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@OfficialAM7News @BillMelugin_ @AliBradleyTV We were told ICE only goes after “brown” people…Hmmm

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@BestOfBowler @TheAliceSmith It’s actually not “far right” to cite history in context. That’s what critical thinking is all about; it is not ideological.

Maybe you meant “right so far”?

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@0xnoLE @TheAliceSmith Slavery is a huge part of WORLD history.

The question is not why did it exist; slavery was the baseline state.

The question is how and why did it end.

[Science Follower @ScienceFan231]

@nichibeidomei_ @Logocentrist @TheAliceSmith The counter argument is perfectly appropriate here because you are judging Britain without reference to the rest of the world. Your reference point is a made up standard in your head.

The question is not why slavery existed. The question is how and why did human beings end it?

[Science Follower @ScienceFan231]

@nichibeidomei_ @TheAliceSmith ���Putting millions of Africans in chains” seeks to make the reader believe Africans who were free were suddenly slaves of Britain.

Reality: they purchased people who were already slaves.

And please tell us when Japan ended slavery. Don’t forget to mention the wars of the 1930s.

[Do No Harm @donoharm]

Why do so many neurodivergent kids identify as trans? 👇

Research has consistently found a notable overlap between gender dysphoria and neurodevelopmental or mental-health diagnoses:

🔵 A 2023 meta-analysis of 8,662 people with gender dysphoria found that 11% had a diagnosed autism spectrum condition.

🔵 A Finnish clinic study also found that 70% of referred adolescents had previously been diagnosed with autism, ADHD, or another mental-health condition before receiving a gender dysphoria diagnosis.

🔵 In addition, the UK’s Cass Review reported that trans and non-binary people may be three to six times more likely to be autistic than the general population.

That’s a noticeable overlap, but why?

➡️ Autistic children may be more likely to think in concrete, black-and-white categories, including those about sex and gender. 

➡️ Moreover, an autistic child is more likely to find it troubling when they do not fit neatly into masculine or feminine stereotypes, causing them to search for an identity label that will explain their feelings.

➡️ For those children, “gender identity” can become an intense focus and “fix,” that becomes damaging when doctors side with a child’s gender distress before exploring other factors such as autism, anxiety, depression, trauma, or social difficulties.

Medicalizing a child’s distress with puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones does not necessarily address the underlying reasons they feel uncomfortable in their bodies or unsure of who they are. 🚫

The UK, Sweden, Finland, and Norway have all moved away from an affirm-first model for minors, citing uncertainty about benefits and concern about potential risks.

The U.S. should follow, ensuring children are given the careful assessment and care they need instead of a path towards irreversible medical intervention. 🩺

[MicrobeTV @profvrr]

Daniel Griffin & Vincent Racaniello lament about the new ACIP charter, how administration of the HPV vaccine has eliminated cervical cancer deaths in young women, global economic burden of infectious disease, restoring trust in vaccinology, and more. 📺 https://t.co/L51BPxqqP9

[MicrobeTV @profvrr]

Tonight! ⏰ Join Vincent Racaniello for Office Hours to answer your questions about viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, Mpox virus, poliovirus, influenza virus, and more on this livestream on Wednesday 6/24/26 at 8pm Eastern US. 📺 https://t.co/HmE5E2l5Tr

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Earth at night viewed from space.

[Science Follower @ScienceFan231]

@MattMMPLS @EricTNFL @JonathanTurley Not MAGA here.
Not a follower of Kirk either.

But whenever people like Matt use these weak arguments with their constant name calling, it really raises the question about what he in particular and they in general think they are doing.

[Science Follower @ScienceFan231]

@StirlingDefense @Todd_Hickman1 @CraigDMauger Your hypothesis that it never happens requires data…or at least an argument.

As we ask when studying Epistemology: “how do you know?”

[Science Follower @ScienceFan231]

@Chrondike @babybeginner @BoboBowe_697 @Riley_Gaines_ Boys leagues are not being taken over by girls.

Anyone can play on a boys’ league, if they are good enough…even “transmen”—most are not good enough because of well known biological differences.

Title IX was specifically written to PROTECT Girls’ and Women’s sports.

[Science Follower @ScienceFan231]

@BoboBowe_697 @canotations @Riley_Gaines_ @IfindRetards Who is the one preaching “exclusion” now?

Last I checked “faggot” was an anti-gay slur that could get you taken off (the old) Twitter.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

At this point if you still claim Israel is committing genocide in Gaza you are either stupid and ignorant or antisemitic.

