My name is Ella, I'm 17 years old.
I do long jump. I play volleyball. I go to school in New Richmond, Wisconsin.
When my school allowed a biological male into the girls' restroom without telling parents —
I went to the school board.
With my name attached.
In my own town.
I got bullied for it. Harassed online. Even some of my own teachers came after me.
I'm still here.
Because here's what I know:
The net in women's volleyball is set nearly a foot lower for a reason.
A biological male can hit a ball across that net at force that could seriously injure a girl.
And in track — all it takes is three biological males entering the girls' category
and not a single girl in this state stands on a podium.
I didn't speak up because it was easy.
I spoke up because somebody had to.
The Supreme Court is about to answer the question every girl in America is asking.
We're ready.
@JenniferSey@xx_xyathletics
@MrsErikaKirk I can imagine how wonderful it must have been to be loved so sincerely and deeply by a man as exceptional as Charlie Kirk.
Millions of us loved Charlie and saw the wonderful and remarkable way he lived his life. He truly was one in a billion. And he loved you.
And to think of how you were playing him from the start, knowing he was vulnerable in the “pretty Christian girl” department. And you used that vulnerability to destroy him. We see you Erika. The paid influencers defending you are just that…PAID. They are lying for money. We all see what you are. We all feel sad, disgusted and outraged by how so many of you leached off Charlie’s greatness for money, and fame while earning his trust. Sure, you can share these letters. And we know he meant them…that’s why you share them. But they don’t blind anyone. In fact they just amplify the reality of your treachery and just how dark it is.
@AndrewKolvet@BlakeSNeff
Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.
When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.
They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.
In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.
The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.
We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.