Martina Navratilova: "I defected from a totalitarian regime, and like hell am I going to be cowed again, and have to be careful about what I say…Speaking out is the patriotic thing to do. When you see something wrong, don’t be afraid.”
I’ve just seen a post from yet another man who thinks my position has shifted since I wrote my 2020 essay about gender identity ideology and the consequent clash of rights https://t.co/pasxBD1Hzl
For the avoidance of doubt, I stand by every word I wrote then. For instance: ‘woman isn’t a costume.’ If it surprises you that I say men don’t become women by wearing make up and dresses, you didn’t understand the essay. I’ve been crystal clear all along that I believe people are free to live and present themselves as the opposite sex if that’s what feels comfortable and authentic TO THEM. This appears to have been interpreted (most often, tellingly, by men) as ‘and it naturally follows that I, as a woman, will validate a man’s belief that he is now, to all intents and purposes, the same sex as me, and I will use only the speech he deems appropriate and will be very careful to protect his sensitive ego, no matter the cost to myself in pretending to believe a falsehood, or the loss of my own rights due to this pretence.’
Dress as you like within normal bounds of situational decency, wear lipstick, sequins and a beard if you want, call yourself whatever you like, have sex with any consenting adult you please: I wish you health, happiness and safety. What you don’t get is the power to compel my speech and belief.
When I call a man a man, I am speaking verifiable truth. It is essential to be able to accurately name sex when discussing fair sport, facilities and services for women and girls and the right of gay people not to be demonised for their same-sex attraction. In years to come, a lot of useful idiots are going to awake to the fact that they’ve been complicit in enormous harm done to women, girls, gay people who stood against the insanity, and some extremely vulnerable young people. I don’t doubt we’ll hear a lot of, ‘I thought I was just being kind.’ Such individuals, especially those in positions of power, should be asked why they never had anything to say about the loud, public, widespread unkindness directed against those who refused to adopt their fashionable, elitist beliefs, eg, the detransitioners being bullied and vilified by former ‘allies’, the whistleblowers who tried to stop an unregulated experiment on troubled children, the women who lost their careers and livelihoods by standing up for all women’s rights.
Some people appear to believe it a worse crime for a woman to call a man a man than for trans activists to call loudly and publicly for the assault and assassination of all women who refuse to bend the knee. I have never wished violence or any other kind of harm on a trans-identified person, but, like many other people who’ve defended women’s and girls’ rights over the past few years, I have received thousands of threats of death, rape and torture. The wilful blindness of those who bleat ‘both sides’ will rightly be judged harshly in times to come.
TL;DR Trans women aren’t women, and if that hurts your feelings, be grateful you live in a society where you are just as free to espouse gender ideology as I am to speak the truth. As Orwell said: ‘Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.’
Many mocked the DSA when a video from their 2019 National Convention came out.
The repeated and increasingly woke “points of personal privilege” looked ridiculous.
What many missed at the time was that the Democratic Socialists of America had just entered a massive growth phase which has now made it the largest socialist organization in U.S. history.
The organization grew from 6,000 members in 2015 to more than 120,000 today with a notable surge after Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign.
The median age of members dropped sharply from 68 in 2013 to 33 in 2017 while AOC and Rashida Tlaib became the first DSA members in the House of Representatives in over a decade in 2018.
After seeing a lull in growth during Biden’s term in office, the DSA now has winds in its sails again, especially after their member Zoran Mamdani was elected Mayor of New York City last year.
It’s now practically certain that two democratic socialists will be heading to Congress from New York (Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, both of whom won their 2026 Democratic primaries with strong Mamdani and DSA backing).
DSA’s Melat Kiros can also be certain of reaching Congress after defeating a 30-year incumbent in her strongly blue district in Colorado.
Meanwhile, Janeese Lewis George, a DSA member, is poised to become the next mayor of Washington, D.C. after a decisive primary win.
What began as a niche organization with a few thousand mostly older members has transformed into a significant force in American left politics.
@AdamMilstein has just written an article in which he warns that a massive Trojan horse has been built inside the Democratic Party.
He argues that DSA is the main vehicle of the red-green alliance in the USA.
This cooperation between organisations with a far-left ideology and Islamist groups has also been growing in Europe in recent years.
The two forces are building a joint platform on Third Worldism, socialism anti-Zionism to attack broader liberal democratic values.
In America, the DSA is working on radicalizing the Democratic Party on issues such as public safety, criminal justice, borders, foreign affairs and Israel policy.
Milstein warns that the DSA’s official platform (“Workers Deserve More”) reveals an underlying Marxist framework that seeks not mere reform but the dismantling of core American institutions: drafting a new constitution, creating a democratic socialist republic, nationalizing key sectors, eliminating private health insurance and policing as well as incarceration systems while pushing for open-border policies.
The DSA has adopted a so-called “dirty break” strategy, based on using Democratic Party’s ballot line, resources and credibility as a temporary vehicle while building parallel structures to ultimately break away and transform or supplant the Democratic Party.