The antisemitic version usually means applying a double standard on the definition of genocide and the laws of war just to delegitimize Israel’s existence or right to pursue legitimate goals in a war it did not start or/and dehumanize every IDF soldier as a monster.

I have tried to argue basic definitions. Genocide requires intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such, in whole or in part. The evidence does not show that intent toward the people in Gaza. What it shows is the opposite. Israel has taken extraordinary steps, often at real cost and risk, to prevent civilian harm while fighting an enemy that hides among them, uses hospitals and schools as bases, and treats its own people as props in an evil grand political strategy of martyrdom to eliminate all jews on the planet.

In the middle of the fighting Israel has let in huge amounts of food, hundreds of thousands of tons, sometimes more than the world food specialists said was needed. Water lines from Israel have stayed open, three of them supplying tens of thousands of cubic meters a day. They have coordinated repairs, kept desalination plants running by sending fuel and even electricity to key ones, and allowed generators so water systems, hospitals and bakeries can keep working. Medical supplies and equipment have poured in by the tens of thousands of tons. Field hospitals coordinated. Patients have been evacuated for treatment outside. When polio showed up for the first time in decades Israel halted fighting every day and worked with WHO and UNICEF on a mass vaccination campaigns. Over a million doses given. That is not how you try to wipe out a people.

Then look at the misinformation machine. Almost every big claim about Israel deliberately targeting journalists or medical staff or children falls apart, and a lot of the time it falls apart because of what Hamas itself admits, sometimes before anyone even finishes basic fact checking. The ��journalists” killed for example. Plenty of the names on those lists later show up in Hamas or Islamic Jihad martyr posts as actual operatives or commanders. Dual roles are common in Gaza’s information space. Same with medical workers. People mourned as nurses or doctors get claimed later by the terror groups as fighters. Hospitals have been used as command centers and weapons storage over and over. Hamas officials have even said it out loud at times. Manuals found on how to use the hospitals as Hamas military sites.

The casualty numbers and the “they are targeting children” stories. The Hamas health ministry figures get treated like gospel, yet their own underlying data and later admissions undercut every trending statistic. Combatants get left out or reclassified. Claims of IDF snipers or drones hunting kids usually fail basic reality of sci-fi sniper drones that don’t exist or injury patterns coming out of the same hospitals.

These stories do not need years of investigation to collapse. Often Hamas’s own words or the available evidence do the job within days or weeks. But the first maximalist version is what spreads and sticks and then gets used to accuse the whole country of Israel and its army of genocidal intent.

It is not illegal or wrong to target and destroy your enemy in a war, especially one that started with a massacre, held hostages, and fights from inside the civilian population it claims to protect. Gaza is an awful war with awful conditions, conditions shaped heavily by Hamas’s tactics. That does not make it genocide. The aid that kept flowing, the vaccination campaigns, the water and power facilitation, and the way the propaganda claims kept falling apart all point the other direction. If you ignore all of that and still yell genocide the explanations left are ignorance or a double standard aimed only at Israel. But this entire stupid campaign every war in history is a genocide.

If you actually want to engage in the debate of "intent" or actions in Gaza, see earlier writings:

"I’m a War Scholar. There Is No Genocide in Gaza," https://t.co/G7Iy9Ki3g5

"Israel Is Not Committing Genocide: Exposing the Distortion of Law and Truth," with @Ostrov_A
https://t.co/0RWFtOUd8H

"Israel's Aid to Gaza Is Historically Unprecedented," https://t.co/QMLuWDGDDs

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Devastating footage from Gaza following three years of war. Look what Israel did!!

Oh never mind, this is what Assad, Hezbollah and Iran did in Homs, Syria!

But since it’s Muslims killing Muslims, nobody cares!

[Science Follower @ScienceFan231]

@ZaidJilani Terrible speech dedicated to feelings and vibes with NO EVIDENCE offered.

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@lornecolin @ShabbosK Like Sunny Hostin. https://t.co/LJy6PRi5RA

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@escargotpro_ @the_jefferymead My irony meter just exploded!

You call a thoughtful person “illiterate” in a tweet with no punctuation!

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@rainey87138 @JonathanTurley Earth to Patricia:

The landlord had to submit a credit report when they bought the property in order for the bank to know they will continue paying the mortgage.

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@RealPatSpurlock @GroupSteinhauer I was actually taught in my very diverse high school that it is ALSO a citizen’s duty to DE-ESCALATE.

The vast majority of Law Enforcement shootings would never have occurred if the citizens involved just did this.