Christopher Leigh

Savior please, pilot me…

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

An unborn baby girl was removed from her mother's womb for lung surgery and then put back in the womb.

You can't do that with a clump of cells or a blob of tissue.

But doctors can do that with a baby.

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[George Yancey @profyancey]

To my conservative Christian friends. Especially those who consider themselves fundamentalists. The day may come, and may already be here, when you are going to have to decide if you are going to follow Christ or choose kinism at the least and outright racism at the worst. The evidence that this toxic type of bigotry masquerading as Christianity is not fringe but has infiltrated significant portions of the church is becoming stronger every day.

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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 @KarluskaP]

Whoa you have to listen to this!

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

Charlie died doing something I greatly admire. He debated anyone in civil, energetic form. It was fun and enlightening even when I disagreed (that’s the point!). It was what college should be and has failed to be for a long time, which is why they needed Charlie to import it to campuses. We now know too well, that came with great risk. Many young people will mourn his too-early death, and if the aim of the murderer was to end his ideology, the effect will instead be to solidify its following. And if that means more young people agree with his embrace of this raucous American form of debate and refuse to be silenced, good. Beyond mere political ideology, I know he loved Jesus, his country, his wife, and his kids. Lord be with Erika and the children, and let that part of Charlie’s life be a model for other young people, too. Rest in peace.

[Christopher Leigh @caleighbro]

@DavidAFrench

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

I did not!!!

[Rod Dreher @roddreher]

I’m afraid there is a lot of truth to this.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Thread of ancient wonders reconstructed 🧵

1. The Colosseum, Rome (70–80 AD)

[Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt]

Everyone who wants to comment on today has to watch this entire tape and hopefully realize that at approximately the 38 minute mark President Zelensky asks a question of Vice President Vance which isn’t really a question. (My guess is that someone gave President Zelensky really terrible advice to not fight with President Trump in public but that he could score on the VP because the VP couldn’t respond. Wrong.)

President Trump had been almost indulgent of President Zelensky for 38 minutes, trying to get to the post-presser meeting with a path forward to a ceasefire intact, aware that he has to deal with Putin afterwards as well. A couple of times President Zelensky dances on the cliff (especially with the pictures which someone who doesn’t know this business told him would be an excellent stunt and wasn’t) and President Trump steers it back to a path to the post-presser meeting.

But then President Zelensky puts the VP on the spot and it escalated. Then President Zelensky tells President Trump how the United States would feel, and you can see our president give into a (justified) rising anger at President Zelensky’s approach and rhetoric, as did the VP.

I have long supported Ukraine and still do. President Zelensky’s conduct has been heroic. But he is used to President Biden, Secretary Blinken and NSA Sullivan who did not have a plan or a purpose other than “de-escalation” which they assumed would stop escalation from Russia —which did not happen— and for whom every decision was agony. President Zelensky also did not remember that Ukraine didn’t lose the war (that President Biden told Putin would be fine if it was a “minor incursion”) because of weapons President Trump had sent in his first term.

I don’t know how this gets back on track. I don’t know if the warrior Zelensky can actually make a deal. Putin has kidnapped tens of thousands of children, murdered thousands of his people and tens of thousands of his soldiers. Putin has committed war crimes. All of that is true. It is also true that Putin has thousands of nukes and NORKs.

President Trump has a plan. He wasn’t in charge when Putin invaded Ukraine the first time or the second time. All President Trump can do is try and bring about a stable and enduring peace and get Ukraine enmeshed with Europe and the U.S. while also dealing with Putin. Nixon dealt with the worst murderer of the 20th century when he sat down with Mao. Reality is what it is. Presidents of the United States have to deal with whatever mess their predecessor leaves them. I’ll repeat what I said on the program today: President Zelensky should call all of his strongest supporters w/i the @SenateGOP and genuinely seek advice. And dismiss those who have been “advising” him for the past six weeks. Very publicly.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

150 years ago all milk was “organic milk”.

But everyone just called it “milk”.

It wasn’t until they started pumping milk full of toxins that the modifier “organic” took on meaning.

In the same sense “classical education” is the organic milk of education.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I am endlessly amused by the infinite indignities I suffer on the very platform that I own

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

Here’s 4:23 of people fussing at me because they can’t accept that Trump pulled a rabbit out of a hat, extracting concessions and urgency from Mexico and Canada on stopping illegal immigration and fentanyl.

[il Donaldo Trumpo @PapiTrumpo]

BOOOOOOOM!!!💥🔥🔥🔥

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

ONLY President Trump can go into a deep blue area that voted 70% for Kamala, and channel the energy of pissed off, disaffected, red-pilled liberal residents to publicly flog a roundtable of worthless Democrat politicians.

This is his art.

[Rod Dreher @roddreher]

Why is the Catholic Church dying in Germany? It's a mystery that nobody will ever solve, I guess.
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[TRUTH TELLER @truth_teller58]

Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass got absolutely destroyed by facts when a fire union chief broke down in tears on CNN, exposing the staffing shortfalls he had been warning about for years. Turns out their “leadership” is more about slogans than solutions, and the truth hit harder than their empty promises ever could.🔥👀

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed! ✨