BlueBonnetFarmer

You don't appear to be a bot, but you have been programmed, just the same. If all you offer is insults, ad hominems, and straw men, I will block you.

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

There are three things that transgender ideology cannot withstand and must eradicate in order to secure its victory: 1.) liberalism, which protects people's individual freedom of speech and conscience; 2.) pluralism, which protects people against the imposition of a state-mandated dogma and requires all social movements to respect limits on the power they can exercise over unbelievers; and 3.) democracy, which allows the will of the people to rule.

Colorado's ballot initiatives is the best (and possibly last) chance for the will of the people to be brought to bear in a state captured by extreme trans-affirming dogma inscribed into law by a political party that has worked feverishly to allow no daylight between itself and the most extreme trans activists.

Solid majorities of Democrats and supermajorities of the electorate oppose the chemical castration and dismemberment of confused children and the imposition of men into women's sport, but the mere voters count for nothing compared to the astroturfed pseudo-consensus that controls every legislator.

The ballot affords them a chance to speak, and to break the dam everywhere.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

This is the way. Accreditation monopolies have been the vehicle by which the Marxists have seized the means of professional production. Competition in the accreditation space can actually fix a lot and is a minimally necessary requirement to recovery.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

We reported on this years ago. It was another story that was just completely ignored for reasons I will never understand. 'Melody Wiseheart' FFS

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

The University of Cambridge can boast 126 Nobel Prizes. That’s more than any other university in the world except Harvard, and it does it on an endowment that is one twentieth the endowment of Harvard. In the Nobel ranking, Cambridge beats MIT, Chicago, Columbia, Oxford, and Yale (in that order). Cambridge, the university of Newton, Hawking, Russell, Wittgenstein, Moore, Keynes, Crick, Sanger, Kendrew, Perutz, Rutherford, Chadwick, Turing, Maxwell, Brenner, the list goes on and on, Cambridge is beyond question one of the very greatest universities in the world. The list of immense distinction continues to the present day. It is tragic, and deeply unfair, that the reputation of this truly great university should suffer at the hands one unfortunate anomaly, the Department of Education.

[Ian D Furness @IandFurness]

When a columnist is muted by a newspaper, the paper of record for the region, we have reached a dangerous place. The fact that it has happened multiple times to Matt is even worse. More on this at Noon on @933KJR

[Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 @SharylAttkisson]

From USA Today:
What was supposed to be routine knee replacement surgery at Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown Nashville on Aug. 14 left Glenda Dorton, an avid gardener from Centerville, Tennessee, paralyzed after a medication mix-up involving her and three other patients, according to her daughter-in-law, Kristina Dorton.

"Instead of the anesthetic that was going into her spine for that epidural procedure, before the surgery even started, it was potassium," Kristina Dorton told the Nashville Tennessean, which is part of the USA TODAY Network. "We were told that it came directly from pharmacy. I want to be very clear that this was not the doctor's fault. This was not the anesthesiologist's fault. This was not the care team's fault."

Dr. Shubhada Jagasia, president and CEO of the Midtown hospital, issued a statement but didn't disclose the condition of the other three patients, citing patient confidentiality.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Laugh all you want, but this truly taught me a lesson. I now know for certain that it is impossible to die of cringe.

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

The fractal nature of the fraud surrounding the Jason Arday story is truly remarkable. It never ends.

[Jason Manning @sociologyWV]

As someone who wants to keep his academic job until the mortgage is paid off, let me state in no uncertain terms that I stand with the fraud/plagiarist/fabulist+ community.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Integrity.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Europe is in deep trouble when it comes to free speech

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

They did come for Cofnas.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

At this point, everyone kind of knows that any black individual of genuine competence and intellectual acuity will recognize and forthrightly expose the fraudulence in Arday’s narrative and the deeper intellectual bankruptcy of DEI itself.

So this entire episode has inadvertently become a natural public litmus test of real ability because it is precisely those who are capable who stand to suffer most from the racial quotas that DEI enforces.

It's uncomfortable to say so but it's true.

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

This is nuts.

Talarico is so extreme that he’s glad to side with cold-blooded murderers.

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

The treatment of Cofnas makes a mockery of the concept of academic freedom.

While at Ghent, Cofnas was attacked with a thrown bottle, which gave him a concussion.

In response to this, the university did nothing, even though the perpetrator was identified and was a student at Ghent University, and the incident was on video. The police also had the identity of the perpetrator, but there was no prosecution or anything else.

While he was at Cambridge, they conducted a 1.5-year-long investigation and then exonerated him right before his contract was up, so that he was excluded for essentially his entire time there.

And now he has been suspended by Ghent University for the sin of publishing an article pointing out the obvious plagiarism in the work of Jason Arday.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

It's because they believe their ideology is a sacred science that can't be wrong and that the Friend-Enemy Distinction is the mechanism for enforcing that. Everything is ok for the friends and nothing is okay for the enemies. Marcuse's Liberating Tolerance is the packaging.

[Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker]

Why is this pervert anywhere near university students or women or men or allowed out?

[Nathan Cofnas @nathancofnas]

@galtontheroller She used ChatGPT to write her inaugural speech. It was full of fabricated quotes.

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

The reason we never hear a view shared by 80 percent of the public in any newspaper is an industry-wide conspiracy to suppress those views in favor of an astroturfed pseudo-consensus

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Weird how the people outraged by the "hounding" of Jason Arday delight in and encourage the actual hounding of the person who exposed him.

Arday was not fired from his job or denied employment opportunities. On the contrary, he was given and retained jobs for which he was not qualified and was rightly criticised for lying.

Cofnas, on the other hand, is actually being denied jobs and fired from them for bring Arday's lying to light.