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[Mykhailo Fedorov @FedorovMykhailo]

Ukraine launches TrophyLab: we are opening access to captured Russian weapon technologies for our global partners. Every missile, drone, and vehicle seized on the battlefield is now a source of knowledge for the free world.

Through this secure platform, allied governments, labs, and defense tech manufacturers gain access to deep technical data, reports, and vulnerabilities. Users can also request physical equipment for testing, significantly shortening the development cycle for countermeasures.

What was meant to be the enemy's secret advantage is being dismantled to defend democracy. Join the platform:
🔗 https://t.co/xoeCfXsIy3

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I agree with every word of Anne Fine’s introduction to this report.👇

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Thousands of lives will be saved because we forced Liberals to back down from MAID for mental illness.

Conservative MP @TamaraJansenMP’s Bill C-218, plus the brilliant arguments by MP @MichaelCooperMP and the courageous personal story of MP @AndrewLawton, changed the debate and stopped government from telling struggling people to give up on life.

Keep the hope alive. Keep the fight alive.

[Julia Mason MS MD @JuliaMasonMD1]

My favorite part of the FTC's complaint against WPATH is when they quote deluded parents as evidence that WPATH lied to them:

[SEGM @segm_ebm]

🧵Last year, a paper by the @TrevorProject authors claimed that "anti-transgender" laws cause a 7–72% increase in youth suicide attempts—a figure since cited in media, policy, and litigation. A new critique in @NatureHumBehav shows the claim doesn't add up. New SEGM spotlight⬇️/1

[Leor Sapir @LeorSapir]

Another Major Transgender Suicide Study Crumbles

A widely cited study published in the prestigious @NatureHumBehav claimed that “anti-transgender laws” encouraged teen suicide attempts.

A new methodological review dismantles that finding.

New from me in @cityjournal

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Victimhood can fuel political extremism. The tendency to see oneself as a victim strongly predicts support for political violence.

https://t.co/F4bTXnnZtx

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

I think possibly the best thing about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire is how angry it makes a bunch of losers who've never built a thing in their lives.

[Zachary Elliott @zaelefty]

There is no such thing as intersex. There are rare people with congenital sex development disorders—something you don’t have.

Changing your secondary sex characteristics with cross-sex hormones does not change your sex. It merely causes symptoms that mimic an endocrine disorder.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Psychologists have identified a personality trait they call the Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood. It includes four main components: the need for recognition, moral elitism, a lack of empathy, and rumination.

https://t.co/F4bTXnnZtx

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"There is, however, a tendency in the literature to treat racism from members of the majority nation as the sole problem faced by immigrants...driven largely by a desire to hold immigrants themselves blameless for whatever misfortunes may befall them." https://t.co/ty1scHycmQ

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Free societies do not write governments blank cheques of power. Elected representatives should vote on specific powers. They should not delegate major legislative and policy decisions to future regulators. Yet, as privacy expert and law professor @mgeist states, "Bill C-34 punts 50 key decisions to cabinet and a Digital Safety Commission that does not yet exist."

Which chatbot services and social media platforms will be affected? What counts as "significant psychological or physical harm"? What are adequate age verification and estimation requirements? Canadians do not have answers. Parliament does not know. And yet Ottawa is asking your Members of Parliament to support the legislation.

If Parliament cannot know the scope of the powers it is creating, they cannot assess the impact that Bill C-34 will have on Canadians’ civil liberties. That is reason enough to defeat the Bill.

[National Post @nationalpost]

The Liberals' Bill C-34 is a boomer plan to censor the internet, writes Jamie Sarkonak.

'The legislation aims to censor political speech, while putting draconian rules around what kids can do online' https://t.co/v8jwX20Dmf

[Leor Sapir @LeorSapir]

NEW: Zhenya Abbruzzese (@segm_ebm) joins me for a special @CityJournal podcast to discuss pediatric transition advocates' leading piece of evidence: the Utah review.

Conflicts of interest, omission of harms, failure to conduct formal synthesis, and more. Full interview 👇

[Leor Sapir @LeorSapir]

Full interview

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Bill C-34 is not just about child safety. It's about who decides how children navigate the internet: parents or the state. Social media bans displace parental authority. But the less Ottawa relies on parents, the more it must rely on age verification, age estimation, and surveillance to enforce the ban. The more it relies on these tools, the greater the privacy cost to all Canadians.

Will Ottawa consider the possibility that parental rights and responsibilities are a practical alternative to surveillance?

[Yuan Zhang- Build Back Trust in Public Health @Real_YuanZhang]

Dr. Laura has done the homework so let's mark this.

The origin of this mess is because I asked a question (https://t.co/epSouFE9DX): If access to medical transition were to "lifesaving" for "trans kids" (as claimed by many), where is the signal in the population data?

According to Dr. Laura, in the 6,429 natal girls with gender dysphoria, there are 3 suicide deaths expected. If we were to assume the maximal benefits of medical transition, there would be 0 suicide death. Please note this is only for natal girls, but the numbers for natal boys are smaller. Also, the data represents around 80% of Oregon population. Even if we budget in the boys and the remaining 20%, the magnitude of benefit will not be large. And this is based on the most flattering assumption about the benefit of medical transition. Still the number is very small.

But the problem I don't deny this. I have never denied this. I have never denied there may be small benefits (though the evidence has never proven this). My point of this original post and question is about the exaggerated benefits of medical transition. The second screenshot is my immediate interaction with Dr. Laura. My follow up with Dr. Laura has always been: the benefit, if ever exist, would not be as large as activists have claimed.

In fact, what Dr. Laura's homework shows is the likely benefit of medical transition for youth is to reduce the risk of suicide death in the state from single digit number to a smaller single digit number.

If this is valid, I assume it is, how many people will agree this is lifesaving? Why activist groups claim this is lifesaving? Why there is an urgency to push this care model?

In fact, what Dr. Laura's home shows is exactly my point: the benefit of medical transition for youth, if ever exists, is not significant. The suicide risk should never be the center of the debate, should never be the deciding factor in decision making. Acknowledging youth with gender dysphoria may have elevated risk of suicide, the baseline risk is still very low. The framing of "living trans kid versus dead cis kid" never makes sense. The claim of this care model is lifesaving is exaggerated, from the very beginning.

Reading all my posts today, the point is, we, as a society, has been sold an exaggerated claim about the benefits of medical transition for kids. The urgency was never real.

The reason that from state level, when the access to care being expanded, while the statistics about youth suicide being stable (https://t.co/krTXjEXJ3q), is because the suicide risk in youth with gender dysphoria has been very low.

I don't know about Dr. Laura, but Dr. Laura's homework agrees with me.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Hey Jasmine…

Black pilot here.

I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.

I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.

Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.

Nobody lowered the standards for me.

Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”

That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.

Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.

I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.

And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.

They care whether the pilot is qualified.

Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.

And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.

[David Perell Clips @PerellClips]

Academics write for each other, not for people.

Steven Pinker has spent over four decades doing the opposite, and thinks current academic writing is "enormous wasted effort."

"There's an awful lot of brilliant work, really smart people in academia. Why are they doing it? Just to entertain each other? Taxpayers pay for it. It should be accessible. Why should I have to read a paragraph five or six times?

It gets under my skin when academics devote so much brainpower into the scholarship and then just blow off the essential task of letting the world know what you've done."