a two-day massacre. Instead, it:
+ Calls him a *pragmatic* hardliner
+ Elevates him as a religious figure
+ Softens the resistance into "faced many protests"
The only reference we have to Khamenei's numerous crimes against humanity is framed by "critics viewed"—not as actual objective fact, but as bias. This is carefully crafted narrative positioning. It looks and sounds neutral, which is precisely what makes it so effective."

🇮🇴WilliamTheBonqueror on X - "Being drafted to fight Israels wars is handmaid's tale for groypers"

Frank McCormick on X - "The “Israel made us do it” argument is for podcast bros too stupid to imagine U.S. strategic interests in the Middle East that have nothing to do with Israel.  To be sure, Israel benefits from our involvement in defanging Iran, and yes, we can debate how close Iran was to arming its 2,500 km range missiles with nuclear warheads, but there is no debate about how catastrophic it would be to allow Iran to reach a point where it could plunge the entire region into chaos with a few well-placed missile strikes, not to mention its growing drone capabilities.  Again, I’m asking you to forget the existential threat to Israel for a moment and consider the national security risk presented by an anti-American Islamic theocracy aggressively attacking us through proxies while possessing the capability to plunge the U.S. and the world into a recession.  Most people have no clue that nearly 20 million barrels per day, about 20% of global petroleum liquids consumption, move through the Strait of Hormuz, that 20% of global LNG trade also transits Hormuz, or that the Suez Canal handles 12–15% of global trade.  Iran has a history of pushing the region toward the brink, including by arming proxies that attacked our troops and bases, while fielding missiles reported capable of a 2,500 km range.  Now imagine that same behavior backed by a nuclear deterrent or longer-range delivery systems. That would mean more proxy escalation, more coercion of shipping, higher odds of miscalculation, and our economy taking a major shock.  That is the definition of a national security threat. It may be comforting to believe we can simply withdraw from the Middle East and let events play out without consequences for our economy or the standard of living we’re unwilling to sacrifice, but the real world does not work that way. Maturity means accepting that.  Strive to understand the world as it is, not as you wish it were. Accept that there are no perfect solutions, only trade-offs."

Jay Hubbard | Facebook - "4D CHESS??? THIS TIME, I ACTUALLY AGREE.
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Honestly, that feels weird to say, because I usually roll my eyes anytime Trump-fanatics claim he's playing 4D chess. But when it comes to foreign policy, that truly is what he's been doing.  How do you weaken Cuba without firing a shot? Turn off their oil supply from Venezuela. How do you rein in Venezuela without starting a full scale war? Arrest their president and let his successor know it'll happen to them if they don't play ball. How do you work towards peace in Gaza? Weaken what's left of Hamas by decapitating the source of their funding. How do you leverage Russia in the hopes of forcing them into peace negotiations with Ukraine? You isolate them by defenestrating their allies (Syria - check, Cuba - weakened, Venezuela - check, Iran - weakened). How do pursue possible regime change without starting a full scale ground war? Killing the Supreme Leader on day one of the attacks, including his successor, and sinking a hefty portion of the navy on day two, after previously crashing their economy and currency via sanctions. All this adds up to a weakened and isolated Russia, who may now lose the source of their high-tech war drones (Iran). Contrary to what Tucker Carlson and other prominent leftists say, rather than this leading to another "never-ending-war," these efforts might actually culminate in a leveraged peace agreement. If it doesn't, fine, it'll still have succeeded at severely blunting the world's main aggressors while re-aligning previously non-committed middle-eastern countries AGAINST Iran. (Which is good for us)  Iran's strategy has been to lash out in desperation by striking their neighbors. Their retaliatory strikes have hit Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, and the United Arab Emirates, NOT "just Israel." If their goal was to push those countries towards liking us and away from defending them, great job idiots. Trump's aim is peace through leverage, rather than peace through begging and bribery. I know that may concern some people who are still wary of W. Bush's penchant for nation building, but Trump's military successes were achieved WITHOUT an occupying ground force. Each move he's made in the past year has positioned us to better exploit the next move he made, all leading up to a world where our enemies are isolated, demoralized, diminished, destroyed, or dead. GOOD.  People need to start giving him credit for how well he's played this."

