Ugatz1

I make boxes. I am the box master. I make the boxes you put your stuff in.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

As gratifying as it is to see Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides finally facing accountability, let us not lose sight of the sheer magnitude of what they did, which dwarfs the minor charge of lying to Congress under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 that they now face.

These two played a central role in clearing Joe Biden’s path to the White House in 2020 by deliberately derailing investigations into Biden family corruption and planting the fabricated narrative that any damaging information about the Bidens was Russian disinformation. That narrative became the pretext for suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story and unleashed an avalanche of media lies. Floris was so brazen that she even explicitly claimed to be running the shadow government.

So as welcome as this news is, everyone needs to understand that these two are only being charged with lying about what they did, not for what they did.

[FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash]

Two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Cole Floris and Bradley Benavides, were taken into custody today on charges of allegedly lying to Congress about their involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden.

The charges stem from an ongoing investigation into the since-dissolved FBI Foreign Influence Task Force.

Floris led the FITF as a Deputy Assistant Director from mid-2019 through mid-2022. Benavides was the FITF Section Chief from mid-2019 through the 2020 election. Both testified that the FITF was not involved in the Hunter Biden investigations. Documentary evidence, contemporaneous communications, and witness accounts contradict their testimony.

Floris is also on record privately claiming to be “running a shadow government” during the 2020 election in her role on the FITF.

Lying to Congress by senior FBI officials strikes at the heart of our system. No one is above the law.

The FBI has already dismantled the corrupt CR-15 squad that engaged in political weaponization targeting their opponents, including President Trump.

Thanks to @TheJusticeDept @FBIKansasCity and @USAttyPirro.

-DKP🇺🇸

[Ugatz1 @Boxmaster1]

@WFSBnews That headline is embarrassing

[Ugatz1 @Boxmaster1]

@TrumpGirlLove Probably should have been a better father and he wouldn’t have ended up in jail

[Ugatz1 @Boxmaster1]

@TheCinesthetic Black Sails

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

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[Garbage Human @GarbageHuman24]

When you post something so unintentionally based that you then have to delete it.

[Ugatz1 @Boxmaster1]

@JournalInquirer I’m embarrassed for them

[Ugatz1 @Boxmaster1]

@nhregister Look at these dopes. I’m embarrassed for them.

[Ugatz1 @Boxmaster1]

@Polymarket Diversity is our strength

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Some of the most painful but necessary human testimony I have ever come across. It doesn't go away if you ignore it, either. Quite the opposite.

[Ugatz1 @Boxmaster1]

@WTNH Nothing to see here folks, just a bunch of corrupt dipsh!ts running the books

[Ugatz1 @Boxmaster1]

@NedLamont Lipstick on a pig

[Ugatz1 @Boxmaster1]

@DanThomasESPN Curious that Shaka’s objections to American exceptionalism never quite extended to rejecting the institutions that educated him or the country in which he chose to raise his family.

[Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello]

🚨UPDATE🚨

American Airlines still hasn’t reached out to me regarding my request for a full refund.

This story has received 19 million views.

They still won’t budge.

@AmericanAir doesn’t care about their customers.

[Ugatz1 @Boxmaster1]

@StephenM @seanmdav And nothing will happen

[Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello]

We need to have a serious conversation about overweight people flying on commercial airlines.

I’m flying on @AmericanAir and after paying extra money to upgrade my seat, I got stuck next to a man who is 300+ pounds and stripped mid flight.

None of the flight attendants wanted to confront him.

He smells like 💩 and weed.

He’s literally sitting in my seat and keeps touching me.

For context, he’s literally 300+ pounds and I’m 120.

Why does American Airlines think it’s acceptable to treat people this way?!

I tried reaching out discreetly during the flight, but they have no avenues to do that.

[Ugatz1 @Boxmaster1]

@WTNH Great, another tax on the poor

[Ugatz1 @Boxmaster1]

@WTNH So brave