I was extremely fortunate to be the person catching that first pitch and it was an incredible experience. Never any doubt that @breitwoman would throw a strike in front of 42k fans as she has nerves of steel. Awesome job Kathleen! #tezos
One of the most intense and profound moments in history. 11am on the 11th November 1918 when the guns fell silent. This should be shown in every school.
I can’t even believe what I just watched!
A student at the University of Michigan recorded his online lecture, and people are actually paying tens of thousands of dollars in tuition for this. The lecturer, Dr. Laura Yakas who teaches a course called "Engaging Social Justice, Diversity, and Oppression in Social Work" is literally singing songs in class trashing America!
When parents and taxpayers say our universities have turned into ideological indoctrination camps instead of places of real education, this is exactly what they’re talking about. Students are going into massive debt to learn actual skills, not to sit through anti-American musical performances.
How is this acceptable at a major public university?
They’re just going to keep talking like this until anyone who disagrees with them are killed. They’ve been rewarded for murderous rhetoric and celebrating the death of their fellow Americans at the ballot box. So they’re thinking, why stop now?
As a GWOT veteran, what concerns me the most is that they’re beginning to talk like Islamic terrorists. It’s not hyperbole, I mean that.
Using declarative and descriptive statements that paint their enemies as ripe for the slaughter. They were dehumanizers. It’s what allowed them to kill one another so effortlessly. To butcher one another.
This is not the language of a political party that wants to make anyone’s life better through policy. It only aims to exterminate its enemies.
I strongly condemn this language.
Just remember California. We voted to keep the death penalty and @GavinNewsom went against the will of the people. So much for democracy right? What happened to no kings?
Newsom just commuted the sentence of the man who locked this boy up in a cage, made him eat cat shit and shot him with BBs for fun only to watch him die.
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.
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New York City Police Officer Moira Smith leads the injured Edward Nicholls to safety from the south tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Officer Smith would perish when the south tower collapsed minutes after this photograph was taken while attempting to evacuate others.
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