Al Jazeera Breaking News on X - "BREAKING: Qatar announces arrest of Iranian IRGC sleeper cells"
AG on X - "It has been incredible watching Al Jazeera, which is essentially run by Qatar, not only directly dismiss Tucker Carlson's invented conspiracy about Mossad bombers, but also report on the arrest of IRGC sleeper cells. All while Tucker was trying to sell his audience on the idea that Iran wasn't really targeting the Gulf states, and Israel is behind everything."

Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 on X - "Democrats are suddenly worried that Iranian terror sleeper cells will now attack the USA from within—the same Democrats who let them all in, the same Democrats who want you to be unarmed."

Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social on X - "🚨For those of you who were not around in 1979, here is how it all started when the radical Mullahs overtook the Iranian people and took hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran."
Wayback Machine - "No, 'it' started in the 1953 coup. The CIA, along with British intelligence, orchestrated a coup that deposed Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh on August 19, 1953. Known as Operation Ajax, the plot was designed to restore absolute power to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, following Mossadegh's nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which threatened Western interests. "
Eli Lake on X - "This is an ignorant talking point repeated by people who want to sound like they know the history. Mossedegh had dissolved the Majles, replaced the army leadership and Supreme Court and closed newspapers by the time the Shah used his constitutional authority to fire him."
soonerhokie on X - "IIRC correctly from your podcast, wasn't most of this based on serial fabulist Kermit Roosevelt? And, while his memoir may have proved consequential in 1979, his actual actions were far less consequential?"

Emily Thornberry on X - "Wars are only ever resolved through negotiation. It’s tragic that calm heads did not prevail in the US when the Omani Foreign Minister said, just hours before the bombing started, that a peace deal was within reach. And now hotheads in Iran think it’s a good idea to bomb Oman."
Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 on X - "Military historian here: this is a widespread but erroneous assumption, propagated by people who don’t understand war.  Wars are won by winning them, in most cases by bringing about the military defeat of the enemy.   And, by the way, if you think that Iran was going to give up its millenarian fantasies because of a deal with Oman, you don’t understand jihad and shouldn’t be the chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee."

James Woods on X - "This is how the Washington Post eulogized the dirt bag who murdered 40,000 innocent civilians this month. This is not satire:  "With his bushy white beard and easy smile, Ayatollah Khamenei cut a more avuncular figure in public than his perpetually scowling but much more revered mentor, and he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Victor Hugo’s 'Les Misérables.' ... Some Iranians who knew Ayatollah Khamenei before he became supreme leader described him as a 'closet moderate'' ..."
Hans Mahncke on X - "While this paragraph is probably the worst, the entire Washington Post obituary of Khamenei, which is really just a hagiography, is riddled with astonishing distortions and absurd relativism. It claims that he was high minded in making the deal with Obama, that his doubts were totally justified because Trump undid the deal, that he would have been a responsible leader if not for Trump, that he only wanted nuclear energy and not weapons, that he never aimed to wipe Israel off the map but only sought a peaceful transition to the “Palestinians,” and on and on it goes. It is so spectacularly bad and proves, once again, that Jeff Bezos can fire as many Washington Post stenographers as he likes and nothing will change, because that place is corrupt to its very core."

Socialists for an Officers Coup Against Trump on X - "My statement on recent events: I am calling on the US military to declare martial law, arrest Trump for treason and round up every Israeli citizen in the US"
HowlingMutant on X - "These are the same people who think it’s a violation of human rights to deport an illegal alien"

Frank J. Fleming on X - "So leftist think anyone can murder CEOs in the street if they don’t like them but freak out when a murderous dictator gets blown up? They’re just really bad people."
memetic_sisyphus on X - "There’s only one thread that ties progressive beliefs together and that’s hatred for the United States and her people."

Ian O'Doherty on X - "I still find it baffling how many Irish and Western Leftists are throwing their allegiance behind the same regime that killed all the Leftists when they took over. That's a form of cognitive dissonance I genuinely cannot understand. Can they even explain it?"

