Heretike

Silenced scientist.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

"Why won’t Ukrainians negotiate for peace?" There’s no peace, no security, from negotiating with Russia, even surrendering.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

If you're an academic (and can prove it with an ORCID), consider signing a petition protesting the University of Ghent's suspension of a postdoc for exposing academic misconduct, a blatant violation of academic freedom (as always, regardless of your agreement with all of the whistleblower's views). https://t.co/bkZ98z609Q https://t.co/UrjFnA93Sk

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Western society is currently divided between people who know this is a man and are prepared to say so and those who know this is a man but lie out of obedience to an ideology. There is no third option. Literally nobody on earth thinks "Roxanne Tickle" is actually a woman.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

🇸🇪 Sweden’s Migration Minister Johan Forssell:

Last year, a 16-year-old girl was raped on her way home by a recognized refugee, but he was not expelled because the crime wasn’t considered serious enough under the Refugee Convention.

As a father of two daughters, I cannot defend a system that puts criminals’ rights before victims and law-abiding people.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

💔 Russia is a terrorist state, one murdering civilians with missiles with impunity as the richest nations with the most powerful military forces in the world right next door choose every day not to stop it.

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

"Research shows" is one of the most dangerous phrases in education. At some point, the "research" becomes almost a catechism, repeated on faith independent of the strength of the evidence.

Great article from Anna Stokke.

[Carole Hooven @hoovlet]

"Although we tend to worry more about girls’ disadvantages in math and science, boys’ disadvantage in reading is much larger and more consistent."

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The man who's spent years talking over and attacking women for defending their rights has now decided that you must belong to a protected group to express an opinion on the threats facing it.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

I’ve posted this before, but there are a lot more of y’all now, and I think it’s worth repeating.

Imagine a scenario in which large numbers of white people start saying that they “feel black,” and that because of this feeling, and their enjoyment of stereotypically “black behavior,” they are now not just black themselves, but the most marginalized and vulnerable type of black person.

Imagine them insisting that they should be the main focus of all activism meant to help PoC. Imagine them having operations to darken their skin and mimic stereotypically black features. Imagine them walking around in blackface, and saying it’s the exact same thing as actually being black.

Imagine them being honored as black citizens by the White House, being summoned to talk to the President about issues facing the black community, being supported by celebrities, and having laws passed to make white people who identify as black a protected class.

Imagine these people demanding membership in black organizations, insisting that they receive a share of the reparations that CA is about to pay, and demanding they be given awards created specifically to honor black achievement. Then imagine them getting their way.

Now imagine mobs of them showing up to black events that don’t include them, carrying threatening signs and air horns to drown out any speakers with noise. Imagine them coming up with slurs for any black person who doesn’t accept that white people are black if they say they are.

Imagine them calling for the rape, torture, and mass murder of any black person who disagrees with them. Imagine them getting black people doxxed, harassed, assaulted, fired from their jobs, and investigated by the police for saying that you have to be born black to be black.

Now imagine the government supporting their demands.

That’s exactly the position that women are in right now, with a few extras, like being locked in cells with dangerous men, the sexual predation of lesbians via coercion, and the increased risk of sexual assault in what used to be female-only spaces. Our oppressors are now claiming not only the right to oppress us in whole new ways, but the right to erase our identities as women and rewrite the meaning of womanhood in ways that suit - and include - them.

If you wouldn’t support this kind of behavior towards black people, you have no business supporting this kind of behavior towards women.

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

Nothing says “Free Palestine” like a pair of useful idiots dancing provocatively for the Hamas terrorists who are currently raping 9 year old Palestinian boys and girls….

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

An unfortunate slip of the pen. Who among us hasn't written "Jewish cockroaches" when we meant to refer to how happy we are to live in a country alongside our fellow Jews?
So easily done.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

40-year-old Hesam Alaedin, father of young twin girls, has been beaten to death in an Iranian jail.

He was behind bars after accusations of having a Starlink at home.

🦁☀️

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

The shift we all notice in Tucker is nothing more than a change in priorities from seeking truth to seeking power. And that is why it feels (and is) fundamentally "woke."

