Sarah Bales

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

I have now read this highlighted sentence seventeen times because I assumed I wan't actually reading what was written. Surely my eyes didn't actually read this. Maybe someone accidentally pasted in dialogue from "The Onion." back when it was funny. But no.

She is saying that she delayed reporting a rape because she agreed with the accused, politically.

This is one of those moments where, if your IQ is over 85, your brain quietly excuses itself from the room.

We have apparently reached a point where politics has become the emotional-support animal for basic human survival instincts. "Yes, this person committed one of the worst crimes imaginable against me, but we both liked the same tax policy. Awkward."

If your political identity has become so central that it can outweigh reporting your own rape, congratulations: you hve joined a cult. Cults are famous for making people subordinate reality, morality, and self-preservation to the interests of the group.

I hate cults. I hate them a lot.
They don't ask you to ignore facts all at once: they ask for one tiny compromise after another until one day you discover you're explaining away things that should be absolutely indefensible.

What's sad isnt just that people end up there. It's that many of them don't even realize it. They sincerely believe they're making a principled decision when, from the outside, everyone else is wondering why the obvious isn't obvious anymore.

At least religious cults usually promise enlightenment, salvation, eternal life, or an alien spaceship hiding behind a comet. Political cults dont even offer that. They ask you to sacrifice your judgment, your relationships, sometimes even your own well-being in exchange for cable-news talking points, in favor of a politician who will sell you out for a pack of gum.

That's a spectacularly bad trade.

At some point, "my team" has to lose to "the person who committed a violent felony against me." That's not supposed to be a close game.

[Sarah Bales @balessk]

@ChrisOfTheFens @AGHamilton29 It’s dishonest to report Racicot “declined to elaborate” when she DID, albeit off-the-record. This phrasing indicates the reporter didn’t know what happened.

Instead-

Racicot says she cut off contact after a “reckless,” “unsettling” 2021 incident where Platner came over drunk.

[Sarah Bales @balessk]

@peterrhague It's called a distinction without a difference.

[Sarah Bales @balessk]

@SNienow What legal status did Obama give him?

Everything I can find on Tou shows he had a final order of removal dated Oct. 31, 2006. I haven't seen where that was ever lifted.

https://t.co/ESnfi0Fxb0

[Sarah Bales @balessk]

@BriannaWu @whignewtons Are the friends you're talking about the same girls who BPJ told to "suck my dick?"

[Sarah Bales @balessk]

@ConfusedSW @MrAndyNgo AFAIK, social media sometimes downgrades posts with certain words in it. To reduce the chance their posts go unseen, people in the know will swap those words out w/
-intentional misspellings
-replacing a letter with * or -
-unnatural terms (e.g., 'unalive' vs. kill or suicide)

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

We’ll blow me over with a feather!!!! An accurate headline!!!! From the Wall Street Journal!
Is nature healing? Are the community notes working? Well done X community!!!!! You’ve
x-communicated false headlines.

[Sarah Bales @balessk]

@sagesteele It was 9-0 on the Title IX question and 6-3 on the Equal Protection question.

[Sarah Bales @balessk]

@Marcusmayog @RebeccaMtn @SenMarkey Sure, it is. It's just unusual to use the word 'discrimination' to connote anything positive.

It's lawful/ethical/moral/fair/logical/necessary (take your pick) that we discriminate against males who try to enter and compete in the female sports category.

[Sarah Bales @balessk]

@lamacroguy @MayMailman It would be a crazy thing to do, but people are particularly irrational on this topic.

Remember, states like California continue to cling to this nonsense even though this issue is part of why their favored candidate lost the most recent presidential election.

[Sarah Bales @balessk]

@runthinkwrite Dr Pike- American lawyer here.

SCOTUS is actually 9-0 on Title IX not requiring states to allow trans athletes into girls' sports (that's the "concurring in the judgment in part" component).

They were 6-3 on the equal protection issue.

[Political Sock @politicalsock]

“West Virginia’s law forces B. P. J. to live—in this case, to play—as a boy THOUGH SHE IS A GIRL”

Everyone, Ketanji Brown Jackson has discovered that she is a biologist after all.

[Paula Scanlan @PaulaYScanlan]

I’m so glad the courts finally figured out what I knew in the locker room undressing with Lia Thomas

[Sarah Bales @balessk]

@lamacroguy @MayMailman The BPJ opinion only says states MAY exclude trans-identified males from women & girls' sports. SCOTUS hasn't said that states MUST do so.

"That question is currently the subject of litigation in some lower courts. Nothing in this opinion is intended to decide that question."

[Sarah Bales @balessk]

@sgtnewsnetwork https://t.co/dM76tntKH1

[Remix News & Views @RMXnews]

🇮🇹🔴A group of European men badly beat a Black male in the Italian tourist hotspot Peschiera del Garda.

For years, groups of young foreigners have caused chaos in the Lake Garda region, including violent disorder and sexual assaults against young schoolgirls.

During some events, crowds of foreigners chanted: "Africa rules here!"

Follow: @RMXnews

[Sarah Bales @balessk]

@Freedom09538437 https://t.co/dM76tntKH1

[Remix News & Views @RMXnews]

🇮🇹🔴A group of European men badly beat a Black male in the Italian tourist hotspot Peschiera del Garda.

For years, groups of young foreigners have caused chaos in the Lake Garda region, including violent disorder and sexual assaults against young schoolgirls.

During some events, crowds of foreigners chanted: "Africa rules here!"

Follow: @RMXnews

[Sarah Bales @balessk]

@Crownthecook https://t.co/dM76tntKH1

[Remix News & Views @RMXnews]

🇮🇹🔴A group of European men badly beat a Black male in the Italian tourist hotspot Peschiera del Garda.

For years, groups of young foreigners have caused chaos in the Lake Garda region, including violent disorder and sexual assaults against young schoolgirls.

During some events, crowds of foreigners chanted: "Africa rules here!"

Follow: @RMXnews

[Carrie Clark @cwestonclark]

I am begging critics of the puberty blocker trial to stop getting lost in the weeds arguing about research ethics, Gillick competence, informed consent, fertility preservation and the like. The NHS’s refusal to complete the Data Linkage Study (DLS) before proceeding with a new trial is the ONLY argument worth making on this issue. Everything else is a distraction.
The DLS would find out what has happened to all the children who have already taken puberty blockers. There is NO justification for proceeding with a puberty blocker trial before the DLS is complete. The entire programme of future research in this area should be informed by its results. The fact that the NHS is getting ready to run a live experiment on vulnerable children before it has even established the fate of those it has already experimented on is utterly damning.
The deeply disappointing Dr Cass should be widely derided for her ridiculous comments on ‘harm reduction’. The DLS IS harm reduction. Critics of the trial must stop fighting on their opponents turf by quibbling over technical details. We need to relentlessly force the DLS onto the agenda and expose the shameful hypocrisy of the NHS. DO THE DLS.
#DotheDLS
https://t.co/HfdBR3L8tC

[Emily @EKaht]

@wesyang Civil rights movements usually try to find the most sympathetic figures possible to be the faces of their efforts.

It speaks volumes that the best the trans movement can find are a pedophile, a rapist, and a murderer.