Iran Military Daily on X - ""It is better to die STANDING than to Live on your knees." ~Che Guevara"
shevereshtus on X - "Fun fact: he was captured because he threw away his gun and shouted ‘Please don’t shoot I’m Che Guevara I’m worth far more to you alive than dead’ to the Bolivians he had just attempted to murder."

Ben Rhodes on X - "Among all the risks, one certainty is that U.S. taxpayers are spending tens of billions of dollars on something they overwhelmingly oppose."
Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱 on X - "Speaking of spending tax dollars on something Americans overwhelmingly oppose, you sent Iran planes loaded with pallets of hard currency which they used to fund terror across the Middle East. Sit this one out."
Ben Rhodes was nicknamed "Hamas" after all

Liam Out Loud on X - "Here's why leftists are suddenly defenders of Iranian sovereignty.  Within a worldview that adheres to objective morality, it would not make sense for leftists to support the Iranian regime.  Women were beaten for showing their hair. Protesters have been jailed, tortured, and killed. Gay people face prison or worse.  Silence.  Now Trump strikes the regime, and we're supposed to be upset about Iranian sovereignty.  This disparity in outrage doesn't make sense through an objective moral lens, but it does through a leftist worldview of power.  In their view, Western patriarchal capitalist Christian nations are the cause of all evil, while everyone else is a helpless victim.  Anything that harms the cause of all evil is good. Anything that helps the cause of all evil is bad.  This is leftist morality in a nutshell.  Herbert Marcuse called it "liberating tolerance": tolerate movements that weaken the West, be intolerant of those that strengthen it.  Even Michel Foucault openly cheered the Iranian Revolution—not because he loved Islamism, but because he saw it as a revolt against Western hegemony.  For leftists, morality is not universal but strategic.  If a regime opposes the West, it's complicated, nuanced, and contextualized.  If the West opposes any non-Western nation, it's imperial aggression.  That's the entire moral architecture.  Without double standards, they'd have no standards at all."

Pope Leo XIV on X - "I am following with deep concern what is happening in the Middle East and in Iran during this tumultuous time. Stability and peace are not achieved through mutual threats, nor through the use of weapons, which sow destruction, suffering, and death, but only through reasonable, sincere, and responsible dialogue."
leekern on X - "Thanks Pope. You put it so reasonably. I’m sure the Islamic fundamentalists who want to cut off people’s heads for Allah will sit down for a cup of tea and a nice old chinwag with some biscuits to resolve this like gentlemen after reading your tweet."
Wasson Watch Co. on X - "If you go to Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex )'s page, and search "Iran" all of his "appeals" seem to be about moderating or holding back the response of the US as it defends itself from Iran. Never direct appeals to Iran to "think things through" and "abandon the madness of their nuclear program" or maybe "stop  chanting death to Israel and America." Nothing about Iran slaughtering their own civilian population in the streets.   Makes you wonder..."

hasanabi on X - "if there’s any “terrorism” that happens on us soil now, you will never be able to convince me nor millions of other americans that it wasn’t israel and america conducting it together to rally the masses to support an insanely unpopular war."
Max K on X - "They *always* push this line, it’s such sinister bollocks. If jihadists only attack us ‘because of Israel and America’ why are they putting Yazidi girls, with nothing to do with Israel or the West, in cages and burning them to death? Why are they slaughtering Pakistani atheists, and wiping out hundreds of thousands of African Christians, and bombing British schoolgirls, and murdering French cartoonists and teachers, and machine gunning Hindu tourists and Sri Lankan kids, and tossing gays off of buildings, and shooting Jews in synagogues…they do this stuff because they are part of a religious-fundamentalist death cult. They want to kill us, they always have, and they always will. Everybody knows this.   The relentlessness with which Islamo-leftists seek to spin all of this so that the real enemy here isn’t the jihadists themselves, or their ideology, but US - for RESPONDING to the jihadists’ aggression, is one of the most nauseating trends in contemporary politics. Truly sick."