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

I’ll explain it again… Trump has been a Kremlin asset for many years. He wasn’t compromised over “Miss Russia” contestants, but over something far more serious — something that in many U.S. states could lead straight to the electric chair.
Yesterday, the CIA released a report stating that Russia helped him win his first election. Remember when things got heated and the Kremlin urgently recalled its ambassador, fearing arrest? That’s why.
For the second election, far more resources were deployed. Musk, already prepared, was pushed to buy Twitter and indirectly acquire a number of media outlets using Russian money. The financial trails allegedly run through Kuwait, which has long-standing ties to money laundering connected to Gazprom. Russia is said to have provided Trump’s campaign with extensive tools and strategies for campaigning and influencing the vote.
Back in 2018, Russia decided to make broader use of Trump’s presidential powers and move toward a global redistribution of influence.
At the Helsinki summit, Putin reportedly proposed that the U.S. allow the restoration of a “greater Russia” as a counterweight to China. The U.S., according to this version, agreed. It is even suggested that Trump was pressured into signing a document placing Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, and Armenia within Russia’s sphere of influence, while Sweden and Finland would join NATO, Russia would leave Syria, and the U.S. would withdraw from Afghanistan.
This, it is argued, explains why Trump looked pale after the meeting — as if he had just realized the scale of what had happened.
After returning to the U.S., discussions among top officials from both parties allegedly concluded that such an arrangement aligned with American interests and should be upheld — likened by some to a modern version of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
Following the change of administration, at the Geneva meeting in June 2021, President Biden is said to have reaffirmed certain commitments, while insisting on a peaceful path to territorial changes.
From there, events accelerated: the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in August, and preparations began to shape public opinion in northern Europe toward NATO membership.
Russia’s expectations that Zelensky’s rise to power would quickly resolve the “Ukrainian question” did not materialize. As he grew more assertive, it became clear to Moscow that a rapid outcome would only be possible through military means.
According to this narrative, Democrats did not anticipate the level of Ukrainian resistance and could not risk being seen as complicit in another genocide. They delayed, assessed risks, and sought to stabilize the situation. Their concern was not only nuclear escalation, but also the potential exposure of alleged agreements. Putin’s repeated claims of being “deceived” increased pressure, and in this interpretation, contributed to internal political shifts in Washington.
Trump, it is argued, understands the leverage the Kremlin holds over him and cannot escape it. He will do everything possible to shape a deal acceptable to Moscow. Hopes that he might reverse course are seen as unrealistic.
From this perspective, Europe is beginning to grasp the risks of Ukraine’s potential fall and may be forced to take on a leading role in defending the democratic world. This is portrayed not as optional, but necessary — otherwise Europe itself could be torn apart from multiple directions.
And as for Ukraine — the belief remains: it will endure and defend its independence.

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

Exceptional poise, moral clarity, courage and grace from @KemiBadenoch in the face of the Gaza mob. (Total 🔥 too.)
Free Britain from jihadism!

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Contrary to a popular narrative, each generation earns more than the previous one (though Millennials enjoyed the advantage later in life, because they stayed in school longer). @Noahpinion https://t.co/sI6YiM5yp8

[Michael Shermer @michaelshermer]

Do you believe that The New York Times’s “1619 Project” about the role of slavery in the founding of the United States was accurate?

Do you believe that Russian interference in the 2016 election rigged the election for Donald Trump?

Do you believe that after the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., which killed Heather Heyer, President Trump said there were very fine people on both sides?

These are commonly held beliefs that have, in fact, been debunked over and over and yet still persist.

After the “1619 Project” was published, for example, five prominent scholars of American history (Victoria Bynum, James McPherson, James Oakes, Sean Wilentz, and Gordon Wood) objected, citing numerous errors that “are matters of verifiable fact.”

Studies following the 2016 election found that the sort of false narratives pushed by the Russians on social media resulted in shifts of only hundredths of a percent in the outcome.

As for Trump’s comment following the Unite the Right rally, he was referring to the people there who were protesting the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee when he said, “You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.” He added immediately after: “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.”
Why the truth matters:
https://t.co/wFdlJoreDy

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🚨 BREAKING: Zelenskyy says Ukrainian drones could reach the parade in Moscow

“Russia has announced a parade on May 9 But there will be no military equipment at this parade. This will happen for the first time in many, many years.Ukrainian drones could also fly over this parade.

This shows that they are no longer as strong as before,” the Ukrainian leader said in Yerevan.

[Siobhán O'Grady @siobhan_ogrady]

Three months later, this is my last @washingtonpost story — delayed because nearly everyone involved in it was laid off. I am very grateful to newsroom friends who made sure it published anyway, and to brave Roman Mongold and his family for their time.
https://t.co/PMxJxiaMcg

[Peter Boghossian @peterboghossian]

Academia *knew* entire fields could not be replicated. They watched junk science proliferate and said nothing. This was not oversight. It was cowardly complicity.