Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out. -G.K. Chesterton #DeSantis2028 #TeamSanity Joined in 2009 as FairTaxNancy

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โ€œMerely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.โ€ โ€• G.K. Chesterton
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Because they asked us not to send them to their home countries. No need to say thanks.
#BREAKING: The Trump admin has deported over 25,000 illegals to 28 countries that aren't their own.
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Under no circumstances should the federal government force taxpayers to bail out AI companies. That is where this would leadโ€ฆ
OpenAI and Anthropic oversold AI security breaches to pressure feds into protecting turf: insiders trib.al/Jo6xMk5
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The land was not stolen. It was purchased by Jews who then recovered it from nearly uninhabitable malarial marshes. The Jews bought the deadly land painted dark blue in this 1920 British Mandate Palestine malaria map. All the blue was malarial. The dark blue was so bad almost nobody could live there. That is what Jews purchased, usually from absentee landlords in Beirut and Damascus, at prices that assumed the parcels were worthless. Then Dr. Israel Kligler and the Joint Distribution Committee drained it, oiled it, put fish in the water, and broke the fever. People stopped dying. Arab villages saw a population explosion because the swamp stopped killing them. That growth later got sold as โ€œthey stole our land.โ€ Now look at the UNโ€™s 1947 partition map next to the malaria map. The Jewish share tracks the coastal valley land they made livable, plus the sand of the Negev Desert. Still, the Arabs said no to any Jewish sovereignty and opened a war. Five Arab armies followed to destroy the Jewish state. Before that war, nobody was displaced. Partition would have left that number at zero.
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Hispanics. Farmers. America Firsters. Podcast Brosโ€ฆ Trump found a way to alienate them all.
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This is BDS on steroids.
What Norway is proposing to do to Jews is not merely comparable to what the German Nazis did. It is precisely what they did. jns.org/opinion/jeff-ballaboโ€ฆ
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Notice none of Nikole Hannah-Jones' supporters try to answer for the basic reality that it was their preferred policies that made these schools bad in the first place.
I notice none of Nikole Hannah-Jones' critics try to answer to the basic question she wrestled with, which is: Why should my daughter get to go to a better school than other people's kids just because I work for the New York Times?
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Three lawsuits were filed this week, lawyers announced, all in regards to alleged catastrophic brain injuries sustained by riders of the X2 rollercoaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain. ktla.com/news/local-news/lawโ€ฆ
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Reproducibility is an important component of science, though not all journals require authors to provide their data. We wanted to reanalyze the data of this influential "brain sex" paper with more rigorous statistical methods. The paper said to "contact the corresponding author" to obtain the transgender data. We did. Several times over multiple months. They never responded. The authors were also invited to respond to our critique. Again, silence. Is this the behavior of scholars who care about the truth? Or is this more like the behavior you'd expect from people who are trying to hide from it? Real scientists welcome criticism and be prepared to defend their ideas, or change their minds when presented with compelling arguments and evidence. They don't ghost their critics, especially in the academic literature. The authors of the study we critiqued have an open invitation to respond to our paper. That invitation has no expiration date. We hope to hear from them.
๐ŸšจNEW: Our critique of a major "brain sex" study is now published. @AdamRochussen, @NeuroSGS, and I evaluate a central premise of gender activism and medicine: that trans-identifying people have brains that are shifted away from their sex and toward their "gender identity." The "brain sex" concept is so central because it purports to provide an empirical scientific basis for the notion that a child can be "born in the wrong body" and would therefore benefit from body-altering medical procedures to align their body with their mind/brain. The problem is that this concept is pure pseudoscience and propped up by deeply flawed methods and badly misinterpreted data. One of the most prominent studies is Kurth et al. (2022), published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, which claimed that the brains of transgender women are shifted away from their sex and toward their "gender identity." The paper became one of the journalโ€™s most accessed articles and has been cited in major media outlets, scientific papers, legal arguments, and policy discussions involving pediatric gender medicine and sports. We point out that the paper's headline conclusion rests on a series of serious methodological problems. Each group contained only 24 participants. The authors used poorly justified parametric methods, one-tailed post hoc tests, made no correction for multiple comparisons, and omitted important robustness checks. Once accounted for, the main finding is no longer statistically significant. An even more glaring failure of the study was that it failed to account for sexual orientation, despite its known association with neuroanatomical variation and despite the authors having the relevant participant data needed to examine it! We each repeatedly requested the anonymized participant-level data from the paper's lead author so we could independently evaluate the findings. We received no response. The evidence simply does not justify the sweeping "brain sex" conclusion for which this study has become famous. Our full critique in @Theory_Society is open access. Read it at the link below, and please cite it and share it whenever you encounter the false claim that trans people have brains that more closely resemble the sex they identify than their own sex. ๐Ÿ”—link.springer.com/article/10โ€ฆ
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The hubris that lives inside Cultural Marxists that leads them to believe they can somehow succeed where others have failed miserably, because 'it wasn't real' socialism, should be studied in a lab.
Every generation that forgets what communism did has to learn it the hard way.
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Wow. Kind of the opposite of a genocide, huh.
Huh. The bulk of the casualties in Gaza - by Hamas' own statistics, apparently - are military age males Who'da thunk it
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THE SHOW NOTES: Trump To UN, Rick Jackson Ad, Xi, AI Hotline, & D.E.I. Checklist, by @EWErickson ewerickson.substack.com/p/thโ€ฆ Welcome! A Department of Health website that is currently on printed material redirects to a pornography site.
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Gotta love the irony of Roman Catholics that call themselves โ€œHeritage Americans.โ€ Americaโ€™s heritage was in large part trying to escape the influence of Europeโ€™s great old churches.
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As sympathetic as I am to principals and teachers, if you run a school that routinely fails to supervise young kids at lunch, or that neglects to review a student's math work for errors, *you should be fired.* That no one demands this or imagines it possible is a problem.
The real takeaway from the Nikole Hannah-Jones article is that teachers and administrators are failing black and Latino kids, and that New York City (and other cities, presumably) has to stop sitting on its hands and take action to meaningfully change this.
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I think theyโ€™re even more surprised and upset that the targets on the right punched back.
Vance, his team, and superfans decided early on in the Trump presidency to punch right. Their primary attack target has been on the right. Now the Vance crew acts surprised and upset that it totally fractured Trumpโ€™s winning coalition. A microcosm is Turning Point which responded to the Charlie Kirk assassination not by going after the left but by telling Jewish Trump voters theyโ€™re dangerously un-American lol.
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