The greater game: Trump’s ultimate target in this war is China - "The United States and Israel killed Ayatollah Khamenei, and Xi Jinping’s decade-long project to build an alternative to the American-led order died with him. For years, Beijing quietly assembled a network of dictatorships and client states designed to blunt American power. Iran supplied China with cheap oil and kept Washington bogged down in the Middle East. Russia waged war on Ukraine with Chinese materiel support, a gamble that was supposed to cement a powerful anti-western axis but has instead bled Moscow into dependence on Beijing. Regional proxies from Lebanon to Gaza added just enough chaos to stop Washington focusing on China. The Chinese Communist party (CCP) propped up Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela, too, as it funnelled narcotics and other ills into America.  That network has now suffered damage so severe that no trade deal – no matter how many soybeans China agrees to buy from the US, or how many Boeing jets it orders – can disguise the devastation. And at the end of this month, Xi must sit across from Donald Trump, the man who greenlit the strike on the Ayatollah in Tehran and the seizure of Maduro in Caracas... China is the largest buyer of Iranian oil on Earth. It imports more than 70 per cent of the crude it burns, and Iran has been one of its cheapest suppliers. Khamenei’s death throws the terms of that arrangement into doubt and the US is now threatening tariffs on any country that trades with Tehran. Beijing has yet to find a coherent response.  I spent the better part of the past decade watching this network take shape, reporting from North Korea, Xinjiang, Turkey, Russia and Ukraine as the architecture grew. I walked the streets of Kashgar documenting a surveillance state being built in real time, and sat with Uighur exiles in Istanbul who told me what it was like to live inside it.  Xi built a coalition, loose and transactional and deniable, that would give China strategic depth if it ever needed to withstand serious American pressure. The line I heard constantly when I was in China, and still read in CCP sources today, is that the West is declining. Xi built his foreign policy on that premise. By most visible metrics, he was succeeding. Trade between China and Russia hit a record $245 billion in 2024, and Beijing was flooding Moscow with the microelectronics and drone components that kept Russia’s war machine running. Beijing overtook the combined West as the largest trading partner of the Gulf oil states, long an American sphere of influence. Every-where Xi looked, the system was transforming in his favour.  But even as the trade figures climbed, the foundations beneath them were giving way. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine four years ago has now cost it more than a million military casualties by most credible estimates – losses on a scale unseen in European warfare since the second world war. Moscow has gone from a partner capable of projecting power to a dependant surviving on Chinese goodwill. Iran’s regional proxies were wiped out, with Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, and Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh killed in response to the horrors of 7 October. Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, was toppled. And now Khamenei, the linchpin of Tehran’s revolutionary state, is dead... China’s 25-year partnership with Tehran, signed with fanfare in 2021, promised $400 billion in investment. Almost none of the money arrived, because it didn’t need to.  What China took from Iran was oil. An average of nearly 1.4 million barrels a day in 2024 and 2025, according to tanker-tracking data from the commodities firm Kpler, often bought at $8 to $10 per barrel below market price, through a shadow fleet operating outside western sanctions.  Now Xi faces a problem he cannot talk his way out of. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning called the killing a ‘grave violation of Iran’s sovereignty and security’. But the Gulf states are watching what Beijing does, not what it says. And so far Beijing has offered Tehran no materiel support, no weapons, nothing that would cost China anything.   Beijing’s own spending reveals which side it has chosen. Last year, Iran received almost no investment from Belt and Road, Beijing’s flagship programme for building infrastructure and buying influence abroad. Saudi Arabia received nearly $20 billion in contracts. Xi cannot say so out loud but the money has moved to Riyadh, and Tehran gets little of it... What Xi has lost is harder to replace than a trading partner. Iran kept Washington tied down in the Middle East, unable to focus on China. That was extraordinarily useful, and it cost Beijing almost nothing...   Xi arrives boxed in on every front. He cannot defend Iran without alienating the Gulf states. He cannot abandon Iran without appearing weak to the remaining members of the coalition he spent a decade assembling. He needs a trade deal to stabilise China’s economy, which is slowing far faster than Beijing admits. Official figures claim 5 per cent growth, but Rhodium Group, a widely cited independent research firm, puts the real number at closer to 2.5 to 3 per cent. He needs Trump in a generous mood.  The deepest damage, though, is something Xi cannot afford to acknowledge: what losing Iran means for Taiwan.   Most analysts think about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in military terms. Can Beijing’s forces actually land there and take the island? But invading Taiwan would also trigger western sanctions far worse than any-thing imposed on Russia. And after what happened to Khamenei, Beijing knows that escalation does not end with sanctions. To survive all that, China needs countries willing to sell it oil off the books, help it move money past western banks and provide political cover. Iran and Russia were supposed to be those countries. China could still invade Taiwan, but not with any confidence that the CCP would survive the consequences. Some will argue that makes Xi more dangerous, that a leader who sees his options shrinking might act before they disappear. But everything he is doing points the other way. He is shoring up his economy, not preparing for war.   The summit will be conducted in the language of trade. Iran will hang over every session, but don’t expect that in the communiqué. Every government from Tokyo to Riyadh will read the subtext.  Xi will sit across from Trump and speak the language of a strong and ascendant China. The image is no longer the reality."