Milstein warns that they could succeed if the Democrats don’t quickly counter the existential threat by a full institutional purge:
- Stripping DSA-aligned officials of committee assignments and power
- Cutting off campaign funding, resources, and institutional support
- Denying the party ballot line to those pursuing the “dirty break”
- Aggressively recruiting and funding mainstream primary challengers to unseat sitting DSA politicians.
The argument is that continued accommodation only legitimizes a movement whose stated goal is the party’s eventual dissolution and that failing to act risks irreversible colonization of the Democratic Party.
You can find Milstein’s full article in the comments below ⬇️
🚨 Luka Modrić on Croatia’s controversial last-minute disallowed goal against Portugal:
🗣️ “This is football. Not a courtroom, not a lab where we freeze every frame and argue over centimetres.
Tonight we gave everything against a very good Portugal team. We were still fighting deep into stoppage time. The boys kept believing, kept pushing, and when that ball went in through Josko we thought we had it — equaliser, extra time, everything still possible.
Then VAR comes in and takes it away because of a touch earlier in the move. I respect the officials, I really do. But the rule is clear and obvious error. Was this one? These little things, these marginal calls where players are fighting for every inch… that’s football. That’s what defenders and attackers do every single day.
If we start ruling out goals like that in the last seconds because of a split-second touch or a shoulder or a toe, then what are we left with? The game loses its soul. The emotion, the chaos, the moments that make people fall in love with football — they get taken away by technology that was only supposed to fix the obvious mistakes.
We accept that sometimes the ball doesn’t go your way. We’ve done it our whole careers. But when the decision feels like it rewrites the last chapter of the match instead of just correcting something clear, it hurts. Not just us in the dressing room, but everyone who was watching and living every second with us.
Portugal deserved to go through, they’re a strong side and they showed it. But nights like this make you wonder where the game is heading. We play with our hearts, we fight until the whistle, and then one review decides everything.
That’s not protecting football anymore. That’s changing it into something else.”
For decades, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People – or “ICAP” – has been a vehicle for radical left-wing extremism and subversive foreign influence in the United States and across our hemisphere. ICAP is the Cuban regime’s premier influence and intelligence front group, exploiting its vast global network to spy on Americans, promote anti-Western propaganda, coordinate foreign influence operations, and organize revolutionary leftist movements around the world.
Earlier this month, I designated ICAP and several other Cuban organizations responsible for engaging in subversive anti-American activities, pursuant to sanctions authorities created by President Trump’s Cuba Executive Order.
This week, I terminated the legal status of Carlos Antonio Lloga Dominguez, a former ICAP official who maintains ties with the organization. Lloga Dominguez and his wife and son are now in federal custody pending removal from the United States.
America will never become home for foreign communists who peddle propaganda, run subversive influence operations, or support radical anti-American movements within the United States. Transact with ICAP and you will be sanctioned, prosecuted or deported from our country.
A world renowned historian Timothy Snyder, in a recent interview with Newsweek Polska, offered a warning that Poland’s leaders would do well to heed.
“The war of memory is much more comfortable for Polish politicians than the real war,” Snyder said.
“They can say: we are right, we are innocent, I know history. But one must begin with what is happening now, not with memory. If you skip that, you start with a lie.”
On the controversy over Ukraine’s honoring of the UPA, Snyder cautioned against judging such decisions without context: “To judge Zelensky’s decision to name a unit after the UPA without the context of almost four and a half years of war would be a mistake. This is the longest war of this century, longer than the First World War. It produces emotions that are difficult for the West to understand.”
He also noted that Ukrainians and Poles remember different chapters of the same history: “Ukrainians think about the UPA mainly through its third phase, the struggle against the Red Army after 1945. Poles remember the first phase: 1943, when the UPA killed tens of thousands of Poles in Volhynia. The mistake is to forget the rest of the history.”
And his sharpest warning should concern everyone: “On the battlefield, Russia will lose. In Warsaw and Kyiv, Russia will win the war of memory.”
Stripping President Zelensky of Poland’s highest honor was not an act of wisdom. It was an emotional response that elevated historical grievance over present reality. Ukraine is fighting the longest war of this century, and Poland’s security depends on its survival. To turn an ally into an adversary over unresolved history serves neither truth nor justice – it serves only Moscow. That is the trap Snyder named.
The war of memory cannot be won. It can only be exploited – and there is one power waiting to exploit it.
“If Ukraine is burning, your Moscow will burn too” — Zelensky
“We do NOT want this war and NEVER wanted it. The time has come to end this aggression, the time has come to end this war,” the Ukrainian president said.
Today, they hanged him in Iran for protesting.❤️
Now you understand why I showed a graphic image of a hanged man in front of 2,000 people in Washington DC.
If that image was too sensitive for people in the West، this is Iran's daily reality. 4 to 5 people hanged. Every. Single. Day. By the same regime that Western governments are rushing to negotiate with.
Right after my speech, this man was hanged.
Fathollah Avari was arrested in Hamedan during Iran's nationwide uprising in January 2026. The Islamic Republic secretly executed him on Tuesday no last goodbye, no final visit with his family.
They charged him with "waging war against God" .
And yet some of you in the West are more worried about Islamophobia than about people being executed under the Islamic regime.
Ask me again why I hold up graphic images. 💔
#StopExecutionsInIran