Trigganometry on X - "𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐀'𝐒 $𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑:  Every Iranian missile aimed at the Middle East carries Chinese fingerprints. The components. The guidance systems. The technical expertise. All from Beijing.  Peter Schweizer just exposed the hidden axis arming Iran—and how Trump's strikes obliterated China's strategic position overnight.  𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐣𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰:  China provided their most advanced air defense systems to Iran. U.S. and Israeli forces decimated them completely.  Over $100 billion in Chinese investments in Iran—mostly loans Beijing will never recover.  Iran and Venezuela? That was 20% of China's oil supply, bought at massive discounts, paid without U.S. dollars. Trump just eliminated both sources in one move.  𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨:  Forced back to global oil markets. Paying in American dollars. 40% of their oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz—which Trump now effectively controls.  Any move on Taiwan? Catastrophic for Beijing. Remember 2020 when China threatened to withhold PPE during Covid? Remember their rare earth threats? Trump just reversed every bit of leverage they had.  China armed Iran with 5,000 missiles by 2027, potentially 10,000 by decade's end. Precision guidance systems that transformed inaccurate rockets into weapons capable of striking downtown Abu Dhabi.  They industrialized Iran's capacity to hold the Middle East at gunpoint.  Then Trump destroyed it all.  Spring negotiations with President Xi are coming. Trump's sitting at the table holding every single card."

Bin Xie on X - "Chinese are now leaving Iran like crazy, the price of a one-way ticket to Beijing has gone up to 3M Yuan ($425,000). What are the Chinese so afraid of? According to a Taiwanese news, they have done too many bad things in Iran (such as helping Iranian regime to crack down the protests), Iranian people hate them."

David Walpiri on X - "Some 80% of Iran’s illegal oil exports are delivered to the Chinese market. That's 13.4% to 14% of China's total seaborne crude oil imports. First Venezuela. Now Iran."
Michael Ron Bowling on X - "If China does not have access to discounted oil it becomes much harder to subsidize its massive fishing fleet. Which in turn will protect the environment and help countries being pillaged by China's distant waters fishing fleets."

James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯ on X - "Spare a thought for all the Western NGOs that will go silent over the next few months as they run out of funding but can't quite explain why it stopped being paid."

The Atlantic on X - "The U.S. bombardment of Iran was launched without a real plan for the Iranian people, @anneapplebaum argues: “We don’t have any tools to communicate with the Iranians, and we don’t have any tools to help build a legitimate state” determined by them."
John Ʌ Konrad V on X - "“What really disturbs me is… we don’t have any tools to build up a legitimate state” Translation: Trump’s not allowing a single NGO to grift"
liel leibovitz on X - "Hi, I'm part of the group of people who have been getting everything wrong for the last 70 years. And now that an American president exercised American power and won, I'm very troubled. Please read my essay in the magazine for fellow whiny losers."
Trust the Experts, even though they've always been wrong! Because "qualifications" are more important than achievements

DataRepublican (small r) on X - "Working on a write-up.  Whatever your feelings on the Iranian strikes are...  Note that the "our democracy" crowd who has interfered in hundreds of elections around the globe and waged endless wars is opposing the removal of Ali Khamenei, whose regime massacred 36,500 people.  The "rules-based international order" doesn't actually care about democracy. They had a system with Khamenei. They knew what he wanted: sanctions relief, recognition, a nuclear deal, regional influence. Their entire identity depends on existing power over those channels.  Their track record in creating actual democracies is awful. But they sure do have a good track record in installing NGOs that waste endless amounts of money on "democracy."  Oh, by the way, @anneapplebaum  is one of the architects behind the "Soul of the Nation" Biden speech which labeled half of America as threats to the Republic."

Adam Mossoff on X - "The same media that explicitly ignored the mass protests in Iran for first few weeks and then claimed it couldn't cover the regime's mass murder of these protestors because it didn't have reporters in Iran to verify the facts is back to its Hamas playbook from the October 7th War in Gaza. @AP  *immediately* publishes propaganda claim by Islamic regime of Iran of a "strike" on an elementary school. Just like with the false Hamas propaganda that AP told its readers was fact with the Al-Ahli Hospital explosion caused by a failed Hamas rocket launch at Israel, there is video evidence that the elementary school in Iran was hit by an Iranian missile that failed after launch. You can't hate AP enough."

Wilfred Reilly on X - "This is an interesting example of "how the political left do."   This is a tragic case, sure. But, in the context of (1) an almost totally and rather gloriously victorious war against (2) an Ayatollah-led state that just butchered 30,000-60,000 people while raping a bunch of young female fighters, probably 50-60% of all MSM coverage I have seen has focused on this one - prrrrobable - US mistake.   That is clearly not how a sane, unbiased person would cover this conflict. But, it IS how fairly mainstream American sources ("A People's History," etc) cover ALL of our history. And, that is important to remember."

Goldie Ghamari | گلسا قمری 🇮🇷 on X - "‼️IMPORTANT  The Islamists, Jihadis, and Balestinians (aka everyone who supports the terrorist Islamic Republic occupying Iran) are claiming that a civilian school was "randomly attacked" by USA and/or Israel.  This isn't Gaza and we Iranians are not a bunch of savage inbred Jihadis who lie about what's going on.  You can't make up lies about us or our country.  This school was being used as a military base, and if the news about the children is true, that's because the terrorist Islamic Regime occupying Iran was using them as human shields. They are a murderous death cult.  Every single civilian casualty in this conflict is because of the terrorist Islamic Regime, no one else.  It's incredibly shameful that supporters of the terrorist Islamic Regime are trying to use this incident to smear the allies and liberators of Iranians: USA and Israel.  Here's the truth about the situation with the school:  "What I found is that the school was built on this land, which belongs to the IRGC Navy and all the branches of the Shajare Tayyiba schools in all the cities belong to them. The Seyyed al-Shohada Cultural Complex of the IRGC, near Mahdi Town, has several buildings with a football field, an administrative section, and a specialized clinic. Even the IRGC Medical Command is there. The school building is located at the end of Resalat Dahm Alley, at the top of the picture, and you could say it is part of the complex. Its name is not even registered on Google Maps. The strange thing for me is that its address was announced everywhere as Dahm Corner, meaning Sarkocheh. I am waiting to see if more buildings from there were hit or just that building. I sincerely hope that the statistics that the IRGC officials are giving are wrong and false and that the children are safe... I am very sad for the children.""

Western Women vs Passport Bros

"Let me get this straight.

You have been telling men for years that you don't want them, that you don't need them, that they don't meet your standards, that they don't treat you right, that you can pay for your own hair, you can pay for your own nails, you can afford your own home, you can afford your own car.

Men are good for nothing. You're strong. You're independent.

But then you get mad when these men go to another country to actually find a woman that has the qualities that they are looking for in a wife.

Make it make sense.

I also want to talk about why this mindset that so many Western women have is actually extremely problematic.

Because not only are you putting down the men who are going overseas with pure intentions, you're also putting down the women from these other countries solely off of the fact that they were not brought up in a western culture because you're calling them uneducated, you're calling them poor, you're calling them weak, you're calling them vulnerable.

You're creating a superiority complex where you are at the top and women from all these other countries are at the bottom.

Now, let me tell you something. If you were really superior, the men would not be leaving and you would not be single."

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